Fun fact the music is supposed to play at the start but it glitch out and only started playing after leaving the city but looking back somehow it end up being better lol
Most of the times, the music will always play after you leave the city, it isn’t a bug or glitch, because I’ve always had it start on me outside of the city.
This mission is one of the best designed mission ever created... The music, the zone, how and when mobs appear and the falcon... The perfect feeling of being alone and hunted and fighting for your life (or the guardian's life)
Yeah it might have been really cool if they’d extended this aspect of the game, making having no light a serious story arc. I find these first couple of missions some of the most moving parts of the game
I absolutely agree. How many video game missions have you played that almost made you cry like a little girl? Not much. This mission is my favorite mission of all time
@@thelqualomee1040 Almost cry? Played through this multiple times while it was still available and that moment at about 6:49 when the vocals rise up still gets me. It is a real shame they couldn't carry this level of emotional investment through the entire game.
I was lucky enough to play it for the first time - for free - by chance on the PS Plus back in late 2017! It one of the saddest moments I’ve experienced when playing a video game at that time, tbh. I wish I could replay it just to understand it fully. I didn’t have a clue what was going on at the time.
I'll say it, red war and first 2 dlc's weren't the best, but I feel like you gotta experience it, im also pissed I spent 100 dollars on content I cant even access anymore
Anyone remember the purple ball in D1? Well, on the stairs when your fighting the Red Legion at the plaza you can see the poor ball deflated. Those fucking bastards took out the legendary ball.
I love how fragile your character seems, like at any moment, they could just snap; fall over and die. This mission, no matter how long, will never be forgotten. How they trip and fall over the slightest movement. It's so incredible.
@@AnythingLounge It’s part of the story, it wouldn’t feel right to be powerful and insta-killing everything in sight with super powers, after all this is a moment of weakness for the character to give you the player a time to understand how weak you are without your powers so you can better understand the gravity of the situation and so you can understand how other guardians feel and why they don’t all immediately jump to help you retake the city. So yeah I agree with OP that it’s an amazing thing for your character to feel super fragile in this mission and reminded of mortality and it is a good thing. :D
@@jerrbear5958 if its real i think they are going to have a lot of "issues" putting back missions of that campaing have to make sure that wont crash anything with new supers and system of weapons , add the extra space that requires, the last i remember is destiny 2 was over 105 GB
6:48 probably one of the most beautiful shots Bungie has ever had since Halo Reach. Seeing the city burning in the background, the Traveler caged, helpless, Red Legion ships deploying troops to continue to wipe out Guardians. It gives me chills and made me cry the first time I saw it. Fucking amazing.
I completely agree. I'm not that much a bitch, so I only cried a little bit. (Joke) This gives me so many chills down my spine whenever I watch it on video, even. After playing nearly every day since the release of destiny 1 all the way to destiny 2, every single aspect of this mission hit me HARD. This is a true masterpiece
I never finished it I didn’t even get that far into it I always thought I would finish it later but I never got to it’s really upsetting what they did and I will never forgive bungie for what they did to the game I love
I wish I could experience this just one more time. Even going back to the forest to upgrade my light. A lot of players hated it, but I loved it. It felt so real.
@@redthewifeyhunter4034 right? After the armor update I used all my synth weaves and bought them all. Imagine getting shoulder charged by a scorched titan lmao.
They’ll never understand the feeling of being powerless, helpless, hopeless. Then, the moment you turn the corner on that mountain you say, “Oh hell no, this isn’t the end”.
I really like the fact that we THE Guardian: Slayer of Crota, Regicide of Oryx, Annihilator of Atheon is reduced to a mere shell of our former self. Our light taken and our bodies broken. The cherry on top being that the Cabal sent focking dogs to kill us like we're some kind of pest
Destiny just has that magic. I personally think it has the best music for any video game and the game as a whole has so much emotion to it. D1 and D2 will forever by my favorite game
@@anthonyoliva6008 Man, Halo Reach made me cry as a little boy more then once. This music really hits the feels, and the mission actually remembers me of the last Halo Reach mission; All of your teammates have sacrificed themselves or got killed, and you (Noble 6) are the only one left, fighting trough waves and waves of covenant until they got the better of you, and you eventually die in that same battle. Ultimately resulting in a peachefull planet years after, by your Noble Team’s input that very campaign. Still one of my favorite games and introduced me to Halo and eventually Destiny
@@Dvdh2903 I’m really sad I never experienced halo in its best days. At least I got into destiny from the start and I was at that perfect age where it just stuck with me and will forever
Just knowing that new players now won't be able to experience this makes me a bit sad but I feel glad that I got to experience it when it was forced to do.
The fact that the traveller appears in the hawk moon quest as a hawk similar to a falcon makes us question if the traveler relies on us or if we rely on it
The way Bungie tells Destiny's story is amazing, but also sad. Not allowed to go back and see the things you missed in seasons or events. It's unfair. Yeah, it makes us, veterans or lucky ones, special. But at what cost? New players getting confused and oblivious towards the story. Not gonna lie, I feel sad everytime I think about this.
