The Destiny 2 That you Can(not) Play - a retrospective

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[@probablyapomegranate3896]

Why would red war make you doubt Cayde's stories?!? He was lightless just like the rest of his fireteam. It makes perfect sense what's left without it is a goofy guy in way over his head. He just no longer has his failsafe, pun intended

[@Chrisonix_la_furra]

it was my fav dlc

[@sepphero9639]

Since you asked about previous attacks on the tower(s) there where some attacks directly on the Towers and City, like an extremely big and important combined attack by the different houses of the Fallen. Just to name one, there where also originally a bunch of Towers but they where either abandoned or destroyed during one of our enemy factions attacks (mainly fallen) like the PvP map Bannerfall. But well it was basically all just Fallen so far because simply it was no reasonable target yet. The hive was mostly festering and growing in secret, slowly expanding their reach over the system and so where the Vex and Kabal and if you look at all the potential enemies they'd have to fight a settlement of potentially immortal soldiers probably just sounded less appealing than overtaking the territory of the other factions first, so basically they kept each other in check what kinda saved us for many many years.

[@nd8490]

Uhhhh... 0:30 How was the red war a dlc?😂😂 It was the main campaign that launched the base game😂😂 Curse of Osiris was the 1st dlc for D2.

[@mdp720]

32:05 Whether or not you're the same Guardian as D1 depends on whether you had your PSN account linked and a D1 save file. If you were new, there were different voice lines when you'd be introduced to enemy races. If you were old, they'd make references to where you've seen them before. It was pretty cool. Still doesn't explain why you were wearing such crap armor at the beginning though. Maybe it was laundry day.

[@LowKeyJaded]

Roughly 70% of all the content ever made for D2 is now unplayable. That includes entire years worth of DLCs, planets, crucible maps, strikes, AND seasonal model content. This game has more taken out than that’s in it.

[@janvrba121]

And that's only one of the reasons destiny 2 is one of the best concepts with god awful execution and devs

[@Angel_11_legnA]

😢It was the alternative to creating destiny 3. Most complained they lost everything from D1. So they tried to keep it alive. currently, this game is technically is D3.

[@leonseuropeanislandadventu7398]

Wow, it's not like that's common fucking knowledge.

[@luga7430]

@@leonseuropeanislandadventu7398Keep playing destiny lil bro. Keep missing out.

[@nyoin2028]

​@Angel-yi4fs eh, they've roughly said thats not true and don't like that idea. Every major update aince beyond light has had the *This is it, this is D3* tagged to it by the community. I can't see them trying to make a D3 parallel to marathon when D2 was working, their ideas for it may have not.

[@Kushaboo]

Red war was actually pretty fun with friends when it dropped, the ending with that background music was epic. Wish they bring it back.

[@Ajaydynamism6]

hell yeah, just wish there was more to do after.

[@OscarASevilla]

@@Ajaydynamism6 yea. That's what caused me to leave the game after I preordered and bought the deluxe edition lol. Just nothing to do afterwards, leaving one wanting more for the 60 bucks of a game one paid for. It was basically 60 bucks just to enter destiny 2, do a not-so-bad campaign, and lose all locations, guns, armor, and aesthetics from Destiny 1. They shoudlve spent more time doing Destiny 2 development, so they could have launched it with all the existing exotics from Destiny 1. Instead, we had to deal with bungie crew doing this over the past many years. No much new content, just already existing content from the previous game, put back into the sequel. Which by now is late as fuck, given we are basically at the end of Destiny 2 life cycle now, lol.

[@TruTrae]

Yeah it was a much better campaign than most of the campaigns that we got back then although that's not saying much. It's a shame that the first great destiny 2 campaign started with its 6th expansion. I remember having a lot of fun with destiny 2 but thinking that it was pretty lacking after the campaign which wasn't the case for The Taken King or Rise of Iron which were almost perfect in comparison to D2 at the time.

[@JimmyPivin]

Redwar campaign has the best music

[@philipkalela9438]

I still have Journey in my liked songs on spotify. The nostalgia gets real when it comes on

[@MFOnslaught]

1. Red War Campaign is top 5 is the franchise 2. RIP Lance Riddick, he was great in this campaign

[@agalianar]

Is Reddick

[@tfesteli3023]

It’s “it’s” ^

[@lolza-qh2xw]

Every new season makes me sad it may be the last time we ever hear him as Zavala, he is such a vital part of Destiny, it breaks my heart. I hope that when he was alive, he knew how much this small community around the game appreciated and loved his voice.

[@alemar1122]

@@lolza-qh2xw Whether we wanted it or not... We've stepped into a war with the Cabal!

[@alejandroaguilar9850]

Vanilla D2, where Hawthorne was a relevant character and actually had dialogue. Now she is just a vendor

[@alejandroaguilar9850]

@@jstriker90 I've been retired since VOG redux, so I don't know how things are currently

[@vanillatherealone]

@@alejandroaguilar9850 she is now used for dungeon quests and the like now, so the same as before

[@denny8422]

​@@maythomas4591stop 😭😭😭

[@refraynn]

@@maythomas4591 You just never quit, do you? Took out ghaul. Woke up the traveler. And now half of what i hear in the streets is how much you and your clan are making a difference.

