It’s hard to believe, but Destiny has been around just shy of ten years, and today’s launch of The Final Shape marks the conclusion of the series’ current saga. As players get ready to dive into this final campaign against the Witness and usher Destiny 2 into a new era, they’re also fondly remembering the last ten years that they’ve spent playing Destiny.
It all started with a simple TikTok that I spotted after work yesterday about a pair of twins who’d been playing since the first game. The video, which was set to Destiny 2’s somber “Deep Stone Lullaby,” showed them as children in one slide before jumping forward to a picture of them in the present. It hit like a truck. People have grown up playing this game (myself included) and naturally we see a bit of ourselves in this thing that we’ve sunk so much time into.
That first video established a template for countless others that then began to crop up on my “For You” page (TikTok’s algorithmic timeline unique to every person), and before I knew it, I was inundated with emotional Destiny TikToks about everyone’s ten-year journeys with the game.