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Destiny was released in September 2014 as Bungie's debut on the new console generation with their new decade-long partners, Activision. It released on the PS4 and the Xbox One--as well as their predecessors--to decent reviews. Most early reviews cited the lack of real endgame content on release as a reason why they weren't completely thrilled with it, but Destiny is ever-evolving. Patches for the game were being pushed for both balance and content until Destiny 2's release in 2017, and Bungie constantly monitored both the community and data collected by their servers in order to better serve their players. Our tale begins with the finding of the satellite called the Traveler during an expedition on the surface of Mars. Over time, it bestowed humanity with gifts of technology and longevity. But, with these gifts came an ancient "Darkness" that aims to hunt and destroy the Traveler and those touched by its benevolence. Thus rose the Guardians, exceptional beings sworn to protect humanity from the Traveler's myriad enemies. We are one such Guardian, recently returned from the dead in the Traveler's time of greatest need to push back the encroaching armies and strike at the heart of the Darkness. This LP will consist of two sets of videos per update: cut- and uncut audio, as always. Some updates may come with supplementary videos if necessary, and other additional material will be posted alongside the video portions. But that's enough about that. Let's become legend. (For the Vault of Glass, regular logo is Grayfawks and I. Inverted is with the fireteam) (Click the banner to go to The Dark Below) (Click the banner to go to House of Wolves) (Click the banner to go to The Taken King) (Click the banner to go to TTK postgame) (Click the banner to go to Rise of Iron) (Click the banner to go to Rise of Iron postgame) Pythonicus fucked around with this message at 10:31 on Jul 9, 2019 |
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Destiny is not a game that likes to give you everything up-front. Being a modern game, there is no real game manual that tells you what the backstory is, or what kind of enemy you'll be facing during gameplay. No, Bungie hid a lot of their plot fluff that isn't directly important to the game's story in a system called the Grimoire, and hid that Grimoire on the game's website. Every so often during gameplay, when you finish certain levels or reach milestones in your murderous rampage of the Darkness' armies, you will unlock Grimoire cards. These cards serve as both trophies and small libraries of knowledge. Some even improve certain functions within the game; for example, kill enough of a certain type of enemy, and you earn more cash for each high-ranked member of that enemy you kill. Within every update I'll include a small selection of the cards we've unlocked for those that are interested in learning more about the universe, the Guardians that protect it, and those who would see them fall. Playable Races Humans, Awoken, and Exos Enemy Races The Fallen, Part 1 The Hive, Part 1 The Vex, Part 1 The Cabal, Part 1 The Vault of Glass The Last City The Dark Below The House of Wolves The Taken King, Part 1 The Taken King, Part 2 Pythonicus fucked around with this message at 09:48 on Jul 9, 2019 |
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Pythonicus fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Jan 31, 2019 |
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Hi everyone! Sorry for our extended absense, but things are more or less okay now, and it's time to get back into the swing of things here. For those of you who may have forgotten what's gone on so far, here's a handy reference to get you back up to speed! And as a bonus, an actual update! This update was recorded and ready a long, long time ago, and was never posted for whatever reason. Either way, we're back to Destiny, and actually new updates will start after next video. Pythonicus fucked around with this message at 06:51 on Aug 27, 2017 |
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Happy Labor Day! This update marks the last of the video recordings from a year ago! As an added bonus, some of you may already know that the Destiny 2 beta took place across August (early August for consoles, and last week for PC -- YES, THAT'S RIGHT, I SAID PC). I decided I'd give y'all a look-see for things we may yet see in the future! Starting next update, we'll have an entirely new set of fresh videos. This being said, it's time for a couple of things. First off, our next subclass vote-off! Sunsinger Warlock Powerful solo class, can fight out of dangerous areas with powerful grenade abilities and a melee overshield. Can self-res using Radiance, which also reduces grenade cooldown significantly. Defender Titan Tankiest class in the game. Has a melee overshield which buffs reload/weapon speed, allowing for constant motion and fighting. Ward of Dawn exists and is a little broken. Gunslinger Hunter Fast and loose, huge damage if accurate. Can gain buffs to weaponry with constant precision kills, and Golden Gun can oneshot just about all non-boss enemies. Bladedancer Hunter The ultimate in damage. Very mobile and melee-focused. Arc Blade is probably the least-balanced super in the entire game. Secondly, this is your official casting call for Venus' TWO strikes, The Nexus and Winter's Run. Here's what you'll need:
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# ? Sep 4, 2017 15:30 |
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Considering your habit of using compass headings to aim, I kinda want to see you try to wrangle your way through the Gunslinger Hunter spec.
