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[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 30 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I wonder if anyone involved in this debate has even played both games... because outside of having a bunch of adorable yet vicious critters with grimdark world implications.. they're nothing alike

Might as well be comparing Resident Evil to House of the Dead, both have zombies, both take place in a house, both have terrible voice acting.. but one's intended to be scary and has very limited resources and depressing music to give that feel, while the other is a goofy action game intended to be B-Grade schlock where you just mindlessly shoot things

[-] discostjohn@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago

Dude, I love House of the Dead

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

So do I, I'm not knocking it, but you play it for the schlock and awe, not to be legitimately frightened or experienced a tense environment... and in that sense comparing it to Resident Evil because they both have zombies in a mansion made by mad science, is foolish.

[-] discostjohn@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

I know, and you're absolutely right.

I just wanted to let you know that House of the Dead rocks.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

It really does

[-] Sheeple@lemmy.world -4 points 9 months ago

Palworld gameplay isn't even remotely similar to Pokemon. Its basically Ark Survival that just so happens to have plagiarised pokemon designs instead of dinosaurs.

I kinda wish they didn't go such overt plagiarism in terms of design because then Palworld could be a nice game on its own

[-] MalachaiConstant@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

I'm reminded of how Fortnight, arguably the most popular game ever, is a direct rip off of PUBG, which is itself a repackaged Arma 2 mod

[-] Sheeple@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

(FYI, by raw numbers Minecraft is still the #1 popular game. Not relevant to the discussion but a neat statistic. It's kind of mind boggling how popular that stupid block game is)

[-] Bgugi@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Which is just an infiniminer clone.

[-] Sheeple@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago

And dwarves fortress

[-] Raz@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

Fortnite Battle Royale was an afterthought, a gamejam project at Epic, made with assets from Fortnite: Save the World. They hoped to use the BR hype to get some more players to the main game, but it got so ridiculously popular it quickly overtook StW and became the Fortnite we all know today.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 9 months ago

the only explanation i can come up with is that they wanted the free PR, i mean would the game really have been so popular if it wasn't teetering on the knife's edge of plagiarism?

if they made the creature designs comfortably different from pokemon it would kinda just be yet another game

[-] discostjohn@programming.dev 8 points 9 months ago

But honestly, what can even be considered "comfortably different" from Pokemon? If you make funny little animals, they'll probably resemble at least one of the 1025 Pokemon currently in existence.

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