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God of War Wins Best Writing at the Writers Guild Awards

Mercenary09

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Cory and the entire team at Sony Santa Monica picked up another prestigious award tonight winning Best Videogame Writing at the Writers Guild Awards. For those wondering the nominees this year included:
  • God of War
  • Assassin's Creed Odyssey
  • Marvel's Spider-Man
  • Pillars of Eternity 2
  • Batman: The Enemy Within Episode 5
For those wondering why Red Dead Redemption 2 wasn't nominated only members of the Writer's Guild can have their games nominated.
 
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KalEl814

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The writing is the best part of the game, I think. It's quite good. Out of the ones on that short list I'd put Spider-Man on top though I haven't played Pillars 2 or Batman.
 
Gravity Insanity

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Cory Barlog is basically Neil Druckmann 2.0 winning every damn award lol. There's still more to go.

Funny thing to point out is that both went up against Rockstar Games.
 
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Mercenary09

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I have a feeling there will be some controversy in here about RDR2 not being nominated just like at the DICE Awards. I guess because they aren't a member they weren't nominated.
 
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Deserved! One of the best games ever.

I don't see how AC Odyssey got nominated though.
 
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ASaiyan

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-PyramidSong said:
Only played GOW of those games but in my opinion RDR2 deserved be at least nominated.
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Dutch: "I have a plan!"
Arrested Development Narrator: "Dutch did not have a plan."
Only half-joking with this generalization, haha. The writing of the individual characters in RDR2 was strong but the main plot just didn't really do it for me.
 
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Played 2 of those games and while I am unsure of the order, I am pleasantly surprised to see Telltale's Bats' EP5 get proper recognition. It was akin to playing through a set of comic books on Bats.

Insofar as GoW is concerned, much like TLoU and Uncharted 4, while the story itself was rather very straight forward, the dialogues written felt utterly natural. No campy, corn filled BS.
 
jxN3

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Thought the story and characters were much more interesting in RDR2, but God of War was great too. Congrats!
 
vivftp

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Amazing to see Gow rack up those awards. I look forward to this continuing evolution of story telling in video games.

Damn, now I'm tempted to go play TLOU Remastered to experience its story again. I only played it once on Ps3 back in the day.
 
Masterspeed

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As much as I loved RDR2's story, it was told in over 1000 different Wild West movies and the dialogue has been used many times before. I can totally see why it was nominated. It wasn't something unique and new, because if you watch any Wild West movies from the 50s-60s, you'll realise they all play out like RDR2. Not to say It's not a bad thing, not at all. It's just we've seen it many times before, only in video game format this time.
 
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Masterspeed said:
As much as I loved RDR2's story, it was told in over 1000 different Wild West movies and the dialogue has been used many times before. I can totally see why it was nominated. It wasn't something unique and new, because if you watch any Wild West movies from the 50s-60s, you'll realise they all play out like RDR2. Not to say It's not a bad thing, not at all. It's just we've seen it many times before, only in video game format this time.
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You realize you're saying this in a list that has two comic book games in it right?
 
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