txgoldrush wrote...
Bayz wrote...
David Gaider wrote...
I've never played Stolen Memory and don't know much about it beyond the fact it involves Kasumi and a heist. If there are similarities between it and MotA, I'm not certain why I or anyone else should care so long as the tales are enjoyable.
This. It is impossible after millenia of writting in human history in different cultures and different languages to write anything absolutely original. Writting in a way that people could feel interesting enough to hook them up is the trick.
However, writers should not keep telling the same story over and over with a different paint job. Nothing is original, but don't be so blantantly obvious about it.
The best writers give a much better illusion of originality while the ones criticized do a poor job. Bioware, until DAII, fails at this because, one reason, they recycle their own plots and characters not just others.
Even if other writers do a better job doesnt mean they are the best. You can be original yet if the execution sucks no one is gonna really notice. From what i see out of all the tons of reviews, criticising on people recycle or rehash is never there, its never been made out ot be any major point if in there at all. Only by you going way out of your way to show it. Everyone is recycled in many ways if you think hard enough, obvious or not.
Again it doesnt matter if it is recycled from your own or from others, its the same thing, in fact to some its even worse since people could claim stealing, plagiarism, or being sneaky by thinking the audience wont notice that it might be from a different company line of games. Thats how ridiculous some peoples claims would be, but thats exactly what is going on right here.
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