Destiny The Dark Below All Cutscenes Reaction

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[@rosekarl5561]

One thing that the compilation you are watching doesnt include is the 6 player raids. In destiny 1 they have no dialogue but convey a story through each encounter. The dark below dlc launched with a raid called 'crotas end' and had a much different crota fight than the one you watched

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Thanks for letting us know about that. Some aspects guess we just can’t experience 🤗

[@CaptainPilipinas]

bungo's Unfortunate *Problem* of still Not properly focusing on translating Many Lore scenes into the purposefully-built Limited Gameplay action. ah....the Frustration. still to this Day, yeah.

[@trypticon8619]

@@CaptainPilipinas they have gotten better at it though, vow is a very vocal raid

[@CaptainPilipinas]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames about their version of Luna over there. a once very close GA era Human colony to Earth (and if I remembered correctly, the first to be started colonized by the now newly GA era-renewed state of our Destiny Humanity counterparts' from back then....is still currently a broken and incomplete(?), just another Typical *Hive* warmoon that was almost converted). once a Material Realm-entrance point (one of who knows how many that the *Hive* have carved and making entrance points out there, from any Physical reality's locations to back into their home among within that immaterial Ascendant Realm) to Crota's throne-world. that *Hive monster* who once [Paracausally] Cracked Luna's surface* during our attempts to try and reclaim it, while those *things* of the *[Darkness]* try to 'make home' there on our said-closest once Golden Age era Moon colony. (*or so some of us once solely believed it. either it was Crota at first that cracked the surface of the Moon, or....the *[Enemy] [ITSELF]* , during the Collapse).

[@OhYeah_]

@@CaptainPilipinas dude I don’t get why you always have to write in a way that makes it so hard to understand what you’re trying to say.

[@TrollCatGamer]

You'll get to see a more of Eris story's in the future, specially in D2, they really made an effort to make her a tragic character

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Okay good. Glad she isn’t just one and done because that would’ve been underwhelming 🤗

[@stealthhunter6998]

18:52 That scream from the the boss there is actually the same voice actress as Eris haha. She also does all the voice acting for the rest of the Hive other than its main characters.

[@rafale.f3549]

At 6:52, Rasputin plays classic music as a way to communicate with us. And Eris repeats her story because after all her friends where killed before her eyes, she was alone for years without any light that coult provide her non negligible firepower but most importantly any mean to quickly heal her or resurrect her. She had to add acolyte eyes to replace her (that's why she has 3 hidden green dots) and learn hive magic to survive to a whole brood in almost absolute dark.

[@Zeraybifive]

Let's go, glad this series is still going haha. It's kind of a shame you probably won't be reacting to all the raids, which may be the biggest part of the game, gameplay and story wise ( I mean you could, we won't mind ! Esoterickk has literally all of the raids with no commentary, that could do well for a reaction, with you guys trying to figure out what he's doing lol) but that's good enough !

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Thanks for letting us know about Esoterrick channel. Maybe we will try and fit those raids in 🤔

[@rafale.f3549]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames They are usually part of the story and are the real conclusion of the campaign. In the mission where the soul of Crota is banished, he just came back to his throne world. They are pocket universes that are owned by the most powerful beings in the destiny universe. To kill them in the real world isn't enough because they will return to their throne world to rest. To really kill them, you must do it in their throne world shaped by their owner. That's what the raid Crota's End is.

[@ChickenMan121]

Crota does actually have a really good boss fight in a activity called a raid where it's very hard and complex and crota is truly killed there(though among the community this raid is seen as easy)

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

😎👍🙂

[@CaptainPilipinas]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames when it comes with our once Humanely-defending GA era WARMINDS, well. yes. because our GA era counterparts had operational APEXs for the WARMINDS and their lower automated units to be equipped with. (05:19). alright. perhaps multiple APEXs is too catastrophically overkill. conventional capabilities-speaking. just a single WARSAT's use of their X-ray lasers would be bad enough, yeah. when against any part of the Last City anyways (so long as that vaporizing beam doesn't get the attention of a nearby Lightbearer Guardian Titan Sentinel's & their Ghost's back down on Earth to instantly manifest a [Void-[Light]] protection up). and there were like 100,000+ deployed laser-firing/etc WARSATS silently orbiting anywhere around the Solar System to this Day back within Destiny....

[@CaptainPilipinas]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames RASPUTIN 'doesn't want to properly speak openly to it's makers anymore', it seems.... (06:55).

[@acrab6527]

@@CaptainPilipinas "You saved me, but I'm not going to thank you, so have some degraded Russian Orchestra."

[@CaptainPilipinas]

@@acrab6527 A . Is like him (especially Golden Age era, in Humanity's own right) can technically just easily speak any of our P-GA era languages stored in their data, systems, etc. but yeah, that's his reason. still pretty stupid though. if not detrimental, especially to any of his mortal Human allies that are not Brays when we do try to ask any kind of question that he still has in him. like, asking him for any other blueprints of GA era black hole-firing gun platforms to arm the entire Earth as many as he and the City can help rebuilding or dusting off the ones that still are operational (somewhere out there that were not destroyed after the Collapse) for example?

