You're absolutely right, they should just have the darkness explain what it is, they should just say the traveler created the vex, they should just say the hive don't care about the darkness, they should just say the fallen are fighting for the traveler.

Well that could potentially be even stupider than what we have already, but at least it would demonstrate an effort. But frankly, my character would be too dumb to even know the difference. I guess after awaking from a centuries long death/slumber, I wouldn't want to know anything in the first place. Which would explain why I simply monkeyed about doing the bidding of the Speaker and the Queen. "Darkness bad, go kill the things." "K."

Do you honestly believe that's how it happens? It's exactly why you don't even get a double jump when you start. The universe is fantastic, the story is unraveling perfectly, but the story telling is failing. It's going by unknown and un-sought. When you're revived, you're revived in the travelers light, then you go to the tower and study. The ways of a titan, Hunter, or warlock, but you study. Void walkers actually push their minds to insanity to do what they do. Revealing all the little details would be boring and ruin the beauty of the story, but hinting at it more directly [b]in game[/b] is what they need to do, that and allow grimoire to exist from mission, not from revived ghosts. This way everyone has access to the story, not only a few who feel it a badge of honour.

Unfortunately I must disagree. Look at games like Mass effect, or Dragon Age. Those have lore and story telling. You become a legend in those games, and your character progresses with you. The story telling on those games doesn't require a grimoire to be engrossing. Instead they include a codex to delve deeper but much of the time it doesn't feel necessary because its already so rich. I am not saying I do not like the game, I obviously do. I bought 3 games this past few months but keep coming back to Destiny more than any of those (COD, ACU, and Halo MCC just fyi). I just hope that the new Loremaster that they hired will show them the light and how to really tell a story that you don't feel like a mindless drone of the traveler...unless that is the point of it all, who knows.

I absolutely agree they fail in story telling, but it's still there. I also hope the new guy helps it show though more.