Four years later, Destiny players reckon they've finally worked out who the Exo Stranger really is

In vanilla Destiny, one character in particular embodied the Frankenstein's monster-style story Bungie had patched together after tearing up the plot during development: the Stranger.

The Stranger, an exo character who teleported in and out of the world like a robotic Doctor Who, was a character who led the player during the campaign, uttering nonsensical riddle-like phrases throughout. At one point, the player desperate for some exposition, the Stranger says: "I don't even have time to explain why I don't have time to explain."

The phrase became something of a joke, an inadvertent embodiment of Destiny's development troubles and the resultant mess that was its campaign.

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