Arkham City nominated for UK Writers' Guild award

Well deserved.:D

Arkham City nominated for UK Writers' Guild award

The UK Writers' Guild has announced the nominees for its 2012 awards, including those writers and games up the Best Videogame Script award.

Rocksteady Studios'Batman: Arkham Cityis up for the award, with lead narrative designer Paul Crocker nominated --Crocker was also nominated for his workonArkham Cityby the Writers' Guild of America earlier this year.

Piranha Bytes'Risen 2: Dark Watersis also nominated, with writers Gordon Rennie, Alan Barnes and Emma Beeby highlighted, whileZombies, Run!, written by Naomi Alderman, is the third and final nominee. The winner will be announced on November 14.

Were we playing the same game?

I really enjoy when a game catches me off guard with something unexpected... and AC does that.

I support the notion.

The only thing Arkham City failed to do better than Asylum was the writing/dialogue/story.Zeviander

Piranha Bytes'Risen 2: Dark Watersis also nominated, with writers Gordon Rennie, Alan Barnes and Emma Beeby highlighted, whileZombies, Run!, written by Naomi Alderman, is the third and final nominee. The winner will be announced on November 14.Blazerdt47

What the f**k?

The only thing Arkham City failed to do better than Asylum was the writing/dialogue/story.Zeviander

Though from what I've played so far, City seems to have some more interesting things going on, what with Bruce Wayne being arrested and the Joker faking his death.

Still, if The Walking Dead, which has one of the best stories I've ever seen in a video game, fails to get a nod, I will be highly annoyed.

I disagree, I thought the writting was better in ACrilpas

[QUOTE="rilpas"]I disagree, I thought the writting was better in ACZeviander

for starters it felt more alive, I liked hearing the goons' take on their situation and seeing how the various gangs adadpted to their hardships, as you mentioned the character plots were freat and personally I loved the ending and twist ending they're obviously saving for the next game :P

as for Arkham Asylum, I honestly never cared for it's story, to me the joker wouldn't inject himself with venom and go berserk on Batman and Poison Ivy felt really forced and pointless

The only thing Arkham City failed to do better than Asylum was the writing/dialogue/story.Zeviander

The ending of Asylum instantly makes it a worst story. That ending was just so stupid and poorly written.

[QUOTE="Zeviander"][QUOTE="rilpas"]I disagree, I thought the writting was better in ACrilpas

for starters it felt more alive, I liked hearing the goons' take on their situation and seeing how the various gangs adadpted to their hardships, as you mentioned the character plots were freat and personally I loved the ending and twist ending they're obviously saving for the next game :P

as for Arkham Asylum, I honestly never cared for it's story, to me the joker wouldn't inject himself with venom and go berserk on Batman and Poison Ivy felt really forced and pointless

There's inconsistencies in both games TBH... one thing that really bothered me with AC was the fact that Joker

[spoiler] was genuinely concerned about not dying when he usually doesn't give a f**k about that and Batman acted like a real jerk most of the time [/spoiler]

[QUOTE="rilpas"]

[QUOTE="Zeviander"] I disagree? Why do you think it was better? I thought it was a lot more inconsistent and all over the place with the characters. The individual character plots were great, but they didn't mesh together well.GreenGoblin2099

for starters it felt more alive, I liked hearing the goons' take on their situation and seeing how the various gangs adadpted to their hardships, as you mentioned the character plots were freat and personally I loved the ending and twist ending they're obviously saving for the next game :P

as for Arkham Asylum, I honestly never cared for it's story, to me the joker wouldn't inject himself with venom and go berserk on Batman and Poison Ivy felt really forced and pointless

There's inconsistencies in both games TBH... one thing that really bothered me with AC was the fact that Joker

[spoiler] was genuinely concerned about not dying when he usually doesn't give a f**k about that and Batman acted like a real jerk most of the time [/spoiler]

Well deserved. It had a great story.

Man, the UK's got some low standards. Why not just nominate some anime while we're at it?

Uhh... why is it this and not The Walking Dead?PannicAtack

Dunno.

More importantly, why is a 2011 game up for a 2012 award, at least, this late in the year?

