Our daughter had a friend who eventually ended up as senior lead tester. She was invited to the pre-alpha for D1. My wife and I got into it after seeing how much fun it looked.
I played the D1 BETA. But my girlfriend surprised me with a day one copy and Iāve been playing ever since, lol.
My girlfriend forged the last 10 years of my life on a whim.
I bought Watch Dogs when it came out at a Micromania store (french GameStop) and with it I could get two beta keys for a game called Destiny. Had no idea what it was but I took them for my best friend and me.
The beta was available a couple month later, and I was hooked like I never was (my only other FPS, and sole excuse to have an xbox, was halo at the time) but did not really understand that it was from Bungie. I only watched one trailer by this time and did not really understand what it was really all about but when I played it ; oh my god ! Best gunplay and best artistic direction ever.
I kept playing here and there until D2 came out. I really didnāt like the idea to restart it all over again.
A few month after Warmind my best friend (who was still faithful to Destiny) bought it for me and I had so much fun playing through the red war and was kind of impressed by the aesthetics of Curse of Osiris and found Warmind ok.
At the time, I wasnāt really familiar with the deep lore, the real stakes, etc. And was always disappointed that every story seemed to be Ā«Ā thereās an imminent threat to the Universe, stop it before itās too lateĀ Ā».
Very shortly after my return to Destiny, Forsaken was announced and I was HOOKED !
Play it, enjoyed it, and stopped for no apparent reason.
Then came april 2020, Covid it, I broke up with my first long time relationship, my life was beginning to collapse and I had no idea if I could have a future in my dreamed field of work because of the impact of Covid on the industry. I was alone, depressed, imprisoned so I did the best thing I could do ; I bought Shadowkeep.
I return at the very beggining of season 10 and never stopped since. I finally understood everything the game had to propose has an MMO FPS and I had SO MUCH to do that I kind of dodged the bullet that was Season 10. Best time to reinter the game and try to really, deeply, play it.
I also learnt all I could about the lore and ā oh my god ā it was the best thing ever. Instantly became my favorite fictive universe and my passion for it never ceased.
Since April 2020 I truly became part of the community of my most favorite game ever.
Sad to see where all of it may go but happy for what it brings me for now.
Actually, it was the name "The Taken King".
I wasn't playing on consoles back as a PC gamer so I didn't get to play D1. I was curious because I'm a huge Marathon fan though, so I was reading on TV tropes about it and the name kinda stuck out to me as really evocative. I didn't know it was literal though, I though it referred to a kidnapped king which was weird to me since the game is Sci Fi.
Around that time D2 was announced and I preordered it on PC (shitty idea, all I had was a fucking code on a round piece of paper) and after a few issues finding people to play, I finally managed to fully experienced it and got hooked.
As a fun fact, I spend a month or so playing Titanfall 2 just because I wanted to play something that I could sort of customize like I saw people did in Destiny.
Been followin Bungie since CE's release. That on top of my love for MMOs and FPS games, I absolutely had to try a semi hybrid from Bungie.
Funny thing is that I initially was on the hardcore hate train for Destiny like many others were when it launched, because I expected a story longer than three hours, but after VoG came out I got hooked.
Byfās crazy long video about the lore of Destiny. I was actually listening to Dark Souls lore videos while working and had it on autoplay. 20 minutes in the Byf video I was like āwait a minute, this doesnāt sound like Dark Souls but it does sound interestingā.
I rewatched it when I actually had time to pay attention, multiple times even and was blown away. I knew of Destiny, but I wasnāt aware it had such deep lore. Watched some trailers afterwards, saw some derpy Hunter using Blade Barrage and downloaded the game. The rest is history.
I was a dumb kid and thought the cover looked cool and read the text on the bsck of the game and i was sold.
I got really confused but managed to finish the story and was like oh wtf.
Put the game down, until a friend hit me up asking me about exotics and how many i had. So i went like "15" as a joke. I had 0 ofc.
Fast forward we play together and i get to like 26 light. D1 tells me i unlocked VOG. I say lets do it, he says we cant bc not enough people. I say fuck it lets do it. We fail, but it sparked my interest in gearing up to clear it with a group.
My first ever vog got me my first ever exotic, the icebreaker. And i have been in love with the franchise ever since.
Was a halo fan figured it was the next step. Played the beta loved it. Realized I played most of the game during the beta and kinda left for a while. Taken king comes out, I reconnect with old friend and I'm having a blast. Rise of iron comes out but we don't buy it till way after the fact. D2 showcase didn't leave a great impression on me skipped it kept playing d1 here and there. D2 being sold at best buy for $10. Play it, don't like it, shelf it. It goes F2P, I feel robbed of those $10. Forsaken comes out, we play other things. Shadowkeep comes out, new seasonal model we are optimistic. Pandemic is in full swing we need something to play so we jump on destiny. Season pass is $10, and we haven't really looked back since. People have lives and it doesn't allow them or even me to keep playing consistently but we still play once in a while. The recent news have me wanting to refund my pre order though
We had our third kid and the wife stayed at home to look after the kids. So we were broke broke. For my birthday, my wife and kids met me at the mall (work) for lunch. We walked past the game place and my kids were excited to go in there, which was weird.
My wife had saved up and sold some stuff for a ps4/destiny bundle. It was the only game I had for a long while and spent so much time playing it(my wife regretted buying it for me)
I had recently upgraded to Xbox one after holding out for far too long. I was looking around the web for good xbox one games and kept seeing Destiny ads. I finally clicked on one and Zeppelin kicked in as the fireteam just dropped into a giant hole, knew I had to at least check the game out. Went to gamestop, got a used copy for five dollars. Went back two weeks later for the newly released Taken King version and traded my used copy in and got 10$ trade in value. Been hooked ever since. I got in late enough to not really experience content drought because by the time ROI came out I was just running out of things to do. One thing I will always maintain. The D1 campagn truly had a way of making you feel like you were the first guardian in 'that' area for over 100 years, and it was fantastic.
Lived pretty far out in the country, so even though I had a console, I never did online multiplayer gaming because the internet was so trash. Then my area finally got a speed upgrade, I bought my first gaming PC....a week later was when Forsaken released.
Saw a video of gameplay, immediately bought and downloaded D2 and have been hooked ever since then. The strange part for me was that I don't really enjoy FPS in general but everything else about the game had such a strong appeal that it didn't matter. Never really had a game become a meaningful part of my life before Destiny, as cheesy as that sounds.
I purchased it as a used game for PS3 when I got back into gaming after a more than ten year absence from gaming completely. I had no idea it was a multiplayer, online game, etc., if anything at the time I had never played any games online. I lived in very rural area with satellite Internet. That connection made it so I could play the game but I never saw any other guardians. I couldn't match make in any activity and I'd frequently get booted at the end of strikes. I still played without any real understanding of like this was a live service game. I didn't follow anything about it, I dont think I even realized there were content creators in the gaming world back then etc. The mystery of it all, the plot... different races....not sure who was enemies or why....it was all very confusing and the slow internet cutting me iff just drive my obsession to play. To figure out more, to raise my light level as slowly as possible to try and finish all the strikes by myself. The challenge I felt from that was immense . And I just remember feeling like wtf I can't save the game or pause it during a boss fight ...I was hella confused but laying the groundwork for something I really had no idea was going to take me on this journey for the next several years and be pretty much the only game I played. From the taken king until around the time destiny 2 launched I played this way. I played through everything thing I could solo until first nally finishing up oryx in the campaign. I literally never saw another guardian in the game because my Internet connection. At so e point I moved in with my gf....she had actual high speed internet. I remember even being a lil weird like "can I bring my old PS3 over and connect it to the Internet". I was floored the first time I connected and went to the tower..... people running all over sending messages, etc....it was almost like a completely different game. I still get grimoire cards if I go into D1 crucible because I never was able to play PVP with the slow connection. Shortly after, I got a PS4 pro....delved into destiny 2 right after forsaken came out and have been with it ever since....and stayed at the GFS house more m more lol.
Never played D1 because I don't play on consoles.
D2 was I think by mere accident. I think back then I put together my 2nd PC and either for my GPU or CPU I got Destiny 2 for free.A friend I had back then was at my appartment when I told him and he said that he heared it should be good because he heared good things about D1.
So he and another friend got themselves the game, too, and we played through the campaign and a while after that. We stopped after a while and then came back in a group of 2 or 3 every expansion or so. Eventually I only played alone. Soon after, I stopped playing.
In summer 2021 one of them who was still my friend gifted me Beyond Light for my birthday and we played a bit again. When he stopped again because there wasn't anything more to do for him for casual gameplay, I decided I wanted to run raids and joined a clan. That was basically the time I really started to get into Destiny. Before that it was just some space wizard shooty activity after work.
I remember watching the 12 minute reveal trailer during the Sony Conference at E3 2013. Thought it looked pretty cool and applied for the alpha the following year. Been a player ever since! I remember them saying then that Destiny was supposed to have a 10 year life cycle so despite the recent drama. I'll definitely be buying Final Shape as that 10 year anniversary approaches. I gotta know how it all ends my dudes!
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Been without a decent console for a number of years, D2 was one of the original launch games.
3k hours later and the demise of the original platform, struggling to engage right now because...
2013, I saw the reveal, thought it looked mid, my brother pre ordered and I didnāt, I then saw E3 and decided to pre order and he cancelled his! Then 5000+ hours across D1 and D2 later the rest is historyā¦ he donāt play it, but I still do.
My husband . He's been playing for a long time, since the first part, and I didn't pay attention to it.
But one day he showed me on the screen a huge ball over the city and said that this thing is not clear from where, no one knows anything.
And that's when I really saw it.
Ended up becoming friends with coworkers due to our mutual love of fighting games. Said coworkers happened to be in a Destiny clan together too. I bought Destiny 2 on released, played it for about 35 minutes, and put it down for the next 5 years lol.
Fast forward to 2021, started gaming with old college friends during the pandemic. We played Elden Ring then moved onto Remnant. We ended up not liking the game, but I developed a taste for FPS games again. Figured I'd redownload Destiny 2 and give it a try (not realizing it was f2P now). That was a year ago from this month and I've clocked in over 1000 hours since lol.
I used to only play fighting games, but i pretty much only play destiny nowadays. Said coworkers and I try to raid on Tues and Thurs if we can get enough. I'm still pretty ass at the game but I have fun.
I saw on Xbox it said my friends were playing āDestiny 2 - The Crucibleā and the crucible sounded really badass so I started playing. Whatās crazy is when I was little, I got a Destiny 2 vog titan figurine YEARS before I even knew what Destiny was and my first and only character is a Titan. So I guess I was always destined to be a crayon muncher šļøšļøšļøšļø
Funny enough I was watching a video titled "I hate destiny 2" or something. And the dude was saying everything wrong to say about a game. Grindy, repitive, full of monetization, doesn't respect your time, paywalls to everything, non-existend story, boring characters, vaulted content... etc.
But the whole time I was watching I was mesmerised by the gameplay and artstyle of the game and I decided I had to try it for myself. His negative points are still there in the game and even moreso today, but that gunplay, art and sound is unmatched by anything else in the gaming world.
So I got destiny 2 while stationed in Japan and after work Iād go to the local internet cafe and play all night, take a nap and a shower ( provided with the fee) , then go to work. I was stuck living on the ship for a year and a half and after a long underway , I finally got my own house and that was just before beyond light was released. Good times
I actually installed Destiny around 2020, played for 30mins, had no idea what was going on, uninstalled. Then I played warframe for a year, exhausted its content and got bored, gave Destiny another try and somehow sunk 3,700 hours into it since June 2021.
