70 Things Only Destiny Veterans Remember 

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The amount of nostalgia in this video is incredible

I don’t usually comment on videos, but the dad-joke level mastery of transitioning from an auto rifle into the sponsored segment actually made my eyes roll so far back in my head that I can see yesterday.

D1 was so great, i played literally every day and never took a break. There was always something you needed to do.

I'm surprised there was no mention of Randall the Vandal. The guy that level 8 guardians in the Beta tried to team up to kill him with uncommon weapons, but end up getting their butts kicked. Not to mention Bungie actually added him INTO THE LORE and in game in the Wrath of The Machine raid server room section as a Siva-infected version of him. Which his name displayed "Rahndel, the Perfected".

I remember the touch of malice quest in D1. Doing kings fall, finding the calcified fragments in the raid. Such a cool quest

The cosmodrome in D2 feels like i made it in blender after 2 weeks of practicing 3D modelling. In D1 it looks fantastic.

My father and I both played since the beta for d1, I remember going to Taco Bell and getting a promotional cup for d1 and from that moment I was hooked. From farming mats, strikes, public events, grimoire farming, raids, friends, trials, iron banana and much much more. We played d2 all the way up to witch queen and my fathers health got progressively worse landing him in the hospital on a ventilator, his condition got progressively worse and we lost him this past year. You never know when you’re gonna loose the people closest to you be it a friend, an acquaintance, party member, or father. Just enjoy the time you have left with the people you love and express it while we have the ability to. ❤️

Another thing people seem to forget is that we didn’t always have rally banners for super and ammo. Sometimes we had to do “ammo” runs or wait the full 5 minutes to start encounters with full super. Intellect stat and Orpheus rig nightstakers were way more important then to make sure everyone had supers when we needed them. It’s a lot easier to get supers now.

My favorite line from Dinklebot was during your first mission on the Moon: "WE'VE AWOKEN THE HIVE!"

The "new adventure" bug isnt a bug, it signaled the daily reset, now replaced with "new legend lost sector available" Edit: spelling mistake

I just took a wild nostalgia trip to 2014/15 Thank you

I miss it SO much 😓 D2 is cool but…man, D1 offered me some of the best memories and moments of my life with friends. I still occasionally play D1 and it’s so refreshing

My favorite quests were playing getting the 3rd subclass for all the guardians. The uniqueness of having totally different missions and the bliss you feel finally getting it. Compared to d2 where everyone just does the same mission/quest to get their subclasses.

Cayde stash is my favorite mission of all time. Nobody can tell me zero hour is better than that experience

I remember doing the Bad Juju quest back in the day, spent maybe 5 or 6 hours *straight* PvPing for it, it's the reason why I ended up getting the "kill one of each class without dying" achievement way back when I played D1 on the 360. Good times man, good times.

Watching this vid and being able to remember all of those things just make me realize how unique destiny is as a game, even if there's some periods of time when I drop the game because of various circumstances I always comeback to this game. Also I like to say that the reason I'm writing this commentary it's thanks to destiny because my native language isn't English but back in d1 (I don't remember if it was during vanilla destiny or ttk) I decided to learn English all by myself only because some weapons names sounded cooler in English 🗿

There is nothing better in this world than Destiny 1 soundtrack, literally

I will never forget my first crucible match with a vex on the enemy team I was playing crucible with a friend in year one and I was pretty new to the game. My friend who play a few months at that time decided we should go into the crucible match and we stuck together most of the time. We watched a team mate turn turn the corner and the dude got melted. The gun shots were something I never heard. My friend screams “run run” I’m like “huh” so we start running away and he goes “when you hear that sound you run. That dude was using the vex mythoclast” I ran into him later and I blinked and I died. That started my obsession with the vex

God i miss D1. "Kids today will never know" is the most common thought that runs through my head while playing Destiny. D1 was completely unforgiving

Yeah, i remember that the thorn quest as a hunter was the sole reason im as good with snipers as i am today. Pure Hell

I miss scope options so much not just for the stats but the looks

the fact that the tower has been under reconstruction for 6 years is crazy

I always love the videos that cover D1 nostalgia. I love and miss that game, but how easy is it to forget the quality of life changes Destiny has had over the years.

