• zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I hope Tencent recycles everything they developed so far and come up with a crazy novel idea, such as having cute fantasy animals walking around and you have to catch them with balls.

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    accusing Sony of trying to monopolise a part of popular culture

    Ah yes, the shared cultural heritage of robotic dinosaurs in a post apocalypse. I remember the stories we all shared around the campfire growing up.

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    There is inspired by, there’s a ripoff, and then there’s this. Tencent tried to get the licence beforehand so what I think happened is they built a Horizon game intending to get the licence, they failed to get it, so they just released the game anyways.

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      Seems a bit mad that with all their money and a game already made they couldn’t be bothered to file off the serial numbers a bit more. I imagine this happens all the time with licencing deals, I know for instance Warcraft was originally written to be a Warhammer game.

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          And especially when faced with the difficulty of trying to sue a company in a different country.

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    HEHE This game was such a blatant rip off it is unreal they ever pretended other wise.

    Thing is, if there is a game to rip off, Horizon Zero Dawn is one of them. It is one of the GOAT!!