Rise of the Tomb Raider Wins Writing Award, Beating Witcher 3 and Others

Well first Witcher 3 (+) : Perfect main quest line, very good side quest(s) line(s), perfect character designs, not linear, open world (which i like is mostly, you feel there is a living world around you. Random encounters or events. Very good voice acting. Very good graphics and atmosphere. (-) : Poor fighting system( auto engage enemy makes you mad mostly puts you in a bad situation), there r some invisible walls randomly on the map. So conc. for me it's much much better then the previous witcher games.

Ok let's talk about Tomb raider :),

Most of young gamers and who only cares about visuals like including this site makes the new Tomb Raider is a master piece. Well i understand kid gamers not blaming them. But editors? :( C'mon!! i played the previous game of Tomb Raider ( Of Course i've played the original series of the game) was totally shit except visuals. Pls tell me in which game producers points the secret places in the game? If you mark the secret area to the players then what's the purpose of it. And when you enter to that place a msg pops up and say "congrats you find a secret". Are you kidding me? Puzzle? What puzzle? Ah they say " we have platform puzzles" really? It's quite obvious for players where to jump and see the path. Ai? ahahahhaha as i see in that game as well. Bullshit. And when i saw a multiplayer option in the menu i said oh my.

i really wonder why Eidos betray their Lara and all fans who like the original series. Yea yeah your answer is money right? But hey let me remind you, Tomb Raider to Tomb Raider 4, sold over 4 million copies. After that they start to going down. And don't ask me why :)

So conc. ? This is not a Tomb Raider game. This thing claims being a tomb Raider Game and uses Lara as a hooker. That' s all.

The witcher 3 is super boring.

One way to look at it would be to judge dialogue given only by the main protagonist. Think about the mission where Geralt has to lure Dudu out of the crowd with a play. He's very flat, and doesn't have very many lines. It's a trait he exhibits throughout the game. Comparing Geralt and Lara directly, it becomes pretty clear why they would pick ROTR over W3.

Witcher 3 > All The Tomb Raider Combined

Tomb Raider featured a "strong woman" and her "journey", of course it won.

Wow. I really want to know the criteria and content shown to make this determination. I get the feeling the judges made this choice based on the synopsis or a short series of clips and got confused by the Witcher or something. No way any one of them actually played through the games. There's more to video game writing than just line-to-line dialogue. TW3 built a world through lore and exposition, and allowed you to reshape the narrative and interpersonal relationships to your liking. ROTR had a strong lead, but the ancillary characters and world NPC's were complete throwaways with little to no development. IDK... I love both of them but this seems an objective failure on the part of the judges.

Fret not, for next year you kids can bitch about what next game wins the award.

when's it coming to ps4?.................wait a minute by the time it comes it will be old ,luckily the witcher 3 still has more huge dlc coming out.

TW3 is the last game I played and it could be my last video game ever ..

it's the best game for me .. and if that game will be my last one , then I think I am lucky to ended my video game Obsession

with the greatest game ever ..

I played TW3, Pillars of Eternity and also ROTTR. There is no way in hell that that ROTTR should win an award like that. The year before The last of us won and before that Assassins creed: Liberation won. Both games with strong female characters, considering that, the reasons behind appear to be quite obvious and pathetic. Especially since I never even heard that Ass creed Liberation was supposed to be great storywise but everyone knows that it's the first one with a female lead - and she's also black. Just had to win -.- in the name of diversity and feminazism.

This is quite the achievment, seeing how well Witcher 3 is written. On the other hand, i do not find it that surprising, since all the good writing in the Witcher, was spent to side characters and quests, while the main story writing was quite bland and surprisinly sub par compared to the rest of the game.

But there's no way on earth that ROTTR outwrote characters like gaunter o'dim and the bloody baron.

come on guys Witcher 3 can't have it all I mean they already won like GOTY or something xD give chance

LOL

K.

LOL from what i hear it basically ripped off Indiana Jones and the last crusade

I'm not offended internet, sorry.

Wow. Stunned. TW3 would have been a shoe in for me. Seriously the bloody Barron quest line was outstanding, engaging and emotionally gripping. I'd love to see why the judges picked that. Femanazis?

Wow. Stunned. TW3 would have been a shoe in for me. Seriously the bloody Barron quest line was outstanding, engaging and emotionally gripping. I'd love to see why the judges picked that. Femanazis?

Wait...what? Pillars had fantastic writing. How is this possible?

So out of all the nominations, the one least qualified to win...won.

Pillars of Eternity had fantastic writing throughout, and Witcher 3 was just incredible. But Tomb Raider? The game where half the dialogue consists of Lara's panting and huffing? Sure, let's give it to that.

I'm glad ROTR won something. I had a blast beating it, but I need to do the side quests and investigate more Tombs. I'm currently around 70% completed.

Congrats Square Enix

I don't know, but TW3 wasn't stellar not for its writing anyway. I haven't played Rise, so I have no real inkling on its story. However to me this is no different from the oscars. Its an award for those that like to have awards and have no real baring on the populace unless you give it baring.

To be fair TW3 is not original material; its story, characters and setting are all based on Andrzej Sapkowski's work. Kind of like say the writers of the Harry Potter films getting a best writing award. weird

It deserve's it no doubt it was the best game last of 2015 have for the XOne and even got it for the X360 to play through it again