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I agree, they should buff fusion rifles.

Came here to share the same concerns / plea / beg... I'm about to ding 30 in real life and I need something more meaty to keep me drawn in. I want an alcoholic and depressed cryptark who is losing his status among his guild and sends the player off on odd quests to try and save face. I want a speaker who actually explains why I should give a flying rats about this world I am fighting in. Bungie, you have made a beautiful gaming pokie machine... Please at least hide it with some depth and story telling before you monetise it. I'm hitting the wall already. The mindless farming. The repetitive strikes... It's too much like life - tedious and boring. I want a world I can escape to, not another to be trapped in. Love a long term Bungie fan, - Greg

There is no plot tying those missions together, it's as simple as that. The game's "plot": "You're alive even though you were death, you must have so many questions, we will not answer a single one, not even try or start, so let's do stuff. Why? Because we light and they darkness. Warmind Rasputin. What did you say? Nevermind. Let's go to the moon. Why? That's where wizards come from. Lets visit their huge cave, every tourist guide recommends it. Oh someone just called us from Venus, that's neat, that call must have been expensive, let's go there. Oh finally someone will tell me something... ah ah you wish! "Darkness! I don't have time to explain why I don't have time to explain." Well can't you just call or text me later? You already have my little light's number (somehow, stalker...) oh she's gone... Well where is that black garden of legends that I never heard about? Let's ask for directions to some rude condescending people. Mars: during the collapse the vex pretty much turned it into a machine. What? Nevermind that. Rasputin again. What are you talking about? And who are these fat guys I'm killing? Let's go to the black garden? But why? Because a stranger told us, remember? In the black garden: oh look a big blob surrounded by vex. What is it? What is it doing? Why is it doing it? How is it doing it? How do we even know it is affecting us? Does it matter? Shooting the robots will undoubtedly solve everything that is wrong with our high tech mini moon that seems to be sick for some reason. (Personally I think it needs a hug and a night light to be less afraid of the dark) Literally the moment we destroy the blob by killing its guards (because logic): oh look our mini moon back on earth seems to be better already, that was fast, everyone seems to have noticed and the speaker that doesn't say anything useful is already calling us back to hear a speech that also doesn't say anything and makes him sound like the leader of a cult. Well ok... The stranger robot that for some reason has boobs: "you and I know the truth, the darkness is still out there". Well it better be because so far this game really needs a plot to go with the setting and universe (that actually sounds really interesting and full of potential). The end. For the actual plot stay tuned for the expansions. This is not a plot it's just a series of unfortunate events lol Want more of the game you literally just bought? Here play the same missions on higher difficulty (like you couldn't do that already) and a few "queen bounties" and pink coloured weapons. Everyone: hey "free" "content", for the half game we bought to keep us busy until enough time passes that they can start selling us expansions that start telling the actual story. Bungie can't start selling them so soon after release, it would look bad, and they sure aren't going to give you for free the game they should have shipped! Destiny 1.0 feels like a rushed pilot episode of a TV series that will have many seasons, or just the prologue of the first book in a series of several books but it should have felt like a first whole book in a series. I thought there would be more, even the first halo game more than a decade ago told us more: we had just landed on a massive unknown ring in space after being attacked by the covenant, our enemy we were at war with. Eventually we found out what the ring was, why is was built, why the covenant were interested in it, what it would do if it was activated and why and how to stop it and that there were many others "facilities" like it. That set the tone, it had its own satisfying self contained plot that left plenty of room for a lot more than 10 years. I wish destiny 1.0 felt like that, I would be begging for DLC and the "10 years plan" because I would want to know more and see what was coming next and not because I feel there's potential, and it's bungie, and also, I want to know what the hell I just did and why. It would have felt very different even it the amount of missions etc was exactly the same. This game made my guardian just feel like grunt taking orders without knowing why. That would have been a great start for a franchise with such great ambitions. This is just "meh, it will be amazing eventually, maybe, hopefully". So far bungie's reputation and activision's marketing dollars are this game greatest "achievements". This game's plot is disappointing and just plain embarrassing. (About "the plot is in the grimoire" comments. The grimoire doesn't have the plot, it has a few descriptions, curiosities, background info, like every single other sci-fi game has except this one is not in the game. The grimoire is like a small encyclopedia. I hear an encyclopedia is very different from a novel.) Oh and: "Darkness." (Guess what? It doesn't sound mysterious after saying 100 times as a justification for everything, it sounds cheesy and lazy)

You know this game is incredibly detailed when there are such memorable NPCs like "The queen" "The queen's brother" I'm not kidding those are actually the 'names' of their grimoire cards.

I would completely support Bungie if they just put their hands up and said "Look, we -blam!-ed up. So here's a massive update which improves every story mission and adds in tons of story elements that should have been there in the first place." I would gladly go back and replay the entire game all over again and I bet it would feel like I had just gotten a new game too. Sometimes you just need to admit you -blam!-ed up and fix the mistake and move on. People appreciate that.

Ya, the story is so disappointing and vapid... "You're going to see a lot of things you won't understand." - And you're not going to clear any of them up for me are you? "I could tell you about the Traveller, I could tell you about the darkness..." - But you're not so why exactly are you talking to me right now? I mean we're standing in the only safe place on the planet with not much to do right now. Tell you what how about we step out for something to eat, dead for hundreds of years and I'm a might peckish, and you tell me your story, you know the ones you used to tell to scare the kids. "I don't even have time to explain why I don't have time to explain." - Yet you've been sitting on you duff waiting for me to come here and meet you, you couldn't have spent some of that time creating a FAQ documentary to give me? How about some Cliff Notes or a copy of "The Darkness for Dummies." "Have you heard of the Black Garden?" - No, I'd ask you to enlighten me but ... Oh there you go -blam!-ing off again with no explanation. "We need to see the Awoken." - Ya been meaning to ask you about that Guilty Dinklage, I was a nice shade of tan when I died and now I'm blue grey, what is up with that? And so on it goes...

You know there's a problem when CoD has a better story.....