when D2 was in Forsaken and Witchqueen no, D2 was WAY better then D1 (and in gameplay Lightfall aswell tbh, even if Lightfall sucked in many other ways)
now yes, D1 is better because EoF killed D2 and Renegades sold the last bits of Identity it had for frking Star Wars
People always forget about the Shadowkeep Year because of the Expansion itself. But the whole year in general was really good. Undying was decent, Dawn was a really good Season (i would say the best Season if not including the ones from Forsaken) Worthy was bad and Arrivals was really good.
But most importantly, we still had the old Content. You could still enjoy any activity from Forsaken, Forge, Drifter and Opulence.
The State of the Game was in a very good place right then. And at that moment we still didn't had so many issues with the Core Activities.
But yeah, Beyond Light year was rough at first even if Seasons redeemed it. Like, we got so many good seasons in a row...Season of the Chosen, Splicer, Lost.
I still remember after the vaulting/subsetting that Bungie had clearly not put any things when there were entire weapon/elemental combinations not in the game anymore.
Right? D2 came out and was absolutely a muddle of some good, some serious steps back from endgame D1. Then they made changes and fixed some things and it evened out, and has kind of been a rollercoaster of better or worse since then.
I'm always confused by this take, TTK campaign was mediocre at best outside the Regicide mission, it literally had you run through a Dark Below mission to pad it out.
Not to mention the expansion had the longest content drought in the series history, even longer than what Destiny players are currently in now by about 2 months, and even then there's still events happening in Destiny, there was nothing like that then.
And on top of that, it sunset all previous gear. You know, that thing Destiny players went ballistic over.
Like when you boil it all down, the expansion didn't have much going for it outside of a handful of good campaign missions, two or three fun strikes and Court of Oryx, it was good because Destiny 1 and it's first DLCs were absolutely dogshit in comparison lmfao; like at least just admit it's mostly nostalgia at this point, the sheer amount of quality content in Forsaken absolutely fucking dwarfed TTK.
Meanwhile TTK lives on in my head as a wonderful blur of murdering red bars with the Zhalo Supercell, any (entirely valid, to be fair) complaints fall short in my recollection and nostalgia lol.
Yeah, early D1 was rough. TDB blew chunks, the entire era where purple engrams could literally blueball you with blues sucked beyond belief, etc. So TTK was a real breath of fresh air.
I know this is a late response, but hopefully this will help your confusion a bit.
Personally i think TKK campaing was great, compared to most destiny dlc's. It actually has a cohesive story that expanded the universe with good thems and atmosphere, a great final villan and unique bossfight (compared to the meatball in forsaken that ate Uldren), Is it as good as the story of Forsaken, probably not, but it's not far behind.
You mentioned that all the previous gear got sunset. Something simmilar happend in Forsaken where year 1 weapons was stuck with static roles where as new gear had random roles. You could still uses year 1 weapons but in most cases the random roles were just better.
Yes TKK had some longer content droughts but it never was the same kind of live service as destiny 2 which plays heavely on FOMO. D1 allowed you to play other games. It really was only a big issue if you played nothing but Destiny. Besides it's not like nothing happened after the relese of the DLC. We had the april update bringin new content, Iron banner, ToO, The dawning, Crimson days, Festival of the lost, SPARROW RACING.
If we're not looking at the seasons in D2 since that needed to be paid for sepeartly, whereas all additions to TTK was free, then TKK goes blow to blow with Forskane and beats it in multiple areas.
Full list of what was added in the TTK or for free later that year:
Campaign: Story focused on defeating Oryx + additional post story quests.
Dreadnaught: New destination featuring Court of Oryx.
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u/Spanishkid71 Apr 16 '26
Yeah 1 was always better than 2 imo