Just ignore it like you should have done with all of the other ones.

Yes but it is there, looming in the background, and the checklist game design hovers over everything.

It's still too early to say, but I'm starting to feel like Destiny as it stands right now is probably my favourite version of the game. There is no level-up grind (since I hit max level during the previous update). The crucible has been obliterated to the point where I don't have any need or desire to play Destiny PvP ever again, and I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything by sticking to PvE (whereas in the past I'd play PvP for opportunities to rank up or get a new weapon I wanted). The Raids have always been my favourite thing in Destiny, and now they're finally front and center, but without all the frustrating RNG-dependant levelling issues that plagued them before. And if Crota's end is any indication, the raids have been tweaked and improved.

Plus, we finally have elemental primaries back (as exotics, which is totally fair), they aren't a pain in the butt to acquire, and scoring a few of them makes all other PvE activities more fun than they've been since year 1.

What I'm getting at is: I too find the record books annoying, and somewhat distracting. But I'm finding this one in particular to be very easy to ignore, because it doesn't yield any rewards that I want, and there's all this great stuff to do in the game now that is completely unrelated to the book. Which makes me happy.

Just ignore it like you should have done with all of the other ones.

Yes but it is there, looming in the background, and the checklist game design hovers over everything.

Ideally, I never will do any of that again. In fact, short of friends begging me, which is what got me to play Iron Banner (all the way to rank 2) a couple months ago, I don't do that stuff now, and I haven't done that stuff since Y1. I didn't like it then, but I did it because it was the way to get the guns I liked the best or to level up, things that made the rest of the game more fun. I have the guns I like the best, I have the ships and sparrows I like, my main emblem is one I got day 1, and I don't like crucible.

I'm planning on continuing to play the game as I enjoy it, and as a result, I'll probably never have that thing more than 60% completed. Currently at 41% I think.

My plan from here on in is to pretend that book never existed.

That's pretty funny - that's what I said you could do, since it doesn't ask you to do anything you wouldn't do anyway.

Unsure what you mean, so no.

He got us (and himself) lost in the 'Vault of Glass' when we played.

I was scrolling through the thing, thinking it looked fun, and then I got to the Trials page and the only thing that was unlocked (despite me achieving all of those required things, multiple times) was getting to the lighthouse and the faction page where I have to get my crucible rep up, and it's dead to me.

My plan from here on in is to pretend that book never existed. I don't want to feel the pull of those things encouraging me to do stuff I don't really like.

Yeah, already captured and uploaded. It's on the Admins to add it to the page now :-)

Up now. Sorry for the delay.

http://destiny.bungie.org/galleries/destinycutscenes/d/63_Age_of_Triumph_Open

If there happens to be cutscenes other than the opening that are new, then you'd be right and I'd have to come back to record them :-)

Any chance you can capture the in game opener? I thought it looked slightly different than the pre-release one. It could just be a figment of my imaginantion though too. Maybe seeing it in HD on a TV just made the details pop more than when seeing it streamed and on a computer monitor

Download the 1080p version and compare. It should be exactly the same.

Is the beta version different?

Then I hopped into HZD and holy cow, every single robot encounter, even the "easy" ones, requires a different strategy. It's just great. Oddly enough, the worst part of combat in HZD is fighting humans. They're all pretty much the same. It's fighting dinobots that's really gripping.

I truly hope Des2ny gets it right. The fact that Destiny of today is so dramatically different from the launch title, and yet still doesn't quite hit the mark is both promising and disappointing all at once.

Fingers crossed.

If there happens to be cutscenes other than the opening that are new, then you'd be right and I'd have to come back to record them :-)

Any chance you can capture the in game opener? I thought it looked slightly different than the pre-release one. It could just be a figment of my imaginantion though too. Maybe seeing it in HD on a TV just made the details pop more than when seeing it streamed and on a computer monitor

I think the new parts of Crota were awesome. We all really enjoyed the Raid as a RAID this time.

Running Crota again was fantastic. It's great having it challenging again, and I think the tweaks they've made to the encounters are fantastic. Very well thought out.

No doubt! I am sure it was a blast as the other raids will be.