Comment on Tencent ‘Horizon clone’ pulled from stores as Sony settles lawsuit

otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Someone didn’t live through the 80s, I see.

  An illustration for the 1980s toy line DinoRiders, depicting cyborg dinosaurs are their sci-fi human riders.

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  • Tedesche@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    HOLY SHIT.

    This is awesome.

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    • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So were the toys.

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      • _Nico198X_@europe.pub ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I had the T Rex. It was so rad.

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    • mcv@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s the 80s for you. Big on awesome.

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  • prettybunnys@piefed.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The tencent game was like … blatant knock off of Horizon.

    I agree, but this isn’t a Palworld / Pokémon situation.

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    • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Slot racers?

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      • prettybunnys@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah, the VHS tapes of this I remember had like 1 dinoriders commercial then the rest was different slot racers, like a train that went up the wall and a glow in the dark one, race cars, etc.

        I might just be remembering those commercials the most cuz I wanted them the most

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• brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean, that setting alone shouldn’t be enough to claim copyright infringement, but the visual identity of the Tencent game looks way too close to Horizon. And since apparently they tried to get the licence and failed, it’s even harder to see it as anything but an attempt to make “I can’t believe it’s not Horizon”.

  They could have made it look different enough that it would be considered at most heavily inspired and there would be nothing wrong with it.

  I certainly don’t think Sony needs defending, but yeah, I can’t say that result is surprising.

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• pycorax@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How do they even make this argument even with a straight face is beyond me.

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• rafoix@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Tencent could just do the same game with much better writing but we know they literally cannot. Does any tencent game have good writing?

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• Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Transformers, turok and mecha Godzilla come to mind. Not post apocalyptic per say but saying Sony own robo dinos in a post apocalyptic future sounds fool hardy.

  This is in no way good for us, the consumers. If it was Nintendo doing it, everyone be would be livid.

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  • Ledivin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Companies shouldn’t own concepts, fuck Sony.

    Yeah, that’s not what happened here.

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  • prettybunnys@piefed.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The tencent game was like … blatant knock off of Horizon.

    I agree, but this isn’t a Palworld / Pokémon situation.

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  • MotoAsh@piefed.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nah. If you actually look at the merits of the case … it is obviously a blatant ripoff. They even tried to license Horizon first…

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• DamienGramatacus@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean, there was Zoids

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Still are!

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