1st your WRONG by blaming Activision for all of bungies Faults. Note: I hate Activision same as majority of u and loved the idea of activation being bought by Microsoft because of the freedom the devs will have. However this issue is like Anthem and EA (do your research then blame) 1. Activision gave free reign to Bungie for Destiny (yeah yeah i know your probably booing me right now, however that doesnt make it less true.) The idea behind this was they wanted a title as big as halo at that time. They even gave Bungie Extensions of 1 year to both D1 and D2 and extra funding. 2. They provided Bungie help with High Noon, Radical Entertainment and Vicarious Visions the people who created The Menagerie and helped in a number of other parts too 3. Do you like Eververse? Well it was not Activision who forced them, want to guess who was the one who came up with the idea and pitched it to Activion? There are more things too but i researched this way back when d2 launched so... go ahead if u like to know the truth. d2 was a failure at launch because of chaos within the studio but mainly Luke smith. 1. Made your supers Simplified, he felt sorry for players (Cough, cought Mark Noseworthy, literally was in a stream he stated that) who did not know to create good synergy with supers. 2. Love double primary, he wanted d2 to be competitive like overwatch or cod 3. Every year Sunsetting, his idea. (I left the game due to this btw, i came back after sunsetting got sunsetted) 4. No strike specific loot because it was all focused on Eververse Now dont blame him to much Forsaken was amazing and he did good in d1. But Forsaken was Forsaken because Activsion bought resources from other studios, it was literally a team effort as they tried to reboot the whole thing. Hence them saying there will never be a dlc which is bigger than Forsaken. In Shadowkeep Vicarious Vision literally created The Menagerie all by themselves Bungie only did the story, retextured the moon and created the raid (the raid was awesome.) Though we all like to hate Activision me included, sometimes they do try to do the right thing so they can and will monetize it heavily later. i.e Cod. This was the first time i actually felt bad for Activision. Btw love your Vids Evan, if you ever do read this. Just wanted to point this out because the hate to activision in this case was not really warranted
being 2 months back from a D1 Y1 player to now I have my gripes with the game but as a long time gamer it itches so many things right thats keeping as a returning player and super excited for TWQ
It was even better than described here if you experienced it on release and if you played throughout the slog that was y1. To this day nothing Destiny has done has come close to the feeling Forsaken gave me and my other hardcore players over those first 2 weeks. Only D1 launch and Taken King were anywhere close to it, with D1 launch falling off fairly quickly.
@@zackphy When I started, I enjoyed going through the red war and other small expansions. I do understand though, that if you only had the red war at the start of destiny 2 it could be boring quickly.
The two feel like halves of a similar coin. Byf is also the detailed and dramatic lore reader where when Evan does lore stuff, it is more abdridged and comedic
This is the expansion that I want to experience for the first time again, the greatest experience I have even done in all of destiny, and it’s by a landslide, even though I don’t play destiny anymore, I sometimes hop on just to play the last wish content
💯 man. I wish I could experience the hype along with playing it all for the first time. And entering the dreaming city for the first time.. my god. Still in love with it. I hope they could recreate an experience like this again one day.
The reason Luke Smith went out there on the record to say that there would be no other DLC the size of Forsaken was the brutality of the extra work. They were pulling all-nighters and working hardcore to make it happen, it was extreme and he said that so we know what the price is of having the pinnacle Destiny experience. I would love something like that again, and I hope Witch Queen blows our minds, but look at Beyond Light instead and consider the sheer size comparison between them. There's an abyss that we probably won't ever cross again, if not for other studio(s) providing a lot of help to Bungie. I don't want another Forsaken if it's at the cost of the developers' health.
As a post witch queen release note: This DLC has been amazing and so was forsaken. I view them both as pinnacle destiny experience and they hard delivered this time around. No it didn’t save destiny but it sure has been such a great time. Of course they won’t have as many secrets as the dreaming city but that’s to be expected with how hard they had to work to make that happen.
I just started playing at the begining of season 15 and ive been non stop playing through everything i could get my hands on including every expansion, my friend whos a day 1 d2 player said i came at the best time possible and didnt miss much with the huge sunset that happened with beyond light, ive been really enjoying watching all the old content and learning about the entire history of destiny though
It's a wonderful franchise, and better now than ever imo. I took a small break, but played most of both games. You indeed came at a great time. Especially with Witch Queen coming soon. Welcome 🙂
honestly, this game is a drug, it seems like its tough for new players to get into it, but read up on the lore, and griz out getting smashed in pvp and youll never get bored
bro he's capping, you've missed some of the best raids, both campaigns and the entire first 2 years of the game. Atleast u didnt pay for it ig so W. It's now more expensive to get in to this game than it ever was and there's less to play than there ever was
I know people debate whether Taken King or Forsaken was better. But, the end of the day, both of these expansions were amazing for the franchise. But in all seriousness Forsaken was a far better expansion, I mean it created the Drifter eating things meme. Checkmate
The Taken King campaign sucked me in more than anything else in the game. The coming war mission right out of the gate had me hooked where before I played the game casually. The closest thing to that since has been the Presage mission.
"Goodbye, you were the best DLC I ever played" It would have cost you literally nothing to not sucker punch us all like that. But seriously, great video as always. Forsaken was a wild time, and we're all gonna miss it.
I'm gonna miss Forsaken as it was the main I wanted to back to Destiny. Ever since I stopped playing Destiny 1 after 2017, when Destiny 2 launched I didn't even want to touch the game due to how unhappy I was with the approach Destiny 2 was going for with not having random rolls, with special weapons like shotguns and fusions going into your heavy slot and etc. When forsaken was released and I was shown by a friend on how the game was going to change for the better I really wanted to come back. I was still a bit hesitant, but I watched some videos on Destiny to see what content the game provided and to see what people think of the dlc. Luckily, around 2020 when Destiny 2 went ftp I instantly downloaded it because due to how Forsaken had changed the game by fixing the many problem of Destiny 2 vanilla I felt excitement on being able to play a game I loved without feeling like my time was being wasted, and just like that my love for the franchise started growing again and I bought the forsaken dlc in a heartbeat and I don't regret it :)
@@cashel5232 1 million pre-order for Witch Queen i don't think many people move one in fact a lot of OGs players are coming back just to experience the same feeling wth Taken King and Forsaken expansions Savathung is long anticipated villain..