[@chriscoolmoreno]

I remember being excited for the idea of a new hub base, the farm, but it turned out to be nothing but a quick gas station.

[@Juwce_86]

The real gut punch is that I have very fond memories of getting to the farm for the first time on release day and being so overwhelmed. It was beautiful and people won't ever experience that. The second punch, the sucker punch is that Marty ODonnells music got removed from the game to and let me tell you, that music made the game.

[@oxsila]

I spent a comical amount of time just playing football on the pitch lol. Was just enjoying the vibes. Taking my time. Every couple mins or so someone new would spawn in and join me lol

[@Juwce_86]

@oxsila , lad it was certainly a vibe and how good was Titan the first time.. the atmosphere and art direction linked with the music made it something so special.

[@kasiphia]

Same. I only ever played for the first month or so (I played the beta and all of D1 as well), but it really was something special despite all the criticism. Decided to come back a couple months ago, only to find everything was gone....

[@huskycruxes7232]

It was actually Michael Salvatori who composed the OST for destiny two. Not Marty.

[@w4tt322]

I miss solo farming public events on titan🥲

[@kouji8288]

its so sad that new lights can only listen to Journey through youtube and not in game anymore

[@nickdenash]

Pretty sure it can actually play while in orbits. It's rare, but it's there I think.

[@lorrr_enzo]

i had the chance to play it before but did not, woe is me i started at the end of forsaken and was overwhelmed at that time so i didnt knew until beyond light

[@Jigglexphysics]

@@lorrr_enzokinda same only I started barely at the end of D1. Got D2 barely understood what the hell was going on. I literally was so dumb I thought public events were a main part of the game and not a side thing 😖stopped playing and watching this video helped me remember what I DID play

[@zetto3093]

@@nickdenashit’s not exactly journey but close

[@TheZamaron]

@@nickdenash How? I've never seen any way or glitch to allow you to replay the Red War.

[@vforvontol]

it's funny how the red war feels more like lightfall than the actual lightfall

[@christopherdenny5421]

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[@adrianstjrnfldt]

@@christopherdenny5421 AHAHAHAHAH TRUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@Snoozytube]

Yeah, imagine if ghaul worked with the witness rather than calus

[@WickedButter]

@@SnoozytubeGhaul was just a better villain than Calus imo. I really thought him becoming made of light at the end of the Red War would’ve led to something significant.

[@arkkrogue3870]

I returned to destiny 2 with the whole of red war seared in my memory. I was so confused when i came back to four dlc.

[@quivertheprotogen7905]

According to my encyclopedic lore friend, there weren’t attacks on the tower because nobody, including the cabal, were equipped to reach the tower without being detected. The Cabal really got lucky here. They just dove in, expecting to fight their way in and were surprised when they didn’t experience resistance until they arrived, and that is because Mercury, of The Nine, interfered with the Vanguard’s defense sensors. And that is why when The Almighty started devouring Mercury for its superweapon to blow the sun up, the rest of The Nine did not help it.

[@LadyWrathOfficial]

WAIT THE NINE ARE PLANETS? that explains so much 😭😭

[@Jigglexphysics]

…I’m shook just like the person in the first reply 😂 WHAT

[@mandyleonard7754]

What about the Battle of Twilight Gap and Six Fronts?

[@OverlordCornutt]

@@LadyWrathOfficialtechnically they are Dark Matter but are associated with the planets in a strange way? It’s honestly in need of further explanation

[@LadyWrathOfficial]

@@OverlordCornutt it makes sense they would be planets, xuur says his movements are planentary movements

[@CidLufaine]

I always assumed the reason the Traveler didn't just break out of the restraints was to avoid sending that blast out, it knew it would give its position away like a sonar ping to the darkness. It might have been waiting until Ghaul was truly a threat before risking giving away its position, as in when Ghaul was about to gain the light. It gave the Guardian the light first in hopes the player would stop Ghaul before it got to that point. That's my head cannon at least.

[@jadenyuki2031]

That's probably close to the truth, I think Savathun used a ritual to hide the traveler so the Witness thought at first that it escaped to another system and that blast was what revealed its position.

[@Ahnock]

it is. i believe its the hawkmoon lorebooks, told from the perspective of the speaker, shows the traveler knows in the moment it breaks free to kill ghaul that it will catch the attention of the witness, but not acting would cause worse problems so it does so anyways.

[@TheLordOfMystic]

Who the hell at Bungie made the decision to remove this? I started playing in Season of the Splicer, got almost 3000 hours in Destiny. And I feel like just these couple of cutscenes have done more character building and helping me understand some of the enemies/ allies I see every day in Destiny, than ANYTHING I've played since I started. Wow.

[@glytchthefox]

I know right! The original reason was due to Cayde's death if i remember right. After Forsaken, we got Shadow Keep. During this time, we still had all the campaigns and stuff but I remember people being confused as to why Cayde 6 was dead, but you could still find him in campaigns. May of been idiots at bungie listening to that idea and also make an excuse to remove all the old content

[@greenchilistudioz4537]

They prob thought no one cares about the old content and focus on only the new stuff lmao

[@glytchthefox]

@@greenchilistudioz4537 regarding OOB, like the Dark Forest or other locations, they still remain in game. Even if useless, would be nice to access such locations in game

[@Misterlguana]

Same. I joined the season after Splicer (Lost I think) and everything has just felt so flat. I count myself lucky that I managed to at least play the Forsaken campaign all the way through

[@mariobadia4553]

​@@greenchilistudioz4537 new players care......