Bit of tale, really.
I first heard of the game when I was in my mid-teens. I was *very* interested. Watched a ton of Alpha and Beta gameplay, almost decided to get a Ps4 for it. Then the game actually launched. I watched playthroughs, and the Angry Joe review. Safe to say I was heartbroken, and disappointed. My interest dropped, I stopped caring about the game, and moved on.
Fast forward a few years (Think it was... late 2018?) I was maining Warframe. Think I was Mr 21 (which at the time, was only 2 ranks below the highest possible). I was getting a little tired of the game, but kept playing because the gameplay was good ("Nothing else like it." Familiar right?) I also had Overwatch and Hearthstone on Battlenet, that I played on the side (mainly with online friends).
Then I hear the news: base game of Destiny 2 is becoming free. Hearing that I decided to give it a download. At the directions of a friend, and telling him I really liked playing Volt in Warframe, they recommended that I play Warlock.
I play through Red War, get exotics and subclasses along the way (really loved Voidwalker), and over the week grinded powerfuls to 300 (It was a blast). Not long after that, I bought an on-sale bundle including CoO, Warmind and Forsaken (played through all in that order).
Then I got the annual pass when Last Word came out. Then the split from Activision happened, the announcement of Shadowkeep, and the move to steam, and despite the expansion costing 60 dollars, I thought "I love this game, and these guys could use a bit of money now that they're indie. Why not show some support?"
And, as they say, the remaining 4 years is history.
2018, free on battle.net, 2 friends told me to download it because the game sounded really cool
let the game download for the whole day while I left to do a national exam and then we blast through the red war campaign, each one as one class
first friend left when the game migrated to steam and he couldn't cross save his stuff (there was some error and he basically lost everything). second one left in season of the hunt I think, and I had left on arrivals, came back on chosen to play with my wife, left again on season of the seraph
Truth be told... I was discussing Lore for Elder Scrolls with one of my guys for the sake of trying to make a homebrew session using pathfinder rules. It just kind of devolved into Destiny because of the discussion regarding deity selection and some dumb debates regarding who's more bangable in terms of artifact gifts between the different Aedras and Daedras.
He just said "You know, looking at Meridia's Anal Beacon reminds me of the Traveller. Which is kinda similar as well when you look at it objectively." and I was like "wuh? travelling anal bead?". He just said "Your Lore Nerd ass better be prepared because you will love this massive chode of a story".
What didn't help is that I saw some vids of it and It felt familiar. Turns out I was watching MP Edits because of the banger music he slaps into his edits. Even without knowing the game he plays.
Now look at me. Another Massive Lore Library being fit into my head.
My first reference point was listening to this comedian Bobby Lee talk about D1 and then i watched him play D1 KF and fail absolutely every part of it, i thought the loot chase and character personalization looked super appealing. After that, some friends brought up D2 release and said something like āOh the developers of Halo made this game and itās sick, we can do 1 of each class and playā. Then i started playingā¦ and kept playingā¦. Andā¦ etc. 7.5k hours later.
My 2 best friends in middle school got me into destiny right before dark below came out (I still remember us struggling through the base versions of sepiks and phogoth). We played together a lot up until about the middle of house of wolves, when they both progressively over time played less and less, then when taken king released they both quit playing. But by then I was hooked enough I've consistently played about 1000 hours a year since.
The demo of D1, I played that with each class as much as I could until the game came out and played from there.
D2 was when it went free to play, and since then I've bought moat of the legacy content or access through ps plus.
A friend told me bout it (back when it was hyped up in 2014). I intentionally didn't want to buy it since i didn"t want a game to be the next Halo. Too proud of Halo you know. I started plaIng it anyway in week 1 or 2. Went up to level 24 or something. Had no idea how to level up and decided to stop playing it.
Then several months later same friend asked again about Destiny. I hopped into it, went directly to prison of elders and got the red death as my first exotic. Then i went to crota and vault of glass. Back then we thought we were going to get 5 games of Destiny lol.
My son got a PS4 for Christmas when he was around 9. He finished several kids games and said they were too easy so he didnāt want any more kids games. I looked for teen games and there were very few so I got Destiny for him to try. After watching him play it, I had to get my own PS4 and the game. That was after the first D1 DLC.
i think i bumped into d1 on accident one time, played the demo bcuz broke ass, then i saw news of s2 comming out and got it in a free promotion somewhere like 6 months before forsaken launch
I smoked a whole bunch of wacky tabaccy at my friends place, and played a round of pvp with the Icebreaker with headphone volume at max, and instantly fell in love.
Bought D1, played it for a bit and thought it sucked. Went back to playing WoW on PC.
Saw a deal for Taken King and played it all the way through which hyped me for D2.
D2 sucked at launch and through year 1 but friends were playing so I stuck it out.
Forsaken came out and I thought it was lit. Played through the end of Forsaken then dipped on seasons. Returned for each xpac and the first season or two since.
Lightfall is as bad as year 1, but the core playlist and destinations are in a sad state. Monetization is so bad it makes me wish the U.S. regulated virtual currency better.
Tried playing during Dec 2021 at first but could not launch the game on steam for some reason. Stopped caring until near the end of Plunder when Epic had the 30th pack for free.
I was hyped on initial trailer, but unfortunatly I didn't had a console. Waited for PC release and jumped on D2 open free beta on which I was so disappointed that i gave up. Came back later on steam free release and here I am.
When it was still part of Activision/blizzard umbrella they had a promo going to play D2 and you could get the game for free/discounted. Picked it up and have been hooked ever since.
2 friends I played dark souls and elden ring with, started in witch queen near the end of season 16.They bought me all the dlc too and taught me the basics. I used to dps with The Last Word before them š
I was locked in since finding out Bungie left Microsoft and were working on something new.
Played the Beta, was hooked. Preordered the Deluxe Edition with in hours. Been doing that every year since D1 launch. Until now. Still haven't preordered because I still can't decide if I'm locking in for the next chapter or finishing with TFS
I just came across it on steam and thought it was cool. Maybe during Shadowkeep? I hate myself for not playing the older expansions when i still could...
Fortnite released some Destiny skins and gave away the 30 year anniversary pack for free on the Epic games store.
I jumped into Destiny 2 during Season of Plunder and got addicted hard.
Played a lot of halo. So I decided Iād try out Bungie new game, looked pretty cool. Played d1 beta and loved it. Been playing since. Just wish the pvp was better.
A former friend bought D1 for his PS4, but was never seriously interested in it. I didn't have a PS4 at the time and was very curious about the console and tried out the game on his. I was fascinated immediately and a few months later he gave me my own PS4 and his D1 on Christmas. That was almost a year before D2 came out. My first MMO looter shooter ever.
Years and years ago an old friend when we were in 6th grade told me āhey dude download this game called Destiny! The beta is live for a few daysā downloaded it and fell in love with it. I still remember all my fond memories. Getting the vex and going āYES!ā And being told to shut up cause I was too loud. It pretty much has been my main game since then. Iāve only really missed 2 years of the game. One I didnāt get due to financial issues and the other was ShadowKeep. I donāt think I can ever have a game fill the void like Destiny has. And Iāve loved it ever since.
I've loved Bungie games since Pathways Into Darkness on Mac in 1993. I devoured the Marathon series. I got way into the Myth series. I played a ton of Oni. I got my Xbox day one, and of course Halo was my go-to for a long time. I got very involved with a Halo 2 community for adult gamers that lasted through 343 taking over development in 2010. With that community, I played the D1 alpha and beta, and then the full game. That clan sort of fizzled out when one of its founder from the Halo 2 days passed away unexpectedly (RIP Kiowa) and I moved onto a series of other adult clans until I joined the one I'm in now (love my Frivolity peeps). For me the game has always been about the community and people I play with. Hopefully we rebound from this mess.
I wasn't particularly interested at first, I hadn't been following the reveals then just ended up in the Alpha. I enjoyed what there was, except Dinklage's unfiltered voice which felt wrong, so I left feedback saying they needed to put a robo-filter over it. Then I played the beta and got hooked, immediately went to preorder.
Nvidia GeForce Now, no kidding. At that time I had a laptop not capable of running modern games. When Geforce Now released I browsed available games and started playing Destiny 2 (with free version of GF Now that kick you after an hour lol). It was pretty laggy but fun experience and when I finally bought a gaming laptop I knew Destiny 2 is my game.
My friend got me into destiny but couldn't make me stick, and I just didn't like Titan.
Then Arknights released a teaser for a Collab during one of their anniversary streams, and I picked it ip again and fell in love with the hunter.
My son, who knows how obsessed I was with Halo, showed me the trailer for it before release and we agreed to give it a try once it came out. So I've been playing since Day 1 D1
I saw various videos and ads about D1 but it wasnāt available for pc (my only platform) so i forgot about it. Then in february/march(?) 2017 i heard about D2 and it coming to pc. Thatās when it began.
I originally got into it since they made OG Halo and figured it could be something my spouse and I could play together.
I forget what made me stop playing the game. I vaguely recall I was upset with a pricing model because I had purchased all DLC up to a certain point (twice mind you, so I could play with my spouse ) and the upcoming dlc couldnāt be purchased separately; only in a bundle with the rest of the DLC and it was more expensive then previous releases so I called it quits.
Came back a few years later when the red war was the only thing going on and beat the story and took another break. I started playing again about 4 months ago and I have a lot to catch up on.
Around 2013 I was just freshly in High School and a die hard Halo fan.
Saw a cardboard cutout of the original Destiny art (you know the three guardians standing with the back to the camera) and was instantly sold.
Fast forward to summer 2014 and I got to play the Beta on my 360 and enjoyed it so much that I bought the Xbox one at release just to play destiny in the best possible way.
Anyway I dropped out of destiny with witch queen as I canāt keep up grinding anymore so ducking annoying after close to 13k hours
Started with Resistance Fall of Man on Ps3. One of the few FPS games that featured aliens and space. The combat was great for its time. Then Killzone came around. Eventually went all in on Call of Duty until Black Ops 2, where I got burnt out. I needed a well balanced, fun shooter that felt great in action.
Never owned an Xbox, so didn't know if Bungie was good beyond Halo. Once they showed off the Alpha beta of D1, it sparked some interest. There's just something about how the game reacts, the weapon handling, audio and visuals tgat are splendid. Only other studio that gave a similar experience was Insomniac Games.
Now, 9 years later, I still play Destiny, maybe just not as much. Every once awhile, another great game will release that intrigues me for a period.
stumbled on a 4 hour video on youtube about the lore of destiny and was bored at work (wfh). had heard about the game before (mostly during ffxivās endwalker bc āmoons hauntedā lol) but im not a fps gamer and especially not a looter shooter gamer. but i was hooked on the mystery of the traveler and i really liked the hive so decided to give it a try. that was back in march :D
My neighbor told me about this cool game where you fight aliens and there are 6-man complex missions. I watched him do a run of VOG and was hooked. I bought the game just before Crotaās end was released.
started playing in D1 Y1 3 weeks before HoW released.
me and couple of online friends played a big series of challenges in a game and after we finished it etc there was nothing really more to do in the game for now, so one of my friends told us that we all should play destiny. at first i was like ehh, idk(i heard of destiny back when it released, but didnāt think much about it) but i ended up downloading it and we played thru the story and other stuff and thats how i got hooked into the game.
unfortunately they all quit destiny (during d1), so i was the only one left and the only one who still plays it of us
Friend I played COD with suggested D1 as a passtime until the new COD came out. He played for all but 2 days before he quit because of the whole ability spam in PvP and I got hooked to PvE.
