This just made me kind of sad, I got all excited to share some memories but nothing is coming to mind. I feel like most of my memories are along the lines of "ugh...finally got that done." which sucks because it doesn't represent the amount of fun I had with Destiny. It does represent The Taken King raid though...ugh...what a pain. 7 straight hours in the raid and we still didn't beat it. (Finally did with a different group a few months later.)

I have zero memory of Crota's End. I actually joined a group of DBOers not too long ago doing the Crota challenge and I thought it was the VoG raid.

The loot cave was a fun memory because I learned about it before it was patched and it was fun seeing a group of people there trolling it and working out a nonverbal communication pattern between everyone for taking turns to gather loot.

Landing on the Dreadnaught for the first time was cool. Standing at the edge of space and seeing how massive that ship was.

Distractingly white teeth in RoI trailer.

FINALLY getting an orange and black shader (after 3 years)

Making my hunter cosplay (indirectly related)

I still think about one of the missons on Mars with my Kinderguardian (the one where you have to kill the cabal captain to get the network key) and being so weak that just to beat the 3 shield cabal in the rocks just before the encounter, I would have to throw a grenade, and run away and wait for my grenade to recharge. Gunfighting just ended in quick death.

Nice read! Hope I get to play with you and your kids more often in Destiny 2. I always enjoyed it.

Thanks for the memories. I loved our Vanilla-HoW era raids/activities. Getting through those raids with your family is one of my highlights as well. I don't feel like I ever mastered that latter two raids so I always feel a little more stress when I think about them but I have fond memories of the first two.

Anyhow, we should get the band back together sometime.

At least I'm pretty sure it was you two.

Jr: oh my God his balls are all in my face!
*muffled unclear comment from adult woman*
Oholiab: No honey, that is really what happens. Balls go in your face.

Other top moments

Me: have you guys played Halo 5 yet?
Chappy: NO AND DON'T SPOIL IT. I'm going to play it with my friend next week.
Zero: So Funkmon, what did you think about Cortana still being alive?
Chappy: Are you fucking kidding me

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Kermit not being able to jump on the activation platform in the King's Fall raid

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Wu trying to kill himself on hard mode Atheon and accidentally punching two praetorians to death.

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Christheecrappy getting so mad he made up new and interesting swears at the abyss.

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Blackstar being the only guy alive after one Deathsinger run, and the rest of us having enough time to order in pizza while he sniped the rest of the knights.

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Lawnmower cracking open that first beer after that first wipe was always a good moment. I'm pretty sure once while I was effed up on some of my back muscle relaxers we talked about tanks for an hour. I don't have clear memories.

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The increasingly amusing run of Nico being dead during successful raids.

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During the beta, me and Narc just jumped around on trees for a while and I realized I haven't just sat around in a game like this for no reason since Halo, something I thought was an age thing. Destiny had that thing, like Halo, where you just want to be in the game world.

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The one opportunity I am really sorry I never got was popping a defender bubble during the last shoot phase on Crota on hard and killing everyone.

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But like you, it has little to do with the game. I presume all MMOs are like this, but it was the social experience.

So many great moments...

I remember when, one wipe at a time, someone different would troll and shoot at a Gorgon just so we'd have to start over.

I remember on Oryx when half the people there couldn't tell their left from their right.

or before then, the Daughters--where for twenty one wipes in a row, the only person "randomly" selected to be Torn Between Dimensions was the only one who didn't know how to jump. I also remember the one single time I got it, someone else rushed out and intentionally jumped on the wrong plate just to screw me. It was the first time I ever Rage Quit™!

When everyone ignored the Templar teleport block(and by association, me) for three full years, and the ear-to-ear grin on my face when Bungie made it one of the Legendary challenges.

IGIVEKIDSDRUGS.

Fallen S.A.B.E.R., when my orb appeared on the square panel that opened up in the middle, and my teammates spent half the freaking boss fight trolling by reviving me over a bottomless pit over and over.

Oryx Challenge mode. 'nuff said.

Atheon, when three separate people grabbed a relic and were each killed by fall damage without even jumping.

I remember the Dethzamboni, where we'd destroy the spider mine before it exploded...then it would disappear...then it would come back and explode twice.

I remember the headaches I got (and still get) when people tell me running up to a boss with a sword is "fun."

I remember getting Weasel'd the second we defeated a raid boss.

When 11 of us were farming Undying Mind Nightfalls, and the only person in the whole event that even got an Imago Loop was the only person in the whole event that didn't want one.

Allll the way back when Rainbow Burn was a thing, and Nightfall existed...when we drained the Archon Priest's health down to zero, walked out thinking he was dead, then regenerating 75% of his health and killing us all in one shot.

The Nightfall quitting trick...when someone would go out, die, and we'd wait ten minutes for him to quit and come back, then go in and die even faster.

Crota Challenge--ALSO 'nuff said.

When I took charge and tried a new role in the Crota raid--without throwing a goddamn temper tantrum.

Atheon--when he teleported people who didn't want the relic, they'd just make us wipe instead of bothering to learn the damn thing.

Crota, the one beast that outsmarts even Bungie at every turn.(Then again, that's not hard. They still don't have the brains to fix him.)

When two kids whose Campaign kill/death ratios are somehow negative tell me to git gud.

