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[Mokujin]

I would say that Tekken vs Virtua Fighter fits the description.

 

[Rapscallion]

I wish the Puzzle Bobble IP owners would sue the tits off that stupid witch game.

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.

 

[royox]

World of Warcraft

 

[SolVanderlyn]

Well Resident Evil 7 sold a hell of a lot more than Silent Hills did

 

[LightningXCE]

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.

Tell that to Konami - they have a lockdown on Rhythm Games where one shape overlaps another shape.

Thank god that expires next year.

 

[KonradLaw]

Mobile gaming is notorious for this:

Angry Birds
Clash of Clans
2048
Ninja Fishing

 

[SomedayTheFire]

Thread is a struggle cause most people seem to have trouble differentiating between clone and game in the same genre.

Well Resident Evil 7 sold a hell of a lot more than Silent Hills did

I know this is a joke but pretty sure Kojima said SH would have been third person

 

[emag]

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.

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]

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.

This and 2048 is much much easier.

 

[wildfire]

LoL over Dota 2

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.

 

[Tregard]

Candy Crush Saga

 

[KonradLaw]

LoL over Dota 2

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

 

[Man God]

Fire Emblem 1 and Final Fantasy Tactics.

FFT is a valid answer...to Tactics Ogre.

 

[Psychoward]

the wrong reasons like actual support for the console versions?

ayy lmao

 

[FearlessBelgian]

Overwatch/TF2

 

[Buckle]

Cloneception.

 

[Dominic Snyder]

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]

Except Gran Turismo was never inspired by Mario Kart.

The same way FFT wasn't inspired by Fire Emblem.

 

[PSqueak]

I think it's pretty safe to say that anything Warcraft is infinitely more popular than any Warhammer official game.

 

[Anoregon]

I think it's pretty safe to say that anything Warcraft is infinitely more popular than any Warhammer official game.

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!]

Mortal Kombat is more popular than Street Fighter nowadays

 

[The Horror the horror]

The same way FFT wasn't inspired by Fire Emblem.

The same way?

You don't have a clue as to what you're talking about.

 

[ReyVGM]

The same way?

You don't have a clue as to what you're talking about.

You seemed to have missed the entire point.

 

[Madame M]

MC Kids and Mario 3

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

MC Kids and Mario 3

No way McKids was more popular than Mario 3.

 

[Lord of Ostia]

Fire Emblem 1 and Final Fantasy Tactics.

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.

 

[Naeval]

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