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Golden Axe Warrior is The Legend of Zelda




Homefront is Call of Duty and Battlefield






The Great Giana Sisters is Super Mario Bros.




Simpsons Road Rage is Crazy Taxi



Quantum Theory is Gears of War

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Dragonball Evolution „The Game“ is Dragonball Budokai.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ygADl-P120
https://youtu.be/AFFIbyg_Pvs?t=691
Street Fighter: The Movie - The Game is Street Fighter II.
https://youtu.be/JME0kO9JoOE?t=352
https://youtu.be/6YjgQ4o0vyo?t=317
Both games are based on incredibly bad movies,
and both ape each other off. The only thing the devs changed were the visuals.

 

[Bernd Lauert]

Polystation - The Poly Machine

 

[TintoConCasera]

Shin Megami Tensei and Pokémon.

Fight me.

 

[mysticboy]

Dragonball Evolution „The Game“ is Dragonball Budokai.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ygADl-P120
https://youtu.be/AFFIbyg_Pvs?t=691
Street Fighter: The Movie - The Game is Street Fighter II.
https://youtu.be/JME0kO9JoOE?t=352
https://youtu.be/6YjgQ4o0vyo?t=317
Both games are based on incredibly bad movies,
and both ape each other off. The only thing the devs changed were the visuals.

How can these be knockoffs when the devs of each original game also developed those? Dimps developed the Budokai series as well as Evolution. Same deal with Capcom and SFTMTG.

 

[cireza]

Golden Axe Warrior is clearly a rip-off. And a pretty good game.

Also, and I know this is going to be a bit controversial (I will let you judge if I am serious or not), but Mario Galaxy is a rip-off the stage Mad Space from Sonic Adventure 2.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Splinter cell... Metal gear?

 

[Wohc]

Not always sure what was first:

Infamous <---> Prototype
Dante’s Inferno <---> God of War
Killer Instinct <---> Mortal Kombat
Saints Row <---> GTA
Spider-Man <---> Arkham Series
Joy Ride Turbo <---> Mario Kart
City: Skylines <---> Sim City
Uncharted <---> Tomb Raider
Dungeons + War for the Overworld <---> Dungeon Keeper
Rollercoaster Tycoon <---> Theme Park

 

[Skelterz]

PlayStation Allstars it’s a poor man’s smash bros.

 

[funkygunther]

 

[SpongebobSquaredance]

How can these be knockoffs when the devs of each original game also developed those? Dimps developed the Budokai series as well as Evolution. Same deal with Capcom and SFTMTG.

yeah I know, but dragonball evolution and street fighter the movie the game have a lot in common. and both developers copied themselves by making the same game with a new coat of paint.

 

[ComputerBlue]

Came in here to post this beauty.

 

[Mr Hyde]

Elden Ring copied so much from Dark Souls that the developers should be fucking sued! They've taken nearly everything from DS and just made it open world. Animations, combat system, even characters ffs! How can these developers get away with something like that? Is it even legal? I swear it's worse than when Giana Sisters copied Super Mario Brothers.

 

[kyliethicc]

Mario Odyssey is basically a Knack rip off

 

[Alexios]

Square's first Mana game was also basically Zelda. I loved it, amazing game, I got stuck on the "Palm trees.. and 8." thing forever.

Final Fantasy Adventure - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[SpongebobSquaredance]

Square's first Mana game was also basically Zelda.

Final Fantasy Adventure - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

even sounds like Zelda.


another one is Alundra. A pretty good one at that.

 

[01011001]

How can these be knockoffs when the devs of each original game also developed those? Dimps developed the Budokai series as well as Evolution. Same deal with Capcom and SFTMTG.

especially Street Fighter the movie, they literally almost called it Street Fighter 3

 

[Danknugz]

every FPS is doom

 

[AV]

If I remember right, Immortals: Fenyx Rising actually had jokes about how it was such a blatant BOTW rip-off.

Was actually a good game considering they weren't trying to hide what they were doing and actually improved on a lot of stuff in BOTW. Felt like the Ubisoft B team making something slightly outside the mould for once.

 

[buenoblue]

Fortnite.

 

[Varteras]

 

[R6Rider]

Splinter cell... Metal gear?

Nah. Entirely different types of stealth even.

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Those last few Medal of Honor games from about a decade ago were trying to copy CoD.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Every mobile cell phone game with a Match 3 or more in a row concept.
Zillions and Zillions of em.

