S.T.A.G.E. said:
Not true. Not true at all. Crystal Dynamics admitted that that Sony took inspiriation from their Tomb Raider (and killswitch and RE4) so they could take inspiration from their game as well. It creates competition. I mean, EA's Dantes inferno was a reskinned God of War. Literally.....even Mega 64 made fun of it because it was such a blatant rip off. Star Wars the force unleashed and Star wars 1313? Rip offs of Uncharted and God of War. Thats how big and influential those games were last gen. Phil Spencer admitted that they paid for timed exclusivity of Tomb Raider because they tried to make a game that resembled Uncharted and did not like the results of the venture. They paid for Tomb Raider to have a rival combatant game on equal footing. You can look this up. Its still on the net. You think Phil SPencer was payhing for nay other kind of Tomb Raider that didnt look like Uncharted, you would have to be kidding me. The rumor for EA as well is that they are using her on storyline for a Star Wars project (most likely the resurfacing of Star Wars 1313) because she was responsible for Uncharteds amazing story. |
Taking inspiration from a series is not the same as copying. One is inherantly negative, as you can see with how you're describing Dante's Inferno, the other is something that literally happens all the time in the industry, as you can see with how you're saying Naughty Dog took inspiration from Tomb Raider. Which begs the question, if you can admit Uncharted took inspirations from Tomb Raider, then why is it some big deal that CD took inspirations from Uncharted? You say it as if it signifies something special about the Sony games that don't happen elsewhere, then go on to say Sony games do the same thing. So then, who cares? Developers take inspiration from other games all the time. lol, how many times in this thread are you going to say something negative about a particular company or game because of something and then trump up Sony, when Sony is "guilty" of the same thing? First it was ending a conference with a third party game, now it's taking inspiration from other games. Ever heard of SOCOM 4? Sony made Zipper try to make a Call of Duty SOCOM game and it failed miserably and they shut the studio down. These are businesses whose chief goal is to make money. Of course they're going to take elements from big games and put their own spin on them in their own games. It's how every business works. It's the same in books, TV, music, movies, etc.
LOL @ the Xboss part regarding Tomb Raider. You do realize when he said they wanted a game like Uncharted on Xbox, he's talking about a high quality, popular action title, yes? He's not saying he wants an Uncharted clone. Jeebus dude, sometimes your reaching for negative things to say about MS just end up being hilarious.
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