Having read all of the destiny Lore, and all of the dark souls lore, having really taken a look at the story that is blatantly presented in both games I feel that I can say that Destiny tried to do what Fromsoft does but implemented it horribly, with a world that isn't built for any sort of environmental story telling. The Story in Dark Souls is told to you by the environment, NPCs, and Item descriptions. All of these provide context for actions, and give you a great sense of what's going on, why it's going on and whose involved by basically straight up telling you. [spoiler]For instance in dark souls 3 I figured out that Aldritch ate the remaining Gods of Anor Londo before I even read his item descriptions and boss name. Because A) I spoke to Hawkwood until he started repeating, and B) I paid attention to the changed design of Anor Londo. What really fermented what Aldritch did was when I found Gwyndolin's chambers empty, except for an over turned chair with some black sludge around it. [/spoiler] Destiny never did anything like that. "Go kill the heart of the Garden" why? "THE DARKNESS" That was the extent of the in game answers. As for the lore well, all the cards say is "What ever it is the vex found that the only logical solution was to praise it as a god, now that is truly terrifying." Okay how is that relevant to what it is and why we have to kill it? It's powerful and in the hands of the bad guy, can't we capture it? Do anything else then send a one guardian against an army of vex? The same race that's known for wiping out entire fireteams of legend? We're never given any reason beyond "It's bad so kill it" Dark souls spoilers ahead [spoiler]I knew Gwyndoline very well from the first game, he was the God of the moon and punishment, hell I served him as a blade of the Darkmoon. I also know everything he did in order to try and keep the peace, he had to hide the fact that gods had abandoned humanity, because he still believed that his father's Plan to save the age of fire would work. So when I found out that Aldritch had eaten my favorite character, you bet I cared! Destiny never did that![/spoiler]

There is actually a few big differences between the two. 1. All of the dark souls stuff is in the game, and the lore references stuff in the game- I don't have to go outside of the game to look at the dark souls lore. It's all in the game. In addition, the lore actually talks about stuff in the game. In destiny, the lore refers to great concepts that are totally absent from the game. The corrupt hunter yor? Nowhere in the game. The ahamkara? Not in the game. Everything in From's lore references things you can encounter and see. Did you just read a passage about the Witch of Izalith and Her chaos flame? You get to see the flame (and its effects) in game, and you get to fight the Witch's daughter. Read a passage about the ancient dragons? There are a few scattered through the game, as well as their descendants. You won't read a lore passage about some obscure powerful enemy that no-one will ever see. 2. From's lore comes from the source you want to read about- Want to find out about the King Ocieros? Then kill him, and get his soul/weapons. Each will add to your knowledge. Want to learn about the hunter yor? Good luck. His weapon lists minimal details, and there is no way of knowing what ghost holds info about yor (unless you go out of the game). Want to learn about the twilight gap? Then keep playing random activities until you find its associated items. Everything in destiny is random. Even if you could view the lore in game, it is so nonsensically scattered that you would be hard pressed to learn about any one topic.

Here's why Bungie gets a lot of flack. 1. They said Destiny was going to be an epic game that could rival Star Wars or LotR. We all know how that turned out in vanilla. 2. Bungie had a huge reputation for making great games for years. 3. Broken promises and over hyping. Everyone knows that Dark Souls/Bloodborne expects you to figure everything out. They also are known for having little to no story outside of the item descriptions. People end up being surprised when they find out the games have very rich and deep lore.

They both need work honestly. Don't like how ether games are handled story wise.