[@arcadeinvader8086]

This DLC may have been short but in terms of the overall story it did lay the groundwork for a ton of what's to come. Also it kind of continued a little past this, where you actually kill crota himself but that was an endgame raid not part of the regular campaign. Some background on eris without any spoilers. Sadly at this point in destiny a lot of the best lore was still buried in the grimoire cards. A really long time ago the guardians launched a huge attack on the hellmouth (the hive's fortress on the moon). It went so horribly that the event became known as "the great disaster", with many legendary guardians dying their final deaths. During one battle Crota personally slew the titan Wei ning, who was a close friend of Eris. After the guardians were forced to retreat the moon was declared too dangerous to risk any further operations there, and any guardian activity there was forbidden. Some time later Eris was approached by another of her friends, the warlock Eriana-3. Eriana had been Wei ning's lover, and both of them desperately wanted revenge for her death. They found four other like-minded guardians: Sai Mota, Vell Tarlowe, Omar Agah, and Toland. Despite being forbidden, they entered the hellmouth planning to assassinate Crota. Unfortunately, Toland's thirst for arcane secrets caused him to betray the group in the hopes of learning about a hive ritual known as the deathsong. However, merely hearing the song ripped his own soul out of his body. Sai, Eriana, and Vell were killed by the hive in battle, while Omar was captured and eventually tortured to death as part of a different hive ritual meant to steal his light and use it to empower the hive. Despite losing her eyes (she once had normal human eyes) and ghost to the hive, Eris managed to survive in the hellmouth for an unknown number of years. During this period she stole the eyes of a hive acolyte and somehow used them to replace her own. Eventually she managed to escape and return to earth. Her guardian powers disappeared when her ghost died, but her extensive knowledge of the hive still make her a valuable asset. For obvious reasons, she still has a bone to pick with the hive but now goes about it more carefully.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Good to know 🙂

[@CaptainPilipinas]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames that *thing* said, 'Closer....' and then the echoing instantly after.... (11:56). probably....the Only part where Guardian-players have heard Crota even speaking in the Human tongue (visually portrayed-wise), even if shortly only in that scene (aside from the rest of Lore scenes where we do see and 'hear' (Lore texts) him more like in the [Books of Sorrow]. scenes that the rest of bungo still Unfortunately doesn't bother to properly and Fully visually show more from back then).

[@supercato9613]

@@CaptainPilipinas Man you should really stop spamming lore messages like that, it's really annoying

[@CaptainPilipinas]

'now they come due to signs of Intolerance'. at any case, back to the main subject, we 3 here.

[@jamieharper1051]

The whole “6 went down into the pit and only 1 came out” story right there in his long post

[@Touya82TT]

Glad to see you guys continuing! I'm currently watching this with my also destiny fan fiancee who flew all the way from Australia for our Destiny themed wedding in two weeks!

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Two weeks! Congratulations 🥳🥳 very cool you incorporated the Destiny theme in the wedding which makes sense since that’s how you met 🥰😊☺️

[@corym.m.3084]

The Dark Below and Taken King were my favorite dlc from Destiny 1. I hope the Crota and Oryx raids come back in D2

[@LilSpookyyy]

😅

[@datboi9648]

Can’t wait till you get to Taken King then all the way through D2. Gets way better and story goes insane

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Yup. We’ve heard that’s when it starts to get real good 😀

[@naxisgamingyt9126]

This is not simply about revenge. Crota also represented an extreme threat to Earth. And Eris cant do anything because she literally lost everything on her first attempt. She lost her ghost/her light (she was a guardian, a hunter), and her eyes. She stole the eyes she has now from a hive acolyte. Not to mention she lost her whole fireteam who she was close friends with, which has severely drained her emotionally.

[@CaptainPilipinas]

All *Hive* are still Fully *enemies* for the greater *[Enemy]* and their plans Against the Remnants of Humanity, yes.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Hadn’t realized she lost her ghost. Makes more sense now why she isn’t going on the mission because if she dies then it’s over for her

[@CaptainPilipinas]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames yes....her Permanently(?) loosing Brya, during that Nightmarish event of her immortal existence.... Pain. Lightbearer Guardian &/or Ghost alike. (depends still....).

[@CaptainPilipinas]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames well, half and half [Paracausal] [Light] 'disconnected' former Lightbearer beings aren't Permanently restricted from ever going back out in the field that no current level mere mortal Human being can live for too long out there, but the Risks is even higher. from the *Hive* , especially those said- *Monsters* , and highly especially from the Patterns' (even just by their presence, etc from each of their Physical forms that you see back on that Venusian segment). the *[Taken]* , Ahamkara remains, the rare(?) Aphelion encounters, full on *Dredgens* , even the Nine--if they bother to have interest in attacking you (those gaiaforms. seriously, I swear....), etc else that are not at least the Causal-bound Fallen pirates or those Cabal forces (and even then those said-2 alien hostilities may Not be able to Permanently kill a random Lightbearer Guardian & Ghost traditionally by their rules, but a single Cabal bolter-like round eventually heading and piercing deeply inside of a runaway Human fighter before that micro-rocket explodes afterwards....is enough. and why most non-Lightbearer Risen don't just easily want to explore out there and alongside helping Lightbearer Guardians also trying to reclaim what their ancestors have lost. Eugh....if only the City and the rest of Earth (where ever any other Skeptically surviving and 'thriving' small non-Last City Humanity settlements out there left all over Old Earth anyways) can just rebuild and reclaimed back their GA era status Fully now. Frustrating. at least on their military capabilities-speaking. much needed, before they could even try to rebuild Freehold city safely for example. even if with the current state of reclaimed GA era technologies and methods those like SIVA helping them....

