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WGA Announces Game Writing Award Nominees
by Aaron Linde, Jan 15, 2008 12:15pm PSTThe Writers Guild of America announced their nominees for the first-ever awards for video game writing, meant to honor outstanding achievement in game writing in 2007. The nominees include:
- Radical Entertainment's Crash of the Titans (PS2, PSP, Wii, X360)
- Vicious Cycle's Dead Head Fred (PSP)
- EA Redwood Shores' The Simpsons Game (DS, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, X360)
- CD Projekt Red Studio's The Witcher (PC)
- Massive Entertainment's World in Conflict (PC, X360)
Eligibility for entry requires that the games must have been released between December 1, 2006 and November 30, 2007. The WGA also requires that the credited game writers must be or have applied to become members of the WGA's New Media Caucus, which may very well be the reason for such an unusual lineup of nominations.
As one of the most standout years in gaming history, 2007 featured some of the finest writing ever seen in a video game. A list that includes Crash of the Titans and a heavily edited localization of The Witcher but omits 2K Boston's BioShock (PC, X360) and Valve's Portal (PC, PS3, X360)—both of which were recognized for their writing in Shacknews' Game of the Year awards—seems like a list where technicality, not deliberate choice, won out in the end.
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"'Unlikable. Unable to be liked.' It says that in your personnel record. It also says that you're adopted, so that's funny."
"What kind of sick person would send babies to fight me?!"
Seriously, how do you not include Valve in a writing award for games?
Portal... had good writing, I guess. It's hard to say... coming up with a funny... completely one sided script doesn't seem that hard.
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That is how much I hate these choices. (Except for the Witcher, which deserves to be nominated, and maybe the Simpsons Game, which was pretty funny. And I didn't play Dead Head Fred.)
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Of the nominees I have to say World in Conflict is the only one I played (and enjoyed). The Witcher I'm sure is great too.
Why are they bothering to put this drivel out there?
However, even the heavily edited Witcher localization was well done for the most part. There were parts where it was rough and obvious of the problem (lack of funding for voiceovers), but it manages to come through overall, in my opinion. I know some don't agree with that, though.
Such silliness.
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