[@vuvuzela4570]

Red war was my favorite campaign tbh. Ghaul was just such a badass

[@NaderVaderYT]

"TRAVELLER ,DO YOU SEE ME NOW?

[@vuvuzela4570]

@@NaderVaderYT ”You are not brave. You have merely forgotten the fear of death. Allow me to reaquaint you…”

[@NaderVaderYT]

@@vuvuzela4570 STILL gives me chills!!!

[@Crusader-iq7xy]

"Welcome to a world... without light"

[@MegaDrain]

@@Crusader-iq7xy "....for about 30 minutes."

[@varisrevolver4061]

32:21 If your save continues (aka not deleting characters to restart), you're the same character, it's how you get veteran lines such as during the corridors of time, and for Tyra forgetting who you are, she speculates she loses her memory from not having the light

[@ningyo5855]

Also, in Shadowkeep, you face against your own nightmares, one of which is the Nightmare of Crota. It wouldn't make sense for us to remember Crota if we never defeated him before. It's the same guardian

[@Chree1s]

@@ningyo5855 I've always liked the veteran dialogue that they did for destiny 2. to show you how far you been through the adventures and such.

[@Daniel-ut5rx]

@@Chree1sagreed I grinned pretty hard when shaxx recognized me while shit was hitting the fan lmao

[@MrMetalMan]

This was a great throwback. People talk down about Red War, but I always loved it. I remember how awesome it felt to be "powerless" and to have an enemy that actually dealt a real blow. I fondly remember exploring the planets, discovering lost sectors, figuring out heroic public events and completing adventures. All without a sparrow (which was cool the first time, although it would've been nice to earn one a little earlier). All of the QOL changes were nice. Like fast travel, mantling, having a map and class abilities. Like others though, once the honeymoon phase ended, the game felt lackluster in some areas. Like static rolls and no special weapons. I took a break until the end of forsaken and was so happy to see the changes. Overall, I do think the campaign being gone is bad for the new player experience. (And the fact that I actually PAID for the base game) I know reintroducing it makes no sense to the current story, but it really was one of the best campaigns we got in this series.

[@rockl79]

A lot of people say reintroducing it doesnt make sense for the current story, but id argue its the complete opposite. The red war is the only reason the pyramids are even here now, if ghaul didn't put the cage around the traveler forcing it to essentially blow itself up, then the pyramids never would have detected the pulse of light and would still be sitting dormant millions of lightyears away. The pyramid on the moon would still be in the same state it was back in d1, sitting essentially dead .

[@Gus-n9u]

Exactly, seeing your maxed D1 character get fucking manhandled was…. Oddly satisfying. Back in the day on D2 you could just replay these campaigns… similar to old raids and content in WoW. The excuse when they sunset it of “the game file was getting to big” never made any sense….. like make it an optional download and let us have our fun. That was the big difference I always felt between Destiny 1 & 2 ….. user enjoyment! Destiny was a fascinating story and game that had real momentum and potential. Destiny 2 had a fair bit of clean up and gameplay to work on….. but that didn’t mean that D1 wasn’t a banger. After the first year of D2… it just never really clicked… never felt fresh (like D1)… it took them YEARS to add classes and content that was desperately needed in the base game at launch. The story tellers still had some real passion in D2, but it always felt like the gameplay and mechanics where being designed with a mind frame of “that’s good enough”… and it wasn’t even that good.

[@gideonkimbrel7181]

As a blueberry who got to play this expansion for free, I thoroughly enjoyed playing through it with my pals and learning the mechanics. I feel like this campaign was built to teach people the game and it was quite good at it

[@joshuaharte3991]

Considering one of the core issues of the game is new player experience 🤦🏼

[@AmeButCool]

What expansion?

[@chad-chaderson8421]

yup, im so sorry for my friends I want to pull in to D2 because decent sales lately because I know they will suffocate under amount of stuff that is in this game

[@OscarASevilla]

Ill never forget after gaul threw us off and the tower fell. It was our guardian, and showing they were spending days going through the terrain, surviving. A nice time lapse

[@LittleWritingV]

Walking through the city wounded and almost falling over every few steps hits deep knowing how powerful we were at the end of destiny 1.

[@TimeInHours]

Its was also excruciatingly long, especially on your second and third characters

[@pentagonialdime5862]

Holy shit the moment Journey started playing I teared up... Its a tragedy that new lights will never experience this.