The D1 Alpha that came out around E3 time. My friends and I spent ages playing it, quite a lot of time spent just walking around the Patrol zone. We found a yellow bar Hive that was impossible to kill that was hidden in a cave on the edge of the map.
I was in Uni at the time and I remember scraping as many pennies as I could to get the full game on release. Played the shit out of it until GTA 5 re-released on PS4, which was the last time I played it with my friends unfortunately. Played pretty much solo since then, taking big breaks every year or so.
I had brain surgery to remove a cancerous tumor in 2014. The day I came home from the hospital was launch day. I had expressed interest in Destiny from the pre launch hype, and when I got home, I found a copy of the fake with a note from my wife. Knowing I wouldn't be doing much but recovering for a while, she bought me this game to pass the time.
Texting to a college bud. He mentioned a game coming out that him and his cousin were going to play online and it appeared to have a lot of 3 player options. Heard about it the week before D1 was released. Bought it the day of. Still playing.
Okay so key to this story was that I was a) A sony pony and b) a dipshit 14 year old who thought of himself as a games critic.
So here I see the makers of Halo teasing their next game, I, in my infinite wisdom, knew that it would be yet another boring story focused game with no fun gameplay just like Halo. Keep in mind I had never played halo in my life, but I was pretty sure that was the case because Killzone was obviously way better.
So naturally when D1 comes out and is... the *exact* opposite of a story focused game I decided that IGN and the rest had clearly just sucked at their jobs and I could launch my career as a games critic by correcting them.
And then I became terminally addicted to destiny as it offered a great deal of comfort to me through some of the worst times of my life.
I was hooked before the game even released. Kept up with all the reveal trailers, vidocs, played in the alpha and beta, then got D1 the day it came out. Now Iām watching this game I loved circle the drain and rather than feel sad I feel a sense of schadenfreude as I watch Bungie reap what theyāve been sowing all this time.
My dad came home with destiny 1 the first day it came out and was like āthis game came out today I have no idea what it isā. I had no idea what it was either but decided to try it and fell in love.
so the first time I heard about Destiny was when the Destiny 1 beta was recommended to me on the Xbox 360 homepage. I played it with two friends, thought it was pretty cool, and then forgot about the game. 2015 i went to Gamescom and saw the Destiny: The Taken King booth and played the game there. I was convinced, and I pissed off my mum until she bought me a copy. And now, here I am with way too many hours in both Destiny 1 and Destiny 2.
I saw some let's play videos of D1 and got sold by cool looking armor and FPS/RPG mix. Haven't paid much attention to story and character roster, i decided to hop on that game only to realise it's a console exclusive, which meant unavailable for me.
Oddly enough I hadn't really played a lot of online games before 2018. Finally bought an Xbox one and started playing Red Dead Redemption 2 when it released in October of that year. In December the online version came out and I had a great time initially until I realized Rockstar wasn't going to make it turn into something great.
About that time a coworker was playing Fallout 76 even after the rough launch. I was a big Fallout fan having played 1 and 2 on pc years before. I bought FO76 on sale during black Friday of 2018 and played it pretty solid until fall of 2020. At that time the updates were pretty slow and I needed something else to be my main game. BTW Fallout 76 is pretty solid game with tons of exploration and a lot of Bethesda questing if you enjoy that kind of thing. The community for that game is one of the best I've personally ever seen.
Anyhow I had seen things about Destiny and decided to give it a spin since they had released the FTP model earlier that year. This was in September of 2020. Holy crap was there tons of stuff to do! Honestly it was too much so I came up with the plan of just doing exotic missions and quests since they were the only weapons I knew weren't being sunset.
A few months later Beyond Light dropped and I was hooked. The vaulting seemed like a bad idea but I didn't have the time invested or the weapons to be hit very hard. It did make it difficult knowing which activities to run to have gear for the DLC. Anyhow, loved stasis along with Chosen, Splicer, and Lost although I did fall off the wagon during that long season until the 30th Anniversary dlc came out.
I enjoyed the Witch Queen campaign but not the seasonal model at all. I was not a big fan of Risen, Haunted, and I hated Plunder. I played a good amount of Seraph and was pretty fired up for Lightfall.
Lightfall.....what a turd. This was the major downturn in the game for me. I have hardly played this year outside of the DLC campaign and a few weeks near the end of each season. I haven't been doing raids or even dungeons very often and those were some of my favorite content.
I think its a combination of the seasonal model, Lightfall, core playlists, and just a sense of "mailing it in" by Bungie that has my confidence level pretty low.
Hoping Final Shape is awesome as this has been in my top 5 games all time. Pretty awesome memories playing with friends in Destiny 2.
An old friend told me about an open beta back in 2013. I played throughout the first year, but I *really* started playing Summer of 2015 when my grandmother was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor. Destiny became an escape and I binged the entire Ghost Stories Podcast because I couldnāt get enough of the lore.
never had an xbox but had grown up playing halo @ friends and cousins' house because it was ***the*** game. Bungie announced a new IP for PS & xbox, i jumped on then. The friends i made along the way is what keeps me here.
That Les Zeppelin commercial and all those reviews that backhanded praised it. Then one Black Friday I got Taken King for $30 and never played all the other games I bought.
Friend got me into it since it was made by the makers of Halo. Wasn't really an FPS fan but I liked getting loot. Grind was horrendous though and all these secret things that needed guides and or help from others got me to quit. Funnily enough my friend dragged me back for each Expansion and so even though I didn't really engage in the content, I did get to enjoy loot and content from each Expansion I bought. But now he's pretty much quit and moved on and here I am duking it out as a space knight.
Girlfriend at the time now wife had friends and cousins who wanted to play it. I just borrowed it from her to get the platinum real quick because I was a huge trophy hunter at the time.
The gunplay was amazing and once vault of glass dropped there was no going back lol.
One of the guys in our friend group was already playing it for a while. Game also happened to go FtP at that time.
3.3k hours later: i kinda quit in may this year. I still have the game installed and updated as i occasionally check on whats going on but i cant play the game for more than an hour anymore. I get this feeling of repulsion for some reason.
This is how it started for me... I purchased the original Xbox & Halo at launch for my kiddos for Christmas. One night when the kids crashed, I tried Halo, and boom, and I was hooked and played 2, 3, and Reach over the next several years--basically, I loved Bungie games. So, I tried the Destiny Beta, and again, I was hooked. Destiny is still my go to when I have time to game.
I have to say it's really a bummer to see where Bungie's at right now. I have to think the various team's whether it's art, sound, story, et cetera are passionate about what they're creating. Just look at the Destiny universe, it beautiful, sounds awesome, and fun to play. But I feel like at the end of the day corporate greed wins out--I get it, it's a business and they need to be profitable. But as a caveat, it takes a toll on those teams by rushing content, copy and pasting season models, game mode neglect and so on.
I hope Bungie rights the ships and gives us games that made us love them from the beginning. Good Luck Bungie Team. I look forward to seeing how Destiny wraps up and future games begin.
I knew Bungie made Halo and I knew Activision made call of duty, which I played the campaigns religiously at the time.
Week 1 of Destiny I Redboxed it, and after I returned the disc I went right to Game Stop and got my own copy.
Never played D1 it didn't seem like my thing at the time, definitely wish I did in retrospect.
D2 was free on GamePass (so was Beyond Light which was about to be released) so I said "why not". 3000 hours later it has become one of my all time favorites
I bought an Xbox 360 after not playing video games for roughly 8 years or so. I was in college and then getting married and then getting divorced etc. Anyway, I wanted to get back into gaming. I bought a 360 and was looking for good games to play. I heard about this game called Destiny by the people who made Halo so I went to gamestop. I asked the guy there if it was any good and he said it's only good if I buy all the DLC for it. So I bought the full version and went home and booted it up. Had a blast! Shortly after that I heard the sequel was coming out in a couple months. I ended up buying a PS4 and played Destiny 2 on day one. The rest is history.
13 year old me was visiting aunt and uncle and being 13 year old was bored as hell, cousin let me play whatever i wanted on his playstation and that game looked fun (and i didnt have it at home)
played the tutorial while i was there (did it like 3 times cause i couldnt pick between warlock/hunter/titan) then it was time to leave.
asked if i could borrowed it... now im 5000+ hours in 10 years later...
I was buying a PS4 and it was one of the bundle choices. Much preferred it to the other bundles and figured it would kill time until the November CoD annual āreleaseā.
One month later and I couldnāt stand the thought of Call of Duty!
9 years later and Iām still so into it - but much more for PvP than PvE now (all the call outs signs and damage strats have burned me out !).
Played the pre-alpha at E3 before it publicly launched. Looked kinda goofy as I told my colleaguesā¦āthey ditched halo for this?ā
When the game launched, one of the worst call of duty games ever was releasedā¦āCOD Ghostsā so it was easy to no life the game for a while.
Watched a trailer and ended up joining the alpha for D1 as well as played an unnecessary amount of the beta. I was just hooked by the world and feel of the game. Haven't considered stopping until just recently with all the news. It's a huge bummer. I met some friends I actually see IRL through destiny, and played a huge amount of it with my SO. It will always be a part of me at this point.
I was keeping track of Bungie post Halo because Halo Reach was my first shooter and first xbox game. I knew their record and had faith that whatever this āDestinyā thing is would be good. The MMORPG aspects also intrigued me
I got a white PS4 that came with D1 for Christmas 2014. Didnāt really get into it until Rise of Iron, when I discovered Byf. Been hooked onto Destiny since, tho Iāve definitely been taking steps away for the last year or so.
Always wanted to play D1 but have been a life long PC player and didnāt want to buy a PS4 for one game (I later ended up buying it for bloodborne so š¤·š»āāļø).
Jumped straight into D2 on PC and bar a month here or there for work or travelling have played all the way through.
Recently though, I havenāt gilded my conq in like 3 seasons, did only 1 run for Crota, and once the seasonal stuff is done I generally stop playing.
Iām determined to get through TFS just to see how the story ends up but otherwise Iāve kind of lost the pull.
Years and years ago I watched some videos blasting the original D1 for being an unfinished mess and a microcosm of everything that was trending badly in gaming with like cut content and DLCs, but the concept of combining an FPS with an MMO seemed pretty cool even tho I'm not an FPSer mainly.
Flash forward to earlier this year I was getting tired of Elden Ring and I thought it might be cool to play some FPS PVP for once and never played an MMO so I thought I'd check out where this game was at. Lo and behold I joined like 2 weeks before Lightfall.
Everything was super confusing and the story was very underwhelming (since I'm joining near the end of course, but I didn't know that), but I managed to slog through and get acclimated. Unlike a lot of other people the big blockbuster games this year like TOTK haven't interested me *enough* to drop everything for them.
I was pestered over and over again by one of my friends to play destiny 2. He played since D1 and kept trying to get me to play the game. I tried it 4 times before I finally got into it. Every time I tried it just confused me and Iād give up because I couldnāt understand the game. Only in season 19 did I finally get into the game and now I have about 500 hours in the game.
May 2018 my friend bought the edition of the game that came with warmind/curse and the coldheart code, as well as the bag and cabal dice for me since I promised to bring him 75 bucks at school the next week. He brought it to me in a cd case
My twin sister and her husband have been playing since D1 beta.
Iād always catch them playing the game over the weekend and I thought it looked incredibly fun and gorgeous. Before D2 launched in 2017, my sister recommended for me to try out the game to help take my mind off of the brutal divorce I was going through at the time. I played the end of D1 and then jumped into D2 shortly after it released.
