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I like BL2 well enough but Jack is the wooooooooorst and is on paper fairly well characterized as an insecure controlling techbro jerkface who is not funny (but thinks he is), and the game's story only really makes sense if that is his character, but then the entire marketing (and the game itself at times) just treats him as a wacky cool badguy who is hilarious, which makes that turn partway through the game into some SUPER TONAL WHIPLASH.
While that was a sick burn by Ryan, boy does Far Cry 3 not deserve any sort of praise for its writing outside of Vaas
Speed, Dubh and I recorded a Games Witticism a couple weeks ago (that I will be editing pretty soon) where I went on a rant about Rise of the Tomb Raider's story.
And then I later found out it won a Writer's Guild Award.
The other games that were nominated that it somehow beat?
Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, Pillars of Eternity, and Witcher fucking 3.
And that's also when I realized that Rhianna Pratchett hasn't written a single thing I'd qualify as "good."
Maybe her comics are decent, I don't know.
But her games writing is all pretty mediocre or bad.
Err
As someone who disagrees and thinks the tomb raider games are pretty well written
Her comics work is worse
What's weird is I actually thought Tomb Raider was okay? Like, the narrative was whatever, but the characters were fun.
So I wasn't expecting to be wowed by Rise, but figured it'd at least entertain me.
And then Rise was like, "Hey, you remember all those characters you got to know in the previous game? Fuck all of them. Here's some generic ones instead."
The beginning of that game turned me off real hard and never fully got me back on board (except for the Baba Yaga DLC, which was so much better).
the wga video game writing awards have quite a history
they really like assassin's creed and naughty dog
2007 Dead Head Fred
Crash of the Titans
The Simpsons Game
The Witcher
World in Conflict
2008 Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble!
Fallout 3
Tomb Raider: Underworld
2009
Assassin's Creed II
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Wet
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
2010 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Fallout: New Vegas
God of War III
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands (Wii)
Singularity
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
And that's also when I realized that Rhianna Pratchett hasn't written a single thing I'd qualify as "good."
Maybe her comics are decent, I don't know.
But her games writing is all pretty mediocre or bad.
Err
As someone who disagrees and thinks the tomb raider games are pretty well written
Her comics work is worse
What's weird is I actually thought Tomb Raider was okay? Like, the narrative was whatever, but the characters were fun.
So I wasn't expecting to be wowed by Rise, but figured it'd at least entertain me.
And then Rise was like, "Hey, you remember all those characters you got to know in the previous game? Fuck all of them. Here's some generic ones instead."
The beginning of that game turned me off real hard and never fully got me back on board (except for the Baba Yaga DLC, which was so much better).
What pratchett did with Sam in those comics to write her out is terrible
That said
I actually suspect she was told she could not keep the characters from the first game.
Like, I get that the games nominated for WGAs have to be games that one of their members worked on. So we're not working with the entirety of games released in a particular year.
But even still, many of those are pretty dire.
EDIT: Oh wait, no, their submission guidelines say that writing done not under WGA jurisdiction can be submitted.
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Speed, Dubh and I recorded a Games Witticism a couple weeks ago (that I will be editing pretty soon) where I went on a rant about Rise of the Tomb Raider's story.
And then I later found out it won a Writer's Guild Award.
The other games that were nominated that it somehow beat?
Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, Pillars of Eternity, and Witcher fucking 3.
I was flabbergasted.
given that category thats really stupid
The most recent episode is about their review of Captain America: Civil War
I'm
Trying to parse this as something other than a mean jab
Am I just reading it wrong
Maybe her comics are decent, I don't know.
But her games writing is all pretty mediocre or bad.
Err
As someone who disagrees and thinks the tomb raider games are pretty well written
Her comics work is worse
What's weird is I actually thought Tomb Raider was okay? Like, the narrative was whatever, but the characters were fun.
So I wasn't expecting to be wowed by Rise, but figured it'd at least entertain me.
And then Rise was like, "Hey, you remember all those characters you got to know in the previous game? Fuck all of them. Here's some generic ones instead."
The beginning of that game turned me off real hard and never fully got me back on board (except for the Baba Yaga DLC, which was so much better).
they really like assassin's creed and naughty dog
Dead Head Fred
Crash of the Titans
The Simpsons Game
The Witcher
World in Conflict
2008
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble!
Fallout 3
Tomb Raider: Underworld
2009
Assassin's Creed II
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Wet
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
2010
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Fallout: New Vegas
God of War III
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands (Wii)
Singularity
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
2011
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
Assassin’s Creed Revelations
Batman: Arkham City
Brink
Mortal Kombat
2012
007 Legends
Assassin’s Creed III
Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation
Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two
Halo 4
Uncharted: Golden Abyss
2013
Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag
Batman: Arkham Origins
God of War: Ascension
The Last of Us
Lost Planet 3
2014
The Last of Us: Left Behind
Alien: Isolation
Assassin's Creed: Freedom Cry
Assassin's Creed: Unity
2015
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Pillars of Eternity
Assassin's Creed Syndicate
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Aren't exist's posts like 90% goosey jabs
On the other hand
Force Unleashed
The last of us wins are the only ones that are at all defensible
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What pratchett did with Sam in those comics to write her out is terrible
That said
I actually suspect she was told she could not keep the characters from the first game.
The Uncharted games have some decent writing!
But making characters likable and memorable takes good writing, too!
But even still, many of those are pretty dire.
EDIT: Oh wait, no, their submission guidelines say that writing done not under WGA jurisdiction can be submitted.
I dont remember them enough to know
If so then carry on
Uncharted was scientifically ranked as better than a large portion of video games
Yeah, I like Uncharted 2 and 3 enough to think those wins are reasonable choices, even if I personally disagree with them.