User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-5791028-20150709160234/@comment-26975268-20150709211944

I think one of the biggest questions we'll be asking when it's actually out — and there's only so far this discussion could possibly go before any of us actually get to play the game — is what actually counts as story? It'll be hard to accept such a game as DWU if only certain parts of it can be considered story.

Is it just the cut scenes? Just the actual goals and the cut scenes? Like, the Doctor collected "this" and used it for "that". Obviously, alongside the storyline you'll have to go through to complete the level there'll be a lot of fluidity. If a player decides to kill himself a bunch of times and therefore regenerate to a different Doctor, or beat another character to death or something, we can't say it was the Xth Doctor or that he regenerated or that the Doctor beat the other character to death but they came back to live, obviously. So where is the line drawn?

Moreover, even when it comes to the set actions you're supposed to do, you can do them with any of the characters you've got, for the most part. So how would we write that into articles, based on a highly changable narrative? "Someone pulled a lever." "Either the Doctor or Clara pulled a lever." Heck, "Either the Doctor, Batman, Gandalf or Wyldstyle pulled a lever." "One of the gang pulled a lever." Seeing the problem here?

What I do want to stress the most here, though, is that we really can't make any true judgment calls before the game comes out and we get to play it to find out. After all, it is a different kind of game, and maybe the gameplay is really different from previous LEGO games. We can't really know anything for sure yet.

One thing we can look out for in the meantime are official statements from the makers that might make it clear whether or not it's intended to be part of the overall Doctor Who universe. If it's clearly not, it breaks rule 4. (MystExplorer, it would break rule 2 if it wasn't fully licensed.)