Well, with Staten’s exit, Marty’s termination, the dumping of the Cross/Posehn material for Ghost, it’s probably more likely something Bungie did or didn’t do. Amateur hour there lately.

Bad voice direction. The voice director squeezes the performance they want out of the actor - I suppose they intended to make the voice more computery / autotune so had him read it totally flat. Then they decided not to do that, so you’re left with this mess.

It is always baffling to me that people just don’t understand this. VO work different skills, and even an excellent on camera / on stage actor can be pretty bad for VO if they aren’t trained in those skills. Having poor direction is also a big issue, and from what I’ve seen of Destiny, the VO work was deeply hurt by a…

It was a robot character, how much tone inflection were we expecting here? Not that I liked his performance at all, I just don’t quite get the expectations people had for him voicing a tiny droid. It’s on Bungie IMO.

Exactly. This article seems like it’s laying the blame squarely on Mr. Dinklage, when not only did Bungie cut all of his funny lines, but didn’t they even go back and have him re-record a bunch of new dialogue with a purposefully blander delivery? I feel like I read that. Anyway, kotaku editors should not be so quick…

Or he was doing his best to act like a robot without emotions... and an awful script.

Bungie chopped his performance into little soundbytes that never, ever was representative of what he actually did in those sessions. Those hanging moments in his dialogue that happen all the time? those were transitions into further statements with proper diction.

I dunno, the script didn’t offer him much to work with.

I personally never had any problems with Ghost as it was, but clearly, Ghost being bad has become enough of a running joke to warrant these changes...

I actually think that Dinklage probably isn’t the source of the problem. We know there have been problems with the production of Destiny. If I had to guess, I’d say some…

Actually, a friend of mine was at the VO session for Destiny. Dinklage really wanted to put more emotion into the voice, but the director scotched that. They wanted a ‘robotic’ voice. This is NOT Dinklage’s fault. Actors get screwed all the time by bad directing. Honestly, I’ll bet that Dinklage is glad to get away…

Everyone says bad acting or lack of interest. Nobody seems to be considering that it could have been bad direction. In fact, I’m almost certain it was seeing as Dinklage has shown repeatedly, even in his worst films, that he’s a talented actor who can emote very well.

Oh I know, I’m a fan of Dinkalge. Especially on GoT. Hell, he should have gotten another emmy for his monologue at the end of the trial episode.

It was one of the reasons I quit destiny. After I heard that they pretty much gutted the story after Joseph Staten left I was pissed.

They had David Cross and Brian Posehn write jokes for Ghost, and they didn’t use them. Presumably, they had Joseph Staten write a story for Destiny, which they also didn’t use, so he quit...and they ended up not putting any kind of the story in the game at all.

Bungie didn’t help by giving him shitty dialog and writing a terrible story too.

To be fair...the script is pretty bad...Actors work with what they are given.

Dinklage is a great actor, but he really phoned it in for Destiny.

Yeah, no kidding. Hell, they removed a ton of stuff. I remember going back and watching early trailers only to discover there were lots of cutscenes and scenarios that just weren’t there in the final product. I mean, hell, there were only like 3 or 4 actual cutscenes in the game.

Well Bungie didn’t exactly help by editing it and removing all the jokes from his dialogue.

To us it doesn't, apparently to large amounts of Americans, it does. The fact that only recently gay marriage was allowed in several, not even all! states, only goes to show that there is a long way to go for gay acceptance.