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Enslaved, The Curfew also up for gong.

Splash Damage shooter Brink is nominated for a Writers' Guild Award.

More specifically, lead writer Ed 'Bongoboy' Stern, who wrote Brink's story, is up for the gong. He is joined on the best video game nominations list by Alex Garland and Tameem Antoniades for Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, and Kieron Gillen for The Curfew.

At the Develop conference in Brighton this year Stern discussed Brink's story in a detailed developer session.

The Writers' Guild of Great Britain reveals the winners on 16th November.

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Goodfella #1 8 months ago

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LOL
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StolenGlory #2 8 months ago

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Is this some kind of fucking joke?
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Kayin #3 8 months ago

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First poster nailed it. Nothing to add.
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ZizouFC #4 8 months ago

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8/10
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roojames #5 8 months ago

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Brink had a story? Why didn't something like Portal 2 get put up for this?
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TheEarlOfZinger #6 8 months ago

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This game could have been so much more. The intro was the best thing about it.
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mcreddie #7 8 months ago

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WHY?
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LazyNinjaUk #8 8 months ago

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Hang on, Brink had a story?
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TheEarlOfZinger #9 8 months ago

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Yeah, but they forgot to include it, that's all.
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kinky_mong #10 8 months ago

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What the shuddering fuck?!
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jetsetwillie #11 8 months ago

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mary poppins!
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StolenGlory #12 8 months ago

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"Yeah, but they forgot to include it, that's all."

It wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't just the story that they forgot to include.
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MarketZero #13 8 months ago

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Yeah, the Writers' Guild Bullshit Game of the Year Award.
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GamesProgrammer Verified Games Team Programmer, Eutechnyx Ltd. #14 8 months ago

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Ill guess like most of these industry awards, you have to apply yourself, and then out of all the entrys they pick the best as nominations, prolly few other games had the Gaul to nominate themselves.

This is how most awards work, a panel doesnt sit down and play every game, to see which has the best story, they just see a show reel sent from the publisher nominating themselves.
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BSMR #15 8 months ago

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Um, what?! How can gaming be taken seriously when shit like this is picked to represent it?
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carlitoswagon #16 8 months ago

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What next, Oscars?
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retr0gamer #17 8 months ago

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In the same year that Catherine came out....
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Mystery_Penguin #18 8 months ago

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@roojames:

According to their website it's The Writer's Guild of Great Britain, so I guess that explains why the writers for Portal 2 weren't nominated. I never played Brink so I can't really comment on that but I liked the story and the world Ninja Theory built in Enslaved. Very likeable characters in Monkey and Trip. Never heard of the Curfew.
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Daeltaja #19 8 months ago

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Dear god, and no wonder the medium still isn't being taken seriously.

Just lol.
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SClaw #20 8 months ago

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HAHAHAHA... no... stop... too funny. Sides exploding.
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roojames #21 8 months ago

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@Mystery_Penguin yeah Enslaved's story is great cause it's based off of a great Chinese novel. Hope it wins.

Edited by roojames at 19/09/11 @ 11:21
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Eraysor #22 8 months ago

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Brink had a story?! Give it to Enslaved at least...
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afghan_jones #23 8 months ago

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Brink didn't have a story.

And Enslaved wasn't much better frankly.
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HyperTails #24 8 months ago

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If there's any justice Alex Garland and Tameem Antoniades will win it. Enslaved was a brilliant game.
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Tryhard #25 8 months ago

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I hate to think who finished behind this garbage.
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gribb #26 8 months ago

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I think you need to be a member of the WGA to get nominated, hence the strange inclusions.
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Pastici #27 8 months ago

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@Roojames

Only very lightly though, they used character names mostly and done their own thing with the story.
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arcam #28 8 months ago

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Not even a little separate congrats for Kieron Gillen? He is an ex-EG staffer, no?

Haven't played The Curfew, but the man can certainly tell a tale, that's for sure.
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kdsh7 #29 8 months ago

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The Curfew was by Eurogamer stalwarts Karen Gillan and Simon Parkin for Channel4. Remember being pretty impressed by it when it came out.

But I too would like Enslaved to win it.
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WiseNail #30 8 months ago

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Brink's storyline:

"They've taken your command post".
"Mucho bad guys spotted".
"They've destroyed your turret".

Repeat ad nauseum.

Edited by WiseNail at 19/09/11 @ 12:22
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Puriel #31 8 months ago

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the award for 2 real players on a team with 6 shit bots and near uplayable lag goes to BRINK
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Puriel #32 8 months ago

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unfortunately no one from the BRINK dev team could make it tonight as a bot hacked their command post
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Progguitarist #33 8 months ago

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8/10 people. 8/10.

Think about that.
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mcreddie #34 8 months ago

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This game was nowhere near 8/10.

I'd give it a 4/5 for effort.
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GamesConnoisseur #35 8 months ago

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Brink 8/10

Gears of War 3 8/10

Does not compute...
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Stratix #36 8 months ago

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Guys, the story was that cutscene you skipped each match because it got in the way of the shooting. And it did, I won't lie.

Still angry at this game because I CAN'T PLAY ONLINE. This is the only game that still gives me problems.
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[TR] #37 8 months ago

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Seriously, I think you should have chosen Enslaved to head the story.
It would generate less hits and comments, I know, but after doing something like that, try to remember it the next time you think about saying "We need more games like Enslaved, but people barely notice them".
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MakeYourself #38 8 months ago

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Enslaved had a great story. The character development between Trip and Monkey was brilliant and the ending was such a great twist, it was better than some films I've seen recently. Brink on the other hand didn't have a story, simple as.
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vmanb #39 8 months ago

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Brink 8 out of 10 , Dead island 6 out of 10, system overload
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orangpelupa #40 8 months ago

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hmmm maybe Brink have strong people and money backing.

lots money + people with "awesome" connection. is a receipe to win too... (at least in my country its like that)
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Kami #41 8 months ago

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I... can't breathe... so funny...
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Doctor_What #42 8 months ago

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More importantly - what's The Curfew? It's among some famous company but I'd never heard of it before.
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superfurry #43 8 months ago

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Seriously though, all joking aside - eight out of ten.
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JayKwon #44 8 months ago

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Well out of these three, Enslaved should definitely win then.
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TomDent93 #45 8 months ago

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Did this get 8 out of 10 by any chance? I can't tell....
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stryker1121 #46 8 months ago

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Enslaved had an OK story, but it didn't really grab me like I was hoping. Great atmosphere and cool facial animations, but it was a pretty rote quest story w/ decent character development and an M. Night-worthy "what the fuck?" twist at the end. Honestly, they coulda done better.

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