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twesterm on 14 October 2009
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maximus22 said:
twesterm said:
 

Don't get me wrong, I loved Uncharted, I'm digging Uncharted 2, and they totally deserve all the praise they're getting, but come on, anyone who says that everything from the Uncharted series isn't a blatant rip-off of another game or movie is fooling themselves.

Again, nothing wrong with that since imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, just wanted to point that out.

I don't post much but this comment really annoyed me. 

 

I mean does that really need to be said?

Calling it a blatant rip-off is ridiculous to begin with, but  I can't think of anything that this game straight up imitates.  I love both uncharted games and I hated tomb raider.  (I'm assuming that's what you're saying uncharted ripped off.)  Yes it does borrow inspiration from other games and movies (Tomb raider, Indiana Jones etc.); but can you name a single game that is completely original? 

Well lets look at what makes Uncharted:

  • Cover -- Gears wasn't the first game that did cover but they are the ones that did it well and made it good.  Uncharted pretty much uses Gears cover system and while I don't think Uncharted does cover as well as Gears, they still do it fine.  Go through Geras and really diect their cover system and then go through Uncharted and disect their cover system and you'll see they are the same systems.
  • Gunplay -- I guess it's almost unfair to this is an imitation of another game but it is.
  • Platforming -- Yes, they did get inspiration from Romb Raider and it's not that oh just because it's a platformer, it's a ripoff.  The important thing that Tomb Raider did was introduce the idea of always making you look awesome and always make you look like you *just* made that jump.  As long as you jump within a certain area, you'll make that jump but Drake might stumble a little, or a pipe might give way, or anything that makes it look like you barely made that move but still did so you're awesome.  That's what Tomb Raider did well and that's what Uncharted took.
  • Story -- General 80's adventure-- Raiders of the Lost Ark, Romancing the Stone, ect.  Couldn't be more cookie cutter but that isn't a bad thing since they did it so well.

And I could rattle off an entire list of important games that did things well and original and I have before (I can't find the thread unfortunately and I'm not typing it again just for your entertainment-- if you want to look I believe it was called Games that Mattered).

Like I said, anything that denies Uncharted borrowed from many different games to make Uncharted is just fooling themselves.  Also like I said, borrowing from all those game is not a bad thing and I don't get why people are taking it as some huge offense when I say that.  It is widely accepted that Uncharted is a jack of all trades that does much from other games but masters none.  Again, not a bad thing at all, Uncharted is a great game.

Torillian said:
Since you decided to overdo it and talk in absolutes, why don't you tell me where they ripped off their snow effects, Twesterm?

I'm talking about their gameplay here since that's what matters to me.