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# ? Sep 4, 2017 19:07 |
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I know in the last thread, I said I probably wouldn't play the game due to tediousness. However, when the Rise of Iron happened, my brothers pestered me into buying it. I mainly played hunter so I want to see Defender Titan.
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Pythonicus posted:Sunsinger Warlock Quick update on deadlines for these. I'll be closing down votes and recording the strikes on Friday, September 8th at 8:30 pm EDT. Be sure to have your votes in, and by god, break this tie, please, someone.
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Gunslinger Hunter
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Well, poo poo. We just get things back off the ground here and Mother Nature says "this can't stand." I'm in Florida right now and it's looking like a pretty decent storm is headed our way for the weekend. I hope that things work out and that we don't collectively as a state get flung into the atmosphere, but it's fairly safe to say that you probably shouldn't expect LP updates for this upcoming week and for maybe a couple weeks beyond. I'll do my best to keep everyone posted as things here develop.
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Quick update: power's still out round my neighborhood but we've made it out unscathed. Updates to resume whenever we're back up and running. In other news, one of my friends went temporarily insane and bought me Rise of Iron before the storm rolled through, so I guess we're able to go through the entire first game!
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Looking forward to it once you get things going again.
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We've had power back for a little bit now, but I've been running around like crazy trying to tie a few things up. Regardless, now that all this mess has passed, I'm hoping to be at least SLIGHTLY more regular about my update frequency. In this update, we're trying something a little different. When last we saw our good friend Ugg, he was just tasked with obtaining the head of a Vex Gate Lord in order to gain entry into something we only know as the "Black Garden", simply having been told it's the heart of the Darkness and that our destiny, as it were, lay there. After a long while searching, Ugg and his Ghost have finally found one, and it's time for them to move closer to the Black Garden. Meanwhile, the Vanguard have found a Vex facility deep under the surface of Venus, and a Mind entity that needs to be brought down before the Vex further sweep across the solar system. In order to stop this threat, they've sent a team of Guardians to investigate the facility, including a fairly rookie Gunslinger looking to further her control over the Golden Gun. Let me know how y'all find the video. If it's too hard to follow along with everything going on, or if I edited it poorly, just say the word. Pythonicus fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Sep 22, 2017 |
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It took me a little bit to wrap my head around the perspective swapping, but I quickly managed to follow what was going on. By the by, are you still intending to upload Grimoire cards?
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Soup Inspector posted:By the by, are you still intending to upload Grimoire cards? I do still want to get everything I've got unlocked out there, but I've been looking for a way to better disseminate the info. I'm not entirely sure there IS a better way, so I might just go and do it how I was doing it.
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# ? Sep 25, 2017 20:14 |
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Hey, nice to stumble across this happening again since I'm almost certainly never going to play any of the Destiny's myself. First person shooters, controllers, and me don't mix well.
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# ? Oct 2, 2017 21:17 |
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I didn't find the perspective switching too confusing but I'm not sure there's an advantage over just presenting them sequentially.
