When playing you unlock "grimoire" and when you log in to Bungie.net you can see a number for it and some cards of some sort. Is it possible to use these for anything?
Super bummed this isn't a codex in the game itself. I don't want to go to their dumb site to learn all this lore stuff. I would much rather do it in game, you know, while I am playing it. Going to their site feels like home work. I'm a grown ass man. I don't want home work with my games.
I haven't checked all the grimoire cards i unlocked, but some give little bonuses. Like glimmer bonus for enemy cards and a weapon xp boosts for weapon cards.
The grimoire cards are essentially 'out of game' text logs. I've been reading them and they are actually pretty interesting and give a sense of context for what is going on in the game... which is a context that is (ridiculously) completely unavailable within the game itself.
I get that its lore, and thats cool and all but...why the devil don't they have an ingame codex for this stuff?
my guess is that they conceive of Destiny as being super co-op focused and they don't want to spend time delivering story as audio or text logs that would interrupt or cut into time spent with friends doing 'stuff'... this is also probably the reason why there are so little exposition via cutscene & so few NPCs used to deliver narrative.
It has to be by choice (and not oversight) when you consider the huge budget and development time.
I really wish they had found a way to contextualize this stuff in game. I think it would go a long way towards helping Bungie's case for why one would want to spend 10 years in this universe.
@sterling: Good point... also just because it is in the lore doesn't mean you will be able to go there... I hope all of those places will be available tough. It does sound like Bungie is planning for the long haul, so for sure more places will come. I am having fun so far, strikes, crusible and public events are my favorite so far.
And some people would rather not be overloaded with data while they are trying to experience the here and now of the story flow. If you really care, reading it on a website or in-game shouldn't be a big deal. If you can't be bothered to read through a website, then you really don't care enough to take the time, so it doesn't matter one way or the other. When you are trying to play with friends, stopping everyone just so you can read is selfish. Plus, it takes that much longer. Most likely, you'd end up reading the stuff later on your own time anyway. So, what's the difference if you login to the game and read it all or login to a website and read it all.
Just have a database in the hub area. The idea that it would interfere with anything is ludicrous. And the idea that finding out more about the world would ruin the flow of the game is ludicrous. Stop saying crazy things.
And some people would rather not be overloaded with data while they are trying to experience the here and now of the story flow. If you really care, reading it on a website or in-game shouldn't be a big deal. If you can't be bothered to read through a website, then you really don't care enough to take the time, so it doesn't matter one way or the other. When you are trying to play with friends, stopping everyone just so you can read is selfish. Plus, it takes that much longer. Most likely, you'd end up reading the stuff later on your own time anyway. So, what's the difference if you login to the game and read it all or login to a website and read it all.
Your assuming you would forced to read during game play and not at your leisure from the menu. Also, not every plays with other people.
I'm pretty sure there are challenges associated to some of the cards, such as kill this many enemies and you'll get this "perk". There is a video of a guy explaining it from the beta, I'm gonna try and find it.
Disclaimer: I haven't received the game yet, so maybe that's already proven to be wrong/removed.
Edit: Here it is. Again, not sure if that actually applies.
@strife777: Yeah, if you look at the cards on the site, it shows like x/100 for level 1, and there are 3 levels. And with each level you get better drops. Either ammo, money or parts for missions. Nothing crazy.
Its not about how much effort it takes, that extra step really just serves to separate the interesting lore from the game, you're distancing the two not only physically, but mentally and in a game that's already sorely lacking on context and flavor its a really poor decision.
Also cross platform integration is dumb marketing mumbo jumbo. There is literally zero practical reason not to have a codex in the game. I mean fuck, every single mass effect game had a fully narrated codex in game if you wanted it. It didn't slow you down if you didn't want it to, you didn't need to stop to read it every chance you got but the fact that they didn't separate it from the game made me look at it, if it was all hosted on a website I would have completely ignored it, and I'm someone that plays games mostly for their story and details like that.
That coupled with many other design choices in this game shows that either I'm super out of touch with the modern game audience or Bungie is super out of touch with its audience. Judging by the popular and critical reception of this game, I'd venture to guess the latter.
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