[@deangeloellis729]

Eris Morn is a tragic character who took her defeat and turned it into a big win. Destiny 2 greatly expand upon Eris's story and past, she is one third of the Dark Vanguard and has helped us beat a lot of baddies.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

😎👍😀

[@CaptainPilipinas]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames the all Questionable Hammering of these '' *Darkness* ' vanguard' titles by the way, well: Needing more context elsewhere to really be cautiously aware than just having to relying alone with these kinds.

[@feralprocessor9853]

19:03 To be honest Omigaul was more Iconic than Crota back then because she had the noticable ear peirceing Screech until bungie added this feature in Destiny 2 with the rest of the Hive wizards. She scared thed crap out of me back then.

[@FrancoisvandenBroek]

Wish the "Raid" was a part of this. Looking forward to the Taken King and beyond.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

GLP usually has the best vids but guess they couldn’t film that part or maybe forgot 🤔😊

[@ChadWarwick0]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames the raids are narrated like the campaign so it would be kinda weird to watch with no context

[@ArvindRajAgnosticAtheist]

And so it continues. As the other's said, you should watch the raid videos as well in between the campaign cutscenes, because that's where the lore bombs are dropped. But if you cannot find those, lore videos about said raid encounters or the raids as a whole might be your best bet. If you think that's overwhelming, then you could skip it and watch it for later, but I do recommend watching them along to get a full story that actually makes sense. The raids you're missing so far is the Glass of Vault that comes after the base campaign and before The Dark Below. After Dark Below, you have another raid called Crota's Ends, tying up the DLC's story. As you react to the story, be it the campaigns, the raids, and later the seasons, you will get to know more about the characters, especially Eris. She is primed to be as one of the most important characters in Destiny.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Thanks for the info and recommendations 😀

[@NSBWS]

Not so fun fact Eris lost her eyes in the pit and stole the eyes of a hive acolyte which is why she has the 3 glowing eyes

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

😯

[@xiongrey19]

Fun Fact: The "happy Dance" at the end of missions with others has become near unspoken tradition so much so that it has inspired one of the more celebrated fan videos (that has since become a series) called "Saw Something Weird at the Venus Gatelord".

[@mannymalcolm2397]

Not sure if you'd be interested in doing a character backstory video. Maybe on a wildcard Wednesday? If so, there's a channel by the name 'My name is Byf' that has an excellent Eris Morn lore video that I'm sure you'll enjoy :)

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

We don’t mind backstory lore vids. Maybe after we go through the story first though 🤔

[@LilSpookyyy]

That first trailer always gives me chills

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

😎🤟

[@jamieharper1051]

You have to watch “Crota End” raid it is the final mission a “raid” you fight the Hive God Crota

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

😎👍😀

[@braedenreed1138]

I’m most excited for Taken King, Red War, and Forsaken

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

😎👍😀

[@mifoon8727]

The next expansion house of wolves is pretty similar to this one in terms of how, blandly the story is presented. The one after though, The Taken King is where the developers found their stride.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Thanks for the heads up 😀

[@themuzzy2020]

Others have sorta covered it here but I’ll try to give a brief rundown of the fight against crota’s soul and what’s happening. Powerful Hive, usually those referred to as gods, have enough strength and power to in essence craft their own pocket dimension called a Throne World. In a Throne World, all of your power gained by killing is made manifest. It’s usually where hive gods are at their strongest. However, it’s also where they’re at their most vulnerable as creatures with a Throne World only die True Deaths if it’s done within their own throne. What Crota’s Brood was trying to do was summon him back from his Throne, a ritual we as the player thwart. After that, the Crota’s End raid occurs where the player assembles a team of six to delve into Crota’s throne to kill him for good. Something pretty darn cool is that the team is unable to actually wound or harm Crota at all on their own. Only by picking up and wielding his own sword do we have the power necessary to kill him. In truth, this whole deal is a lot more complicated when it comes to the power of killing, swords, and throne worlds, but that’s not necessary information for this summary. EDIT: OH! and before I forget to mention, the whole story of Eris and her fireteam is told …but it’s in supplemental material outside of the game.. there are videos covering it though, and that’s probably the best way to experience it rather than hunt the pieces down.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Do we get to keep the sword after killing him with it 😁

[@themuzzy2020]

Alas, it was destroyed in the original campaign. My best guess is some kind of copy of it existed in his throne or something? Regardless, it’s a case of “this is too dangerous to be left intact lest it fall into the hands of the enemies.” This is not the last time we will see or wield a Hive sword though, so you can look forward to that.

[@lordsylph414]

“Kill Crota, easy enough” Ohhhh boy. That’s gonna bite you in the butt later, xD Ascendent Hive are extremely difficult to kill permanently

[@AnonYmous-wr7xr]

In Destiny 1 year one, A TON of the lore was available only through in game collectible cards called “Grimoire”. You guys mentioned early on that you liked the aesthetic of her bleeding eyes; the story behind that is that she saw such horrific things in The Hell Mouth (the ‘pit’) she went blind. Her ghost was killed and she can never revive from death agin, so she stole the eyes of an accolyte just to see and started learning dark- black hive magic just to survive. Her knowledge is considered heretical, but because she’s the only one that survived the experience, along with several other reasons I can’t tell you due to spoilers, the Vanguard allows her to stay

[@AnonYmous-wr7xr]

Her story is nowhere close to finished. Stick with it

[@Wolfchiper0329]

Love the destiny reactions I would love to see you guys react to destiny 2 Forsaken, Beyond Light, and Witch Queen all cutscene stories when you guys get to those so excited for when you do!!!!!!!!!!

