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Edited by chrispbacon808:
2/6/2015 5:52:52 AM
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Allright Bungie, someone trumped your entire game's presentation of plot, narrative, and 500 million dollar budget using only Windows Movie Maker. Your move.
Triple. A. Title.
Edit #1- Wow I got a ton of feedback from posting this. Glad to see there are so many guardians out there still voicing their opinions. Also, on a side note, I just want to make it clear that I did not create this video.
Lets hope threads like this may change Bungie's strategies for story telling in the future. Although the concept of the Grimoire is a great ADDITION to a story, and unclear narratives can sometimes lead to community driven story telling, I cannot help but feel that the lack of a cohesive story in Destiny is a result of poor planning, budget cuts, or laziness on Bungie's side.
Thanks again for the feedback guardians, keep it coming, and keep your light safe.
Edit #2- Broke 900, soon to be 1000! Lets keep the conversation rolling. Also I would like to address one point.
This video does indeed use information presented in the Grimoire cards. However, the praise I am giving is directed at the way this narrative is PRESENTED by the creator of the video. I feel that the way this information was organized in the video is much more effective than any way it was presented by Bungie themselves. Time and effort was put into the creation of this video to make sure the player understood lore, actual events in game, as well as symbology related to the story that is told. This, in my opinion, seems like a much more caring way to present a narrative.
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2 RepliesI'm really upset. This person's great work makes me feel insulted by Bungie. I'm also upset on behalf of the writers who created such good lore. I write myself and it's hard to come up with such an interesting story especially around a video game. With decent philosophical undertones and stuff. It's things like this that make games GREAT. I'm highly offended that Bungie just doesn't care enough about their product to give their players this fantastic context to what they are doing. And don't tell me crap about a Grimoire. I'm supposed to accept that this lore should come to me AFTER I've participated in all these significant story events and searched for dead ghosts and then go onto a WEBSITE and try to piece it together like I'm -blam!-ing Robert Langdon in the Da Vinci Code? And don't tell me they couldn't do it. These clowns are swimming in HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of dollars. They have a whole full time staff working on this experience. And they couldn't even do this much themselves? Even if they had it as a video available in-game like their worthless trailer you can still watch by clicking near the Tower. There is no excuse for this flagrant mediocrity. There is none. And damn it I like this game. I like it a lot. I wouldn't care so much if I didn't like it. It's just like I'm fighting with its creators who refuse to make the simplest decisions that just make sense! Why would they think that they shouldn't tell a story? They think that what this fantastic fan video did shouldn't be integral to my experience? Why not? I'll stop ranting now. And I know my anger will probably never be addressed, but it needs to be said. I'm disappointed in this company.
