Normally I refrain from posting cutscene only videos (as Bungie requested it be left to them), but in this case I think there's merit in doing so. A lot of people missed key cutscenes from the campaign due to the server issues, myself included. This way people can easily find the missing cutscenes they didn't get to see, and get to experience the story they otherwise would've missed. In the event that Bungie don't want this up, if they request it I'll remove the video without issue. But I think considering the circustances of the launch and people missing loads of these due to sever issues, I don't see the problem. I'll also have a full playthrough up later on, including all of the campsite dialogue and anything that was missed in between. I'm keeping all of the cutscene timestamps without titles, so people can find them without being spoiled as to what happens in them. Similarly, the thumbnail is also from the very first cutscenes, so there's no major spoilers there. Lastly as a reminder, this isn't the "full" campaign. After a team beats the raid on Friday, the remainder of the campaign will become playable for all to finish the story. This is just the first part of the campaign that's available now. Beginning of the Campaign: 00:00 - Cutscene #1 02:57 - Cutscene #2 08:34 - Mission Load-In Cutscene Middle of Mission #1 "Transmigration" 09:05 - Cutscene #3 End of Mission #1 "Transmigration" 11:25 - Cutscene #4 13:36 - Cutscene #5 End of Mission #3 "Exegesis" 15:57 - Cutscene #6 End of Mission #4 "Requiem" 17:58 - Cutscene #7 20:12 - Cutscene #8 End of "The Message, Part III" 23:12 - Cutscene #9 End of Mission #6 "Dissent" 26:53 - Cutscene #10 After Final Mission "Iconoclast" 30:48 - Cutscene #11 33:34 - Cutscene #12
@@Dragonchan5second half especially is very good, the slower first half isn't for everyone but if you like the characters and you want them developed, you'll like it. also i'm biased since i always liked the witness as a villain but i thought he was great
What I really loved about this campaign is seeing more Ghosts. The Vanguard's Ghosts were talked about in story and lore, but we never got to hear from them until now.
wish we got anything from Ikora, idk, she was just kind of there the entire time, and we didn't hear anything from her ghost. I feel like they could have done something interesting with her position as leader of the Hidden, and being responsible for everything they do
Idk if you read it, but the new Warlock exotic chest, Mataidoxia, describe the Witness like that. The text is dark as it display what the Witness was doing to the Traveler.
Honestly as someone who got lightfall and the season pass for $20 right before final shape I definitely see the criticism on launch but nimbus did have some missions where he actually seems like a character with emotion, the only problem is you have to get through so many little trivial quests to get to that point and see some actual substance from him, It works better now since I can take it all in at once but on launch yeah he probably seemed like an empty corny shell
@@roberttheronin9803we don’t want to replay them constantly just to watch the cutscenes it should be a feature like resident evil 4/5 did with its cutscenes if we wanted to rewatch them
@SPAC3H3R0 Comparing one game when no other game does this. Like hello? Warframe doesn't do it, Fortnite, Apex all those games don't do it. But when Destiny 2 doesn't do it; there's an outcry
it ruined it, every mission boots me to Orbit when your ship is supposed to have crashed. It’s supposed to be beginning to end and they fucked it all up.
@@progenitor_amborellaI missed the Zavala ane Cayde reunion cutscene, I looked online and noticed something was off so I relaunched and played that mission on Legendary again and get the cutscene a second time.
Yet won't even revive the ghost when we scream for their help after saving them. But gladly revives savathun lol. The writers for this game are the worst of the worst, and 10 years later we never did get to meet the traveler and got gas lite by the final expansion taking place in the traveler. Just an abomination of a franchise,
@@twilightresonance1789 what the actual hell are you talking about. I'm playing destiny for 10 years and in my opinion this cutscene is pretty unique, I don't know what's wrong with this.
Thanks for posting the cutscenes! I was watching a content creator talk about their time with the expansion and showed a cutscene I didnt even see. Then it made me realize I didnt even see some cutscenes. I missed out on cutscenes 4, 7 and 8 bc of server issues.
@@ChrisDeebo They been through a enough and they aren't they only ones sitting this out, there was lore tab where Eris and Drifter said that they are retiring together....the fight within the Traveler wasn't meant for everyone to go and fight.
@@dankerbell yes, definetely, there is also the part where Crow and Cayde are fighting together against the scorn (maybe are part of one big cutscene)
35 minutes of cutscenes but ¼ of it is reused footage from destiny 1 🥱 27 minutes of cutscenes but ¼ of it is cayde being cayde (retarded) 🥱 17 minutes of cutscenes but ½ of it is introductory rehashed schlock 🥱 what is left? jack shit and a whole bunch of cayde farts; and brother, you're huffing cayde farts
@@RazaPlaysGames what's the gameplay for then? the story is supposed to be told through gameplay not a feature length film of cayde farts and kieth david cashing a paycheck
My favourite parts of this video is Targe's comments, and Sundance. For the longest time, the only Ghost's voice we have ever heard is our own, until Sagira spoke a long time ago, and then Glint. In many ways the Ghosts are unsung heroes of Destiny, and I would love to hear more of them, moving forward.
that end of mission 7 cutscene 😮💨😮💨😮💨 they cooked, i'm assuming the witness' multi-armed form will be how it appears in the raid, i love how it just lost its patience with everyone
@@DoubleYouRandyBe I guess what I'm saying is that this is the first time we've learned (or at least from what I've seen) that Exos can physically push air with their mouths.
