r/DestinyTheGame • u/jamer2500 Laser Tag Weekend • 1d ago

Hey Bungie, not every character needs a fucking redemption arc. Lore

Especially one so viscerally hated by almost the entire community. Who’s been writing this shit? The story feels like it’s been ripped from a shitty anime with 30-50 word long titles. Eramis should have been killed the moment she tried that shit with the Warmind, arguably way earlier. I honestly would have been happier if she broke out of her imprisonment and then we fought her for the shard of the traveler. Then at the very least I wouldn’t be asking myself what the fuck we’re doing just letting her go.

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u/thechefsauceboss 1d ago

Remember when this game had crazy intriguing writing? Forsaken era writing was top tier. Opulence made Calus so cool and almost relatable and the whole Dredgen Yor story was amazing start to end.

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u/HistoryChannelMain 1d ago

Destiny's mid writing is actually one of the things the series is best known for.

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u/thechefsauceboss 1d ago

It started horrible, got good for a brief flash, then went to even more mediocre now that all the mystery is gone.

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u/5partan5582 Drifter's Crew // DK? Drift Krew. 1d ago

Destiny works best when nothing beyond shoot and faction to faction stories is explained. The more they revealed about the Darkness, the Hive Gods, the Worms, etc. has just made the series ring more hollow

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u/Aegiiiss 1d ago

Remember when this game had crazy intriguing writing?

Honestly, no. If we turn the clocks back to D1 we get "i have no time to explain why I have no time to explain"

Destiny writing has largely always been trash. Very brief moments during Taken King, Forsaken, Witch Queen, and Final Shape are written passably. Not "crazy intriguing" or anything like that, just okay. And only for brief moments.

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u/thechefsauceboss 1d ago

I mean I literally gave two examples of what was really good writing. But beyond that I suppose I agree. The writers used to be a lot more creative instead of whatever we have now is.

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u/thegr8cthulhu Drifter's Crew // Call me when u have caydes replacement 1d ago

Two moments of brief good writing doesn’t cover up a decade of dogshit tho.

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u/Kozak170 1d ago

Dogshit is an immense stretch. The in game storytelling has always been minimal, but it was compelling, which is the biggest sin of the writing in the last few years.

They take all of these open interesting plot threads and end them in the dumbest fucking ways possible. Every character becomes a therapy patient and everyone has to be redeemed somehow. It’s miserable and harms the previous lore, even if it wasn’t completely fleshed out.

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u/killer6088 1d ago

No. I don't remember Forsaken having very good story. I personally did not like it.

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u/Definitelymostlikely 1d ago

 Remember when this game had crazy intriguing writing?

Brother wut?

Are you talking about destiny?

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u/TheShoobaLord Team Bread (dmg04) // BREAD GANG 23h ago

Honestly? No. Outside of very specific circumstances, the main story of destiny has always been pretty poorly written. Anything interesting is relegated to lore tabs.

It’s always been shit.

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u/Karglenoofus 1d ago

Witch queen