it's not about how the game plays that has Sony's knickers in a twist, it's their assertion that if an average gamer was shown screenshots of both games they may be unable to tell them apart.

Yeah, and I'm saying that's bullshit. If Sony wins on those merits then we can no longer have games set in the modern U.S.A., because they would look to much like GTA. We would no longer have games set in WW2, because they would look too much like Medal of Honour. It's a bullshit lawsuit and the judge should just throw it out due to lack of merit.

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The two games may look the same, but that doesn't mean anything. The important part of a game isn't what it looks like but how it plays. To give a counter-example: if I were to make a complete clone of Clair Obscur but changed the visuals to be PSX-style then I can't call it a new and unique game, even if anyone can look at screenshots and clearly see the difference. The gameplay and story are far more important in determining if one game is just a copy of another than the graphics and visual design.

The various comments here on how 'this is expected from Chinese companies' make me think that the issue here isn't about whether or not LoM is an HZD clone or not, but just 'China bad'. Don't get me wrong, there's no love lost between me and the PRC (the mistreatment of the Uyghurs is a crime against humanity), but going 'games are not allowed to look similar' to fight this fight seems like really bad tactics.

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You cannot copyright a style. If the new game is a co-op survival game and the old game is a single-player action role-playing game then the new game isn't a clone or copy. Otherwise you may as well say that Company of Heroes is a clone/copy of Medal of Honour.

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@Purple Library Guy Third benefit: F-tier lawyers can have their niche by getting assigned to cases where someone sues the government.

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Anyone wanna bet that both the modellers just happened to make almost exactly the same model because they just kinda ripped off existing cars?

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The new graphics are terrible and I've been running the GOG version of the OG on the Deck for months now without any issue (even made my own merged modpack). Unless something of worth gets added (the new UI looks terrible) I don't think I'm gonna pick it up.

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If we're gonna be discussing shark facts, here's my favourite: a shark generally only eats once or twice in a week. Most of the time they're just chilling and swimming around.

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I thought Stardew Valley was more about the social aspects than about the resource gathering. Still, may be interesting to see how it will hold up against Graveyard Keeper and Factorio.

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Why are people so happy to destroy their work they (used to) put their heart and soul in, instead of allowing it to live on?

Because if they destroy the existing game it won't compete with any games they release in the future. Just look at how Rockstar removed Grand Theft Auto 3, GTA Vice City, and GTA San Andreas from Steam when it came time to release the Defective Editions.

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I picked up Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller during the sale and it's pretty neat. The graphics during gameplay and in-engine cutscenes are a bit ugly and the characters' movements seem programmed rather than motion captured, with all the silliness that goes along with that approach... but overall it's been a great adventure game (no 'combine a cactus with a whoopee cushion to make a fragmentation grenade'-style puzzles) and the first of the 5 cases took me about 7 hours to solve, so if that keeps up I'm definitely going to get my money's worth out of it.

I've also bounced off Elden Ring, I'm just not enjoying it as much as Dark Souls 1 & 2. Either I'm just bad at reading the tells from the ER enemies or their attack patterns have a different rhythm than the DS 1 & 2 enemies.

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