These are the stories that are eligible for awards. : Othor Games

» Sun May 13, 2012 3:40 am

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/01/12/writers-guild-award-noms-for-brink-and-bats/#more-88791

Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, Story by Alexandre Amancio, Jean Guesdon, Corey May, Darby McDevitt; Multiplayer Story by Stéphane Blais, Richard Farrese, Jeffrey Yohalem; Lead Script Writer Darby McDevitt; Script Writers Richard Farrese, Nicholas Grimwood, Corey May, Jeffrey Yohalem; Greek and Turkish Ambient Dialogue Writer Vincenzo Beretta.
Batman: Arkham City, Lead Narrative Designer Paul Crocker; Story Written by Paul Dini, Paul Crocker and Sefton Hill.
Brink, Lead Writer Edward “Bongoboy” Stern.
Mortal Kombat, Story by John Vogel, Brian Chard, Dominic Cianciolo, Alexander Barrentine, Jon Greenberg.
Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, Written by Amy Hennig.

I am speechless and a little disgusted.

» Sat May 12, 2012 11:32 pm

>: ( Where is Bastion?

» Sun May 13, 2012 7:11 am

The first two and last seem reasonable, not necesarrily winners, but the others don't. At least Skyrim isn't up there cause that would just be lies.

» Sat May 12, 2012 7:46 pm

People on the internet have no taste?! Stop the presses!!!

» Sat May 12, 2012 7:53 pm

Uncharted and Batman had good stories in my opinion.

» Sun May 13, 2012 8:10 am

People on the internet have no taste?! Stop the presses!!!

It's not the internet. It's the American Writers' Guild Awards!!!

8O ~

That's me puking.

A commenter to that article:

basically, they have to have credited writers in the game credits, at least some of the credited writers (maybe all) have to join the video game writers element of the guild and the developer has to send the judging panel a script – they flat out refuse to actually play the games and see the writing in context.

» Sun May 13, 2012 4:01 am

Batman had a fairly decent story. I like the Assassin's Creed series but even I admit Revelations had a really weak story.

» Sun May 13, 2012 2:29 am

... Deus Ex... Human Revolution... not... listed...

Someone's gonna die.

» Sun May 13, 2012 6:07 am

People on the internet have no taste?! Stop the presses!!!

It's worse than people on the internet. It's people in the movie business who have probably never played a game in their lives.

http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1516

» Sat May 12, 2012 6:40 pm

It's not the internet. It's the American Writers' Guild Awards!!!

8O ~

That's me puking.

A commenter to that article:

It's worse than people on the internet. It's people in the movie business who have probably never played a game in their lives.

http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1516

So, people that I have never heard of and will never have any meaningful impact on my life, who sound like they consider themselves extremely important? Still not too different from 'people on the internet.'

» Sun May 13, 2012 2:08 am

So, people that I have never heard of and will never have any meaningful impact on my life, who sound like they consider themselves extremely important? Still not too different from 'people on the internet.'

I guess. The problem is that this level of writing gains legitimacy with each award it receives, which just encourages companies to put out more of this junk.

» Sun May 13, 2012 6:39 am

Brink

Even Dragon Age 2 had a better story then that game.

» Sun May 13, 2012 5:01 am

Fallout New Vegas not having a nomination? Not a very credible guild of writers if they don't know good writing. :whistling:

» Sat May 12, 2012 11:17 pm

... Deus Ex... Human Revolution... not... listed...

Someone's gonna die.

It hardly had great writing though, the story itself was pretty bland.

» Sun May 13, 2012 6:53 am

Fallout New Vegas not having a nomination? Not a very credible guild of writers if they don't know good writing. :whistling:

I think this is for this past year. (2011) I think I remember New Vegas making their list before.

» Sun May 13, 2012 4:01 am

Only one of those games deserves to be up there, and that's Uncharted 3. The rest do not.