Destiny 2 had a lot of issues when it arrived last year, and you could argue that it still does. But despite all of that, there were good things within the title that even the most begrudged player would admit. And one of them is Cayde-6, voiced by Nathan Fillion. The character was present not only in the game, but in the ad campaign for the title. But at E3 2018, Bungie revealed the Forsaken DLC, in which Cayde-6 is going to die, and the world wept.
This left gamers with a very important question, why would they do this? Well, on the latest PlayStation Blog, they gave some answers, and one of the first things they debunked was that this was planned from the start:
“There wasn’t a single lightning moment where someone unveiled a grand design about killing Cayde. It was much more organic than that and developed from a series of ideas we were trying to explore. We wanted to tell a story with huge stakes, but have those stakes be really personal to the player. We’ve done aliens trying to destroy the universe with the consequences of failure resulting in catastrophe. What if we could get that feeling with something closer to home, and more relatable? That was appealing.”
He went on to note:
“We started discussing what we cared about as Guardians, and it became clear that the Vanguard had really come alive as characters for our fans. So each of the expansions over the last year have focused on them: Ikora in Curse of Osirsis, Zavala in Warmind and now Cayde in Forsaken. We haven’t taken a player off the board like this before, and we realized that the loss of Cayde would mean more to the Player than any other possible external threat we could think of. All the ideas came together and formed what became Forsaken.”
So they were trying to go for impact, and they clearly got it.