What i love is that the Witness is SUPPOSED to be this BILLION year old unified being but once we enter into its mind, there is no true unity. I remember in the Etelechy lore book, they wiped out the 2 groups that wouldnt give them any second thoughts or doubts into their unification to become the witness. The whole point of the witness was to not have doubts. Not from a single member of its being. But there is. The Dissenter(s). The unification of an entire race into one being is not so unified after all. But if that were the case, wouldnt that kind of inner-individuality effect the Witness in its actions? I nee a few couldnt have more control over the many but i feel it wouldve had some sort of outward effect on the witness in terms of its actions and choices. A nudge here. A nudge there.
22:04 Bungie, you still failed to make me care because you had important character development in deleted content. The inability to preserve Destiny’s story is damaging to art as a whole.
@@zerotodona1495 they tried so hard to gaslight us into thinking they did us a favor by deleting the first two campaigns and giving us a half assed new origin story attempt. Story being based on fomo is unethical for narrative preservation in media.
Ok, wild theory. Why introduce Micah 10 of all legendary guardians in the lore. I think Micah 10 brought her flock of ghost into the Traveler as a way to revive any of our fallen troops, ie Cabal, Eliksni, awoken, or even human. The hive were chosen by the light, what's to say those other races such as Cabal and Eliksni won't get chosen in the middle of battle. Devotion inspire bravery, bravery inspire sacrifice, sacrifice leads to death, thus a guardian is born. Light or not
The last 3 missions of this dlc are extremely good, maybe superior to every other campaign mission from D2. Also, the cutscenes? Fire. The sad part is that most of the people were not able to enjoy the start and middle missions/cutscenes because of these stupid errors.
The errors are unfortunate but I went back and did the whole thing solo and I believe it’s the best canpaign we’ve ever gotten. The mechanics even early on make the missions feel more complex (even if they aren’t) the story I felt had amazing pacing and there weren’t any things I was lost about even with me not knowing almost any lore past the campaigns. And the best part. The raid actually matters to the story for once. Let’s also remember that error codes on the first day don’t define the quality of the entire expansion. The community likes to latch onto one problem big or small and extrapolate that to the entire expansion. Let’s not do that here.
@@EggyWeggyIII This is my opinion: when I have to make a "chart" of the dlcs we got these years, the highest point is of course the witch queen dlc. It had beautiful and various environments, good guns, good story, big revelations in mid campaign and at the end of it. To me, the witch queen still remains superior, because it was consistent, start to end. The final shape started strong, but the pacing was a bit off in the missions 2 to 4. I found the "go, find ikora, crow and zavala" objectives too basic, and the encounters were not my cup of tea, these three missions felt a little bit too similar. Howewer, the things started to go fire again from mission 6, till the end (the last two missions are better than the missions of the witch queen for me, i felt the tension, the build up to that moment). Tha's why I think the witch queen was better, simply because i found it more"consistent", always on a mid-high level. Of course we still have the last mission and the raid, and i think those two will elevate the dlc even more. Like you mentioned, I liked that every mission had some complex mechanic in it, and that were not simply "push forward". Simply, the witch queen dlc remains better cause missions of that dlc were extremely good in the middle of the campaign too!!
@@salvatoreruggiero6551 I see your point about the middle two missions, but I would argue those same types of missions existed with WQ. The story for WQ essentially boiled down to “we don’t know anything until the final 2 missions where we discovered everything instantly” we didn’t know her plans, we didn’t know how she got the light, we didn’t know much of anything and to me it felt like we were just grasping at straws. Granted we had that same concept with this campaign but to a much lesser degree. With this campaign we were always working toward something. Yes those filler missions existed, but they always told a story or explained something that we didn’t know that actually mattered.
@@EggyWeggyIII yes, yes. A big point in favor of the WQ was that we actually did not know almost anything aside from the fact that Savathun had the light, and we also had some big revelations we did not get in this expansion, and this of course helped a lot. To me, if i should rank the dlc and gives a 9/10 to WQ, then the final shape is still a 7.5/8 for me, which will sure go higher after the dlc and the big final mission, especially if this final mission will be on the same or higher level of the mission we god at the end of the campaign!
No, the sad part is that this was advertised as the end of the “Light and Dark Saga” but it clearly isn’t actually a conclusion. It’s a $40 prologue to a new season of D2. I am so glad I do not play this game.
I havent played for ages. Came here for cutscenes / story. I still think witchqueen story and cutscenes were the best, with the young Sathona scene being bungies best work
The taken King, Witch Queen, and forsaken are my favourite bungie stories bar their Halo games which are still my favourite campaigns in all gaming to date. I was really annoyed when they removed forsaken as I liked to replay it time to time and that gets removed for so much mediocre filler content that destiny is famed for now. Really hoping final shapes ending lives up to the hype. We deserve a good one.
"Zavala when explaining plan" Guardian: a mimir "Mara planning witness raid" Guardian: *SAY LESS MY QUEEN WE WILL TURN THE WITNESS INTO EXOTIC CIGARETTE* (dies to 18 hour suffering of raid)
If D2 would just tell the damn story in the campaign and not rely on the seasonal content to tell the story you pay 60$ for with the expac, the game would be better.
I stopped playing Destiny 2 ages ago, but I used to write fanfics of an alternate universe where Cayde and Crow met and I am so happy to see most of those headcanons come to life in front of me
Hey is it just me or is there some deep voices that are hard to decipher in the background of the second cutscene right after the Traveler unfinalizes earth?