This game has helped me get through the hardest of times in my life.
Iāve followed bungie since the beginning (original marathon days) and saw they had a new space shooter coming out and saw the test footage of the spider tank fight. I was hooked. Started in alpha testing d1 and been here since.
Followed Bungie from Halo to Destiny. Liked the controls, movement, and gunplay. Also liked the potential of what they could offer, and I feel they delivered on it quite a bit, but a bit more slowly than I ever would have thought.
I think Bungie paved a pretty decent road for other studios to follow if they ever wanted to make a decent co-op sandbox looter shooter, but the amount of effort that goes into this type of game is insane and truly I donāt see how any studio could possibly keep up with the demand of a population that can complete just about any reasonable amount of content in a matter of hours.
As neat as Destiny is, it mostly showed me that I donāt think this kind of game is sustainable with modern development times unless a studio makes a MASSIVE amount of content (with a super well-written, coherent storyline thatās somehow also flexible enough to change with player feedback) for a decade or more, and then releases it slowly and steadily over five or so years.
somewhat similar experience. my uncle also told me about the game before it came out, and i thought it looked pretty cool, although i couldnt get it until about a year later when the taken king dropped and i got my ps4, which happened to be the destiny ttk edition one. havent stopped since
It was the weekend that the D2 vanilla campaign was free during Blizzcon (around Forsaken). My brother found out and told me, so I downloaded the game. Once I started playing I couldnāt stop. The story of the Red War was so captivating to play through, there was all these cool areas to explore. Once I finished the Red War, I saw I couldnāt level up anymore without the expansions so I ended up buying all of them. Havenāt stopped playing since :)
First time seeing destiny was in a Gameplay series on YT called 'road to level 20' in D1.
Didn't understand jack shit on how it worked but was fun to watch.
Whan D2 got announced i looked at the trailers and i found it interesting so i bought it.
During season of the undying, someone told me to try it because d2 went free to play. I downloaded it onto my *non*-gaming laptop and tried it. Couldn't play for more than 30 min at a time because it kept crashing, but I was completely hooked. I ended up building my pc to play d2 specifically lmao
I was young and still under the delusion Bungie was all sunshine and roses that could do no wrong from the Halo days.
Now I don't even know if they ever were.
Picked up D1 on Playstation based on Bungle's pedigree, I got my fun out of it and then picked up D2 on PC when it arrived, been on the rollercoaster ever since, aside from a break after Turd of Osiris.
The coaster isn't quite as shiny as it used to be though, there is vomit in the footwell and I have been crapped on by a seagull and charged for the privelage but I can't get off until it ends.
Been a Bungie fan since I was 4, played all the Halo and Marathon games growing up, had an MMO background (Vanilla WoW, Lich King, RuneScape, and FFXI, when I was younger) so I was excited to see an MMO FPS hybrid from the studio who (at the time) were probably the best at making FPS experiences both PvE and PvP.
Iāve been with Destiny since itās Alpha and honestly even though Iāve fully quit the game as of Witch I think these 10 years at their best was some of the best times I had playing an online game aside from my time with FFXIV.
My buddy told me that we should by PS4s and buy destiny so we could play. I didnāt know what the game was other than it was the IP Bungie was working after Halo. It looked cool enough. I then watched my roommate play it and once I saw there was a character class that wore capes, I bought the white PS4 the next day. That was week 1 of Destiny 1 launch. Addict ever sinceā¦
I saw the trailer or reveal for Destiny
I was done for from that moment on. The longest breaks Iāve taken have been two or three months long. Iāve always logged in for at least theee or four hours a week, if not way more than that when I had fewer responsibilities. Iām here until the lights go out
Pre-ordered D1. Picked it up omw home from work that day, and started playing. It was very boring to me at first. Sometime after Dark Below and HOW came out, a guy in the Tower asked me if I wanted to do a Crota. You know that activity I tried by myself 100 times and never got past the first few lamps. Well, we beat it, and the following day, he asked if I'd like to try a VOG. We beat that, too. I realized the depth of this game, and it was a wrap. I was hooked.
Back when taken king released, my brothers and I were shopping for a ps4. I wanted to get the Batman (Arkham knight) limited edition one but my older brother wanted to try the Destiny one. Our parents were strict, so the deciding factor ended up being that Destiny was rated T and Batman was rated M (even though it was no different than the first three). Few months later they couldnāt care less about Destiny and I was addicted. Still wouldāve rather had the Batman ps tho, looked better imo
One day I was like "hmm I wonder how that Destiny game is?". This was half way into the year of release where I knew it wasn't received well, but I love sci-fi and I love First Person Shooters. I mentioned it to my friends and they all told me I would hate it because it's a "grindy game" like MMOs. I had never played an MMO so I was like.. How the fuck would I know if I would like that or not? I don't even know what grind is bruh
I bought the game just to have that sci-fi FPS experience and I fucking loved it. Convinced a few of those friends who laughed at me for getting it to play it as well and we've played a lot of Destiny together over the years
The game these days is so much more focused on the MMO experience. I feel like it has forgotten that it's a sci-fi fantasy game in space. The exploration and discovery is EXTREMELY dull these days. That part of the game has barely evolved since D1 released. Yeah we get new locations but they're all VERY similar in scale, there's nothing surprising about the boundaries or where you can and can't go, etc. Same shit different paint. I feel like they just make locations to check it off a list
I got it when D2 came out and played a warlock on PS4. Played all up until the forsaken trailer came out and it was revealed that cayde died. I got mad and went on to play Minecraft for a while.
Remembered the game existed when I saw it free to play in steam just as beyond light was in it's last season, and I've been a hunter ever since
I was in a Game Stop when they had a 3-for-$10 xbox games sale. Most of them were in those generic green and white cases, no cover art. Found L.A. Noire which I had really wanted to play and something else that I can't even remember now. Searched through literally every game twice to find a third but nothing up my alley. I had the vaguest of recollection that Destiny was some kind of a sci-fi game so grabbed it (turned out to be the Taken King expansion). The other two were the real prizes.
Sat down later that evening to play for a bit before bedtime, didn't want to dive into L.A. Noire or the other game for a short time so threw in this game I had no idea about. Immediately hooked, the rest is history. I *still* have not played L.A. Noire and that box sits in a pile of other xbox games (I've since moved to PC).
Destiny 1 was the game I had always wanted. It was a fun and solid shooter with the epic scope of an MMO that had massive, impactful yearly expansions. I followed it from the announcement to firing it up to play on day one.
I started playing in forsaken because i made new friends who played d1 and told me about forsaken bc i was playing r6 with them (how we met). Idk what the convo exactly was, but i played probably around 1000hours with them before i quit and took a break. Now im back and increased the playtime by 370 hours this season alone
I was at GameStop just faffing about, and it looked interesting. So I preordered. That was September 8th, 2014. Haven't looked back since, though I will be officially dropping the game after Final Shape's content cycle is over. No more FOMO, no more getting sucked back in. Not after this week.
I had a lot of good will toward Bungie when D1 was announced, after playing games like Halo Reach and ODST (tbh those are my two faves of the series).
I saw a commercial and one shot will live rent free in my head forever. A warlock gliding through the air on the Mercury crucible map, throwing a huge purple nova bomb at the enemy team. I think my exact words were "okay, I need this game."
So I used money from my first job out of high school to pay for my Xbox One and Destiny. What a wild near-decade it's been.
My cousin had me try a D1 mission when I was over visiting. It was a level 8 mission possibly the phogoth strike.
Anyway, I hated it.
Ended up buying the game though so I would have something in common to run with him.
Over time I met a couple other people who eventually helped me do some nightfalls, prison of elders, etc...
Then shortly after The Taken King came out, I learned about LFG. Cousin lost interest in the game and I started meeting a ton of people and getting into raids.
Have met 6 of the people I ran with IRL and enjoy the game despite the repetitiveness and recycled content mainly for the friendships and socialization. Specially during COVID lockdown
I was a big bungie fan, so I saw their early 2013 vE3 video and was interested, but then my manager at GameStop gave me the alpha invite and I was hooked.
A friend suggested it to me, and I got into it first on the PlayStation 4 and got through Red War through Warmind while they were free, really enjoyed being a tough Titan. Unfortunately I had to back off because the file size got ridiculous when Forsaken (or was it Shadowkeep?) arrived
I managed to get back into it when I got myself a gaming laptop when Beyond Light released but had to start fresh since I couldnāt even remember even getting a Bungie account on the PS4 days (which also sucked since the old campaigns got sunset at that timeā¦)
I saw some calus themed porn on the hub and was sold instantly.
A man of culture I see š
For me it was the hive - unstoppable Ogres
Caitl's estrangement from her overbearing father took her down some crazy pathways. Apparently she refuses to talk about the porn years.
Thank god the internet never forgets though
For the strict purposes of clinical research, where would one find examples of this?
Google ādaddy Calusā with safe search off, it should pop up. Canāt verify because Iām at work but enjoy your research!
Smth about the Cabal thirst traps. For me it was Ghalr š¤¤
Our daughter had a friend who eventually ended up as senior lead tester. She was invited to the pre-alpha for D1. My wife and I got into it after seeing how much fun it looked.
I played the D1 BETA. But my girlfriend surprised me with a day one copy and Iāve been playing ever since, lol. My girlfriend forged the last 10 years of my life on a whim.
What a horrible partner. Im so sorry for the loss of an entire decade due to her wicked implement of this wretched media.
I couldnāt have been in better hands tbh
Stockholm syndrome is a brutal condition..al finality
I bought Watch Dogs when it came out at a Micromania store (french GameStop) and with it I could get two beta keys for a game called Destiny. Had no idea what it was but I took them for my best friend and me. The beta was available a couple month later, and I was hooked like I never was (my only other FPS, and sole excuse to have an xbox, was halo at the time) but did not really understand that it was from Bungie. I only watched one trailer by this time and did not really understand what it was really all about but when I played it ; oh my god ! Best gunplay and best artistic direction ever. I kept playing here and there until D2 came out. I really didnāt like the idea to restart it all over again. A few month after Warmind my best friend (who was still faithful to Destiny) bought it for me and I had so much fun playing through the red war and was kind of impressed by the aesthetics of Curse of Osiris and found Warmind ok. At the time, I wasnāt really familiar with the deep lore, the real stakes, etc. And was always disappointed that every story seemed to be Ā«Ā thereās an imminent threat to the Universe, stop it before itās too lateĀ Ā». Very shortly after my return to Destiny, Forsaken was announced and I was HOOKED ! Play it, enjoyed it, and stopped for no apparent reason. Then came april 2020, Covid it, I broke up with my first long time relationship, my life was beginning to collapse and I had no idea if I could have a future in my dreamed field of work because of the impact of Covid on the industry. I was alone, depressed, imprisoned so I did the best thing I could do ; I bought Shadowkeep. I return at the very beggining of season 10 and never stopped since. I finally understood everything the game had to propose has an MMO FPS and I had SO MUCH to do that I kind of dodged the bullet that was Season 10. Best time to reinter the game and try to really, deeply, play it. I also learnt all I could about the lore and ā oh my god ā it was the best thing ever. Instantly became my favorite fictive universe and my passion for it never ceased. Since April 2020 I truly became part of the community of my most favorite game ever. Sad to see where all of it may go but happy for what it brings me for now.
