yes, the story is lacking, but, for a game that you want to support for years? you need to be conservative on the story, Scheherazade needs to cut much of her story to be continued next day and give the king a reason to not kill her(Arabian Nights),, Bungie can't go all out on this game because of that, they don't want you to just finish the mission with destroying every damn Fallen ships and buildings like we did in Halo series or CoD, they can't just gave us details of the story, Bungie don't want you to care, they want you to search, because by searching something, you'll get more interested over time, if you listen the story and follow the breadcrumbs, it's just like another CoD, they'll give us new campaign mission if they think we are ready, ready for what? for new puzzles and stuffs, and when will that happen? when we stop looking for loot cave, crack the puzzles we have now, and try to go back in time and remember, what are we doing in old russia? we must be on our way to board a ship to get the f*ck out of there, so we must have been drive/walk-ing along the road, then search that area! is there any loot? any new Fallen types? can we go to the OTHER SIDE of the bridge that broken? if not, can we overcome the system to go there and exploit the rest of the game? hope you guys found the answer first