Bethesda doesn't want to comment on the recent reports of Limbo of the Lost robbing level designs from Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, but Danielle Woodyatt, PR Representative for Bethesda, did tell Strategy Informer that the Legal team is looking into it.
WC: Even some of the best video games have been called out for lifting elements from earlier games, but there’s a difference between borrowing or paying homage to something, and shamelessly pilfering from it, as all the below games demonstrate with a clear certainty. Though not all the games on this list are bad – though a fair few of them are – the air of plagiarism hanging over each, whether it’s an authorised copy or not, certainly dents each game’s reputation, even if two in particular are without doubt regarded as classics.
Here are 10 games that are, for whatever reason, and regardless of their quality, shameless rip-offs in the extreme.
If you really wanna get technical, all games post 80's is some sort of rip off or "copycat" regardless of how different stories, characters, settings, etc are.
However I do agree there's some that you can tell there was 0 "difference" with some games.
And for the naysayers "Well what about Wolfenstein 3D, that started FPS" no it didn't; it was the first mainstreamed but there's an 80's game (Forgot game exactly) that was an arcade fps that was either ported to pc or it never hit home console.
It's pretty simple. Go to the + next to the website's name. Then, click "WTF?" and "No".
I'm not sure why N4G has this glitch, but it's happened to me plenty of times. I hope they sort it out soon.
Knock-offs. Homages. Clones. Copycats. Rip-offs. Call them what you will, but it’s no great secret that developers have been riding on the coattails of proven success stories since the dawn of gaming. Here’s the top 10 most brazen rip-offs of classic games.
I was agreeing with this list until I seen number 1. Saints Row is not a rip off of GTA. Only GTA fanboys and those who haven't played Saints Row think it is.
Using this site's logic, every FPS available today is a rip off of Wolfenstein 3D. Just because they are in the same Genre does not mean a game is a rip off of another. It's stupid logic to think so.
RPS - "With Tim Schafer and Markus Persson now in talks over the possibility of a Psychonauts 2, it gets us to wondering what other games we’d like to see Notch’s millions spent making happen. Notch reports that he and Tim will likely meet at next month’s GDC, but also stresses that people shouldn’t yet get their hopes up. Too late! But were it not to happen, to which game should those spare riches be directed? We’ve made Notch’s mind up for him."
BUSTED! :D
Hopefully Bethesda puts those a**holes out of work. Seriously, what they did is both lazy and stupid. It's obvious that they didn't even bother to redecorate things.
Needs to be killed by a Daedric prince.
The laziness of this thing is proposterous. And it looks like poop.
Either way it looks WAYYYYYYYYYYYY to crappy to even matter.