Im hoping its not like shadowkeep. i honestly havnt finished that one yet lol. beyond light was good, but it could have been better if it didnt force you to use status on every fucking bossfight. it made it way too easy and boring once you were able to just continuously throw your ult like 18 times
Honestly, this video made me tear up. Forsaken was amazing. The all night grinds with friends until 4 in the morning. The endless wait to get the title trying to farm the ship week after week. The rage for wiping a boss at 5%. All the secrets we found in the city while exploring the map together. The fun of getting your best in slot exotic. The first time we got a title. The pvp grind. And all the people i met along the way that i still talk with from time to time. Man.... i wish i could go back :(
29:45 This fight was the best. I was -49 light below him at the time ( one light level less and he would literally be immune to damage), so he could one shot me, but I had an ace up my sleeve. Whisper of the Worm had yet to be nerfed at the time, so facing him in a proper sniper duel with both of us trying to score that critical headshot that would bring the other to their grave was an ten minute adrenaline fueled game of cat and mouse as the two of us had dipped, dived and dodged around the stalactites in the final chamber
I think we all will. It layed the foundation of the better future for the game. Yes, there are still stuff and issues that needs fine tuning, but I still believe that it's still better than what we probably would've gotten if Activision was still in charge.
This was amazing to watch, literally like walking down memory lane. Foresaken was one of the most hype dlc for me and I remember watching all the day 1 raiding instead of doing my schoolwork 😅😂
One of my favourite memories from this time was when i loaded into a gambit match and after the round 1 boss kill, the boss dropped an exotic and it ended up being worldline zero xD, yes, it was a possibility back then due to a bug in the exotic pool.
i remember when we first discovered the dreaming city, i literally never left it. i was so amazed. fun fact: i was also on acid the first time i entered the dreaming city and then i entered the well. i was so lost in curiosity. luckily some kind guardian helped guide me hahah
As a player with 10k hours between D1 and s2. Forsaken saved me. I played for another 16 months. Before my injury preventing me from playing anymore. What a joy it was it was like what d2 was supposed to be from day 1.
Evan, man...I got to say, you make some of the best destiny content to watch. I've gone to many other channels and search through the Destiny community and your work and stories are a real unique treat that I love to watch. Keep up the great work!!! And I'll see you fighting Savathun when Witch Queen starts 😎👊
Being a day 1 Destiny 1 player i have to say that for me this was the most hard hitting moment in destiny I had experienced. As I lost my mom that same week we all lost cayde. It was a wild ride playing Forsaken, but got me through a genuine tough time and looking back now that witch queen is out I can definitely say I enjoyed the hell out of Forsaken. I loved the way Bungie approached the whole "Wanted Baron" theme. And would love to see more story arks such as this moving forward into the future. Flawless campaign. Amazing loot, epic mechanics! Outright nasty cutscenes! What was your favorite baron? Definitely the Mad Bomber for me.
What a rich culture we enjoy with destiny that can support a channel like this. The way Byf tells destiny's story, Evan tells our story. Amazing content man keep it up.
Forsaken was so good, weeks, and months after release, I was still finding new things that took my breath away. I call Forsaken, the gift from that just kept on giving. Phenomenal, here's to hoping Witch Queen meets or surpasses the bar!
Hey Evan I know you will probably never see this but I just wanted to thank you for all that you do for the destiny community and I’ve been watching you since your madden days but I was happy that you found something that you love doing and us in the destiny community own you a big thanks for all the great content you had posted over the years and it wouldn’t be the same without you man thank for being a great dude.
I started D2 just a few weeks before Forsaken lauched, so back at this time period I wasn't really getting the scale of Forsaken. Nowadays a DLC at this price, with this quantity and quality of the content is unimaginable. This video brought a ton of memories back and definitely makes me even more looking forward to witchqueen. For sure it will lack in quantity but I hope that the quality is on par, maybe even better than Forsaken
Thanks for making this extremely long video I really did enjoy it and I can't believe I played all of it but just revistijg everything that you went through really just blows my mind as to how much I've actually invested into this game! It's quite astonishing to say the least! I'm thinking that Witch Queen will be a hybrid a mix between The Taken King and Forsaken! Which if it is omfg that shit would be legendary!
i quit d2 when black armory dropped but i still watch all of these videos because d1 held such a special place in my heart like I did everything and it engaged me more than any other game to this day but i cant bring myself to get back into d2, no matter what I love listening to these videos its such a nice blast of nostalgia
i played the most destiny ever during forsaken and looking back i love what it was during the time, it was such a great story, simple gameplay and it was fun. i don’t think i’ll ever quite play destiny the same amount of time as i did back then and i feel that stands to the power the dlc held
Forsaken: Was I truly a successor to you, old brothers? ROI: no you not... But... Forsaken: but what am I? TTK: 'You were the phoneix that reborn our kind for rest of our time in the sun''
I will *never* forget the feeling of awe and wonder I got the first time I visited the Dreaming City. No other expansion has ever captured that feeling, but I'm hopeful The Witch Queen changes that.
I remember playing Forsaken and having no idea what was going on. I was totally unaware of the how deep the Destiny lore went. I managed to get to the Dreaming City and finish all the given quests, but I had no idea what the Taken or Toland or the Awoken had to do with anything in the story. Now that I’ve gone through everything in the game, lore included, I wish I could go back and play it for the first time. I hope Witch Queen gives me that opportunity.
