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[Canis lupus]

Wut, the game had voice actors other than Peter Dinklage and Lance Reddick?

 

[GuardianE]

Good Lord, Dinklage was awful.

 

[7DollarHagane]

I like hearing Lennie James in almost anything. Snatch is one of my favorite movies.

"He's mastered"

 

[Sorral]

Didn't the reddit post mention how there are stories/plot lines behind each faction and why they are currently this way, but it was all cut "to make a simpler game"?

Certainly seems to be the case when you hear the Crucible guy and New Monarchy's npc always disliking Dead Orbit while FWC does its own thing and then remember how two more factions aren't even included..

- Dead Orbit wanting to claim new territories and leave the city by salvaging golden age technology and using guardians
- New Monarchy in control of the city and wanting to bring back the golden age
- Future War Cult fighting aliens regardless of everything else around them

I wonder who decided that cutting this content was a good idea especially after such use of voice actors in the game. They could have made several different ghosts with different voice actors with this many people they apparently used, but nope.. Hell, it could have been as easy as one different for each race

 

[Keyser Soze]

I never knew she was in so much...

She is turning into a Nolan North.

 

[marthurstewart]

they don't have time to explain why they don't have time to explain

 

[Handy Fake]

I think Fillion's the only one that comes across as someone not reading their lines from a motorised cardboard tortoise.

 

[failgubbe]

I actualy take the fact that there are great actors involed as the rumour of the story being gutted true, like why involve all those for regular npc roles, it makes zero sense

 

[Stare-Bear]

Destiny, featuring the voice talents of a jet-lagged Peter Dinklage...

 

[Mass Effect]

Because other than Dinklage, they each have like 10 lines.

This, and the writing was so god-fucking awful, and delivery by most of them inconsistent to plain terrible, that it probably wasn't worth mentioning.

 

[Vlade]

I am a hunter because I wanted to buy my goods from The Hammer

 

[Sorral]

I think Fillion's the only one that comes across as someone not reading their lines from a motorised cardboard tortoise.

Definitely. He is notably good in there compared to others' delivery.

 

[Catdaddy]

 

[udiie]

Just look at this roster:

Peter Stormare (Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Constantine): Arach Jalaal, Dead Orbit Merchant
Lance Reddick (motherfucking Lt. Daniels from The Wire, Fringe, The Guest): Commander Zavala, Titan Vanguard

These were the two that got me. I kept calling Zavala Lt. Daniels and everyone I play with was all who the hell are you talking about
I just noticed Peter Stormare yesterday actually, and I really love his acting so I was honestly disappointed I didnt know sooner.

Lt Daniels wants to me to kill Sepktis prime cause I'm real police.

post of the day

 

[dark_inferno]

Destiny... with the Dwarf from GoT.

 

[Acorn]

Not hyping Dinklage was a smart move. Most phoned in performance I've heard in years.

 

[JZA]

This is something that I really wish Deej would have weighed in on. My suspicion is that when large parts of the game were edited, the developers and marketing people probably had no certainty over what portions would be cut, so they decided to not hype up the voice actors at all because they weren't sure if their characters would ultimately make it into the final release.

Again, points to terrible direction behind-the-scenes at Bungie. I feel like there aren't any studios any more that you can count on to deliver a great product without playing it yourself first.

 

[JayEH]

Because other than Dinklage, they each have like 10 lines.

.

 

[kasane]

well to be honest voice acting was shit

SHIT

 

[BouncyFrag]

Dinklebot freaking out and telling me to kill that first wizard was a surreal moment. I was like 'what's a wizard doing in my shoot bang future space game?'

 

[ScriptedReality]

I love Gina Torres
=)

 

[CloudyTuba]

Because their roles are so small and unnoticeable that drawing attention to it would probably just piss people off rather more than get them excited. If the game had any sort of story or actually used any of those characters they probably would have advertized it. They're more like cameos at this point.

Expensive, expensive cameos.

 

[Diablohead]

Because other than Dinklage, they each have like 10 lines.

There's more dialogue from a robot standing near the doorway to the great hall then most of these vendors have themselves.

 

[Forensic Scene]

Lt Daniels wants to me to kill Sepktis prime cause I'm real police.

Post of the day

 

[soul creator]

 

[Squishy3]

Because good voice talent doesn't mean anything if the direction is garbage, which is the case for Destiny.