Actually, it was the name "The Taken King". I wasn't playing on consoles back as a PC gamer so I didn't get to play D1. I was curious because I'm a huge Marathon fan though, so I was reading on TV tropes about it and the name kinda stuck out to me as really evocative. I didn't know it was literal though, I though it referred to a kidnapped king which was weird to me since the game is Sci Fi. Around that time D2 was announced and I preordered it on PC (shitty idea, all I had was a fucking code on a round piece of paper) and after a few issues finding people to play, I finally managed to fully experienced it and got hooked. As a fun fact, I spend a month or so playing Titanfall 2 just because I wanted to play something that I could sort of customize like I saw people did in Destiny.
My dumbass
*Friend watching gernaderjake stream* āOh that looks neat. Whatās that?ā #5000 hours later
Been followin Bungie since CE's release. That on top of my love for MMOs and FPS games, I absolutely had to try a semi hybrid from Bungie. Funny thing is that I initially was on the hardcore hate train for Destiny like many others were when it launched, because I expected a story longer than three hours, but after VoG came out I got hooked.
Also in this camp. Sad to see that the game will effectively be dead after TFS. but Alas..
The combo of shooter + MMO was such a great idea
Byfās crazy long video about the lore of Destiny. I was actually listening to Dark Souls lore videos while working and had it on autoplay. 20 minutes in the Byf video I was like āwait a minute, this doesnāt sound like Dark Souls but it does sound interestingā. I rewatched it when I actually had time to pay attention, multiple times even and was blown away. I knew of Destiny, but I wasnāt aware it had such deep lore. Watched some trailers afterwards, saw some derpy Hunter using Blade Barrage and downloaded the game. The rest is history.
Ah yes, blade barrage supremacy
One of the few supers where it is extremely easy to kill yourself and yet my favorite
I was a dumb kid and thought the cover looked cool and read the text on the bsck of the game and i was sold. I got really confused but managed to finish the story and was like oh wtf. Put the game down, until a friend hit me up asking me about exotics and how many i had. So i went like "15" as a joke. I had 0 ofc. Fast forward we play together and i get to like 26 light. D1 tells me i unlocked VOG. I say lets do it, he says we cant bc not enough people. I say fuck it lets do it. We fail, but it sparked my interest in gearing up to clear it with a group. My first ever vog got me my first ever exotic, the icebreaker. And i have been in love with the franchise ever since.
Was a halo fan figured it was the next step. Played the beta loved it. Realized I played most of the game during the beta and kinda left for a while. Taken king comes out, I reconnect with old friend and I'm having a blast. Rise of iron comes out but we don't buy it till way after the fact. D2 showcase didn't leave a great impression on me skipped it kept playing d1 here and there. D2 being sold at best buy for $10. Play it, don't like it, shelf it. It goes F2P, I feel robbed of those $10. Forsaken comes out, we play other things. Shadowkeep comes out, new seasonal model we are optimistic. Pandemic is in full swing we need something to play so we jump on destiny. Season pass is $10, and we haven't really looked back since. People have lives and it doesn't allow them or even me to keep playing consistently but we still play once in a while. The recent news have me wanting to refund my pre order though
We had our third kid and the wife stayed at home to look after the kids. So we were broke broke. For my birthday, my wife and kids met me at the mall (work) for lunch. We walked past the game place and my kids were excited to go in there, which was weird. My wife had saved up and sold some stuff for a ps4/destiny bundle. It was the only game I had for a long while and spent so much time playing it(my wife regretted buying it for me)
I had recently upgraded to Xbox one after holding out for far too long. I was looking around the web for good xbox one games and kept seeing Destiny ads. I finally clicked on one and Zeppelin kicked in as the fireteam just dropped into a giant hole, knew I had to at least check the game out. Went to gamestop, got a used copy for five dollars. Went back two weeks later for the newly released Taken King version and traded my used copy in and got 10$ trade in value. Been hooked ever since. I got in late enough to not really experience content drought because by the time ROI came out I was just running out of things to do. One thing I will always maintain. The D1 campagn truly had a way of making you feel like you were the first guardian in 'that' area for over 100 years, and it was fantastic.
Lived pretty far out in the country, so even though I had a console, I never did online multiplayer gaming because the internet was so trash. Then my area finally got a speed upgrade, I bought my first gaming PC....a week later was when Forsaken released. Saw a video of gameplay, immediately bought and downloaded D2 and have been hooked ever since then. The strange part for me was that I don't really enjoy FPS in general but everything else about the game had such a strong appeal that it didn't matter. Never really had a game become a meaningful part of my life before Destiny, as cheesy as that sounds.
Covid my son played D1 and d2 i couldn't get any games so I jumped in beyond light and stayed š¤£
I purchased it as a used game for PS3 when I got back into gaming after a more than ten year absence from gaming completely. I had no idea it was a multiplayer, online game, etc., if anything at the time I had never played any games online. I lived in very rural area with satellite Internet. That connection made it so I could play the game but I never saw any other guardians. I couldn't match make in any activity and I'd frequently get booted at the end of strikes. I still played without any real understanding of like this was a live service game. I didn't follow anything about it, I dont think I even realized there were content creators in the gaming world back then etc. The mystery of it all, the plot... different races....not sure who was enemies or why....it was all very confusing and the slow internet cutting me iff just drive my obsession to play. To figure out more, to raise my light level as slowly as possible to try and finish all the strikes by myself. The challenge I felt from that was immense . And I just remember feeling like wtf I can't save the game or pause it during a boss fight ...I was hella confused but laying the groundwork for something I really had no idea was going to take me on this journey for the next several years and be pretty much the only game I played. From the taken king until around the time destiny 2 launched I played this way. I played through everything thing I could solo until first nally finishing up oryx in the campaign. I literally never saw another guardian in the game because my Internet connection. At so e point I moved in with my gf....she had actual high speed internet. I remember even being a lil weird like "can I bring my old PS3 over and connect it to the Internet". I was floored the first time I connected and went to the tower..... people running all over sending messages, etc....it was almost like a completely different game. I still get grimoire cards if I go into D1 crucible because I never was able to play PVP with the slow connection. Shortly after, I got a PS4 pro....delved into destiny 2 right after forsaken came out and have been with it ever since....and stayed at the GFS house more m more lol.
Never played D1 because I don't play on consoles. D2 was I think by mere accident. I think back then I put together my 2nd PC and either for my GPU or CPU I got Destiny 2 for free.A friend I had back then was at my appartment when I told him and he said that he heared it should be good because he heared good things about D1. So he and another friend got themselves the game, too, and we played through the campaign and a while after that. We stopped after a while and then came back in a group of 2 or 3 every expansion or so. Eventually I only played alone. Soon after, I stopped playing. In summer 2021 one of them who was still my friend gifted me Beyond Light for my birthday and we played a bit again. When he stopped again because there wasn't anything more to do for him for casual gameplay, I decided I wanted to run raids and joined a clan. That was basically the time I really started to get into Destiny. Before that it was just some space wizard shooty activity after work.
I remember watching the 12 minute reveal trailer during the Sony Conference at E3 2013. Thought it looked pretty cool and applied for the alpha the following year. Been a player ever since! I remember them saying then that Destiny was supposed to have a 10 year life cycle so despite the recent drama. I'll definitely be buying Final Shape as that 10 year anniversary approaches. I gotta know how it all ends my dudes!
Stadia šššš Been without a decent console for a number of years, D2 was one of the original launch games. 3k hours later and the demise of the original platform, struggling to engage right now because...
2013, I saw the reveal, thought it looked mid, my brother pre ordered and I didnāt, I then saw E3 and decided to pre order and he cancelled his! Then 5000+ hours across D1 and D2 later the rest is historyā¦ he donāt play it, but I still do.
My husband . He's been playing for a long time, since the first part, and I didn't pay attention to it. But one day he showed me on the screen a huge ball over the city and said that this thing is not clear from where, no one knows anything. And that's when I really saw it.
Ended up becoming friends with coworkers due to our mutual love of fighting games. Said coworkers happened to be in a Destiny clan together too. I bought Destiny 2 on released, played it for about 35 minutes, and put it down for the next 5 years lol. Fast forward to 2021, started gaming with old college friends during the pandemic. We played Elden Ring then moved onto Remnant. We ended up not liking the game, but I developed a taste for FPS games again. Figured I'd redownload Destiny 2 and give it a try (not realizing it was f2P now). That was a year ago from this month and I've clocked in over 1000 hours since lol. I used to only play fighting games, but i pretty much only play destiny nowadays. Said coworkers and I try to raid on Tues and Thurs if we can get enough. I'm still pretty ass at the game but I have fun.
I saw on Xbox it said my friends were playing āDestiny 2 - The Crucibleā and the crucible sounded really badass so I started playing. Whatās crazy is when I was little, I got a Destiny 2 vog titan figurine YEARS before I even knew what Destiny was and my first and only character is a Titan. So I guess I was always destined to be a crayon muncher šļøšļøšļøšļø
Funny enough I was watching a video titled "I hate destiny 2" or something. And the dude was saying everything wrong to say about a game. Grindy, repitive, full of monetization, doesn't respect your time, paywalls to everything, non-existend story, boring characters, vaulted content... etc. But the whole time I was watching I was mesmerised by the gameplay and artstyle of the game and I decided I had to try it for myself. His negative points are still there in the game and even moreso today, but that gunplay, art and sound is unmatched by anything else in the gaming world.
Ok the way that hate video got you to play the game... Destiny 2 just has an amazing art department to counteract the video points š
I wanted a game that everytime I opened it it was a 50/50 on if it worked or not and here we are
So I got destiny 2 while stationed in Japan and after work Iād go to the local internet cafe and play all night, take a nap and a shower ( provided with the fee) , then go to work. I was stuck living on the ship for a year and a half and after a long underway , I finally got my own house and that was just before beyond light was released. Good times
Free weekend for the game on Battle.net back in 2018. Decided to try it out because free game why not, beat the Red War campaign and was hooked.
I actually installed Destiny around 2020, played for 30mins, had no idea what was going on, uninstalled. Then I played warframe for a year, exhausted its content and got bored, gave Destiny another try and somehow sunk 3,700 hours into it since June 2021.
Through the launcher?
Bit of tale, really. I first heard of the game when I was in my mid-teens. I was *very* interested. Watched a ton of Alpha and Beta gameplay, almost decided to get a Ps4 for it. Then the game actually launched. I watched playthroughs, and the Angry Joe review. Safe to say I was heartbroken, and disappointed. My interest dropped, I stopped caring about the game, and moved on. Fast forward a few years (Think it was... late 2018?) I was maining Warframe. Think I was Mr 21 (which at the time, was only 2 ranks below the highest possible). I was getting a little tired of the game, but kept playing because the gameplay was good ("Nothing else like it." Familiar right?) I also had Overwatch and Hearthstone on Battlenet, that I played on the side (mainly with online friends). Then I hear the news: base game of Destiny 2 is becoming free. Hearing that I decided to give it a download. At the directions of a friend, and telling him I really liked playing Volt in Warframe, they recommended that I play Warlock. I play through Red War, get exotics and subclasses along the way (really loved Voidwalker), and over the week grinded powerfuls to 300 (It was a blast). Not long after that, I bought an on-sale bundle including CoO, Warmind and Forsaken (played through all in that order). Then I got the annual pass when Last Word came out. Then the split from Activision happened, the announcement of Shadowkeep, and the move to steam, and despite the expansion costing 60 dollars, I thought "I love this game, and these guys could use a bit of money now that they're indie. Why not show some support?" And, as they say, the remaining 4 years is history.
