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Bungie hired David Cross (Tobias, Arrested Dev) to write jokes for Destiny, used none
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funkystudent
Member
So like.... was bungie making one type of game but then 6 months before shipping they decided they wanted to make something else so they quickly started taking a chainsaw to what they had in order to ship the hush Destiny 1.0 was?
CaptainSlow
Member
The only thing funny I found in the game was the ATROCIOUS voice acting by Peter Dinklage.
tensuke
Member
Is Bungie purposely attempting seppuku or something?
It would actually be funny, if somewhere along the dev cycle they got fed up with Acti or whomever and decided to sabotage the game, but instead it kept getting more sales. So they throw out all this Taken King shit and it's still crazy popular...And it keeps getting worse but keeps making money. I'd watch that movie.
It would actually be funny, if somewhere along the dev cycle they got fed up with Acti or whomever and decided to sabotage the game, but instead it kept getting more sales. So they throw out all this Taken King shit and it's still crazy popular...And it keeps getting worse but keeps making money. I'd watch that movie.
IdreamofHIME
Member
Exactly what they did with Halo2. These guys are a mess.
Astral Dog
Member
Another stupid decision of Bungie for Destiny.
That made millions 
MrGreencastle
Member
I have a hard time believing David Cross couldn't come up with material. Bungie probably changed their mind and wanted the game to be a lot more serious.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
We're not talking about the dialogue already in the game :^)
DidntKnowJack
Member
Not surprising as they axed a large portion of the game itself. Probably due to time constraints. Partnering with Activision was possibly a good business move, but it didn't do the game many favors.
Bornstellar
Member
He lends his voice to a marine in Halo 2.
king grimlock
Member
Probably because the amount of content was already a huge joke nothing else could compare.
They couldn't have been any worse that the dialogue that DID make it into the game...
i don't think it had anything to do with his work... Bungie apparently cut just about everything from the game, not just jokes.
It's Probably easier to give a character no personality at all, than to try to salvage whatever dialogue still made sense after cutting out all of the story...
Death Metalist
Member
I would've played the hell out of a Destiny that had meaty content and cutscenes/story galore with some David Cross humor! Honestly that + Halo 5 probably would have pushed me to buy an Xbox One despite some complaints I have.
Someone on the kotaku article about the ign article (lol) posted this in the comments and tbh I'm inclined to believe it.
Seeing what destiny is and hearing about what it could have been is really really disappointing. *especially* if we would've had a 343 guilty spark sort of buddy being witty the whole gsme
Someone on the kotaku article about the ign article (lol) posted this in the comments and tbh I'm inclined to believe it.
Seeing what destiny is and hearing about what it could have been is really really disappointing. *especially* if we would've had a 343 guilty spark sort of buddy being witty the whole gsme
Ninja Scooter
Member
"Oh that's right, your wife is dead!"
Show me something from in-game pls.
I thought it was funnier that Bungie listened to his atrocious voice acting and then said, "Yep, that's good. Let's go with that."
JehutyRunner
Banned
"I like hot sailors. Better yet, hot se---"
Seth Enosh
Member
"about a year ago" was just a couple months before the game launched. Dinklage had zero new dialog in The Dark Below and House of Wolves DLCs and isn't confirmed for the Taken King.
It seems quite likely that they simply weren't able to use any of the dialogue since the VA recording for the launch of the game was already completed, and they didn't get Dinklage back for the DLCs either because of contract issues or because his performance was universally panned. Maybe we'll see Ghost recast with a new VA in destiny 2.
It seems quite likely that they simply weren't able to use any of the dialogue since the VA recording for the launch of the game was already completed, and they didn't get Dinklage back for the DLCs either because of contract issues or because his performance was universally panned. Maybe we'll see Ghost recast with a new VA in destiny 2.
Kobun Heat
Member
"self-reverential"
Pretty sure he said "self-referential."
Pretty sure he said "self-referential."
? What are you talking about?
Someone said they thought bungie wanted the game to be serious
They put out this dude bro commercial that's anything but serious.
What is there not to get?
PedroLumpy
Member
Ghost doesn't speak at all in the first raid. Maybe that was intended to be wall to wall David Cross one-liners.
Roddslayer
Member
Maybe what they wrote just wasn't funny
TheBaronOfNA
Banned
Still a waste of money to not use anything.
Slammin_Hammon
Member
Unfortunately Destiny's so-called story takes itself far too seriously too have jokes fit in it. Like much of Destiny this is an example of wasted potential. Oh well I have drank the cool aid and still play frequently anyways.
This is Bungie when they released Destiny.
This is just perfect.It's alright, they're using him in upcoming DLC.
If that were the case, Bungie wouldn't have cut it.
Gnome Scat
Member
No wonder why they never got a stew going.
Activision will, Bungie won't, but I guess we still need to learn the difference between developers and the publishers that work out these deals when all the contracts are signed.
"This should lead us to the grave...
..the World's grave, not ours."
You're telling me people that make a living writing comedy couldn't come up with something better than that?
It's very clear Bungie didn't have any idea what they wanted Ghost to be. It's no surprise Dinklage phoned the performance in. It would have been a lot better if Ghost was just a funny little robot that dropped one-liners. Maybe they could have even recorded a lot of one-liners so they could be randomized instead of having the exact same dialogue over and over and over and over and over and over...
Oh well, maybe they shouldn't sign anti-consumer contracts then. Unless they're cool with them, I guess.
alexandros
Banned
Well that seems like a huge waste.