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2/18/2014 2:49:17 AM
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Games and their expanded universes

How should games treat their expanded universes (comics, novels, etc.)? Should they be included more into games to please the hardcore fans that chose to purchase that content or should they stay on the sidelines as Easter eggs or vague references? Is it possible to include these events/characters without making the people who chose not to purchase these materials confused as -blam!-?

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  • The main entries in a series (such as the games for the Halo series, the books for the Lord of the Rings series, or the movies for the Star Wars series, and so on) should not be forced to rely on ancillary material (IE, the expanded universe) in order to understand the main titles. So in other words, stuff from the expanded universe can be incorporated into a main title as much as the writers want, so long as the main medium that all the fans are interested in/focused on (again, the games for Halo, the books for Lord of the Rings, and the movies for Star Wars) is easily understandable without having to track down tons of other pieces from the expanded universe.

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