I agree with this but over time I’ve began to realize that’s part of the magic when it comes to Destiny, just like real life, not every one was alive or around to experience certain events. A lot of New Lights don’t understand the significance of the black fleet being so close either, but we do. We get to share those experiences and stories with them and pass them down. It feels real, and it’s the only community I’ve been a part of where I genuinely feel part of a living world. Gathering with others to talk about the next move the darkness might make, or how characters in our world are shifting, and the importance of every new detail we find about new or old characters. While it does suck that they’ll never get to experience it first hand, it creates a completely different type of experience.
@@thiccforehead5630 It'd be fun if Xur had a special item in his collection which you could acquire after some hidden quest, allowing you to "time travel". I know, that's some Avengers Endgame bullshit, but imagine this scenario: You suddenly appear on the top of a mountain, dizzy. You start to walk towards the top, as you hear explosions from far away. As you reach it, you see The Last City burning, surrounded by Cabal ships just like in Red War. You make your way down, jumping from rock to rock, as all the sudden you spot a thick fog blocking your path forcing you to use your Ghost's light to see through. As you do, you notice a figure ahead, someone familiar. You follow the mysterious figure through the rocky path as silently as you could. As the fog fades away, you stop. The figure's gone, as if they just vanished as soon as they soon as they noticed your presence. You knew very deep inside, that you knew who that was, but couldn't put your finger on it. As the camera rises above your character, ascending towards space. "Destiny 2 - The Final Shape". I know, I'm not very good with descriptions.
I feel that. I missed out on so much for just wanting to play other games for a while. Savathun releasing Osiris, season of the haunted, eramis returning, Rasputin dying. At the very least, I got to experience Red War.
This was just a truly beautiful mission to play and I am honored having experienced it for myself and after seeing this after killing the witness it shows just how far the story developed
I was worried that Destiny 2 would suffer in the soundtrack department due to Marty leaving Bungie... Then the track “Journey” started playing. Changed my outlook on life haha.
Marty was largely responsible for the feeling of Destiny's music, even today, but Salvatore is what Destiny sounds like. Losing him was a FAR bigger blow. Never again will Destiny sound like a Bungie game. Final Shape is the end of classic Bungie.
At 6:48 when Guardian turns the corner to witness the last city in ruins and the Cabal Dreadnought move to ground zero, and the chorus' crescendo reaches fever pitch, I felt it. Wow.
Every time your on the cliff and you see the city and the music drops I just get goosebumps to bad new lights won’t understand the pain and sadness us longer players see Especially when the red legion came
I remember... crawling thrpugh the ruins of the city. Fighting through the mountains, going to titan, Nessus, all of it. And i want it back, i miss the red war. The story it told, the fear and doubt i felt knowing. I was the only one with light, the last of your breed at that time. You were a dying race and you fougjt to stop your own extinction.
I tried this game at the free weekend that taked place a week or two ago and that exact moment made me to buy this game instantly. I knew that this is only one story mission and probably rest of them won't be so epic, but pure magic that came to me from that one single moment in the game made me buy it against all odds. And maybe it is the fact that the rest of the main story missions (i didn't tried DLC's yet, because of rerolling to Hunter after completing it with Warlock) ain't so epic (maybe beside the one when you get back to The City on the rooftops etc.) but I definetly regret nothing :D And will gladly delete my Titan over and over again just to replay this mission (at this moment, I'm not much interested in that class).
@@bepisaxe4464I think the main problem of the Red War was the state of gameplay at the time i.e. The double primary meta, slow movement, ammo economy and most importantly, it's audience. For many D1 veterans, I can see why Ghaul would be considered a step down from some of the villains like Oryx, SIVA, etc. However, as someone who picked up the game just after the release of Forsaken after a friend begged me to get it so I could play with him, I was genuinely and truly captivated from start to finish by the Red War. I'd never even seen the Traveller before, but I could still feel the severity of it's absence and I enjoyed building my character up from scraps to finish the fight against Ghaul with a boss fight I enjoyed thoroughly. And while it may true that my nostalgia for those highs could be blinding me to the duller moments, it's something I wish new players could experience instead of the pathetic excuse for a New Light "Campaign" we have.
I remember on a September afternoon in 2018 after school I downloaded Destiny 2 because it was free for Playstation Plus that month. I downloaded it and started to play and right at 6:48 I started to cry and did lay down my controller for a while. In my opinion so far the best and most emotional scene/mission in a game I have played so far. The music, the view and the feeling of being powerless. At that moment I knew this was my game and I still play it often till this day. When I hear the Journey music I still get the chills.
