What's a "Moral Compass Cricket Thingy"?

[Moonface]

...Chronicles of Narnia is across 7 books. The .hack video game was in 4 parts. Legend of Dragoon is 4 chapters, each one disk long. Those are the ones that immediately come to mind.

Fair point. For some reason, I just blanked on all of the stories that use more than three books/movies/games to tell an overarching story, and only though of things that come in threes like Lord of the Rings, Star Wars (I view it as coming in trilogies that just happen to connect), Indiana Jones (movie 4 doesn't exist), etc.

Put another way: The Original Modern Warfare 2. Knowing what happened in the first game helps set up the scenario, but "outside knowledge" would be if they skipped over the entire Gulag sequence and put that in a 200 page book explaining what happened. Given that the Gulag sequence has a direct link to the plot happening in America because it's the reason they get EMP'd, skipping over that part would be confusing!

I know you dropped out of Destiny quite fast mainly due to its gameplay, but I get the feeling you would've really hated it for how it handles lore had you stuck with it because that game is one of the most notable I know of when it comes to having a lot of its lore dumped outside the game. If I'm recalling correctly, you collect things in-game but have to read the actual lore those things contain on the games website, rather than having the ability to read it in-game. I've seen that come up so often by players hating how you have to go outside of the game every time you grab a lore item if you want to actually read it, and how you can't read that lore on the website until you get the item so you either constantly go back and forth, or go to somewhere else that has all the lore in one spot (which is more efficient but still doesn't resolve the problem of the lore not being in-game but it gets unlocked in-game which is ridiculous).