That's because it kind of is more interesting. I honestly would rather have the next Destiny (or at least a spin off further down the road) be about the events during and immediately after the collapse then to continue the current story.

The current story isn't going anywhere. We are the dregs of humanity waiting to be consumed in the darkness.

Yeah, and sorry this is long but, the one thing I don't want is more "I'm awesome! I can and will kill everything in the universe because I'm space Chuck Norris!" story. We need to actually see how dangerous or enemy is before I can take anything ghost or anyone else says seriously. The whole game has been "the darkness is coming and will destroy us all!" but the is no real evidence of that since your guardian has personally ruined what's left of fallen society on Earth and Venus, unleashed the hive and slaughtered their gods, stopped the unstoppable Vex on Venus, broken through the Cabal's unbreakable exclusion zone on Mars, saved the Traveler by [i]killing the heart of The Black Garden[/i], raiding the vault of glass and even finding (and saving) the last Warmind. I think the reason I don't feel like a legend is because it feels like we're beating up a bunch of kids or something. I'm not saying the game is easy I'm just saying that maybe our guardians are maybe too much of a hero.

Yeah, we need more failures. We need to not be able to save the day just in time. We need to see our best buddy crushed by the Vex. We need doom, Death. Humility. Exile.

Yeah, and spoilers of you haven't played it, but Mass Effect 3 does a great job with that on Thessia. In a game where you always saved the day just in time (though maybe a predictable, but still sad, death will happen) it was great. For once Cerberus won. They got there first, took the A.I. thing and almost killed Shepard. All you could do was watch helplessly as Cerberus left with your last chance at stopping the Reapers, them helplessly listen/watch as Thessia is destroyed by the Reapers. That is what Destiny needs.