Dude. Seasons back then literally felt like Mini DLC's. So much content, it was insane. Nowadays were lucky to even get a decent seasonal ritual weapon.
Oh and we only get ONE a season with *AWFUL* "ornaments" that are supposedly vendor themed. They're either lazy or inept, or just greedy. Hell, dungeons "are so costly to make", so now they sell them SEPARATELY priced THE SAME AS A FULL SEASON *EACH.*
They were still better than season of worthy, season of the hunt and especially season of undying. I feel like people forget this season existed at all, and for good reason.
@@joshuaandrachek492 Bro you’re crazy Black Armory was amazing. Great weapons, raid, community mission, and some of the best exotics ever introduced. Are you really going to tell me season of the haunted, risen, or lost had as good of content as that? Duality is apart of the dungeon key. Witch Queen dlc is separate. 30th anniversary is separate.
I genuinely wish I could go back in time and replay this portion of destiny again. I loved forsaken so much that it hurt when they cut it out of the game
You mean stole? You *paid* for that content. And now they have the gull to ask us to buy more of their garbage, buy dungeons separately, overpriced deluxe editions and awful seasonal content. I have and continue til time eternal call it THEFT.
destiny was just so mysterious back then. there was no seasonal model yet and i think that’s why it was so good. we didn’t know what to expect every season
@@NovemberHoteland I can’t wait to see what you have to say about shadow keep and it’s annual pass because that was when I joined the game back at season of dawn
It really was. I've been called a hater for not liking D2 now but those complaints of mine come from a place of love for the game and the good old days before Shadowkeep
Year 2 of D2 was literally one of if not the best year of Destiny. The content was absolutely brilliant the story was amazing and the weapons. Oh the weapons. These seasons had the best weapons out of any season proceeding. I still miss all of this content with all my heart
Yet the community was pretty unhappy about a lot of things back than, besides maybe season of opulence, the other two weren't so highly regarded at the time of release
@@heart_of_a_daedra3649 Witch Queen has come pretty Close to Year 2 but Y2 still is just better in my opinion as it had new supers, fantastic activities brilliant weapons and great QoL changes
@@F-aber that’s how it happens a lot of the time. I really enjoyed all 3 seasons as I enjoy everything Bungie puts out but these seasons were just different
@@heart_of_a_daedra3649 tough for me to agree with you there. The game is so thin and recycled now, the content is drip fed more, and we haven't had new enemies in 4 years. 4 years of not getting a new enemy faction is insane to me.
I got into D2 in college when it went free to play so I NEVER KNEW MASTER IVES WAS KILLED?! I WAS WONDERING WHERE HE WENT! I remember in D1 my friends and I believed that there was a better chance for him to give us better legendaries and rolls. Imma miss that blue boi😔
I love these throwback vids. It reminds me of how things were. I was somewhat casual back then so I don’t remember it all. I remember playing a lot of Season 5 & 6. I wish I played Opulence, I had the dlc & made no time to play…. We had it pretty good back then.
And now it's more or less the same terrible cutscenes where our guy just STANDS THERE, NOT DOING ANYTHING. Or just pretends they don't exist so the npcs can do their questionable coreography from start to end and the screen fades black.
I played D2 at launch and got bored after like a month and didn't get back into it until about a few months before shadowkeep dropped. I was shocked at all of the great changes they made and the great new content. It felt like an entirely new game. I wish we could get a year of content that good again.
This really was one of the best years of D2. I much prefer this model of content instead of the current seasonal model, though I do agree that it needed a bit more focus on core activities. Maybe a new Crucible map and mode one season, Gambit map next season, Strike for the last season, and an update for all 3 in the major expansion. Black Armory, although the mode wasn’t too great, had a good concept of forging your own weapons and had a bunch of good loot to it. Scourge was a blast of a raid. The sparrow section was fun and the final boss fight of taking down a giant, roaming robot was neat. Say what you want about Joker’s Wild, but in my opinion, it was sorely underrated. The introduction of roles and perks was great, though I didn’t really like Reckoning, and an endgame Gambit mode is something that I really want to return. On top of that, the narrative and lore were probably the best out of the 3 and Zero Hour was great as well. Opulence was probably the best of the 3. The loot was great and the mode was fun and rewarding. I also liked that they used the Leviathan more. Definitely a cool destination. Really sad that none of this is available anymore. Despite drip feeding and time gating, I felt that this was a pretty sustainable version of Destiny
And we have that drip feeding and timegating to this day but even worse. The ""story"" if you can call it that each season, can only be progressed incrementally once a week. And to add insult to injury this season was literally THE SAME EACH WEEK. Do menial crap, do a recycled lost sector and then Spider tries to troll us with green engrams. Same, every, single, week.
The one thing I didn't like about the gambit prime armors is that everyone just ended up using only two (invader and reaper), if you went collector than good luck getting the 20 and sentry was fine, but it wasn't consistent but a small time everyone would collapse on the bank making the set not as useable. It probably would've been better if there was a couple regular enemies who would spawn and try to drain your motes into the abyss and if the collector only dropped half the motes they had and kept the other half (as well as some kinda stat boosts for the more motes you hold up to maybe 20% in each stat giving you a +2 or (currently) 120 extra stat points for having 20 motes on you. These ideas might be too strong, but the other two (invader and reaper) massively outweighed the other two and I think a person doing each job should've been almost mandatory.