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Looking forward to seeing the story expand and become more accessible 😀

[@ImperialKnight770]

Crota, son of Oryx. I love those scenarios where you kill the big baddie only to realize that there is an even BIGGER baddie waiting for you.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

😏

[@feralprocessor9853]

22:19 Definitely not Definitive: She's like our Athena. Me: Oh, today you're right, Eris just acted like athena few months ago :D

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

😀

[@madcat2134]

The thing with Ascendant Hive (e.g. Crota, his father Oryx, his sisters, and his 2 aunts) is you basically have to kill them twice once on this plane then again in their Throne World which is a pocket dimension in between life and death whose rules are determined by their owners will, if they aren't killed in the Throne World they can come back to this one through lots of blood sacrifice. us killing Crota in his Throne World was the raid in this expansion.

[@LilSpookyyy]

So was the dreadnaught oryx’s throne world?

[@madcat2134]

@@LilSpookyyy yes and no he forced his throne world into the dreadnaught but you could only get to the throne world parts through the portals on it. it's super weapon is pretty much just him letting the throne world part momentarily expand into our dimension

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Thanks for explaining that bit of story context for us 🙂

[@mkmanny7953]

the best way to understand is the raid as well, you should do a video after the cutscenes to go through the raid because some of the story does not make sense later one after

[@aramirezar564]

I dont know if your up for it, but the books of sorrow tell the story of the hive. Its an incredible addition to the lore but it is long and was narrated and has som still frames to go along with it

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Hmm. Not sure if we will dive into that yet. But it’s good to know as we progress and maybe even something we can check out on our own 🤔🙂

[@CaptainPilipinas]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Not everything there. probably to read those like the [Books of Sorrow] for yourselves instead, personally. in your time, you both. though the more easily describing, Lore videos, are an option. sometimes.

[@CaptainPilipinas]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames one of the well-remembered, and Tragic, for me, is the [Last Days on Kraken Mare] Lore book.

[@CaptainPilipinas]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames But [Constellations] or [Unveiling] is a favored one to remember the most within the Destinyverses' Lore scenes. try to watch some at least kind of accurate Lore video describing such from those two said-Lore books' events (though from that said-video, mostly them analyzing a bit of the [Unveiling] more). 'Destiny Lore: The Light vs the *Darkness* '. - masters & morons.

[@SylverQrow]

The sparrow that they were riding, if i remember correctly was the first trick sparrow. If im wrong it could be the fastest one but i think it was the trick sparrow xD

[@parkeryancey7512]

Man its so fun seeing how far Eris has come since then , I've always liked her but recently she's become a favorite i love how much time we get to spend with all of these characters (because lets be honest they weren't super developed in most of D1) and how we're still learning things about them.

[@ChaosArdor]

I remember the Dark Below. Definitely a very short DLC, but a fun one nonetheless. The raid was definitely the most exhilarating part of the whole thing. Just before Destiny 2 came out, I served as a guide for all of the raids in Destiny 1 and, to this day, the raid for Dark Below is the only one I've ever managed to complete entirely solo. It was definitely rough and it wasn't without deaths, but it still remains one of my proudest achievements in my 28-year gaming career.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Nice! Congrats on that achievement 😎🤟 taking on something alone that usually requires six people 😯😀

[@kylemccormack1785]

When you watch the story for Destiny 2: Shadowkeep, be sure to also react to the "Eris memories", they fully and completely explain Eris' back story and she does come to be a very heroic character.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Thanks for letting us know 🙂

[@ChadWarwick0]

Awesome its back so relaxing

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

☺️

[@mixmatched2342]

Eris' voice lines are always so impactful. "CROTA! SON... of ORYX!" She doesn't like to talk about it in D1. But basically her Ghost was killed and all her Fireteam members killed, their light consumed by Crota and the Darkness of the Hellmouth. She learned hive magic, apparently stole their eyes - or possibly embedded a Worm Larva in herself, it's not super clear - and did a bunch of Darkness stuff to survive without her Light. She is... NOT altruistic. She's... like you said, she's just very... focused. Very driven. In another timeline she turns to Darkness fully because you weren't there for her and didn't help her get over Crota and all that, according to some of the destiny 2 lore codex entries.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Wish they would’ve explained her ghost being dead because then it makes more sense why she tasks us to take down Crota 🤗

[@mixmatched2342]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Yeah, for sure. She has this creepy Hive crystal that she uses as a pseudo-ghost to channel Darkness instead of Light, but she's all alone, basically. You two got so attached to Ghost, too - a ghost is a guardian's closest companion, really. Imagining losing it in a horrible place like the Hellmouth is dark. That raid is called Crota's End, by the way.

[@stubbornspaceman7201]

@@mixmatched2342 actually it’s heavily hinted if not outright confirmed that the “rock” Eris carries is an ahamkara bone.

[@stubbornspaceman7201]

She stole the eyes of an acolyte. If she actually implanted a hive larva in her she would be forced to kill to keep it from killing her

[@mixmatched2342]

@@stubbornspaceman7201 Uh oh. I wonder what she Wished for.

[@yourewrong9028]

Wow, Eris really was just kind of an exposition dump character back then. She’s probably my absolute favorite now. Anyways, hive gods are called that because their souls reside in another dimension. If you kill them in normal space, they go back to what’s called their “throne world” to recover. This is where Crota was throughout this, and his disciples were trying to summon him back to realspace. What you didn’t see here was that after this, a team of 6 breaks into Crota’s Throne World in what’s called a Raid and killed him for real.

