10 Great Video Games (With Terrible Storylines)
1. Destiny (2014)
Love it or hate it, Bungie’s 2014 release Destiny has left its mark on the modern day video game market. Among the first to kick off the current MMO-lite craze, Destiny promised to pit players alongside and against each other as they traveled the solar system in an epic quest to destroy the Vex.
It was one of the most hyped-up releases of the past ten decades, and, according to many PlayStation fans, it failed to deliver—from a story perspective, at least. It was too light on content, and the story really didn’t make a whole lot of sense. Packed with difficult-to-surmize plot elements and crammed with so many characters and factions with similar names that it was a challenge to tell them apart, Bungie sincerely failed to present a cohesive narrative.
They cherry atop the failure sundae was actor Peter Dinklage's infamously flat vocal delivery. The voice behind the player’s ever-present Ghost companion, he was so bad that the studio later had industry legend Nolan North redo all of the lines.
Unfortunately, the damage was already done, and Dinklebot’s asinine voice clips will forever remain a meme in the Destiny community. That wizard came from the moon.