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With the Awoken's blessing and their gift, Ugg is finally able to make his way to Mars, one step closer to getting into the Black Garden. Before he can do that, however, he needs to recharge the Gate Lord's eye. In today's update, Ugg searches for a way to do just that, while blasting his way through the Cabal's exclusion zone. Meanwhile, thanks to Ugg's efforts, the Tower has been able to rekindle relations with the Reef Awoken. Thusly, the Queen has informed the Vanguard of a break in at the Prison of Elders, a super-max complex built to confine some of the Darkness's worst. The Fallen house of Winter has recaptured an Archon Priest from the prison, and Cayde-6 sends the Gunslinger -- having recently proved herself a capable Guardian in dealing with the Nexus -- to take down this powerful Fallen leader.malkav11 posted:I didn't find the perspective switching too confusing but I'm not sure there's an advantage over just presenting them sequentially. Mostly it's just so that we can get through the base game a little bit faster. Once we get into the expansions, I'll probably be separating things back out again. At this point we've seen most of what Destiny 1.0 has to offer. That and this project is getting quite long in the tooth and I'm ready to see it finally done. Kibayasu posted:Hey, nice to stumble across this happening again since I'm almost certainly never going to play any of the Destiny's myself. First person shooters, controllers, and me don't mix well. Honestly, I have to say that Destiny feels like the best FPS that I've played on controller, and this is after having played entirely too many Call of Duty titles as a console pleb. That being said, when we eventually get around to doing Destiny 2 -- which by the way, we will not be doing immediately -- we'll be playing on PC, and I promise to try and not kill anyone through motion sickness. Pythonicus fucked around with this message at 05:39 on Oct 3, 2017 |
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Now that the Cabal's exclusion zone is broken, the Tower is able to send Guardians to disrupt further Cabal operations on the surface on Mars. The Cryptarchs of the Tower are interested in one thing in particular; the buried city of Freehold had once been a bastion of Humanity's best and brightest scholars and scientists, and many of their findings were unfortunately lost to the ages once the Darkness spread across the system. However, something of interest to the Cabal remains in the city, and Master Rahool wants the Gunslinger to investigate why exactly they haven't destroyed it yet. On the other side of the Meridian Bay, Ugg's Ghost has found a way to charge the Gate Lord's eye that will serve as their key into the Black Garden, only that particular avenue lies straight through a Cabal warbase, and they won't be particularly pleased with his intrusion. It's also time for this whole song and dance again: Pythonicus posted:This next vote decides which subclass will be showcased for the entirety of The Dark Below expansion, including its Strikes and Raid. In preparations for today's update, I went looking for the Grimoire on Bungie's website, only to find that it's gone thanks to the release of Destiny 2. Fear not, however, since some lovely people were able to back up the information on a separate page! Keep on the lookout, and we'll get back into exploring some of the deeper layers of the game's story. Pythonicus fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Oct 11, 2017 |
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Wow. So, they put all of their game's lore on a website...and then they killed the website the second the sequel came out. That's...something.
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# ? Oct 11, 2017 02:44 |
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I'll vote we see the Bladedancer Hunter next: I'm curious to see how it plays in this game.
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Melee seems like a neat change of pace.
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Yeah, melee sounds fun.
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Hey, everyone! It's been a long time since we've delved deeply into the grimoire cards, so we've got a lot of information to get through. This being said, I'm going to dedicate some updates specifically to the Grimoire. As I said, the original cards on the website are gone now, and I've been able to track them down elsewhere, but that also means that I can't do the side-by-sides I was doing before. Anyway, Let's start with learning some more about the friendly races we've seen across the game. Grimoire Card: Human posted:"This was our world, our solar system. We were here first. And no matter what the darkness brings, we will be here at the dawn." Grimoire Card: Ghost Fragment - Human 1-4 posted:From the diaries of Commander Jacob Hardy, pilot, Ares One So that's a lot of interesting insight into where we begin the game. If you remember the intro to the game, we actually see what Commander Hardy talks about in the latter two cards; the trek from their craft toward where the Traveler parked itself over Mars. But that's enough about us boring Humans. Let's take a peek at the Grimoire Card: Awoken posted:The others sing this song of Light and Dark. We, together, have transcended such unimaginative limitations." Grimoire Card: Ghost Fragment - Awoken 1 posted:Reports from a derelict vessel boarded in the first known voyage to the Reef Grimoire Card: Ghost Fragment - Awoken 2 posted:I was nothingness. If I existed before, I existed as possibility, as potential, stretched thin across the aether. And maybe there was a body that looked like my body, complete with a soul that could be confused for someone rather like me. What I am now was not yet real. And then I was born, and the universe was free to begin. From the first Ghost fragment card, we can assume that some sort of great calamity happened to one of the escaping ships fleeing from the Collapse, wherein it collided with some sort of free-floating comet that somehow had life-sustaining characteristics and atmosphere enough to breathe. I suppose this is why when we're in the Reef, our Guardian's helmet is off. That second card leads to some more questions, though. I'm guessing here that the mysterious "She" is actually the Queen herself, and that she personally oversaw the birth of a new child into their society. It isn't clear whether or not she oversees every birth or if this one in particular was special in some way. Open to speculation, I s'pose. Moving on, let's check out the Exo. Grimoire Card: Exo posted:"Ask yourself: what threatened your Golden Age ancestors so much that they constructed the Exos to defend themselves?" This one seems a little bit to me. "Yeah, they're robots. They can't remember poo poo, so hey, you can be this robot". Grimoire Card: Ghost Fragment - Exo 1 posted:
This gives the Exo more personality; trying to understand why they are the way they are. It's also incredibly human in nature. After all, we're never satisfied with the thought of 'well I guess it's just the way it was meant to be'. We yearn to understand, to learn, to think. Apparently those wants were transferred to the Exo when they were created, as well. Grimoire Card: Ghost Fragment - Exo 2 posted:Hi. Thanks for your interest. I'm recording this for posterity. Pythonicus fucked around with this message at 13:40 on Oct 13, 2017 |
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Thank you for doing the Grimoire cards as I could never be arsed enough to try and track down every Ghost shell, or get XYZ kills to get them all. The Grimoire was a design misstep so egregious that it bothers me to this day. Why force your players to an outside source to read up on the things they unlock, when you already have a hub world where they can access various kiosks?
