BDC's random thoughts about video games

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Originally Posted by Requiem I would argue it's completely lazy, because no original story which people thought was good, could possibly be better when taken out of its original context and altered. It's not their work, therefore it doesn't have the same meaning that it did originally.

Story-wise I can see this, if you're just taking one games story, moving it into a difference universe and changing the characters/settings then yes that is lazy.

Tech wise it doesn't really work like that when it comes to gaming though because engines are made to be re-used and altered. You go to something like Half Life and that was a modified Quake engine. Nowadays loads of things use Unreal Tech to power their game or the source engine so a lot of the time some of the things you'll see aren't always the development teams work because there is a lot of Middleware being used.

It depends on the degree of change and alteration. Fallout 3 used the same engine as Oblivion but made changes and tweaks and both of those are fantastic.