This was by far my favorite mission in destiny. The music hits the feeling that you truly lost everything while fighting to stay a live. It’s a shame that the new players will never experience this gem
This mission and song were one of the most emotional, compelling and immersing story missions in any videogame i have ever played. The way it went from quiet, and ambient with the cabal patrolling to the emotional turn with starting a new journey was just beyond amazing. Its a shame that the base campaign (which was great in my opinion) along with this gem of a mission will forever be vaulted. It is truly one of my favorite memories
Ghost: "I'm picking up an emergency broadcast. Rendez-vous coordinates. They're evacuating the planet... *We're on our own..."* Me, a solo player: *"Heh... Nothing new..."*
I have so much love for destiny 2 I know it’s not the greatest but no matter what I will love this game but it broke my heart when I first found out everything was gone I just turned on destiny one day after not playing for a while and my whole world changed in 1 second there was a new sub class and everything was gone destiny was such a big game that’s what I loved about it
this is the type of mission I expected lightfall to have, but they didn't do it, I hope they will bring back the no light type of stuff with the final shape
Coming back to this now after Final Shape is just so different. This mission will always be one of my favorites even after the entirety of the Light and Dark Saga.
To think that even the Witness and Oryx wasn’t able to take out the city like this. Ghaul did what even the gods of the universe could not. The City was gone in one fell swoop. And not only that he was able to wield the light without the Traveler choosing him. Even if we absolutely demolished him in the campaign, we gotta give him credit where its due.
I never thought I would shred tears in FPS games especially in Destiny. But this mission is one emotional rollercoaster. And I'm glad I had a chance to be a part of it!
Being a destiny 1 vet and not being able to play this mission again is such a gut punch. Getting to live to through D1 and then making it to destiny 2 and taking my veteran warlock through this mission is honestly one of those “holy shit” moments and it lit the way through D2!
The first time I play destiny 2 was during festival of the lost and manage to complete this mission before it was gone. Super super good music and everything around it, just perfect
Man I want to cry watching this I miss the old days of destiny I took a pretty long break from it and I came back and the game I loved was so much different I would do anything just to be able to enjoy the old days agian there was so much stuff and if I new more about what I was doing I wouldn’t have missed out on so much stuff it’s so sad
Seeing all this shit and how it connects to the future is really cool. The falcon, the voice of weak ghost being the same as the darkness talking through our ghost, lack of light/embracing darkness. Could be reading too much into it but its so cool
nah you have a point actually. that voice of weak ghost is the same one as when we were in the pyramid, and with the falcon in red war and hawk in the Hawkmoon quest
I remember the red war like it was yesterday...the siva crisis, the birth of the taken, the beginning of the iron banner...the taken king, so many tales I could tell from destiny 1 and 2, but one thing I got out of it is to never loose hope
I feel as if bungie needs to go back to doing single player campaigns where these moments feel even more powerful. They really should do a new IP with the story akin to Halo reach and Dunkirk, where the player is constantly up against overwhelming odds with the only goal becoming just to survive and pray you can hold back the enemy long enough. I hope that they do something like that. And of course using epic music like this to set the tone.
Still boggles me that we can't play the ORIGINAL STORY that came with this game and was advertised for this games entire existence back when it first came out red war was everything. Now it's just a memory that we can look back on in bittersweet. I just wish the new lights got to experience this. The music, the ambience, the sense of being powerless and alone. It was perfect. No matter how much hate this game got this opening is still one of the best in gaming hands down.
Is funny how the music was supposed to start as soon as you reawaken in the plaza but the music starts at the exit of the city... it's a glitch but if I remember correctly either the designers or players (most likely players) liked it so much they just kept it that way.
I hope that at the end of destiny 2's life, bungie will put all the content available in all the years that have passed. Even if the game occupies 200 GB to download! I would pay any price to be able to do everything in the game, play all the campaigns, know the whole story, do all the raids, get all the armor and weapons without the level difference. Such a good game! Such a good memories!
I remember when I returned to the new tower after waiting for a Destiny 2, It was..... Breathtaking beautiful Makes me want to become a Guardian one day in the future
When i first played this story (in season 8), the two guns Shaxx gave you (common Origin Story and common The Last Dance) glitched and now i have them both to use anytime.
The nostalgia is crazy. I truly feel bad for new lights. They did not get to experience how good this campaign was. I been playing since destiny 1, but very casually. it was the red war that truly made me fall in love with the destiny franchise. Hell I even miss the farm sometimes lol
I started destiny a little bit before beyond light, and i get the privilege to play this beutiful campain, the fact that the "vulnerability" is one of the first things you experience as a new light is so well made in this mission, and make u see that at the end of the day, we are just humans.
Eu queria muito ter jogado desde a campanha da guerra vermelha mas infelizmente só comecei a jogar Destiny 2 no final do Além da luz se eu não me engano. De qualquer forma eu amo escutar essa música e sempre choro, mesmo que a diferença do destiny 1 para o destiny 2 no Além da luz para mim foi grande também tenho algumas críticas sobre esses problemas hoje em dia. Mas esse jogo me salvou de muita coisa, não largo mão e sempre será o meu favorito❤.
