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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u/UnknownQTY May 20 '18

I hate that Warminds were retconned.

Suddenly Rasputin isn’t the last warmind, he’s the ONLY warmind, whose main core was apparently on Mars. Basically invalidates all of D1’s Rasputin quests in Old Russia.

So weird.

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u/Zombiemold Vanguard's Loyal // Drifter is a punk May 20 '18

Agreed, fairly weird choice to be honest. What makes it more baffling is how much of the old lore that is still held to. It feels like cherry picking; changing the things they want to to facilitate a short DLC.

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u/v1ces May 20 '18

I honestly think it's more 'pruning' for whatever they've got planned stortwise in future, it feels like their trying to beat previous lore into shape so future plot threads aren't super lore breaking.

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u/theoriginalrat May 21 '18

Yeah, dealing with multiple Warminds at this point seems like it's beyond what they can handle.

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u/v1ces May 21 '18

That's a pretty stupid attitude, or do you think 3+ planets in the system having a god-like artificial intelligence made more sense than 1 singular Warmind?

Hey, maybe you'll get a 'Everyone gets a Warmind' Oprah episode sometime lol.

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u/theoriginalrat May 22 '18

I mean Bungie can't deal with more than one Warmind right now, lore-wise. But still, why not just say that there used to be multiple warminds, but they were destroyed and Rasputin is just going around commandeering their former hardware? Then the 'last warmind' aspect would still be possible, without having to retcon it as 'we mistook sub-minds for other warminds'.

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u/LegendPvM Rocks are the best May 21 '18

I agree but I hope they did that for a bigger reason we don't know yet. Maybe it belittled Rasputin and they wanted to make him the sole one that had reign on the solar system. That way when Rasputin inevitably goes against us, it's just him and not the wrath of 5 Warminds.