Future 2 is reaching a fairly outstanding milestone subsequent week when it launches The Ultimate Form, an enlargement set to wrap up the story the collection has been telling ever for the reason that first sport launched in 2014. To some, this second means every little thing, 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 find it irresistible, is almost not possible to glean in apparent methods. Fortunately, although, there are some people making an attempt to make it slightly simpler.
The YouTube creator My title is Byf, whose profession revolves round documenting Future’s expansive and complicated lore, is one such individual, and he has simply premiered a ten-hour video detailing the historical past of the collection. Each main plot beat within the sport, from the earliest moments of the primary Future all the way in which to the presently ending season, has made the reduce. Even parts of story that happen earlier than the primary sport are featured within the video. The entire thing is immense, daunting, and in addition totally obligatory.
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 bounce into the primary sport. 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 found out a route 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 sport would direct gamers to learn Grimoire playing cards—which contained dense and pulpy sci-fi novellas—that would solely be discovered on the Future app, that means there was little to no manner for anybody to seek out the sport’s most fascinating writing inside Future itself. Future 2 has performed a a lot better job of giving gamers codexes which can be full of books detailing ongoing conflicts and different fascinating lore tidbits from across the galaxy. Nonetheless, 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 luckily being streamlined in The Ultimate Form, amongst numerous different adjustments.
Whereas Bungie’s toiled away at mechanisms to raised implement its personal fascinating background tales into the precise Future video games, it has additionally been telling an ongoing story with so much of shifting elements and massive 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 exhausting to handle a sport, however it’s even tougher to get into Future and its narrative as a result of how acutely its builders have bungled all of it within the ensuing years. You possibly can perceive now why so many followers of Future are clamoring for a new sport, a brand new saga, and a contemporary 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 cherished these video games for nearly ten years. It might have the identical magical impact on you all.
The Ultimate Form is out subsequent week. When you’re ignoring the current leak like me and knocking out your previous few 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 enlargement drops, I promise you’ll at the least have a newfound (or renewed) appreciation for all of the cool shit Future’s performed during the last ten years.
