DoomBringer232 wrote:
A recent thread has reminded me how much Uncharted has copied from other games, right down to the main menu. Don't get me wrong, I love Uncharted, but is that hard to be original?
Main Menu- copy of MW2 and MW3 main menus
Alright. That's true there.
Medal Kickbacks- it's not hard to tell that COD killstreaks were in mind when this feature was created
Won't argue that it's influenced by CoD killstreaks, but they work different from that series. Borrow != copy
Sprinting- copied off of a lot of other games, although it is the most similar to the sprinting system in Star Wars Battlefront 2. I liked it better in UC2 when there was no sprinting. It was one of many things Uncharted 2 did differently
Sprinting in games is everywhere. Platformers, shooters, racers (in the form of turbo), and what have you. Who are you to say Uncharted "copied" sprinting when a game mechanic like that has been around since the original Super Mario Bros.?
Grenade Throwbacks- copied off the COD grenade system. And I know this because who can throw back a grenade in real life?
Maybe. I'm sure there're other games where you can throw back grenades. Besides, throwing back grenades in CoD games suck unless you have a perk that resets grenade timers (and said perks tend to be unpopular). Anyone who can throw a ball can throw back a grenade in real life - the question is, would you want to? Not a very good argument here.
Weapon Mods- ND went overboard and even copied some of the mods themselves (rate of fire, clip size) I know some of you are saying "But weapon mods were in UC2 CoOp". Yes they were, and UC3 would've been fine and original without them in Competitive.
Granted the mods are pretty much the same as what you'd see in CoD games, but what can you do in a somewhat realistic game (in atmosphere, not quite gameplay)? Would you rather have ND go the Insomniac route and put in rediculously crazy mods like bullets oozing acid, explosives that generate shockwaves, snipers that can shoot through walls, etc.? BTW, I think the majority of people don't mind mods save for the almighty Classic Mode coming out. That's different.
Hitmarkers- I remember in UC2 when the recitle turned red whenever we hit someone. Now we get the generic little lines that appear in almost all games now.
And many games besides U2 also had the reticle turn red whenever someone was hit. Ways of detecting hits goes back to games like Quake 3 and probably even further back. Not much of an argument here.
Buddy System- does the Squad System from BF3 ring a bell?
Granted that it's pretty much that. But the question is, so what?
Loadouts- this one's not hard to tell, is it? Because loadouts that are featured in every game are mroe original than fighting over key weapons that only appeared in UC2 as far as I know of
Alright. But you can also make the same argument for the originality of shooters back in the day, that so many of them had you pick up weapons instead of starting with them.
I know a lot of you are saying "You don't work at ND, how do you know these ideas were copied?" And some of these things make the game better, sprinting being an example. Remember, these are just things that are in Uncharted 3 that appeared in other games that were released at an earlier date.
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