[@yourewrong9028]

One more thing: Eris actually lost her Ghost, and therefore also her superpowers, in that Pit. It wasn’t explained that well, but she’s not immortal anymore like we are. If she dies, she stays dead, which is why she came to us. She eventually gains… new avenues of power, but the beginnings of those aren’t shown until Taken King, and not expanded upon until WAY later. Also, she’s kinda SUPPOSED to be a morally grey character. She’s not full-on evil yet, but alternate timelines exist where she is literally the biggest villain in the entire story, the final big bad evil witch. So her being more focused on her own revenge than the City’s safety is not that out of character for her.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Thanks for the info on hive gods 🙂

[@HeavenlyDemonicEmperor]

Let's goooooo!!!! Can't wait for taking King tho my favorite expansion for d1 can't wait

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

😎🤟🥳

[@stealthhunter6998]

The Taken King and The Witch Queen the two sibblings with the best stories imo.

[@antonios6507]

I cant wait to see yall get to the taken king and then witch queen. Stories are amazing

[@trypticon8619]

Agreed

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Looking forward to it 😀

[@HeavenlyDemonicEmperor]

Agreed

[@masonrios6559]

The raid is really what makes it but i cant imagine just watching the raid no fails and not knowing the small complexities and teamwork to actually win maybe like reacting to Day 1 Raids and hearing the excitement as you get an authentic reaction

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

An idea we will look into 🙂 How long are the raids? 🤔

[@rosekarl5561]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Crotas end is the shortest one at about 20 minutes

[@shadowboy0126]

So yeah you missed the Raid where we DO in fact kill Crota, if you wanna see that im sure videos of the raid exist on youtube. It was the second raid ever added and sees you falling to the very bottom of the Hellmouth which takes you into Crota's Throne World where you can kill him for good. One of the most iconic parts of this DLC is being able to use the hive swords again. In the big fight against Crota the mechanic was you have 5 people take down his shield using heavy weaponry like Gjallarhorn and then the 6th person is the swordbearer. Once Crota's shields go down he takes a knee and the swordbearer gets to slicing and dicing through his health bar until he gets back up and regens his shields. Eris Morn is a really good character but much like the rest of D1 a lot of the good lore in hidden in Grimoire cards outside of the game. Shes one of the most tragic characters in the story, having lost all her friends and being forced to hide in the tunnels of the moon and even needing to steal an acolyte's eyes to survive. After Dark Below she takes a back seat for a bit until Taken King and then after that i think we have lore detailing how she begins working for the Queen of the Awoken, Mara Sov. its very risky for Eris to do anything combat related now because her ghost is dead. She lost her light in the Hellmouth and is essentially mortal again. Eris gets more characterization as we see more of her. Theres a couple weapons i wanted to point out in this video. The sniper rifle with the netting on the scope is an exotic called Patience and Time. You may have noticed in the fight against the Might of Crota but scoping in without firing for a short time turns the user invisible. I dont know much about the lore behind this one but i always liked the concept. The second weapon was the pulse rifle covered in bones with the greenish black aura around the barrel. The player used it in the fight with the crystal. Its name is Bad Juju and it was actually conceived by one of Eris' fireteam members, Toland, before he died. The Bad Juju's perk is called String of Curses i believe and rapid kills with the weapon grant Super energy. Toland the Shattered was an expert on the hive and detailed everything he learned in a journal. He is dead but yet lives. We see a floating light in a lot of the ascendant plane areas in D2 and if we interact with it we actually find out its Toland. He gives words of wisdom and warnings to the player. It seems Toland lives on in one way or another. Cant say that for the rest of Eris' team though. You learn more about them later in D2.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Thanks for giving us the info on the cool rifle weapons 😀

[@thetallestdwarf7041]

It's true, Eris does like the sound of her own voice. But honestly, can you blame her?

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

🤗

[@thomas-stilinski8149]

I don't remember the exact details but before eris escaped the pit on the moon her ghost was killed and she made a wish on a talisman she had for the power to escape and it basically gave her hive powers at least im pretty sure that's it

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Hmm. So she didn’t even make it out on her own? She had to wish for it 😂

[@neotailz]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames She used what's called an Ahamkara bone to wish for her escape. Ahamkara were known as Wish Dragons, and were found and lived, iirc, primarily on Venus. However, each wish granted made them stronger, and even then, their boon was more like that of the malevolent djinn's, where your wish might be granted in an unintended fashion. The Vanguard saw how dangerous these dragons and the wishes by Guardians were, and so they ordered every last Ahamkara exterminated in an event known as The Great Hunt. It is said, however, that Ahamkara wishes are are even more potent after their death, and that they can speak to you through their rare and highly coveted bones, O reactor mine...

[@Kenya263]

The good news is the story starts to pick up around oryx and in destiny two the amount of cut scenes increases. Also if you didn’t really understand her backstory basically she and her raid party (6 guardians) went to kill crota failed and the only Survivor with her. While she was down there she ripped the eyes off of one of the hive and putting it on her self because she lost her vision.

