Comments on: Top Ten Games That Rip off Another Franchise (But Do So Beautifully)

By: Joe McPants

Joe McPants — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:10:24 +0000

YES, Finally someone else who doesn’t like God Of War

DMC and POP are WAY better games than GOW

By: Perry Piekarski

Perry Piekarski — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:36:59 +0000

Very well played, sir.

By: James Walker

James Walker — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:32:23 +0000

Which in itself was a ripoff of another game, Tennis for Two.

By: Perry Piekarski

Perry Piekarski — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:35:15 +0000

True, but you’re forgetting one thing: they’re all blatant rip offs of Pong.

By: Lolcat

Lolcat — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:24:15 +0000

I think GTA is a rippoff from mario.
And that Ratchet and Clank is a ripoff from Metroid.
And Need for Speed is a ripoff from Zelda.

By: Annihilator

Annihilator — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:58:47 +0000

Silent Hill ripped off Resident Evil but Resident Evil ripped off Alone In The Dark, which by the way the game creators acknowledged. Alone In The Dark was the first true horror adventure and led the way for all others after it. And Grand Theft Auto didn’t really rip off Driver 2, GTA already had complete freedom in the first two games, even if it was an overhead view. But that was never the intention of Driver anyway, it was the driving part which made that game and in that aspect, is a better game than GTA.

By: Dex

Dex — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:18:56 +0000

god of war was one of the worst hack and slash pieces of filth i’ve ever played.

By: jp

jp — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:30:28 +0000

god of war steals from not one, but two franchises, devil may cry and prince of persia, and is actually better than both

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:15:14 +0000

This is a horrible list.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:40:32 +0000

So if you like RPG’s, adventures, actiongames, platformers, sportsgames and have been gaming fulltime for 20 years , but you don’t like FPS games you’re not a gamer?
What a load of bullcrap!

By: xino

xino — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:22:24 +0000

Nice try but NO!

I don’t think Okami came anywhere copying Zelda or the opposite. Zelda Twilight Princess was in production a long time, it was going to be released back in 2005 with Metriod Prime 3, but because of the Wii in development and break through (or stealing patent) of the 6 axis, they decided to make the game for the Wii and push back the date.

Arkanoid/Breakout shouldn’t even be in the list. There are lots of copied version of them. The version I played was called Paranoid.

Ninja Gaiden and Castlevenia is not right. You are only comparing them by the game’s HUD. There are other ninja games that looks exactly like NG. Shinobi on SNES.
Don’t forget the Ninja Gaiden (Xbox) that copied Shinobi on PS2, Ninja Blade copied both Ninja Gaiden and Shinobi.

By: Nebbs

Nebbs — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:36:17 +0000

Without a doubt the most blatant ripoff/clone game has got to be Super Mario/Great Giana Sisters (Older gamers may remember this one). Nintendo even slapped a law suit on Rainbow Arts that forced them withdraw the game from sale almost as soon as it was released.

Ripped (shamelessly) from wikipedia..

“Similarity to Super Mario Bros.
Since Nintendo has historically avoided porting its console titles to home computers, it is likely that the game was developed to cash in on the popularity of Super Mario Bros., and to provide a similar experience to home computer owners with no interest in buying an NES. The game has two playable characters: one named Giana, mirroring Mario’s status as the prominent Mario Brother, and the other named Maria.

In Super Mario Bros., the main characters (Mario and Luigi) could collect Super Mushrooms. The mushrooms caused the characters to grow taller, and withstand a single attack without losing a life. Damage caused after collecting a Super Mushroom would revert the characters to their original small state. The mushrooms were hidden in blocks, and could be freed by jumping into the underside of the block. In Great Giana Sisters, the sisters would collect brightly-colored balls from blocks, which caused their hairstyle to change into brightly colored Mohawk haircuts. In both games, the alternate state of the characters gave them the ability to break blocks with their heads. Many of the enemy sprites bore strong similarities to the enemies in Super Mario Bros., and in addition to very similar backgrounds and areas, some of the map layouts used were virtually identical to levels in the Nintendo flagship game.”

By: thetruth

thetruth — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:22:32 +0000

Perry Piekarski is officially banned from making lists. These are some of the worst comparisons I’ve ever seen.

Fail!

By: PacoDG

PacoDG — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:44:55 +0000

Verrrry good call on Neutopia. It is good to the point that NES/SNES zelda lovers need to give it a try (TG16).

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:48:13 +0000

If you’re going to include Silent Hill you should say Alan Wake and Silent Hill. If you read up on Alan Wake it’s going to be a Silent Hill clone.