"Yo, BLACK. Come here!" Sounds racist. Kinda funny.

I ran Aksis with a guy named, literally, SomeBlackGuy. We were all chatting, "hey black guy, what's up?" He obviously knew what he was in for when he chose that name. Good guy, very funny, good player.

One time a guy fixed that this way.

"Star, can you go to the left?"

I do this quite often. My old roommate was name Lawrence so I called him 'Rence.

Of course, that was during a raid with Morningstar.

Ha! In that case I'd probably go with "black" and "morning" even though it's against my preference. I would lose sleep later trying to figure out if I should have gone with B and M.

What do you call Zero Point Fox? Or Chappy? Or Nico? "hey NEEK!"

Zero. Chappy is fine. Nico also fine.

Damn it, Funk, you've got me. Raga it is.

Besides getting lost often, wasn't this the problem with The Library?

No the problem wasn't having to defend yourself while waiting for something to happen. The problem was doing that over and over again in nearly identical hallways.

One time a guy fixed that this way.

"Star, can you go to the left?"

Of course, that was during a raid with Morningstar.

What do you call Zero Point Fox? Or Chappy? Or Nico? "hey NEEK!"

Don't worry. I've already thought of how to maintain your addiction. Longer missions can wind through public spaces. End of mission drops can be moved to checkpoint accomplishments.

This would be really smart design. Well played, Raga!

I'm not entirely sure how I feel about multiple-syllable nicknames, Raga. Not sure at all.

Nightfall: I've only attempted (and completed) one nightfall. Mostly because I never have a party to play with.

Are you on Xbox? Do you appear offline?

I've got you on my friends list but I never, ever see you online.

And of course just now I get on and you're online.

Don't worry. I've already thought of how to maintain your addiction. Longer missions can wind through public spaces. End of mission drops can be moved to checkpoint accomplishments.

This would be really smart design. Well played, Raga!

Don't worry. I've already thought of how to maintain your addiction. Longer missions can wind through public spaces. End of mission drops can be moved to checkpoint accomplishments.

This would be really smart design. Well played, Rag!

Nightfall: I've only attempted (and completed) one nightfall. Mostly because I never have a party to play with.

Are you on Xbox? Do you appear offline?

I've got you on my friends list but I never, ever see you online.

Besides getting lost often, wasn't this the problem with The Library?

I bet it would worsen the game for your friends though. The problem with Halo sized levels is the investment required. These days all the kids are used to mobile games where you don't spend a lot of time doing any one activity. Destiny in a lot of ways appeals to that crowd (not raids) and it's just sort of a mindless thing to do with friends.

That's what checkpoints are for, duh. Point taken though. I would be happy if they had a 4-5 AotCR length missions in the endgame. AotCR could honestly take as long as a raid so why not treat it as such and communicate to the player that they are in for an investment. Give them a new icon on the map or something so the kidz don't get confused. :-)

The closest equivalent to Halo's story missions (in terms of length) are the strikes.

I think it would be interesting to see what a Destiny game would look like where the mainline story is told through the strikes (which would make up the "core" campaign), and then the smaller "story" missions could be used for side quests and stuff like that. Which is kinda the opposite of how they work now. The strikes in D1 are mostly little off-shoots from the main plot. I started a new character just before RoI shipped, and have been slowly making my way through the entirety of Destiny. With the new quest system, there are several strikes that are left out entirely. You could easily miss them if you're not being thorough about going through all the mission markers on your map. It might be cool to see the strikes brought into the foreground a bit more.

I bet it would worsen the game for your friends though. The problem with Halo sized levels is the investment required. These days all the kids are used to mobile games where you don't spend a lot of time doing any one activity. Destiny in a lot of ways appeals to that crowd (not raids) and it's just sort of a mindless thing to do with friends.

That's what checkpoints are for, duh. Point taken though. I would be happy if they had a 4-5 AotCR length missions in the endgame. AotCR could honestly take as long as a raid so why not treat it as such and communicate to the player that they are in for an investment. Give them a new icon on the map or something so the kidz don't get confused. :-)

This would conflict with a gear driven, investment game as well as the design to meet guardians out and about through seamless matchmaking.

Would it? Seamless matchmaking has not been a significant part of any post-HoW missions.

If I'm understanding you correctly about the gear, you are right. They cannot control the sandbox of sniper/rocket/shotgun availability like they did in Halo. That being said, they've already solved a lot of those issues with strike/raid mechanics. You want them to play a certain way? Give them a couple of non-gun tools to make the encounter you want. I think that creating levels that play well with any guardian load-out is certainly harder than if you could limit gun/gear choice, but it isn't impossible. Add some good vehicles and I'd play that.