by PlasticandRage Fri Nov 30, 2012 3:18 pm
Tolvo wrote:In which case the developer talking about it was lying, which is never a good sign. Of course developers do it to try and make people buy their game, but that still can put off customers.
Yeah, I can't argue with any of that. IMO credit always should be given where it's due, but my hang up, or at least one of my hang ups, is that we don't know the circumstances. For all we know they were directly influenced by From, and wanted to give credit, but for legal reasons couldn't. Or maybe From saw their game and didn't like something about it, or didn't like something about the developers, and specifically asked that they didn't equate it to their own work. It could be any number of things. What I find most likely is that the developers are fans of the souls series and when they started producing their own game, knowing how spectacular the souls games are, they were inspired to play off of some of the same concepts. I feel like as such rabid fans as most of us are, if any of us were game developers I can't see us not in some way being inspired by From. When it comes down to it in the end, we don't hurt From by buying similar games. It only hurts From if we stop buying their products.
And, all said and done, I can't see the release of this game accomplishing that at all. It just doesn't look good enough to be real competition.
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