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

I play both Witcher 3 and Rise of the Tomb Raider on PC but Witcher 3 had a stronger storytelling, great character development, a great open-world, and most of all, CDPR was the most honest respectful developers that deserve more credit while SE doesn't.

Witcher 3 should have won, not Rise of the Tomb Raider. Don't get me wrong, Rise of the Tomb Raider was really enjoyable but I just don't see how it did better then Witcher 3, I just don't get it?

The writing?! Er, weird choice.

What an odd award for it to receive. Whilst proficient in a Hollywood blockbuster sense the actual story paper thin. It's saving grace is the characterisation of Lara and the villains, which is very good. Too bad the side characters are still nothing to shout about.

Nothing against the game mind you - absolutely brilliant in every sense.

Loved the game, just finished yesterday but an award for writing, wtf!

Pillars of Eternity and the Witcher 3 were 1000x better...is it April?

LOL... ya... ok...

This is surprising to me because I skipped this game because the reboots writing was terrible.

I find it hard to believe that the writing made that dramatic an improvement from one game to the next. The gameplay was fine but the story was a joke in the first one.

I guess I'll find out when I clear my backlog.

Seriously? This is a mess of writing...a flat story and unattractive characters...the only thing i like was exploring for tombs...even if the game remember me it was a tomb near by every time. Metal gear V had better writing than this...

The best game nobody is playing

Even Minecraft has a better writing than this.

The other nominees weren't exactly amazing, so I can see Tomb Raider winning out of all those.

LOL. That's why we cant trust awards.

Nice joke. Did it also win an award for being a forgotten game since the first week it came out on X1? I think it did.

The writing is so good that the first 5 hours are the most boring thing I've ever experienced from the Tomb Raider franchise and prevents me from playing it due to how bad it is.

Lol these awards.

The writing in Rise of the Tomb Raider is B-movie tier, and while The Witcher 3 isn't an amazing game, it's writing is definitely its strongest asset and deserves far more recognition than a shitty Uncharted knockoff.

Haha, well alright.

I'm playing Tomb Raider at the moment and while it's decent fun it isn't exactly ground breaking in terms of writing.

what horsesh*t

Apparently the writer's guild and I have VERY different definitions of what a good story is. Rise of the Tomb Raider does not deserve this award.

Even though this game is technically very strong, I stopped playing half-way through specifically because of the poor writing. Witcher 3 had some of the best game writing of all time.

Hmm. I've played both TW3 and the latest TR, but I didn't find the story/writing of TR to be that outstanding. Playing TW3 I felt totally immersed in the stories that were told, and many side stories/plots I can still recall with clarity. Playing TR, the story was... good, but nothing out of the ordinary, and somewhat forgettable.

At the end of the day, I guess it's down to personal preference and opinion though.

Rise of the Tomb Raider is a great game, but an award winning story? Come on.

As an action adventure it deserves a lot of praise, but as is so often the case, action adventures often have rather predictable and simple stories.

Haven't played the last Tomb Raider but it's really hard to believe that it has a better story than The Witcher 3

Really? The game was awesome, but the story/plot was utterly mediocre. Thought the storylines in The Witcher 3 were far superior. Oh well, to each their own.