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We're closing in on the end of the base game now, and after this update, it's all up to Ugg to storm the Black Garden. For the time being, the Vex are surging across the surface of Mars, and the Gunslinger goes to investigate the cause down in the bowels of a Martian transit system. Edit: I was recently a guest on a video in nine-gear crow's Ace Combat 6 LP, so if you like planes, or (God help you) my commentary, you should definitely go check it out if you haven't already! Pythonicus fucked around with this message at 16:30 on Oct 15, 2017 |
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https://www.twitch.tv/pythonicus All done for right now. More grinding is in my future. Pythonicus fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Oct 15, 2017 |
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Another mid-week update, another Grimoire foray. Last time we saw what we could see from the friendly playable races. Now let's turn our attention to some of our foes. Some of these cards have already been shared from the last thread, but for the sake of consistency and ease of access, I'm going to repeat them here. So, let's get started. First up, the Fallen. Grimoire Card: The Fallen posted:"We have butchers at our gates - four-armed and eager for slaughter." Grimoire Card: Dreg posted:"Don't underestimate a cutthroat, or you'll get your throat cut." Grimoire Card: Shank posted:"Death flies on tarnished wings." Grimoire Card: Vandal posted:"You could drown the City in the blood they've spilt." Grimoire Card: Captain posted:"Waves of them smashed against our walls, hissing and wailing. But it was the one who stood beyond them, silent and scenting the air, that froze the blood in our veins." Grimoire Card: Servitor posted:"A floating light, a sleepless eye. Their hope, their faith, their sustenance." Grimoire Card: House of Devils posted:"The Devils take whatever nature has yet to claim." Grimoire Card: House of Exile posted:"They live among the Hive. Of course they're crazy." Grimoire Card: House of Winter posted:"Their greed is as much a threat as their blades." "Grimoire Card: Ghost Fragment - Fallen 1 posted:Cayde-6 Reminisces I like this one; anything that features Cayde is pretty good in my book. I also enjoy the fact that in the face of a mutual enemy (at least in this particular story), the Fallen was more interested in beating back the Hive. It's a pretty cool thing to see, even if it was outside of the game. Anyway, one last card for this update. There are two more Fallen cards beside, but they're for things we haven't quite seen yet. Grimoire Card: Ghost Fragment - Fallen 2 posted:A ROUTINE SUMMATION OF DARLINGS WON AND HEROICALLY HELD DURING THIS PROFITABLE CYCLE, AS COMPILED BY A DREG Again with the . That last line is of some significance, even so. On the surface it looks like quite a bit of word soup, but in knowing what the rest of the cards state, arms are the Fallen's defacto status symbol. Whatever this particular Dreg found made him feel as though he had become elevated from the rank and file. What he found is fairly ambiguous, but an exotic added in a later expansion might be some sort of clue: Not much, but maybe y'all can make something of it! Pythonicus fucked around with this message at 13:00 on Oct 19, 2017 |
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Is there anything in particular that makes an exotic better than another? Most of the ones you've shown seem to all do pretty good in the raids or otherwise. Is it a PVP thing?
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Kibayasu posted:Is there anything in particular that makes an exotic better than another? Most of the ones you've shown seem to all do pretty good in the raids or otherwise. Is it a PVP thing? The exotic weaponry more or less comes down to personal preference. There are some that were head and shoulders above the rest in terms of performance due to their exotic abilities--like say the Ice Breaker--but you could honestly make do with whatever you had, or whatever was your favorite. That being said, exotics (or, rather, I should say, current exotics, not years-ago ones) are themselves an entire class above legendary (purple-colored) weaponry or armor. More defense, more damage, that sort of thing.
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It's time. Ugg and the Guardians have traveled incredible lengths through the solar system, cut down the armies of the Darkness by the drove, and finally, he stands at the gates of the Black Garden. It's time to become Legend.