I played on ps4 when they released The Forsaken. One of the best gaming experience I've had in my life ! Absolutely loved every bit of the expansion. Dreaming city aesthetics Absolutely amazing. The only thing I unfortunately missed was the raid, as I get super anxious when it comes to ingame interactions with other players. I downloaded d2 a few days ago on my PC , but i feel so lost and dont really know what to do. Thank you for your videos, I've been watching your channel a lot lately. Keep it up 🙌
I started playing Destiny as a whole during Forsaken and this video just reminds me so much of all the fun I had playing back then, I was so captured by all the mysteries that Forsaken had and became basically obsessed with the game. This video is such a fun throwback for old players and helps newer players understand just why we all go on about Forsaken so much and hail it as a "golden age" for Destiny 2. It's been a while since I've been able to sit down and watch an hour long video with no breaks and just being completely focused on the video for the whole length, I really look forward to you doing videos on the Annual Pass seasons as well. Keep up the great work Evan!
Thank you for giving forsaken the love it deserves before it goes away (and keeping me entertained at work). Also I like gambit so hopefully more ppl enjoy it with the new rework
I remember the gambit meatball! I was so excited when I finally got it to spawn and killed it with a group of randos at 2 in the morning. I shouted with joy and woke up my roommates who for whatever reason weren’t as excited as I was
I dearly hope that the original Year 2 Forsaken experience is recreated with Witch Queen in Year 5. I started playing Season of the Worthy, so I missed a lot. I want that same experience. Hopefully the Witch Queen release delay was in part because of this, or at lease caused this.
I would love something talking about the seasons, either 3 videos (mainly to touch on the big things that happened in them) or as one long video. The seasons of forsaken were the best time for me, i still have days where I remember the menagerie.. and I’m fact the weapon crafting reminded me of how exact we could get our gear back then
Best way to go into talking about seasons would be how hit and miss they were and are, Black Armory decent season, Joker's Wild terrible, Opulence one of the best to date. Some scratched our itch others were forgettable or painful.
and since then they all feel the same with hit or miss loot. the story maybe improving but the gameplay? the grind? to me its very lacking and feels like a time sink for what? loot for what?
Adding all of this up makes more sense. Savathun worked with rhulk by giving uldren the power to make scorn so they could be controlled by the darkness so Savathun not only made a army of hive for the witness but a scorn one too. Crazy shit
I recently replayed through the forsaken campaign one last time after having not played it since 2019. I'm honestly ok with it going away. If it means we're getting a far better campaign in witch queen (which it looks like we will be), I'm ok with a destination I never really cared about and a super boring campaign (outside of the first mission) leaving the game. The best part of forsaken, the dreaming city, is staying in the game, so losing the part of forsaken that people havent played in years is okay.
Honestly my dad is what got me back into destiny every time we played together I look behind me and he was always on destiny he a true player no matter the ups or downs of the game he would always be playing even when he’s done all the content he would still hop on to help others
Witch queen has raised the bar again for destiny 2. Great story, lore, exotic quests, and activities. Apart from the raid day mess up, it's still one I'll look back to until they release light fall and the final shape.
I agree.... About exotics. I miss that. It also gave me more reason to keep playing in down times. Sure a lot of players bitch about the grind. I miss secrets like the one for Outbreak in D1. Would love to have them come back. Not necessarily the 5 week timegate on catalysts that D2 brought, but the very difficult mechanics to get it in the first place. The only drawback is the "must have ____" LFGs. Which were a pain in the ass if you were not in a clan.
I wish I could relive the first moments when forsaken first dropped. September 4th was a great day. Forsaken definitely has a soft spot in my heart always especially with saving destiny 2
Forsaken is when I jumped into Destiny, it was definitely a success for me at least! The campaign is what drew me in, and is what kept me around, since I ended up loving the game’s universe and atmosphere.
And 5 years later, only the dreaming city would remain alongside a small optional introduction to it if you have the forsaken dlc, cause I’m pretty sure the dlc is still needed for the dreaming city’s non open-world content, as well as the single prison of elders strike, which practically does still take place on the tangled shore but is so remote from it that you’d never enter the main shore.
I can’t tell you how absolutely pissed I was that the mara illusion wasn’t savathun. All the way up to the “you poor fool” line I was like “finally savathun!” Then it was a meatball Sadness
Forsaken has such a special place in my heart. 2018 was a pretty rough year for me but after hearing all the promising news about Forsaken it was one of the few things I was excited for. It came out and man so many great moments were had and it made the rest of the year so much better. Tons of doing raids and activities with friends, people I used to talk to from Destiny 1 coming back and reconnecting, and of course the excitement that was the raid day. What a great time. It's sad to see it go, but I'm glad all the memories tied to the dreaming city are still gonna be there.
I started with D2, I'm a casual through and through, I've done some raids here and there but most of my time is doing weeklies casually. I remember back when forsaken came out the weekly rotation on the dreaming city and doing those ascendant challenges and all these secrets to do really for the first time had me become a destiny fan. Like the corrupted eggs, the Shankar's skulls in the weekly challenges, the dungeon etc. And since I was a casual dungeon content etc was hard as hell which made thing more challenging and fun. Man, forsaken was such a good time. And year 2 was fun as hell too with secret puzzles and missions with the seasons.
Another Banger Video Evan! this man simply does not miss. I have played Destiny 2 since launch and you always capture the community sentiment and how it felt at those times perfectly in these videos. Keep up the good work my man :)
Best sponsor segment ever! I enjoyed looking back at the Destiny Expansion that got me into Destiny 2. I remember being under level for that special corrupted strike and staying up all night to finally complete it. And getting stuck on a part of the Shattered Throne where you had to bring an orb back to a room. Well one of our party members dropped it, and we had to find a way back, because we didn't want to start the dungeon all over again. So I had to jump up to the portal wall by using my blade barrage super, go through the thrall hall by myself, and then grab that orb.
I’ll miss forsaken it’s my favorite dlc it had a good story good character’s good planets good guns good armor good exotics it meant a lot to us cayde was our favorite character and when we heard about cause died my brother cried for 3 minutes it came out on his birthday he made posters of uldren sov and shot at the posters
I started in season of the chosen, and honestly, this is hands down my favourite game now. I got pretty much adopted by my current clan, who took me into Last Wish as my first raid when I was still very new and 1250-ish light level. Forsaken stuff has always looked so cool, and I am very excited for Witch Queen to just further expand this awesome game.
