Fallout 3 GotY: WGA loss, GDCA and BAFTA nominations

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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed beat out Fallout 3 in the Writer's Guild of America game writing awards, Gamasutra reports (thanks TyloniusFunk).<blockquote>Star Wars: The Force Unleashed has won the second annual Video Game Writing Award from the Writers Guild of America. The winners were announced in a ceremony on February 7.

Writers Haden Blackman, Shawn Pitman, John Stafford and Cameron Suey were honored with the award, beating out fellow nominees Bethesda Game Studios' Fallout 3; Electronic Arts Los Angeles' Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3; Eidos' Tomb Raider: Underworld and Mousechief's Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble.</blockquote>To make up for it somewhat, Fallout has quite a few nominations in the Game Developers Choice Awards: Best Game Design, Best Visual Art, Best Writing and Game of the Year. Winners to be announced March 25th, see the press release here.

BAFTA has also announced its nominations, and Fallout 3 trails titles such as Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (7), Grand Theft Auto IV (6), Fable II and LittleBigPlanet (5) with 4 nominations: Best Game, Original Score, Story and Character and Technical Achievement, as well as the non-award "one to watch". Voting for the GAME Award is public and can be done here. Winners to be announced March 14th, see the press release here.
 
I really don't understand how FO3 could be nominated for writing.

It was horrendous. There were several times I cringed.

PR dollars at work.
 
Thankfully it didn't win. Or else it would have been:

[Charisma] Thanks for this award! We always wanted to make another Fallout game, I'm glad it was us who got to make it.

{Charisma check failed}
 
Pope Viper said:
I really don't understand how FO3 could be nominated for writing.

It was horrendous. There were several times I cringed.

PR dollars at work.
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No, not PR dollars. Just a lack of possible selections for the WGA, due to their stupid process and the total lack of interest from the industry. The fact that F3 didn't win is pretty embarrassing for Bethesda.
 
Brother None said:
The fact that F3 didn't win is pretty embarrassing for Bethesda.
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How so?

Just currious. I mean if no one cares in the idustry. Just curious to hear.
 
Crni Vuk said:
Just currious. I mean if no one cares in the idustry. Just curious to hear.
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No one caring does mean it's not that important, true. But on the other hand, it also means that none of the serious competitors were there, and instead major AAA title Fallout 3 was up against relative second-stringers, none of which are noticeable for even trying to have a good narrative (Fallout 3 tries, it just fails).

Just imagine a track race is set up and you enter it. No one cares, so your only opponents are a bunch of cripples and overweight old men. Yet you still manage to lose.

I mean

Owtch
 
No one caring does mean it's not that important, true. But on the other hand, it also means that none of the serious competitors were there, and instead major AAA title Fallout 3 was up against relative second-stringers, none of which are noticeable for even trying to have a good narrative (Fallout 3 tries, it just fails).
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Well, my impression was that The Force Unleashed is also a major AAA title. Isn't it the best selling Star Wars game ever?
 
Ausir said:
Well, my impression was that The Force Unleashed is also an AAA title. Isn't it the best selling Star Wars game ever?
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Certainly in terms of effort put into writing (if not gameplay, etc). It's the first Star Wars thing that wasn't a movie to be G canon- and thats one of the major advertising angles Lucasarts took with it.

Also keep in mind that like many Star Wars spin offs The Force Unleashed has much better dialog than the movies it's based on- which can only help it gain these kinds of awards.

I think it's more likely to say that rather than Bethesda being embarassed about losing to The Force Unleashed, Lucasarts would have been mortified to lose to Fallout 3. They certainly put much more effort into story and writing.
 
Yeah, I watched some of the Force Unleashed cinematics on YouTube, and they do have at the very least better writing than the Star Wars prequels.
 
Ausir said:
Well, my impression was that The Force Unleashed is also a major AAA title. Isn't it the best selling Star Wars game ever?
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Dunno, I don't pay attention to SW games much. You could be right, I guess. I do recall the critical response was mixed at best, tho'
 
Well that was a surprise, I haven't played TFU, but I heard from everyone that it was terrible. Then again, LucasArts games have always had decent stories - even if the gameplay was so so.
 
As far as I know, TFU has a decent story but terrible gameplay. And it's not on the PC, so I guess you didn't pay much attention to it.

But yes, it's the best selling Star Wars game ever, and definitely an AAA title, with its own novel, comic book, action figures and Lego sets.
 
What about "High school girls in trouble" (why does this remind me to some old dirty porno name ...) ?

Has that even any kind of remarkable writting compared to Fallout 3 of the Force Unleashed ? Never played School girls or the Force.
 
TFU is the fastest selling, not best selling Star Wars game. I think one of the Battlefronts still holds the title of best selling SW game unless I'm behind the times.
 
I tried force unleashed and that was ahorribly boring an mediocre(maybe below even) game. And i like modern console games... (those AAA ones usually are entertaining to me.) And ive heard it sold pretty good. Well different tastes and all that i guess.

suprising that F3 didnt do better. Havent played CoD or Lpb though.
 
The 'High School Girls' game is somewhat amusing actually. The writing is very stylized, but... I'm not sure I'd call it good. The game had some pretty cool things to it, and it actually seems to be fairly choiceheavy. It didn't keep my interest to the end though.
 
They should've featured some of that good writing in the demo of TFU, all I can remember is a really mediocre action experience.

I imagine C&C is a fun campy live action experience, but not one I want to shell money for. Might check out DHSGIT.
 
Fallout 3 losing in what is essentially a rigged contest? There has to be some sort of god out there, because this is entirely too poignant otherwise.

Seriously, this news post made me laugh.
 
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