March 17, 200520 yr ...for new studio (Crytek won) and best writing. While Chris Avellone didn't win, i find that the winner was a bit odd: Half-Life 2. I must've have missed something, what was so good about the writing in Half-Life 2? link. "Some men see things as they are and say why?""I dream things that never were and say why not?"- George Bernard Shaw"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."- Friedrich Nietzsche "The amount of energy necessary to refute bull**** is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it." - Some guy
March 17, 200520 yr ...for new studio (Crytek won) and best writing. While Chris Avellone didn't win, i find that the winner was a bit odd: Half-Life 2. I must've have missed something, what was so good about the writing in Half-Life 2? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Wasn This post is not to be enjoyed, discussed, or referenced on company time.
March 17, 200520 yr Anyone else find it a little weird that a game with minimal dialog and a main character that doesn't speak wins a writing award? While a fleshed out RPG with a lot of well written dialog doesn't win.
March 17, 200520 yr Odd indeed. Hl2 plot was well writen.... but only by FPS standards. Also... I know what some of you might be thinking... might have to do with the rushed ending but.... Hl2s almost just as bad :/
March 17, 200520 yr The ending to KOTOR 2 is more than rushed... it's slightly non-existent. I've literally just finished it with darkside mastery and all I got was someone falling down a hole, and then a dodgy piece of red somethingorother in the middle of space - Half Life 2's ending was annoying in that it didn't explain anything where as KOTOR2's ending just didn't happen!
March 17, 200520 yr As far as I know, these award were given by very close people of the developpers, so it's quite undestandable that there are rewarding themselves.
March 17, 200520 yr It's outrageous. I mean, everyone knows NFSU features the best story in a videogame, ever. - When he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.
March 17, 200520 yr Its the whole Hollywood formula which people are so used to, they don't question it.
March 18, 200520 yr These awards are like the Oscars -> 0 relevance but it's fun to see how developers reward themselves; at least Gamespot has decent ratings with a +/- 0.5 error margin most of the times but at GDC awards Thief 4 wasn't even nominated for audio and it has imo the best sound of 2004.
March 18, 200520 yr Woopity do dah. They thoguht someone else deserved the award. Not the end of the world. DWARVES IN PROJECT ETERNITY = VOLOURN HAS PLEDGED $250.
March 18, 200520 yr Not the end of the world. I feel better already. - When he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.
March 18, 200520 yr Not the end of the world. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> well crap. Does that mean I have to return these tin foiled hats and rat-poisoned kool aid fun packs now? Word economics To express my vast wisdom I speak in haiku's.
March 18, 200520 yr Good for Crytek, they really deserved it. And like it or not, because of the way KotOR II's story fizzled out (don't bother me with reasons, I know), HL2's [almost nonexistent] story was better.
March 19, 200520 yr Not the end of the world. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> well crap. Does that mean I have to return these tin foiled hats and rat-poisoned kool aid fun packs now? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Either that or sell them on E-Bay, btw I like the Gandalf reference People laugh when I say that I think a jellyfish is one of the most beautiful things in the world. What they don't understand is, I mean a jellyfish with long, blond hair.
March 19, 200520 yr Good for Crytek, they really deserved it. And like it or not, because of the way KotOR II's story fizzled out (don't bother me with reasons, I know), HL2's [almost nonexistent] story was better. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That's like saying you prefer abstinence to foreplay without sex.
March 19, 200520 yr Ya just a taste is worse then none at all People laugh when I say that I think a jellyfish is one of the most beautiful things in the world. What they don't understand is, I mean a jellyfish with long, blond hair.
March 20, 200520 yr I thought the writing in HL2 was mostly excellent, there just wasn't much of it. We now bring you live footage from the World Championship Staring Final.
March 20, 200520 yr sorry no reply about HL2 story, I got severe motion sickness after 2 hrs of playing and had to be rushed to the hospital...
March 21, 200520 yr sorry no reply about HL2 story, I got severe motion sickness after 2 hrs of playing and had to be rushed to the hospital... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> *laughs at you* "Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." - Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials "I have also been slowly coming to the realisation that knowledge and happiness are not necessarily coincident, and quite often mutually exclusive" - meta
March 21, 200520 yr Good for Crytek, they really deserved it. And like it or not, because of the way KotOR II's story fizzled out (don't bother me with reasons, I know), HL2's [almost nonexistent] story was better. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That's like saying you prefer abstinence to foreplay without sex. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ...who doesn't?
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