I only played this on Hunter way back then, and we had our knives still. Super interesting seeing that Warlocks were reduced to punching since all theyr melee's use energy in a way
I think the sound design in battle is done incredibly well. The fact that all the gunshots and howls get echoed and distorted make me feel disoriented, like my Guardian's adrenaline is pumping. It's because, for the first time since being resurrected...they're afraid. Scared to die for good. Their heart is pounding in their ears because they've never entered a fight not expecting to win. Amazingly designed section for one of the best campaigns in Destiny 2.
i have been playing this game since Beta and when the red war first came out we all thought ghoul was gonna be a raid boss. Im just glad I got to experience this from beta to Final Shape
Honestly seeing this again after all these years this would be a fun spin off / gamemode idea with no abilities fighting the enemies which normslly would be a breeze suddenly a lot more threatening
Fun fact the music is supposed to play at the start but it glitch out and only started playing after leaving the city but looking back somehow it end up being better lol
Most of the times, the music will always play after you leave the city, it isn’t a bug or glitch, because I’ve always had it start on me outside of the city.
@@ty_tgm 5 out 6 times it played at the start when you get your ghost so ya
I’ve always had it start after I left, either way the music will fit in with the mission
It should have played at the time when you get your ghost back, so ya
To be honest the music is called journey by kronor quartet search it up its cool
This mission is one of the best designed mission ever created... The music, the zone, how and when mobs appear and the falcon... The perfect feeling of being alone and hunted and fighting for your life (or the guardian's life)
Yeah it might have been really cool if they’d extended this aspect of the game, making having no light a serious story arc. I find these first couple of missions some of the most moving parts of the game
I absolutely agree. How many video game missions have you played that almost made you cry like a little girl? Not much. This mission is my favorite mission of all time
Becca Diem it was really cool it was just way too easy and didn’t emphasize the point that your light was just gone, possibly forever
@@thelqualomee1040 Almost cry? Played through this multiple times while it was still available and that moment at about 6:49 when the vocals rise up still gets me. It is a real shame they couldn't carry this level of emotional investment through the entire game.
It’s just terribly unfortunate that this was the last good part of the original campaign. What could have been…
Incredible mission. Feeling blessed to have play it. Red war was incredible. Shame it’s now gone for new players
As a new player, im genuinly pissed all we get is a "campaign" that lasts like 3 hours and we never get to expierence this.
I was lucky enough to play it for the first time - for free - by chance on the PS Plus back in late 2017! It one of the saddest moments I’ve experienced when playing a video game at that time, tbh. I wish I could replay it just to understand it fully. I didn’t have a clue what was going on at the time.
I'll say it, red war and first 2 dlc's weren't the best, but I feel like you gotta experience it, im also pissed I spent 100 dollars on content I cant even access anymore
I literally just started playing 2 weeks before they removed the farm and red war and everything. Glad i played the campaign when i had the chance
red war felt like when bungie really tried their hardest and worked hard to create the one of, if not the best campaign I have ever played
Anyone remember the purple ball in D1? Well, on the stairs when your fighting the Red Legion at the plaza you can see the poor ball deflated. Those fucking bastards took out the legendary ball.
can't have shit in the last city
Which why I happily put a fist in their leader’s mouth.
We must kill every cabal for that
Time stamp plz
@@SamStraker it isn’t on this certain video
Probably the best part of destiny 2 story mission
Is it possible to replay this mission through Ikora's meditations?
The best part in D2 history if you ask me.
@@Storebror492 you're right mate
Nah I'd say returning to the last city when its in ruin is better
It was, but now it's gone from the game
I love how fragile your character seems, like at any moment, they could just snap; fall over and die. This mission, no matter how long, will never be forgotten. How they trip and fall over the slightest movement. It's so incredible.
You love that your character seems fragile TF? That’s not a good thing 😂😂😂
@@AnythingLounge It’s part of the story, it wouldn’t feel right to be powerful and insta-killing everything in sight with super powers, after all this is a moment of weakness for the character to give you the player a time to understand how weak you are without your powers so you can better understand the gravity of the situation and so you can understand how other guardians feel and why they don’t all immediately jump to help you retake the city. So yeah I agree with OP that it’s an amazing thing for your character to feel super fragile in this mission and reminded of mortality and it is a good thing. :D
Here we are now, one of the best missions in the game and now we will never get to replay it...
Boy, do I have news for you
@@jerrbear5958WAIT WE CAN NOW?????
@@jerrbear5958 if its real i think they are going to have a lot of "issues" putting back missions of that campaing have to make sure that wont crash anything with new supers and system of weapons , add the extra space that requires, the last i remember is destiny 2 was over 105 GB
@@ppluch33What’s happening?
