History VideoGame / Destiny

* DropTheHammer: The Sunbreaker specialization for the Titan, which allows you to conjure a burning hammer from Solar energy that you can either throw, or hit enemies with.

** Your character, possibly aided by the help of some friends, manages to destroy the [[spoiler: Heart of the Black Garden with the application of a few bullets to its EliteMooks]].

* EldritchAbomination: In the Black Garden, the PlayerCharacter finds [[spoiler: the Heart, a pulsating ball of dark energy which is draining the Traveler of its light.]] It is vague as to what it is, but it certainly is beyond the comprehension of even the [[StarfishAliens Vex]].

** It turns out that while both the Hive and [[spoiler: the Vex]] worship the Darkness, they're both equally willing to kill each other... because they both subscribe to the OmnicidalManiac view of the Darkness itself.

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** The Outbreak Prime is, as of September 2016, post-''Rise of Iron'', ''the'' most powerful weapon in the game, at a base damage value of 390. It can be considered to be the game's personification of the trope outside of the lore: acquiring it required not only solving an AlternateRealityGame to figure out how to trigger the quest (the process requires [[spoiler: jumping on a bunch of cylinders in an oddly specific way inside one part of the raid, which at one point requires ''decoding binary'']]), but also, after that, you had to [[spoiler:run the Wrath of the Machine raid at least twice throughout the quest, input three codes, one of which ''has no definitive solution'' (the "numbers" inputted have to add up to 730) and the first two change depending on your class, and require performing lots of feats with a Fireteam... consisting only of one Titan, Hunter, and Warlock. That's right, this quest cannot be completed alone, making it the first quest in the game where a majority must be completed with a Fireteam.]] It is currently considered to be the hardest quest in Destiny as of now, fit for what is literally the strongest weapon in the game.

* InexplicableTreasureChests: The beta presented players with loot chests that would appear in quite a few odd places. Some guarded by [[BeefGate Beef Gates]], others were placed in odd places or required some tricky jumping to get to. [[spoiler: The full game keeps the same chests in the same location so players can get straight to them -- as long as it doesn't get them killed.]]

* InterfaceSpoiler: The [=iOS=] app allows you to peruse the Grimoire, which has, among other things [[spoiler: location categories for Jupiter and Saturn, as well as space for about 9 different primary weapon categories, far more than the 4 available in-game]].

* KaizoTrap: Inverted in one Taken King mission.[[spoiler: After grabbing a piece of the crystal that once held Crota's Soul]] the standard mission complete screen pops up. Then your Ghost starts losing his connection with the Vanguard and can't transmat you out. [[spoiler: ''Then'' the Ogre you just saw get Taken reappears alongside a bunch of other Taken enemies, and you have to escape the Temple of Crota before you actually complete the mission.]]

* LovecraftLite: Arguably, ''Destiny'' is ''Lovecraft Lite - The Game''. The universe is replete with [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]], ''including'' the Traveler, which is possibly the only benevolent example of this trope. The Vex are a species of evil robot StarfishAliens who can warp through space and travel through time, built three ''billion'' year old ruins on Venus, and come from an EldritchLocation called the Black Garden. According to Ghost, the Darkness has consumed thousands of worlds for countless eons. And at the center of this Darkness is [[spoiler: the Heart of the Black Garden]], a being so far beyond comprehension that the Vex themselves saw no other option than to worship it. [[spoiler: You whoop its ass in the final level]] and subsequently resume your airy, idealistic SpaceOpera romp through the game's hopeful vision of the future. To quote Creator/{{Peptuck}} on the subject:

** [[spoiler: It should be noted that the Heart of the Black Garden is almost definitely ''not'' the Darkness. It might be a piece of it, but considering that the game will keep mentioning that the Darkness "is coming," plus the fact that there will be at least two expansion packs, it's safe to say that you do not win the centuries-old war in the base game. Millenia old, depending on how long it's been trying to kill the Traveler.]]

* OffstageVillainy: The Fallen House of Devils is described as besieging the city, but the player only fights them in the Cosmodrome, where they're mostly busy just looting important technology the City needs. On the other hand, many of the missions against other factions involve the Guardians storming their bases to disrupt major threats, i.e. assaulting a Hive temple where [[spoiler: they're actively weakening the Traveler with a ritual that drains its power]], assassinating a Fallen Kell who is looting the technology from the Ishtar Academy, or destroying a Vex Mind that is a major part of their plot to convert Venus into another Vex world-machine.

*** In the ''Forsaken'' expansion of Destiny 2, a grimoire card refers to [[spoiler: Mara Sov]] as "the lone power who made death [ and] allowed the possibility of evil".

* TakeUpMySword: Kabr The Legionless left the Relic for anyone who dared to enter the Vault Of Glass after him. [[spoiler: The Relic, which serves as a shield to the Guardians who enter, was created with "the thinking flesh of Vex" (most likely from a Gorgon) and Kabr's own Light.]]

->''We called it the Traveler. And its arrival changed us forever. Great cities were built on Mars and Venus, Mercury became a garden world. Human lifespan tripled. It was a time of miracles. We stared out into the galaxy and knew that it was our destiny to walk in the light of other stars... but the Traveler had an enemy. A Darkness which had hunted it for eons across the black gulfs of space. Centuries after our Golden Age began, this Darkness found us, and that was the end of everything... But it was also a beginning.''

* TimeLimitBoss: In general, Raid bosses run on a hidden timer. When this reaches a certain point, the game will announce that "Enrage is near!", and a short while after that, the game announces that the boss is "Enraged!" What this does varies from boss to boss- The Templar and Atheon just call on a bunch of enemies to overwhelm you, while Crota and the Warpriest force a [[TotalPartyKill wipe]] if not killed ''immediately''.

