It's the Oscar season again, and like last year the Writer's Guild of America has revealed its nominees for the best writing of the year. This year's nominees are Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Batman: Arkham City, Brink, Mortal Kombat, and Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception.
To be eligible for consideration you had to adhere to a number of criteria, including the game in question being released between December 1, 2010 and November 30, 2011, having actual writing credit for the game, and being part of the Videogame Writers Causus or having applied to become a member at the time of submission.
The award went to Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood in 2011, so what about this year? Uncharted 3 sounds like a safe bet to me. The WGA awards ceremony takes place on February 19, 2012 and check the full list of nominees below.
Assassin's Creed, Arkham City authors nominated for Writers Guild award [Gamasutra]
- Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, Story by Alexandre Amancio, Jean Guesdon, Corey May, Darby McDevitt; Multiplayer Story by Stéphane Blais, Richard Farrese, Jeffrey Yohalem; Lead Script Writer Darby McDevitt; Script Writers Richard Farrese, Nicholas Grimwood, Corey May, Jeffrey Yohalem; Greek and Turkish Ambient Dialogue Writer Vincenzo Beretta; Ubisoft
- Batman: Arkham City, Lead Narrative Designer Paul Crocker; Story Written by Paul Dini, Paul Crocker and Sefton Hill; Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
- Brink, Lead Writer Edward “Bongoboy” Stern; Bethesda Softworks
- Mortal Kombat, Story by John Vogel, Brian Chard, Dominic Cianciolo, Alexander Barrentine, Jon Greenberg; Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
- Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Written by Amy Hennig; Sony Computer Entertainment
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Contest:
8:20 AM on 01.12.2012 | 
From all the above titles, Arkham City would be the most fitting.
Still doesn't explain the lack of Portal 2.
Also, Portal 2.
The dialogue from that game blows damn near every other game out of the water. Jk Simmons is now a God in my eyes.
The fact that mortal kombat is there but nit portal 2 leads me to believe this is a joke. Or that people outside the gaming industry still have their heads up their asses when it comes to gaming.
Portal 2
Catherine
Skyrim
Hell, even Skyward Sword had some damn good writing.
Uncharted I can sort of see, but not any of the others. Arkham City had very, very weak story and part of it had to be padded with a comic book tie-in. Asylum had a nice, tight, self-contained story.
Uncharted 3 is pretty easily the best of that bunch. The story may not have moved the game along as smoothly as Uncharted 2's did, but it was still great.
Still, it's nice to see Brink recognized.
If that's the case, dude, I think these were the only five games that got sent in.
Arkham City was okay, but just okay, because I've seen Paul Dini do much better writing. And I mean, MUCH better.
And while I wouldn’t say that Mortal Kombat’s story is good, I’ll give them credit for being the only people to figure out how to give a fighting an actual story mode, instead of giving every character a twenty second cut-scene ending and we don’t know which one is canon till the next game. Every fighting game should follow their example.
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Portal 2 and etc are not on the list because they were made by companies that don't want to "pay" for WGA membership just to get in some stupid award show, and because Valve treats all employees equally, as such their credits just list names when WGA requires you to bold/hihglight/etc the writers on a game.
I'd love it if everyone pretty much didn't qualify for next year so they had to put some totally bullshit games like Nancy Drew on there. That would make me laugh.
-Micah Wright, chair, WGA Videogame Writers Caucus