Twas mostly a tongue in cheek comment about DI on my part in this thread, I mean hell, I put White Knight 2 into my top ten of the year, which didn't even meet my own criteria for acceptable attempts at copying things.Originally Posted by Yeargdribble
At least DI was trying something. There were interesting art assets and an attempt a story. They were tapping into the 3rd person action genre where there were fairly few contenders... indeed you could only really cite one major game to say they were ripping off. Now we've got games like Bayonetta that was decidedly more original within the same spectrum.You sound surprised that the guys who couldn't even be assed to give Skyrim an ending would do something lazy.
That said, I think it's to early to call clone. (Kind of funny you are the one going off on this, after your defense of Dante's Inferno a while back for it's cloniness.)
I'm not a big enough fan of Elderscrolls to care enough to try the MMO myself, but I'm not against the Idea. I like that there is going to be another contender with WoW, and I'm glad its going in with TES's large fan base. We may have a solid contender if they can avoid being a direct rip off and offer enough new.
This is far less original. Zenimax may as well be trying to make a modern military shooter for all of the originality I see here.
If WoW clones were a successful venture, maybe I'd care less. I'm upset because I like TES and I hate that they are taking and obviously flopping model and flushing the IP down the toilet with that model. Copy all you want if it's going to work, but why are you copying a failing model? I'm more pissed that they are destroying the TES brand than I am that they are copying someone. The cloning of WoW is just a means to an end.
And I doubt one bad venture, if it turns out to be that, isn't going to destroy the brand. Depends on the amount of money dropped.
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