What a shitty way to make people not pay 50 bucks for expansion fully but to make them pay nearly double so that they can see the whole story once they have you by sunken cost fallacy since you are already invested.
just stop buying them, I know you think it's a good game but 95% of Destiny 2 is the story now, the gameplay hasn't done anything in 10 years besides one or two new sub classes
I must say, as someone who has never played Destiny, the lore was always interesting. My brother spoke, and still does, speak about it. But when I started to hear about The Witness, I became more interested. He explained what he knew and as time went on, it seemed like The Witness was an enemy not even The Traveler could defeat. Witch Queen, Lightfall, Final Shape, I was interested in hearing what my brother knew about The Witness. Soon, Lightfall came, and I watched some cutscenes with my bro. The way it spoke, moved, acted. Despite not even touching the game, this was an enemy that I knew would have an impact larger than any before. I was the one talking now, I was telling my brother that there was no way you all were going to be successful in stopping The Witness' Final Shape. Saying that even if you defeat him, his plans will be completed. We watched The Final Shape's launch trailer. And all I said to him was "There is no way you're winning." In my mind, this is where you lost. The culmination of so many years. This was the time where everything would change. That the loss would bring about a new era to Destiny 2 and its guardians. Then, just a few days ago, The Final Shape happened. My brother told me about it, I watched the best cutscenes with him and was even there when he completed it. It was beautiful and it seems the entire community has been satisfied. But, once again. As someone who never played, an outsider. I couldn't help but feel... disappointed. The Witness felt like a force that would have you all left with just a string of fight left after you defeated him. An entity that would win despite the best efforts of everyone. That The Final Shape would arrive. I know most people's first question would be "how would they continue the game?" and whatnot. But I think there are plenty of ways. I guess I just felt like, if everyone lost, a new beginning would be sparked. The rebuilding of everything. Learning to live with what The Witness changed about, everything. Giving a new purpose to play to everyone instead of just the same content. Perhaps I don't understand because I don't play. Maybe I'm just an outsider.
The Episodes will expand on the mark that the Witnesse's death has on the Sol system. If the Final Shape was allowed to happen, there would be no begining, everything would be stale. Even in a different timeline we would still have to destroy the Witness. Elsie, a caracter that has been throu countless timelines has told us that everything ends with the Final Shape, we stopped that fate. SPOILERS AHEAD Also, in the raid the Witness outrite states the the Winnower exists and that they (the Witness) are the first knife, impling that the unvailing lore book is at least partially true, meaning that the "game of flowers" is still ongoing.
@@kostiskampouris3415 I'm aware of large implications because of my brother and my own interest in The Witness, I was just expressing what my expectations were and how I saw The Final Shape rather than what Bungie ultimately decided to do.
No, it's actually explained in one of the missions. Crow was thinking about Cayde when he went through the wish portal at the end of last season. So essentially he accidentally wished Cayde back.
@Zoomii5 It makes me wonder, what's the monkey's paw this time? Will he now be forever denied that peace he originally had? Or did Riven skip the paw this time, as her own way apologizing to Crow for her past actions toward him? "One last wish, Little Light, as a final apology to you." I don't know much about Ahamkara so I'm not sure if they're even capable of a "free wish", so to speak.
@@mcmewsenmonkey's paw in that cayde said he was pretty happy being dead and was rudely awoken and that he probably can't (or doesn't want to according to wild card) leave
Literally got error codes right before Cade and Zavala hugged. Completely just ruined the moment. Years of waiting for tht moment and it was robbed. Insane
I love how genuinely angry the witness sounds after Iconoclasm. It’s probably the first time in billions of years that it’s been harmed in any conceivable way.
For my load in mission cutscene it was me and my friends, one had a pyramid ship, the other was a dragon, and mine was a GALAGA ship, watching all of those ships crash was really funny lol
I didn't even notice until I saw someone else play through the campaign but I'm pretty sure I missed cutscene 7 at launch Without that cutscene it felt like Zavala was kinda quick to trust something all of us had seen for the first time during the strike lol Thank you so much for this video
Cutscene 3 is probably my favorite cutscene from this franchise ever, showing what the witness wants the final shape to be and how he wants to rewrite history. Giving the first people to discover the traveler prismatic powers and undoing all that was done after it
Lol what if this whole time our favorite weapon Saint 14 mentioned wasn't the Bastion, but actually Ergo Sum? Some people already have it and it seems to be a one of a kind weird sword and the lore it has is quite interesting.
I walked away when they robbed us of payed content i.e. “sunset.” A part of me wishes I never played at all. I spent *years* playing destiny since the moment it first released. So many *amazing* memories I’ll never forget, which is why it pains me beyond belief to see the corporate greed destroy what could have been a beautiful decade long adventure. Farewell destiny, you won’t be missed…
I missed the 2nd intro cutscene completely. Was waiting for the whole raid/final mission wondering where the final shape city/last earth scene was and Mara saying he's initialising it. Clears up so much confusion since launch.
Dude I’m come to love crows character journey and where he is now, the scene where he talk about Amanda you can feel the pain and the love. I hope she comes back as like a titan or something
So has Mara done anything against the witness? She seems so self preserving. Didn’t even want to go into the portal even though she’s got a throne world… she was happy for us to fling ourselves in
Firtly, she is the reason we got in the portal in the first place, due to her bond with crow. Secondly, she is activly pushing back against the witnesses advances. Her Throne World, isn't safe, Dul' Incaru is still there, if Mara goes to her Throne world he will suffer her final death. Also, she we neaded someone to cordinate with our other allies, when we got in the portal we lost almost every communication with the outside world. She also saved us at the end from being killed be the Witnesse's Taken.
