Future 2 is reaching a fairly exceptional milestone subsequent week when it launches The Closing Form, an growth set to wrap up the story the collection has been telling ever for the reason that first recreation launched in 2014. To some, this second means the whole lot, however there are others who couldn’t even start to grasp the magnitude of all of it. That’s as a result of Future’s lore, a lot as I adore it, is sort of unimaginable to glean in apparent methods. Fortunately, although, there are some people attempting to make it a bit of simpler.
The YouTube creator My identify is Byf, whose profession revolves round documenting Future’s expansive and complicated lore, is one such particular person, and he has simply premiered a ten-hour video detailing the historical past of the collection. Each main plot beat within the recreation, from the earliest moments of the primary Future all the way in which to the at the moment ending season, has made the lower. Even parts of story that happen earlier than the primary recreation are featured within the video. The entire thing is immense, daunting, and likewise completely vital.
Byf’s video, which does characteristic timestamps and will in all probability be considered episodically, begins by establishing the world of Future, its many factions and characters, and the historical past that shapes it earlier than we leap into the primary recreation. The occasions of the unique title make up the shortest elements of the video, accounting for about 5 chapters over the course of about an hour. The majority of the story actually begins to kick into gear originally of Future 2, as soon as Bungie roughly discovered a path for the extra ambiguous parts of the franchise, just like the enigmatic Darkness, and launched seasonal tales, that are coincidentally being phased out subsequent week.
Future has at all times had extremely Cool™ lore, however each installments within the collection have fumbled its presentation. The primary recreation would direct gamers to learn Grimoire playing cards—which contained dense and pulpy sci-fi novellas—that might solely be discovered on the Future app, which means there was little to no manner for anybody to seek out the sport’s most attention-grabbing writing inside Future itself. Future 2 has carried out a a lot better job of giving gamers codexes which might be filled with books detailing ongoing conflicts and different attention-grabbing lore tidbits from across the galaxy. Nevertheless, these tomes are buried beneath Future 2’s poor and convoluted UI, which solely will get worse the extra you have a look at it, and is fortuitously being streamlined in The Closing Form, amongst numerous different modifications.
Whereas Bungie’s toiled away at mechanisms to higher implement its personal attention-grabbing background tales into the precise Future video games, it has additionally been telling an ongoing story with a whole lot of shifting elements and large ol’ correct nouns. Issues have solely worsened on this entrance contemplating what number of tales have been stripped from the sport and tossed right into a vault, like all of Future 2’s seasonal storytelling and the vanilla marketing campaign that it launched with! It’s laborious to handle a recreation, however it’s even tougher to get into Future and its narrative attributable to how acutely its builders have bungled all of it within the ensuing years. You may perceive now why so many followers of Future are clamoring for a new recreation, a brand new saga, and a recent begin.
For causes like this, people like Byf have been a little bit of a lifeline for the story-savvy followers of Future. Very like Vaatividya clarifies and paperwork the intricacies of From Software program’s famously obtuse oeuvre, Byf is monitoring all of the narrative twists and turns occurring in Future’s fore and background. At any time when I’ve fallen away from the sport, Byf’s lore movies have at all times managed to get me caught again up and jogged my memory of one of many causes I’ve liked these video games for nearly ten years. It might have the identical magical impact on you all.
The Closing Form is out subsequent week. Should you’re ignoring the current leak like me and knocking out your previous couple of in-game duties this weekend, simply do your self a favor and have Byf’s video on within the background. Hell, throw it on when you’re preloading the factor throughout upkeep. Even when you don’t memorize each final little bit of it earlier than the growth drops, I promise you’ll at the very least have a newfound (or renewed) appreciation for all of the cool shit Future’s carried out over the past ten years.
