Re: writing quality of The Witcher
- From: john.dsl@xxxxxxxxxxx (John Lewis)
- Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:23:35 GMT
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:24:01 -0700 (PDT), "Brandon J. Van Every"
<bvanevery@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It was nominated for a 2008 Writer's Guild Award, but it was beaten by
Dead Head Fred. http://www.wga.org/subpage_newsevents.aspx?id=2764 A
guy who worked on Dead Head Fred makes some comments about the award,
especially why Bioshock was absent from the list of nominees.
http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/01/portal-bioshock.html
I'm playing The Witcher demo. I'm at the point where green hellhounds
summarily kill me. So far I've seen no evidence of high quality
writing. Characters, bad guys, and plot elements are predictable.
Dialogue is terrible. Maybe the original Polish dialogue and voice
acting were better. Some people believe that the voice acting was
outsourced and performed without direction, resulting in mediocrity.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/?p=536 But was the original Polish
dialogue anything special to begin with? By screenwriting standards,
what I hear in the English version is bland, devoid of style, turn of
phrase, wit, insight, character, or poignancy. Who cares what these
guys are saying, it's perfunctory blah blah blah.
How far does one have to get into the game, before seeing evidence of
the supposedly good writing? Is it actually *good* writing? Would it
stand up to a mass public accustomed to Hollywood level writers? Or
is it merely better than the atrocious writing of the game industry in
general?
Cheers,
Brandon Van Every
You will have a very nice update in the areas about which you complain
FOR FREE around mid-May. Of course, it may still not satisfy your very
high standards...............................
See theWitcher website and scroll back through the news announcements.
John Lewis
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