Sony is admitting they copied super smash bros

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twesterm said:

Zim said:

twesterm said:
I'm not entirely sure why people think copying other games is so bad.

99% of games out there start with "this or these games are our inspiration. What did they do right and what can we do better?"

There's a difference between taking inspiration from something and basically reskinning a game. It honestly looks like they just upscaled brawl and reskinned characters. The fact they had Brawl in their office and are now tagging videos to try and direct people searching for SSB to their game is just the icing on the cake. I don't think even gameloft do that do they? 

I've seen people say ''Oh well there isn't a lot you can do'' but the party fighter genre has a lot of empty gaps. It's not like kart racing where honestly it is difficult to make something that is too different to Mario Kart. Personally I would have liked to have seen a power stone style game. I think it would work better with Sony's characters. 

I agree it's a pretty shameless ripoff but, again, it's not that big of a deal. SSBB was an amazing game, is it so bad we get another?

 

Its obvious Sony isn't trying to reinvent the wheel, they're just trying to fill a whole in their catalog and make a good game.  Can't really fault them for that. 

Yes you can, they are Sony so you must fault them even when it's neither possilble or necessary.