Minecraft hunger games, h1z1, the culling. Just going through a few shooters and search hunger games or battle royal brings up game modes from way before pubg for quite a few games, arma, half life, runescape. Hell theres even a movie with the same concept.
Then you look at pubg and you see how many battle royal games released in the same few months and you think they copied pubg? Thats impossible. You cannot copy a game in a few months. Its more likely they were all looking at h1z1 which was very popular and topping twitch with all the major streamers playing it. Then most of the following games put some kind of spin on the formula and made it something completely different.
RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world 3 days ago
These were all created after the original PUBG, which was an Arma mod created similar to DayZ. This existed as what we know of battle royale before any other clone, and it was also created by PlayerUnknown.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 days ago
Not true Minecraft was earlier by a few years and blew up a few years before the arma mod. But reading more of the lore it does seem like Brendan greene was involved in battle realistic style royals since very early days and was heavily involved I’m all the major genre hits. But that still doesnt make fortnite a copy.
Reading through the lore player Brendan Greene worked on h1z1 but ultimately the company that decided to make pubg say that they saw how popular h1z1 was and decided to reach out to Brendan Greene to work on the game that became pubg.