6:48 probably one of the most beautiful shots Bungie has ever had since Halo Reach. Seeing the city burning in the background, the Traveler caged, helpless, Red Legion ships deploying troops to continue to wipe out Guardians. It gives me chills and made me cry the first time I saw it. Fucking amazing.
I completely agree. I'm not that much a bitch, so I only cried a little bit. (Joke) This gives me so many chills down my spine whenever I watch it on video, even. After playing nearly every day since the release of destiny 1 all the way to destiny 2, every single aspect of this mission hit me HARD. This is a true masterpiece
Which moment in Reach was the most beautiful
Garuda 1 all of it
@@SirSpice544 makes sense, everybody fought for their friends
🙃😉😉
This makes me sad, because I'll never get to experience this mission again.
I hope you see this, in past seasons you could go to amanda and get old campaigns, I hope it still works 😁
@@graysonpodey7922 I'd hate to break it to you, but the Red War campaign has been vaulted.
I'm sad because I'll never get to play this campaign
I never finished it I didn’t even get that far into it I always thought I would finish it later but I never got to it’s really upsetting what they did and I will never forgive bungie for what they did to the game I love
sorry but your name and profile picture is making me chuckle
I wish I could experience this just one more time. Even going back to the forest to upgrade my light. A lot of players hated it, but I loved it. It felt so real.
"You played destiny 2 year one?"
"Yeah I did"
"Let me see your damaged ghost and armor then"
Me:puts on damaged gear
Ha ha. I have the undamaged
@@redthewifeyhunter4034 right? After the armor update I used all my synth weaves and bought them all. Imagine getting shoulder charged by a scorched titan lmao.
@@hiveworm3818 or a pre-scorched armored titan ayy lmao
@@hiveworm3818 but only true D2 players rock scorched
Does the armor appear in collections? I can't seem to find it
New Light players will never understand this feeling..
They’ll never understand the feeling of being powerless, helpless, hopeless. Then, the moment you turn the corner on that mountain you say, “Oh hell no, this isn’t the end”.
@@shrummajor114 im glad to joined the Red War..to experience to be lightness.
Same here.😢
I really like the fact that we THE Guardian: Slayer of Crota, Regicide of Oryx, Annihilator of Atheon is reduced to a mere shell of our former self. Our light taken and our bodies broken.
The cherry on top being that the Cabal sent focking dogs to kill us like we're some kind of pest
And a scout or 2
The moment I fell in love with Destiny...
exact same feelings , i knew i will spend my life with this game after this ...
Girl same, I knew as soon as that song hit that this was the new game for me. It broke my heart and I felt so helpless.
Destiny just has that magic. I personally think it has the best music for any video game and the game as a whole has so much emotion to it. D1 and D2 will forever by my favorite game
@@anthonyoliva6008 Man, Halo Reach made me cry as a little boy more then once. This music really hits the feels, and the mission actually remembers me of the last Halo Reach mission; All of your teammates have sacrificed themselves or got killed, and you (Noble 6) are the only one left, fighting trough waves and waves of covenant until they got the better of you, and you eventually die in that same battle. Ultimately resulting in a peachefull planet years after, by your Noble Team’s input that very campaign. Still one of my favorite games and introduced me to Halo and eventually Destiny
@@Dvdh2903 I’m really sad I never experienced halo in its best days. At least I got into destiny from the start and I was at that perfect age where it just stuck with me and will forever
Just knowing that new players now won't be able to experience this makes me a bit sad but I feel glad that I got to experience it when it was forced to do.
To this date, seeing the warlock punch sends chills down my spine.
As a warlock main, i used to not like warlock punch, so punching felt very satisfying
As a titan main, it saddens me to see you not being able to punch as you used to, but we always welcome you if you need any help punching stuff.
@@Yuuhenshin Well said. We Titans always need more punchers.
"That falcon is following us...or are we following it?"
I'll take Destiny for 500
The fact that the traveller appears in the hawk moon quest as a hawk similar to a falcon makes us question if the traveler relies on us or if we rely on it
The way Bungie tells Destiny's story is amazing, but also sad. Not allowed to go back and see the things you missed in seasons or events. It's unfair. Yeah, it makes us, veterans or lucky ones, special. But at what cost? New players getting confused and oblivious towards the story. Not gonna lie, I feel sad everytime I think about this.
I agree with this but over time I’ve began to realize that’s part of the magic when it comes to Destiny, just like real life, not every one was alive or around to experience certain events. A lot of New Lights don’t understand the significance of the black fleet being so close either, but we do. We get to share those experiences and stories with them and pass them down. It feels real, and it’s the only community I’ve been a part of where I genuinely feel part of a living world. Gathering with others to talk about the next move the darkness might make, or how characters in our world are shifting, and the importance of every new detail we find about new or old characters. While it does suck that they’ll never get to experience it first hand, it creates a completely different type of experience.
