So I've been running around in Destiny and enjoying quite a bit. It's certainly better than a lot of people give it credit for, at least I think so. But I do love me some good all fashioned grind, and I'm not the hugest fan of slow stories in video games. I just wanna play damn it!
Anyway, running around in our solar system, I always thought I heard some familiar voices from the various NPCs and quest markers. With that in mind, I went to IMDB and checked out the voice cast, and holy hell that is one cast.
Here are some of the biggest names:
- Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones, X-Men: Days of Future Past)
- Bill NIghy (Underworld, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean)
- Lauren Cohan (The Walking Dead, Archer)
- Gina Torres (Suits, The Matrix)
- Lance Reddick (The Wire, Lost)
- Nathan Fillion (Firelfy, Castle)
- Lennie James (Snatch, Colombiana)
- Shohreh Aghdashloo (X-Men, House of Saddam)
- Peter Stormare (Prison Break, The Big Lebowski)
- James Remar (Dexter, Warriors)
- Erick Avari (The Mummy, Planet of the Apes)
That's a pretty damned impressive list. A list that begs the question, why in gods name did Bungie hire that many famous people for a game with barely any story at all? I don't mind it at all, in fact I like it a lot, but it just doesn't make a lot of business sense. At least not to me.
This kinda makes me wonder just what the hell happened to the story in Destiny. I think it's pretty obvious that it was supposed to be something bigger in scope than what you find in the final product. Do you guys think they've just cut a lot of stuff, maybe holding it for DLC, or do you think that the amount of story content in the game today reflects what Bungie originally intended?
At least to me, it seems to be at odds with the statement that they wanted to create a universe that would last for ten years or whatever, and rival Star Wars and Star Trek. I actually like the universe a lot, but the problem is that there's just not a whole lot of it. Still, Destiny is pretty damned good. Four out of five stars.
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