WGA Lists Arkham City and Assassin's Creed: Revelations as Nominees for Best Writing in 2011

[Shawn Zipay]

Well, this is awkward. Days after I listed both Assassin's Creed: Revelations and Batman: Arkham City as two of my biggest disappointments of 2011, the Writer's Guild of America lists them as two of their nominees for best writing in a videogame for 2011.

This marks the fourth year that the WGA has included videogames in their annual list of awards, though a few of their choices leave a lot to be desired.

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; Ubisoft

Batman: Arkham City - Lead Narrative Designer Paul Crocker; Story Written by Paul Dini, Paul Crocker andSefton Hill; Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

Brink - Lead Writer Edward “Bongoboy” Stern; Bethesda Softworks

Mortal Kombat - Story by John Vogel, Brian Chard, Dominic Cianciolo, Alexander Barrentine, Jon Greenberg; Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception - Written by Amy Hennig; Sony Computer Entertainment

So Mortal Kombat and Brink make it onto the list while games like Portal 2 and Bastion and others don't? The two games that had arguably the best dialogue from the year? Hell, Portal 2's voice work already won awards and doesn't even get a nod here?

[Anarchy1]

Re: WGA Lists Arkham City and Assassin's Creed: Revelations as Nominees for Best Writing in 2011

I don't want to say that I told you so...but...

Hehe. But if I did have to pick a flaw in AC:R and B:AC (nice acronyms), it would actually be their story telling.

[Shawn Zipay]

They probably picked the names out of a hat and just went with those. Seriously, Brink? Mortal Kombat? I'm sure even Gears of War 3 had better writing than those two.

[CptainCrunch]

I wouldnt be so hard on myself for that. I get why you said they were disapointments, but this isnt about their surprising gameplay, its about their stories, which where great.There have been plenty of games with great stories that were terrible games.

[Stev0esque]

Re: WGA Lists Arkham City and Assassin's Creed: Revelations as Nominees for Best Writing in 2011

They probably picked the names out of a hat and just went with those. Seriously, Brink? Mortal Kombat? I'm sure even Gears of War 3 had better writing than those two.

I thought Brink was mostly MP anyway?

ArkCity was one of my games of last year. I was playing it into the new year as well (literally).

[Stev0esque]

Re: WGA Lists Arkham City and Assassin's Creed: Revelations as Nominees for Best Writing in 2011

They probably picked the names out of a hat and just went with those. Seriously, Brink? Mortal Kombat? I'm sure even Gears of War 3 had better writing than those two.

I thought Brink was mostly MP anyway?

ArkCity was one of my games of last year. I was playing it into the new year as well (literally).

[SgtMattBaker]

Good to see I'm not the only one who didn't like Batman.Best writing of 2011 for me? Uncharted 3.