Are there audio options to turn off music?

Some people don't like him in Destiny.
http://kotaku.com/peter-dinklage-s-destiny-performance-is-not-great-1591460157/+charliejane
I'm on the fence myself. I would probably have preferred someone less recognizable, but that could dissipate with time. Right now I'm transported to Baltimore every time I hear Lance Riddick.

I think both Dinklage and the Crucible announcer are great; I don't know what people are griping about.

Agreed about Reddick; I just started watching The Wire.

Edit: Also, Kotaku. So pound of salt and all that.

Dinklage might be perfect at the end of the day.

Games have personalities. A big part of the Halo's personality was shown by the in-combat grunt and NPC chatter, which was lively and often funny. As much as I like Reach, sometimes it was muted a bit too much (e.g. Ron Livingston's monotone "The Covenant are on Reach.") Destiny does have variety going for it. I got some hints of humor in the Tower. Dinklage showed humor in the last trailer ("No pressure"). I'm looking forward to the larger canvas.

I think both Dinklage and the Crucible announcer are great; I don't know what people are griping about.

Same here. I think part of it is that some people are expecting to hear that same voice playing a particular character and are then disappointed when that portrayal does not match what they expect. The very, very little we've seen so far in the trailers and Alpha gameplay simply doesn't give Dinklage the kind of opportunity for scenery-chewing that GoT has given him.

On the other hand are people who perhaps don't have those expectations, but believe that the actor was chosen based on the strength of that other role, and feel that this is unfair, or see it as an invasion of a property they link (Destiny) by one that is very popular, but that they don't (GoT).

Just a thought. Personally I think so far, so good. What I do wonder is how individual Ghosts are. Presumably all players have a Ghost voiced by Dinklage, but what about NPC guardians? Are they all just manifestations of a single personality? If so, is Ghost going to be a character as important to the plot as Guilty Spark or Cortana, or just a gameplay element?

Some people don't like him in Destiny.
http://kotaku.com/peter-dinklage-s-destiny-performance-is-not-great-1591460157/+charliejane
I'm on the fence myself. I would probably have preferred someone less recognizable, but that could dissipate with time. Right now I'm transported to Baltimore every time I hear Lance Riddick.

I think both Dinklage and the Crucible announcer are great; I don't know what people are griping about.

Agreed about Reddick; I just started watching The Wire.

Edit: Also, Kotaku, so pound of salt and all that. Both voices portray character and emotion in the appropriate levels, and I don't think the "acting quality" of the Ghost in the Alpha differs from what we heard at last year's E3. I definitely seem to be in the (vocal) minority, though.

Ohh man, the wire is great!

Dinklage just sounds so bored. And not like, detached and cold bored like Data. Just bored, like he wants to know why the hell his agent signed up him up for this and when can he just go home. I thought he was pretty bad in the E3 trailer also fwiw.

Crucible announcer seemed pretty good to me though!

"That wizard came from the moon" is the Destiny version of "This cave is not a natural formation."

I wouldn't say that. Context is everything, and given how we're just thrown into the fray mid-story, I think we're missing out on story regarding the Hive's relationship with the moon(remember that the moon trailer featured the Hive in a significant capacity).

We later see hive ships crashed here and there, which are more story elements that I'll get into in my writeup...

If anything, his beyond-lazy delivery of "It's the hive!" took me out of the whole experience...

The story mission was the one place where I thought his performance was a little flat. I had to wonder if those lines got recorded either very early on (and so was still getting a feel for the role) or after a long day. Everywhere else I heard him, I thought his tone was perfect for whatever was going on at the time.

"That wizard came from the moon" is the Destiny version of "This cave is not a natural formation."

Nah. The cave line is what it is because the line itself is just dumb, especially given what the final level design looked like-- there was no way to confuse that structure with a natural cave. I don't think any line delivery could have escaped it.

The moon wizard line sounds odd because nobody expects to hear these words together, not because the thought behind it is stupid or wrong.

It's pretty awesome. I think Gina and I are going to be pretty close friends.

Dinklage is cool. I'm more in awe of Lance Reddick, Nathan Fillion and Gina Torres in the same room.

Wait what

The Moon line was delivered in a way that sounded like he was reading from a children's book.

That's probably how it sounded to him.

Might be how the intelligence behind the Traveler thinks about humanity as well, I suppose.

Down with Dinklage. Let the TSD Thespian Troupe show you what real acting is

He was ultimately told to deliver it that way. It had to have been what Bungie wanted, or else they would have given him new direction and done more takes. It's Bungie's fault, not his.