Comments on: GDC 2009: Game Developers Choice Awards

By: mrrobsa

mrrobsa — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:16:26 +0000

How did Fallout 3 ever receive best writing?! Maybe it was one of those things where everyone thought it was good, whereas other games which are greater, polarised opinion more and therefore split the votes. If that makes sense.
Having said that I was comparing the writing of Fallout 3 to Fallout 1 & 2, games which both had amazing writing. I’d have given the writing award to GTA or L4D.

By: Pijama

Pijama — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:47:06 +0000

Really. I expected more than that, GDC. FFS, they are game geeks, and to tell Fallout3 had the best writing? What the eff?

By: Leeks!

Leeks! — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:28:09 +0000

Fallout 3? Best writing? I love the game, but man, is that ever not the reason.

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:23:34 +0000

Far Cry 2 was fine. It showed a lot of promise that didn’t quite materialise, but nowhere did it fail utterly. Part of the thing is that few people actually buy games that are technically broken.

Part of the problem is that there’s no linear scale for enjoyment. I finished Far Cry 2, so I must have enjoyed it on some level, even if the story was sparse and the trip between missions a little too long. If you really don’t like a game, there’s nothing separating that and something that you can’t even boot up for bugs.

By: yns88

yns88 — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:16:47 +0000

I think that Fallout 3 winning best writing is fucking hilarious, but really, name one 2008 game that actually had a good, solid plot and decent amounts of good writing.

By: TariqOne

TariqOne — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:32:25 +0000

Oh my god. Self-congratulatory industry awards going to big-selling products of debatable merit? SCANDAL!!

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:27:37 +0000

I have trouble determining worst ever. Because once something gets so bad it actually merits no expectations whatsoever. Rending it hard to critique. Indeed, i’ve enjoyed bad games more that clearly good ones. Boiling point was crap, also genius.

By: bhlaab

bhlaab — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:17:33 +0000

Farcry 2 is pretty awful.

Between it and Assassins Creed it’s clear that Ubisoft has no idea how an open world game is meant to function

By: bhlaab

bhlaab — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:11:40 +0000

Also, I’d like to throw it out there that I think the first Fallout was far better written than 3, but 3 has 2 beat.

Hmmm. No offense, but I’m going to throw that right back.

By: Fumarole

Fumarole — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:04:15 +0000

Amen to that Jim. I’m sure everyone who had their hard drive wiped by Ruins of Myth Drannor would agree.

By: Jim Rossignol

Jim Rossignol — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:00:20 +0000

Farcry 2 is the single worst game I have ever played.

I wish I lived in that world.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:56:01 +0000

L4d had best sound hands down and Farcry2? Farcry 2 is the single worst game I have ever played.