[@moonwhooper]

The worst part is when you're playing with a mate that's new and you have to keep saying 'oh they removed that'

[@bend.7590]

I just came back to the game and it’s just gone? Immediately uninstalled it again. Thats not the Destiny 2 I wanted to play

[@Gagelloyd24]

@@bend.7590there is a lot of fun content in destiny 2 still but everything up to forsaken is gone

[@ForgieDusker]

interaction bait aside, the only reason enemies hadn't assaulted the Tower before the Red War was because some of the Nine had a hand in the Red Legion's assault, sabotaging the City's defense systems because they didn't like humanity or something. otherwise the satellites would have detected an incoming force long before they got close enough, and i think i remember hearing/reading something about the Traveller's light interfering with the Vex, such that they either can't show up on earth (or at least the Tower) or it takes tremendous effort to do so

[@lorrr_enzo]

the nine did it for shits and giggles i kid you not

[@cameronrutan6922]

I guess I never realized that the vex aren’t ever an enemy in earth patrol locations..that’s very interesting..I just never put one thought to how they aren’t. I never realized that

[@not.skywalker]

Battle of 6 fronts, eliksni attacked the city

[@WalkthroughHorde]

Allegedly just One of the Nine did it, to examine how to take the Traveler.

[@TheZamaron]

The only reason the Red Legion even succeeded in the first place was because they put up a strong enough assault to catch the Guardians by surprise and prevent an effective coordinated response, then pretty soon trapped the Traveler and cut off the connection to the Light making the Guardians much less powerful and easier to kill. If the Red Legion engaged just in battle alone they'd certainly have perma killed some Guardians, maybe a bunch and done serious damage, but the Guardian's resurrection ability and huge power would have eventually won them the battle against the Red Legion. Ghaul is still the only enemy who's ever come close to winning aside from the WItness, but they are a whole other level of power and they're not even directly attacking us like Ghaul did.

[@Crusader-iq7xy]

Red war did a better job at making us feel like we "lost" then Lightfall and you cannot change my mind.

[@BennyBornAgain]

Absolutely. I just played through lightfall as a returning player and it was ok. I can’t say I didn’t enjoy it but I did question some decisions which I don’t usually do playing the game

[@str8ruthlesss961]

100%. As a returning player, I just finished Lightfall and it was alright🤷🏻‍♂️ the sense of threat just wasn't there like it was during the red war

[@thenekokatze1141]

As someone who played Lightfall recently and enjoyed it more than Red war I have to agree

[@barryfed24]

It’s sad to say, but that first mission had more consequences, threat and feeling then anything we have done in the game since🤯

[@ehoffart529]

19:16 Six Fronts? Twighlight Gap? Drifter's grandma was even there for that one!

[@mikewillis9537]

Banner fall as well, even tho that was civil war more or less

[@varisrevolver4061]

And sorta that one mission in Rise of Iron where you find the blueprints for Gjalla

[@H2OGT]

One of Lightfalls biggest omg momments in the new trailer for "The Final Shape" is the return of Cayde-6. For everyone that is brand new to the game can't even play forsaken to figure out why cayde-6's return is such a big deal to us vets like come on.

[@zakin1049]

the first destiny 2 mission… breathtaking. What happened man? i miss when d2 had some more morbidity, really drove home Ghaul’s character

[@Exton_Z1]

You had dumb fans allowing bungie to delete it

[@7bracket7]

@@Exton_Z1”allowing”… ah yes, because no one at all complained before they removed the content. Nothing was going to change the DCV

[@The2xWhiskey]

I'm confused... I recall the Red War being the base game of Destiny 2, before it got its first DLC, expansion, or even seasons. The Red War was the cause (excuse) for our vaults not carrying over from Destiny 1 even.

[@unsubme2157]

Yes red war came with the base game it was never part of any dlc or expansion.

[@Ahnock]

correct. this is just showing that story, as its been removed from the game since.

[@c.s.p.5103]

youre right, a lot of people want to forget this. it was made as a transition.

[@DxpressionYT]

Miss this campaign. We just made a vid comparing the new light campaign in lightfall to red war and it’s honestly tragic, Bungie fumbled hardcore

[@bobthedopeman7327]

Cayde really was magnificent during red war. Idk what that crowds problem was.. 😂

[@NessBee]

Maybe they just associate red war with how God awful of an experience year 1 was? I genuinely don't know...

[@bobthedopeman7327]

@@NessBee ha.

[@orie841]

@@NessBeecayde’s writing in red war was horrible. An unmatched catastrophe, killing tons of guardians and civilians, is happening, and you have to stop it. Meanwhile Cayde is goofing around, and being super reckless, without a care in the world.

[@NessBee]

@@orie841 dawg that literally his character

[@JunoWyvern]

@@NessBeeno it wasn’t lmao, he had “silly” moments but he was still rather serious. D2 cayde was cringe and they had to kill him off to make a somewhat good serious toned story and it worked

[@sombrashadow0013]

Hell yeah, a 2 hour video about the Red War. LEEETTTTSSSS GOOOOOOOOO

[@cameron4017]

I remember back in red war theorizing what the pyramid ships were good ol days

[@littleraven89]

The final battle to retake the city is still one of the highlights of the series for me. Fighting your way toward the Traveler just felt so epic at the time. Urban warfare is part of why Halo 3 ODST is still my favorite Halo game.

[@LowLifeDust]

i love the red war, the scene of losing our light and ghaul standing over us... so good

[@JusAFarmer]

Kinda miss, black armory reckoning, menagerie, whisper mission, ep, would’ve also loved a leviathan refresh.

[@Aki_Chie]

We're getting 1/6th of that back as whisper

[@JusAFarmer]

👍

[@c.s.p.5103]

you must have forgotten the whisper mission then if you miss it or got carried because that was the most awful, frustrating thing ever. Playing the revamp, i remember why i didnt have the catalyst.

