Outlast

[Cuyir]

Shameless thievery of Frictional Games' ideas? Wouldn't that make Frictional Games guilty of "stealing" from the first adventure games? Or every platformer after Mario bros. guilty of stealing from Mario? Every shooter after Wolfenstein guilty of plagiarism? Etc etc etc.?

Pure stealing or copypasting without EVOLVING ideas is pointless. Frictional are evolving ideas, at least they are trying to, nevertheless if ideas are innovative or old-well-known. Outlast is not evolving anything at all, just parasiting.

But, please, consider it's just my own personal opinion. I do not insist that I am right. I may be wrong or I may change my mind, when I finish the whole game through. And there's no goal to insult anyone for no reasons.

And what is also important I am not a fan of Frictional or any other studio. I really love a lot of very different games of different genres, made by different studios, no matter indie or major.

I didn't insult you.

How did FG evolve the ideas? They are pretty much a first person adventure game...with horror. Physics puzzles (which they didn't create), note/lore reading (from the adventure games of yesteryear), and that's it really.

The gameplay in The Last Of Us isn't terribly innovative. Survival elements have been in games before it but it's in the HOW they use to narrative and gameplay mechanics to tell the story through exposition and gameplay.

Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow has many elements from other games, that doesn't make it a wannabe.

And the post Symphony Of Night vania games borrow HEAVILY from Metroid. So much that they're called Metroidvania.

I can't know if Outlast feels like a wannabe till I play it, but the whole ''copy pasting'' thing seems to me like such a knee jerk reaction to me and thus it's a pet peeve of mine.

I understand it's your opinion but still, felt I needed to let my opinion known.