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Bungie hired David Cross (Tobias, Arrested Dev) to write jokes for Destiny, used none
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RedAssedApe
Banned
Funny ghost dlc voice pack incoming
Troll away then
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Actually no, the twist was...
You, as well as all of those who were worshiping the Traveler were actually the evil ones trying to exterminate the true followers of light (which is why light pops from them when head-shotting) and he used your people for war against them. Then he/she/it was left ravaged in like a "stasis" and he had to revive downed soldiers with the Ghosts he/she/it created (kinda like space zombie/slaves). That was the twist, and not very space marine hero like we are used to. But guess what now... we are space heroes.
Bill Nighy
Poodlestrike
Banned
Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, and Lance Reddick are probably the standouts. They've also got Claudia Black playing a bloody shopkeeper, and Bill Nighy as The World's Most Boring Expositor (AKA The Speaker).
SuperStiltzkin
Member
Destiny must have the most squandered talent in any videogame ever. I'm talking most amount of talent being put to the least amount of use.
Humor wouldn't have made that "final" boss any better.
real_slime
Banned
David Cross and Brian Posehn aren't funny anyway. Maybe they just didn't want a bunch of rants about hating people from the south and details of their masturbation adventures in the game.
Nothing even comes close and I'd be remarkably surprised if anything ever topped Destiny, in this regard.
veloxStrix
Banned
A lot of the things I hear about the development of Destiny confuses the fuck out of me. I suppose other games have hired writers and not used them before though. I guess.
Southside Jim
Neo Member
Next expansion: The Lords of Blackstool (brought to you by Burger King)
They threw out all of Halo 1's written dialogue and hired two outside writers to re-write all of Halo 1's dialogue for them.
matrixman92
Member
"excuse me, does this armor effectively hide my thunder?"
Voysa Reezun
Banned
Tobias is the only funny thing I've ever seen David Cross do - not a Mr. Show fan, not a fan of his stand-up - so I don't know that this would have been up my alley. Still, I'm curious about the material he and Posehn wrote.
SocksAndShoes
Banned
Same thing that happens to a lot of games: Shit changes. Destiny probably was supposed to be the FPS equivalent of WoW at one point but the Leads at Bungie either couldn't figure out how to make it work or severely underestimated how much work it would take to build that much content.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Cross platform did not help at all. Having 256-512MB of ram versus what could have been with 8GB, yet keeping the game the same mechanics/gameplay wise.
Triggerhappytel
Member
If you think Bungie are innocent of all the horrible business schemes surrounding Destiny you're either blind or in denial.
Princess Carl
Member
It wasn't everyone because certain people quit before the release for now obvious reasons.
DCDW
Member
Keep apologizing for them and assume that I'm simply trolling.
Dude is posting like Bungie deserves no sort of criticism. No, I've been buying their games since Myth with my first 3dfx card, I can talk as much shit as I'd like.
indigo-cyclops
Member
Well hey. Bungie created a story on par with Lord of the Rings and Star Wars. All that humor would've ruined the tone.
Teaching By Billards Gold Seal*
Considering they worked with him before, I'd say it's safe to say they know what he's all about.
The Baron Count
Member
Not really. It's just a hell of a lot more public with this game. Halo 2 ironically was pretty close in that regard as well.
Destiny was always a stupidly ambitious project, it was always either going to blow people away or fall flat on it's face trying.
They managed to salvage it into something that millions of people love at least, myself included, but it's obvious to absolutely everyone that followed the game even a little that what we got was hacked to pieces.
30yearsofhurt
Member
Halo 2 had an entire game chopped off the end of it. There's STILL the E3 2003 demo that people STILL complain about not being the final game. The game was basically rebooted entirely mid-development. And it almost killed Bungie. Destiny has issues (what game doesn't), but it's development wasn't that unique in terms of modern AAA development. Halo 2 was. And they paid dearly for it - Halo 2 literally cost people their marriages. And they've been extremely open about how damaging Halo 2 was and how unfinished it was.
The same outlets that want to spend their time claiming they'll get to "the bottom of the story" regurgitate an outright PR lie by Microsoft as legitimate news, even though the most basic effort journalism of "search Twitter" would have laid bare what was going on should tell you how selective they are at expending effort to collect their paychecks.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
All of the Christina missions in AC:Brotherhood were supposed to be in 2. This stuff does happen all the time. Although, that doesn't stop the fact that some shady shit went on behind the scenes with Destiny.
MagnaderAlpha
Member
Dammit Bungie, you're....
.... drowning in a bucket of apples bobbing. Parents are hiding, our babies are sobbing....
.... drowning in a bucket of apples bobbing. Parents are hiding, our babies are sobbing....
By giving him a shitty script, for one.
Marketing means nothing when the game doesn't match the tone. The actual game is pretty dreary. Unless this changed with the post-release content, I guess.
down 2 orth
Member
That's actually kind of cool...
Edit: It would at least add an extra layer of depth to the enemy, something that could be explored in the expansions and sequels. I mean, there's nothing evil looking or antagonistic about the Cabal, they actually look like a civilized alien species and its kind of puzzling why they're butting heads with humans.
The Baron Count
Member
They're basically a race all about conquest. All they are interested in is expanding their territory it would seem based on the grimoire cards that I've read.
They seem to take a hell of a lot of influence from the Roman Empire.
the Cabal music is even styled after the old Roman/Gladiator war film epics
SaganIsGOAT
Junior Member
Love all the "fuck you bungie" posts over this. Keep it classy!
Should have been first post, duh!
Actually it's even more interesting than that. The cabal we meet and fight aren't expanding, they're *running*. Don't remember if it's exactly confirmed but I'm pretty sure the cabal we meet are literally the last of them.