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Gears Of War Has “Literally The Worst Writing In Games” – Dead Space Dev

Gears Of War Has “Literally The Worst Writing In Games” – Dead Space Dev

Gears of War has never been so much about a tightly knit and immersive narrative so much as it was a vessel for killing Locust in spectacular ways. However, from what I know of the games (having never fully played one) it’s not exactly dreadfully written. The games’ stories are done well enough to do what they need to do. If you’re playing Gears for the story and not gameplay then you’re playing the wrong game really.

However, Dead Space story producer Chuck Beavers has levelled some heavy criticism against the writing in Gears of War. It came in an interview for EA’s “Breaking Into the Industry” and was went live on EA’s site on April 16. According to Beaver, Gears “contains atrocious, offensive violations of story basics. Yet it doesn’t seem to ruin it for many, many people. It’s literally the worst writing in games, but seems to have no ill effects.”

The blog post has subsequently been pulled however, as is always the case with these things, there’s a cached version for the eager beavers amongst you who wish to read more of Mr Beaver’s hate for Gears’ writing.

In an interview with IGN in January, Beavers also spoke about writing:

“You always need to have magnificent, fun things happening that have to be entertaining every time. So you always move forward. You test out [what] constricts you the least or which is the most exciting.”

Beavers is entitled to his opinions but he doesn’t need to publicly slate another game and its developers. Then again, are his criticisms justified? For the record, Beavers looks like a bit of a douche as you’ll see if you read the cached version of his interview.

Source: IGN

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  • http://egamer.co.za/ Azhar Amien

    I find this hilarious because Dead Space 2′s story was pathetic, and I’m no major Gears fan. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/nanonyous Theo Lubbe

    GoW1 and 2 do one thing exceedingly well – they both provide you with a nonstop, pretty action-movie type game for roughly 4 hours a piece, and play brilliantly coop. Their stories may not be groundbreaking, but they’re not terrible either. Unlike many other games, your protagonist(s) are not alone in your fight and are by no means the be all, end all of baddy-bashing baddassedness – other people (NPCs) are involved in the fight and die. They also deal with bosses. They die so your team can survive and figure out what the fuck to do to overcome the next big enemy.

    I never finished Deadspace 1, but I actually found it a HELL of a lot more boring than GoW1/2 – in no small part because it’s constantly the same damned thing over and over again and the story elements are hellishly corny. I haven’t played the sequels (nevermind finished the first game), but nothing compels me to go out and get Deadspace 1 or its sequels to play through them, while I’d be more than happy to go and get GoW3 to see how that story concludes – assuming that game did end that story.

    • AG_Sonday

       It’s like I said, just like not every movie needs to be an Oscar winner, not every game needs to be BioShock or The Wicther 2 etc. Some games just need a simple enough premise to put a gun in your hands and a decent amount of thing happening for you to constantly have motivation to shoot at things with your gun. Gears does that well and maks shooting at things fun with good gameplay. It’s the equivalent of a good action movie.

  • http://egamer.co.za/author/cavie Caveshen “CaViE” Rajman

    Aww, I don’t think he meant it to be slanderous at all. That quote is completely out of context, considering the rest of the sentence. If anything, it’s a backhanded compliment.

    I mean really, who would take the words of a Dead Space developer seriously, anyway? 

    • AG_Sonday

      It comes across as pretty slanderous. Why phrase it taht way if it’s not intended? He’s basically saying that the games are written like shit and people don’t care, they just buy them anyway. I think he may even be insulting Gears fans.

      Unles he means that because Dead Space wasn’t written particulalrly well, he is actually in no position to criticise other games’ writing and thus by the laws of the universe, eevrything he said is actually reversed and what he was actually sayign is that Gears of War is a masterpiece worthy of Shakespeare.

  • Phil 123 Smith

    Yeah…. Never played Gears, but Dead Space’s writing was appalling. Good writing is VERY rare in games and I’m speaking from the point of both plot and characterisation. I can only think of a few examples:
    Knights of the old Republic 1, Mass Effect (1 only), Bioshock (genius writing), Half-Life 2 (GOOD writing).
    Worst writing in gaming – the entire COD Modern Warfare series. Just awful.