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[rofif]

How many “I can’t stand Horizon but this looks cool” can we get?

until hulst releases bloodborne ps5 pro patch

 

[Burger King]

Hmm... this looks a tad familiar

Palworld in comparison seems like an original work

 

[RJMacready73]

Tencent Announces A Blatant Horizon Zero Dawn Knockoff Called 'Light of Motiram'

Tencent have announced with developer Polaris Quest that it will be releasing a new game called 'Light of Motiram' for PC.

insider-gaming.com

Lol blatant rip off wouldn't be in it, surely this is an open shut case of copyright infringement, everything about it screams Horizon, the colour pallette, robo animals and hunter gatherer humans.. ffs

 

[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

This is so brazen it's actually kind of impressive

 

[begotten]

When can we expect LEGO Motiram and Call of the Motiram VR

 

[Magic Carpet]

Screw it. Raise the tariffs through the roof. 500% 1000%

 

[Magic Carpet]

As soon as I see tree chopping. I'm out. Done and done with survival games.

 

[Moses85]

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

Chinese developers ripping off other developers!? I'm shocked! Well, not that shocked.

Stealing art and technology is the only thing that China knows how to do, they can't create.

 

[ReyBrujo]

Little trade secret: when a big company like DeWalt, Milwaukee or Makita uses China factories to build their tools these companies uses the molds they create to build cheaper copies for local companies that later are sold overseas (the ones sold everywhere from Temu to Amazon Basics). If that happens in hardware it will eventually happen in software where companies that were contracted to build (for example) games eventually resell or reuse the models, scenarios and maybe even engines to build their own games (or to "license" them to third parties).

 

[Kacho]

Lmao

 

[Viruz]

Little trade secret: when a big company like DeWalt, Milwaukee or Makita uses China factories to build their tools these companies uses the molds they create to build cheaper copies for local companies that later are sold overseas (the ones sold everywhere from Temu to Amazon Basics). If that happens in hardware it will eventually happen in software where companies that were contracted to build (for example) games eventually resell or reuse the models, scenarios and maybe even engines to build their own games (or to "license" them to third parties).

This is very interesting.

It made me think about this link about preservation and the risks with outsourcing you pointed.

 

[TropicanaTwista]

This is embarrassing. Its one thing to take inspiration from titles/IPs but this is beyond a blatant ripoff. Like if someone just showed me these screens without any information, I would 100% think it's Horizon.

 

[poppabk]

I bet Hulst is using his own money to fund this just to make Horizon seem relevant.

 

[asdasdasdbb]

Tencent tho... f's given = 0

 

[Robb]

 

[Skyfox]

Yeah but she’s not a chonk.

Which makes it the superior game n’est pas?

 

[Mayar]

Of course, I don't understand everything, but this is already some kind of overkill, well, they could at least change the color of the robots for decency, so that it doesn't immediately catch the eye. This is some kind of peak plagiarism, although of course if they only made game for China, then no one will do anything to them, if they go beyond China, I think Sony will punish them immediately.

 

[Herbspiceguy]

News - Trailer - ‘Mechanimal’ open-world survival crafting game Light of Motiram announced for PC (from Tencent subsidiary Polaris Quest)

Via Gematsu Polaris Quest, a subsidiary of Tencent Games, has announced Light of Motiram, an open-world survival crafting game with mechanized animal beasts that resembles Sony Interactive Entertainment‘s Horizon franchise. It will be available for PC via Steam and Epic Games Store. A release...

www.neogaf.com

 

[Cakeboxer]

The girl is hot and has charisma, that's already enough differences to win any court case.

 

[K' Dash]

The girl is hot and has charisma, that's already enough differences to win any court case.

 

[Jinxed]

Since horizon Lego is out on the switch, Nintendo might sue

 

[ElFenomeno]

Games have been copying other games since forever. Horizon now has a patent on robots in post apocalyptic future?
If the game is good, thats all that matters.

 

[K' Dash]

If the game is good, thats all that matters.

if the game is good, that would be the main differentiator.

 

[Cakeboxer]

Games have been copying other games since forever. Horizon now has a patent on robots in post apocalyptic future?
If the game is good, thats all that matters.

Aloy is a Game of Thrones knockoff and the game is best of Ubisoft. But come on, if the picture would have said Horizon 3 teaser i totally would have beleived it. Everybody copies, but the combination is what matters and this is more than obvious.

 

[reinking]

 

[ClanOfNone]

I should go back to Horizon 2. It got dropped like a hot potato when Elden Ring released and I never went back to it.
Like I don’t remember a thing about that game other than getting to the first Trex fight and cheesing the shit out of it by going in and out of the water.

 

[bender]

 

[Deerock71]

Sony borrowing Nintendo's ninjas be like:

 

[Arsic]

No way Sony let’s this one slide lol.

 

[N30RYU]

If Genshin Impact survived... I can't see why this won't.

Good luck to them... looks like have some cool mechanics

 

[ExtendEmbraceExtinguish]

Tencent Announces A Blatant Horizon Zero Dawn Knockoff Called 'Light of Motiram'

Tencent have announced with developer Polaris Quest that it will be releasing a new game called 'Light of Motiram' for PC.

insider-gaming.com

Lol blatant rip off wouldn't be in it, surely this is an open shut case of copyright infringement, everything about it screams Horizon, the colour pallette, robo animals and hunter gatherer humans.. ffs

Now this is competition. I have no problem with clones as long as they are interesting. I have played too many Diablo clones and they all suck except for Poe. Now Diablo (4) no longer has that addictive loop.

Note by sucking; I am talking about the loop. The clones start off good but either become too long ( scared/grim dawn) or start going into another direction.

 

[K' Dash]

It looks like a better game than Horizon (except the graphics).

 

[eerik9000]

I can't believe Hermen Hulst is forcing Tencent make this!

 

[Mortisfacio]

People will play this just to say they prefer it over Horizon

I already prefer this over Horizon. Don't need to play it.

 

[N30RYU]

Sony was pleased to advertise Genshin Impact... so they better take it in full like a champ

 

[Three]

Horizon, but with beautiful people and no preaching? Sign me the fuck up.

Aloy looks more beautiful than any of those characters but who am I to judge your tastes.

 

[Kdad]

And this is why you don't buy games from anything Tencent owns...fuck them.

 

[reinking]

Hmm... this looks a tad familiar

Aioy.

 

[Trilobit]

This announcement had me laughing hard.

 

[Hollowpoint5557]

Horizon but no Aloy means day 1 purchase for me.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

I haven’t even got around to the HFW dlc or the Lego game. Enough already!

 

[geary]

Why is this shamelessly? Do you expect no dev ever to touch the ideea of animals being robots?

 

[kingfish]

Why is this shamelessly? Do you expect no dev ever to touch the ideea of animals being robots?

You look at this and think it's only because there are robot animals? LOL

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Hmm... this looks a tad familiar

Absolute thrash. Get fucked China.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

Sony bought Palworld, they should be okay with this.

 

[kingfish]

Sony bought Palworld, they should be okay with this.

They didn't tho...

 

[genesisblock]

Things like these just sours original IPs like Wukong. I'm surprised they didn't get the message then.

 

[Giallo Corsa]

Aioy.

" We have Horizon at home"

Spoiler

From Temu

 

[Unknown Soldier]

So basically it's Palworld except it rips off Horizon instead of Pokemon