@@thiccforehead5630 It'd be fun if Xur had a special item in his collection which you could acquire after some hidden quest, allowing you to "time travel". I know, that's some Avengers Endgame bullshit, but imagine this scenario:
You suddenly appear on the top of a mountain, dizzy. You start to walk towards the top, as you hear explosions from far away. As you reach it, you see The Last City burning, surrounded by Cabal ships just like in Red War. You make your way down, jumping from rock to rock, as all the sudden you spot a thick fog blocking your path forcing you to use your Ghost's light to see through. As you do, you notice a figure ahead, someone familiar. You follow the mysterious figure through the rocky path as silently as you could. As the fog fades away, you stop. The figure's gone, as if they just vanished as soon as they soon as they noticed your presence. You knew very deep inside, that you knew who that was, but couldn't put your finger on it. As the camera rises above your character, ascending towards space. "Destiny 2 - The Final Shape".
I know, I'm not very good with descriptions.
Imagine that as a mission in Destiny 2
I feel that. I missed out on so much for just wanting to play other games for a while.
Savathun releasing Osiris, season of the haunted, eramis returning, Rasputin dying.
At the very least, I got to experience Red War.
I feel like I was too late
This was just a truly beautiful mission to play and I am honored having experienced it for myself and after seeing this after killing the witness it shows just how far the story developed
I was worried that Destiny 2 would suffer in the soundtrack department due to Marty leaving Bungie... Then the track “Journey” started playing. Changed my outlook on life haha.
Marty was largely responsible for the feeling of Destiny's music, even today, but Salvatore is what Destiny sounds like. Losing him was a FAR bigger blow. Never again will Destiny sound like a Bungie game. Final Shape is the end of classic Bungie.
At 6:48 when Guardian turns the corner to witness the last city in ruins and the Cabal Dreadnought move to ground zero, and the chorus' crescendo reaches fever pitch, I felt it. Wow.
*+250 clan xp*
Hud disabled go to the settings menu and turn it back on you idiot
"You just never quit, do you?"
4:34 But we do have that new sweet checkpoint system now no biggie!
Every time your on the cliff and you see the city and the music drops I just get goosebumps to bad new lights won’t understand the pain and sadness us longer players see Especially when the red legion came
I never even played d1, but when I turned that corner and saw the traveler shackled and that music hit, it made me emotional
I remember... crawling thrpugh the ruins of the city. Fighting through the mountains, going to titan, Nessus, all of it. And i want it back, i miss the red war. The story it told, the fear and doubt i felt knowing. I was the only one with light, the last of your breed at that time. You were a dying race and you fougjt to stop your own extinction.
I'll forever miss Mercury after the Red War. In my opinion, the perfect setting for Vex.
6:47 most amazing scene in this game
I miss it. This mission was perfection and I wish I could replay it.
The best mission in the campaign of destiny 2
I tried this game at the free weekend that taked place a week or two ago and that exact moment made me to buy this game instantly. I knew that this is only one story mission and probably rest of them won't be so epic, but pure magic that came to me from that one single moment in the game made me buy it against all odds. And maybe it is the fact that the rest of the main story missions (i didn't tried DLC's yet, because of rerolling to Hunter after completing it with Warlock) ain't so epic (maybe beside the one when you get back to The City on the rooftops etc.) but I definetly regret nothing :D And will gladly delete my Titan over and over again just to replay this mission (at this moment, I'm not much interested in that class).
Red War was a fucking masterpiece. The music, the atmosphere, the fights, we’re all absolutely incredible, and I hate bungie for removing it.
I confess, this part specifically is great. But the Red War? Masterpiece? Did we play the same game on release?
@@bepisaxe4464 I loved it
@@bepisaxe4464I think the main problem of the Red War was the state of gameplay at the time i.e. The double primary meta, slow movement, ammo economy and most importantly, it's audience.
For many D1 veterans, I can see why Ghaul would be considered a step down from some of the villains like Oryx, SIVA, etc. However, as someone who picked up the game just after the release of Forsaken after a friend begged me to get it so I could play with him, I was genuinely and truly captivated from start to finish by the Red War. I'd never even seen the Traveller before, but I could still feel the severity of it's absence and I enjoyed building my character up from scraps to finish the fight against Ghaul with a boss fight I enjoyed thoroughly.
And while it may true that my nostalgia for those highs could be blinding me to the duller moments, it's something I wish new players could experience instead of the pathetic excuse for a New Light "Campaign" we have.
This mission is what made me start to actually play and learn more about destiny and here I am in love with it
This part of destiny truly made you feel mortal. Especially after playing destiny 1.
"You're as beautiful as the day I lost you"
I remember on a September afternoon in 2018 after school I downloaded Destiny 2 because it was free for Playstation Plus that month. I downloaded it and started to play and right at 6:48 I started to cry and did lay down my controller for a while. In my opinion so far the best and most emotional scene/mission in a game I have played so far. The music, the view and the feeling of being powerless. At that moment I knew this was my game and I still play it often till this day. When I hear the Journey music I still get the chills.
