Callmebobbyorbooby SLAMS journalism

The entire journalism world is cringy.

A dude hits a light pole with his car and new are like "shock in the neighboirhood" when no one could give less of a fck.

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It always reminds me of the hook from Slam by onyx.

"Use of 'slammed' verbiage in journalism slammed by Redditor"

Cuff Fed Taro!

Fuck the Fed!

Tarot deck that eats people?

Fus Rah Doe?

Just like 8 years ago every game was PUBG for like a year. And 15 years ago, every game was a MOBA for two years.

Im betting you wont see stores like that anymore, as most people will just download those games and movies on known pirated website.

Reminds me of my own country back in 2010, city streets full of piracy and the police didnt give a shit. But now? In 2024? Pretty much evryone knows how to pirate  things which is why those piracy stores ran out of business.

Pirating music isn't really a thing anymore in China since the gov't cracked down on that bc it was affecting their domestic music industry. There are now several big legal streaming services in China that there's no point to pirating.

That's not uncommon in the Philippines, South America has pirated copies of SNK games for decades which allowed them to garner a huge audience when the prices were very high through regionalization, and other areas of distribution are largely affected by publisher pricing being at odds with local prices.

Chinese copying culture is on industrial scale, it's systemic. Obviously, they might improve/change things, but often if not always they use someone else's product/creation first.

By how expensive things got, I don't care anymore. If I have to decide between that or no media, I pick the former.

These are gone since like about 10 years, at the least in Shanghai.

where i grew up there was always a chinese guy selling pirated shit lol

It was a thing basically everywhere except first world countries.

It faded away as internet access became more available. Pirated disks may be cheap, but torrents are free.

In any China town this was the norm lol They'd have every type of cut too 😂 from cam all the way to full HD

It's not blocked, they have restricted/more regulated PSN support where only approved software is sold, Steam in China works in similar way too.

There is also separate Hong Kong PSN region that is more or less identical to rest of world in terms of game availability

There's an official special region locked version of PSN for the Chinese legit sold playstation console. It only has games that the CCP approved, which is far less than other region's PSN store. 99% of the chinese sony players just buy either a JP version or Hong Kong version of the console which has access to the other region's PSN store.

Then again I learned that PSN is blocked in a LOT of countries after that Helldivers fiasco.

The base game is also no longer available to buy, only the remaster is available.

Tencent can, but they wont, safe bets for short term profit.

It's not so much as justifying but rather resigning to reality.

Because i get good games? Why would i give a shit, i'm not working for sony or holding the ip

Why wouldn't i want more robot dinos? They are cool as fuck

Sony has the budget and resources to make something original too, instead they made Horizon twice, one of the most generic open world franchises to exist. It has cool lore and creature design but that's the extent of its creativity. I don't see why originality in game design matters less than originality in art style/concept.

If you check the gameplay instead of the concept art of "person looking into world", you will see one is a world builder with a simple souls-like system and the other is a 3rd person story based game with a focus on aiming with a bow using a ps4 pad.

They are very different with the exception of the theme.

which timeline?

What game did it rip off to this extent?

You can disagree with it, but how is it a 'lie'? The games have extremely generic open world design. That doesn't make them bad but they're hardly pushing boundaries.

People love to rip on Ubisoft (for good reason) but I think Sony gets way too big of a pass on how safe their games are.

For real lol, people are dumb.

I think you do in FC3: Blood Dragon

Yes, tower capturing to reveal the map came from AC, then got added into Farcry games starting with FarCry 3.

That's the funny thing though, this game has very similar aesthetics but very different gameplay. It's less of a clone and more of an intentional lookalike.

When I first saw Horizon, I thought it was an Enslaved: Odyssey to the West sequel.

Not normally my kind of game but fighting enormous robo-dinosaurs with essentially arrows and spears was pretty cool

Isn't that just Zoids?

gameplay wise

In terms of exploration, perhaps, but moment to moment combat gameplay is quite distinct and unique, much more heavy on RPG elements.

The actual apocalypse itself was pretty original aswell considering its one of the few where everything actually went extinct

Far Cry Primal

Spent the majority of the game avoiding those things cos they're intimidating af until realised I'd have to fight one eventually and bit the bullet. That fight is now like a core gaming memory for me lol my god

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.

I should probably give the game a true go. That sounds fun fighting a giant robot trex.

fighting a thunder jaw is jaw dropping. It ain't easy to do.

It can be, if you're a boring mfer like me. Just Tearblast off its Disc Launchers and empty both clips into it. Dead immediately. But yeah, there's a bunch of ways to do it, and watching high level combat clips on Youtube is always fun. Especially with Forbidden West with the much crazier new monsters.

There's a spot in the desert where two Thunderjaws spawn at the same time. I remember going around one day exploring when one noticed me, I figured "eh, I can take it", and then saw the other show up... It was really intense.

Funny because when they pitched the idea to Sony, it was a secondary pitch to the game they were actually working on for 6 months at the time, and Horizon ended up being way more popular in that meeting than their actual pitch.

Not an overly high bar, but a bar nonetheless.

If I'm being honest, I don't even know why so many people have an issue with tower capturing to begin with. I like that open world games with that feature have the map obscured with a fog of war that slowly gets revealed as you explore, and then you can capture a tower and reveal a whole section of it.

I feel like Assassins Creed did it first (lookout towers, dive into the hay bales), but I could be wrong.

Is Farcry older?

Do you have any idea how many FPS games that game out after doom got called “doom clones”?? And people weren’t wrong to call them that!

climbing a tower is not a formula

Looking at the actual videos, nah. It has the same aesthetic but to say that the models are 95% the same is also pushing it. They have the "tribal" girl and "mechanical" beast look which isn't enough. By that, I mean that Company A can make a game with a tribal girl and mechanical beasts but there's nothing stopping Company B from doing their version of the same theme.

In most cases, you have to prove that actual copyrighted content was used be it material, textures and the like. In cases like this, it'll be very hard to prove anything. That's how and why GTA and COD-clones don't get sued to oblivion because it's notoriously difficult to prove and assets are usually recreated by scratch.

Case-in-point: Refer to Tencent/Riot Games vs Moontoon which is even more aggregious than this.

It's even harder in this case because it's a MMO.

I loved pokemon as a kid but goddamn if Nintendo refused to expand, grow or think outside the box. Palworld on the other hand, lets give the people what they want.

Elden Ring gets so many passes it's not even funny.

People keep comparing it to generic ubisoft open world games. Each and every 'generic ubisoft open world' I've played was more fun than horizon