New Horizon on 12/6/2008 at 17:35
Wow, the publisher must have a crack team of specialists working for them if they didn't notice the similarities until now.
Wow, this is just so absolutely ridiculous. How could these guys have been stupid enough to so obviously steal the assets and pass it off as their own to the mass market?
The Magpie on 12/6/2008 at 17:38
Add UT2K4, Vampire:Bloodlines, Morrowind, Painkiller, and WoW:Burning Crusade to the mix. Possibly Black & White 2, too. And others I've forgotten, I've read page up and down of forums posts the last twenty minutes.
Game of the bloody Year.
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Renault on 12/6/2008 at 17:41
Too funny, they grabbed assets from such mainstream games too. How in the world did they think they'd get away with it? This really is theft in it's purest form.
Zillameth on 12/6/2008 at 18:14
If I were them (and I'm glad I'm not), I would claim the game was a parody. "Why of course these are screenshots from other games! We're making a statement! Can't you see our subtle irony and interplay of references?"
Goldmoon Dawn on 12/6/2008 at 19:07
"Between the three of us we researched, wrote, designed, animated, scripted and developed the whole game from home."
That paints an amusing picture. Three old potheads sitting around making a "video game". :p
ZylonBane on 12/6/2008 at 20:01
No no no... you people don't get it. This isn't blatant thievery of other peoples' creations. Not at all! It's the first wave of the mashup generation. It's Game Development 2.0!
Renault on 12/6/2008 at 20:20
Have to admit, I find this story pretty interesting. I believe this is the site (and article) that started all the fuss:
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http://www.gameplasma.com/limbo_of_the_lost_or_oblivion/)
Also - this game has been out since February. Wouldn't someone who reviewed it have noticed these similarities way before now?
Zillameth on 12/6/2008 at 20:37
Have you seen any reviews of this game at all? It's a game by three amateurs released by a third league publisher. The kind of stuff that's never really tested or supported, ends up on shelf in some supermarket, between discount sports shoes and toothpaste, and is eventually bought by people who've hardly ever seen a computer game before. This could easily be a hoax, as far as I can tell.
