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The lightfall campaign has Calus in it so it can't be truly awful in my eyes. I've always loved his character and being able to finally fight him one on one after all this time was worth the weight
The problem was execution, as always. You had a memorable character that was built up since D2's launch, with mystery swirling around him because of how he was never seen. He was utterly different from every other Cabal we'd seen up to that point, reveling in hedonism instead of simply grinding us underfoot. As the years progressed, we could see how the Leviathan's glistening surface was nothing more than a facade for the rot within, and how his all-consuming desire to serve the Witness was causing him to abandon all he once held dear, including his daughter. On top of that, he was one of the few characters to have some plot interaction practically every year since he was introduced (the only exception being Shadowkeep), so he was constantly on players' minds.
Him becoming a disciple at the start soured me on the DLC's story. Maybe I'm crazy but if I were the Witness it doesn't make sense to make him a disciple until the very end as some act of desperation to gain access to the Veil or as some sort of joke. He comes off more as a crazed fanboy than someone of absolute force seeing as in Eater and Crown we're basically coming in to clean up his messes. Then you had the Menagerie's lore book which is just pure fanfiction from Calus that is him sucking off the Guardian and how awesome we are.
The problem in that case is that the process of Calus becoming a Disciple was part of seasonal storylines that weren't accessible any longer by the time Lightfall came out, and about all that remains is the Presage exotic mission and the Duality dungeon (and the latter is more an examination of Calus's mind and regrets). All of his actions were constantly trying to get the Witness to notice him and let him serve it, but without any of that years of buildup, it just comes out of nowhere. Hell, new players just playing through all the campaigns in order would have zero idea who Calus is because none of his story is in the game anymore, so why it's such a big deal when he shows up would be lost on them. And they wonder why it was so hard to get people into this game.
what annoys me is that they made calus moveset being absolute shit, like he just becomes generic cabal enemies after a certain health threshold, i still remember the many times he said he'd love to fight us only for him to do what? act like a fucking colossus? man, shit's gay... i mean it's the lightfall expac but still, shoulda given my bro cally some unique movesets.
i liked the menagerie, it's way better than this starhorse bullshit we have especially because of the loot.
the way destiny 2 is lazily written allows for you to explain why zavala has different voices with paracasual shit, just saying.
This is what pains me the most talking about any destiny anything that got removed from the game, its hard to talk about stuff like that when after all my praise and excitement has to be followed by "oh you can't play it anymore tho"
Do you mean dramatic resolution as in a better finale for their storylines in general or just a more dramatic resoultion in general cause i assumed after season of the haunted and duality that their stories were not gonna end in anyway but Caiatl/us putting Calus down for good cause i would kinda agree both ways but even being able to fight calus one on one as a last act is a good resolution for me. of course i would be talking very differently if D2 wasn't end of service
Yeah i miss Leviathan, i loved doing gauntlet and dogs with blueberries. With the derelict leviathan still being in the game via arena ops i don't think it would be that crazy to remake leviathan but set it in the derelict version. Maybe give Calus some new lines where he talks about how fucked up the gauntlet arena is or how the garden in the dogs encounter is now all dead and fucked up.
I like dares but menagerie was also great and basically the blueprint for all future 6 man pve activities
I don't think there is any reason needed to explain the different voices because you aren't supposed to question it lol. I think in universe everyone still hears Lance Reddick and not Keith David
People give the rise of nightmares sets shit but at least they fit the theme of "a whole civilization jammed into one body" in a much more unique way than the only evidence being smoke faces coming out of megamind
A villain that is actually in control of everything while also not being the Winnower, invalidating 6 years of these pyramids ships, and looks like it was made by Pixar.
The latter. Yeah, we were always going to kill Calus in the end, he was too far gone to ever come back even if he wanted to, but just because you can see a conclusion coming doesn't mean you don't still want to see it play out properly. And in this case, it did not. Caiatl got a single line to reflect on the death of her father before fucking MCU quipping Nimbus shows up to be all "haha woo we did it wham kaboom zap to the extreme fistbump time!" It was so tonally jarring that it completely took me out of the moment and ruined what should have been a satisfying payoff for a years-long storyline.
The whole D2 datamining community is full of fags like this gatekeeping their work but then bragging about it and posting pictures just to stroke their egos. There was a big thing a couple years back about a D1 server emulator and it was closed in their inner circle and they just posted some videos of it and then nothing came of it. There is a map viewer called Alkahest that the rustfag dev refuses to update (after having blocked any sort of screenshot functionality) because of muh datamining, but was posting pictures of Shard and what looks like ingame rendering on his bluesky account. There was even a pre-bl D2 emulator way back in 2020 that they posted videos of on Twitter and then never released anything.
As many have pointed out (including @Blackstar above), Lightfall is such a filler story that you can literally delete everything but the first and last cutscene (the Witness shows up, makes the portal into the Traveler, and voops inside) and nothing would really be lost in the grand scheme of things. You're basically sent on an ultimately meaningless fetch quest to try and stop an poorly explained MacGuffin from falling into enemy hands, and you fail because the Witness was already three steps ahead of you and had contingencies in place for any outcome. The conclusion was already determined, so you basically just wasted your time accomplishing nothing. Thus, if they removed Neomuna, the Veil, and the entire Lightfall campaign from the story, the outcome still would have been the same.
Concept art and old internal slideshow leaks seem to indicate a patrol in the last city and plans for a clan space station, which exists as far back as shadowkeep in the cubemaps (along with a fully rebuilt and updated d1 tower with brand new art)