Honestly in my opinion the Final Shape is the best expansion we’ve gotten in the Destiny universe the character development, the environment, storytelling, the cutscenes and the music everything is just incredible and I reckon it was a perfect conclusion to the light and darkness saga thank you Bungie🫡🤩😎
Just wanted to comment on how amazing this expansion is. I want to do my part in letting others know that besides the server issues, this is Bungie's GREATEST expansion ever put out. The negative reviews on steam are going to change in the coming days when people actually get to play. So for anyone out there on the fence about getting this, if you have the money go ahead and buy it. You will NOT be disappointed. Thank you, Eso. For showing TH-cam the greatness of this story.
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Normally I refrain from posting cutscene only videos (as Bungie requested it be left to them), but in this case I think there's merit in doing so. A lot of people missed key cutscenes from the campaign due to the server issues, myself included. This way people can easily find the missing cutscenes they didn't get to see, and get to experience the story they otherwise would've missed.
In the event that Bungie don't want this up, if they request it I'll remove the video without issue. But I think considering the circustances of the launch and people missing loads of these due to sever issues, I don't see the problem. I'll also have a full playthrough up later on, including all of the campsite dialogue and anything that was missed in between.
I'm keeping all of the cutscene timestamps without titles, so people can find them without being spoiled as to what happens in them. Similarly, the thumbnail is also from the very first cutscenes, so there's no major spoilers there.
Lastly as a reminder, this isn't the "full" campaign. After a team beats the raid on Friday, the remainder of the campaign will become playable for all to finish the story. This is just the first part of the campaign that's available now.
Beginning of the Campaign:
00:00 - Cutscene #1
02:57 - Cutscene #2
08:34 - Mission Load-In Cutscene
Middle of Mission #1 "Transmigration"
09:05 - Cutscene #3
End of Mission #1 "Transmigration"
11:25 - Cutscene #4
13:36 - Cutscene #5
End of Mission #3 "Exegesis"
15:57 - Cutscene #6
End of Mission #4 "Requiem"
17:58 - Cutscene #7
20:12 - Cutscene #8
End of "The Message, Part III"
23:12 - Cutscene #9
End of Mission #6 "Dissent"
26:53 - Cutscene #10
After Final Mission "Iconoclast"
30:48 - Cutscene #11
33:34 - Cutscene #12
Legend
Really appreciate it, it sucked to miss some cutscenes during the campaign but having a video like this to fill in the gaps is an amazing substitute.
What do you guys think of the campaign so far? Is it good?
@@Dragonchan5second half especially is very good, the slower first half isn't for everyone but if you like the characters and you want them developed, you'll like it. also i'm biased since i always liked the witness as a villain but i thought he was great
Thank you so much. Me and my brother missed Zavala CS after defending his home. Caught it on your solo legend video. I really appreciate it.
What I really loved about this campaign is seeing more Ghosts. The Vanguard's Ghosts were talked about in story and lore, but we never got to hear from them until now.
wish we got anything from Ikora, idk, she was just kind of there the entire time, and we didn't hear anything from her ghost. I feel like they could have done something interesting with her position as leader of the Hidden, and being responsible for everything they do
@@crasterlongshanks4284in the last 200 years she has talked once with her ghost in the lore. And that was during witch queen.
@@crasterlongshanks4284in the last 200 years she has talked once with her ghost in the lore. And that was during witch queen.
@@Bennieboy918 According to the pale heart weapon lore page, it was 61 years. Not 200. They are also past that.
@@shadows_starThey also kinda talked in Wish. Though she just asked him to look up some stuff
So the witness is just the most dedicated artist in the universe. He took the world is ur canvas to a new level
It's always the artists that destroy the world...
Idk if you read it, but the new Warlock exotic chest, Mataidoxia, describe the Witness like that. The text is dark as it display what the Witness was doing to the Traveler.
@@willyboi1105 LMAOOO good one
When Lance was here Nathan was away, now Nathan is here but...
It aint an easy thing to think about.
Rest in peace, Commander.
I was thinking about that yesterday. The fireteam in game is back together, but they aren't in the real world and never can be. Made me kind of sad.
noone gonna mention ikora changed va a couple years back too lol?
@@Sukkulents_wait she did?
@@Sukkulents_ maybe news didn't got to anyone, or didn't affect like other characters would
I love how Bungie saved all their storytelling and emotion for Final Shape and we were left with Nimbus and a throwaway character to die in Lightfall
And that where I left the game altogether. Such an insult while asking for full price. I'm glad creators are uploading these cutscenes
Honestly as someone who got lightfall and the season pass for $20 right before final shape I definitely see the criticism on launch but nimbus did have some missions where he actually seems like a character with emotion, the only problem is you have to get through so many little trivial quests to get to that point and see some actual substance from him, It works better now since I can take it all in at once but on launch yeah he probably seemed like an empty corny shell
@@Sqeaky6969nimbus isnt even really the issue as much as the overall expansion itself was just so cobbled that nimbus stands out more.
@@CalSippin "wow this game was such an insult" "I'm glad people are uploading the cutscenes tho"
hahaha seriously
As nimbus rightfully deserves
The 3rd one with the white bird is one of the best looking video game cutscenes I’ve ever scene.
“You choose…entropy” is my new “its treason then”
Years of this game and we don't have a feature ingame to rewatch cutscenes. Its just ridiculous.
Good shout-out
like almost every game ever
You can just replay the mission again? Hello?
@@roberttheronin9803we don’t want to replay them constantly just to watch the cutscenes it should be a feature like resident evil 4/5 did with its cutscenes if we wanted to rewatch them
@SPAC3H3R0 Comparing one game when no other game does this. Like hello? Warframe doesn't do it, Fortnite, Apex all those games don't do it. But when Destiny 2 doesn't do it; there's an outcry
damn, you're telling me I missed cayde playing harmonica for EVERYONE? this launch is reducing the quality of these interactions a lot.
it ruined it, every mission boots me to Orbit when your ship is supposed to have crashed. It’s supposed to be beginning to end and they fucked it all up.