I think I may put some time aside to replay the forsaken campaign again this week. There was so much cool stuff, and I did not even know that the Dreaming City was a thing when playing it, so finding an entire new destination as a reward for finishing a good campaign? How could you not love this dlc...
I was a little late on jumping into D2. Forsaken drew me into it because Cayde was my boy in D1 as a Hunter main. It’s sad to see it all go away, but I hope in the future they’ll be able to bring back all of the campaigns
Great Work on this Brother. Nothing like going down Memory Lane and realizing how much We have gone through in just the last couple Years. Looking forward to your Next content drop as I just realized I have 1 more "Army of One" to become Dredgen. LOL.
I know I'm a few months late but I have to say this. I was introduced to Destiny in late October 2021. A friend convinced me to play after giving up Overwatch. Forsaken was the first campaign we player through and it's the reason I'm still playing today. I absolutely loved every second of it.
Back in forsaken I spent months grinding for the malfeasance and my brother who didnt even have the Dlc got the quest on his first gambit match ever. he had one of the sweatiest random blueberrys i have ever seen. Sometimes i hate how lucky he is.
Watched through it in one go after an exhausting day and I must say: Great video man, very entertaining and informative ("new" light from shadowkeep here)
ngl, i was in middle school when Destiny 2 came out, played from day 1, and couldn’t get enough of it. I arrived at Destiny 1 really late, played it on Xbox 360, and still fell in love with it despite not being able to play rise of iron. I remember even playing Destiny 2’s beta. Maybe it was because I was younger, but I sank so much time into destiny 2 and never even realized so many people were upset with it before Forsaken. I loved the Red War, I loved Curse of Osiris, and I loved Warmind. I wasn’t even super involved in the endgame because i didn’t think myself competent enough for super competitive stuff like trials and i didn’t have anyone to raid with. I would just jump around and do public events and strike playlists to pass the time. Then Forsaken came out and I was like "oh wow, this is even better." I may have been a middle schooler who was just enjoying positive feedback loops before then, but Forsaken changed my perception of video game storytelling for the better.
Byf knows how to tell a story about the lore Evan knows how to help you experience the game I love both of them and these amazing videos is the reason why I bought destiny 1 the collection to play it for myself
The Rifleman was my favorite Baron fight because you could only get a few shots off on him before he teleported, so you had to make the shots count. You could use a Rocket, but heavy ammo is limited. You could use a shotgun, but the clones are all around the room. This led to a Sniper Rifle being the best choice to fight him, turning the encounter into a Sniper vs. Sniper battle. Memorable!
Forsaken was my 1st Big expansion I ever played as someone completely new to the destiny universe, I will definitely miss the DLC and the memories with it.
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How were you able to play the Forsaken campaign again?
yes do a video about the year 2 season
1st your WRONG by blaming Activision for all of bungies Faults.
Note: I hate Activision same as majority of u and loved the idea of activation being bought by Microsoft because of the freedom the devs will have. However this issue is like Anthem and EA (do your research then blame)
1. Activision gave free reign to Bungie for Destiny (yeah yeah i know your probably booing me right now, however that doesnt make it less true.) The idea behind this was they wanted a title as big as halo at that time. They even gave Bungie Extensions of 1 year to both D1 and D2 and extra funding.
2. They provided Bungie help with High Noon, Radical Entertainment and Vicarious Visions the people who created The Menagerie and helped in a number of other parts too
3. Do you like Eververse? Well it was not Activision who forced them, want to guess who was the one who came up with the idea and pitched it to Activion?
There are more things too but i researched this way back when d2 launched so... go ahead if u like to know the truth.
d2 was a failure at launch because of chaos within the studio but mainly Luke smith.
1. Made your supers Simplified, he felt sorry for players (Cough, cought Mark Noseworthy, literally was in a stream he stated that) who did not know to create good synergy with supers.
2. Love double primary, he wanted d2 to be competitive like overwatch or cod
3. Every year Sunsetting, his idea. (I left the game due to this btw, i came back after sunsetting got sunsetted)
4. No strike specific loot because it was all focused on Eververse
Now dont blame him to much Forsaken was amazing and he did good in d1.
But Forsaken was Forsaken because Activsion bought resources from other studios, it was literally a team effort as they tried to reboot the whole thing. Hence them saying there will never be a dlc which is bigger than Forsaken. In Shadowkeep Vicarious Vision literally created The Menagerie all by themselves Bungie only did the story, retextured the moon and created the raid (the raid was awesome.) Though we all like to hate Activision me included, sometimes they do try to do the right thing so they can and will monetize it heavily later. i.e Cod. This was the first time i actually felt bad for Activision.
Btw love your Vids Evan, if you ever do read this. Just wanted to point this out because the hate to activision in this case was not really warranted
This man got the KEEPS sponsorship!!!! We love our egg!
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As someone who is a more recent player, being able to look back at old content through these videos is amazing
being 2 months back from a D1 Y1 player to now I have my gripes with the game but as a long time gamer it itches so many things right thats keeping as a returning player and super excited for TWQ
I joined right at forsaken. I was able to very barely get ace fast enough to get the physical version.
Welcome to destiny congratulations on your new hateful addiction
It was even better than described here if you experienced it on release and if you played throughout the slog that was y1. To this day nothing Destiny has done has come close to the feeling Forsaken gave me and my other hardcore players over those first 2 weeks. Only D1 launch and Taken King were anywhere close to it, with D1 launch falling off fairly quickly.
@@zackphy When I started, I enjoyed going through the red war and other small expansions. I do understand though, that if you only had the red war at the start of destiny 2 it could be boring quickly.
Byf: does lore about the destiny universe
Evan: does lore about destiny as a game
Edit: really love what you do man. Awesome vids
The two feel like halves of a similar coin. Byf is also the detailed and dramatic lore reader where when Evan does lore stuff, it is more abdridged and comedic
Both are wonderful pillars to the community!