The big thing for me, having played throughout the year of Forsaken, is that all of these content drops snowballed HARD, so by the end of the year there was TONS to do on any given day depending on what you still were progressing on. The grinds were very real during Y2. Dreaming City's 3-week curse cycle and 6-week Ascendent Challenge rotation kept players engaged trying to pick up secrets they missed previously (or getting those GD cosmetics to drop for the Collections badge), as well as visiting Mara Sov in Queen's COurt and getting Truth To Power lore pages for Chronicler, and then on TOP of all the odds and ends of endgame Forsaken, we had this new content dropping every three months to work through, consisting of matchmade 3- and 4- and then 6-person activities, two raids, a bevy of grindy exotic weapon quests, Zero Hour and Zero Hour Heroic over and over again, etc etc. A lot of the time-gating was definitely annoying, but it certainly made us pay attention to what was popping up on any given weekly reset. Reckoner is still the grindy-est seal I have, and I'm STILL exhausted from completing it, forever scarred by Gambit Prime. It's become a running joke among my friends. Love my Reckoner title, hate Gambit (in actuality, I have settled into numb ambivalence). One thing this video barely stressed/touched on during Black Armory was just HOW insane and involved the amount of community puzzle-solving was regarding the forges' three houses and all of their respective symbols scattered across the three forges, only visible through the scopes of certain BA weapons, with players deciphering and unlocking three house emblems when shooting symbols at Volundr, which also neatly provided key puzzle solutions for Niobe's Torment. I don't think anything matched that level of complexity until Season of Dawn's Corridors of Time blew it out of the water just with the sheer amount of community involvement required.
@@kajus You should look at Destiny as a continuous game. When you say Year 2, most people would think you are referring to The Taken King. Destiny is meant to be a 10 year game. We're currently in Year 8.
@@TheFirstCurse1 While I applaud your insane dedication to pedantry, you're being willfully obtuse. You understood I was talking about Forsaken, but decided to needlessly 'correct' me. Again, give me a break.
@@TheFirstCurse1 Destiny 1 was a banger post taken king, destiny 2 sucked at launch, was fixed for a while then bunghole nuked the game and sells it back to us with interest. Two separate games, my guy.
you can say what you want about it, but some of the shadowkeep seasonal stuff was absolutely banging, I wish we could have such a whacky mix of core content as well as grindy and/or challenging content, like arrivals focus for challenging pve, worthys swing into newer/more pvp focus, dawns casual appeal or the wild seasonal stories most of which starting in undying. there was a lot to critique, but also to enjoy
This was such a great year for Destiny. 3 amazing seasons that were full of great activities and challenges! Season of the Forge was incredible. I loved the fact that it was hair pulling levels of difficult in the beginning. It reminded me of how Destiny 1 vanilla nightfalls and D2 EP were. Scourge is one of my personal favorites raids, with incredible loot to back it up. Pinnacle weapons were a neat idea, executed very questionably with the sheer amount of power they held. Mountaintop and Recluse specifically were (in my opinion) one of the main reasons for sunsetting. The other weapons were very good as well. Breakneck, Loaded Question, 21% Delirium, Wendigo and Revoker were all fun. Season of the Drifter was fun. I didn’t care for Reckoning all to much but Gambit Prime was amazing (Hammerhead was what I always used for invading, I’m not sorry). Zero Hour definitely stole the show, however. Season of Opulence was so much fun. Menagerie was definitely the highlight of the season, with great loot and visuals. Crown is mixed for me, despite what I may say. The first encounter was unbearably slow, but Gahlran was really fun.
man i really regret not grinding during those times, most of my friends played cod and fortnite so i was left alone in destiny 2. Most playlists and challenges i couldnt do since i never knew lfgs existed and i didn’t look up tutorials or videos on how to unlock armor ornaments, sets, and weapons, damn.
And they looked great to boot with nice sounds. Now we get these messy heaps of pixels and vertices that look totally abhorrent. The only saving grace has been opulence weapons returning, and this season having *fallen themed* gear which is fine by me. But pretty much everything else? They're not weapons, they're toys.
Love the destiny videos you have been making. I fell in love with destiny during red war and then even more with forsaken and year 2 content. It had its problems but when you compare to what we get now it is not even close. Year 2 was one of the best years of destiny. Love to give you another idea for some content…it would be interesting to see an og destiny player like yourself compare destiny through the years and analyze the question “is bungie better without activision.” Cause this video shows how much better the content was during year 2 when you had two other studios helping bungie out. As a huge destiny fan…I really hope the Sony acquisition can help the game cause I’m not sure destiny can continue with this current seasonal content and expansion quality.
This video is so good! I started playing in Season of the Splicer and it was really nice to see all the stuff my friends talk about. They really need to bring those black armory weapons back!
I recently came back after a (very) long hiatus. I stopped playing after Beyond Light and just came back for Season of Plunder. I damn near cried when I saw that my Hammerhead and Kindled Orchid were sunset and I couldn't upgrade them 😭
Funny...I don't seem to recall hearing such high praise back in that year (except for Opulence tbh) But I guess hindsight is an interesting thing, isn't it?
Thanks to Foraken and the annual pass, I think Destiny 2 was at it's best in Shadowkeep and in particular Season of Arrivals - so much content and so much to do. Black Armory weapons were the best. Gambit Prime was worth a try. Menagerie is one of my favorite activities ever. The story was finally coming to a head, and the pyramids finally showed up. My favorite time in Destiny 2 was then.
When gambit still felt fresh and fun. Wish gambit would get a varied Playlist like crucible. Wouldn't mind a more defensive mode like Control+the Vex defense PE where the bank moves around the map.
This year of content is what disappoints me the most with content vaulting. All of that year had great exotic quests and fun to do content that is now just gone, the exotic quests’ rewards are now just in the terrible FOMO machine. I will always hate when a game of this scale removes content. I truly think that during the seasons after Lightfall they need to focus on bringing everything back in a accessible way. Perhaps with a feature that lets you see the order everything happens and you can see what you have and haven’t completed from each season and expansion. Hell, seasons I didnt play or buy I’d be willing to go back and and buy if I was just able to play them. It would also be cool if they did adopt a system like what Master Chief Collection has and allow us to level up past Season Passes. The only things I think should be time limited is things based on the time of year as long as they come back the next year (Like Season of the Lost or Solstice of Heroes). With their few billion dollar acquisition from Sony I think they can afford to allocate some resources to bringing these systems back and improving them.
