tauroxd
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TF2 is almost 10 years old (October 10, 2007) and was super huge for many of those years. Those hats sold well.
But this was probably not a serious post.
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Clones That Are More Popular Than The Original
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TF2 is almost 10 years old (October 10, 2007) and was super huge for many of those years. Those hats sold well.
Jerry Orbach
Member
PopCap cloned Shariki with Bejeweled, Puzz Loop with Zuma, and Magical Drop with AstroPop. It's probably unfair to single one company out, since the entire matching-puzzle genre is so derivative, but you can't argue they aren't popular!
I suppose Capcom's Puzzle Fighter is marginally more popular than its most obvious inspiration, Sega's Baku Baku, but not more popular than Baku Baku's even more obvious inspiration, Compile's Puyo Puyo. There's probably an iPhone game that has them all beat.
Gigageiger
Neo Member
Overwatch is way more popular for all the wrong reasons.
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
This will never get old.
Yep Crush the Castle got robbed...
ReyVGM
Member
Don't you mean Tactics Ogre -> Final Fantasy Tactics?
While both Fire Emblem and FFT are 'tactics/strategy' games, they are different enough to not be considered clones of each other or even similar games. That's like saying Gran Turismo is a clone of Mario Kart because both are racing games.
serenewarfare
Banned
He's working on the Switch version right now and the big multiplayer update that is coming at an undisclosed time later this year.
JamesJoyce1882
Member
In mobile gaming: 2048 was more successful than Threes.
Rapscallion
Member
The match-puzzle genre has always been ripe with copies, but it seems like only with the emergence of mobile gaming has the originals been outsold by clones. It's a difficult situation, because for the most parts the clones are usually the cheaper and more highly advertised ones. For example Puzzle Bobble/Bust-A-Move has a really great looking game on the IOS, but it's paid app. It's a no-win-situation for companies like Taito; either devalue your own work or have your lunch eaten by competing, cheaper clones.
hydrophilic attack
Member
Final Fantasy
Did they make more money off ads? Maybe 3s should have gone for free then..
Rodney McKay
Member
The fact it was a free app was really what made it so much more popular.
I know my girlfriend who knew nothing about games had 2048 on her phone without knowing anything about it being a clone.
I'd say they're about equal
milkham
Member
I honestly thought Threes was a uh, moderned up version of an old game and 2048 was just a generic programming exercise of said ancient ancestor, like those qbasic gorilla throwing bananas games
Raiden (the arcade shmup) was very derivative of Toaplan games like Twin Cobra and Flying Shark but it was far more popular than pretty much every other shmup from that era.
Mitchell Corporation's Puzzloop (or Ballistic, or Magnetica, or Tokyo Crash Mobs depending on the version) was heavily cloned by a lot of mobile/flash developers, mostly notably by Popcap with their game Zuma.
Mitchell Corporation's Puzzloop (or Ballistic, or Magnetica, or Tokyo Crash Mobs depending on the version) was heavily cloned by a lot of mobile/flash developers, mostly notably by Popcap with their game Zuma.
ffejeromdiks
Banned
Well considering Arma 3 is a military sim with a BR mod and H1Z1 was initially a zombie survival game that didn't even have the battle royale mode (until PlayerUnknown added it) i'd say it makes things a lot different. It's the first game developed exclusively from the ground up for that concept, rather than haphazardly slapping one together out of your military/zombie game's scraps and assets.
Being in the same genre doesn't make something a clone. With SRPGs the links between, say, Fire Emblem and Shining Force, or FFT and Tactics Ogre, are far stronger (the latter two even more so). Even then they are hardly clones, and it's not like the later ones became wildly more popular than the ones they are more similar to.
CadetMahoney
Member
I dunno OW is kinda pretty big in the east.
The Faceless Master
Member
the wrong reasons like actual support for the console versions?
ScatheZombie
Member
Basically everything Blizzard and Valve have ever made.
Matching puzzle games, trying to make order out of an endless stream of coloured blocks, go back a long way. I remember arguing in the playground about the lineage of Columns, Tetris, Dr Mario, Puyo-Puyo, Yoshi's Cookie etc well over 25 years ago
petran79
Banned
There were already too many Puzzle Bubbles long before tablet/mobile/smartphone gaming. Franchise was already devalued.
AppleSeason
Member
Mad Mix 2 is more or less a clone of Pac Mania, although...
- Enemies are classic Hollywood monsters, with only the ghost behaving as a Pacman ghost.
- Frankenstein jumps around and can bury the pellets by jumping on them, requiring you to use the bounce to propel them upwards. If he catches you, he will flatten you against the floor.
- Dracula can lay pellets that will give you diarrhoea, making you poop the eaten pellets while you move and have to eat them again
- The levels have traps and you can use weapons such as bowling balls, rolling pins.
- Pellets can grow legs and run away from you when you try to eat them.
You can temporarily plug the enemies spawning points with corks
- Extra lives move on their own and have your exact speed, so you need to trick them to eat them in the same way a ghost would catch you in PacMan.
Pretty awesome and more popular than Pac Man in european micro computers. That was also the case for the first Mad Mix.
The Horror the horror
Banned
Except Gran Turismo was never inspired by Mario Kart.
efyu_lemonardo
May I have a cookie?
Came in for this.
Comrade Crunch
Member
I don't know if it counts though, since Battlegrounds was directed by the guy who created the game mode in the first place.
tkscz
Member
In terms of memes, fan art and current notoriety, sure. In terms of actually being played, eh, not really.
I can't remember the name exactly but Destroy the Castle and Angry Birds. Like, the game is a straight up rip off, but DtC wasn't on iPhone.
TangoAlphaLima
Member
applause
Marky Mark
Member
I came in here to say this. Even the developer of Threes has admitted as much, and I think it comes down to Threes costs a couple of bucks whereas 2048 was free.
I love Pac-land, but I've never heard this quote. do you have a source?
There's about 12 months between the two games though, so it could check out, but it seems fishy.
Is Solid Snake more popular than Big Boss though?
-duskdoll-
Member
My personal favorite.
DyslexicAlucard
Member
But Guitar Hero as a game preceded Rock Band, regardless of who developed it.
And anyways, Guitar Freaks predated them both by a good long while, which is what I came here to post. You know Konami must've been at least a bit salty at how popular Guitar Hero became, hahaha.
sixteen-bit
Member
Gears of War, certainly
Deft Beck
Member
Guitar Freaks/Drummania later became Gitadora and added additional buttons and hold notes (for guitars) to effectively become Rock Band, mechanically. Gitadora never implemented "star power" but Rock Revolution did (Rock Revolution was probably made for legal reasons; it was punted out the door by Zoe Mode so that Konami could demonstrate to the courts that they attempted to compete).