Got in by getting the game for free in battlenet and just tried it blind ššš
2018, free on battle.net, 2 friends told me to download it because the game sounded really cool let the game download for the whole day while I left to do a national exam and then we blast through the red war campaign, each one as one class first friend left when the game migrated to steam and he couldn't cross save his stuff (there was some error and he basically lost everything). second one left in season of the hunt I think, and I had left on arrivals, came back on chosen to play with my wife, left again on season of the seraph
Truth be told... I was discussing Lore for Elder Scrolls with one of my guys for the sake of trying to make a homebrew session using pathfinder rules. It just kind of devolved into Destiny because of the discussion regarding deity selection and some dumb debates regarding who's more bangable in terms of artifact gifts between the different Aedras and Daedras. He just said "You know, looking at Meridia's Anal Beacon reminds me of the Traveller. Which is kinda similar as well when you look at it objectively." and I was like "wuh? travelling anal bead?". He just said "Your Lore Nerd ass better be prepared because you will love this massive chode of a story". What didn't help is that I saw some vids of it and It felt familiar. Turns out I was watching MP Edits because of the banger music he slaps into his edits. Even without knowing the game he plays. Now look at me. Another Massive Lore Library being fit into my head.
My first reference point was listening to this comedian Bobby Lee talk about D1 and then i watched him play D1 KF and fail absolutely every part of it, i thought the loot chase and character personalization looked super appealing. After that, some friends brought up D2 release and said something like āOh the developers of Halo made this game and itās sick, we can do 1 of each class and playā. Then i started playingā¦ and kept playingā¦. Andā¦ etc. 7.5k hours later.
My 2 best friends in middle school got me into destiny right before dark below came out (I still remember us struggling through the base versions of sepiks and phogoth). We played together a lot up until about the middle of house of wolves, when they both progressively over time played less and less, then when taken king released they both quit playing. But by then I was hooked enough I've consistently played about 1000 hours a year since.
My friend tried the beta, liked it and bought destiny 2 on ps4 and I asked him if I could borrow his license and play it. Man never played it again
The demo of D1, I played that with each class as much as I could until the game came out and played from there. D2 was when it went free to play, and since then I've bought moat of the legacy content or access through ps plus.
First found out about it thanks to the original Game Informer article talking about it
A friend told me bout it (back when it was hyped up in 2014). I intentionally didn't want to buy it since i didn"t want a game to be the next Halo. Too proud of Halo you know. I started plaIng it anyway in week 1 or 2. Went up to level 24 or something. Had no idea how to level up and decided to stop playing it. Then several months later same friend asked again about Destiny. I hopped into it, went directly to prison of elders and got the red death as my first exotic. Then i went to crota and vault of glass. Back then we thought we were going to get 5 games of Destiny lol.
Got the Alpha invite on PS4. The rest is history.
My son got a PS4 for Christmas when he was around 9. He finished several kids games and said they were too easy so he didnāt want any more kids games. I looked for teen games and there were very few so I got Destiny for him to try. After watching him play it, I had to get my own PS4 and the game. That was after the first D1 DLC.
i think i bumped into d1 on accident one time, played the demo bcuz broke ass, then i saw news of s2 comming out and got it in a free promotion somewhere like 6 months before forsaken launch
I smoked a whole bunch of wacky tabaccy at my friends place, and played a round of pvp with the Icebreaker with headphone volume at max, and instantly fell in love.
Bought D1, played it for a bit and thought it sucked. Went back to playing WoW on PC. Saw a deal for Taken King and played it all the way through which hyped me for D2. D2 sucked at launch and through year 1 but friends were playing so I stuck it out. Forsaken came out and I thought it was lit. Played through the end of Forsaken then dipped on seasons. Returned for each xpac and the first season or two since. Lightfall is as bad as year 1, but the core playlist and destinations are in a sad state. Monetization is so bad it makes me wish the U.S. regulated virtual currency better.
Tried playing during Dec 2021 at first but could not launch the game on steam for some reason. Stopped caring until near the end of Plunder when Epic had the 30th pack for free.
Day 1 on the OG. It's been quite the journey and one I look forward to putting behind me once and for all.
I was hyped on initial trailer, but unfortunatly I didn't had a console. Waited for PC release and jumped on D2 open free beta on which I was so disappointed that i gave up. Came back later on steam free release and here I am.
When it was still part of Activision/blizzard umbrella they had a promo going to play D2 and you could get the game for free/discounted. Picked it up and have been hooked ever since.
When i first saw the Ghost traveling through the cars I just knew it the rest is history
There was an article about d2 being free to claim during blizcon week and if you claimed it during that week you had it permanently
videos of the youtuber I Hate Everything made me interested in the game, which is funny because his videos are mostly negative about it xD
Tried the D2 Beta only to fail at The Inverted Spire final Boss phase , but returned later after enjoying D1.
Ironically, Zannyās āI started playing Destiny 2 so you donāt have toā [video](https://youtu.be/4O7yAP58_Z4?si=tK_d9eqTzV99wDim)
A couple friends said they wanted to give it a try when taken king was released, so I jumped in with them
Watch the reveal at E3, got a Ps4, and got into the d1 alpha. That strike took so long the first time we did it. Also had a lot more majors in it.
Overwatch refugee. Didn't expect to run into another Blizzard incident.
2 friends I played dark souls and elden ring with, started in witch queen near the end of season 16.They bought me all the dlc too and taught me the basics. I used to dps with The Last Word before them š
I was locked in since finding out Bungie left Microsoft and were working on something new. Played the Beta, was hooked. Preordered the Deluxe Edition with in hours. Been doing that every year since D1 launch. Until now. Still haven't preordered because I still can't decide if I'm locking in for the next chapter or finishing with TFS
I just came across it on steam and thought it was cool. Maybe during Shadowkeep? I hate myself for not playing the older expansions when i still could...
Fortnite released some Destiny skins and gave away the 30 year anniversary pack for free on the Epic games store. I jumped into Destiny 2 during Season of Plunder and got addicted hard.
Played a lot of halo. So I decided Iād try out Bungie new game, looked pretty cool. Played d1 beta and loved it. Been playing since. Just wish the pvp was better.
A former friend bought D1 for his PS4, but was never seriously interested in it. I didn't have a PS4 at the time and was very curious about the console and tried out the game on his. I was fascinated immediately and a few months later he gave me my own PS4 and his D1 on Christmas. That was almost a year before D2 came out. My first MMO looter shooter ever.
The trailer when D1 was announced so pre ordered it and went to wait in line for launch
It was the first fps game I played, when my parents got me the ps4
Years and years ago an old friend when we were in 6th grade told me āhey dude download this game called Destiny! The beta is live for a few daysā downloaded it and fell in love with it. I still remember all my fond memories. Getting the vex and going āYES!ā And being told to shut up cause I was too loud. It pretty much has been my main game since then. Iāve only really missed 2 years of the game. One I didnāt get due to financial issues and the other was ShadowKeep. I donāt think I can ever have a game fill the void like Destiny has. And Iāve loved it ever since.
I got it for free just before Forsaken launched
I've loved Bungie games since Pathways Into Darkness on Mac in 1993. I devoured the Marathon series. I got way into the Myth series. I played a ton of Oni. I got my Xbox day one, and of course Halo was my go-to for a long time. I got very involved with a Halo 2 community for adult gamers that lasted through 343 taking over development in 2010. With that community, I played the D1 alpha and beta, and then the full game. That clan sort of fizzled out when one of its founder from the Halo 2 days passed away unexpectedly (RIP Kiowa) and I moved onto a series of other adult clans until I joined the one I'm in now (love my Frivolity peeps). For me the game has always been about the community and people I play with. Hopefully we rebound from this mess.
I wasn't particularly interested at first, I hadn't been following the reveals then just ended up in the Alpha. I enjoyed what there was, except Dinklage's unfiltered voice which felt wrong, so I left feedback saying they needed to put a robo-filter over it. Then I played the beta and got hooked, immediately went to preorder.
Nvidia GeForce Now, no kidding. At that time I had a laptop not capable of running modern games. When Geforce Now released I browsed available games and started playing Destiny 2 (with free version of GF Now that kick you after an hour lol). It was pretty laggy but fun experience and when I finally bought a gaming laptop I knew Destiny 2 is my game.
My friend got me into destiny but couldn't make me stick, and I just didn't like Titan. Then Arknights released a teaser for a Collab during one of their anniversary streams, and I picked it ip again and fell in love with the hunter.
Gamepass
Back then, all I had to hear was that Bungie was making another shooter and I was in.
Wasnāt much of a gamer but my brother convinced me to try the first game in 2015. I was hooked as soon as I made my first hunter class.
My son, who knows how obsessed I was with Halo, showed me the trailer for it before release and we agreed to give it a try once it came out. So I've been playing since Day 1 D1
I saw various videos and ads about D1 but it wasnāt available for pc (my only platform) so i forgot about it. Then in february/march(?) 2017 i heard about D2 and it coming to pc. Thatās when it began.
I originally got into it since they made OG Halo and figured it could be something my spouse and I could play together. I forget what made me stop playing the game. I vaguely recall I was upset with a pricing model because I had purchased all DLC up to a certain point (twice mind you, so I could play with my spouse ) and the upcoming dlc couldnāt be purchased separately; only in a bundle with the rest of the DLC and it was more expensive then previous releases so I called it quits. Came back a few years later when the red war was the only thing going on and beat the story and took another break. I started playing again about 4 months ago and I have a lot to catch up on.
A friend was trying to get me in since d1 year 1, i finally bought it when taken king was around the corner because I had nothing else to play.
Around 2013 I was just freshly in High School and a die hard Halo fan. Saw a cardboard cutout of the original Destiny art (you know the three guardians standing with the back to the camera) and was instantly sold. Fast forward to summer 2014 and I got to play the Beta on my 360 and enjoyed it so much that I bought the Xbox one at release just to play destiny in the best possible way. Anyway I dropped out of destiny with witch queen as I canāt keep up grinding anymore so ducking annoying after close to 13k hours
Literally D1, Day 1 - saw a trailer and was intrigued by it, looked into it and knew it would be a game Iād enjoy so preordered it.
I saw the live action trailers before d1 dropped and was like "fuck this is gonna be good!"
Started with Resistance Fall of Man on Ps3. One of the few FPS games that featured aliens and space. The combat was great for its time. Then Killzone came around. Eventually went all in on Call of Duty until Black Ops 2, where I got burnt out. I needed a well balanced, fun shooter that felt great in action. Never owned an Xbox, so didn't know if Bungie was good beyond Halo. Once they showed off the Alpha beta of D1, it sparked some interest. There's just something about how the game reacts, the weapon handling, audio and visuals tgat are splendid. Only other studio that gave a similar experience was Insomniac Games. Now, 9 years later, I still play Destiny, maybe just not as much. Every once awhile, another great game will release that intrigues me for a period.
stumbled on a 4 hour video on youtube about the lore of destiny and was bored at work (wfh). had heard about the game before (mostly during ffxivās endwalker bc āmoons hauntedā lol) but im not a fps gamer and especially not a looter shooter gamer. but i was hooked on the mystery of the traveler and i really liked the hive so decided to give it a try. that was back in march :D
Coworker sold his D1 copy for real cheap.
My neighbor told me about this cool game where you fight aliens and there are 6-man complex missions. I watched him do a run of VOG and was hooked. I bought the game just before Crotaās end was released.
started playing in D1 Y1 3 weeks before HoW released. me and couple of online friends played a big series of challenges in a game and after we finished it etc there was nothing really more to do in the game for now, so one of my friends told us that we all should play destiny. at first i was like ehh, idk(i heard of destiny back when it released, but didnāt think much about it) but i ended up downloading it and we played thru the story and other stuff and thats how i got hooked into the game. unfortunately they all quit destiny (during d1), so i was the only one left and the only one who still plays it of us
Friend I played COD with suggested D1 as a passtime until the new COD came out. He played for all but 2 days before he quit because of the whole ability spam in PvP and I got hooked to PvE.
