Limbo of the Lost / Oblivion 1.0001

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Grobut

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Dark Pulse said:
I predict this game will become an instant internet classic. Not for the gameplay, no sir, but to see if anything besides the main character isn't ripped off. :p
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Ohh it will, remember for how long Daikatana was the "Hahahaha, this game is as big a failure as.." game? well this really has all the potential in the world to best it :lol:

8-4-7-2 said:
Apparently there are tools that take a snapshot of information in the graphics card to send it directly to 3dsMax. Basically taking a 3D screenshot. That's what some guy I know told me, who is developing an open source engine.
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Even that is way too posh for this rip job, no sir, all the "maps" you see are 2D! its a screenshot overlay, underneath it there's a basic (invisible) 3D outline of the screenshot that the player model walks around in, but all the assets you see, they are screenshots taken from other games, and then just photoshopped slightly, if even that!

Point'n click adventure games have been made like that for more than a decade now, you really are just walking around ontop of a screenshot of another game here! :lol:
 
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Yeah, I know :)
I didn't realize this a pure 2D adventure. I thought it's fully 3D. That makes it even more of a hackjob.

Though I certainly don't dislike the style per se. Old adventures were nice. "Baldur's Gate 2" also did very well with painted 2D backgrounds :)
 
GotBeer?

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dub said:
Right! Stick Phil Mitchell, Vinnie Jones or Tony Soprano into that picture and no one would bat an eyelid.
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I was thinking they look like Russian mob. Well, not the guy on the left. He looks like one of the X-Files Lone Gunmen geeks. But the other two, yeah.
 
Airmoran

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the wierd thing is that they might win this lawsuit since this might be considered taking a photo like you would in real life.

with a good lawyer they might actually win.

Becuase by taking a screenshot your taking an artistic choice of composition and by taking it into photoshop your changing the brightness and editing stuff... Hmm this world is kind of wierd this way they might actually win.
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Yeah, that's my worry too.

Art is weird. You can argue that even without altering a thing, just taking an existing artwork and placing it in another context can constitute an original piece of art.

By the looks of it, the devs were conmen who are now fleeing instead of duking it out in court, but still, suing them might be harder than it initially appears.
 
[SAS]Solid Snake

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So I talked to a friend who is a lawyer who specializes in games. For those who have had their work stolen, it is possible to sue the group and/or the publisher. The legal fees will be quite expensive, so it may be best to group together as a group and push for a law suit, or to join any of the large companies who plan to sue.

Mona, the lawyer, is reachable here [email protected].
 
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WIKI SEZ:

Wiki said:
The title features apparently stolen graphics that, according to news site GamePlasma and fan community NeoGAF, are identical to the game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

Further screenshots and video have suggested that environments and features have also been stolen from Diablo II, Painkiller, Unreal Tournament 2003, Enclave, Unreal Tournament 2004, Black & White, Thief: Deadly Shadows, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, Crysis, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, World of Warcraft, scenes from the 1997 film Spawn, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Rune and other games and movies.
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(ref numbers removed and spaces/bold/italics added for ease of reading)

And yes, the above list has survived at least 10+ unique page edits.
 
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Rambowjo

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From what I've seen so far, they've not stolen from WoW. My picture was a 'shop, for those who haven't figured out :­p
 
dragonfliet

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Hadmar said:
This is the best marketing stunt in the history of the internet.
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Only if by marketing you mean the game has been pulled from retail and will never see the light of day, thus bringing in zero money while simaltaneously costing the devs and publisher significant lawyer's fees.

Marketing: I do not think it means what you think it means.

~Jason
 
_Lynx

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dub said:
Actually they just forgot a part of that sentence...
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Well, just check my second, fixed, version in that same post.

8-4-7-2 said:
Apparently there are tools that take a snapshot of information in the graphics card to send it directly to 3dsMax. Basically taking a 3D screenshot. That's what some guy I know told me, who is developing an open source engine.

Anyways, this whole thing is completely LOL. Unbelievable to stoop to such lows in a retail game. This isn't just one incident where a guy got lazy, but a systematic ripoff of multiple other games and even user maps.
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Yeah, called 3D Ripper iirc.

Apparently guys who run the forum for freeware engine "authors" of LOL used changed the it's header:

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Hadmar

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dragonfliet said:
Only if by marketing you mean the game has been pulled from retail and will never see the light of day, thus bringing in zero money while simaltaneously costing the devs and publisher significant lawyer's fees.

Marketing: I do not think it means what you think it means.

~Jason
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I know what you mean and I was aware of your points before I posted. The game has been pulled and the future will tell about lawsuits. There's the saying "There is no bad publicity". I can imagine this paying off in the long run.
 
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DeeperShade

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I just looked on the WWE site, and checked SBOVIS's profile. He's aware of what's going on. The negative posts about the game started at 7:17am and he was last online at about 10am. He ain't on holiday, that's for certain.
 
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