Same bruh
Right, I loaded in right next to him suddenly and I’m thinking “ain’t no way I didn’t just miss a cutscene or walk.”
I missed that cutscene too
@@progenitor_amborellaI missed the Zavala ane Cayde reunion cutscene, I looked online and noticed something was off so I relaunched and played that mission on Legendary again and get the cutscene a second time.
Whoever is in charge of sound effects deserves a raise.
“You Will …be dragged on for another decade..”
You make that choice. Make your own fate
Break the cycle, guardian
Have you ever taken brakes from destiny? I have.
"Id do so, gladly."
@@vagrantender sad
So basically the witness is pissed off Chakravartin from Asura's wrath. Got it.
Basically, yeah.
Give em hell on raid day brotha
bro's gonna solo it
The Witness gonna witness deez nuts in his mouth!
If the servers will let ‘em
@@toddelmsworth640 lmao, raid took nearly 23 hrs
"We got bigger problems. Bigger, weirder problems."
*Contacting Destiny 2 Servers*
The traveler practically screaming for our help was chilling man. That vision rocked my whole fireteam.
Yet won't even revive the ghost when we scream for their help after saving them. But gladly revives savathun lol. The writers for this game are the worst of the worst, and 10 years later we never did get to meet the traveler and got gas lite by the final expansion taking place in the traveler. Just an abomination of a franchise,
In the vision cutscene i got the chills man. In 10 years of Destiny i never saw a cutscene like that. It makes a new horror like style, and i like it.
you all are so sad. youb kids ruined destiny and destiny 2. so easily manipulated
@@twilightresonance1789fr, Destiny 1 was peak
@@twilightresonance1789 what the actual hell are you talking about. I'm playing destiny for 10 years and in my opinion this cutscene is pretty unique, I don't know what's wrong with this.
That's why I want the witness to destroy us in the raid and achieve the final shape
@@IlRiccioItaliano145 you are ruining games, kid
The music build at "The Final Battle With The Witness Approaches" gave me CHILLS, man!
Thanks for posting the cutscenes! I was watching a content creator talk about their time with the expansion and showed a cutscene I didnt even see. Then it made me realize I didnt even see some cutscenes. I missed out on cutscenes 4, 7 and 8 bc of server issues.
Only made it to cutscene 3 because of errors but man the astronaut getting prismatic goes so hard
I missed almost all of these, thank you man
Holy shit! I love the change in the Witness' voice in the penultimate cutscene, when it finally stops playing with its food, so to speak.
Here's a question: where the hell is Elsie the Stranger in this?
The timeline was new to her ever since Witch Queen, she would be able to help but she has no stake in the story now
Long story short, Bray sisters sitting on their asses as per usual
@@ChrisDeebo They been through a enough and they aren't they only ones sitting this out, there was lore tab where Eris and Drifter said that they are retiring together....the fight within the Traveler wasn't meant for everyone to go and fight.
Their annual leaves approved before this expansion
Aren’t there multiple parts to this story with each season or with the raid?
35mins of cutscenes is crazy work, phenomenal job Bungie
probably gonna be at least one more after the final mission, i bet that scene of the entire coalition fleet will be the opening cutscene to m8
@@dankerbell yes, definetely, there is also the part where Crow and Cayde are fighting together against the scorn (maybe are part of one big cutscene)
35 minutes of cutscenes but ¼ of it is reused footage from destiny 1 🥱 27 minutes of cutscenes but ¼ of it is cayde being cayde (retarded) 🥱 17 minutes of cutscenes but ½ of it is introductory rehashed schlock 🥱 what is left? jack shit and a whole bunch of cayde farts; and brother, you're huffing cayde farts
Should have been atleast 1hr and 30 minutes like a movie is
@@RazaPlaysGames what's the gameplay for then? the story is supposed to be told through gameplay not a feature length film of cayde farts and kieth david cashing a paycheck
My favourite parts of this video is Targe's comments, and Sundance. For the longest time, the only Ghost's voice we have ever heard is our own, until Sagira spoke a long time ago, and then Glint. In many ways the Ghosts are unsung heroes of Destiny, and I would love to hear more of them, moving forward.
i completed all campaign on legendary got the exotic sword thats a special weapon and the golden gun sniper now its a waiting game for the raid
You really should be grinding the sword
How? I only got armour?
Cool it’s beyond my abilities hope there worth iy
@@MICROKNIGHT3000The sword and sniper are exotic quests
@@TheBoredOne1"should be grinding" lol
that end of mission 7 cutscene 😮💨😮💨😮💨 they cooked, i'm assuming the witness' multi-armed form will be how it appears in the raid, i love how it just lost its patience with everyone
I bet that form is the same form that calus was scared of when he angered the witness
Doesn’t excuse the god awful ending
@@Bigshady843what for ending???? There is one mission left after the Raid and then there is an end😂
@@KenBaji-xb8wj yeah after two days, I paid for it I want a satisfying campaign
@@Bigshady843 then lets hope on the last mission that comes out after the raid was beated
32:46 Witness doing the 👆
Thank you so much for this
Too poor to get final shape for a long time
This is by far the best campaign bungie has ever done I loved every bit of it besides the area codes gotta give bungie there flowers.
Their
I think their Halo campaigns are better.
Best campaign, what do you mean? It’s not even over yet. The Witness is still alive.
Definitely not the best lol. Tedious missions followed by an ending which doesn’t even conclude anything. Yeah definitely ‘by far the best campaign’
Halo 1, 2, 3 and Reach Campaigns run laps around anything Bungie has done ever since.
