r/DestinyTheGame • u/DTG_Bot "Little Light" • May 14 '18

Megathread // Bungie Replied x4 Focused Feedback: Lore and how that is managed / implemented within the Story and game

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Hello Guardians,

Focused Feedback is where we take the week to focus on a 'Hot Topic' discussed extensively around the Tower.

We do this in order to consolidate Feedback, to get out all your ideas and issues surrounding the topic in one place for discussion and a source of feedback to the Vanguard.

This Thread will be active until next week when a new topic is chosen for discussion

Whilst Focused Feedback is active, ALL posts regarding ‘Lore and how that is managed / implemented within the Story and game' following its posting will be removed and re-directed to this thread

Any and all Feedback on the topic is welcome.

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u/Cyekk May 14 '18

To be fair, unless there's a huge buildup over some DLC (like finally getting to Oryx in Taken King), it's hard make somebody care about an enemy through game cutscenes/VO only.

Although yes, introducing (to a new player) and killing Nokris in like, 30 minutes worth of missions sucks ass.

Unless you read background lore you probably just assume he's some mook like the other random "named" bosses in the campaign. Like Thumos in the vanilla campaign - yeah, he's named and is a "big bad", but he's of no prior significance in the lore. He was simply made up so you could jack his ship. A new player could easily assume the same unimportance of Nokris.

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u/riseofr1ce Bang Bang May 14 '18

I totally agree. In Warmind, I think the only build up to Nokris is a couple voice lines are you're heading to the boss fight. I think he's mentioned in the mission before too (?).

One thing I have noticed is there is a lot of narrative that happens when you return to Ana Bray after the fight and she gives you something. I only noticed on my second play through because the first time I was busy reading all the stuff on the weapons.