[@CaptainPilipinas]

well, (before them knowing this), Not the Only survivor from that Tragic 'First-Crota Fireteam' OP.... then again, she being the 'only survivor' that returned (kind of safely) still being Physically humanoid, alright.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Didn’t realize she ripped the eyes off one of the hives 😯 That’s pretty fierce 😎🤟

[@CaptainPilipinas]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames in the vision of a *Hive's* , 'they See....more', or something. spiritual war-speaking it seems, for those Anti-Life Crusading *Hive* . 'the *Hive* do not See how we see. they Look beyond, into the Infinite. into the *[Darkness]* .' -- former Lightbearer Guardian Hunter Eris Morn.

[@CaptainPilipinas]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames that is something that she has been seeing, feeling, experiencing ever since she had gotten used to the 'borrowed' 3 eyes of a *Hive* Acolyte's of her now.

[@sensei_oogway1175]

Could you maybe react to raid boss encounters, they're like 2-6 hour missions, so maybe just the bosses :)) Really fills on some gaps at the end of dlcs you react to

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Hmm. Will try to see if we can fit those in as well. At least the bosses 🤔

[@sensei_oogway1175]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames yeah they can range from 2 hours to almost a day so I'd recommend just bosses 😂 Just as they're almost like finales, very hyped for taken king reaction :)

[@DarthDragon007]

I think reactions to Miracle of Sound's GMVs would be awesome. His Mass Effect, Destiny, Halo, MGSV music videos are amazing!

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Thanks for channel rec 🙂

[@DarthDragon007]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Note that Miracle of Sound has 2 versions of his Mass Effect 3 music videos, Take it back. There is a 3rd one but it's not a music video. It is an extended cut of the 1st version of Take it back. One is for the original Mass Effect 3 and sadly doesn't have subtitles and the 2nd one is for the more recent Remastered Mass Effect 3 and it does have subtitles. They each have some lyrics that are different and the videos are also different. But given they are essentially the same song, you should watch them back to back even if you don't do a reaction. xD

[@silentfrog17]

she lost her ghost (which means no power or coming back to life) and those eyes she took from a hive because she lost hers

[@ianlavertue2070]

The story of crota is that he is the son of oryx, who you'll eventually learn about, but, crota was known for slaughtering thousands of guardians on his own, Eris is an anomaly among his victims, because of the thousands, she is the only one that survived an encounter with him, her fire team of 5 or 6 other guardians all died, crota also fought the vex for centuries and instilled fear into machines

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

See it’s more impressive if she said, thousands have gone against Crota, only I lived to tell about it. Much more impressive than 6 🤗

[@ianlavertue2070]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames very true, but, D1 is known for having a pretty bad story up until taken king

[@Mr.unkown78]

I love you guys stay cool and safe

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Thanks! You too 😎🤟🤗

[@Epsolon885]

You will see more Eris Morne in the future

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Glad she wasn’t just a one off character 🙂 hope to get to know her more

[@warssiranpacthero21]

Them going on about a revenge story makes me curious as to how they will feel about D2. I’ll still keep it vague, as part of the best things for Destiny is seeing it for yourself.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

😯🤔🙂

[@acetrainer44]

The characters in Destiny definitely become more fleshed out going forward with and after the Taken King expansion, but it's still interesting to see Eris and her initial drive for revenge before she became our go-to residential Hive expert. The backstory of what happened to her and her fireteam through the lore is pretty wild and dark (which Byf goes over in his lore video about the Crota's End raid, if you ever wanna react to his vids). She actually lost her Ghost and eyes while she hid under the Moon for nearly 100 years, but stole the eyes from a Hive Acolyte to replace them, hence why she has that bleeding effect now. Also, despite her appearance looking more like a Warlock, Eris is actually a Hunter

[@CaptainPilipinas]

they say....

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

That’s a long ass time to be hiding under a moon 😯

[@CaptainPilipinas]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames honestly, from my own remembrance it seems she has been there for Centuries (after that Failed First Crota Fireteam operation of hers and Eriana's), trying to get out and back to the Lunar surface for the Vanguard to safely bring her back once she did got spotted. but some say that she's been only there down below for unknown several Decades. I believe it has been Centuries that she's trapped there, trying to get back home. and remember: Luna is at least touched by the [Traveler] back then. Very Earthly gravity, and all. so no worries for a survivor like Eris.... other than those *Hive* , etc making the Moon still as a reminder that it is still not fully safely terraformed, etc just by some of their Anti-Life effects.

[@CaptainPilipinas]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames the Moon. 'a symbol of triumph'. both Destiny's version of Humanity and our own (Decades ago) said-Space age moments, and especially during the GA era. now....those *Abominations* , Thinking it is theirs to destroy/Take.

[@acrab6527]

This DLC was kind of just set up. 2 DLC's later, this one sets up Crota's dad showing up, wondering why his son hasn't conquered this solar system yet. And there was also a raid they didn't include because it took 6 people. Where they did actually wake up Crota, so you do actually have to kill him. The raids got hard. 1) you've played the game with 3 people so far, suddenly you need 6, and don't have another 3 people 2) they were hard, because they dropped better gear, the enemies had to be harder, to still be a challenge 3) They had puzzles in a FPS. Things like 4 people have to stand on 4 buttons on opposite sides of the room, to let the remaining 2 go through a door and fight a boss alone, kind of thing. You'd die trying to figure out what the gimmick was more than from the combat.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Glad we will see the payoff of this later. And thanks for explaining the raids and how they work 🙂

[@emberp9232]

Hey do you guys know about a dude on TikTok ripping up your for honor reactions and posting them to his TikTok? I saw him the other day in my fyp and felt really bad seeing someone else using your content

