| TruckOSaurus said:
Can't comment on Guilty Gear since I don't know what those games are but Warcraft is an RTS and World of Warcraft a MMO, to me that a different IP (like say Super Mario Bros vs Paper Mario) |
Okay, so then let me explain it. The first game was a 2D fighting game, Blazblue before it was born. The second game was a weird action-adventure-RTS hybrid. It bore the name "Guilty Gear 2" and carried on with the story and the characters from the first game. Is that a completely new IP because it's shifted genres?
Similarly, where do you draw the line with changing genres? Are Rayman and Rayman 2 separate games? One is a 2D platformer; the other is a 3D platformer. Is the separation the dimensions the game is played in, or does that not separate them?
If so, do you consider New Super Mario Bros and Super Mario 3D World separate IP's, or are they both the same IP because they're platformers? Because if dimensions don't matter, they'd be the same. If dimensions do matter, then does that mean that Yoshi's Island is the same IP as the New Super Mario Bros. games because it has characters from the Mario games and is part of the same genre?
And this is the point I'm trying to make. You'll be making arbritrary rules until the crows come home if you decide to classify different IP's in the way that you're suggesting. If you define games as being related based on their setting, characters & lore etc. (i.e. this game has shown nothing so far related to Diablo, Starcraft or Warcraft) then you have some way to qualify the situation.
But, since this title seems to have caused more trouble than it's worth making the thread skew off in all sorts of directions, I'll just change it.