How does an Exo play the Harmonica?
never heard about pneumatics? ;)
@@DoubleYouRandyBe I guess what I'm saying is that this is the first time we've learned (or at least from what I've seen) that Exos can physically push air with their mouths.
@@kasm7870
Most functions like breathing or eating are required for exos or else their minds would reject the exo bodies and they'd die.
They have simulated versions of breathing, hunger, etc so that their brains don’t freak out about being in a robot body
Because he Cayde 🥸
What i love is that the Witness is SUPPOSED to be this BILLION year old unified being but once we enter into its mind, there is no true unity. I remember in the Etelechy lore book, they wiped out the 2 groups that wouldnt give them any second thoughts or doubts into their unification to become the witness. The whole point of the witness was to not have doubts. Not from a single member of its being. But there is. The Dissenter(s). The unification of an entire race into one being is not so unified after all. But if that were the case, wouldnt that kind of inner-individuality effect the Witness in its actions? I nee a few couldnt have more control over the many but i feel it wouldve had some sort of outward effect on the witness in terms of its actions and choices. A nudge here. A nudge there.
I straight up though it was a glitch when it cut to the cosmodrome. I thought it was the new light cutscene
22:04 Bungie, you still failed to make me care because you had important character development in deleted content. The inability to preserve Destiny’s story is damaging to art as a whole.
Seriously, any new lights in the last few years are probably so confused. Hell, most don’t even know who ghaul is for example.
@@zerotodona1495 they tried so hard to gaslight us into thinking they did us a favor by deleting the first two campaigns and giving us a half assed new origin story attempt. Story being based on fomo is unethical for narrative preservation in media.
@@zerotodona1495 yeah i really have been enjoying this campaign but my god i started playing november 2023 and there is alot that confuses me
@@zerotodona1495 Worse still with Which queen they just forgot that this wasn't the first time someone has used the light against us
love the part where when he's calm, there are many voices. But when aggravated, they all merge into the one.
Ok, wild theory. Why introduce Micah 10 of all legendary guardians in the lore. I think Micah 10 brought her flock of ghost into the Traveler as a way to revive any of our fallen troops, ie Cabal, Eliksni, awoken, or even human. The hive were chosen by the light, what's to say those other races such as Cabal and Eliksni won't get chosen in the middle of battle. Devotion inspire bravery, bravery inspire sacrifice, sacrifice leads to death, thus a guardian is born. Light or not
Thanks for putting this up. We missed every scene due to yet another bungie fumble.
Finally this is what I was looking for. Thanks TH-cam for saving me 50 bucks.
The last 3 missions of this dlc are extremely good, maybe superior to every other campaign mission from D2. Also, the cutscenes? Fire. The sad part is that most of the people were not able to enjoy the start and middle missions/cutscenes because of these stupid errors.
The errors are unfortunate but I went back and did the whole thing solo and I believe it’s the best canpaign we’ve ever gotten. The mechanics even early on make the missions feel more complex (even if they aren’t) the story I felt had amazing pacing and there weren’t any things I was lost about even with me not knowing almost any lore past the campaigns. And the best part. The raid actually matters to the story for once.
Let’s also remember that error codes on the first day don’t define the quality of the entire expansion. The community likes to latch onto one problem big or small and extrapolate that to the entire expansion. Let’s not do that here.
@@EggyWeggyIII This is my opinion: when I have to make a "chart" of the dlcs we got these years, the highest point is of course the witch queen dlc. It had beautiful and various environments, good guns, good story, big revelations in mid campaign and at the end of it. To me, the witch queen still remains superior, because it was consistent, start to end. The final shape started strong, but the pacing was a bit off in the missions 2 to 4. I found the "go, find ikora, crow and zavala" objectives too basic, and the encounters were not my cup of tea, these three missions felt a little bit too similar. Howewer, the things started to go fire again from mission 6, till the end (the last two missions are better than the missions of the witch queen for me, i felt the tension, the build up to that moment). Tha's why I think the witch queen was better, simply because i found it more"consistent", always on a mid-high level. Of course we still have the last mission and the raid, and i think those two will elevate the dlc even more. Like you mentioned, I liked that every mission had some complex mechanic in it, and that were not simply "push forward". Simply, the witch queen dlc remains better cause missions of that dlc were extremely good in the middle of the campaign too!!
@@salvatoreruggiero6551 I see your point about the middle two missions, but I would argue those same types of missions existed with WQ. The story for WQ essentially boiled down to “we don’t know anything until the final 2 missions where we discovered everything instantly” we didn’t know her plans, we didn’t know how she got the light, we didn’t know much of anything and to me it felt like we were just grasping at straws. Granted we had that same concept with this campaign but to a much lesser degree. With this campaign we were always working toward something. Yes those filler missions existed, but they always told a story or explained something that we didn’t know that actually mattered.
@@EggyWeggyIII yes, yes. A big point in favor of the WQ was that we actually did not know almost anything aside from the fact that Savathun had the light, and we also had some big revelations we did not get in this expansion, and this of course helped a lot. To me, if i should rank the dlc and gives a 9/10 to WQ, then the final shape is still a 7.5/8 for me, which will sure go higher after the dlc and the big final mission, especially if this final mission will be on the same or higher level of the mission we god at the end of the campaign!
No, the sad part is that this was advertised as the end of the “Light and Dark Saga” but it clearly isn’t actually a conclusion. It’s a $40 prologue to a new season of D2. I am so glad I do not play this game.
