From the sounds of it, Destiny

Cross stopped by IGN's London office to discuss his career - more of which can be heard on the IGN UK podcast this Friday - and when talk turned to games, the Arrested Development star opened up about his work on Bungie's shooter."Brian Posehn and I got asked and jumped at the chance," he explained. "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. 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.'"But it’s a shame because I’ve played Destiny quite a bit. 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.' You think we’re going to f*ck with the tone? But it was very exciting to go up there and get paid to play a video game a year before it came out."As for the approach that they took to the dialogue, Cross said "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... A

nd a lot of them – we were there for a couple of days so we offered a bunch of stuff up."

So would a funnier Ghost have worked? Or do you think humour would have messed with the tone of the game? Let us know in the comments below, and look out for more David Cross on the IGN UK podcast this coming Friday.

Chris Tilly is the Entertainment Editor for IGN in the UK and feels like this was a missed opportunity. He can be found talking nonsense on The Superhero Show and Twitter