 

[U n i o n 0015]

What I love is that have some really good actors, and there are basically no details about their characters at all.

It's like, here's this famous actor--he's a shopkeeper with no backstory.

Destiny truly feels like the only time I have wasted $50.

 

[Papercuts]

They already had to advertise stuff like biogamer girl since they were struggling for 90-100 review scores, I guess they felt no need to stretch it even more with those NPCs that give 3 throwaway lines as you go into their store.

And they don't want to advertise Dinklage as they know deep down that shit was terrible.

 

[Discotheque]

Lt Daniels wants to me to kill Sepktis prime cause I'm real police.

lmao

 

[sublimit]

Because in this industry unless your name is Troy Baker no one cares for VA.
Sad but true.

 

[Anth0ny]

God damn the voice acting was horrible in this game.


They made the right decision to advertise the game with Immigrant Song as if it was some light hearted, comedic co-op shooter or something.

 

[TriniTrin]

Did they seriously hire these well known names for 3 fucking lines? Did they cut a whole bunch of content that uses those characters?

I do not remember any of the characters actual names from the story other than "The Speaker", "The Queen" and "The Brother of the Queen".

I mean seriously the story and character development of the game was dogshit..

 

[Badger]

The voice acting in Destiny was pretty dull, especially when you have to listen to so much of the dialogue over and over while repeating missions, raids, strikes, etc . Apart from better scripting, Bungie getting in voice actors who could have injected some excitement into the dialogue would have made a big difference.

 

[nbnt]

Wow, amazing list... wasted on useless characters.

 

[SerTapTap]

I honestly guarantee the voice work would be better if Nolan North just replaced every single one of those actors and actresses. Though it seems the direction may have been so bad even that wouldn't have helped.

 

[Arthr2ShdsJcksn]

'I've got a bad feeling about this.' is lamer on every playthough. It actually made me forget about hidden footprints in Diablo 3.


Dinklage sounds awful and everyone else isn't much better.

 

[SJRB]

Catastrophic waste of time, money and resources.

I died a bit inside everyime I heard Gina Torres say something fucking terrible when I walked by on my way to Nathan Fillion's Hunter Vanguard. And don't even get me started on Bill Nighy.

Every single actor deserved better than this. Except for Dinklage; he's just awful.

 

[Acorn]

'I've got a bad feeling about this.' is lamer on every playthough. It actually made me forget about hidden footprints in Diablo 3.


Dinklage sounds awful and everyone else isn't much better.

"Is this really a good idea?" before releasing a boss (archon priest) is worse.

No it's not a fucking good idea and the entire objective of the mission was to stop them releasing him but fuck it we'll do it after killing everyone. Why? Because stuff and things.

 

[Melchiah]

I knew it was Claudia Black behind Special Orders.

Because other than Dinklage, they each have like 10 lines.

It's an odd decision to hire such well-known names to so minor roles, and not even advertise it.

 

[Maximus.]

They barely talk in the game, have no importance to the "story" and the script sucks.

 

[diablos991]

Lennie James as the crucible handler is my favorite.

I could listen to him announce a game all day!

 

[Stevey]

Everyone knows this cast.

I've not heard of any of them before and I don't recognize their faces.

 

[FloatingDivider]

They must have pooped money down the drain bringing them in to record 5 lines of dialogue at best I don't know wtf.

 

[The Lamonster]

Lance Reddick is insane good in this game. It's a real shame he couldn't have been the crucible announcer. Listen to his lines with headphones.

 

[Mihos]

I really don't blame the voice talent, but whoever (if anyone) did the direction and editing seems like they didn't have any idea what the order the voiceovers would be in at the end. They go form excited, to worried, to bored all in one paragraph. My text to speech software gets better inflection.

 

[Stereogatari]

Has a game ever seriously sold due to the voice acting cast?

Regardless Destiny had plenty behind it anyway.

 

[Corpsepyre]

James Remar is in everything!

 

[impact]

Lauren Cohan (Maggie from The Walking Dead, Archer, Chuck)

BELA TALBOT GOD DAMNIT. Never even heard of "Chuck"

 

[Sojgat]

Good Lord, Dinklage was awful.

I wish Fillion had voiced your ghost.

 

[Razgriz-Specter]

All that voice talent and they go with that horrendous MP announcer?
What a joke.