As much as it pained me to go through the original story again, the quest system and North’s performance alleviated some of the repetitiveness. Rather than backtrack to see what I missed, I did what any sane person would do: start over. I saw completed tasks on my quest tab - like talking to certain characters in the Vestian Outpost - that I never actually did. But the new quest system confused me when I loaded up my dormant Warlock character (who I first played with last year when I bought the game).
Included in the 17GB update was the Quest tab, a new part of your character menu that organizes all the active quests you’re currently in a new voice actor for Ghost (Bungie ousted Game of Thrones’ Peter Dinklage for Nolan North, thus erasing all of Dinklage’s lines from the game) and a subtle tweak in the top-right corner of your screen that tells you the name of the person who’s talking to you.Įverything worked as promised.
Patch 2.0ĭestiny’s big 2.0 patch wasn’t an expansion, but I put it here because it changed a lot about how it tells its story. It was the first time I felt like I was part of a team and not just some interplanetary errand boy. House of Wolves was a vast improvement over Destiny’s storytelling blunders. Ghost is still unusually silent, but I didn’t mind it too much here. Variks is interesting because he translates Fallen chatter on the battlefield and talks about the time he was a part of Skolas’s army. Her positivity and excitement is contagious. Petra is a veteran warrior, but lately she’s been stuck with mundane jobs, so she vicariously lives through you on these missions. Petra and Variks offer different perspectives on that war, and they also provide some background information on the events that lead up to House of Wolves. While most of the story is still told through audio transmissions, it felt a lot more lively to have two characters talk to me (and often times to each other).Ī long time ago, the Fallen and the queen’s realm waged war against each other. Like Eris Morn before them, Petra and Variks give you different tasks to accomplish: You’re helping them hunt down Skolas, a powerful and influential leader of the Fallen. In House of Wolves’s new social hub, you meet Petra Venj, the queen’s emissary, and Variks, a Fallen creature who’s actually a good guy. Three top investment pros open up about what it takes to get your video game funded.