The original theme makes me wanna cry

OG Thorn quest was absolutely insane thank god I was a voidlock! Although, when I finally completed it I got a feeling of bliss that I never got in D2

I remember the reveal of destiny 2 and during the presentation one of the players mantled and the crowd went nuts. 😂😂 something so simple that we take for granted.

Remember what they took from us! HORNS ON OUR SPARROWS NEED TO RETURN

Damn bro I can't lie. The original loading screen and music sent chills down my spine. Man those were good times and memories

21:21 That hits hard man

1:38 the new adventure available notification now refers to the daily legend lost sectors. Every day at reset it lets you know there's a new one, and if you go from really low power gear to full power gear it lets you know its available because you have hit the power requirement

THE GUN PUNS ARE GOLD PLEASE CONTINUE I LOVE GUN PUNS

Since people are sharing their stories: I got into Destiny completely by accident. I was looking around the Xbox store for something to spend birthday money on, I was around 15 at the time. There was a free weekend for Destiny so I decided to try it out. I got instantly hooked, bought the game the next day. This was around the time House of Wolves launched and I became a hardcore player. Did things every day, preordered The Taken King, waded through the cesspool that is (was? It's been a while since I've looked) LFG to do raids, everything. I fondly remember staying up wayyyy to late at night in my basement to play (American players, remember reset being in the middle of the night?), faking being sick so I could stay home from school on the launch days for TTK and Rise of Iron, endlessly annoying my friends with stories from the lore (usually Byf's explanations, especially after the Books of Sorrow series started coming out). When D2 launched I had just moved into my own apartment and started my first semester of college. I played solidly from launch up until Season of the Hunt, bought every expansion and season pass. Around Season of the Hunt, it just became too expensive and a lot of my friends had already left the game due to either the price or just not having the time to play anymore. I didn't pick the game back up until recently, towards the beginning of Season of the Wish. My brother messaged me out of the blue asking if I still played and we got back into the game together. If it weren't for that, I probably never would have picked the game back up. I'm having a blast and now that I make enough money I've gotten every expansion I missed out on and am looking forward to Final Shape, I'm enjoying being active in the community again and discussing lore with my few friends who either still play or have picked it back up. It's hard to believe Destiny has been such a big part of my life for almost 10 years now. Even with about a 3 year gap in playing I still occasionally watched a lot of my favorite creators in the community. What started as "ehh, it's free I'll try it out" has evolved into my active participation in the largest gaming community I've ever been a part of. I've made memories that will last, if not a lifetime, certainly a long time. I'll never forget my first VoG, Crota's, or King's Fall clears, done way too late at night with random groups from LFG who were kind enough to let in someone without Gjallarhorn (I never did get the damn thing to drop until the quest in Rise of Iron). I'll never forget my first exotic ever (Suros). I for sure will never forget grinding for Thorn or those Hadium Flakes. The OG title screen and orbit music still bring emotions rushing back to me. The first clan I joined in D2, even if we parted ways when I knew I was going to be walking away from the game (they liked to keep the roster to active players, which is a position I can respect). Destiny is the first game I truly felt the community around, I'm really glad to be back. Cheers to us Destiny vets and good luck to all the New Lights, here's hoping we can press on to a bright future after Final Shape.

The D1 subclass progression system is still my favorite. It doesn’t offer the same level of build customization as you get with certain subclasses in D2 post light 3.0, but overall it was a more rewarding system. You actually had to spend time with your subclass instead of spending a ton of glimmer at a vendor. It felt like an actual progression system, like you were both growing in power and collecting better gear constantly, instead of buying your build outright That said, 3.0 subclasses offer a ton more versatility and it’s a massive upgrade, I just personally prefer the more RPG-progression style of D1’s subclass customization. (Also Bladedancer is badass)

I actually forgot Marksmen was a kit for a second there, since never got to try it because people with faster PCs always instant grab it. Went to ask the question, “How did you get a DMR in squad?”

I miss adventures in D2. They were nice quick little missions.