[@evannirl]

god i miss the menagerie so much

[@bluedog4248]

This video is a banger and really brought me back to like 2018-2019. Destiny had a special place in my heart as I had played since middle school. And even though D2 on launch was interesting, it was really fun. You really captured the feeling well and how exciting this time of the game was

[@timscank2361]

I miss red war destiny. Also, knowing what happens in the end cutscene after excision makes that "I owe you one" hit a little different

[@aurawolf2221]

I was actually one of the D1 veteran players who poured THOUSANDS of hours into D1 & actually experienced the red war & I was definitely part of the hype... but by the time Warmind (or whatever the second DLC was) I saw the direction Destiny was heading & I jumped ship to Warframe. Seeing what Destiny is now.... I've never regretted that decision.

[@TheOfficialJoostTV]

I still hold my hopes up they'll one day give us back all the sunset content.

[@jhemp]

Kinda digging up an old post, but I'm hoping they release a D3 as a curated experience of all content thus far in the game followed by new content. (Probably with prismatic being the only subclass), but I think at best we might get the ability to replay old content via a memory or something so they can pick and choose. I can't say I really really want to replay all of Destiny, but I want the whole story there for people who missed it and to make it fun.

[@vV_Viggo]

Neither Tyra Karn nor Saladin remembered the Young Wolf. It’s almost as if everyone’s memory of the SIVA crisis was forcefully erased…

[@KingShibe]

At least Shaxx did

[@Eyes_of_Oryx]

We are NOT playing as new guardians in D2.

[@Dempdawg11]

Well. We aren't.

[@jameskruger9935]

I remember that if you are playing a character from D1 Tyra saying that her separation from the light made her confused and that she feels she should recognize you but doesn't remember your name. But if you are playing as a new gaurdian, she doesn't know you.

[@nastytechniquez9685]

Red war campaign and forsaken campaign were the peak moments story wise for me. I absolutely loved ghaul even though lots of people didn’t like him

[@Bracus.Reghusk]

Gaul was good but he lacked lore context/background and a proper final fight in 2 phase..

[@nastytechniquez9685]

@@Bracus.Reghusk I can’t deny the lack of a good fight with ghaul and lack of lore but the cinematics with him were top notch. He was bad ass

[@oxsila]

Campaigns: #1 Witch Queen #2 Forsaken #3 Red War Hopefully final shape can match Witch Queen at a minimum.

[@lordpumpkinhead265]

@@oxsila Ranking Witch Queen above Forsaken is an extremely bold statement to make.

[@oxsila]

@@lordpumpkinhead265 forsaken was a better expansion, not a better campaign

[@NekoHibaCosplay]

*before even watching this video* Oh shit... this gonna make me drop a few tears. I miss my fireteam. I actually loved the Red War, as in the past on paper the plot had everything to be an absolute blast, they had the boldness to destroy the game hub where we spent literally hundred if not thousands of hours for almost 4 years and was pretty impactful, Ghaul was an impressive character with some personality behind it, not just a cardboard villain. Some missions were visually stunning, the Almighty remains my favorite one, nothing that cames after got me so much.

[@Apexskyborn]

Mann im ngl that line from ghaul when he kicks you off the ship is hard asf 😂

[@scotttimbrell8632]

"Feel Free to kill yourself" must be the best line in any game ngl.

[@capraps1655]

Red war campaign was legendary, and the last campaign I got to experience with my friend Jonny red shoes, rest in peace John destiny will never be the same without you.

[@DragonShinobi]

Loved the video and it's nice to see people finally talking about how good Red War is/was. I hope after The Final Shape has run its course that bungie will add in all the og content for the people who want it back, since they never should have taken the base game out. I've had friends actually try and get into D2 but drop it because even they don't like what it currently is with how much the "new" intro doesn't even make sense gameplay wise and lore wise. Can't wait to see the next video!

[@rockl79]

Honestly, even if they just take a backup of the game during forsaken or shadowkeep with all the seasons and put it in a seperate game id be happy. No darkness subclasses and it would save space

[@JacobExCraze]

Looking back. Its crazy to see how far our Guardian has been. From being physically unable to stand up when losing light. To immediately sprinting to our ghost in Excision

[@mccabeandrew3]

With regards to the traveller awakening at the end, I always kind of thought of it like this: Ghaul stole the light but it was corrupted, hence the drippy shadowey vibe to his final form. By channeling all that light in front of the traveller itself, it was able to channel everything it had to one point and then use Ghaul like a magnet, focusing all that light to one point and using it to break the cage (though that wouldn't explain the arm breaking but eh) to cleanse it. That or the traveller let Ghaul take light to get to that point because it knew it wasn't strong enough to break out alone and that we would be able to defeat Ghaul. Still lots of points and that don't make sense but I like to think it at least makes it a bit more viable..

