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Aeolus451 on 15 January 2015
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LudicrousSpeed said:
Aeolus451 said:
Hmm. At this point, MS needs an answer to any of sony's 1st party games and franchises. It didn't really have one for infamous. There's plenty of differences between those two games but there's enough similarities to compare them fairly and say that SO is MS's answer to infamous. There's a lot of people all over the net saying that SO is a copy of infamous. There's definitely a consensus forming on it.

Again, Crackdown. It came before Infamous, and there is another one coming too.

And anyone saying Sunset is a "copy of Infamous" has not played either Sunset or Infamous, or maybe both. Sure, there might be a lot of people on the Internets who say that. Console enthusiasts say the darndest things. There are also a lot of people on the net who say Elvis lives on Quantark with the Nebrolite alien race and will one day return to enslave us all. Doesn't make it accurate or hold any weight.

There's no reason to say there are enough similarities between those two games but at the same time not enough between Infamous and Crackdown other than maybe it just destroys your entire argument that MS is somehow answering a franchise that by your own logic was just an answer to one of theirs that they already have a third iteration in the works for.

Open world games are popular. Insomniac routinely does good work. Sunset is a good game, and an exclusive. MS needs games, not answers to a franchise that isn't even among Sony's best or most popular. As Phil Spencer said, they want an answer to Uncharted. He never said that about specifically about Infamous, for good reason LOL. Feel free to quote and bump when he does.



Second Son is ranked 12th out of 86 games on sales. Currently at a comfortable 2.17 mil sold. It may not be the best or the most popular but it sells pretty good as a series and it's exclusive. That's plenty of reason for MS wanting to bring a counter offering to it. I'm just gonna dismiss Crackdown's relevance in this. It's only similar in that the MC has powers, it's 3rd person and the game world is a open world sandbox. A lot of people within the gaming community is forming a consensus that SO is a copy of Infamous but enough was changed to consider them different. Personally, I wouldn't call it a copy but I'll say that SO was influenced greatly by infamous or the reason why MS decided that it would publish it was because they thought it be a good counter to infamous. Isn't it quite common among artists to be influenced by other artists and sometimes even outright copy each other. You can talk about Elvis and what the internet thinks of him all you want.