Byf:lore
Aztec:pvp
Datto:pve
J3z:memes
Evan:community
Balanced. As all things should be
This is the expansion that I want to experience for the first time again, the greatest experience I have even done in all of destiny, and it’s by a landslide, even though I don’t play destiny anymore, I sometimes hop on just to play the last wish content
I'm done suffering and seeing someone who I like die man
@@Jgetreched346 never get into anime
💯 man. I wish I could experience the hype along with playing it all for the first time. And entering the dreaming city for the first time.. my god. Still in love with it. I hope they could recreate an experience like this again one day.
@@SkyRecruit18bro I binged HxH(my first ever anime) and I was heartbroken when I finally finished that.
The reason Luke Smith went out there on the record to say that there would be no other DLC the size of Forsaken was the brutality of the extra work. They were pulling all-nighters and working hardcore to make it happen, it was extreme and he said that so we know what the price is of having the pinnacle Destiny experience. I would love something like that again, and I hope Witch Queen blows our minds, but look at Beyond Light instead and consider the sheer size comparison between them. There's an abyss that we probably won't ever cross again, if not for other studio(s) providing a lot of help to Bungie. I don't want another Forsaken if it's at the cost of the developers' health.
I’m totally ok with delays if it means getting a better game.
With that new big boy sony money they might be able to push out bigger dlc I'm the future but for now we get what we get
They should aim for this level of DLC again just not in a time constraint
As a post witch queen release note: This DLC has been amazing and so was forsaken. I view them both as pinnacle destiny experience and they hard delivered this time around. No it didn’t save destiny but it sure has been such a great time. Of course they won’t have as many secrets as the dreaming city but that’s to be expected with how hard they had to work to make that happen.
@B. that's pretty much exactly what they did lol
I just started playing at the begining of season 15 and ive been non stop playing through everything i could get my hands on including every expansion, my friend whos a day 1 d2 player said i came at the best time possible and didnt miss much with the huge sunset that happened with beyond light, ive been really enjoying watching all the old content and learning about the entire history of destiny though
It's a wonderful franchise, and better now than ever imo. I took a small break, but played most of both games. You indeed came at a great time. Especially with Witch Queen coming soon. Welcome 🙂
honestly, this game is a drug, it seems like its tough for new players to get into it, but read up on the lore, and griz out getting smashed in pvp and youll never get bored
Same iv been grinding for witch queen
bro he's capping, you've missed some of the best raids, both campaigns and the entire first 2 years of the game. Atleast u didnt pay for it ig so W. It's now more expensive to get in to this game than it ever was and there's less to play than there ever was
Your friends right! Other than D1 having great missions too; but I’m a Beta player so I’m a bit biased lol
I know people debate whether Taken King or Forsaken was better. But, the end of the day, both of these expansions were amazing for the franchise.
But in all seriousness Forsaken was a far better expansion, I mean it created the Drifter eating things meme. Checkmate
But sword
I didn't like the forsaken campaign.
I prefer the beyond light campaign.
The Taken King campaign sucked me in more than anything else in the game.
The coming war mission right out of the gate had me hooked where before I played the game casually.
The closest thing to that since has been the Presage mission.
@@dascreeb5205 beyond light stasis is fun ig
@@jagason7494 I do find the two button spam to get boring quick.
"Goodbye, you were the best DLC I ever played"
It would have cost you literally nothing to not sucker punch us all like that.
But seriously, great video as always. Forsaken was a wild time, and we're all gonna miss it.
I'll miss it but I'll always prefer The taken king.
I’m not.
@@tbc1880 yes, you should prefer my dlc
@@oryxkingofchads2030 I hate crota 🤭
@@cultok >:(
This dude hit me with the KH music, now I'm back in Nostalgia land, all while watching a video about a nostalgic time.
Nostalgia Squared.
World that never was music hits different
I hear Xemnas monologing
@@onearmedwolf7293 I need more hearts
I'm gonna miss Forsaken as it was the main I wanted to back to Destiny. Ever since I stopped playing Destiny 1 after 2017, when Destiny 2 launched I didn't even want to touch the game due to how unhappy I was with the approach Destiny 2 was going for with not having random rolls, with special weapons like shotguns and fusions going into your heavy slot and etc. When forsaken was released and I was shown by a friend on how the game was going to change for the better I really wanted to come back. I was still a bit hesitant, but I watched some videos on Destiny to see what content the game provided and to see what people think of the dlc. Luckily, around 2020 when Destiny 2 went ftp I instantly downloaded it because due to how Forsaken had changed the game by fixing the many problem of Destiny 2 vanilla I felt excitement on being able to play a game I loved without feeling like my time was being wasted, and just like that my love for the franchise started growing again and I bought the forsaken dlc in a heartbeat and I don't regret it :)
I really hope that with Witch Queen being Mystery Themed it can emeulate and maybe exceed The Dreaming City
Nah..... This franchise's best days are behind them...
@@chriscunningham8703 maybe the game just ain't for you homie, move on.
@@MrInsiipid I think lots of OG destiny players "moved on" after the ridiculous sunsetting
@@cashel5232 1 million pre-order for Witch Queen i don't think many people move one in fact a lot of OGs players are coming back just to experience the same feeling wth Taken King and Forsaken expansions Savathung is long anticipated villain..
Im hoping its not like shadowkeep. i honestly havnt finished that one yet lol. beyond light was good, but it could have been better if it didnt force you to use status on every fucking bossfight. it made it way too easy and boring once you were able to just continuously throw your ult like 18 times
Honestly, this video made me tear up. Forsaken was amazing. The all night grinds with friends until 4 in the morning. The endless wait to get the title trying to farm the ship week after week. The rage for wiping a boss at 5%. All the secrets we found in the city while exploring the map together. The fun of getting your best in slot exotic. The first time we got a title. The pvp grind. And all the people i met along the way that i still talk with from time to time. Man.... i wish i could go back :(
Man, I miss the Tangled Shore weapons so much, especially the Misfit. They all look super clean with proper shaders
GO FIGURE THOUGHHH
RIGHT SIDE OF WRONG THOUGHHH
I still got my old Ether Doctor, Wrong side of Right, Right side of Wrong, Ringing Nail, and my baby, Blast Furnace on my Vault.
