Order these games by how bad their writing is

[AwesomeButton]

I am intentionally not asking "Which of these has the best writing". Order the following games, but no further additions:

• Divinity: Original Sin 2
• Witcher 3
• Age of Decadence
• Pillars of Eternity
• Icewind Dale
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance
• Elex

I'm just curious what the Codex thinks on the topic.

P.S. I'm saying games, not RPGs mainly because of Witcher 3

 

[Darth Roxor]

1. ELEX (best)
2. The rest (worst)

 

[Jimmious]

Damn that's hard. Ok from "worst" to "best"

• Elex (although honestly I didn't play the game but I watched RK47 playthrough which is enough for me)
• Icewind Dale (I don't even remember if IWD had writing)
• Divinity: Original Sin 2
• Pillars of Eternity
• Witcher 3
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance
• Age of Decadence

 

[Daedalos]

Best to worst

• Age of Decadence
  
• Pillars of Eternity
  
• Icewind Dale
  
• Divinity: Original Sin 2
• Witcher 3
• Elex
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance

 

[Parabalus]

Worst to best:

• Divinity: Original Sin 2
• Elex
  
• Icewind Dale
  
• Witcher 3
• Pillars of Eternity
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance
• Age of Decadence

 

[StrongBelwas]

This is assuming only vanilla content so no White March,Witcher 3 expansions,HoW or AoD updates, worst to best:
* Divinity: Original Sin 2
* Elex, but who knows how much of that is down to the localization
* Icewind Dale
* Pillars of Eternity
* Witcher 3
* Kingdom Come
* Age of Decadence

 

[Bastardchops]

Best to worst
Age of Decadence
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Icewind Dale
Divinity Original Sin 2
Pillars of Eternity
Witcher 3
Elex

 

[Trashos]

Have only spent significant time with 3 of them (DOS2 is on to-do my list). Worst to best:

Pillars of Eternity (mixed bag, some good writing, a lot of bad or uninspired writing as well)
Icewind Dale (writing was not the point of that game, it was supposed to be serviceable and that's all it was. Got the job done.)
Age of Decadence (very strong writing. impressed me)

I voted PoE as worst, instead of IWD, due to how the question was asked. PoE does have more bad writing than IWD does.

 

[Eyestabber]

Ranking ELEX low only proves you ppl can't read. Elex has gr8 writing and setting, miles above derivative crap like D:OS2 and Pillows. Shame the gameplay around it is so damn bad, but what can you do. I'll take a game full of memorable good mixed with some shit like ELEX over derivative and safe mediocrity like DOS2 all day, any day.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Since when is: A special agent. Left for dead. Will take his revenge. And bring down The Conspiracy. In... 'ELEX'! not derivative?

 

[vivec]

Damn that's hard. Ok from "worst" to "best"

• Divinity: Original Sin 2
• Icewind Dale
  
• Pillars of Eternity
• Elex
• Age of Decadence
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance
  
• Witcher 3

There, fixed. Witcher 3 made me *feel*. AoD is a well-written world and a story but at no point communicates with emotions. KCD also makes me feel at certain points but afterward, it is meh. IWD without its writing is *better* than DOS1/2 which has *terrible* writing. PoE is passable and at times makes zero sense. Elex is actually well written at points.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Since when is: A special agent. Left for dead. Will take his revenge. And bring down The Conspiracy. In... 'ELEX'! not derivative?

jetpack

 

[Eyestabber]

Since when is: A special agent. Left for dead. Will take his revenge. And bring down The Conspiracy. In... 'ELEX'! not derivative?

Compared to Pillows fedora tipping fantasy atheism and DOS2 LGBTXYZIHFLLF#2 simulator, Elex is a fucking masterpiece.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Worst to best.

• Elex
• Divinity: Original Sin 2
• Icewind Dale
• Pillars of Eternity
• Witcher 3
• Age of Decadence
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance

 

[EtcEtcEtc]

From what I've played - worst to first:

Pillars of Eternity: Mixed bag, way too verbose.
Icewind Dale: Not great, but succinct.
Age of Decadence: Good.
Witcher 3: Fantastic.

 

[Dorateen]

Justice always pales in comparison to vanity and ostentatious displays of power. I expected Tyr to manifest his divine will in this blade with lightning and fire. I should have remembered how the blade was given to me... with simple charity and humility. Justice is the right of every man, no matter how rich or poor, no matter how educated or ignorant. It should be found as often in the fields of farmers as it is in the fields of battle.

Icewind Dale

 

[Jacob]

Sawyer > MCA on writing

but MCA > Sawyer on body mass

 

[Tito Anic]

Ranking ELEX low only proves you ppl can't read. Elex has gr8 writing and setting, miles above derivative crap like D:OS2 and Pillows

Elex is a fucking masterpiece

 

[Nael]

gr8 writing

Imma gonna stop ya right thar, bucko.

EDIT: I have literally changed the writing in this post about 5 times now.

 

[abnaxus]

ELEX bestest writing

 

[Lonely Vazdru]

Out of the games in that list I only played Icewind Dale, so my rating would be, from worst to best : Icewind Dale.

 

[Sentinel]

From best to worst:

• Witcher 3

• Kingdom Come: Deliverance

• Age of Decadence

• Pillars of Eternity

• Icewind Dale

• Elex

• DivOS2

I'd even put KCD above Witcher 3 because W3 relies a lot on you having read some of the books, and it does not even care about introducing a new player to the characters. It also changes tons of stuff for the american mass appeal market, which I'm still ass pained about, but overall it did an excellent job, as does KCD, of making you care about the characters and, especially in the expansions, re-telling a folk tale with a witcher spin, which is exactly what the series should be about.

 

[Lonely Vazdru]

Well played sir.

 

[Seethe]

Ranking ELEX low only proves you ppl can't read. Elex has gr8 writing and setting, miles above derivative crap like D:OS2 and Pillows. Shame the gameplay around it is so damn bad, but what can you do. I'll take a game full of memorable good mixed with some shit like ELEX over derivative and safe mediocrity like DOS2 all day, any day.

Not even 10% of that game's writing ever made any sense. I do not even know from where to begin explaining how dumb that game's writing is. Here's a bomb, that's actually a turret. Also, let's kick it after it gets destroyed.

Best to worst

• Age of Decadence
  
• Pillars of Eternity
  
• Icewind Dale
  
• Divinity: Original Sin 2
• Witcher 3
• Elex
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance

I agree with your list according to what I know from it. I'd only place Elex under KCD

 

[Egosphere]

How many novels are there propping up witcher 3's writing? 7?