When people actually thought the places where Aksis teleport would be ideal areas for cover.
When the very first(and only) time we complete Oryx challenge mode, four people inside the Aura of Immortality(including the holder which in that case was me) fall over dead from a Misadventure.
Warpriest challenge.

Did I mention Oryx challenge?

The spawns.

Gjallarhorn only...

Touch of Malice only...

Bringing back Vex Mythoclast...

Taking away Field Scout...

The loot system...

I don't think I wanna play any more.

I remember that one time we spent like an hour trying to force destiny to match our two parties into the same game. As I recall my team was losing (badly) to the point where the other team decided to taunt us and all hide inside a defender bubble. I snuck around the corner and got all but one of them with a Fist of Havok if I remember correctly. I think Rellekh was the only one who survived but then immediately killed me?

I also remember doing the Kingsfall raid and we were going to lead one of the new players into the Piston to get killed (man that never gets old), but then Claude (WHO ALREADY KNEW ABOUT THEM) managed to get himself killed by the Piston before we could trick the new players into it!

I had a lot of fun with Destiny, but I find it hard to remember the good memories at this point. Partly because we've been playing it for so long and partly because I got burnt out on the grind, stupid RNG, and the weapon changes. The shotty/sniper domination was a real low point for me in terms of PvP play.

There was a true sense of wonder the first time I played Destiny…

With the basis of the lore explained, wandering around the cosmodrome in the Alpha filled me with a sense of wonder and curiosity. There were no missions or objectives, but exploring the space, and wondering what kind of things would happen when the game was released got my imagination turning.

Walking through the tower, listening to the music, and wondering what was to come really was something else. It felt like a 'Brave New World" indeed.

While the game may not have delivered on that hope, the Vault of Glass did. Not knowing what to expect and going in with no objectives or ideas about what a raid is was an amazing memory. Deeper and deeper into the unknown… a part of me thinks that waypoints, maps, and mission indicators have been the worst setbacks for modern game design.

Part of the reason I worry when folks say Des2ny is basically the same game as Destiny, is that there will be nothing to wonder at, or look at in mystery. I can't say for sure, but idea of a raid is well established now, and there's some sense of what to expect. Nothing's ever like your first time. While there are pleasures to be had from repeat visits to an activity, they are very different emotions. With all the talk about the lore being put aside… I don't want to jump to conclusions, but I can't help but feel it won't deliver and a deeper emotional level.

For all the supposed faults, I always felt like Halo 2 delivered upon the expansion of wonder and curiosity, as well as letting us take pleasure from the skills we already had from Halo. Hearing a snippet of a song, or a glance at a screenshot takes me back immediately to the feelings I had with the game. The sense of discovery was wonderful at the time, not just looking back.

As much as I complain about Destiny, there are bits and pieces that have quite the essence to them, and am curious to see if the sequel can build upon that.

Definitely spending 3 hours trying to burn down Skolas the first week with Zero and Funk only for Funk to get disconnected after we finally succeeded and not get any of the rewards. That was the funniest thing that has ever happened in a video game.

Close second would be unoudid dragging my corpse to the lighthouse the first week, only to not actually go himself because he didn't purchase the boons.

Distant third was the time Morpheus wanted to disprove someone needing 4 hours to solo the devil walker strike at level 8, so Funk and I joined him and just ran around the Earth doing nothing for 3 hours. Back when the weapons were actually fun enough to make doing nothing interesting. Feels like an eternity ago.

Also, I love you guys.

Oh, and loot cave. That's number 0 because it was the best point of this game.

My first ever Vault of Glass, of course. Cheating the jumping puzzle. Blackstar was leading me through, waiting around to watch me royally screw up the jumping puzzle that I'd never seen. Someone used the cheat to skip it, and I followed him. Blackstar seemed pretty disappointed. I still don't really know the proper way through that puzzle. When we cleared VoG a few weeks ago was legitimately the first time I've ever done it.

There was also that time I cleared Hard Mode VoG for the year one Moments of Triumph and got my first Fatebringer and Gjallarhorn at the same time. That was pretty cool.

Year one Moments of Triump in general stand out as a pretty cool time in Destiny. I helped a few people knock out Skolas in that last week before they closed, and that was a lot of fun. Skolas is still one of my favorite encounters in Destiny.

My first ever blind raid, King's Fall, with Kermit's crew will always stand out. Blind raiding is something special, and it's the only one I've ever done. It took us a few weeks, but we got it done, in the end, with the whole crew mostly intact. Can't wait to do another blind raid in Destiny 2.

These last few weeks have honestly been some of the most fun I've had with Destiny, though. Raiding with Korny, kupkake, Kermit, Destroyo, Ottermack, Bigarm, etc., over these past few weeks has been a real blast. It's been a huge reminder of why Destiny is so much fun. Hell, I even enjoyed playing Iron Banner for the first time ever.

As others have said, I'm not sure Destiny by itself has a lot of memorable moments. I can only remember a handful of specific encounters or situations or story beats, whereas I can still recall many of all of those things through the Halo games. But Destiny is far, far better at facilitating having good times with friends than Halo ever was. I've long wished that Destiny was more like Halo (and I still do, in some regards), but I think I've finally reached a point where I can recognize what Destiny is aiming for, and it's so much more than Halo ever was.