Forge was my first god roll. I got a outlaw killclip balast rifle with range m.w. and good transluscent scope, mag perk and range barrel. .02% chance to get it. I was so stoked. Too bad sunsetting prevents me from using it in iron banner but it still shreds regular pvp.
I still have the revelry set sitting in the vault with the glows I can't use 😭 shame cause I loved the antlers. The drip feed has gotten so much worse since forsaken.
Music playlist for what music you use? I need these for when I wanna fall asleep, not saying the vid made me wanna fall asleep it’s just I hear this music in byf vid and byfs voice is, well, yk…
The seasonal content just feels like it's all the same stuff now, season after season. I unfortunately didn't get the chance to play much of season of Opulence, but season of the forge was honestly a lot of fun for me. I have more distinct and great memories from season of the forge than any other season, even the seasons I no-lifed during Covid.
Black Armory was the most underrated season IMO - i remember one guy in our clan finishing the armory through LFG - he pulling me through 20 or 30 lvl under than us carrying half the clan through it together until we had a bunch that could carry. niobi labs was super dope, puzzles, secrets, scourge was hella fun - yet alone the weapons are prob some of my all time favs - tatara gaze, the auto felt great, anarchy is goated, the pinnacle weapons rocked and people loved loaded q, breakneck - and the forge activity itself was actually fun. the old school mountain top quest being a pain in the ass an super grindy was still worth every minute of suffering bc MT was so fun to play. bungie never figured out to balance the sandbox between pve/pvp, mt was cancer in pvp but fun in pve - removed it due to it and look at the pvp sandbox now - still a total shit show - and - MENAGERIE was prob the best seasonal activity ever done.... looking back Forsaken, Black Armory, Menagerie was the time i had the most fun i ve ever had playing D2 prob peaking at day one Garden of Salvation. After that our 3 Clans started to falling apart and people losing interest in D2 and getting tired of Bungie.
I stopped playing after the day 1 raid I'm forsaken. It was the first time ever that I didn't buy destiny content. I didn't touch the game but came back during the leviathan stuff and had a years worth of content and most of it had already been altered after player complaints. Probably one of the best times I've had. Wish I could say I would do that now but the seasonal content is such a drag I can't see myself buying it.
Please bring gambit prime weapons back bungie . Seasons 7,9 Both had great content We need the revelry back such a fun mode . Also the armor from that mode was really cool
I was around until season of opulence dropped then my friends lost interest and I followed suit making my way back now but I wish black armory stayed while the forges were mind numbing I feel if they spiced up the enemy’s to be diffrent from ones in the base game it would be a lot more fun also rip break neck I still haven’t filled that void in my load out
Honestly, I wish we could go back to similar style for our seasonal content - I mean with the variety. Even tho, things like Gambit Prime might not have been the best received, but each season felt DIFFERENT. Currently, what we get is the same-y 3 or 6 player activity each season, with a separate ‘other’ mission and weekly story. It is boring and just super dull. Now I am not saying we need another Gambit season, but maybe some focus on OTHER parts of the game - like season of the Vanguard, where we get 3 or 4 new strikes and reworks to the playlist. Maybe instead of the typical match made activities we have now, we get true horde mode / tower defense mode. Hell, what about some like short stories or something? Relive memories of the collapse, defending the walls, stuff like that. We just need the seasons to feel DIFFERENT - they are all the same… Boring…
I LOVE the Black Armory weapon set. I wish they could establish the way they designed the Black Armory weapons, Zero Hour & the Menagerie into a formula as regular releases. It's funny how Year 2's "drip-feed" style content-drop was more tolerable compared to the seasons we have now. They somewhat still followed the mini-expansion formula of releasing a good chunk right at launch. That combined with how they've lasted beyond the year they were released, there was less fomo around them. I preferred their way of telling the story because of how isolated they all were, despite all 3 being about preparing for the Black Fleet. I don't like how crucial story moments are now being told through the super-drip-feed drops of D2's current seasonal model. If the story has to flow from season to season then I'd prefer 2-3 campaign missions per season instead, otherwise give me Y2 style seasons.
I've played Destiny 2 since launch (Although mostly casually up until December of 2021.) But my absolute idiotic 2018 self didn't think to even touch basically any of this content, asides from Thorn, Last Word and Recluse... One of my biggest regrets about Destiny, even though the stuff is sunset now. I'd love to see more varieties of highly replayable content like these. They kind of live on in Dares of Eternity, but these made the Destiny universe feel bigger, if that makes sense.
The game was better back then, looking back had they gone down a better path I could’ve seen this game being similar to destiny 1 with great armor, weapons, activities to play. But instead now we have half asses activities, decent seasonal stories. The game feels like pay to have fun. I simply can’t keep up with the grind this game wants from me. I feel like both pvp and I’ve have never felt worse. I like the new abilities but now almost every pve activity is too easy now and enemies will get one shot by a simple ability. Pvp simply isn’t fun and trials is easier than comp which sucks cause como has no rewards now. Overall I feel like the game pre beyond light was much better than it’s current state.
Thank you for these videos!! The balance between reminiscing on D1 content to finding out what I missed during the middle seasons of D2 has been great! Always looking forward to the next one
It’s controversial but I believe that Season of the Drifter was the peak of Destiny 2. Because from forsaken up till Drifter it was the absolute power creep era. Orpheus, Pheonix, Ursa, and of course Skull of Dire Ahamkara all able to give a full super refund. All the crazy weapons from Forge even more crazy weapons from Drifter like Last Man and Spare Rations. We got mountaintop and recluse. Auto loading meta. And the forgotten Revelry aka SKIP GRENADES EVERYWHERE! And I say Drifter was the peak because it was when Bungie realized that we were really too powerful. An infamous statement was that they built reckoning’s bridge encounter TO PURPOSEFULLY insta kill us. Following Drifter began nerfs to super regen exotics, auto loading, the death of aggressive GLs, and the infamous damage buff nerf and precision weapon nerf in Shadowkeep (theorized to sell finishers). After Drifter it felt like Bungie was done giving us easy load outs and had the design shift that led to Armor 3.0 in Shadowkeep.