I havent played for ages. Came here for cutscenes / story. I still think witchqueen story and cutscenes were the best, with the young Sathona scene being bungies best work
The taken King, Witch Queen, and forsaken are my favourite bungie stories bar their Halo games which are still my favourite campaigns in all gaming to date. I was really annoyed when they removed forsaken as I liked to replay it time to time and that gets removed for so much mediocre filler content that destiny is famed for now. Really hoping final shapes ending lives up to the hype. We deserve a good one.
Thank you, now I don't have to waste any more money on this game. Looking forward to the Raid and those cutscenes as well.
I hope Asher Mir reappears from his radiolarian holiday.
Miss him so much!
Keep dreaming, buddy
Hearing the witness yell gave me chills. It was awesome 😎
The witness: *destroys every civilization that is under the traveler*
Also the witness: “why does every civilization under the traveler end in ruin?”
"Zavala when explaining plan"
Guardian: a mimir
"Mara planning witness raid"
Guardian: *SAY LESS MY QUEEN WE WILL TURN THE WITNESS INTO EXOTIC CIGARETTE* (dies to 18 hour suffering of raid)
"Attention Contacting Destiny 2 Servers" in the middle of a cutscene, well done Bungie lmfao
Is zavala now voiced by the arbiter? Whoever he is is doing great
Man, if only the random lfg fireteam leader doesn't just skip every cutscenes. This would have been great.
Why the fuck do you play it via lfg 😂
@Luckydave123 I was playing on legend and I like to suffer.
Cutscene #11 had me on the edge of my seat the whole damn time!
If D2 would just tell the damn story in the campaign and not rely on the seasonal content to tell the story you pay 60$ for with the expac, the game would be better.
The intire story is in the campaign, the seasons ( now episodes) will expand on what happend AFTER the death of the witness.
Also, the tried that only for lightfall, bungie womt repeat that mistake
So does Savathun do anything? I was looking forward to her coming back again
After the campaign she shows some "love" just the way the Hive would do
I walked away about 3 or so years back. Kind of with they would end the story and begin anew.
Thanks @Esoterickk, very much for sharing that story with us !
I forgot keith is the new voice of Zavala. He's done an incredible job as always
I really like that they included Eliksni citizens in the cutscenes.
Crow: Mara!
Mara: I'm here, brother!
That was so gold
I stopped playing Destiny 2 ages ago, but I used to write fanfics of an alternate universe where Cayde and Crow met and I am so happy to see most of those headcanons come to life in front of me
I can’t believe I missed Zavala talking to his wife like that
"Because we got bigger problems. Bigger, weirder problems."
*_Destiny 2 Servers: Allow me to introduce myself_*
I missed cutscenes 7, and 8 because of the server issues. You're a lifesaver
You can replay the missions and watch them again, that's what I had to do for the cade cutscene
Hey is it just me or is there some deep voices that are hard to decipher in the background of the second cutscene right after the Traveler unfinalizes earth?
What a shitty way to make people not pay 50 bucks for expansion fully but to make them pay nearly double so that they can see the whole story once they have you by sunken cost fallacy since you are already invested.
just stop buying them, I know you think it's a good game but 95% of Destiny 2 is the story now, the gameplay hasn't done anything in 10 years besides one or two new sub classes
Ok so basically the witness is Lord Business and the traveler is his Kragle😮😆
what a comparison lol, strangely accurate tho
I never saw the first 5 cutscenes from errors. Thanks man.
I appreciate it. My fireteam is rowdy and I missed a lot of dialogue.
Imagine how Praedyth is feeling right about now
I must say, as someone who has never played Destiny, the lore was always interesting. My brother spoke, and still does, speak about it. But when I started to hear about The Witness, I became more interested. He explained what he knew and as time went on, it seemed like The Witness was an enemy not even The Traveler could defeat. Witch Queen, Lightfall, Final Shape, I was interested in hearing what my brother knew about The Witness. Soon, Lightfall came, and I watched some cutscenes with my bro. The way it spoke, moved, acted. Despite not even touching the game, this was an enemy that I knew would have an impact larger than any before. I was the one talking now, I was telling my brother that there was no way you all were going to be successful in stopping The Witness' Final Shape. Saying that even if you defeat him, his plans will be completed.
We watched The Final Shape's launch trailer. And all I said to him was
"There is no way you're winning."
In my mind, this is where you lost. The culmination of so many years. This was the time where everything would change. That the loss would bring about a new era to Destiny 2 and its guardians. Then, just a few days ago, The Final Shape happened.
My brother told me about it, I watched the best cutscenes with him and was even there when he completed it. It was beautiful and it seems the entire community has been satisfied. But, once again. As someone who never played, an outsider. I couldn't help but feel... disappointed. The Witness felt like a force that would have you all left with just a string of fight left after you defeated him. An entity that would win despite the best efforts of everyone. That The Final Shape would arrive. I know most people's first question would be "how would they continue the game?" and whatnot. But I think there are plenty of ways. I guess I just felt like, if everyone lost, a new beginning would be sparked. The rebuilding of everything. Learning to live with what The Witness changed about, everything. Giving a new purpose to play to everyone instead of just the same content. Perhaps I don't understand because I don't play. Maybe I'm just an outsider.
The Episodes will expand on the mark that the Witnesse's death has on the Sol system. If the Final Shape was allowed to happen, there would be no begining, everything would be stale. Even in a different timeline we would still have to destroy the Witness. Elsie, a caracter that has been throu countless timelines has told us that everything ends with the Final Shape, we stopped that fate.
SPOILERS AHEAD
Also, in the raid the Witness outrite states the the Winnower exists and that they (the Witness) are the first knife, impling that the unvailing lore book is at least partially true, meaning that the "game of flowers" is still ongoing.