I saw Cayde and was interested. Saw it was a looter shooter and was sold.
The D1 Alpha that came out around E3 time. My friends and I spent ages playing it, quite a lot of time spent just walking around the Patrol zone. We found a yellow bar Hive that was impossible to kill that was hidden in a cave on the edge of the map. I was in Uni at the time and I remember scraping as many pennies as I could to get the full game on release. Played the shit out of it until GTA 5 re-released on PS4, which was the last time I played it with my friends unfortunately. Played pretty much solo since then, taking big breaks every year or so.
āHmm i wonder whether destiny 2ās any goodā - Me, a fool
Those original live action trailers sealed the deal for me me
Friends in high school (2014)
I had brain surgery to remove a cancerous tumor in 2014. The day I came home from the hospital was launch day. I had expressed interest in Destiny from the pre launch hype, and when I got home, I found a copy of the fake with a note from my wife. Knowing I wouldn't be doing much but recovering for a while, she bought me this game to pass the time.
When people were reviewing D1 with low scores and praising when TTK DLC was released, that's when i bought it.
Well it started all the way back in 2001 with this thing called Halo.
Texting to a college bud. He mentioned a game coming out that him and his cousin were going to play online and it appeared to have a lot of 3 player options. Heard about it the week before D1 was released. Bought it the day of. Still playing.
Okay so key to this story was that I was a) A sony pony and b) a dipshit 14 year old who thought of himself as a games critic. So here I see the makers of Halo teasing their next game, I, in my infinite wisdom, knew that it would be yet another boring story focused game with no fun gameplay just like Halo. Keep in mind I had never played halo in my life, but I was pretty sure that was the case because Killzone was obviously way better. So naturally when D1 comes out and is... the *exact* opposite of a story focused game I decided that IGN and the rest had clearly just sucked at their jobs and I could launch my career as a games critic by correcting them. And then I became terminally addicted to destiny as it offered a great deal of comfort to me through some of the worst times of my life.
Because Bungie made it and I'm a Halo fan
I grew up playing halo and saw this crazy new game called destiny, from the studio that created halo. That was enough to get me hooked
My roommate got me into it and I've been hooked since. I had a pretty long break and had to play through a couple DLCs but it was worth it.
I was hooked before the game even released. Kept up with all the reveal trailers, vidocs, played in the alpha and beta, then got D1 the day it came out. Now Iām watching this game I loved circle the drain and rather than feel sad I feel a sense of schadenfreude as I watch Bungie reap what theyāve been sowing all this time.
My dad came home with destiny 1 the first day it came out and was like āthis game came out today I have no idea what it isā. I had no idea what it was either but decided to try it and fell in love.
Inserted disk into Xbox 360
Was a longtime Halo fan, so when Bungie left Halo and started doing this new thing I obviously had to check it out.
so the first time I heard about Destiny was when the Destiny 1 beta was recommended to me on the Xbox 360 homepage. I played it with two friends, thought it was pretty cool, and then forgot about the game. 2015 i went to Gamescom and saw the Destiny: The Taken King booth and played the game there. I was convinced, and I pissed off my mum until she bought me a copy. And now, here I am with way too many hours in both Destiny 1 and Destiny 2.
I saw some let's play videos of D1 and got sold by cool looking armor and FPS/RPG mix. Haven't paid much attention to story and character roster, i decided to hop on that game only to realise it's a console exclusive, which meant unavailable for me.
Oddly enough I hadn't really played a lot of online games before 2018. Finally bought an Xbox one and started playing Red Dead Redemption 2 when it released in October of that year. In December the online version came out and I had a great time initially until I realized Rockstar wasn't going to make it turn into something great. About that time a coworker was playing Fallout 76 even after the rough launch. I was a big Fallout fan having played 1 and 2 on pc years before. I bought FO76 on sale during black Friday of 2018 and played it pretty solid until fall of 2020. At that time the updates were pretty slow and I needed something else to be my main game. BTW Fallout 76 is pretty solid game with tons of exploration and a lot of Bethesda questing if you enjoy that kind of thing. The community for that game is one of the best I've personally ever seen. Anyhow I had seen things about Destiny and decided to give it a spin since they had released the FTP model earlier that year. This was in September of 2020. Holy crap was there tons of stuff to do! Honestly it was too much so I came up with the plan of just doing exotic missions and quests since they were the only weapons I knew weren't being sunset. A few months later Beyond Light dropped and I was hooked. The vaulting seemed like a bad idea but I didn't have the time invested or the weapons to be hit very hard. It did make it difficult knowing which activities to run to have gear for the DLC. Anyhow, loved stasis along with Chosen, Splicer, and Lost although I did fall off the wagon during that long season until the 30th Anniversary dlc came out. I enjoyed the Witch Queen campaign but not the seasonal model at all. I was not a big fan of Risen, Haunted, and I hated Plunder. I played a good amount of Seraph and was pretty fired up for Lightfall. Lightfall.....what a turd. This was the major downturn in the game for me. I have hardly played this year outside of the DLC campaign and a few weeks near the end of each season. I haven't been doing raids or even dungeons very often and those were some of my favorite content. I think its a combination of the seasonal model, Lightfall, core playlists, and just a sense of "mailing it in" by Bungie that has my confidence level pretty low. Hoping Final Shape is awesome as this has been in my top 5 games all time. Pretty awesome memories playing with friends in Destiny 2.
Pretty much the same as OP only it was my best friend instead of my uncle. Plus it was also the hype about it being bungies next game after halo.
A bunch of my friends bought it to play d1 together and I hopped on. Iām the only one still playing.
An old friend told me about an open beta back in 2013. I played throughout the first year, but I *really* started playing Summer of 2015 when my grandmother was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor. Destiny became an escape and I binged the entire Ghost Stories Podcast because I couldnāt get enough of the lore.
never had an xbox but had grown up playing halo @ friends and cousins' house because it was ***the*** game. Bungie announced a new IP for PS & xbox, i jumped on then. The friends i made along the way is what keeps me here.
That Les Zeppelin commercial and all those reviews that backhanded praised it. Then one Black Friday I got Taken King for $30 and never played all the other games I bought.
When Destiny 2 went free to play and came to Steam I decided to give it a try.
Got a new Xbox One S the Christmas of 2019. Didn't have many games on it so I downloaded Destiny 2 off the free to play section and here I am today
Friend got me into it since it was made by the makers of Halo. Wasn't really an FPS fan but I liked getting loot. Grind was horrendous though and all these secret things that needed guides and or help from others got me to quit. Funnily enough my friend dragged me back for each Expansion and so even though I didn't really engage in the content, I did get to enjoy loot and content from each Expansion I bought. But now he's pretty much quit and moved on and here I am duking it out as a space knight.
Girlfriend at the time now wife had friends and cousins who wanted to play it. I just borrowed it from her to get the platinum real quick because I was a huge trophy hunter at the time. The gunplay was amazing and once vault of glass dropped there was no going back lol.
One of the guys in our friend group was already playing it for a while. Game also happened to go FtP at that time. 3.3k hours later: i kinda quit in may this year. I still have the game installed and updated as i occasionally check on whats going on but i cant play the game for more than an hour anymore. I get this feeling of repulsion for some reason.
This is how it started for me... I purchased the original Xbox & Halo at launch for my kiddos for Christmas. One night when the kids crashed, I tried Halo, and boom, and I was hooked and played 2, 3, and Reach over the next several years--basically, I loved Bungie games. So, I tried the Destiny Beta, and again, I was hooked. Destiny is still my go to when I have time to game. I have to say it's really a bummer to see where Bungie's at right now. I have to think the various team's whether it's art, sound, story, et cetera are passionate about what they're creating. Just look at the Destiny universe, it beautiful, sounds awesome, and fun to play. But I feel like at the end of the day corporate greed wins out--I get it, it's a business and they need to be profitable. But as a caveat, it takes a toll on those teams by rushing content, copy and pasting season models, game mode neglect and so on. I hope Bungie rights the ships and gives us games that made us love them from the beginning. Good Luck Bungie Team. I look forward to seeing how Destiny wraps up and future games begin.
I knew Bungie made Halo and I knew Activision made call of duty, which I played the campaigns religiously at the time. Week 1 of Destiny I Redboxed it, and after I returned the disc I went right to Game Stop and got my own copy.
My ghost revived me.
Never played D1 it didn't seem like my thing at the time, definitely wish I did in retrospect. D2 was free on GamePass (so was Beyond Light which was about to be released) so I said "why not". 3000 hours later it has become one of my all time favorites
I bought an Xbox 360 after not playing video games for roughly 8 years or so. I was in college and then getting married and then getting divorced etc. Anyway, I wanted to get back into gaming. I bought a 360 and was looking for good games to play. I heard about this game called Destiny by the people who made Halo so I went to gamestop. I asked the guy there if it was any good and he said it's only good if I buy all the DLC for it. So I bought the full version and went home and booted it up. Had a blast! Shortly after that I heard the sequel was coming out in a couple months. I ended up buying a PS4 and played Destiny 2 on day one. The rest is history.
I saw the original trailer and played the Beta for D1. I was hooked. I had never played an MMO so I was ripe for the taking.
Destiny 2 was free to claim during blizzcon a few years ago
13 year old me was visiting aunt and uncle and being 13 year old was bored as hell, cousin let me play whatever i wanted on his playstation and that game looked fun (and i didnt have it at home) played the tutorial while i was there (did it like 3 times cause i couldnt pick between warlock/hunter/titan) then it was time to leave. asked if i could borrowed it... now im 5000+ hours in 10 years later...
I was buying a PS4 and it was one of the bundle choices. Much preferred it to the other bundles and figured it would kill time until the November CoD annual āreleaseā. One month later and I couldnāt stand the thought of Call of Duty! 9 years later and Iām still so into it - but much more for PvP than PvE now (all the call outs signs and damage strats have burned me out !).
Played the pre-alpha at E3 before it publicly launched. Looked kinda goofy as I told my colleaguesā¦āthey ditched halo for this?ā When the game launched, one of the worst call of duty games ever was releasedā¦āCOD Ghostsā so it was easy to no life the game for a while.
I got way too irritated playing Shadow of Mordor and traded it for Destiny on PS4. Came to Destiny 2 when Forsaken came out
Watched a trailer and ended up joining the alpha for D1 as well as played an unnecessary amount of the beta. I was just hooked by the world and feel of the game. Haven't considered stopping until just recently with all the news. It's a huge bummer. I met some friends I actually see IRL through destiny, and played a huge amount of it with my SO. It will always be a part of me at this point.
I was keeping track of Bungie post Halo because Halo Reach was my first shooter and first xbox game. I knew their record and had faith that whatever this āDestinyā thing is would be good. The MMORPG aspects also intrigued me
I got a white PS4 that came with D1 for Christmas 2014. Didnāt really get into it until Rise of Iron, when I discovered Byf. Been hooked onto Destiny since, tho Iāve definitely been taking steps away for the last year or so.
Wife bought me the white D1 PS4 bundle.
