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Clones That Are More Popular Than The Original
- Thread starter Rapscallion
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Rapscallion
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AFAIK, they can't. Someone might know better than me in regards to this, but you can't patent gameplay design. If a game had outright taken the characters or art from Puzzle Bobble then they'd have a case, but Taito can't sue over them stealing their gameplay design.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Well Resident Evil 7 sold a hell of a lot more than Silent Hills did
LightningXCE
Member
Tell that to Konami - they have a lockdown on Rhythm Games where one shape overlaps another shape.
Thank god that expires next year.
SomedayTheFire
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Thread is a struggle cause most people seem to have trouble differentiating between clone and game in the same genre.
I know this is a joke but pretty sure Kojima said SH would have been third person
I was also curious.
In issue 61 of Retro Gamer, Toru Iwatani is quoted as saying that Shigeru Miyamoto said that Super Mario Bros. was influenced by Pac-Land (this in in the context of having horizontal scrolling in platformers).
That's as close as I've got to anything concrete.
badcrumble
Member
This and 2048 is much much easier.
A game should be mechanically the same in order to qualify as a clone. Lol has enough things going on differently that merits saying it's not a clone like the example the OP gave.
KonradLaw
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Wouldn't Dota 2 be a clone in this case though? Clone of original mod that is. Especially since LoL people were involved in the mod earlier than IceFrog did
FFT is a valid answer...to Tactics Ogre.
Psychoward
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ayy lmao
FearlessBelgian
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Overwatch/TF2
Dominic Snyder
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For all the people saying 2048: the craziest thing about that game is that it was a clone of a clone, 1024, which was the... original clone of Threes.
ReyVGM
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The same way FFT wasn't inspired by Fire Emblem.
Anoregon
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Yep. I was gonna say, WoW itself doesn't really fit the bill because it's quite a stretch to consider it an Everquest clone, but Warcraft as a series (and starcraft for 40K) definitely fits the bill.
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
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Mortal Kombat is more popular than Street Fighter nowadays
The Horror the horror
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ReyVGM
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You seemed to have missed the entire point.
Pop-O-Matic
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No way McKids was more popular than Mario 3.
Lord of Ostia
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I'm sure others have responded to this, but these two are very different outside of being Tactics/SRPGs. Final Fantasy Tactics is more of a Tactics Ogre clone than anything, but with the same core creative team I wouldn't call it that either.