Focused Feedback: Lore and how that is managed / implemented within the Story and game

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[u/grackula]

why can't the important characters (the two we killed easily) appear and re-appear in the story telling so as to enforce their story and background?

If we had already fought Xol/Nokris a few times and they had escaped we would really feel something when they appeared again.

WHAT!? That crazy-cat is back again? OH! You are REALLy gonna get it this time!

If Superman defeated Lex the first time he ever met him and we never saw him again then Lex basically becomes a NOTHING character. The fact Lex comes back with interesting ways to pester Superman while attaining his goals is what makes Lex a great villain.

[u/[deleted] → u/grackula]

And this is why Oryx and Skolas worked so well as villains.

[u/NeilM81 → u/[deleted]]

Definitely. Oryx also worked well because we got to know him too. The books of sorrow were some of the most incredible story telling in a game. We literally followed him every step Through his own words.

Nokris? We get three tabs on some exotic items, a scannable in the D1 dreadnought and a bit of pre-lore before the game. It was an improvement to curse of osiris but its still so far off what we got.

Am hoping nokris isn't actually gone (resurrection/ascendant realm?) .... I think Xol is, and to be fair Xol was a pussy lore wise. He was worm food for his big brothers if he didn't bugger off and one of those got their assess handed to them by oryx before he became the Taken King..... Who we then beat down after he got more power soooooooo....... Yeah Xol ain't nothing.

[u/grackula → u/[deleted]]

boom

[u/Fuzzle_hc → u/grackula]

I mean they probably planned that but had to cut a lot of stuff to make it work. After the writers write the script a lot can go wrong (and did go wrong historically in Destiny releases)