As Destiny 2 goes offline for Lightfall, raise a glass for the all the great seasonal content that we’ll never see again
The year of Destiny 2 The Witch Queen, Year 5, has arguably been the best in the history of the Destiny franchise. Some great gameplay changes and additions, exciting new activities, and seasonal stories that saw Guardians help allies with haunting therapy, piratically plunder relics, and teach an AI super weapon what it is to have a purpose. However, the imminent launch of Destiny 2 Lightfall heralds the arrival of the Destiny Content Vault once again, coming to cast some of the game’s best stories into the void. While the Beyond Light and Witch Queen expansions both had their own rounds of significant content vaulting, this relatively small batch for Lightfall feels like it stings the most. Destiny’s lore and story has (rightfully) been criticised over the years, but this year has seen some of its best stories – and it’s a huge loss that so much is leaving the game.
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The story of the Destiny universe is often inscrutable, with tales of mysterious “paracausal” forces of Light and Dark, a magic space orb that can create immortal warriors, and ancient alien species of worm-worshipping horrors, among some of its most outlandish story threads. But the last few years has seen Destiny 2 propel itself into a new era of storytelling as it has embraced the live service seasonal model. Those grandiose yet utterly mystifying narratives remain, but the stakes are far more personal as characters that Guardians have come to love and hate over the years drive the action and develop in seasonal stories making for some excellent narrative moments. So why is it that these stories are relegated to the Destiny Content Vault so easily? Great stories such as Crow, Zavala, and Caiatl facing the
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