all these actors for a nonsensical story

Yeah, I will give Bungie credit for having good taste in TV since they picked people from good sci-fi or genre shows (GoT, Fringe, Farscape, Firefly, etc), but they wasted their talent and time, but at least they got paid.

I never saved anything for the swim back.

I didn't realize there was a story. I thought it'd been cut out for the Beta release and they just forgot to put it back in.

Hence the reason why I never touch MMOish games even with a 10-foot pole. Cause the story is always sh!t.

They could have just focused on the multiplayer like Titanfall and ditch the story elements and would have delivered a better product without pissing off people expecting a solid campaign experience cause they wouldn't buy it in the first place.

Just realized that people like Dinklage and Fillion and other notable few are in this. What a bloody waste!

I thought the same thing. Such a waste of talent to each of these people only say a few lines of random dialog.

I thought the same thing. Such a waste of talent to have each of these people only say a few lines of random dialog.

The rumor is that Activision made them chop up the story into little bits so they can milk the DLC angle. There was a post made by someone who was a part of Bungie's QA team last year who came forward about this very topic and he explained the build he played was very different and heavily reliant on story. I will post the link if I can find it again. But basically he goes on to explain that the Queen's brother was originally this guy names Crow. He abducts you in the second mission and brings you to Venus where he and a bunch of rogue guardians are hiding out. He then tells you that The Speaker is full of lies and is covering for The Traveler until it awakens again.

The story goes that the darkness is not an enemy of The Traveler, but rather a creation of it. Many hundreds of years ago, The Traveler came to earth using the darkness as a means to enslave humanity by destroying most of the Earth and forcing the humans into the last city. Once this is done, The Traveler gifts the remaining humans with many new technologies and longer life before going dormant. It does this in an effort to create a small army of mindless protectors who will guard it until it wakes up again and can continue its destruction.

Once Crow gets to you in the second mission, it serves as a wake up for your guardian and you then begin to fight back against the Travelers grip on the galaxy.

The original planet gameplay progression was supposed to go. Earth - Venus - Mars - Moon -Earth again.

IMO, while a little cliche, this story sounds so much better than what we are given and it should have stayed this way.

I'am not surprised. All these games are about is 'Regeneration & Shooting'. It's quite clearly Halo 2.0.

Most of the Actors are just people sitting around the Tower, Bungie themselves know that bringing in popular actors will most likely increase the popularity of the game, besides actors in the game like James Remar and Lauren Cohan and Nathan Fillion, everyone except Peter Dinklage has only a few lines anyways, so and plus its Bungie, probably rolling around in cash anyways, why else would they do it?