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Editor's note: Once a month we invite the wonderful Gareth Damian Martin, editor of Heterotopias, to show us what proper writing about games looks like before we shoo him away for making the rest of us look bad. You can read Gareth's pieces on Dark Souls and Resident Evil - and you really should! - before settling into this month's piece about Bungie's delicious skyboxes. When the Destiny 2 Beta opened up the game's new hub, The Farm, for a single hour last weekend, I'll admit I was intrigued. Beyond the crimson jungles of Nessus and the pair of multiplayer maps the slim test made available, The Farm is the space that will become the new home for players of the series. It will, as far as we can tell, be the point from which all journeys begin, and the structure in which they will end, with rewards, congratulations and customary dancing.
Yet, loading into that space stripped clean of any hints of its inhabitants, scoured of spoilers and plot details, the experience felt less like moving into a new home and more like walking on set before the show begins, taking in the forms and shapes of the architecture, and the way the space colors the air, but little more. A bloodless heart, waiting to begin beating.
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