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.
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."
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.