This game needs a way for new or returning players to catch up on the story. Like actual campaign playlist that starts you off in the beginning and not like two thirds of the way through. (The new light mission is gone from the kiosk in the helm and tower)
If the player wants to reset at the beginning that should be an option too. I’m tired of sitting there explaining everything to every new light or returning player that I introduce to the game. There’s like a thousand questions that could be just easily answered if there was a way to just introduce them to the game the SAME way it was introduced to me.
And I know ya’ll are planning on bringing these stories back, but I just know it’s gonna be some weekly dripfed nonsense just like the seasonal missions.
Just don’t do that please, make a simple playlist that’s accessible any time we feel like doing story time and cutscenes. The music and story telling in D1 (save for the ending) would be awesome to play through.
But as the game is now, EVERYONE I introduce to the game is either lost, have no idea what they’re doing and why, or complete overwhelmed by the amount of menus to click through and people at the tower with more menus.
A players first experience shouldn’t just be like a hundred menus. It should be an entire awesome campaign. Everyone I introduce who’s new to halo, we play through the whole damn thing. Reach, CE, Halo 2, ODST, 3 and then 4. That’s 6 games we play through week to week, and they’re old games, games that YOU made.
Don’t give me that whole “oh but destiny has evolved” NO it’s just some game that makes no sense to anybody, and the only way it makes sense is if you’re willing to sit and watch a byf video detailing the story which is like 3-4 hours long. Which no one is willing to watch because the game doesn’t dip your toes into anything, they just plunk you down head first in the middle of some timeline that they feel is a good way (it’s not it really sucks, it’s absolutely terrible) in hopes to get you to buy the season pass and DLC.
No one who is interested in story is gonna buy a DLC 85% of the way through the games story. With no option to catch them up on the story, who would invest that amount of research spoiling their way through the game through external videos?? It doesn’t make sense!
Each story in destiny should have a witch queen / lightfall like splash screen. The same system, everything. All the way up from D1 vanilla, to taken king, to rise of iron, to D2 vanilla, forsaken, beyond light, etc…
Each one should cost like 15 bucks (if you haven’t already paid for them)
The seasonal quests too, they should all be playable, IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. Start to finish. Give us an option to include them in our “mega” playthrough.
That timeline page should have a playlist feature, and we tick things and filter stuff that’s relevant to the story, or add side missions, etc…
I know this is asking too much, but I think the bare minimum takeaway from all this, is that all the stuff that’s already in the game currently, should be properly organized better. Each “campaign” should be brought up to the same standards as witch queen and lightfall.
Just make a playlist with start to finish and make it easy for players to jump into. No more jumping through hoops for menus that won’t do anything but confuse a new player.