A bunch of (undead, vampire) super-soldiers have to protect humanity (the white race) from hordes of invading aliens. The threat is everywhere and omnipresent, even though the actual baddies are underwhelming and you can readily slaughter tens of thousands of them. They're almost all uniformly evil, apparently just for the evulz. They're controlled by the all powerful yet unseen (((Darkness))) and the only thing protecting humanity is a giant white golfball. A white golf ball. Violence is the only way to interact with anything, and violence and death are goals unto themselves.
I keep trying to play this game and keep ending up frustrated by how empty, brutal, and fashy it is. Your characters, based on their actions, would be complete pyschopaths IRL, and the bad guy factions are all empty caricatures of evil evil baddies including Alien Invaders (Cabal), dirty illegal aliens who steal things (Fallen), Space Muslims (Scorn, Hive), and whatever the taken are (lazy writing so they can re-use assets).
Idk, I'm kind of done with it. Grinding for loot so you can grind for more loot is fun, but the story is so dumb and unselfconscious, and not even fun. Like with WH40k it's fascist and it's glorious because it revels in the excess and stupidity of fascism, it's all a huge fucking joke that's completely over the top. But Destiny plays it straight and it's so... dour and boring and unpleasant. This is the second time I've tried to play it and the second time i've given up in disgust.
I forgot this was a game I poured about a year of my time into.
In broad strokes, nothing about destiny compelled me except for pre-production and world building.
But we were blessed by the golf ball, it rests with us, the last race blessed with the golf ball wants it back, the moon has wizards? And some turtles are fucking around on mars. I was never taken in by the concept of the “darkness” and only played up to the first year of D2 after giving them the second chance they didnt deserve.
I remember being more taken in with warframe, as you were the genocidal killing machine made by a genocidal race for a war against another genocidal race the first genocidal race made and lost control of, to then fight off the second genocidal race for the first genocidal race and then promptly kill off the first. Then you are sealed away to wake up to continue being a genocidal war machine, except it’s for “balance” and it’s all remnants of the genocidal race you destroyed in the pre-game history. And you have a space mom.