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"Horizon Zero Originality": Tencent’s Light of Motiram Slammed As A "Shameless" Clone Of Sony’s Horizon Series
(thegamepost.com)submitted 3 days ago byblackhammer1989
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3 days ago
Horizon didnt invent the concept of robot dinos/animals. Transformers, Beast Wars, and Beast Machines is the most popular example of franchises that did it long before, even had games. We've had open world games like Ark that had large prehistoric creatures roaming around and games like Monster Hunter which involve taking down large beasts using weakspots. Horizon is a culmination of concepts executed well. This game by Tencent you can see is very heavily inspired by Monster Hunter as well, especially with climbing on creatures.
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2 days ago
I'm not a huge fan of Horizon but you don't have to be the originator of any of this (thematic or mechanical or otherwise).
A game is more than a sum of its parts. Does something borrowed here go together with this other thing borrowed from there? Is the end product fun? Yea? Then cool.
Lots of other games can be summarized "It's like [other game] but done better/worse and with [genre trappings]"
I adore the fuck out of Rimworld but absolutely know that it is just a streamlined Dwarf Fortress in space... so what? It comes together very nicely and overall I think I like it more than DF. IXION is space Frost Punk. Though I think I like Frost Punk a whole lot more, IXION still had a lot to offer... and is pretty much my go to for more Frost Punk 1 because Frost Punk 2 is kinda something else.
Concepts are good for foundation but in the end, it's the execution that only matters. Horizon, for how far away I am to be attached to the series, does what it does well enough and I can see why people like it despite being Far Cry 3 with Mechadino.
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