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# ? Oct 22, 2017 08:04 |
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Whatever became of the Exo Stranger? AFIK, she just up and disappears, never to be seen or heard from again.
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# ? Oct 23, 2017 01:11 |
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Ghosts of Mars not only features Ice Cube but Jason Statham too! It is indeed an amazingly bad trashy movie. Boss fights where you don't actually fight the boss are my favorite
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AltaBrown posted:Whatever became of the Exo Stranger? AFIK, she just up and disappears, never to be seen or heard from again. You're absolutely correct. This is her last appearance in Destiny 1, and I haven't played or watched anything about Destiny 2, so I can't say if she's done for the series or not. In other news, I've done a boatload of grinding and managed to come out of it with a number of new and actually current-level exotics to show off for you fine folk, including a showcase on what sort of thing goes into finding/making one. We've also got the Vault completely recorded and edited, so I can finally say that I'm completely finished with Destiny 1.0! Three updates left and we'll finally be into The Dark Below.
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Sorry I didn't have a midweek Grimoire update for this week. As you might have guessed, I've been deeply mired in playing Destiny 2 over the last five days or so, and haven't managed my time particularly well. I'll make it up with two Grimoire updates this week, but before then, let's have an actual video update. Our Gunslinger is getting sent to the Dust Palace, a region of Freehold that once housed Mars' Warmind. The Cabal have unleashed their Psion Flayers in order to try and break into the Warmind's firewalls, and it's up to us to stop them. This update was recorded live, and I kind of did things a little out of order. I have the other Strike recorded, and I had fully intended to have that one up first, but it required slightly more editing than usual. Cerberus Vae III will be the next video, not the Vault of Glass. Another thing I didn't mention in the video was that Dust Palace was at first a Playstation timed-exclusive Strike. Interesting stuff.
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# ? Oct 30, 2017 06:04 |
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I can pop in my Destiny 1 disk if you need people in the future. Just don't expect voice chat, my internet is garbage.
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Happy belated Halloween! In today's Grimoire update, we're going to focus on learning about Destiny's resident nightmare creatures, the Hive. As with the Fallen cards, there are more, but those will be saved for another time.Grimoire Card: The Hive posted:"There are nightmares rising from the shadows, and they hunger for our dying hope." Grimoire Card: Thrall posted:"The shadows have claws." Grimoire Card: Acolyte" posted:"Belief is a powerful weapon." Grimoire Card: Knight posted:"It put up a hand and swallowed the rocket with a wall of shadow." Grimoire Card: Ogre posted:"Its gaze shattered the rock, and then it smashed the rock to powder." Grimoire Card: Wizard posted:"The only word for what we saw is sorcery" This is the card that explicitly states that Wizards are, in fact, female. I'm not entirely sure why that's particularly significant, but perhaps Wizards are how the Hive breed, beyond just raising Thrall out of corpses? Grimoire Card: The Hidden Swarm posted:"Mind the cracks and crevices of the Moon. There is an army in their shadows." Grimoire Card: Ghost Fragment - Hive posted:We were overwhelmed. I could not save mine, so I have hidden myself where I might be found by the others, if they even survive. There is most likely no possibility of my return to the City. I prepare here in summary the knowledge so painfully won by my Guardian and our fireteam. I believe this card is actually unlocked at the end of the first mission on the Moon, The Dark Beyond. With this in mind, we can reasonably assume that this and the next Ghost fragment card tell the story of the Guardian we found at the gates of the Temple of Crota. Grimoire Card: Ghost Fragment - Hive 2 posted:At the doors to the Temple he fell for the last time. He fell, and I could not reach him. Nothing quite like Ghost stories to wrap up Halloween, eh? Pythonicus fucked around with this message at 00:36 on Nov 3, 2017 |
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The longest running LP I'm aware of was Planescape: Torment by Shadow Catboy. It started Dec 03, 2006 and ended on Feb 07, 2011, according to the Let's Play Archive. So you've got a ways to go to becoming the longest running LP
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senrath posted:The longest running LP I'm aware of was Planescape: Torment by Shadow Catboy. It started Dec 03, 2006 and ended on Feb 07, 2011, according to the Let's Play Archive. So you've got a ways to go to becoming the longest running LP Smasher Dynamo's LP of Baseball Mogul started in early 2011 and is still going to this day. Almost 7 years... Man, where has the time gone?
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That raid at least breaks up the typical pattern of "big guy at the end surrounded by smaller guys" with... small guys surrounded by small guys.
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