Studio accused of stealing from other games apologizes, says it was unaware that outsourced talent was submitting copied content.
Earlier this month, the PC adventure game Limbo of the Lost came under heavy fire for apparently copying artwork from other games like The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Thief: Deadly Shadows. When the initial story broke, the game's US publisher issued a statement saying it had no idea about the improprieties, and that attempts to contact developer Majestic Studios had been unsuccessful as the team was on break after finishing up the game.
The developers apparently came back to work today, as a source connected to Majestic issued to GameSpot the following statement from the studio:
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.
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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.
saints Row is more of a game influenced by GTAIII
the rest of those games are BLATANT rip offs and are teetering on lawsuits!!
"Someone better get this kamikaze wimp, an ambulance!" has just become a MEME!!
Ohhh is it COD and MOH cuz they're rip offs of Wolfenstien 3d??
FYI:I know what game you're talking about go troll somewhere else son.
@Prince_Dim-Lu
If your referring to PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale I cant wait for that game either as Super Smash Bros is one of the best fighters ever made and now we get to play it with PlayStations fantastic and ecletic charactor range. As rip-offs go this one is looking like it could be a lot of fun, see you in the arena buddy.
I assume you love the PS3 as just quickly looking through your comment history (didn't read anything much just noticed PS3 was in almost every comment you made) it's pretty much all you talk about.
My PS3 is a great Blu Ray player thank you very much. I play my games on my 360 though. Besides God of War, and Uncharted.
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.
I undertand what u said and respect it,im also a diehard gta fan and i absolutely love sr, have all 3 game, beat them all, had tons of fun (and still is) but with all honesty, saints row is a shameless copy of GTA, from the moment i played the demo of SR1, i was shocked by how everything was similar to gta, the radio stations, the DJ's, the ads, the lines your character say, the strong similarity between saints row 2 and san andreas, i remember one character was basically a copy from Ryder from san andreas, the the voice, the lines etc...
I love Saints Row and I think it is a GTA "rip off" a very good one and I look forward to playing more games like it.
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."
They were "unaware." Like anyone will believe that. Did no one play test this game?!?!?! Still.... I like the name of their hero: Captain Benjamin Spooner Briggs. HAHAHA.
No internal employees would be stupid enough to do that...
I guess they copied this response from somebody.
They probably spent 10 dollars making it. Now they're spamming N4G with "accusations" of plagiarism. It's a PR stunt.