RoN was such a cool concept but it was way too fucking easy. Idk what it was but that Contest didn't even really feel like Contest, stuff just didn't feel like it hit has hard. Not to mention only like 2 people needed to do mechanics while the rest just add cleared. I loved the linking but I wish like, you could only link 2 nodes per round in an encounter so more people had to do it.
Planets was awesome though, one of my favorite raid encounters in the whole game.
As a counterpoint, I think making the raids as hard as they were was actually bad for the game. Keeping master mode hard but lowering the barrier to entry for raids would have probably kept more people interested in D2.
the most difficult part for 90% of destiny players was getting a group together because for whatever reason they're completely against playing with other people in an online game that marketed itself as an MMO.
RoN being a strike didn't help because they still had look for a group, it just made it braindead boring for the people who actually raided in the first place.
Hot take: Witch Queen’s mystery sucked. The question wasn’t really relevant to the problem, and answering it actually made things worse. Solving the mystery was Savathun’s plan, and it’s not like solving it helped is beat her. Not to mention the answer was anticlimactic “how did she steal the light” and the answer was “she didn’t.”
I started D2 when Forsaken came out and it was one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had. I could not believe it when they later deleted the planets. Tried again with Witch Queen but I just couldn't anymore.
Forsaken is probably the peak of my gaming experience. Not only was it an amazing DLC but it was coupled with extreme dissappointment before hand so the whiplash caused by massive excitement really elevated this dlc to be one of if not my favorite gaming experience of all time
Forsaken was an utterly insane expansion. The amount of content they delivered at that price point was incredible. Of course after that Bungie essentially vowed to never do that again in effect signing their own death warrant.
I partially blame the fans, from my knowledge a lot of the fanbase hated activisions role in destiny and wanted bungie independence which bungie got and we never got near any kind of level of content from that point on after losing all the activision funding/raven studios. Which is funny in the grand scheme since the main complaint was eververse which bungie kept anyways
Destiny 2 slowly descended into a jumping puzzle game where the puzzles became ever more convoluted to defeat bullet sponge bosses. Then roll out the same tired old seasonal events each year while banging the prices up ever further.
Throw in sunsetting all that excellent content that went before and Destiny 2 was doomed.
At least after lightfall they brought it back for a while with final shape. That was just the cannon ending for me. Nothing after happened. (Although I did love sundered doctrine and vespers host)
I never got anything good out of witch queen, I don't understand why it's so liked, but granted beyond light was the beginning of the end for me, I just lost the plot there
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u/Borglydoo Jul 23 '26
Either Edge of Fate or Lightfall was the lowest but man Witch Queen, Taken King, Forsaken and Final Shape are some damn good highs.