Overall it's hard to choose between then and now. Looking back this content seems great but you also have to keep in mind how poor many of the systems were that have since been remedied. Also keep in mind how lack luster a lot of the story content was compared to today. I think the main thing I really want to see is better seasonal content. The forges, reckoning, or menagerie all provided much more engaging content then something like containment or katchcrash, imo. The content needs to be more difficult if they're going to make it locked at six players. Give us a larger battlefield with more enemies and more bosses. I'd say the loot is still worthwhile but a lot of people are not okay with the state of weapon crafting for various reasons. Personally I'd like to see 3 player content more in line with the Expunge missions from Splicer. They acted more like cool platform/ puzzle sections with a boss at the end including light mechanics. The corrupted versions of these had a legitimate challenge to them and imo felt like one off dungeon encounters with some story behind them. Exotic missions are also pretty lackluster compared to something like Zero Hour. I'd say the last really good one we had was Presage and it got sunset 6 months ago. Vox Obscura doesn't really hold up after a couple clears and we didn't even get an exotic mission in Haunted or Plunder. Instead we got a dungeon and a reprised raid, which while I find to be enjoyable, are not a direct replacement for something that use to be a staple of a new season.
I don't really think that a video on each seperate season would work. There isn't enough there to go over. It's 3 months worth, and stretching that into a 10 minute video would be ridiculous. Maybe after he gets to the current expansion (The Witch Queen) he'll do a new series on each season, but for this series it isn't needed.
@@JoseLopez-yu6zj I'm kind of speechless here. I don't even know what you're getting at. Like is there a problem with it being 8 days old, which is nothing in terms of time? Am I not allowed to respond to a comment that wasn't made within the past 24 hours? What the hell was even the point to your response here???
Though I disliked the Gambit season, the other two were amazing and kept me hooked on the game. If only Bungie kept going down this path instead of the battle pass
When they vaulted all this stuff was when the troubles began. I still love the game and play it, but it's still got a big endgame void. Too little variation
Man we really took this year for granted 😭 such a great year to be playing D2
how naive we were back then 😭
Who’s this ‘we’ lmao
@@Velvet_Crowe There is no "we" the OP is a clout chaser
@@Legion849 i don’t think you know what a clout chaser is lol there’s no clout to chase here
Been downhill ever since
Dude. Seasons back then literally felt like Mini DLC's. So much content, it was insane. Nowadays were lucky to even get a decent seasonal ritual weapon.
Oh and we only get ONE a season with *AWFUL* "ornaments" that are supposedly vendor themed. They're either lazy or inept, or just greedy. Hell, dungeons "are so costly to make", so now they sell them SEPARATELY priced THE SAME AS A FULL SEASON *EACH.*
@@saverofthehumens lazy and greedy
Dang I remember playing all this content back in 2019 the memories 😭😭
Black armory had some complaints, and season of the drifter wasn't a slam dunk either, but opulence? Oh boy. Best season. So fun.
Honestly black armory and drifter were both worse than seasons we get now IMO but opulence was fantastic! I do miss Scourge of the Past though.
They were still better than season of worthy, season of the hunt and especially season of undying. I feel like people forget this season existed at all, and for good reason.
Why was black armory bad? I thought it was good only cause the weapons
@@joshuaandrachek492 Bro you’re crazy Black Armory was amazing. Great weapons, raid, community mission, and some of the best exotics ever introduced. Are you really going to tell me season of the haunted, risen, or lost had as good of content as that? Duality is apart of the dungeon key. Witch Queen dlc is separate. 30th anniversary is separate.
Calus got us spoiled.
I genuinely wish I could go back in time and replay this portion of destiny again. I loved forsaken so much that it hurt when they cut it out of the game
You mean stole? You *paid* for that content. And now they have the gull to ask us to buy more of their garbage, buy dungeons separately, overpriced deluxe editions and awful seasonal content. I have and continue til time eternal call it THEFT.
@@saverofthehumens thank youuu they literally made us pre order it all to then take it out an charge us over 100
destiny was just so mysterious back then. there was no seasonal model yet and i think that’s why it was so good. we didn’t know what to expect every season
Sometimes 2019 feels like yesterday, other times it feels like almost a decade ago… good times.
With how fatiguing the current seasonal model is getting, it might be nice to go back to this sort of hybrid season/small-medium sized DLC model.
Great video. Your channel is one of the best destiny channels by a mile
Thank you!
Still really impressed by the amount of great content you push out lately
Thank you! Been grinding hard!
@@NovemberHoteland I can’t wait to see what you have to say about shadow keep and it’s annual pass because that was when I joined the game back at season of dawn
@@NovemberHotel These videos truly are great. Keep grinding man!
@@rowenmitchell9282 thank you!
Loving the content as well!
The horror story in festival of the lost was 600 power so it was a huge help for new players leveling up.
its crazy how well we had it . . . this was the peek and it was all down hill from here
It really was. I've been called a hater for not liking D2 now but those complaints of mine come from a place of love for the game and the good old days before Shadowkeep
Year 2 of D2 was literally one of if not the best year of Destiny. The content was absolutely brilliant the story was amazing and the weapons. Oh the weapons. These seasons had the best weapons out of any season proceeding.