RIP Trackless Waste. Cleanest smg in the game, all time favorite crucible weapon. Gone but never forgotten 🙏
1 hour vid?
This must have been hell to edit. Kudos to everyone that worked on this video.
Gotta watch it later though. It’s 2am here lol
29:45 This fight was the best. I was -49 light below him at the time ( one light level less and he would literally be immune to damage), so he could one shot me, but I had an ace up my sleeve. Whisper of the Worm had yet to be nerfed at the time, so facing him in a proper sniper duel with both of us trying to score that critical headshot that would bring the other to their grave was an ten minute adrenaline fueled game of cat and mouse as the two of us had dipped, dived and dodged around the stalactites in the final chamber
Man, I’ll miss Forsaken.
I think we all will. It layed the foundation of the better future for the game. Yes, there are still stuff and issues that needs fine tuning, but I still believe that it's still better than what we probably would've gotten if Activision was still in charge.
Activision don't miss it tho..
This was amazing to watch, literally like walking down memory lane. Foresaken was one of the most hype dlc for me and I remember watching all the day 1 raiding instead of doing my schoolwork 😅😂
Just a quick reminder that forsaken was the first time our guardian spoke something after destiny1 vanilla, HUGE HUGE improvement.
One of my favourite memories from this time was when i loaded into a gambit match and after the round 1 boss kill, the boss dropped an exotic and it ended up being worldline zero xD, yes, it was a possibility back then due to a bug in the exotic pool.
Evan: this video is gonna be long so watch in chunks
Me at work: jokes on you I need something to watching while I work
Lol, same
i remember when we first discovered the dreaming city, i literally never left it. i was so amazed. fun fact: i was also on acid the first time i entered the dreaming city and then i entered the well. i was so lost in curiosity. luckily some kind guardian helped guide me hahah
Bro thought he was dreaming up a nonexistent city.
@@lordpumpkinhead265 dude it was insane, I was truly mesmerized
As a player with 10k hours between D1 and s2. Forsaken saved me. I played for another 16 months. Before my injury preventing me from playing anymore. What a joy it was it was like what d2 was supposed to be from day 1.
I love these videos. D1 veteran, but I didn't start playing D2 until the end of season 12 so it's nice to catch up on the history
Evan, man...I got to say, you make some of the best destiny content to watch. I've gone to many other channels and search through the Destiny community and your work and stories are a real unique treat that I love to watch. Keep up the great work!!! And I'll see you fighting Savathun when Witch Queen starts 😎👊
Being a day 1 Destiny 1 player i have to say that for me this was the most hard hitting moment in destiny I had experienced. As I lost my mom that same week we all lost cayde. It was a wild ride playing Forsaken, but got me through a genuine tough time and looking back now that witch queen is out I can definitely say I enjoyed the hell out of Forsaken. I loved the way Bungie approached the whole "Wanted Baron" theme. And would love to see more story arks such as this moving forward into the future. Flawless campaign. Amazing loot, epic mechanics! Outright nasty cutscenes! What was your favorite baron? Definitely the Mad Bomber for me.
What a rich culture we enjoy with destiny that can support a channel like this. The way Byf tells destiny's story, Evan tells our story. Amazing content man keep it up.
Forsaken was so good, weeks, and months after release, I was still finding new things that took my breath away. I call Forsaken, the gift from that just kept on giving. Phenomenal, here's to hoping Witch Queen meets or surpasses the bar!
Hey Evan I know you will probably never see this but I just wanted to thank you for all that you do for the destiny community and I’ve been watching you since your madden days but I was happy that you found something that you love doing and us in the destiny community own you a big thanks for all the great content you had posted over the years and it wouldn’t be the same without you man thank for being a great dude.
❤️
I started D2 just a few weeks before Forsaken lauched, so back at this time period I wasn't really getting the scale of Forsaken. Nowadays a DLC at this price, with this quantity and quality of the content is unimaginable.
This video brought a ton of memories back and definitely makes me even more looking forward to witchqueen. For sure it will lack in quantity but I hope that the quality is on par, maybe even better than Forsaken
Thanks for making this extremely long video I really did enjoy it and I can't believe I played all of it but just revistijg everything that you went through really just blows my mind as to how much I've actually invested into this game! It's quite astonishing to say the least!
I'm thinking that Witch Queen will be a hybrid a mix between The Taken King and Forsaken! Which if it is omfg that shit would be legendary!
i quit d2 when black armory dropped but i still watch all of these videos because d1 held such a special place in my heart like I did everything and it engaged me more than any other game to this day but i cant bring myself to get back into d2, no matter what I love listening to these videos its such a nice blast of nostalgia
Just watched this all from start to finish, I forgot about half of this stuff, what an expansion! Witch Queen has a lot to live up to!
i played the most destiny ever during forsaken and looking back i love what it was during the time, it was such a great story, simple gameplay and it was fun. i don’t think i’ll ever quite play destiny the same amount of time as i did back then and i feel that stands to the power the dlc held
Forsaken: Was I truly a successor to you, old brothers?
ROI: no you not... But...
Forsaken: but what am I?
TTK: 'You were the phoneix that reborn our kind for rest of our time in the sun''
Man you’re a nerd but you’re kool
I will *never* forget the feeling of awe and wonder I got the first time I visited the Dreaming City. No other expansion has ever captured that feeling, but I'm hopeful The Witch Queen changes that.
I remember playing Forsaken and having no idea what was going on. I was totally unaware of the how deep the Destiny lore went. I managed to get to the Dreaming City and finish all the given quests, but I had no idea what the Taken or Toland or the Awoken had to do with anything in the story. Now that I’ve gone through everything in the game, lore included, I wish I could go back and play it for the first time. I hope Witch Queen gives me that opportunity.
I played on ps4 when they released The Forsaken. One of the best gaming experience I've had in my life ! Absolutely loved every bit of the expansion. Dreaming city aesthetics Absolutely amazing. The only thing I unfortunately missed was the raid, as I get super anxious when it comes to ingame interactions with other players. I downloaded d2 a few days ago on my PC , but i feel so lost and dont really know what to do. Thank you for your videos, I've been watching your channel a lot lately. Keep it up 🙌
Since I'm a new player, now I understand why everyone loved this expansion so much, thank you!
