Crysis 2 Writer: "Uncharted 2 Has Best Storytelling" - Polidicks

The infamous author penning Crysis 2's story is making another statement, but this time he's applauding a game rather than bashing it. [quote]Novelist Richard Morgan returns time and again to Uncharted 2 as proof positive that good storytelling can be found in games, if you but look hard enough... Award-winning novelist Richard Morgan - who had nothing to do with the original Crysis - speaking exclusively to NowGamer, has revealed his belief that Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is all the proof you need to show that gameplay and great stories can and do go hand in hand. “There is absolutely no reason why you can’t weld a really good narrative to a really cool shooting game. Uncharted 2 is the perfect example,” he told us “it’s tongue-in-cheek, but it’s a compelling story and it’s a very straight-forward gameplay dynamic. Crysis 2, fine, it is fundamentally about firefights – about shooting stuff – but so was BioShock. The whole point about BioShock was the texture that made it.” Comparing the social text of BioShock to something comic-book, such as Batman: Arkham Asylum, the outspoken novelist then goes on to say that characters are fundamental to the story and that most games don’t have Batman’s advantages. “You’re not going to have like in, say, Arkham Asylum, ‘The Joker’,” he told us, “and the stupid girl with the big tits. That’s ****ing bullshit, man ... that’s comic book. What we’ll do is that we’ll create characters where you generally feel that there’s a weight and a gravitas, a depth to them. You can identify, you can actually see where they’re coming from.” All we can say is that Crysis 2’s story better be the something special. [/quote] [url]http://www.nowgamer.com/news/2922/crysis-2-writer-uncharted-2-has-best-storytelling[/url] [b]HE DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH CRYSIS 1 SO STOP MENTIONING HOW SHIT THE STORY WAS IN THAT[/b]

It's like he's trying to get on the good side of the popular gaming opinion. Not saying I don't agree with him, more like he seems to be stating some of the already obvious opinions.

[QUOTE=NachoPiggy;21328246]It's like he's trying to get on the good side of the popular gaming opinion.[/QUOTE] Not necessarily, Uncharted 2 did indeed have a splendid story, which succeeded at what it tried to be, a Indiana Jones film. While MW2 on the other hand, tried to pack a deep, serious story, which it failed at.

how come game sites are making articles about everything he says

So far I agree on everything he said.

mw2 = russia invades usa while a one man army tries to mow em all down crysis = aliens invade north korea island while a halo wannabe defends it neither of them are exactly original

[QUOTE=kevlar jens;21328282]Not necessarily, Uncharted 2 did indeed have a splendid story, which succeeded at what it tried to be, a Indiana Jones film. While MW2 on the other hand, tried to pack a deep, serious story, which it failed at.[/QUOTE] Yeah I know, I loved Uncharted 2, just saying that he seems to be saying the average opinion of gamers.

Uncharted 2 was awesome, and he is right, it has one of the best storytellings of this generation. Also: [quote]Award-winning novelist Richard Morgan - who had nothing to do with the original Crysis - speaking exclusively to NowGamer,[/quote] Stop saying "Yeah well Crysis had shit story too".

[QUOTE=lolwutdude;21328309]mw2 = russia invades usa while a one man army tries to mow em all down crysis = aliens invade north korea island while a halo wannabe defends it neither of them are exactly original[/QUOTE] He didn't write the original Crysis. We'll have to wait until Crysis 2 to tell if he's an insufferable genius or just an insufferable prick.

Well I totally agree, loved Uncharted 2 singleplayer.

UC2 has a generic betrayal story i can see how the crysis writing is going to turn out

MW2 had a decent story

Why is this guy constantly stating the obvious? We all know uncharted 2 had good writing, we all know halo has generic characters and we all know MW2 had a bad story

crysis 2 won't have a story at this rate, if all he is doing is commenting on other game stories.

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Of course it had good writing, it was more of a slightly interactive movie than a game.

Now you're confusing Uncharted with Heavy Rain.

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[QUOTE=Wii60;21328406]UC2 has a generic betrayal story i can see how the crysis writing is going to turn out[/QUOTE] It was so much more, it had like 3 or 4 betrayals, man, more traitor for your buck.

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I always thought the crysis 1 story was just like contra "story"

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A game? on the ps3? this is news to me.