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Let's Play Destiny Co-Op #12: A Stranger's Call

Narcogen and Blackstar (especially Narcogen) encounter significant difficulties in facing the new enemies on Venus: the time-traveling robot Vex. As a reward, they get to see the game's first (and perhaps best and possibly only) real cutscene.

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Let's Play Destiny Co-Op #11: The Summoning Pits

Blackstar and Narcogen go into the Summoning Pits Strike on the Moon and get saved by a stranger. Not the Stranger, just a stranger.

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Let's Play Destiny Co-Op #10: Shrine of Oryx

In this story mission of Destiny, Blackstar and Narcogen are tasked with destroying the Shrine of Oryx and its guardian, Sardok.

Blackstar and Narcogen are picking up with playing Destiny in co-op mode with the first moon mission: The Dark Beyond. (The Cosmodrome story missions and strike seem largely unchanged from the beta test, at least at their lower difficulty levels).

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Let's Play Destiny Co-Op #9: The Chamber of Night

Blackstar and Narcogen are picking up with playing Destiny in co-op mode with the first moon mission: The Dark Beyond. (The Cosmodrome story missions and strike seem largely unchanged from the beta test, at least at their lower difficulty levels).

The Hive are using some secret ritual to weaken the Traveler. Blackstar and Narcogen have to get to the deep, dark bottom of it.

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Let's Play Destiny Co-Op #8: The Sword of Crota

Blackstar and Narcogen are picking up with playing Destiny in co-op mode with the first moon mission: The Dark Beyond. (The Cosmodrome story missions and strike seem largely unchanged from the beta test, at least at their lower difficulty levels).

Long ago, a Hive member named Crota wielded a deadly sword against the forces of Light. The Speaker tasks us with defeating the sword's creators, the Swarm Princes, to prevent the sword from being used again. (Not sure how, it just sort of disappears, and sometimes there's more than one.)

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Let's Play Destiny Co-Op: The World's Grave

Blackstar and Narcogen are picking up with playing Destiny in co-op mode with the first moon mission: The Dark Beyond. (The Cosmodrome story missions and strike seem largely unchanged from the beta test, at least at their lower difficulty levels).

Deep under the moon's surface, a Knight guards the World's Grave. Time to kill him.

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Let's Play Destiny Co-Op #6: The Dark Beyond

Blackstar and Narcogen are picking up with playing Destiny in co-op mode with the first moon mission: The Dark Beyond. (The Cosmodrome story missions and strike seem largely unchanged from the beta test, at least at their lower difficulty levels).

CORRECTION: I misidentify the text on the structures in this video. It is Chinese, not Japanese.

We venture into Hive territory to find a fallen Guardian and track down its Ghost.

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Salvatori To Continue Composing For Bungie

Fans of previous Bungie franchises like Halo and Myth were surprised earlier this year by the termination of the employment of composer Martin O'Donnell as the studio's Audio Department director, and the subsequent lawsuit he brought against the studio's president, Harold Ryan, for unpaid vacation and penalties. That lawsuit was recently settled.

What remained unresolved was the musical future of Bungie's newest franchise, Destiny, the soundtrack for which was the product of O'Donnell and longtime collaborator Michael Salvatori. The two worked together at Bungie on the soundtrack for five Halo games, and before joining Bungie also did the soundtrack for Bungie's RTS series, Myth, as Total Audio.

No official statement came either from Bungie or from O'Donnell regarding Salvatori. Fans wondered whether he would remain at Bungie and continue working on Destiny, or would he also depart, perhaps to join O'Donnell on some new project.

Contacted through his official website, his representative Lisa Ramirez responded to our inquiry about Salvatori's plans:

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Reflections On The Destiny Beta

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I've seen this for Destiny as well as Halo before it... accusations of being silly, derivative, and obscure, and I don't really understand it. Some of it seems to come from those who either don't want any story in their shooters and so don't pay attention to it, or those who are used to the kind of depth you get in an RPG and are put off by things drawn with a broad brush. The Halo series supplemented its backstory with the novelizations, whereas Marathon and Myth used the in-game terminals and journal entries, respectively. I have high hopes that the Grimoire cards you get in-game and then view on Bungie.net will be the best of both worlds here, allowing those who want to explore the world in-depth a chance to do so without overburdening the game with backstory during gameplay or through traditional cutscenes.

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ASE Destiny Beta Co-Op: The Devil's Lair Strike

We played co-op in the Destiny Beta! Join Blackstar and Narcogen as they go through each story mission, plus the strike, and point out the golden chest locations. (These may change before final release, though.)

This time, we enlist the help of Kermit7 to take on Sepiks Prime in the Devil's Lair strike. Some notes: Narcogen and Blackstar's audio is being recorded separately in Skype, so Kermit7's audio is unfortunately missing from most of this recording.

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ASE Destiny Beta Co-Op: The Last Array, Story 5

We played co-op in the Destiny Beta! Join Blackstar and Narcogen as they go through each story mission, plus the strike, and point out the golden chest locations. (These may change before final release, though.)

In this episode, we're going to reinstall the old AE35 antenna control unit and wait for it to fail. Wait, that's not right...

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ASE Destiny Beta Co-Op: Warmind, Story 4

We played co-op in the Destiny Beta! Join Blackstar and Narcogen as they go through each story mission, plus the strike, and point out the golden chest locations. (These may change before final release, though.)

In this episode, we find a turn of the century, Russian New Age audiobook, plus an artificial intelligence with the least imaginative name ever!

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ASE Destiny Beta Co-Op: The Dark Within, Story 3

We played co-op in the Destiny Beta! Join Blackstar and Narcogen as they go through each story mission, plus the strike, and point out the golden chest locations. (These may change before final release, though.)

In this episode, we find a wizard that came from the moon!

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ASE Destiny Beta Co-Op: Restoration, Story 2

We played co-op in the Destiny Beta! Join Blackstar and Narcogen as they go through each story mission, plus the strike, and point out the golden chest locations. (These may change before final release, though.)

In this episode, we brave a Fallen Archon Devil to recover a warp drive for our ship.

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