I still miss all of this content with all my heart
Witch queen has been the best so far to me, reworked all the classes, so many build opportunities & so much to do, plus to QOL changes since year 2
Yet the community was pretty unhappy about a lot of things back than, besides maybe season of opulence, the other two weren't so highly regarded at the time of release
@@heart_of_a_daedra3649 Witch Queen has come pretty Close to Year 2 but Y2 still is just better in my opinion as it had new supers, fantastic activities brilliant weapons and great QoL changes
@@F-aber that’s how it happens a lot of the time. I really enjoyed all 3 seasons as I enjoy everything Bungie puts out but these seasons were just different
@@heart_of_a_daedra3649 tough for me to agree with you there. The game is so thin and recycled now, the content is drip fed more, and we haven't had new enemies in 4 years. 4 years of not getting a new enemy faction is insane to me.
I got into D2 in college when it went free to play so I NEVER KNEW MASTER IVES WAS KILLED?! I WAS WONDERING WHERE HE WENT! I remember in D1 my friends and I believed that there was a better chance for him to give us better legendaries and rolls. Imma miss that blue boi😔
I love these throwback vids. It reminds me of how things were. I was somewhat casual back then so I don’t remember it all. I remember playing a lot of Season 5 & 6. I wish I played Opulence, I had the dlc & made no time to play…. We had it pretty good back then.
I loved black armory, it brought back that Destiny 1 sense of mystery and discovery for a while.
And now it's more or less the same terrible cutscenes where our guy just STANDS THERE, NOT DOING ANYTHING. Or just pretends they don't exist so the npcs can do their questionable coreography from start to end and the screen fades black.
I played D2 at launch and got bored after like a month and didn't get back into it until about a few months before shadowkeep dropped. I was shocked at all of the great changes they made and the great new content. It felt like an entirely new game. I wish we could get a year of content that good again.
This really was one of the best years of D2. I much prefer this model of content instead of the current seasonal model, though I do agree that it needed a bit more focus on core activities. Maybe a new Crucible map and mode one season, Gambit map next season, Strike for the last season, and an update for all 3 in the major expansion.
Black Armory, although the mode wasn’t too great, had a good concept of forging your own weapons and had a bunch of good loot to it. Scourge was a blast of a raid. The sparrow section was fun and the final boss fight of taking down a giant, roaming robot was neat.
Say what you want about Joker’s Wild, but in my opinion, it was sorely underrated. The introduction of roles and perks was great, though I didn’t really like Reckoning, and an endgame Gambit mode is something that I really want to return. On top of that, the narrative and lore were probably the best out of the 3 and Zero Hour was great as well.
Opulence was probably the best of the 3. The loot was great and the mode was fun and rewarding. I also liked that they used the Leviathan more. Definitely a cool destination.
Really sad that none of this is available anymore. Despite drip feeding and time gating, I felt that this was a pretty sustainable version of Destiny
And we have that drip feeding and timegating to this day but even worse. The ""story"" if you can call it that each season, can only be progressed incrementally once a week. And to add insult to injury this season was literally THE SAME EACH WEEK. Do menial crap, do a recycled lost sector and then Spider tries to troll us with green engrams. Same, every, single, week.
The one thing I didn't like about the gambit prime armors is that everyone just ended up using only two (invader and reaper), if you went collector than good luck getting the 20 and sentry was fine, but it wasn't consistent but a small time everyone would collapse on the bank making the set not as useable. It probably would've been better if there was a couple regular enemies who would spawn and try to drain your motes into the abyss and if the collector only dropped half the motes they had and kept the other half (as well as some kinda stat boosts for the more motes you hold up to maybe 20% in each stat giving you a +2 or (currently) 120 extra stat points for having 20 motes on you.
These ideas might be too strong, but the other two (invader and reaper) massively outweighed the other two and I think a person doing each job should've been almost mandatory.
The big thing for me, having played throughout the year of Forsaken, is that all of these content drops snowballed HARD, so by the end of the year there was TONS to do on any given day depending on what you still were progressing on. The grinds were very real during Y2. Dreaming City's 3-week curse cycle and 6-week Ascendent Challenge rotation kept players engaged trying to pick up secrets they missed previously (or getting those GD cosmetics to drop for the Collections badge), as well as visiting Mara Sov in Queen's COurt and getting Truth To Power lore pages for Chronicler, and then on TOP of all the odds and ends of endgame Forsaken, we had this new content dropping every three months to work through, consisting of matchmade 3- and 4- and then 6-person activities, two raids, a bevy of grindy exotic weapon quests, Zero Hour and Zero Hour Heroic over and over again, etc etc. A lot of the time-gating was definitely annoying, but it certainly made us pay attention to what was popping up on any given weekly reset.
Reckoner is still the grindy-est seal I have, and I'm STILL exhausted from completing it, forever scarred by Gambit Prime. It's become a running joke among my friends. Love my Reckoner title, hate Gambit (in actuality, I have settled into numb ambivalence).
One thing this video barely stressed/touched on during Black Armory was just HOW insane and involved the amount of community puzzle-solving was regarding the forges' three houses and all of their respective symbols scattered across the three forges, only visible through the scopes of certain BA weapons, with players deciphering and unlocking three house emblems when shooting symbols at Volundr, which also neatly provided key puzzle solutions for Niobe's Torment. I don't think anything matched that level of complexity until Season of Dawn's Corridors of Time blew it out of the water just with the sheer amount of community involvement required.
Not Year 2, Year 5. Year 2 was The Taken King.
@@TheFirstCurse1 Year 2 of Destiny 2 was Forsaken. Give me a break with this bullshit.
@@kajus You should look at Destiny as a continuous game. When you say Year 2, most people would think you are referring to The Taken King.
Destiny is meant to be a 10 year game. We're currently in Year 8.
@@TheFirstCurse1 While I applaud your insane dedication to pedantry, you're being willfully obtuse. You understood I was talking about Forsaken, but decided to needlessly 'correct' me. Again, give me a break.