Homecoming + this was the peak of Destiny’s in game storytelling.
bungie's most beautiful level
This was by far my favorite mission in destiny. The music hits the feeling that you truly lost everything while fighting to stay a live. It’s a shame that the new players will never experience this gem
This mission and song were one of the most emotional, compelling and immersing story missions in any videogame i have ever played. The way it went from quiet, and ambient with the cabal patrolling to the emotional turn with starting a new journey was just beyond amazing. Its a shame that the base campaign (which was great in my opinion) along with this gem of a mission will forever be vaulted. It is truly one of my favorite memories
Ghost: "I'm picking up an emergency broadcast. Rendez-vous coordinates. They're evacuating the planet... *We're on our own..."*
Me, a solo player: *"Heh... Nothing new..."*
I have so much love for destiny 2 I know it’s not the greatest but no matter what I will love this game but it broke my heart when I first found out everything was gone I just turned on destiny one day after not playing for a while and my whole world changed in 1 second there was a new sub class and everything was gone destiny was such a big game that’s what I loved about it
this is the type of mission I expected lightfall to have, but they didn't do it, I hope they will bring back the no light type of stuff with the final shape
Bro I cried in the club
Coming back to this now after Final Shape is just so different. This mission will always be one of my favorites even after the entirety of the Light and Dark Saga.
Same, I also decided to replay the final mission using the broken armor as my cosmetic. Sad that the Red War will never be replayable.
I come back to this video every year. They removed such an amazing mission
So sad the new light players didn’t get to experience this
Nor the Taken King 🥺
@@thepleiades6992 Anyone who goes back and buys destiny can play the taken king, but the red war is just gone.
The subtle or I guess not so subtle detail of the smg being named sorrow is so good.
That shot of the traveler in chains and the city burning gets me every time
This will always be my favourite moment from Destiny 2. Now I want to go and play it all over again after being inactive for ages.
And now you no longer can 😔
To think that even the Witness and Oryx wasn’t able to take out the city like this. Ghaul did what even the gods of the universe could not. The City was gone in one fell swoop. And not only that he was able to wield the light without the Traveler choosing him.
Even if we absolutely demolished him in the campaign, we gotta give him credit where its due.
The red war campaign was honestly the best mission destiny 2 had to offer. I wish I could play it again.
This bring back so many memories when i came from school to play d2
I never thought I would shred tears in FPS games especially in Destiny. But this mission is one emotional rollercoaster. And I'm glad I had a chance to be a part of it!
Being a destiny 1 vet and not being able to play this mission again is such a gut punch. Getting to live to through D1 and then making it to destiny 2 and taking my veteran warlock through this mission is honestly one of those “holy shit” moments and it lit the way through D2!
The first time I play destiny 2 was during festival of the lost and manage to complete this mission before it was gone. Super super good music and everything around it, just perfect
Man I want to cry watching this I miss the old days of destiny I took a pretty long break from it and I came back and the game I loved was so much different I would do anything just to be able to enjoy the old days agian there was so much stuff and if I new more about what I was doing I wouldn’t have missed out on so much stuff it’s so sad
Seeing all this shit and how it connects to the future is really cool. The falcon, the voice of weak ghost being the same as the darkness talking through our ghost, lack of light/embracing darkness. Could be reading too much into it but its so cool
nah you have a point actually. that voice of weak ghost is the same one as when we were in the pyramid, and with the falcon in red war and hawk in the Hawkmoon quest
I remember the red war like it was yesterday...the siva crisis, the birth of the taken, the beginning of the iron banner...the taken king, so many tales I could tell from destiny 1 and 2, but one thing I got out of it is to never loose hope
I feel as if bungie needs to go back to doing single player campaigns where these moments feel even more powerful. They really should do a new IP with the story akin to Halo reach and Dunkirk, where the player is constantly up against overwhelming odds with the only goal becoming just to survive and pray you can hold back the enemy long enough. I hope that they do something like that. And of course using epic music like this to set the tone.
The best game music ever. Period
Ghost: We need to be VERY careful.
Me being the hunter I am: STAB EVERYTHING IN EXISTENCE DESPITE ME HAVING A LOW LIGHT LEVEL!
I joined destiny just a few months before beyond light, im lucky i did, else i wouldve never experienced this mission myself.
If only we got this feeling during lightfall
Still boggles me that we can't play the ORIGINAL STORY that came with this game and was advertised for this games entire existence back when it first came out red war was everything. Now it's just a memory that we can look back on in bittersweet. I just wish the new lights got to experience this. The music, the ambience, the sense of being powerless and alone. It was perfect. No matter how much hate this game got this opening is still one of the best in gaming hands down.
Is funny how the music was supposed to start as soon as you reawaken in the plaza but the music starts at the exit of the city... it's a glitch but if I remember correctly either the designers or players (most likely players) liked it so much they just kept it that way.
