The terrible dialogue in the cut scenes of Lost Planet 2 made me want to hurl my console at the screen, or simply hurl. The storytelling in Lego Batman was childish in the extreme. Even for a kids game. Solve the puzzle, beat the bad guy, move on. Solve the puzzle, beat the bad guy... Why is game dialogue and game copy generally so bad? Because it's the last thing that developers think of. First comes the concept, then the engine, then the game play and the aesthetic and finally, if there's a little bit of cash left over, comes the writing. As an ex-TV writer this seems fundamentally screwed to me. In TV the concept is written down as a treatment or a series of scene breakdowns. The scripts get written off these documents. Weeks go by before an actor gets to see a script, months before cameras Read more [...]