@@TheFirstCurse1 Destiny 1 was a banger post taken king, destiny 2 sucked at launch, was fixed for a while then bunghole nuked the game and sells it back to us with interest. Two separate games, my guy.
I wouldn't say that this was Bungie's "Magnum Oppus," that title goes to Halo CE/3, But i must admit, this year was extremely close.
Def agree, guess we could say it was the "Magnum Oppus" of the Destiny 2 Era
Yeah Bungie's Magnum Opus was 100% something with Halo.
Really like these videos, nostalgic for me since I've stopped playing Destiny for awhile, I remember this year was fun, great series man 👍
Thanks Man! Glad you like it, More to come!
Blasted through all this during Y3 it was all so good, even reckoning was good
This is a great series; the memberberries is strong; can't believe I've been playing since D1 vanilla beta.
Shane that most of the black armory was sunset. I really wanted the scout rifle.
you can say what you want about it, but some of the shadowkeep seasonal stuff was absolutely banging, I wish we could have such a whacky mix of core content as well as grindy and/or challenging content, like arrivals focus for challenging pve, worthys swing into newer/more pvp focus, dawns casual appeal or the wild seasonal stories most of which starting in undying. there was a lot to critique, but also to enjoy
I was never able to beat the Thorn or the Whisper missions lol and I didn't even get to try the outbreak mission at all
This was such a great year for Destiny. 3 amazing seasons that were full of great activities and challenges!
Season of the Forge was incredible. I loved the fact that it was hair pulling levels of difficult in the beginning. It reminded me of how Destiny 1 vanilla nightfalls and D2 EP were. Scourge is one of my personal favorites raids, with incredible loot to back it up.
Pinnacle weapons were a neat idea, executed very questionably with the sheer amount of power they held. Mountaintop and Recluse specifically were (in my opinion) one of the main reasons for sunsetting. The other weapons were very good as well. Breakneck, Loaded Question, 21% Delirium, Wendigo and Revoker were all fun.
Season of the Drifter was fun. I didn’t care for Reckoning all to much but Gambit Prime was amazing (Hammerhead was what I always used for invading, I’m not sorry). Zero Hour definitely stole the show, however.
Season of Opulence was so much fun. Menagerie was definitely the highlight of the season, with great loot and visuals. Crown is mixed for me, despite what I may say. The first encounter was unbearably slow, but Gahlran was really fun.
Yes i used hammerhead tons in gambit!!!
I wish they kept this stuff in the game. I would have taken destiny 3 over the fragmented and unorganized D2 we have now :(
Ah yes the exact year I had left destiny only to comeback the year after and hear all about how I missed the best stuff in the game.
man i really regret not grinding during those times, most of my friends played cod and fortnite so i was left alone in destiny 2. Most playlists and challenges i couldnt do since i never knew lfgs existed and i didn’t look up tutorials or videos on how to unlock armor ornaments, sets, and weapons, damn.
Black Armory is and will always be my favorite activity. Every gun was good.
And they looked great to boot with nice sounds. Now we get these messy heaps of pixels and vertices that look totally abhorrent. The only saving grace has been opulence weapons returning, and this season having *fallen themed* gear which is fine by me. But pretty much everything else? They're not weapons, they're toys.
Love the destiny videos you have been making. I fell in love with destiny during red war and then even more with forsaken and year 2 content. It had its problems but when you compare to what we get now it is not even close. Year 2 was one of the best years of destiny. Love to give you another idea for some content…it would be interesting to see an og destiny player like yourself compare destiny through the years and analyze the question “is bungie better without activision.” Cause this video shows how much better the content was during year 2 when you had two other studios helping bungie out. As a huge destiny fan…I really hope the Sony acquisition can help the game cause I’m not sure destiny can continue with this current seasonal content and expansion quality.
Thank you! Glad you enjoy the content. I’ll look into doing a video about that!
*Year 5, not Year 2. Year 2 was The Taken King.
I really miss the tri-monthly raids. It made all of the grinding and bounty saving feel worth it. Knowing I'm preparing for something awesome.
This video is so good! I started playing in Season of the Splicer and it was really nice to see all the stuff my friends talk about. They really need to bring those black armory weapons back!
I recently came back after a (very) long hiatus. I stopped playing after Beyond Light and just came back for Season of Plunder.
I damn near cried when I saw that my Hammerhead and Kindled Orchid were sunset and I couldn't upgrade them 😭
The mountaintop, recluse, and anarchy loadoud was insane and I miss it man
Funny...I don't seem to recall hearing such high praise back in that year (except for Opulence tbh)
But I guess hindsight is an interesting thing, isn't it?
Love the series you got going on man
The Sunset was biggest betrayal ever...
Gambit prime truly was the prime of gambit
All gambit is now is gally spam simulator 👏
Thanks to Foraken and the annual pass, I think Destiny 2 was at it's best in Shadowkeep and in particular Season of Arrivals - so much content and so much to do. Black Armory weapons were the best. Gambit Prime was worth a try. Menagerie is one of my favorite activities ever. The story was finally coming to a head, and the pyramids finally showed up. My favorite time in Destiny 2 was then.
"power ammo was such an annoyance in the game mode" crazy how some things never change
it's gotten even worse with the free ammo boxes after every enemy wave
Tbh, I want some of this content to come back. The content that came with this year was some of the best.
This was the peak. Way less fomo, high quality content and many raids. The game has only gotten worse since year 2.
When gambit still felt fresh and fun.
Wish gambit would get a varied Playlist like crucible. Wouldn't mind a more defensive mode like Control+the Vex defense PE where the bank moves around the map.