I hope that at the end of destiny 2's life, bungie will put all the content available in all the years that have passed. Even if the game occupies 200 GB to download! I would pay any price to be able to do everything in the game, play all the campaigns, know the whole story, do all the raids, get all the armor and weapons without the level difference. Such a good game! Such a good memories!
It’s sad to think that the new lights will never play this story line with the release of beyond light and the destiny content vault
If they ever add Io an titan back (while edz and nessus are still existing) hope the red war returns too
@@SpeedWeed6969 Sadly I don’t think they will considering the fact that it would kind of mess up the destiny storyline
Super blessed to have played this......still have my damaged gear from year 1....
Same, never will dismantle it. ✊️
I remember when I returned to the new tower after waiting for a Destiny 2, It was..... Breathtaking beautiful Makes me want to become a Guardian one day in the future
When i first played this story (in season 8), the two guns Shaxx gave you (common Origin Story and common The Last Dance) glitched and now i have them both to use anytime.
The nostalgia is crazy. I truly feel bad for new lights. They did not get to experience how good this campaign was. I been playing since destiny 1, but very casually. it was the red war that truly made me fall in love with the destiny franchise. Hell I even miss the farm sometimes lol
I remember playing this day 1 of the launch. Beautiful. Red War was something really
i coudnt hold my tears after all these years revisitng this moment
I started destiny a little bit before beyond light, and i get the privilege to play this beutiful campain, the fact that the "vulnerability" is one of the first things you experience as a new light is so well made in this mission, and make u see that at the end of the day, we are just humans.
I wish at the end of the red war there was a memorial for all the lost guardians in the red war
6:37 i stared at that mountain for minutes. it was so beautiful especially with the music in the background.
I'm so happy to have experienced this at launch. If only new lights could share in it.
Dude i got a super huge hit of nostalgia when the music started picking up.
I really fuckin miss red war
Eu queria muito ter jogado desde a campanha da guerra vermelha mas infelizmente só comecei a jogar Destiny 2 no final do Além da luz se eu não me engano. De qualquer forma eu amo escutar essa música e sempre choro, mesmo que a diferença do destiny 1 para o destiny 2 no Além da luz para mim foi grande também tenho algumas críticas sobre esses problemas hoje em dia. Mas esse jogo me salvou de muita coisa, não largo mão e sempre será o meu favorito❤.
a bungie é um estudio que nos prova que video game é arte
desde do halo ce ate o destiny 2
This scene alone was enough to make me a Guardian over 3 years
I was there 6 years ago.."Guardian... if you die... i can't resurrect you" Rest in peace lance, say hello to Cayde from up there :(
That’s how I fell in love with this game
I only played this on Hunter way back then, and we had our knives still. Super interesting seeing that Warlocks were reduced to punching since all theyr melee's use energy in a way
Even all these years later, I still have a screenshot similar tp 7:00 as my computer lock screen.
Nice! I also have a Screenshot like this. The D2 red war campaign was sehr good.
I wish more games made missions like this where the music goes along with the scene 🔥
The most dangerous log bridge in gaming history. Ive died so many times on that thing.
I think the sound design in battle is done incredibly well. The fact that all the gunshots and howls get echoed and distorted make me feel disoriented, like my Guardian's adrenaline is pumping.
It's because, for the first time since being resurrected...they're afraid. Scared to die for good. Their heart is pounding in their ears because they've never entered a fight not expecting to win.
Amazingly designed section for one of the best campaigns in Destiny 2.
I still remember, on my first play-through, I fell down one of the ledges and after restarting the mission, the music had stopped. That was awful!
So sad for those guardians who have fallen they were probably scared
I wish we could replay it some how again it holds a special place in my heart
i’m glad other people have an appreciation for the artistry of these moments
I wish we could get more gameplay in the city. It’s such a nice location
Guardian: Falls thousands of feet without light and is dying.
Game: *500 ClAn eXp* !
Wow its been so long, I remember playing this on release day and now the light and dark saga is done. Time flew by.
Goddam we didn't realise how good we had the story back then. Now we have just shit like Nimbus :(
I love how the warlock melee is a weird punch.
Because warlocks are used to shooting an energy pulse, which they can no longer do.
I liked this more than the final shape
I'll be honest. In terms of grandiosity, immersion and solo player friendliness, the Red War was the last of its kind.
i have been playing this game since Beta and when the red war first came out we all thought ghoul was gonna be a raid boss. Im just glad I got to experience this from beta to Final Shape
I want this back 😢
Damn, I never remembered the falcon guiding you along. Really was a nice touch for one to guide you along in the final shape.
The Falcon has always represented the traveler
So it makes sense
Honestly seeing this again after all these years this would be a fun spin off / gamemode idea with no abilities fighting the enemies which normslly would be a breeze suddenly a lot more threatening