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Nah. Don’t know. Don’t care. We react to other peoples content so it would be hypocritical to get mad about him commenting on ours. Even if it is mean spirited

[@twohorsesinamancostume7606]

Eris is our guide on all things Hive and Darkness. Time and time again she's come to help us deal with whatever evil shenanigans they get up to, even to this current season. She helps us and we've helped her on numerous occasions, it goes much further than just plain revenge.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

😎👍🙂

[@feralprocessor9853]

9:11 If you don't know Ogres are made the same way Humans made the Hulk, except it's the Hive turning there own into monsters with dark magic instead of scientific unethical syringes.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

😯

[@velraven8944]

Next stop, to the House of Wolves! One more quick detour before the story threads start to meet

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Yay! Looking forward to the story coming together 🙂

[@feralprocessor9853]

Fun fact: Crota was actually indirectly banished to Luna because he unknowingly summoned the Vex to his Father's "house" because they're Hive gods, they think can do whatever they want. So his father told him: "Crota redeem yourself and return stronger or die and be forgotten" THE FATHER YEETS HIS LITTLE MORON INTO THE SAME PORTAL WHERE THE VEX CAME OUT OF. ;) I'm sure this comment doesn't do the Lore Tab justice but this is the best I could do to summarize Crota's story before Dark below.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Thanks for sharing the fun fact 😀

[@smaragdwolf1]

lightlevel 272 ....wow... that was looong time ago. i think when i started with Destiny (Destiny 2), the lightlevel was already over 1000. I joined after the Red War. The current max lightlevel is 1580. Every current Guardian would be a literal God back then^^

[@fysy9989]

To truly kill a hive god, you must kill them in their throne world. Kind of their own realm, another dimensin if you want, where they get to when they die in the real world. This happened in the raid of this expansion

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

😎👍🙂

[@llolipoplizard3604]

There are plenty of Crota's End raid guides and solo play throughs if you just want to see what it was like. I do suggest watching the raids, just so you get a full understanding of what happens and why the Taken King happens. Tho there is a lot of lore and story you are not seeing/hearing because of the way Bungie handled that in Destiny 1. Like others have said, recently in the last 4(?) years, they have gotten way better of telling the lore and story in game. Even if some of the little things are in your in game lore books and some on items and guns. But you still get a deeper understanding of how things have come to be as they are. But, Mynameisbyf and Myelin Games are great sources of lore and story if you just want to know more.

[@anthonyworstell3768]

Maybe next you could react to Queen’s Wrath, and then Taken King?

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

House of Wolves is next and then Taken King. Not sure where Queens wrath is in storyline. Is that from D1? 🤔

[@anthonyworstell3768]

What I remembered, House of Wolves was called Queen’s Wrath… but that was about six years ago since I played it.

[@danielnolan78]

Glad you guys are doing this series. House of Wolves is a good step up, but Taken King leaped the series forward. Eris is a recurring character in the series and her character does get more fleshed out. Especially throughout Destiny 2, which has become much more character focused over time. Also, Crota gets a proper fight in the Raid, but the Raids are not included in these.

[@CaptainPilipinas]

and even then, those Gameplay-viewing Raid missions aren't properly explained or have most audiences try to consider some parts after what they just saw.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Glad Eris gets more fleshed out. Will make this more connected for us 🙂

[@TheCertifiedUnit]

As you progress through the expansions and stories, you will notice the game gets better at telling their stories. Hope you stick with it!

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

We will 😊

[@TheCertifiedUnit]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Love to hear it! Make sure to check out videos that cover the Seasonal content when you start to get into Destiny 2.

[@NightSterling]

Eris lost her light and her ghost so cant really blame her for wanting the other super powered guardians who can come back to life to get revenge for her.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

That makes sense. Wish that would’ve been explained briefly in the cutscenes we watched. 🤗

[@NightSterling]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Yeah there is a lot of lore that isn't explained in the cutscenes

[@Alan-hf7bl]

I❤️you guys your vids are always entertaining and 😎

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Thank you 🥰😊🤗🥳

[@too_official6194]

I have seen what the hive call a god 🥶🥶🔥💜

[@DrkSoulzyt]

can you guys do a reaction to jump force all ultimate attacks and awakenings for fight night friday :D

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

It’s on our request list. Want to see some more anime games before we get to it 😇

[@DrkSoulzyt]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames very good content. i rlly enjoy them. ty :D

[@KuroSlick]

Thankfully the story gets real good in The Taken King

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Looking forward to the payoff 😀

[@yes4720]

Of you guys can also can you react to call of duty world at war cutscenes there really good

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

On our request list 😅

[@SylverQrow]

Technically the story for Crota doesn’t end until you do the raid. Eris’ story doesn’t end here either. She is no longer a Guardian, she still has power but not the same type of power so the best she can do is guide you.

[@genHawkeye]

I forget if the destiny 1 raids had much dialogue in them, if at all? (Veteran D1 player can jump in cause i started in D2), i would recommend watching a shortened raid playthrough if possible (but again without dialogue you're basically just watching gameplay lol) i think the D1 DLCs were kind of Meh until The Taken King- this was hailed as the expansion that saved Destiny and set the new bar for storytelling/game play etc. With Destiny 2 Bungie has done a much better job of pushing story narratives through both gameplay, voice overs (while in game during activities) and cutscenes, looking forward to when you reach that era!