Yes, no ... not everyone ;-;
I started playing Destiny as a whole during Forsaken and this video just reminds me so much of all the fun I had playing back then, I was so captured by all the mysteries that Forsaken had and became basically obsessed with the game. This video is such a fun throwback for old players and helps newer players understand just why we all go on about Forsaken so much and hail it as a "golden age" for Destiny 2. It's been a while since I've been able to sit down and watch an hour long video with no breaks and just being completely focused on the video for the whole length, I really look forward to you doing videos on the Annual Pass seasons as well. Keep up the great work Evan!
Com certeza essa foi a melhor DLC de destiny, mudou o jogo completamente de uma forma que eu acabei me apaixonando por destiny. Please translate.
That was the first sponsor in a while that I didn't skip in a while, and possibly the best one I've ever seen
'These are things you dont think of when you play the game now.' Evan, Edge Transit still haunts my dreams.
Thank you for giving forsaken the love it deserves before it goes away (and keeping me entertained at work). Also I like gambit so hopefully more ppl enjoy it with the new rework
I remember the gambit meatball! I was so excited when I finally got it to spawn and killed it with a group of randos at 2 in the morning. I shouted with joy and woke up my roommates who for whatever reason weren’t as excited as I was
37:36 - it's been a pleasure watching all of your video breakdowns!
I dearly hope that the original Year 2 Forsaken experience is recreated with Witch Queen in Year 5. I started playing Season of the Worthy, so I missed a lot. I want that same experience. Hopefully the Witch Queen release delay was in part because of this, or at lease caused this.
The Seasons video is really important, that's one of the cool things I always bring up when I'm preaching the good news of the Traveler.
I for some reason kept playing during d2 launch and curse and warmind. I just liked it I guess?
I did too, but the issues were definitely there. Bad issues. I stuck around cause I just assumed it'd get better.
Same. I also enjoyed PvP quite a bit back then too
I'm a recent player. The dreaming city blew me away the first time I explored it. And it still does.
I think it would be great if you covered the seasons during forsaken as I really enjoyed them. Keep up the good work btw 👌🏼
I would love something talking about the seasons, either 3 videos (mainly to touch on the big things that happened in them) or as one long video. The seasons of forsaken were the best time for me, i still have days where I remember the menagerie.. and I’m fact the weapon crafting reminded me of how exact we could get our gear back then
Just like with all campaigns. I felt urgency when I first played it. Then it was just another quest.
Love all your videos!! The documentary style that you do for them is awesome. Look forward to them whenever you drop them.
Best way to go into talking about seasons would be how hit and miss they were and are, Black Armory decent season, Joker's Wild terrible, Opulence one of the best to date. Some scratched our itch others were forgettable or painful.
and since then they all feel the same with hit or miss loot. the story maybe improving but the gameplay? the grind? to me its very lacking and feels like a time sink for what? loot for what?
Tbh I think black armory deserves more credit. Was rough with launch but ended up having some of the best weapons in the game.
Adding all of this up makes more sense. Savathun worked with rhulk by giving uldren the power to make scorn so they could be controlled by the darkness so Savathun not only made a army of hive for the witness but a scorn one too. Crazy shit
Like never coming back dead. That aged well
That new story bow WAS good dude... it had max accuracy (range). Headshot magnet
They should've just come out with destiny 3 for the new expansions instead of essentially deleting content such as forsaken.
Seriously. Removing content that people paid for is so shitty, and is kind of why people hate Live Service so much
@@belinskiparadox7687then you people will be bitching about how the game is 200gb etc.
@@MrAjking808lmao this is such an ironic paradox. It's like Bungie can't win
this is a masterpiece. your videos get me thru gambit matches I thank you trillions sir
I recently replayed through the forsaken campaign one last time after having not played it since 2019. I'm honestly ok with it going away. If it means we're getting a far better campaign in witch queen (which it looks like we will be), I'm ok with a destination I never really cared about and a super boring campaign (outside of the first mission) leaving the game. The best part of forsaken, the dreaming city, is staying in the game, so losing the part of forsaken that people havent played in years is okay.
Been waiting for this video!
I hate Destiny so much, It's my favorite game
Honestly my dad is what got me back into destiny every time we played together I look behind me and he was always on destiny he a true player no matter the ups or downs of the game he would always be playing even when he’s done all the content he would still hop on to help others
The only thing better than an Evan F video is an *hour long Evan F video* lets gooooo!
Witch queen has raised the bar again for destiny 2. Great story, lore, exotic quests, and activities. Apart from the raid day mess up, it's still one I'll look back to until they release light fall and the final shape.
I agree.... About exotics.
I miss that. It also gave me more reason to keep playing in down times. Sure a lot of players bitch about the grind.
I miss secrets like the one for Outbreak in D1. Would love to have them come back. Not necessarily the 5 week timegate on catalysts that D2 brought, but the very difficult mechanics to get it in the first place.
The only drawback is the "must have ____" LFGs. Which were a pain in the ass if you were not in a clan.
I wish I could relive the first moments when forsaken first dropped. September 4th was a great day. Forsaken definitely has a soft spot in my heart always especially with saving destiny 2
This deserves Bungie's MOVIE OF THE WEEK. I started during forsaken, 2000+ hours later i am waiting for the witch queen like everyone else.
Forsaken is when I jumped into Destiny, it was definitely a success for me at least! The campaign is what drew me in, and is what kept me around, since I ended up loving the game’s universe and atmosphere.
And 5 years later, only the dreaming city would remain alongside a small optional introduction to it if you have the forsaken dlc, cause I’m pretty sure the dlc is still needed for the dreaming city’s non open-world content, as well as the single prison of elders strike, which practically does still take place on the tangled shore but is so remote from it that you’d never enter the main shore.
