You Can (Not) Always Go Home – One Guardian’s Eulogy to ‘Destiny 2’

I keep thinking surely this will be the last time I write about Destiny 2. I have told this story enough times that it if you have any history with this site, you already know exactly what I’m going to say, but I got my gig here at Black Nerd Problems as the quote unquote Filipino-American correspondent because I played Destiny with our editor-in-chief, Will Evans. This was right at the transition time between Destiny and Destiny 2, and over the years, I played many a Nightfall and Raid with the team and wrote many an article. God, there are so many articles. Anissa’s What Your Favorite Weapons Says About You? It’s been on best-of lists, Top 5: Dead or Alive, had frequent cameo on the now-on-permanent hiatus of This Week in Nerd News as a trivia of “how many hours does Mikkel have now”, and many a conversation of whether or not this will be the thing that will kill the franchise or conversely whether or not this will be the thing that save the franchise. It is unfortunate that digital archival work is cumbersome that I’m not readily able to make a list of everything single bit of coverage, but even skimming through the nostalgic Corridors of Time from not even two years ago when The Final Shape concluded the Light & Dark Saga as we knew it, there was a sense of perpetuity, of permanence.

I suppose the reality spoke for itself though. After the Final Shape, after defeating the Witness, after a decade, there wasn’t much left to do. Inertia kept me the dredges of the Blv…