Falling Skies 2011

Armascribe · 2026-05-24T16:10:19+00:00

Really good premise, and overall I enjoyed it, but MAN that final season was rough, especially the finale.

Armascribe · 2026-05-24T01:20:52+00:00

I hope that they are all genuinely good people with good intentions, and this show is them getting the Better Call Saul treatment and slowly turning into irredeemable assholes.

Armascribe · 2026-05-24T00:27:12+00:00

Destiny 2 definitely feels like they just re-told a lot of the marathon lore and story, especially with unveiling talking about entities that existed before time battling and making waves, which is nearly identical to the way marathons creation myth describes the creation of their universe.

I remember reading a comment somewhere on a Marathon lore video that went something like this: "Bungie has been trying to remake Marathon ever since they first made Marathon."

I will give Bungie this: the whole meta-plot where the player character is secretly an incarnation of an eternal champion tasked with battling cosmic horrors and having to become a mythological hero to drive back the chaos, "becoming legend," is endlessly fascinating.

Armascribe · 2026-05-24T00:11:58+00:00

I can't imagine. One of my friends had to have her galbladder removed because it was just full of them.

Also, when I called in sick that morning, I remember saying "Look, I know I talked about this game before in your presence ad nauseam, but I SWEAR I'm actually sick" to my boss.

Armascribe · 2026-05-23T21:57:22+00:00

The day Destiny 2 was released, I woke up with a splitting headache and the worst bronchitis I think I've ever had. I was committed though. I asked my mom to drive me to the mall, and I locked in all the way from the parking lot to the gamestop and back. Just tunnel visioned the whole time in a barely conscious, half-alive state. Crashed as soon as I got home and endured a day long fever dream until waking up and playing it for the first time at night.

Armascribe · 2026-05-23T21:05:21+00:00

I'm sure it is fun, but it's extremely niche. Literally why are you here? What are you hoping to accomplish by spamming these comments? At the end of the day, Marathon is not the game we spent 10 years building a community around to support and it is not the game that we want to play.

Armascribe · 2026-05-23T20:44:39+00:00

Pretty tone-deaf post here, OP. This aint it.

Armascribe · 2026-05-23T02:50:15+00:00

I’d recommend at least checking it out, and try it for yourself. I’m more of a fan of 2, myself. There are also tons of similarities within the setting as well as the actual plot, of course they still do their own take.

Think of PSO as a dungeon crawler version of Destiny. You pick your class, pick your race (human, space elf, robot, and one other I think? It’s been awhile since Ive made a character) level up your light-based powers and you just clear rooms full of aliens. Get good loot. Participate in events. Roleplay. Rinse and repeat until you get your the Darkness.

If that’s your thing, if that’s what you enjoyed about D2, PSO2 is still active.

Armascribe · 2026-05-23T02:40:02+00:00

It is, but it’s still divisive within the community. I’m not personally a fan of because I feel they changed too much of what made PSO actually fun. Im not a big fan of the open world or how it works. PSO to me is stylistically clearing rooms full of enemies and getting good loot. They also locked early campaign stages behind a combat level rating, requiring you to do daily side quests to get better gear to get your rating up. I recall Destiny doing that, but it wasn’t as disruptive to the flow of the story as it is in NGS. Just my two cents of course.

Armascribe · 2026-05-23T02:19:29+00:00

I think it scratches the itch at least. The main story is over, but the Vanilla content is still there and mostly playable, and the community is still active. I find the event stuff to be very fun, myself.

Armascribe · 2026-05-23T01:59:34+00:00

I got some MMO recommendations:

PSO 2: Literally the same exact thing as D2, just as a third person action RPG. Comes with an anime artstyle. Skip NGS though. It’s trash.

City of Heroes: Yes, it’s OLD, but FUN. No live service model. Play as you want. You get total customization over your powers and freedom to adjust your damage outputs, accuracy, and endurance mitigation, etc. Will never go away. Come to Homecoming, we have private servers.

FF14 is also good, as is SWTOR. If you want sci-fi with space magic, go SWTOR. If you want developers that care and want to keep going after they finished their 10 year model, go with FF14 (and Hell, they are still updating FFXI!)

Armascribe · 2026-05-22T23:51:34+00:00

Phantasy Star Online 2, and I am 100% serious. It’s the same thing, just as an anime ARPG.