God its stuff like this that makes me appreciate all the more how far we have come and even take some of for granted

I like how there coming back in final shape

“WE’VE WOKEN THE HIVE!!!”

Back when an exotic was rare and actually exotic…

I’ll forever say D1 was the best game ever, so much nostalgia in this video and so much more that wasn’t even mentioned, I met some of my best friends on that game and we still all talk to this day

D1 will forever have a special place in my heart for the memories and friends I made trying to find randoms that would let me join them for raids since I couldn’t afford a mic

I hope they bring back weapon scopes fr, at least on the weapons that could originally get them in d1 and d2. Now that the zoom changes are in place, they're a nice bit of customization

I think exotics should be far more difficult and rare to obtain, because for at least for me it feels like getting a slightly rare legendary, but in d1 using a three of coins and playing strikes and crucible seeing an exotic engram drop was exhilarating.

The most egregious change was losing sparrow horns in D2. If we can't annoy our friends with a cartoony clown horn, what are we even doing as a society?

3:16 this reminded me of a time during the Taken King when I was about to fight Oryx but I ran out of all my ammo while clearing out ads so I hat to fight him with only my super and abilities and died pretty much instantly after those ran out

great video brough back alot of memories 1 i remember was if you didnt pick up your engrams they would be lost forever, this was especially upsetting if they fell off the map. also the purple engrams used to turn to blue when you handed them in lol

Kudos for making me watch an entire sponsored segment! You are a genius! Well done 🎉

I actually watched your ad because of the puns. Clever "delivery"

Man what a ride it has been to see the destiny story finally come full circle with the final shape . D1 will always hold a special place in my heart . Grasp of malok with third eye was too good back then

I remember playing the trial before buying it and there was people at that cave and i was so confused but when i saw what they were doing i was amazed and i miss that level 8 strike, that felt like a raid when i first played, the first memories are the best

I really liked the longer quest that you had to do in D1, like touch of malice or raze lighter loved the grind for those longer style quest that most will consider tedious.

destiny 2 is child’s play compared to destiny 1

The amount of things i was reminded of in this video that I didnt even know I still remembered absolutely blows my mind. What a trip down memory lane. I truly thank you for all the nostalgia this video gave me.

9:30 LONG LIVE THE HALFWAY TO 30 CLUB. The pain was so real for weeks on end, the stairsteps in power back then were insane

Just boot up Destiny all this shit is still there 😭

Notice how like 90% of the nerfs are because of PVP? Yeah, Destiny would have been much better without any PVP.

Destiny was the game that got me through high school. Was such a journey moving from Halo in elementary to Destiny in high school and still having life long friendships from the raids to this day. I know both franchises get a lot of flack but still holds a spot in my heart

Vanilla D1 through TTK was peak gaming in my adult life. The only thing that has compared to the games of my childhood. D2 just changed so much and I never got that feeling back.

i remember just coming home and instantly getting on destiny this brought back so many memories

The dance party key from leviathan will live on in my heart forever

This was such a nice video to watch, I played from day 0 for Destiny 1 until the very end, had thousand of hours and great memories, thank you for the video!

That ad-read transition was so clean, bravo sir, bravo

20:39 omfg I missed these so much as soon as they were removed.. I unironically loved these :(

The nostalgia here hits hard. Wish we still had the ammo synthesis at times. Heck, I'm one of those that still has the damaged Chosen in my vault, could never bring myself to get rid of it.

I recently forged out the hunters knife from Destiny. I listened to the title theme of the first game because I grew up playing that game. I got teary eyed from nostalgia.

I just saw this video and it took me way back, I remember being a warlock until nightstalker released becoming a hunter main shortly after

hearing you say motes of light in the beginning took me all the way back to when i was playing d1 an unhealthy amount, and just doing raids 24/7 and soloing nightfalls with the icebreaker.

i started playing d1 again this christmas and bro it is so good

i miss the TTK log in screen. I got chills everytime I heard those trombones

You missed one big event that was held, I believe during the end of D1. I think it was only done twice at the end of a year, around Christmas time: Sparrow racing with actual racetracks on existing maps.