 

[Camreezie]

Nickelodeon All Stars Bussyfuck or whatever it's called is a straight smash clone so was PSASBR

 

[TheDrunkenMerchant]

The Team Tachyon game "Quantum Theory" for the PS3/360 that wishes it was Gears of War.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Doesn’t matter if a game is a clone if it’s fun and you enjoy it so what

 

[SpongebobSquaredance]

Doesn’t matter if a game is a clone if it’s fun and you enjoy it so what

a clone doesn't mean bad.

 

[brian0057]

MGS V is a poor man's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.

And Prey (2017) is straight up a ripoff of System Shock 2.

 

[Kdad]

Resetera trying to be NeoGaf

 

[SirTerry-T]

Every other game released during the early 80's home computer boom were basically reskins of the arcade games of that era.

 

[PsyEd]

What I remember is on ps2...1st is original and followed by motivated/copied by

Rygar: The Legendary Adventure <-- God of War <-- Ghost Rider

 

[DryvBy]

Doesn’t matter if a game is a clone if it’s fun and you enjoy it so what

Take that attitude out of this thread.

 

[nkarafo]

Resident Evil is an Alone in the Dark rip off (but also the better game).

 

[SegaShack]

Streets of Rage is Final Fight rip off (but better)

 

[I Master l]

Notch admitted Minecraft was inspired by infiniminer

 

[anothertech]

PlayStation Allstars it’s a poor man’s smash bros.

smash bros WISHES it was Allstars

Fight me

 

[DragoonWalker]

Every genre begins with a knockoff. It only takes a few quality knockoffs to becomes a genre. We didn't use to have FPS's, just "Doom clones".

Perfect example. And in a way, Virtua Fighter was a SF2 knockoff. Same character archetypes, same kind of health bar system (which is taken for granted now but not standard back then), being stuck on a single plane/axis facing each other.

 

[aclar00]

 

[Bartski]

lol I know this one, I think it was a school project.

On that note,

 

[Scotty W]

will let you judge if I am serious or not), but Mario Galaxy is a rip-off the stage Mad Space from Sonic Adventure 2.

I have heard it comes from the promo art from Super Mario 64.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6a/Super_Mario_64_box_cover.jpg

Resident Evil is an Alone in the Dark rip off (but also the better game).

Apparently, RE started as a remake of an earlier game called Sweet Home.

Sweet Home (video game) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[nush]

Streets of Rage is Final Fight rip off (but better)

Double Dragon was first though, before that there was Renegade. Being a genre game doesn't make it a rip off. Otherwise even the latest COD would be a Wolfenstien rip off.

 

[Drizzlehell]

This hilarious Prince of Persia rip-off

 

[SF Kosmo]

In the early 2000s there was a super bad rip off of Bust-a-move called Snood that somehow took off and became really popular for 5 minutes among casuals who has never heard of the original. It was hideous looking and worse in every way but made a ton of money from the newly expanded casual crowd.

 

[shaddam]

Polystation - The Poly Machine

I bought a similar to this (only with ps4 skin) to my brother for Christmas

 

[iorek21]

Shadow of Mordor/Assassin’s Creed

 

[Gambit2483]

Too bad it couldn't be a good knock-off

 

[Ceallach]

Golden Axe Warrior is clearly a rip-off. And a pretty good game.

And it's Game gear sequel Ax Battler is a Zelda II rip off.

every FPS is doom

We never should have stopped calling them Doom clones.

 

[Sophist]

Neutopia series is literally a clone of The Legend of Zelda.

Neutopia (1989) - MobyGames

The princess Aurora was kidnapped by the evil Dirth, and the king send a warrior named Jazeta on a mission to rescue her. It appears that once Dirth way sealed by eight wise men who used the power of eight sacred medallions. Princess Aurora is the only...

www.mobygames.com

 

[cireza]

And it's Game gear sequel Ax Battler is a Zelda II rip off

I know both games well and I disagree with this.

 

[SegaShack]

Double Dragon was first though, before that there was Renegade. Being a genre game doesn't make it a rip off. Otherwise even the latest COD would be a Wolfenstien rip off.

The sega devs were told to make a game like Final Fight.

 

[SpongebobSquaredance]

What I remember is on ps2...1st is original and followed by motivated/copied by

Rygar: The Legendary Adventure <-- God of War <-- Ghost Rider

oh thats a good one. Rygar PS2 was essentially God of War with a smaller budget and a few years earlier.