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Forums - Gaming Discussion - Nintendo fans in China protest Genshin Impact announce at ChinaJoy 2019, claiming that it shamelessly copies BOTW

What about the thousands of other Chinese knock-off products? Do they get protesters, too?

Actually, after looking at gameplay, doesn't this just look like many other Japanese action RPGs?



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I got bashed by saying that Zelda also copied a lot of mechanics from previous games, which is true. And a lot of what BOTW did simply improves on previous mechanics from other games, which is true. But some of this stuff in this game is shameless in how they got a bit too inspired.

Personally I think it looks much better than BOTW Visually, combat seems a bit more interesting but the physics system, runes, and overall complexity of the game engine aren't there. But it's highly obvious how they were heavily inspired by BOTW, almost to an uncomfortable level. I personally don't care, the more games like BOTW the better and again BOTW didn't invent gliding, swimming, climbing (although the climbing animations look like they just ripped the data from Link's Animations) etc. But it did it well and this game seems to want to take what Zelda did...and not change much. 

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Smashing your PS4? What a great way to support Sony! They'd much rather a console be destroyed then end up on the used market!



This game will be on iOS, Android and PC also.



pokoko said:
What about the thousands of other Chinese knock-off products? Do they get protesters, too?

This, China is the KING of knockoffs!

Smashing your PS4?? Yeah, that's not extreme...



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You can copy every asset and mechanic of BotW but that won't make your game good by default.



I-, some people truly do the most Video games are not too serious



Honestly I didn't know China makes such games. I thought they were all mmos and MMORPGs there. This peaked my interest and I would've enjoyed trying this out had I a ps5 on my hands. Maybe the Chinese dude could have given me it instead of smashing it



Just a guy who doesn't want to be bored. Also

The reaction is obviously desnecessary, but saying that this game is not a ripoff would be a lie.

Having said that, I dont particulary have issues with this.



My (locked) thread about how difficulty should be a decision for the developers, not the gamers.

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=241866&page=1

I want to say something about China, the greatest intellectual property thieves of all time, shameless industrial espionage, and then connect those things, but don't want to ruin the sterling reputation I have.



- "If you have the heart of a true winner, you can always get more pissed off than some other asshole."