This was a really great video! It debunks nostalgia to show how far the series has come in a positive way, whilst also highlighting the good times and good memories, thank you! 🙌

This is brilliant. Thanks for the walk down memory lane!

Bro this literally brought back so many memories thank you so much bro

Destiny 1 year 1 was so great. I've been a destiny player all the way back to the beta. Year 1 was amazing, it'll always have a special place in my heart as one of the best games I ever played

from the timer and countdown in the corner to the transition into the advertisement, this is a HIGH TIER youtube video my guy. great work and thanks for the nostalgia trip 🔥

I played alot of D1 and loved every min spent many hours grinding out stuff also one more thing to add to the list regarding the ammo when you ran out of ammo on all weapons and you wanted to save the packs you had for raids and other things run over to cover and sit and crouch for a min or two and the game would give you ammo

Oh the memories. Started with XBox 360. Oh yeah, loading times. That wait in orbit with the music, i miss that, so soothing. Then the patrol grind, back and forth. Some of the exotic gun missions were 'too hard' for my group and I never got a couple in D1. Sad. I did love the Fabian for my Titan and even used a shotgun then. finally, the Tower. so much fun and nonsense in there. the conga lines ending in everyone jumping off, climbing the trees and yes, trying to get on top of the vaults. I do miss that.

One of the best changes was infinite ammo

Number 12 -> That was the best time in D1 for me, because legendary items were really valuable and hard to get, especially in the first few weeks after the game was released. Unpatched Master Rahool forever in my heart as well as the original Loot Cave in Skywatch Cosmodrome 🙃 btw I remember the soccer ball in the Tower on left from Eververse, near the stairs. It's 71th thing)

Man this almost had me in tears thinking about how much fun i had with the guys. Foolsjoker, endygo, chandler, toma, and tate. Love you guys and thank you for the memories🤙

2 videos in 2 days and both are bangers. Nice! I also miss Self-Res. It was also pretty fun doing Crota glitches. Nostalgia hitting so hard atm.

a tear came out of my eye... i used to play since day one, so much memories😌😌

thanks for the memories i miss all things d1 but not many people that i know still play it

Remember when you had to level up by doing stuff before you unlocked the ability to change your light? Or about how the hunter had the pheonix perk that also let you come back from the dead if you had saved up your super.

Thanks Shadow... you made me feel old and reminded me that some of my favorite exotics won't be returning to D2 (Dregs Promise, Super Good Advice, The Exotic Class Items, and Zen Meteor)

this video is really fun because i only played destiny 1, and the first season of 2 so its cool to see whats changed

Nostalgia was crazy, sparrow racing was another thing that i loved from D1

The level of dad jokes added in this video is just to funny to handle 😂😂😂😂

This Video was amazing I’m actually so happy, I had played all this and could remember all the wonderful moments again!

This made me shed a tear. Good old d1 i still miss it.

These bring back so many memories. I was a solar warlock. I would always get into a raid cause everyone needed a self-reviving warlock, lol

I never played Destiny 1, but I joined Destiny 2 about halfway through the red war, so some of this was definitely pretty cool to see, like how I remember being incredibly relieved when they gave us infinite standard ammo

Wow. Although i haven't been playing much recently i truly do love this franchise. Farming exotic ciphers. Opening crests of alpha lupi when trying to get twilight garrison lol a countless amount of priceless memories were made

grinding weapons was so insane looking back 😭

the best ad sponsor plug I have ever seen. Also this was a massive trip down memory lane. D1 was such an awesome game

the fact that i had less than 100hrs played in D1 due to personal reasons it is one of if not the most interesting game experiences ive ever had just returning to D2 from a 2 year break but being day 1 D2 player and have spent barely anytime actually playing D2 i’m now souly stuck on D2 so i don’t regret what I did in D1 D2 is amazing no matter the circumstances it’s the best at what it presents IMO

another thing about titan skating in Destiny 1, the lower your agility was the faster you would go when titan skating! mixing that with the twilight garrison literally made you into a speed demon!

Tip 69 gave me literal chills. I missed that so much

That ad word play was smooth af