I can’t tell you how absolutely pissed I was that the mara illusion wasn’t savathun. All the way up to the “you poor fool” line I was like “finally savathun!”
Then it was a meatball
Sadness
That sweatcicle cameo was completely out of nowhere. This is a surprise to be sure but a welcome one.
Forsaken has such a special place in my heart. 2018 was a pretty rough year for me but after hearing all the promising news about Forsaken it was one of the few things I was excited for. It came out and man so many great moments were had and it made the rest of the year so much better. Tons of doing raids and activities with friends, people I used to talk to from Destiny 1 coming back and reconnecting, and of course the excitement that was the raid day. What a great time. It's sad to see it go, but I'm glad all the memories tied to the dreaming city are still gonna be there.
I started with D2, I'm a casual through and through, I've done some raids here and there but most of my time is doing weeklies casually. I remember back when forsaken came out the weekly rotation on the dreaming city and doing those ascendant challenges and all these secrets to do really for the first time had me become a destiny fan. Like the corrupted eggs, the Shankar's skulls in the weekly challenges, the dungeon etc. And since I was a casual dungeon content etc was hard as hell which made thing more challenging and fun. Man, forsaken was such a good time. And year 2 was fun as hell too with secret puzzles and missions with the seasons.
Another Banger Video Evan! this man simply does not miss. I have played Destiny 2 since launch and you always capture the community sentiment and how it felt at those times perfectly in these videos. Keep up the good work my man :)
I searched for one of your videos about forsaken a few weeks ago and it didnt exist. So glad you dropped this!
Best sponsor segment ever! I enjoyed looking back at the Destiny Expansion that got me into Destiny 2. I remember being under level for that special corrupted strike and staying up all night to finally complete it. And getting stuck on a part of the Shattered Throne where you had to bring an orb back to a room. Well one of our party members dropped it, and we had to find a way back, because we didn't want to start the dungeon all over again. So I had to jump up to the portal wall by using my blade barrage super, go through the thrall hall by myself, and then grab that orb.
The fact edge transit was in the speedrun of topics I think means that weapon deserves its own video
Forsaken hit that Wild West itch that I loved. Nothing like mowing down bad guys with my golden gun and trust.
I hope I can craft my Trust again
I’ll miss forsaken it’s my favorite dlc it had a good story good character’s good planets good guns good armor good exotics it meant a lot to us cayde was our favorite character and when we heard about cause died my brother cried for 3 minutes it came out on his birthday he made posters of uldren sov and shot at the posters
How does he feel about Crow
Once again Evan, another amazing video by You. Keep up the amazing work you do.
thanks Ryan
I started in season of the chosen, and honestly, this is hands down my favourite game now. I got pretty much adopted by my current clan, who took me into Last Wish as my first raid when I was still very new and 1250-ish light level. Forsaken stuff has always looked so cool, and I am very excited for Witch Queen to just further expand this awesome game.
Would love too see the Season videos anything to see you grow more I’m all behind it
15:47 You sure about that? You're looking at our next raid boss, my dude, Hive ghost and all.
I think I may put some time aside to replay the forsaken campaign again this week. There was so much cool stuff, and I did not even know that the Dreaming City was a thing when playing it, so finding an entire new destination as a reward for finishing a good campaign? How could you not love this dlc...
I was a little late on jumping into D2. Forsaken drew me into it because Cayde was my boy in D1 as a Hunter main. It’s sad to see it all go away, but I hope in the future they’ll be able to bring back all of the campaigns
Best “word from our sponsor” I have ever seen
Great Work on this Brother. Nothing like going down Memory Lane and realizing how much We have gone through in just the last couple Years. Looking forward to your Next content drop as I just realized I have 1 more "Army of One" to become Dredgen. LOL.
I know I'm a few months late but I have to say this. I was introduced to Destiny in late October 2021. A friend convinced me to play after giving up Overwatch. Forsaken was the first campaign we player through and it's the reason I'm still playing today. I absolutely loved every second of it.
Good work on this Evan. A great watch for getting ready for WQ.
Back in forsaken I spent months grinding for the malfeasance and my brother who didnt even have the Dlc got the quest on his first gambit match ever. he had one of the sweatiest random blueberrys i have ever seen. Sometimes i hate how lucky he is.
Watched through it in one go after an exhausting day and I must say: Great video man, very entertaining and informative ("new" light from shadowkeep here)
1:05:20
Edge Transit, a weapon that I hadn't heard of in a long time. That name gives me Vietnam flashbacks of that obscure lootdrop era
41:40 seeing this many planets on the destination tab makes me sad, it feels so barebones now
ngl, i was in middle school when Destiny 2 came out, played from day 1, and couldn’t get enough of it. I arrived at Destiny 1 really late, played it on Xbox 360, and still fell in love with it despite not being able to play rise of iron. I remember even playing Destiny 2’s beta. Maybe it was because I was younger, but I sank so much time into destiny 2 and never even realized so many people were upset with it before Forsaken. I loved the Red War, I loved Curse of Osiris, and I loved Warmind. I wasn’t even super involved in the endgame because i didn’t think myself competent enough for super competitive stuff like trials and i didn’t have anyone to raid with. I would just jump around and do public events and strike playlists to pass the time. Then Forsaken came out and I was like "oh wow, this is even better." I may have been a middle schooler who was just enjoying positive feedback loops before then, but Forsaken changed my perception of video game storytelling for the better.
Byf knows how to tell a story about the lore
Evan knows how to help you experience the game
I love both of them and these amazing videos is the reason why I bought destiny 1 the collection to play it for myself
The Rifleman was my favorite Baron fight because you could only get a few shots off on him before he teleported, so you had to make the shots count. You could use a Rocket, but heavy ammo is limited. You could use a shotgun, but the clones are all around the room. This led to a Sniper Rifle being the best choice to fight him, turning the encounter into a Sniper vs. Sniper battle. Memorable!
Forsaken was my 1st Big expansion I ever played as someone completely new to the destiny universe, I will definitely miss the DLC and the memories with it.
Lets see those seasons big guy im looking foward to it💪
Just wanted to say I LOVE the music you chose for this video.