- Recon Number 54
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.
I believe that over the years, due to how Bungie has a whole-house-collaboration process, even the story gets the "crucible" treatment by anyone/everyone who is interested. In doing so, various people have shown themselves to have strong storytelling traits that clearly have stronger focus in particular areas. Then, by being collaborative, they allow those members to do what they happen to do best, but working together and collaboratively/critically examining all efforts, the outcome is uniquely Bungie.
Jones seems to have a gift for coming up with a large-scale idea, McLees has a gift for filling it with specific universe-defining detail, Staten has abilities that focus on characters and their development/motivations, and so on....
Hell, I remember when Frankie was hopped up that he got to write the copy for a game's manual. I believe (based on external observation not on anything concrete or specific) that everyone is given the ability to "start small on this specific portion" and then encouraged to "think big, dream bigger and don't be afraid to try, don't be afraid to fail trying" and the team process then takes the best of everyone's efforts and uses that to forge a final product of which everyone can be proud.