I just don’t get why this is so shocking to so many people. Our guardian hasn’t spoken since vanilla D1 and even then his lines didn’t add anything. People should’ve seen this coming.

This was one of the top 3 things I was hoping for Destiny 2 is that our character would actually talk. I feel zero connection to any of my characters because of this. In video games do you know what characters I really feel connected to and care about....Ones like Joel and Ellie....Katros...Nathan Drake....almost every damn character that has a speaking roll. I see my character as just thing thing with armor with zero emotion no matter what the situation. I really hope Bungie rethinks this drastic mistake and gives our character some lines / dialog moving forward. I would not even ask for an explanation on why our guardian now talks where in the past they did not, I would not even question it I would just be happy that it changed. Bungie if you want us to feel connected to our characters than they have to express some type of emotion. The strong silent type just does not cut it in video games. Very few games can pull off the non speaking roll well this type of game is not one of them were it works. I encourage everyone to tweet luke smith expressing that we want our characters to talk. Do it with tact!!! Dont be an asshat about it thats not how we get things changed in the game.

I prefer the silent protagonist for this type of game

To all those saying chill, just use your imagination and fill in your own dialogue, and '' I want to be my own Guardian.'' I ask this, what if our Guardians were blind as well as mute? If one can fill in dialogue, is not reasonable to assume one could fill in images as well? So then why are they not blind, could it be because it's harder to tell a cohesive story in a game without images of worlds that our protagonists populate? Of course, so then why is dialogue somehow an exception to this rule of storytelling? I'll tell you, unless there is a lore reason or a chapter devoted to explaining why, it isn't. Dumb argument. We are not literally our Guardians.

Literally the least of my destiny concerns

Source? Looking through this thread and seeing nothing but screaming n crying

I have ALWAYS hated silent protagonists it makes no sense and is very immersion breaking.

Guardians suffer with severe depression. They do nothing but bring death whenever they meet anything else in the frontier that isn't human or other guardians. To be bearers of light and to bring such darkness is a contradiction. In the crucible we kill our own friends for training, [i]for sport.[/i] Who does that? Who kills their friends for... [i]for [b]fun?![/b][/i] Unable to coup we fell silent, we are emotionally [i]broken[/i]. Our last words were perfect... "Do you think you can kill a god?" "I don't think I have a choice." It dawns on you as you say it, you don't have a choice, you have to kill. That is all you are, a killer. Not some hero of an age, not some savior of humanity, nor a avenger of the city, but a killer. A killer that can't kill himself, hell you tried, your friends have tried. Jumping off the tower in the city and cliffs in the wild. To free yourself from the neverending violence of murder, only to have you pulled back moments later by your ghost. You lay there contemplating on your very existance. Your very purpose, a reason why you have no choice but to pick yourself up, raise your weapon, and pull the trigger. Why do we only kill? Does it have to do something with what happened before you were risen by your ghost? Some atrocity in your past life that now you have to pay dues by bring death wherever you go? If only you could remember, but there is nothing there. You reach for memories through thick fog of your mind only to grasp at nothing. These questions swirl around your head but are never answered. These thoughts are never silent and you can't focus on anything else, you don't sleep, eat, drink, or shit. You thought the vex were terrible, the horrors hive kings have rot, even the unnatural rise cybornetic fallen, they all pale in comparision to your own thoughts, to your own actions. They are your worst enemy, and those you can't kill, and killing is all you know. So I jump off the tower yet again just for one more moment of silence.

It makes no difference to me whether my character talks in cutscene or not, I just want to play D2 already.

Okay but why even give our guardians a voice in the first place if they were not going to continue dialogue that doesn't include screams and "ughs" when getting killed. Just scrap the existence of the guardian, give our ghost a gun, and go from there.