I was going to buy this game anyway but damn, that trailer looks fucking awesome. I wonder why Death fights against War though. Only a few weeks to go...

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Yeah looks cool, though. I never finished the first--only played my brother's copy when I was visiting home--so I guess I should do that. I always wavered between really liking it and finding its super serious Iron Maiden attitude kind of silly. I suppose War didn't get the job done?

@altairre:

@CrossTheAtlantic:

@JonSmith: Thanks for the heads up. Probably shouldn't spoil myself that much but if it's in the first level already... I'll play it mostly for the gameplay anyway.

I'm excited.

How much time has passed during the events of the first game and Darksiders2?

@TaliciaDragonsong: Agreed. Yeah the first game took a bunch of stuff from other games but it all fit together in the best way. I think it's cool if devs lift mechanics from other games if they do it well. Still need to get around to finishing the first.

Gerstmann said it best during the QL EX, "Only recently within the last 5 or 10 years has the language evolved to the point where you can say, 'oh this game is like this, this, and a bit of that in a way like movies are often talked about when describing them.'"

The Darksiders series wears their inspirations on their sleeves and doesn't try to hide any of the obvious mechanics they have taken inspiration from. It's done in enough of a tasteful, genuine way that the game ends up being better for it, and not a train wreck of a disaster it could have been if put in the hands of a less capable developer.

That being said, can anyone think of an example of a game that liberally steals gameplay, mechanics from others and fails miserably in being a good end product? I'm not thinking of any of those iOS clones/Facebook games, more along the lines of a console/PC game.