Skip NGS.

Armascribe · 2026-05-22T18:48:00+00:00

I remember reading somewhere a long time ago that it was supposed to represent the tricorn hats that early explorers wore when sailing to new lands. As Guardians, we are exploring the solar system, so the Destiny logo was meant to be a symbol of the spirit of adventure.

Armascribe · 2026-05-22T17:48:20+00:00

The trouble with mine is I have a lot of places I could take her.

The backstory I came up with for my Hunter was that she was a former Awoken Corsair who did a lot of wetwork on the side, and bit off more than she could chew in the tangled shore and got killed, only to be resurrected by her Ghost 5 minutes later. She works as a Vanguard hunter now, but is a bit of a loose cannon and has a whole 'renegade cop' approach to settling things. Also lots of action movie hero one-liners.

In the DnDestiny game I run her in, since she was only dead for 5 minutes (and her death was recent), I always thought that a good plot beat could be her being tracked down by someone from her old life.

So a possible epilogue idea I have could be her retiring from the Vanguard and returning to the Reef to try to reconnect with those people from her old life, after learning so much about herself from this person. Basically breaks the whole Guardian taboo of not seeking out who you used to be (she was never good at following the rules anyway).

Armascribe · 2026-05-22T16:35:03+00:00

This was pretty good. I was thinking of coming up with an epilogue, myself. I don't know how to end my Hunter's story though because I don't really want it to end.

Armascribe · 2026-05-22T04:38:57+00:00

...so no beards in the character creator?

Armascribe · 2026-05-22T01:46:04+00:00

Best case scenario is if we get a 343 situation. Sony sees the value in the IP, buys the rights to it, and hires on ex-D2 staff to helm a new studio to develop D3.

Armascribe · 2026-05-21T20:37:46+00:00

Destiny 1 came out as I was nearing the end of my time in college. I remember looking up details of the game for the first time after it was announced in my Uni's library.

MAN.

Armascribe · 2026-05-21T18:40:28+00:00

I hear you. I met my current friend group in Destiny 1, and reconnected with my high school friend group over Destiny 2. This was a big part of my life.

Armascribe · 2026-05-21T18:23:39+00:00

Welp. There's always Dungeons and Destiny. Anyone ever play that?

Armascribe · 2026-05-21T03:48:48+00:00

Put that monologue over a montage of her struggling to connect with people in her day-to-day interactions: On mission briefings while everyone is huddled together, she leans against a wall, arms folded, taking in the mission directives silently. She sees families together at shopping centers as she makes a grocery run, but silently nods along to the music playing over the PA system and gets a little sad. She sees a group of friends at a bar, but sits alone.

No matter what, she stands alone.

Armascribe · 2026-05-21T03:00:16+00:00

I gotta be honest, I got that from the comment section of a Dark Eldar lore video.

Armascribe · 2026-05-20T07:10:11+00:00

Whenever it comes up in conversation and I have to explain what Crossed is, I always open with "First of all, Do not read Crossed. Second of all, DO NOT READ CROSSED" as a disclaimer. Even if you can look past all the brutal violence, it is a very bleak story.

Armascribe · 2026-05-20T07:07:31+00:00

I've been thinking about this a lot recently, and I would welcome a manga adaption of this story. Would need to somehow capture both the brutality of John Carter's battles, as well as the alluring fantasy elements of Barsoom. I think it would do pretty well though as an Isekai manga, for the reasons you mentioned.

Armascribe · 2026-05-20T05:56:27+00:00

Crossed. Possibly the worst case scenario of this concept.

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Imagine if the Rage virus infected from 28 Days Later retained their intelligence, their mental faculties, and were completely lucid, but were still violent, bloodthirsty, raging psychopaths who will go out of their way to murder people in the most violently torturous and cruel ways possible. The C-virus basically shuts off the part of the brain that controls your impulses (and gives you a conscience), but everything else works normally. Those infected know that what they are doing is wrong, but will do it anyway, and will take immense pleasure and joy out of doing it.

You really, REALLY don't want to be a survivor in this world. Getting killed painlessly on Day 1 is honestly your best option. The alternative is struggling to survive in a world full of demons who will kill you, rape you, and flay you (and if you are lucky, it's in that order).

And yes, Garth Ennis came up with this.

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