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Edited by DarthDoomguy:
6/15/2017 9:58:53 PM
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Regarding Luke Smith's attitude towards Destiny 1's story elements...
Smith recently had this to say about Destiny 1's story, specifically referenceing The Exo Stranger's story arc...
[quote][b]Is there a world in which we never find out who the Exo Stranger was talking to on the phone?[/b]
Yeah, I mean, there’s a world where you never find out anything else about the Exo Stranger, and there’s a world where the Exo Stranger is the star of—
[b]Destiny 3?[/b]
[Laughs] Yeah, there’s a world where the Exo Stranger has a cartoon or a comic book series or whatever. With Destiny, we have so many cool opportunities to tell stories in and out of the game. And we have a bunch of characters who are interesting, but [u]the Exo Stranger is one that always makes me chuckle a little bit. Because I feel that’s one character where we actually wrapped up the arc. She gave you a sweet gun and then dissolved, presumably off to do something else. So I feel like, of all of our characters we’ve introduced and exited, we actually exited her effectively.[/u] But she always comes up. She always comes up, so there’s obviously something to that character that piques people’s curiosity. [/quote]
Does this offend anyone other than myself? Does Luke Smith/Bungie believe we're this stupid? Surely Smith doesn't truly believe this same drivel about the rest of Destiny 1's story elements and side plots.
I don't think I have ever heard anyone with this opinion of her story arc. I can't fathom how Smith believes that Bungie, "exited her effectively." Even with the information in the Grimoire she is still a giant mystery. Are we not supposed to want to know who she was talking to? Where she came from? What her purpose was/is/will be?
For the record: I do appreciate that they are really focusing on telling a thoroughly deep story from Destiny 2 onward. However, we can't just drop Destiny 1 and pretend like it never happened. What a slap in the face to those of us (players and content creators) who invested our time and effort into playing and decrypting (pun intended) Destiny 1's story and history.
(EDIT: Wooo!!! We're trending! Let's keep this conversation going, Guardians.)
(EDIT 2: Updated title to remove redundancies.)
(EDIT 3: Some great replies and good conversation going on here. Keep it up y'all!)
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2 RepliesEdited by OldboyVicious: 6/15/2017 7:03:14 AMI am not offended. I do however, feel that it is not a complete story arc. To me, the story arc feels as if the Exo Stranger is the main character, and our character is merely the NPC that joins a couple of random times to help further the main character. I think that the belief of Luke Smith that the Exo Stranger has no more to offer, and is "wrapped up" shows that he is not in touch with what makes a good story. He says that player interest is "piqued" but in my opinion it is more as if players are saying "WTF was that, and when are we going to see what all of this means?" Sometimes characters in a story don't get all the answers. But the players of the story at least deserve a story that makes sense, and if there are mysteries deliberately left open to ponder, they should be based in open-ended arcs which allow for interpretation based on what we know and have seen. The problem with the Exo Stranger's story is that there is very little to go on. She notices us, watches us, approaches us, has us travel to different locations in order to fight enemies, tells us that there are many more enemies that are much nastier, gives us a gun, then disappears. This feels to me more like a MacGuffin style plot device loosely manifested as a character, rather than a cohesive story. The Exo Stranger, as a character, leaves not just something to ponder, but [i]everything[/i] and that is why the story fails to be a complete arc. Who is she? What is she doing? Why is she doing it? Where is she from? Etc. There is nothing about the Exo Stranger to even posit a plausible guess. There needs to be solid foundation and exposition behind a character. Something to make the character real. The Exo Stranger shows potential to be developed further, and be very interesting. But as is, the character fails to be interesting and mysterious, instead merely causing is to raise an eyebrow and ask "is there supposed to be a story here?" It is a common thread in Destiny to have characters we know nothing about telling our characters what to do with no motivation. We play and watch the story unfold on the hopes that the mystery will draw us on further. That the answers and subsequent mysteries will be compelling. To merely say "I could tell you..." or "I don't have time to explain..." is not how you develop mystery and intrigue. It is a cop-out.
