I think Lodi was the only character who wasn't hated by everyone. Ironically, all what they need is white, straight (knowing Bungie it is very
for me to think so), slightly nerdy and capable character. He might be plain in some moments but still thousands time better than non-binary Nimbus which has only good thing about him that he has only 5 years to live.
I've read through basically everything related to Lodi in the lore because I too like him as a character, and you'll be happy to know that there's no faggotry involved. I was a little concerned when there were mentions of how much he cared about a male character with the same last name, but that was his brother. There are mentions of how he pined over women too. Quite possibly our first confirmed straight character in Destiny in years.
I played the opening mission for Renegades, and have been audibly accosted by a female Fallen with hyper realistic anxiety (Eido, I think?) and Star Wars pandering beyond what I could have possibly expected from this. If it weren't for the sequel trilogy, maybe it would be seen a bit more fondly, but wow is it derivative.
The "REMEMBER STAR WARS???" aspects do get toned down somewhat after the first mission, thankfully. There's still an occasional reference here and there, but it's not as in-your-face about it, and it's integrated fairly well overall. The rest of the campaign's story is pretty good on the whole, better than I expected it to be, and definitely less tedious than EoF's.
I was advised that these two campaigns are the ones I can safely leave dialogue on, then mute it for the entirety of Final Shape and Lightfall, so I imagine Nimbus is even worse than I can expect from Bungo. Speaking even mildly positive of this company feels odd and I don't trust it, but I'm having some fun.
Lightfall is pretty bad, but you really do need to experience it once to see just how bad it is. It's not the worst thing I've ever seen, but it's a definite low point in Destiny's history. I also wouldn't mute it because you'd miss out on some actually good content (everything to do with Calus and the Witness, as limited as it is, for instance). On replays, though? Definitely.
TFS is excellent throughout, though. You'd be doing yourself a major disservice muting the dialogue. The only exception is the tranny character Micah-10, but that faggot only shows up after the campaign proper when you're exploring the Pale Heart. The tranny jeet they hired to voice him is absolutely atrocious at acting, I had to mute the dialogue entirely after a while because I couldn't stand to listen to him try forcing out a woman voice anymore. You'd think that with Golden Age tech back in the day, they could actually turn a man into a woman and they wouldn't sound like a troon anymore, but I guess there are some things the Traveler's Light can't do after all. Hilarious.
I love that Nimbus was so unlikable and his VA is such a degenerate that bungie didn't bring him back at all ever again.
It's even funnier when you consider that the only reason they hired her is because she claims to be an enby, and the faggots wrote Nimbus as a they/them enby too. Only, Nimbus is clearly a man underneath the genderspecial veil, so when they hired a woman to voice him, they had to completely torture her performance in post to try and make her sound vaguely masculine. Naturally, they failed miserably, so the end result is you get a woman's bad imitation of how a dudebro would act that sounds like she's got laryngitis and she's speaking through a tube.
I will say that the Veil Containment missions after the fact were
slightly better than the main campaign's acting, and she did a better job when she wasn't trying to force an overtly masculine performance. Whatever post-processing they were doing to her voice acting worked better on a more subdued and somber reading, and it made me hate Nimbus just a
tiny bit less. It still doesn't make up for the fact that Nimbus is clearly the writer's poorly disguised fetish character, and I still never want to see him again.