[@Lalify8]

My first time playing the game was 2 weeks before Beyond Light released meaning that I was in season of arrivals. All the content at that point was still in the game but I didn’t have enough time to get into it. I remember just grinding public events because I had no idea what to do and that excited me. All of this content available to me overwhelmed me and it was an exciting feeling. Then they took it out of the game and I have been feeling left out ever since. I had no idea why people like certain raids, or the menagerie or the exotic missions. I never got a chance to play them and it saddened me. I really wish I can play it again but unfortunately with how the game is going I cannot. That’s why I can never truly love the game the way it is

[@ggjuiceman]

It was a good time to be alive from release to forsaken

[@MrVibes69]

The guardian is the exact same one as we played in D1, that’s why there’s new and veteran dialogue depending if you played D1 or not

[@brg8245]

I remember playing this when it first came out and felt so mad when the cabal took our tower away. They definitely made this story memorable especially with the speaker cutscene too

[@npc6254]

Players: “The thing that makes Destiny great is random weapons rolls and fully customizable subclasses. Bungie: “For Destiny 2, we’re removing random weapon rolls and limiting subclass options to two static trees.”

[@wy100101]

except that isn't exactly what players were saying. They were complaining that Destiny's biggest problem was a lack of balance at the end of D1, and PvP wasn't competitive. At least that is what the echo chamber was saying. Bungie tried to fix those things by making weapons and sub classes they could actually balance, and making the game slow enough to be competitive even with the netcode, and the community was "not like that!!!"

[@AxisChurchDevotee]

Bungie: Also, we're gonna waste the year of the witch queen undoing our mistake and you have to wait longer for the new dark element because we did a funny and ruin the narrative of lightfall, oh and we're gonna homogenize everything taking away almost all subclass identities from most subclasses.

[@vonborgah]

Random perks on weapons were never something we wanted

[@KingShibe]

​@AxisChurchDevotee also, we're gonna tease our next dlc that's one year from now so give us $50 for that too!!!

[@spoiledsalad1851]

@@vonborgahI did. I loved it in DESTINY 1 and I made every gun feel different. I stopped playing Destiny 2 after no random rolls and finishing all the launch content.

[@pedromoreira6218]

FYI technicly if you use your d1 character there is dialogue to them like the Eris Morn one in titan but for some reason Tyra in the farm forgot about us wich leads us to think the Red War was supposed to happen before Rise of Iron

[@rockl79]

Bungie just doesnt like rise of iron, they dont want to admit one of the best expansions the series had ever seen was made by a third party studio they hired

[@eeveeofalltrades4780]

Is that the SIVA expansion?

[@UwUchibix]

The fallen have tried to a few times in the lore. Believe the hive was going to attack the tower but we stopped them before they got the chance to. And the vex have been in the city to.

[@ShantoShmento]

wasn't red war part of D2 when game released? How can they just wipe away the story that came with the game... bungo is dumb

[@kaaluha]

red war was the main campaign for D2 on release

[@scotttimbrell8632]

Im sorry, did you want an epic story with a badass cabal that spans various planets instead of some shit quests on Earth? Tough, go play crucible like Bungo wants.

[@robertpatterson8437]

There is zero point for new players to play the game. You have to spend hundreds of hours on KZbin to catch up on the story 🤣

[@GammerBossPr0]

It wasn’t just part of D2. It was D2. If you bought D2 back in the day you were buying red war.

[@MrNoble1997]

They overhauled how their engine worked and not all of the older assets and maps were compatible. They needed to be reworked before they could be reintroduced. A much lesser priority than creating new content

[@agoodtheory]

Hey to answer your question ("why did no one else attack the tower?"); that's actually explained eventually in the lore. The Nine purposefully masked the red legion's ships from being detected because they wanted to see how the guardians and the traveler/light would react to the events that would unfold. Basically they used the circumstance as an opportunity for experimentation in order to help them further their goal of "entering into our physical reality", more or less.

[@freddiescott2715]

The speaker telling Gary to kill himself is the best dialogue in the game

[@claymomof3]

that hawthorn slander was crazy. we loved hawthorn so much we named our clan the "Hawthorn Hit Squad"

[@Thebmanboss]

Back on d2 launch I remember every reset day rushing home from school to speak to hawthorn 😂 I wish at the bare minimum they made new players so this first mission then sum the red war up with a cutscene. I understand why they take out content bc we will either have a 500 gig game with everything or they would have had to make destiny 3 so they kinda couldn’t win bc the main complaint from d1 to d2 was losing all the loot. Sorry for yapping

[@davismorgan99]

It’s really bizarre to be someone coming back to Destiny after 3ish years because I don’t even know about all the content that isn’t in the game. For what it’s worth I have found almost everything in the game currently to be a ton of fun.

[@patrickoakley7890]

God what a trip down memory lane. Your best video yet. The game has changed so so much over the years. LMAO @ "this would be the last time anyone liked Hawthorne."

[@Lumine_Dreamweaver]

The journey soundtrack will always be my favorite just due to the raw emotion it portrays.

[@elitemichael350]

you definitely play as the same guardian from D1, they have confirmed that, plus you keep certain nicknames based on d1 accomplishments the rise of iron was just destiny's red headed step kid, and they even gave reason for tyra's memory loss in the campaign

[@Jericho4lyfe]

The Red War was easily the greatest Destiny campaign of all time; a work of art in the gaming industry. I really hope they bring it back someday, it is nostalgic, epic, and amazingly fun to play.

