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.
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.
Tedesche@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
HOLY SHIT.
This is awesome.
ripcord@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
So were the toys.
_Nico198X_@europe.pub 13 hours ago
I had the T Rex. It was so rad.
mcv@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
That’s the 80s for you. Big on awesome.
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.
ripcord@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Slot racers?
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