Destiny 2 Forsaken Annual Pass content was the best year for content in Destiny 2. 3 raids, tons of Exotic Quests, Pinnacle Weapons, great gear and loot to earn. It was a good time for the Destiny franchise. Destiny 2 has changed a lot over the years, and the current seasonal model doesn’t quite live up to the Forsaken Annual Pass year, however it did lay the groundwork for how we’d received new content updates for Destiny 2.
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I yearn for a day where a destiny expansion will be this content heavy again
Blasted through all this during Y3 it was all so good, even reckoning was good
Season of opulence is still the best point in destiny history
Season of opulence was great, but forge, though it had nice weapons, wasn’t very good. Season of the drifter was HATED by the community. This is some Rose-tinted glasses speak.
Nothing like season of opulence 💯💯💯💯
Please bring gambit prime weapons back bungie . Seasons 7,9 Both had great content
We need the revelry back such a fun mode . Also the armor from that mode was really cool
LMAO! My my my, the rose colored glasses are fixed onto your face, my guy. This was absolutely not the best year of seasonal content. Season of the Drifter was one of the worst seasons, and Season of the Forge got stale real quick. Half the year was pretty dull. Forsaken opened the year strong for a starving player base and Menagerie wrapped things up pretty solidly, but half the year was shite.
I'd say the Beyond Light year was probably our best year, but honestly, this current year, Witch Queen, has been by far the best we've had. Let's just see if it finishes well
Sometimes 2019 feels like yesterday, other times it feels like almost a decade ago… good times.
good vid
I feel like 2019 is when people had the most fun over all
I was around until season of opulence dropped then my friends lost interest and I followed suit making my way back now but I wish black armory stayed while the forges were mind numbing I feel if they spiced up the enemy’s to be diffrent from ones in the base game it would be a lot more fun also rip break neck I still haven’t filled that void in my load out
Love the destiny videos you have been making. I fell in love with destiny during red war and then even more with forsaken and year 2 content. It had its problems but when you compare to what we get now it is not even close. Year 2 was one of the best years of destiny. Love to give you another idea for some content…it would be interesting to see an og destiny player like yourself compare destiny through the years and analyze the question “is bungie better without activision.” Cause this video shows how much better the content was during year 2 when you had two other studios helping bungie out. As a huge destiny fan…I really hope the Sony acquisition can help the game cause I’m not sure destiny can continue with this current seasonal content and expansion quality.
Overall it's hard to choose between then and now. Looking back this content seems great but you also have to keep in mind how poor many of the systems were that have since been remedied. Also keep in mind how lack luster a lot of the story content was compared to today.
I think the main thing I really want to see is better seasonal content. The forges, reckoning, or menagerie all provided much more engaging content then something like containment or katchcrash, imo. The content needs to be more difficult if they're going to make it locked at six players. Give us a larger battlefield with more enemies and more bosses. I'd say the loot is still worthwhile but a lot of people are not okay with the state of weapon crafting for various reasons. Personally I'd like to see 3 player content more in line with the Expunge missions from Splicer. They acted more like cool platform/ puzzle sections with a boss at the end including light mechanics. The corrupted versions of these had a legitimate challenge to them and imo felt like one off dungeon encounters with some story behind them.
Exotic missions are also pretty lackluster compared to something like Zero Hour. I'd say the last really good one we had was Presage and it got sunset 6 months ago. Vox Obscura doesn't really hold up after a couple clears and we didn't even get an exotic mission in Haunted or Plunder. Instead we got a dungeon and a reprised raid, which while I find to be enjoyable, are not a direct replacement for something that use to be a staple of a new season.
I played D2 at launch and got bored after like a month and didn't get back into it until about a few months before shadowkeep dropped. I was shocked at all of the great changes they made and the great new content. It felt like an entirely new game. I wish we could get a year of content that good again.
I would still take any of these seasons content wise, than three of the current seasons. So little substance to the game especially with how dry the core playlists are. We have skeleton keys in D2 now. No reason to not bring that system from D1 over. It was the best way strike specific loot was implemented, and somehow was never replicated. Seriously, not a single person would complain about this. Especially if we revamped the SIVA Crisis playlist into something more relevant story wise.
I LOVE the Black Armory weapon set. I wish they could establish the way they designed the Black Armory weapons, Zero Hour & the Menagerie into a formula as regular releases.
It's funny how Year 2's "drip-feed" style content-drop was more tolerable compared to the seasons we have now. They somewhat still followed the mini-expansion formula of releasing a good chunk right at launch. That combined with how they've lasted beyond the year they were released, there was less fomo around them.
I preferred their way of telling the story because of how isolated they all were, despite all 3 being about preparing for the Black Fleet.
I don't like how crucial story moments are now being told through the super-drip-feed drops of D2's current seasonal model. If the story has to flow from season to season then I'd prefer 2-3 campaign missions per season instead, otherwise give me Y2 style seasons.
