how to steal a game idea (and get away with it)

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Around a year ago I played the first Burnout. I didn’t like it. And that was weird, considering the second and third games are certified bangers. Then, I got into film cameras, and it all made sense. Kinda. This is a video about that! And RenderWare. And the PlayStation 2. And Canon.
And uh… I guess also another chapter in the “EA is evil” cinematic universe.

Thanks to MattKC, UnlikelyVee AND Wolfgang for the cameos!

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Songs:

Ford Racing 2 – Track 14
Stickerbrush Symphony
License Test – GT2
Get Start Today by Fall Out Boy and over 1M + mainstream tracks here https://go.lickd.co/Music License ID: qPBRJrxOBo0 https://t.lickd.co/lKgQlEdlrvD
Get Power Trip by Matt Hill, David O’Brien and over 1M + mainstream tracks here https://go.lickd.co/Music License ID: M6kzeoRqamn https://t.lickd.co/3W9y0zLB6vX
Get Lazy J by Gareth Johnson and over 1M + mainstream tracks here https://go.lickd.co/Music License ID: 5qAJja7ZAN0 https://t.lickd.co/Lvbv9orWY2P
Race Menu 2 – GT4
Honda – GT1
Garage Menu – Auto Modellista
Advertise ~ K.I.Y.O.
Sega GT 2002 OST – Options
Sega GT 2002 OST – Sega GT 2002 Theme
Sega GT 2002 OST – Time Attack
Super Formation Soccer 95: della Serie A – Main Menu
Burnout 1 Soundtrack – Menu (Stereo)
Super Mario 64 – Dire Dire Dockcs
Super Formation Soccer 2 : Germany Theme
F-Zero – Big Blue
Thrill Drive Menu Music
Enthusia Professional Racing OST – Standard Elimination
Mozart – Rondo alla Turca Indent
Burnout 2 & Burnout Revenge Theme Song
Antenna – Round About Midnight (Midnight Club 2 out)

Sources:
https://dadgum.com/halcyon/BOOK/BILLYARD.HTM
https://global.canon/en/corporate/history/04.html
https://mcvuk.com/development-news/ip-profile-burnout/
https://web.archive.org/web/20031208124348/http://www.homelanfed.com/index.php?id=9856
https://www.threefieldsentertainment.com/2018/01/22/history-of-burnout/
https://web.archive.org/web/20071116060055/http://www.entertainmentopia.com/scripts/displayGame.php?id=13
MY LIFE IN GAMING – Donkey Kong EXPOSED

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36 thoughts on “how to steal a game idea (and get away with it)”

  1. The developers have admitted to copying Thrill Drive.

    A 2019 chronicling of B1s development cycle written by Alex Ward and Fiona Sperry (seems to have only been sent out to people who were signed up to their company's newsletter) revealed that Burnout 1 was partially born out of a proposed Thrill Drive PS2 port. Alex even flew out to Japan to meet with Konami. They made the decision to not greenlight the port, so Criterion started prototyping a new game that would heavily derive from Thrill Drive.

    And that's what we'd eventually get.

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  12. EA is a bad company. Okay. But just don't accept being bought by them??? They HAD a choice. I mean, how they got to hate EA, then work for them, then being completely bought by them??? How did they accept being bought by them when they had one of the most used game engine of its era? Already knowing what will happen with their engine's reputation? Every little or medium sized studio that has been bought and shutdown has been post buying. Don't accept it then?? Or is it too much money to reject? I mean, most of the owners of these companies already have insane quantities of money. Do any of the development studios that has been bought by EA looked at what happened with other companies? To they ignore all of the major red flags? Do they actually care of their employees? The ones that actually made them what they are???

    So many questions and you all blame EA. Yes, they are horrible. But I think this is a matter of money first and foremost. And Criterion had a choice, the same that all of the companies before them did. They had something that no other company had. And they sold them, thus killing their business in the way.

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  18. damn I love the emotion how is narrated how this game is the opposite to Gran Tueismo 🤣🤣 I love both games, fr, GT was my very first videogame and Burnout was my very first FAVOURITE videogame. I love this video I want to download it 🤣

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  19. Rockstar dropped RenderWare as soon as EA acquired it, LCS and VCS used their own engine, Bully SE was ported to Gamebryo. Apparently the OG mobile GTA ports still use RW but I doubt that's true, more likely to be the clone version used in the stories games, unless the license was retained for those games indefinitely, the horrible unreal ports use a plugin called Rage to Unreal to run the 10th anniversary editions so that tells me they used the VCS engine and not RW.

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  29. This is my first time watching a video of yours and it was truly nice, I didn't know that Burnout 1 was a copy of Thrill Drive even though I played Burnout 1 a lot when I was a child so that game has a place in my heart despite that game not being that good. I'd also add that I've played every game of this series except for two which I'll eventually do but I prefer Burnout Revenge over 3, for me Revenge is a more polished version of 3 Takedown and the licensed tracks are pretty good like 3s.

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  30. "What if I told you one of the main reasons they really hit it off is that… They stole a Konami game and got away with it…"
    Yup, heard that story before… Sorta…

    (Konami's Guitar Freaks did the whole plastic guitar rhythm game thing in 1999)

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