History VideoGame / Destiny

A sequel, ''Destiny 2'', was announced on March 27, 2017, and is set for release on September 8, 2017. Promotional material focus on a full scale invasion by the Cabal Empire that results in the City's destruction, with the Vanguard opting to rally the Guardians and lead a counterattack.

A sequel, ''Destiny 2'', was announced on March 27, 2017.

A sequel was announced on March 27, 2017.

A sequel was announced on Twitter on March 27, 2017.

A sequel was announced on Twitter on March 27, 2017

*** Another medal for absolutely dominating in a Rumble match is [[TheSumOfAllFears The Sum of All Tears.]]

--->'''Shaxx:''' Two down!! Three in a row!!! ''Just look at them fall!!!!'' '''I can't believe what I'm seeing!!!!!'''

* AscendedMeme: "Randall the Vandal" is a nickname given by the fandom to an unnamed level 8 Vandal found in the Forgotten Shore on the Cosmodrome who, due to a glitch, sported a health pool comparable to Ultra bosses found in Nightfall missions. [[spoiler:Bungie decided to slip in a hilarious nod during the "Wrath of the Machine" raid in ''Rise of Iron'' with Rahndel the Perfected, who is encountered randomly in the Server Farm.]]

* UngratefulBastard: If the enemy forces are fighting and you try to interfere, everyone will turn their weapons on you even if you choose to eliminate only one of the sides. Lampshaded by Praydyth in the alternate ending of "Paradox", in which he says that the Vex will still try to exterminate you and the City despite the fact that you saved them from the Taken.

!!Other pages related to the game:
* [[Weapons/{{Destiny}} Weapons Page]]: For tropes related to each weapon and the weapon classes they fit into. This is to make sure that the main page for ''Destiny'' doesn't get clogged with weapon tropes.
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* CrapsackWorld: Don't let the fancy technology and clean aesthetics fool you. The Guardians are an elite fighting force made up of semi-immortal beings that can weaponise a near divine power to destroy their enemies. And they are losing. Badly. To the point that out of the entire Sol system, there is only one Earth city left standing.

** The developers call the game a "shared world shooter", rather than a full MMO. The game seems to function more like ''GuildWars'' or the ''Borderlands'' series, in that some areas (Raids, Strikes, Story Missions, and select areas on Patrol) are instanced to the player and their party, while others are always shared (most areas in Patrol, the entrance to the Vault of Glass, social hubs).

* {{BFG}}: The Heavy Weapons category, consisting of rocket launchers and heavy machine guns. Although thr HandCannon (a type of pistol that outclasses most of the other assault rifles) also qualifies.

** In-universe, it might be that the enemies are aware that the Ghost is the Guardian's lifeline to reviving and continuing to fight, and while ineffective at it in-game, are attempting to destroy the Ghost before that can happen. They have to take what chances they can get to eliminate an otherwise immortal [[OneManArmy one man army]] before they can return, regardless of how many allies are with the (currently) dead Guardian.

** The [[spoiler: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.