This is all pretty limited in scope. As I said, the stories are all "someone died and I get their stuff" but you could do a lot more. Maybe include something like the terminals in which you get a meta story over the main narrative. I just want patrols to be alive.

I'm starting to rant so feel free to leave if you've made it this far. Maybe they could have an algorithm that randomizes which enemy groups spawn when I enter a zone so that I don't know what to expect. The Blades of Crota was a step in the right direction. Wouldn't it be eerie to wander through Old Russia and have the opening areas completely empty. What about the pitch black room where you first encounter the hive? What if that was empty most of the time, but every once in a while it would be full. I think that is much scarier. Bungie would get a lot further mileage out of their environments if they did stuff like this.

Eh, do any of you have realistic ideas for what bungie could do to bring life to their shared world action shooter?

...be ready to fight a tidal wave of Forsworn first.

Lying through their goddamn teeth.

Bungie, this game has undone much of the goodwill you earned through your many previous and excellent products. Why did you let that happen?

It's not that that the critique is invalid. But if Bungie could have given you that game, I think they would have. They just couldn't. Destiny didn't reach a lot of its goals, but I don't think Bungie failed to get there from lack of effort. When they said that's what they wanted to do, they meant it.

Maybe they bit off more than they could chew, but if I lost any respect for them, it wasn't because of this.

This right here is what, for some reason, what I was expecting before Destiny launched. A Shooter the size of Skyrim. (Though I recall using exploration in Mass Effect 1 in my examples)

I think this is what we all expected. Except with each planet being just as big as Skyrim's map.

Also I expected a plot.

Bungie, this game has undone much of the goodwill you earned through your many previous and excellent products. Why did you let that happen?

One of the things I loved about Skyrim was exploration. Not every place had something mission-based going on, but you would stumble across a story in an isolated corner of the game (usually a body and a journal) or you would find an odd arrangement of world elements that implied history. The Ghosts kind of work like this, but they don't give you any immediate satisfaction. I want more incentive to explore (NPCs in the wild would help a lot). I don't want a saturated world, but give me enough to make it satisfying.

This right here is what, for some reason, what I was expecting before Destiny launched. A Shooter the size of Skyrim. (Though I recall using exploration in Mass Effect 1 in my examples)

If only they could remove those invisible walls an death barriers. I'd love to climb the buildings in the buried city or explore the craters on the moon.

There is a reason those barriers are there. Those buildings in the distance? More cards then mesh more likely then not. That said - I too have said to myself "I want to go over there".

Dear Bungie,

Bring me to that horizon.

One of the things I loved about Skyrim was exploration. Not every place had something mission-based going on, but you would stumble across a story in an isolated corner of the game (usually a body and a journal) or you would find an odd arrangement of world elements that implied history. The Ghosts kind of work like this, but they don't give you any immediate satisfaction. I want more incentive to explore (NPCs in the wild would help a lot). I don't want a saturated world, but give me enough to make it satisfying.

That waterfall with the diving board and the bard. Greatest thing ever.

Like, multiple starting spots for Patrol, new public events, and missions that would make use of that space.