* {{Technobabble}}: Some items, and your Ghost while spouting exposition.
* TeleportSpam: Viable option for Hunters and Warlocks, while certain enemies do it too. Most notable are Fallen Captains and Vex Minotaurs.

* AnAdventurerIsYou: Although Destiny is very light on what class and subclass you choose, especially with Story Missions, Strikes and Raids, to prevent players from getting stuck during such activities. These classes do make certain missions more conveniant and easier, depending on the situation. Nonetheless some subclasses can be put on the general class tropes.

* LovecraftLite: Arguably, ''Destiny'' is ''Lovecraft Lite - The Game''. The universe is replete with [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]], ''including'' the Traveler, which is possibly the only benevolent example of this trope. The Vex are a species of evil robot StarfishAliens who can warp through space and travel through time, built three ''billion'' year old ruins on Venus, and come from an EldritchLocation called the Black Garden. According to Ghost, the Darkness has consumed thousands of worlds for countless eons. And at the center of this Darkness is [[spoiler: the Heart of the Black Garden]], a being so far beyond comprehension that the Vex themselves saw no other option than to worship it. [[spoiler: You whoop its ass in the final level]] and subsequently resume your airy, idealistic SpaceOpera romp through the game's hopeful vision of the future. To quote [[FanFic/NoGodsOnlyGuns Peptuck]] on the subject:
-->'''Peptuck''': [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/destiny-fireteam-destiny-vs-shepards-squad-mass-effect.311296/page-3#post-15165028 40k is grimdark for the sake of grimdark, and the neverending descent into further grimdark/grimderp/line GW's pockets. Destiny is grimdark so you can punch the darkness in the face with your spacemagic fists.]]

*** His other titles include ''The First Navigator'' and ''[[UpToEleven Lord of Shapes]]''.

** The King's Fall raid against Oryx himself takes it UpToEleven. [[spoiler:Players must stand on a set of platforms to summon up ''another'' set of platforms which float above them; then a runner leaps from platform to platform to seize a relic, which will make Oryx momentarily vulnerable. While the runner is doing his thing, there are ogres and snipers to be killed as well as a knight who gives an invulnerability aura. And once Oryx is sufficiently weakened, he starts pulling the characters into a different dimension... If it seems like this description just scratches the surface, you're right.]] And if just one player misses his part, it can extend the encounter until Oryx enrages, increasing the difficulty once more. And don't even ask about the [[HarderThanHard Hard Mode Raid]]...

** The base game has "The Vault of Glass", where you assault the titular Vex architecture and fight your way down to the near-bottom. You are confronted by relentless waves of machines, with multiple HoldTheLine sequences, before taking on the midboss with an unique relic that can make it vulnerable. There is also a maze where you need to navigate unseen by enemies that can wipe your party, and a jumping puzzle to access the boss arena.

* DifficultySpike: Although Strikes are intentionally hard, the game's second Strike Mission, "The Summoning Pits", is significantly more difficult than most Year One strikes. Not only do you have to fight a FlunkyBoss, but it includes a lot of [[EliteMooks Knights]] and a lot of [[BossInMookClothing Wizards]]. Doesn't help that the only cover you can use are for the boss itself, not all the mooks that spawn. Hope you can outrun more than just the boss's main attack.
** It doesn't help that the boss of this particular strike is one of the few that can easily kill a player on his own if said player isn't careful.

* KnifeNut:
** The Hunter's signature weapon is a knife, used both in melee and (for the Gunslinger) as a thrown weapon. This can be emphasized even more depending on your choices in the skill tree, allowing your throwing knife to set targets on fire, extend the duration of your Golden Gun, or [[DifficultButAwesome recharge instantly if it kills with a headshot]].
** This is a Dreg thing as well; they often carry pistol in one hand and knife in the other. It is common to see them act as if they forget they have guns and come at you in a screaming, knife-wielding wave attack. Some Vandals and Captains could be included too, if you count their big swords as knives.

* VenusIsWet: Venus ''was'' once the 900-degree world that we know, but the Traveler helped humanity terraform it, and now it's a wet drippy jungle world.

* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: In keeping with its ScienceFantasy, SpaceOpera, and PlanetaryRomance aspirations, Destiny is fairly soft, seemingly a 2-3.

''Destiny'' is a [[MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying]] FirstPersonShooter ([[InsistentTerminology though they prefer to call it a "Shared World Shooter."]]) developed by Creator/{{Bungie}} Studios and published by Creator/{{Activision}}. It's their next big series after ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''.

* AntimagicalFaction: While not overtly hostile to the Traveler, the Reef's official position is that they shun its Light and any Awoken shown to be capable of channeling it are exiled from the Reef. Presumably because they believe being too close with the Traveler will [[HeroicNeutral attract the attention of the Darkness]].

* CargoCult: The Vex, an already advanced and incomprehensible race of robots, came across the Black Heart - a fragment of the Darkness ''even more advanced and incomprehensible they they were''. They saw no other option than to worship it.

* DarkIsNotEvil: Implied by the Awoken living in the Reef of the Asteroid Belt. They appear to be rather ambiguous, however. Also may apply to Void Light, specifically that of Nightstalkers and Voidwalkers. Ikora remarks that some Guardians frown upon the fact that Voidwalkers use their Void Light to drain life and energy from their enemies. And Cayde-6 has a word of caution for aspiring Nightstalkers...
-->'''Cayde-6''': Picking it up is the easy part, Hunter. Putting it down again, well, you’ll find that it’s addictive, that power. This weapon is something special. Your Light gets twisted. Changed. You find the power to punch through and borrow something from the other side. The Void opens up a hole, and draws from the deep. Go ahead. Carry it a while, Hunter. You’ll feel how heavy it can get.