@@kostiskampouris3415 I'm aware of large implications because of my brother and my own interest in The Witness, I was just expressing what my expectations were and how I saw The Final Shape rather than what Bungie ultimately decided to do.
I love seeing all of this but i just wish i could play the red war again i miss it truly
29:43 A single Person just told us how to kill the witness.
So from what im understanding, Riven sent Cayde inside the Traveller after he died?
No, it's actually explained in one of the missions. Crow was thinking about Cayde when he went through the wish portal at the end of last season. So essentially he accidentally wished Cayde back.
@Zoomii5 It makes me wonder, what's the monkey's paw this time? Will he now be forever denied that peace he originally had?
Or did Riven skip the paw this time, as her own way apologizing to Crow for her past actions toward him? "One last wish, Little Light, as a final apology to you."
I don't know much about Ahamkara so I'm not sure if they're even capable of a "free wish", so to speak.
she revived him years after he died
@@mcmewsenmonkey's paw in that cayde said he was pretty happy being dead and was rudely awoken and that he probably can't (or doesn't want to according to wild card) leave
@@mcmewsen He got forcefully separated from Sundance in his afterlife
33:45 between the narration from Queen Mara and the music score, that final scene was *chefs kiss*
Literally got error codes right before Cade and Zavala hugged. Completely just ruined the moment. Years of waiting for tht moment and it was robbed. Insane
thank you for this, i got curranted out of a couple 😔
I BEG someone to tell me that there is a full version of the melody that the fallen plays on the guitar!
I can't believe how seamless Keith David plays zavala compared to Lance Reddick. Hope I got the name right.
Seamless my foot. He’s terrible.
We’re about to send in EVERYTHING we have against the Witness!!🔥😎
eso you are such a goat thank you so much man
I love how genuinely angry the witness sounds after Iconoclasm. It’s probably the first time in billions of years that it’s been harmed in any conceivable way.
For my load in mission cutscene it was me and my friends, one had a pyramid ship, the other was a dragon, and mine was a GALAGA ship, watching all of those ships crash was really funny lol
I didn't even notice until I saw someone else play through the campaign but I'm pretty sure I missed cutscene 7 at launch
Without that cutscene it felt like Zavala was kinda quick to trust something all of us had seen for the first time during the strike lol
Thank you so much for this video
That Contacting Destiny Servers was basically "The witness is nearing the final shape"
Cutscene 3 is probably my favorite cutscene from this franchise ever, showing what the witness wants the final shape to be and how he wants to rewrite history. Giving the first people to discover the traveler prismatic powers and undoing all that was done after it
“The analytical part of me wants to examine it…..but I know it has no content”
34:53 THATS THE SAME SWORD WE SEE ON OUR OWN GRAVE IN CORRIDORS OF TIME
Lol what if this whole time our favorite weapon Saint 14 mentioned wasn't the Bastion, but actually Ergo Sum? Some people already have it and it seems to be a one of a kind weird sword and the lore it has is quite interesting.
What's the song for cutscene 12?
“You are unworthy of SALVATION!” That line goes hard
My fireteam leader skipped the final cut scenes because it was their alt character. So i didn't get to see them. Im so fucking pissed.
I walked away when they robbed us of payed content i.e. “sunset.”
A part of me wishes I never played at all.
I spent *years* playing destiny since the moment it first released.
So many *amazing* memories I’ll never forget, which is why it pains me beyond belief to see the corporate greed destroy what could have been a beautiful decade long adventure.
Farewell destiny, you won’t be missed…
32:16 that's what calus saw that made him bleed
That’s it?
In game the story is way longer, not to mention the story after the raid
I’m sorry but the witness looks like an animated Pixar character, can’t get invested in any of this
Thank you so much! I got errored out of the cutscenes right after Requiem!
That was literally crazy. I don’t even know what to say.
I missed the 2nd intro cutscene completely. Was waiting for the whole raid/final mission wondering where the final shape city/last earth scene was and Mara saying he's initialising it. Clears up so much confusion since launch.
So the witness plan was Infinite Tsukoniomi? space madara?!
Dude I’m come to love crows character journey and where he is now, the scene where he talk
about Amanda you can feel
the pain and the love. I hope she comes back as like a titan or something
So has Mara done anything against the witness? She seems so self preserving. Didn’t even want to go into the portal even though she’s got a throne world… she was happy for us to fling ourselves in
Firtly, she is the reason we got in the portal in the first place, due to her bond with crow. Secondly, she is activly pushing back against the witnesses advances. Her Throne World, isn't safe, Dul' Incaru is still there, if Mara goes to her Throne world he will suffer her final death. Also, she we neaded someone to cordinate with our other allies, when we got in the portal we lost almost every communication with the outside world. She also saved us at the end from being killed be the Witnesse's Taken.
Can I say we lost a legend who voiced zavala but we gained another! Very bittersweet
Honestly in my opinion the Final Shape is the best expansion we’ve gotten in the Destiny universe the character development, the environment, storytelling, the cutscenes and the music everything is just incredible and I reckon it was a perfect conclusion to the light and darkness saga thank you Bungie🫡🤩😎
got sent to orbit *just* before zavala first saw cayde. thanks bud!
Just wanted to comment on how amazing this expansion is. I want to do my part in letting others know that besides the server issues, this is Bungie's GREATEST expansion ever put out. The negative reviews on steam are going to change in the coming days when people actually get to play. So for anyone out there on the fence about getting this, if you have the money go ahead and buy it. You will NOT be disappointed.
Thank you, Eso. For showing TH-cam the greatness of this story.