I think it's pretty well deserved. I don't understand the people that like the first game's story better. Asylum's plot was a pretty standard saturday morning cartoon plot. Arkham City dealt with much deeper and profound themes. The big, interesting ones that are often brought up in the Batman franchise.

[QUOTE="PannicAtack"]Uhh... why is it this and not The Walking Dead?balfe1990

Dunno.

More importantly, why is a 2011 game up for a 2012 award, at least, this late in the year?

I think it's pretty well deserved. I don't understand the people that like the first game's story better. Asylum's plot was a pretty standard saturday morning cartoon plot. Arkham City dealt with much deeper and profound themes. The big, interesting ones that are often brought up in the Batman franchise.

Pikminmaniac

[QUOTE="Pikminmaniac"]

I think it's pretty well deserved. I don't understand the people that like the first game's story better. Asylum's plot was a pretty standard saturday morning cartoon plot. Arkham City dealt with much deeper and profound themes. The big, interesting ones that are often brought up in the Batman franchise.

sammyjenkis898

They might not be extraordinarily profound, but the game goes deeper than asylum. The major batman questions are brought up.

-Is life worth saving no matter how low a person sinks in their morallity? Is there a cut-off point where it's ok to make the discission to kill? This game really pushes Batman in this regard. He has to make the hardest decisions in a seemingly futile attempt tp save a city full of the types of criminals that killed his own parents.

-The psychological strain on batman stemming from the question: am I at fault for creating these psychologically disturbed madmen?

It's a heck of a lot more interesting than Joker wanting to make an army of monsters.

[QUOTE="sammyjenkis898"][QUOTE="Pikminmaniac"]

I think it's pretty well deserved. I don't understand the people that like the first game's story better. Asylum's plot was a pretty standard saturday morning cartoon plot. Arkham City dealt with much deeper and profound themes. The big, interesting ones that are often brought up in the Batman franchise.

Pikminmaniac

They might not be extraordinarily profound, but the game goes deeper than asylum. The major batman questions are brought up.

-Is life worth saving no matter how low a person sinks in their morallity? Is there a cut-off point where it's ok to make the discission to kill? This game really pushes Batman in this regard. He has to make the hardest decisions in a seemingly futile attempt tp save a city full of the types of criminals that killed his own parents.

-The psychological strain on batman stemming from the question: am I at fault for creating these psychologically disturbed madmen?

It's a heck of a lot more interesting than Joker wanting to make an army of monsters.

[QUOTE="Pikminmaniac"]

[QUOTE="sammyjenkis898"] What themes in Arkham City were profound? PannicAtack

They might not be extraordinarily profound, but the game goes deeper than asylum. The major batman questions are brought up.

-Is life worth saving no matter how low a person sinks in their morallity? Is there a cut-off point where it's ok to make the discission to kill? This game really pushes Batman in this regard. He has to make the hardest decisions in a seemingly futile attempt tp save a city full of the types of criminals that killed his own parents.

-The psychological strain on batman stemming from the question: am I at fault for creating these psychologically disturbed madmen?

It's a heck of a lot more interesting than Joker wanting to make an army of monsters.

Yeah I know. I'm big batman fan. It just made City's story better than Aylum's for me. That's all I'm saying.

[QUOTE="PannicAtack"][QUOTE="Pikminmaniac"]

They might not be extraordinarily profound, but the game goes deeper than asylum. The major batman questions are brought up.

-Is life worth saving no matter how low a person sinks in their morallity? Is there a cut-off point where it's ok to make the discission to kill? This game really pushes Batman in this regard. He has to make the hardest decisions in a seemingly futile attempt tp save a city full of the types of criminals that killed his own parents.

-The psychological strain on batman stemming from the question: am I at fault for creating these psychologically disturbed madmen?

It's a heck of a lot more interesting than Joker wanting to make an army of monsters.

Pikminmaniac

Yeah I know. I'm big batman fan. It just made City's story better than Aylum's for me. That's all I'm saying.

arkham city's story is almost as good as the story in journey.

I thought the story of Arkham City was just ok.

[QUOTE="Blabadon"]What? Arkham City had one of the worst stories in a game I've played in recent years.parkurtommo

Or maybe he's read a book at least once in his life.