The mountaintop, recluse, and anarchy loadoud was insane and I miss it man
Destiny sucks.
The one thing I didn't like about the gambit prime armors is that everyone just ended up using only two (invader and reaper), if you went collector than good luck getting the 20 and sentry was fine, but it wasn't consistent but a small time everyone would collapse on the bank making the set not as useable. It probably would've been better if there was a couple regular enemies who would spawn and try to drain your motes into the abyss and if the collector only dropped half the motes they had and kept the other half (as well as some kinda stat boosts for the more motes you hold up to maybe 20% in each stat giving you a +2 or (currently) 120 extra stat points for having 20 motes on you.
These ideas might be too strong, but the other two (invader and reaper) massively outweighed the other two and I think a person doing each job should've been almost mandatory.
Honestly, I wish we could go back to similar style for our seasonal content – I mean with the variety. Even tho, things like Gambit Prime might not have been the best received, but each season felt DIFFERENT. Currently, what we get is the same-y 3 or 6 player activity each season, with a separate ‘other’ mission and weekly story. It is boring and just super dull. Now I am not saying we need another Gambit season, but maybe some focus on OTHER parts of the game – like season of the Vanguard, where we get 3 or 4 new strikes and reworks to the playlist. Maybe instead of the typical match made activities we have now, we get true horde mode / tower defense mode. Hell, what about some like short stories or something? Relive memories of the collapse, defending the walls, stuff like that.
We just need the seasons to feel DIFFERENT – they are all the same… Boring…
My man really arguing that revoker was better than Wendigo GL3 XDDDDDDDDDDDD
I got into D2 in college when it went free to play so I NEVER KNEW MASTER IVES WAS KILLED?! I WAS WONDERING WHERE HE WENT! I remember in D1 my friends and I believed that there was a better chance for him to give us better legendaries and rolls. Imma miss that blue boi😔
I really miss reckoning, i really enjoyed that activity
Would be nice if Bungie bring back any of Black Armor weapon as a reward in Nightfall.
This year was the last time I took D2 seriously. I don’t understand why they sunset all the good stuff from these seasons
I genuinely wish I could go back in time and replay this portion of destiny again. I loved forsaken so much that it hurt when they cut it out of the game
For anyone thinking this was great it's what we have now just this time around we have it more fast paced and more broken bugs.
The horror story in festival of the lost was 600 power so it was a huge help for new players leveling up.
Really like these videos, nostalgic for me since I've stopped playing Destiny for awhile, I remember this year was fun, great series man 👍
Dude. Seasons back then literally felt like Mini DLC's. So much content, it was insane. Nowadays were lucky to even get a decent seasonal ritual weapon.
This year of seasons beat the crap seasons of Witch queen.
We need this style of seasonal content back, not the boring stale artificial feeling seasonal model we have now
Still patiently waiting for Onslaught to make its return on some weapons, preferably a Gambit auto rifle.
Big disagree
Killing the named enemies for the thorn quest is a call back to the D1 thorn quest, not the swords.
Great video. Your channel is one of the best destiny channels by a mile
As somebody that played then and is returning now, I must say I completely disagree. Destiny 2 was still very mediocre back then and gameplay was still very lacking in terms of depth and variety.
WQ was better
The game was better back then, looking back had they gone down a better path I could’ve seen this game being similar to destiny 1 with great armor, weapons, activities to play. But instead now we have half asses activities, decent seasonal stories. The game feels like pay to have fun. I simply can’t keep up with the grind this game wants from me. I feel like both pvp and I’ve have never felt worse. I like the new abilities but now almost every pve activity is too easy now and enemies will get one shot by a simple ability. Pvp simply isn’t fun and trials is easier than comp which sucks cause como has no rewards now. Overall I feel like the game pre beyond light was much better than it’s current state.
I felt true pain when you both pronounced Tarrabah like it was spelled “Taarahbah” AND said it left a lot to be desired. Have you seen the pure chaos Tarabah can unleash in the crucible, even today? It shreds almost as fast of not faster than a heavy machine gun when it has unleash the beasts active, Look up “Tarrabah seventh column” and you’ll find millions of clips that’ll show you what I mean.
Funny…I don't seem to recall hearing such high praise back in that year (except for Opulence tbh)
But I guess hindsight is an interesting thing, isn't it?
I think still to this date that the Black Armory weapons are the best designed weapons Destiny ever had. Siva weapons get close though
I've played Destiny 2 since launch (Although mostly casually up until December of 2021.) But my absolute idiotic 2018 self didn't think to even touch basically any of this content, asides from Thorn, Last Word and Recluse… One of my biggest regrets about Destiny, even though the stuff is sunset now. I'd love to see more varieties of highly replayable content like these. They kind of live on in Dares of Eternity, but these made the Destiny universe feel bigger, if that makes sense.
I was really happy when Joe-Tune dropped for me.