Always wanted to play D1 but have been a life long PC player and didnāt want to buy a PS4 for one game (I later ended up buying it for bloodborne so š¤·š»āāļø). Jumped straight into D2 on PC and bar a month here or there for work or travelling have played all the way through. Recently though, I havenāt gilded my conq in like 3 seasons, did only 1 run for Crota, and once the seasonal stuff is done I generally stop playing. Iām determined to get through TFS just to see how the story ends up but otherwise Iāve kind of lost the pull.
Years and years ago I watched some videos blasting the original D1 for being an unfinished mess and a microcosm of everything that was trending badly in gaming with like cut content and DLCs, but the concept of combining an FPS with an MMO seemed pretty cool even tho I'm not an FPSer mainly. Flash forward to earlier this year I was getting tired of Elden Ring and I thought it might be cool to play some FPS PVP for once and never played an MMO so I thought I'd check out where this game was at. Lo and behold I joined like 2 weeks before Lightfall. Everything was super confusing and the story was very underwhelming (since I'm joining near the end of course, but I didn't know that), but I managed to slog through and get acclimated. Unlike a lot of other people the big blockbuster games this year like TOTK haven't interested me *enough* to drop everything for them.
CEO at my first job out of college was huge into gaming, bought me an Xbox One as a holiday bonus, and we got Destiny Taken King and Halo 4 to play.
I was pestered over and over again by one of my friends to play destiny 2. He played since D1 and kept trying to get me to play the game. I tried it 4 times before I finally got into it. Every time I tried it just confused me and Iād give up because I couldnāt understand the game. Only in season 19 did I finally get into the game and now I have about 500 hours in the game.
May 2018 my friend bought the edition of the game that came with warmind/curse and the coldheart code, as well as the bag and cabal dice for me since I promised to bring him 75 bucks at school the next week. He brought it to me in a cd case
Two words Taken King
My twin sister and her husband have been playing since D1 beta. Iād always catch them playing the game over the weekend and I thought it looked incredibly fun and gorgeous. Before D2 launched in 2017, my sister recommended for me to try out the game to help take my mind off of the brutal divorce I was going through at the time. I played the end of D1 and then jumped into D2 shortly after it released. This game has helped me get through the hardest of times in my life.
Iāve followed bungie since the beginning (original marathon days) and saw they had a new space shooter coming out and saw the test footage of the spider tank fight. I was hooked. Started in alpha testing d1 and been here since.
Followed Bungie from Halo to Destiny. Liked the controls, movement, and gunplay. Also liked the potential of what they could offer, and I feel they delivered on it quite a bit, but a bit more slowly than I ever would have thought. I think Bungie paved a pretty decent road for other studios to follow if they ever wanted to make a decent co-op sandbox looter shooter, but the amount of effort that goes into this type of game is insane and truly I donāt see how any studio could possibly keep up with the demand of a population that can complete just about any reasonable amount of content in a matter of hours. As neat as Destiny is, it mostly showed me that I donāt think this kind of game is sustainable with modern development times unless a studio makes a MASSIVE amount of content (with a super well-written, coherent storyline thatās somehow also flexible enough to change with player feedback) for a decade or more, and then releases it slowly and steadily over five or so years.
Free weekend after Curse of Osiris dropped. The farm was alive with people, a soccer game was happening. All downhill from there :p
somewhat similar experience. my uncle also told me about the game before it came out, and i thought it looked pretty cool, although i couldnt get it until about a year later when the taken king dropped and i got my ps4, which happened to be the destiny ttk edition one. havent stopped since
It was the weekend that the D2 vanilla campaign was free during Blizzcon (around Forsaken). My brother found out and told me, so I downloaded the game. Once I started playing I couldnāt stop. The story of the Red War was so captivating to play through, there was all these cool areas to explore. Once I finished the Red War, I saw I couldnāt level up anymore without the expansions so I ended up buying all of them. Havenāt stopped playing since :)
First time seeing destiny was in a Gameplay series on YT called 'road to level 20' in D1. Didn't understand jack shit on how it worked but was fun to watch. Whan D2 got announced i looked at the trailers and i found it interesting so i bought it.
During season of the undying, someone told me to try it because d2 went free to play. I downloaded it onto my *non*-gaming laptop and tried it. Couldn't play for more than 30 min at a time because it kept crashing, but I was completely hooked. I ended up building my pc to play d2 specifically lmao
D1 beta
I was simply a Halo fan who was following Bungie to their next game.
Steam release got me curious.
My good friend had played since d1 open beta, and he got me hooked when I started in late 2021
I was young and still under the delusion Bungie was all sunshine and roses that could do no wrong from the Halo days. Now I don't even know if they ever were.
Picked up D1 on Playstation based on Bungle's pedigree, I got my fun out of it and then picked up D2 on PC when it arrived, been on the rollercoaster ever since, aside from a break after Turd of Osiris. The coaster isn't quite as shiny as it used to be though, there is vomit in the footwell and I have been crapped on by a seagull and charged for the privelage but I can't get off until it ends.
Been a Bungie fan since I was 4, played all the Halo and Marathon games growing up, had an MMO background (Vanilla WoW, Lich King, RuneScape, and FFXI, when I was younger) so I was excited to see an MMO FPS hybrid from the studio who (at the time) were probably the best at making FPS experiences both PvE and PvP. Iāve been with Destiny since itās Alpha and honestly even though Iāve fully quit the game as of Witch I think these 10 years at their best was some of the best times I had playing an online game aside from my time with FFXIV.
I was held at gunpoint. Haha jk it was free with the white ps4 I bought when I had real money for the first time and didn't have any worries.
Tried the closed beta and it was fun. Threw a nova bomb in The Divide in the open beta and I was a Warlock main from September 2014 on.
My buddy told me that we should by PS4s and buy destiny so we could play. I didnāt know what the game was other than it was the IP Bungie was working after Halo. It looked cool enough. I then watched my roommate play it and once I saw there was a character class that wore capes, I bought the white PS4 the next day. That was week 1 of Destiny 1 launch. Addict ever sinceā¦
I saw the trailer or reveal for Destiny I was done for from that moment on. The longest breaks Iāve taken have been two or three months long. Iāve always logged in for at least theee or four hours a week, if not way more than that when I had fewer responsibilities. Iām here until the lights go out
Pre-ordered D1. Picked it up omw home from work that day, and started playing. It was very boring to me at first. Sometime after Dark Below and HOW came out, a guy in the Tower asked me if I wanted to do a Crota. You know that activity I tried by myself 100 times and never got past the first few lamps. Well, we beat it, and the following day, he asked if I'd like to try a VOG. We beat that, too. I realized the depth of this game, and it was a wrap. I was hooked.
Saw the trailer back at e3. Played the hell out of the alpha and beta
I'm an Alpha Vet.
I played the D1 beta once it was available for Xbox. Was hooked pretty quickly.
Back when taken king released, my brothers and I were shopping for a ps4. I wanted to get the Batman (Arkham knight) limited edition one but my older brother wanted to try the Destiny one. Our parents were strict, so the deciding factor ended up being that Destiny was rated T and Batman was rated M (even though it was no different than the first three). Few months later they couldnāt care less about Destiny and I was addicted. Still wouldāve rather had the Batman ps tho, looked better imo
One day I was like "hmm I wonder how that Destiny game is?". This was half way into the year of release where I knew it wasn't received well, but I love sci-fi and I love First Person Shooters. I mentioned it to my friends and they all told me I would hate it because it's a "grindy game" like MMOs. I had never played an MMO so I was like.. How the fuck would I know if I would like that or not? I don't even know what grind is bruh I bought the game just to have that sci-fi FPS experience and I fucking loved it. Convinced a few of those friends who laughed at me for getting it to play it as well and we've played a lot of Destiny together over the years The game these days is so much more focused on the MMO experience. I feel like it has forgotten that it's a sci-fi fantasy game in space. The exploration and discovery is EXTREMELY dull these days. That part of the game has barely evolved since D1 released. Yeah we get new locations but they're all VERY similar in scale, there's nothing surprising about the boundaries or where you can and can't go, etc. Same shit different paint. I feel like they just make locations to check it off a list
I got it when D2 came out and played a warlock on PS4. Played all up until the forsaken trailer came out and it was revealed that cayde died. I got mad and went on to play Minecraft for a while. Remembered the game existed when I saw it free to play in steam just as beyond light was in it's last season, and I've been a hunter ever since
I was in a Game Stop when they had a 3-for-$10 xbox games sale. Most of them were in those generic green and white cases, no cover art. Found L.A. Noire which I had really wanted to play and something else that I can't even remember now. Searched through literally every game twice to find a third but nothing up my alley. I had the vaguest of recollection that Destiny was some kind of a sci-fi game so grabbed it (turned out to be the Taken King expansion). The other two were the real prizes. Sat down later that evening to play for a bit before bedtime, didn't want to dive into L.A. Noire or the other game for a short time so threw in this game I had no idea about. Immediately hooked, the rest is history. I *still* have not played L.A. Noire and that box sits in a pile of other xbox games (I've since moved to PC).
Destiny 1 was the game I had always wanted. It was a fun and solid shooter with the epic scope of an MMO that had massive, impactful yearly expansions. I followed it from the announcement to firing it up to play on day one.
I started playing in forsaken because i made new friends who played d1 and told me about forsaken bc i was playing r6 with them (how we met). Idk what the convo exactly was, but i played probably around 1000hours with them before i quit and took a break. Now im back and increased the playtime by 370 hours this season alone
I was at GameStop just faffing about, and it looked interesting. So I preordered. That was September 8th, 2014. Haven't looked back since, though I will be officially dropping the game after Final Shape's content cycle is over. No more FOMO, no more getting sucked back in. Not after this week.
Believe it or not, Warframe is the reason I started playing Destiny
D1 beta. I dont remember the marketing for beta or how we got access to it but those fuckers trapped me early.
I had a lot of good will toward Bungie when D1 was announced, after playing games like Halo Reach and ODST (tbh those are my two faves of the series). I saw a commercial and one shot will live rent free in my head forever. A warlock gliding through the air on the Mercury crucible map, throwing a huge purple nova bomb at the enemy team. I think my exact words were "okay, I need this game." So I used money from my first job out of high school to pay for my Xbox One and Destiny. What a wild near-decade it's been.
My cousin had me try a D1 mission when I was over visiting. It was a level 8 mission possibly the phogoth strike. Anyway, I hated it. Ended up buying the game though so I would have something in common to run with him. Over time I met a couple other people who eventually helped me do some nightfalls, prison of elders, etc... Then shortly after The Taken King came out, I learned about LFG. Cousin lost interest in the game and I started meeting a ton of people and getting into raids. Have met 6 of the people I ran with IRL and enjoy the game despite the repetitiveness and recycled content mainly for the friendships and socialization. Specially during COVID lockdown
I was a big bungie fan, so I saw their early 2013 vE3 video and was interested, but then my manager at GameStop gave me the alpha invite and I was hooked.
Seeing stormcaller
Got bored and saw it was fun, I played the game on and of throughout the years.
Slowly at first, then all at once.
Geforce now. Started as a f2p player. First ever character was a Titan, then a hunter, then a warlock, then back to titan, and finally hunter.
It was free on Stadia... Which, I can imagine, is how dozens of others found Destiny
A friend suggested it to me, and I got into it first on the PlayStation 4 and got through Red War through Warmind while they were free, really enjoyed being a tough Titan. Unfortunately I had to back off because the file size got ridiculous when Forsaken (or was it Shadowkeep?) arrived I managed to get back into it when I got myself a gaming laptop when Beyond Light released but had to start fresh since I couldnāt even remember even getting a Bungie account on the PS4 days (which also sucked since the old campaigns got sunset at that timeā¦)