[@Iron_Cutlass]

I remember this, partly. I bought Destiny 2 at full price but never had the time to really play it, I only made it a bit through the story, I ended up picking it back up one day only to see that the game I spent my own money for had removed all the content I had payed for, the game was free, which I don’t mind, but I felt like I wasted my money on an experience I never got and will never be able to get, which is why I stopped playing the game altogether, it felt like the developers did not care about me as a consumer.

[@DonMenelo]

Titan and Sloane were my favorite. The sheer scope of the methane sea, the whole place crawling with fallen fighting the hive, t was so cool when you would fall seemingly to your doom just to find a hidden chest or lost sector.

[@iceheart994]

Loving campaign review series. Reminds me how much i enjoyed this content really can't wait to replay it.......

[@atlas7669]

Whos gonna tell him😬

[@victoriaescobedo5458]

Its a shame that it's now impossible to re-experience this campaign in person ever again

[@The-Jacksonian]

This makes me feel old. I remember getting Destiny 2 when it came out. I remember playing Destiny 1 about a year in after getting an Xbox one. I'm 28 now and Destiny 2, while I enjoy it, isn't what it used to be.

[@JQM78]

I had around 8,000 hours into Destiny 1. To put it simply, when Destiny 2 vanilla launched, I was so excited to see & play that opening scene where the tower is attacked. A month after that 1st day, I was done. It Being basically able to procure every exotic in that months time, and No random rolls to chase, it felt so generic. Random rolls were what kept me playing D1. Hell, I must have spent a record amount of materials when the gunsmith let you re-roll weapons in D1. When Bungie didnt seem to be interested in changing that simple fact, I left & didnt even think twice. Fortunately they fixed that. Someone actually told me “hey, random rolls are back in Destiny & it’s a lot better”. And sure enough, soon I was back in & to this day still play 20+ hours a week even during lulls in the game.

[@rockl79]

as a new player, y1 of destiny 2 was essentially perfect. Easy to understand systems, a pretty good campaign that properly introduces you to the series, and interesting enough activities for someone who had never touched the series to get into. But as an old player, I can see why people disliked it. The game was completely different and people didnt like that, its part of why I quit after beyond light, tried to get back into it during WQ and lightfall and never could. The whole atmosphere of the game feels different now and I personally hate it

[@VerderfMKII]

I forgot how awesome so many of these cinematics were.

[@wardoctor15al73]

I feel like siva sums up Bungie short comings. They have something fans love and want more, and they refuse to bring it back even in the wrath of the machine.

[@OscarASevilla]

Bungie too scared to evolve and expand their story in game. Lol

[@Sekhatt]

@evanf1997 If I remember correctly. If you were playing on console, and had played Destiny 1 on that same console, you would have a bunch of voice lines that shows characters knew who you were. If you were playing on Console but didn't play Destiny 1, or played on opposite brands console, or were playing on PC, it gave voice lines as if you were mostly brand new. Giving introductions to things you might know about and such. So depending on where you were playing was dependent on whether you were your old guardian or not.

[@youtubeclue]

Oh no, my nostalgia

[@Ironsharpensiron89]

Some won’t ever fully understand how that moment of being lightless and pushed off the ship felt. The day before many of us finished this we were at peak power on our 500th oryx run jumped into the prison of elders for some horde mode fun. Had some of the coolest guns at the time, and then the next day the power is stripped from us. It was an emotional experience. When we get to the court yard and our vaults are destroyed, and don’t have access to our guns. Experiencing that emotional gameplay was something spectacular. For me it was a feeling that cased me to (willfully) overlook all of the issues of the first year and only see the good.

[@eyeONE_Official]

Red War was a DLC? Didn't know about that. I thought it was the vanilla Destiny 2 game.

[@damusaetrum6742]

It is vanilla

[@eyeONE_Official]

@@damusaetrum6742 yea i know, i just added a small pinch of sarcasm

[@damusaetrum6742]

​@eyeONE_Official well, you can count on me being an idiot

[@eyeONE_Official]

@@damusaetrum6742 nah don't judge yourself too hard. Internet sarcasm is hard to detect.

[@christaylor8912]

By the way, the reason Graviton lance sounds so different is partially because in vanilla launch it was a 3 burst whereas now it’s a 2 burst

[@baileyrog]

I still don’t understand why they aren’t bringing back the speaker in the final shape, considering he is a dead guardian like cayde

[@darthportus]

Bill Nighty is too expensive for them.

[@lunar-1340]

The Speaker wasn't a Guardian.

[@baileyrog]

@@lunar-1340 he was

[@lunar-1340]

@@baileyrog no, he wasn't. The Speaker has never been a Guardian. "Though the Speaker is not a Guardian, he can be seen accompanied by a Ghost." - Destinypedia.

[@baileyrog]

@@lunar-1340 oh okay

[@GhostlyWhiteGuy]

Ok but the delivery that Ghaul has is like up there with Frank Horrigan from Fallout 2, every one of those lines from the first mission were fantastic

[@fillerpoint555]

I'm shocked to see people suddenly speak so fondly of the Red War. That shit was universally panned when the game launched, and I'm still convinced everyone has gaslit themselves into liking it because they can say they played it to show how cool and old school they are.