You're comparing a book to a blank piece of paper

If you mention a game beside Destiny it goes in #Gaming. If you mention just Destiny it goes in #Destiny. Anyways, Destiny was obviously trying to replicate FromSoft's brilliant story telling methods.. But they didn't do it right. Not only did they put it all [i]out of game[/i], but honestly their descriptions were really lackluster, and only hidden grimiore, like Dead Ghosts, gave you any real lore. And, they're biggest fault, I think; they gave us [i]too much[/i] information, and info [i]on the wrong stuff[/i]. They didn't explain in the least what the heck the Heart was. Heck! I still don't even know how killing those 3 Minotaurs killed it, or what significance killing it even had! Meanwhile, you're only at the Capra Demon. You aren't going to get lore until later on. But basically, Dark Souls is a story half told, and that's the glory about it! It gives you "this is how it started, this is how it ended, make up the rest". It gives you a sense of realism. You aren't going to know every single event of history just by talking to a few random folk. They gave us just enough info to know about the world, yet still conjure up our own theories about this & that. And they give you a way to look at extended item descriptions [i]in game[/i], so more people are willing to do it. I know the significance of every Soulsborne ending I've seen, and I don't know this because the ending outright says "this is what this'll do" I know because I read item descriptions. And that's a glorious feeling. I know the ending's significance not because the game said it, but because I understand the world. That being said, I actually love Destiny's world! If they showed it better, and it wasn't FPS, I'd probably still love Destiny, but alas.. (and of course, I do love Dark Souls! <3)

Destiny was advertised as having an amazingly story. However, they chopped the game up into little pieces. The Taken King was here from the start. We never got it in Y1 because IT WAS CUT FROM THE GAME. Dark Souls, on the other hand, just has straight up lore. Sure, it doesn't have a major story, other than lighting the First Flame again to continue the Age of Fire. Of course, that story is over. The cycle will repeat itself, since the Flame cannot be extinguished.

DONT...... EVEN...... COMPARE THEM....... -_- [spoiler]Dark Souls beats Destiny by miles and miles of storytelling. Didn't mean anything harsh [/spoiler]

Different companies, different games, different expectations from their playerbases.

The item descriptions and the location tell a story. Look up the story of artorias and sif. Or go back to the roots and learn about the story of the demon astarea. [spoiler]the feels man[/spoiler]

Here's the thing. Destiny you have to use an app or website to see the story. Darksouls you got a pretty good idea of the main storyline and history without specific details.

Have you beaten dark souls? Dark souls 3?

Destiny is a pale comparison to Souls related storytelling, especially since at least FromSoft has the lore accessible in the freaking game.

Destiny was considered a failure in its story telling as it failed to progress it's story and tie it together neatly. Vanilla destiny ended leaving us with more questions than answers about the darkness and the traveler. Crota and House of wolves seemed like an unimportant side show until taken king kinda tied them together. As of late there has been no meaningful story progression at all. Grimoir is the only meaningful in depth lore but it exists separate from the game. Dark souls gets its praise for storytelling because the environments in the levels themselves can tell a story. The items you pick up and read help clarify the story you perceive. While not everything is fully explained there exist enough breadcrumbs to lead you along to draw conclusions.

Nope. Destiny literally dosent have a hidden story. I read all the grimoire cards all they're all over the place

Dark souls has as great or as little a story as you want. If you pay attention, you catch all kinds of things, be it from npc's,item descriptions, even the environment itself. This goes hand in hand with the difficulty of the game,in that if you don't pay attention to enemies and their attack patterns, you won't get very far very fast. The game rewards fast thinking and an eye for detail. This in turn helps to immerse you better into the game world itself. I suppose you could say destiny tried to pull something similar, but its presentation just was bland. Yes, you'll catch mention of am interesting name here or there, but to have to leave your game breaks the immersion that dark souls had got almost perfect. If half of what destiny put in the grimoire was actually in game, it would have had a great story. I read a lot of them, and they're good. The ones on oryx are really interesting. Along with destiny itself, the potential was amazing,but it failed epically to get anywhere close to its potential.

It's how they were marketed in my opinion. Destiny was marketed as a space loot shooter with a story. Souls games are marketed as exploration RPGs which essentially put you in the world and you have to find out what's going on yourself instead of everything being told to you. Then again, I don't buy Souls games for the story but I would like to have more interactive dialogue like the Witcher 3 did. I would like to see more story in both of them but Souls games have a reason for their 'minimalistic' approach where as Bungie had no excuse with Destiny

Destiny makes you access an app to read most of the story. Dark Souls has it all in game.