This year of content is what disappoints me the most with content vaulting. All of that year had great exotic quests and fun to do content that is now just gone, the exotic quests’ rewards are now just in the terrible FOMO machine. I will always hate when a game of this scale removes content. I truly think that during the seasons after Lightfall they need to focus on bringing everything back in a accessible way. Perhaps with a feature that lets you see the order everything happens and you can see what you have and haven’t completed from each season and expansion. Hell, seasons I didnt play or buy I’d be willing to go back and and buy if I was just able to play them. It would also be cool if they did adopt a system like what Master Chief Collection has and allow us to level up past Season Passes. The only things I think should be time limited is things based on the time of year as long as they come back the next year (Like Season of the Lost or Solstice of Heroes). With their few billion dollar acquisition from Sony I think they can afford to allocate some resources to bringing these systems back and improving them.
Very polished video, well done!
Forge was my first god roll. I got a outlaw killclip balast rifle with range m.w. and good transluscent scope, mag perk and range barrel. .02% chance to get it. I was so stoked. Too bad sunsetting prevents me from using it in iron banner but it still shreds regular pvp.
I still have the revelry set sitting in the vault with the glows I can't use 😭 shame cause I loved the antlers.
The drip feed has gotten so much worse since forsaken.
Newfound respect for Forsaken! ALWAYS loved the forges and weapons. Top tier ❤
Even though I’ve played this game since day 1, I enjoy these history videos
Music playlist for what music you use? I need these for when I wanna fall asleep, not saying the vid made me wanna fall asleep it’s just I hear this music in byf vid and byfs voice is, well, yk…
A lot of destiny 1 vanilla soundtrack
The seasonal content just feels like it's all the same stuff now, season after season. I unfortunately didn't get the chance to play much of season of Opulence, but season of the forge was honestly a lot of fun for me. I have more distinct and great memories from season of the forge than any other season, even the seasons I no-lifed during Covid.
This year was the last time I took D2 seriously. I don’t understand why they sunset all the good stuff from these seasons
Black Armory was the most underrated season IMO - i remember one guy in our clan finishing the armory through LFG - he pulling me through 20 or 30 lvl under than us carrying half the clan through it together until we had a bunch that could carry. niobi labs was super dope, puzzles, secrets, scourge was hella fun - yet alone the weapons are prob some of my all time favs - tatara gaze, the auto felt great, anarchy is goated, the pinnacle weapons rocked and people loved loaded q, breakneck - and the forge activity itself was actually fun. the old school mountain top quest being a pain in the ass an super grindy was still worth every minute of suffering bc MT was so fun to play. bungie never figured out to balance the sandbox between pve/pvp, mt was cancer in pvp but fun in pve - removed it due to it and look at the pvp sandbox now - still a total shit show - and - MENAGERIE was prob the best seasonal activity ever done.... looking back Forsaken, Black Armory, Menagerie was the time i had the most fun i ve ever had playing D2 prob peaking at day one Garden of Salvation. After that our 3 Clans started to falling apart and people losing interest in D2 and getting tired of Bungie.
It’s crazy to think that black armory was technically the same type of content as the current seasons, it’s miles ahead of anything else
ngl looking back this was the best year of destiny pve and pvp
I stopped playing after the day 1 raid I'm forsaken. It was the first time ever that I didn't buy destiny content. I didn't touch the game but came back during the leviathan stuff and had a years worth of content and most of it had already been altered after player complaints. Probably one of the best times I've had. Wish I could say I would do that now but the seasonal content is such a drag I can't see myself buying it.
ah, yes. my favorite toaster exotic: Joe Tune.
Bruh imagine if subclass 3.0 was in this Era. every game mode would be mayhem
Imagine how cool Destiny would be if they left all that stuff in the game but just updated everything to present day standards :/
All you have to do is look in the exotic cipher vendor and see how few exotics we have bene getting each "year" since forsaken. It's sad.
What if they made gambit prime a weekend thing like trails. Bring new armor to the fold and weapons
I love gambit I'll say it but season of the drifter as a Titan main was very frustrating. We were completely unwanted in reckoning
I was really happy when Joe-Tune dropped for me.
I really miss reckoning, i really enjoyed that activity
season of the forge was so boring that I stopped playing d2 until season of the undying
We need to get back to this for seasons
Still patiently waiting for Onslaught to make its return on some weapons, preferably a Gambit auto rifle.
Killing the named enemies for the thorn quest is a call back to the D1 thorn quest, not the swords.
Please bring gambit prime weapons back bungie . Seasons 7,9 Both had great content
We need the revelry back such a fun mode . Also the armor from that mode was really cool
I was around until season of opulence dropped then my friends lost interest and I followed suit making my way back now but I wish black armory stayed while the forges were mind numbing I feel if they spiced up the enemy’s to be diffrent from ones in the base game it would be a lot more fun also rip break neck I still haven’t filled that void in my load out
Honestly, I wish we could go back to similar style for our seasonal content - I mean with the variety. Even tho, things like Gambit Prime might not have been the best received, but each season felt DIFFERENT. Currently, what we get is the same-y 3 or 6 player activity each season, with a separate ‘other’ mission and weekly story. It is boring and just super dull. Now I am not saying we need another Gambit season, but maybe some focus on OTHER parts of the game - like season of the Vanguard, where we get 3 or 4 new strikes and reworks to the playlist. Maybe instead of the typical match made activities we have now, we get true horde mode / tower defense mode. Hell, what about some like short stories or something? Relive memories of the collapse, defending the walls, stuff like that.
We just need the seasons to feel DIFFERENT - they are all the same… Boring…
i love these videos!!!!!1!1
The Revelry was so freaking fun! lol, I believe this was also the last expansion with PlayStation exclusives.
I think you could rename this to "why Season of Opulence was the best season in Destiny 2" and it would make more sense.
I LOVE the Black Armory weapon set. I wish they could establish the way they designed the Black Armory weapons, Zero Hour & the Menagerie into a formula as regular releases.