[@april_mood4027]

Also it was 6 years ago nostalgia I personally liked it but I never played D1

[@current3109]

Red War campaign was so much fun. The progression of the story was amazing, it truly felt like your guardian was at a race against time to gain their light back to fight Ghaul. The interactive items within the environment added valuable exposition to the lore and atmosphere, while adding unique dialogue for D1 players.

[@kmanalpha453]

27:55 I actually loved that jump. It's just there to show exhaustion and the fact that you're weak and lightless

[@texasvoodoo5696]

Thank you for making this and taking us for a stroll down memory lane!

[@christhiantrevisan8084]

26:38 this moment still gives me chills to this day, Journey is an absolute masterpiece without a doubt one of the best(if not the best) music on entire game

[@MothFable]

Red war was an incredible experience, and the first mission segment when you don’t have your light is a fantastic sequence. And the most annoying part is that they removed this stuff for stupid reasons. Like if you look warframe which just objectively has so much more content and looks as nice if not better it’s only around like 40 gigs? If bungie just went and like properly optimized their game for memory and trimmed actual fat not like removed actually good content for objectively stupid reasons. Also another great thing about the intro mission to red war was seeing other random guardians. It really felt like it was this big community event as you fought along side completely random guardians. It was truly peak.

[@Exton_Z1]

They could’ve just make D3 if the memory was short like bro it’s 2024

[@p5gBand]

I absolutely loved the Red War campaign for the story and missions. I hated the changes to my weapons, abilities and movements. I would love to be able to play the Red War now (with today's standards)

[@SilvertheFox15]

I played first during OG D2, Red War was my lifeblood, and I miss it so so much. By far my favorite Story told so far within the game's lifetime

[@AminulIslam-ru5uf]

I would love it if bungie was like “hey you beat the witness who has sunset old content but now that he’s no more or defeated you can have all the other content back” I would be blown away 🤯 if that happens

[@InfinitiCMBull]

What a fantastic watch, I'm surprised by how much of these plot beats I actually remember. I always looked back on OG Destiny 2 being underwhelming but there's so much here that I remember having fond memories of.

[@irrelevantnamehandle]

i watched this whole video, really good retrospective and a lot of my same thoughts march with yours, damn does this take me back. recently replayed all of d1 and i really wish d2 had all the campaign in it, this would have been a fun thing to replay. i feel the same about what you feel with red war, it was overall solid, had some good moments, I really think it would serve as a better story than the current new light narrative which just really kinda…sucks lol. it really does feel like a crime how over half the game and more is basically unplayable at this point, where d1 you can play mostly every single mission and activity. i really hope someday the old content comes back, I know it won’t but i really would love a replayable red war, and not cut up like the flashback missions on the timeline are.

[@womp3185]

I remember tractor cannon being meta in pve for a bit as it buffed all void damage to whoever you hit

[@alemar1122]

Titan was by far my favorite destination to play through. I would run through those corridors, stare out at the methane sea for hours... I dont know why, I just loved that gigantic oil rig!!!

[@BastetMusic]

The Red War was actually my very first interaction with Destiny in any sense. Long before New Light was a thing, a friend of mine let me play it on their console. I had never played anything with D2's kind of gunplay and powers before, and the scene with Ghaul and the Speaker stuck with me even to this day. I didn't end up actually getting into the game until New Light happened, but that intro to Red War is easily up there for me as the benchmark on how to hook someone into your world and game.

[@PterryDactyl88]

man looking back on these cutscenes when the machine starts working on the traveler that looks like resonance aura

[@nicholasbunnell4067]

I really wish they brought all of the sunset content back. Atleast the main story bits idc about seasonal stuff so maybe itll be better for the new player experience

[@GinaRanTruthEnforcer]

25:33 wait a minute! those are the pyramid ships! they planned out the pyramid ships since freaking RED WAR.

[@TheMikesShow1]

Dude, Io was the best, I miss it so much. It's really not fair

[@TheJrr71]

I stopped playing when the Tangled Shore went. I miss Io and Mars, but I used to spend most of my time on Titan, until that was taken away. When the Tangled Shore went, I just lost interest.

[@ScootaEdits]

Holy shit the editing in the intro was absolutely insane, common Raygo and Preppie W

[@romu1598]

I’ll still never forget the different dialogue for if you did the iron lords dlc or not when Saladin sees you in the tower at the start of the red war

[@philjohnston1064]

that kings fall ship jumping line felt personal

[@kaptainkoala8476]

One of the major lore points is a battle that took place before D1 where all the Fallen houses attacked the city and humanity barely survived.

[@LaD1sh]

I'm only 17yo and 7 years for me is a long time on that scale. I was 10 when i first played the Red War and now as i'm watching this i literally burst into tears every other minute of the video. It (campaign) was so f good. And they cut it out. I still can't believe it. I know there always been problems here and there, but the 2017 overall is so nostalgic for many people out there that negative experience can be overlooked

[@volleyballfanatic808]

I wish Bungo would release the entire story playable in game from Red War to Final Shape. Every story mission including all seasonal missions that are story relevant and let us play from top to bottom.

[@DioStandProud]

I just wish they could take all the campaigns and release them as their own separate download. It's so needless for everyone to have no access to YEARS of content.