No funny business in Destiny

Those who've played Destiny will know that your mechanical companion, Ghost, isn't the most charismatic and humorous of characters, and so it won't come as much of a surprise to hear that Bungie had considered making the little metal critter a tad more amusing.

According to David Cross, who you may know from his work on Arrested Development, Bungie invited him and another comedian, Brian Posehn, to come to their offices and pen some jokes over a few games of Destiny.

"We were flown up to Bellevue, Washington to do a punch-up on the Ghost character in Destiny about a year ago. We were both very excited about it," Cross told IGN. "Some of it was self-reverential. And it was just stuff that was making us laugh. We were in a room, we'd play a lot, and some of it was winking to gamers. I truly don't remember any of it. They were just sort of riffy one-liners that Brian and I were coming up with... And a lot of them - we were there for a couple of days so we offered a bunch of stuff up."

Despite their best efforts to perk up the Ghost (or the Dinklebot as we've taken to calling him), the passing of time has demonstrated that Bungie decided to go a different way with the character.

"They did not use a single, solitary thing that we wrote, which is a shame because we wrote some stuff that - you know, we're gamers, and they... - I would imagine somebody somewhere said, ‘we can't inject this levity or humour into it.'

"I haven't played since I've been over here and working on Bob and David, but you know when it came out I was way into it and way excited about it, and when you're at an hour 20 of that thing, it's like the Ghost is kind of monotone saying this thing, ‘we must get over the ridge.' ‘That's the cabal - we've got to defeat him.' Whatever, it's boring as sh*t, and I speak for myself and Brian, and I know thousands if not millions of other gamers would be like ‘it would be nice to have a joke or something in there.'"