It's funny how Year 2's "drip-feed" style content-drop was more tolerable compared to the seasons we have now. They somewhat still followed the mini-expansion formula of releasing a good chunk right at launch. That combined with how they've lasted beyond the year they were released, there was less fomo around them.
I preferred their way of telling the story because of how isolated they all were, despite all 3 being about preparing for the Black Fleet.
I don't like how crucial story moments are now being told through the super-drip-feed drops of D2's current seasonal model. If the story has to flow from season to season then I'd prefer 2-3 campaign missions per season instead, otherwise give me Y2 style seasons.
Not Year 2, Year 5. Year 2 was The Taken King
Would be nice if Bungie bring back any of Black Armor weapon as a reward in Nightfall.
If only seasons were still like this, where we didn't have massive fomo and we didn't have to grind out so much xp.
I've played Destiny 2 since launch (Although mostly casually up until December of 2021.) But my absolute idiotic 2018 self didn't think to even touch basically any of this content, asides from Thorn, Last Word and Recluse... One of my biggest regrets about Destiny, even though the stuff is sunset now. I'd love to see more varieties of highly replayable content like these. They kind of live on in Dares of Eternity, but these made the Destiny universe feel bigger, if that makes sense.
This guy has more ideas in 25 minutes or less than Bungie has had in the last 5 years.
4:10 well no wonder i never knew what was going on with anything. i dont have social media so...... im always the last to find out anything.
The game was better back then, looking back had they gone down a better path I could’ve seen this game being similar to destiny 1 with great armor, weapons, activities to play. But instead now we have half asses activities, decent seasonal stories. The game feels like pay to have fun. I simply can’t keep up with the grind this game wants from me. I feel like both pvp and I’ve have never felt worse. I like the new abilities but now almost every pve activity is too easy now and enemies will get one shot by a simple ability. Pvp simply isn’t fun and trials is easier than comp which sucks cause como has no rewards now. Overall I feel like the game pre beyond light was much better than it’s current state.
Thank you for these videos!! The balance between reminiscing on D1 content to finding out what I missed during the middle seasons of D2 has been great! Always looking forward to the next one
I love these videos
now we had the best year... time for arguably the worst year
Man. do I miss Scourge and Crown..
It’s controversial but I believe that Season of the Drifter was the peak of Destiny 2. Because from forsaken up till Drifter it was the absolute power creep era. Orpheus, Pheonix, Ursa, and of course Skull of Dire Ahamkara all able to give a full super refund. All the crazy weapons from Forge even more crazy weapons from Drifter like Last Man and Spare Rations. We got mountaintop and recluse. Auto loading meta. And the forgotten Revelry aka SKIP GRENADES EVERYWHERE! And I say Drifter was the peak because it was when Bungie realized that we were really too powerful. An infamous statement was that they built reckoning’s bridge encounter TO PURPOSEFULLY insta kill us. Following Drifter began nerfs to super regen exotics, auto loading, the death of aggressive GLs, and the infamous damage buff nerf and precision weapon nerf in Shadowkeep (theorized to sell finishers). After Drifter it felt like Bungie was done giving us easy load outs and had the design shift that led to Armor 3.0 in Shadowkeep.
Black armory weapons was the best right along with the original gambit weapons
Overall it's hard to choose between then and now. Looking back this content seems great but you also have to keep in mind how poor many of the systems were that have since been remedied. Also keep in mind how lack luster a lot of the story content was compared to today.
I think the main thing I really want to see is better seasonal content. The forges, reckoning, or menagerie all provided much more engaging content then something like containment or katchcrash, imo. The content needs to be more difficult if they're going to make it locked at six players. Give us a larger battlefield with more enemies and more bosses. I'd say the loot is still worthwhile but a lot of people are not okay with the state of weapon crafting for various reasons. Personally I'd like to see 3 player content more in line with the Expunge missions from Splicer. They acted more like cool platform/ puzzle sections with a boss at the end including light mechanics. The corrupted versions of these had a legitimate challenge to them and imo felt like one off dungeon encounters with some story behind them.
Exotic missions are also pretty lackluster compared to something like Zero Hour. I'd say the last really good one we had was Presage and it got sunset 6 months ago. Vox Obscura doesn't really hold up after a couple clears and we didn't even get an exotic mission in Haunted or Plunder. Instead we got a dungeon and a reprised raid, which while I find to be enjoyable, are not a direct replacement for something that use to be a staple of a new season.
Nothing like season of opulence 💯💯💯💯
I feel like 2019 is when people had the most fun over all
Kinda wish you talked about these seasons in separate videos.
I don't really think that a video on each seperate season would work. There isn't enough there to go over. It's 3 months worth, and stretching that into a 10 minute video would be ridiculous.
Maybe after he gets to the current expansion (The Witch Queen) he'll do a new series on each season, but for this series it isn't needed.
@@TheFirstCurse1 Dude you really look through all of the comments, just to comment on a 8 day ago comment.
@@JoseLopez-yu6zj I'm kind of speechless here. I don't even know what you're getting at. Like is there a problem with it being 8 days old, which is nothing in terms of time? Am I not allowed to respond to a comment that wasn't made within the past 24 hours?
What the hell was even the point to your response here???
@@TheFirstCurse1 That you should spend your time on other things instead going 8 days worth of comments and then reply to one.
Though I disliked the Gambit season, the other two were amazing and kept me hooked on the game. If only Bungie kept going down this path instead of the battle pass
When they vaulted all this stuff was when the troubles began.
I still love the game and play it, but it's still got a big endgame void. Too little variation
Forsaken was the peak imo
And then everything went to shit once activision left and shadowkeep came out...
i forgot that cryptarch died xD
Remember Penumbra? Haha…no?
Yeah, me either. Wonder whatever happened to that Seasonal Pass…
Penumbra is season of opulence. All they did was change the names
Season of opulence is still the best point in destiny history
The Menagerie 🤩🤩