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Can’t wait for Taken King. Lots of hype around that and we also have been told raids were great but just gameplay so we’d be lost in it 🤗

[@Sarcobleck]

Eris gets more later hopefully you take this into destiny 2

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Yup. We will continue through with the whole story 😅🥳

[@foggyheight1170]

can you guys pls do all warzone executions I never get picked

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

It will eventually happen we just can’t promise when 🤗

[@silentfrog17]

you should react to to the live action trailers of destiny

[@gooberclese]

You should watch My Name Is Byfe,s The Story of Destiny. It covers everything story.

[@cosmicdraco7041]

Another incredible video, if you are interested I recommend viewing the other classes of guardians. My favourite class is warlock. Keep being awesome

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

😎👍🤗

[@armanii4005]

Easily my favorite sci fi universe ever made 💯💯💯

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

😎🤟🤩

[@joshuakarm7397]

Hello my name is Joshua I play D1 from the start the problem it dose explain about Eris mor story but it not her saying back than there was this cards that pop up you get when kill a high level enemy well you go there to read the story on how she live and explain what happens to the other guardian here a tip for you those Cruse thralls that exploded when come near you well the queen hive capture one of the five guardians and suck out his light and created the Thralls you see that blow up when near you.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Thanks for explaining that, Joshua 🙂

[@joshuakarm7397]

Y'all should do reaction video on Live action trailer on destiny 1 and Destiny 2

[@rogeliobeifong1709]

This 1rst Dlc is the most "simple"... Destiny learn about this to make the other dlc's better and better. Today the destiny2 players have one dlc every year whit 4 seasons, dungeons, raids and more stuff. So the story continues until today. And is very very interesting.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Humble simple beginnings ☺️

[@youngprince7820]

Which Destiny game is this? 1 or 2?

[@HeavenlyDemonicEmperor]

One my guy lol

[@supercato9613]

I always thought the differences were obvious. Look at anything and you can tell it's from D1

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

This is still from D1. 🤗

[@youngprince7820]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

😎🤟

[@Nemesis5247]

Yeah more Destiny. I can´t wait until you come to The Taken King. Thats where the Story gets really good.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Looking forward to it 😀

[@Sma11_sauss]

This dlc and the next one will be short and kind of told through gameplay, but it will be better than this. But the third dlc Taken King will be much much better.

[@littleshe-bear642]

back then, a lot of the lore and story was tucked away in text based, grimoire cards. The writing is far better inegrated into the game now, it does get better. and Eris plays a major, major role going forward. Anyhoo, the background to Crota is that way, way back, the Guardians invaded the Moon to defeat Crota and got their asses handed to them, they died in their thousands. The Vanguard banned missions on the moon and basically cordoned it off because it was too dangerous. Eris and her fireteam ignored that edict to get revenge on Crota and they all died, save Eris. So yes, Crota is massively important to the lore of Destiny, he represented their greatest defeat but back then the writing was very choppy and fragmented.

[@CaptainPilipinas]

Again, Not still Strongly still. Lore scenes is where few of their writers do not hold back. the rest of bungie when translating that into Gameplay portrayals though?.... Exaggerating from some words here.

[@littleshe-bear642]

@@CaptainPilipinas I never said the lore and gameplay integration is perfect now, I just said it's improved dramatically. The storytelling now is far less sparse than it was in D1; we have more custcenes, more in game dialogue. Sure, a lot of details are still in the text lore but the main story beats are in game.

[@CaptainPilipinas]

@@littleshe-bear642 if only, yes.... we used to have GA era intergalactic ranged firing giant gun platforms for crying out loud for example (mostly in Lore). if they ever finally do go for those supposed planned beyond-just-Gameplay-platform spreading of Destiny media without visually portraying such capabilities like that.... ah, Scrap. how worrisome, Destiny Lore-speaking.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Thanks for giving us some more background on Crota 😀

[@wiredvex99]

So unfortunately destiny 1 went through alot of problems when it was being made and since it was with Activision. This created an issue with story telling and theres really no clear story till destiny 2. But I can at least assure you these dlcs/expansions are incredibly good lore wise and they really hit their stride with The Taken King expansion. The other problem you guys will experience is alot of disjointed lore/story pieces. While gameplay is shown the lore cards are not shown. See back in destiny 1 they had what was called lore cards. These were attached to Bungies website though and are no longer available except through 3rd party sources like Ishtar Collective. These lore cards are vital to read along side the story as they contain context. Though while you may not want to go that extra distance and don't have too just keep in mind this may be why story bits seem disconnected. Destiny 2 also has a fair bit of disconnect but lore is in game and viewable at any time. Keep going of course because this world they built has so much good story and lore. Its incredibly big and you've yet to see at least some of my favorite story pieces from D1. Oh and to be clear Destiny 1 doesn't solve all problems presented. We will see the end in the final dlc for Destiny 2 called The Final Shape. So enjoy the ride

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Thanks for letting us know about the lore cards. Will keep that in mind for future D1 dlcs 🙂

[@slowestdespacitov8207]

After you guys finish this playthrough vids you should watch a video that explains all the lore, it is big but its split it into chapters thankfully so you can make a vid per chapter, its called "The complete story of Destiny, From Origins to Shadowkeep [Timeline and lore explained]" by My Name is Byf, best Destiny lore channel

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

We like a good lore dump 🤓

[@slowestdespacitov8207]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Awesome, Looking forward to those videos !!!

[@CondemnedInformer]

This was pretty weak for Bungie.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

We heard it’s weak in beginning and gets better once Taken King happens 🤗