Imagine having an entire genre named after your game

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“Souls-like.”

FromSoftware’s Dark Souls released after Demon Souls, and they both have a significant impact in inspiring other souls-like games. I’m of the opinion that Dark Souls left a much more lasting impression. And so in my mind, Dark Souls is where the Souls like genre found it’s name.

Still, that’s pretty damn impressive to spawn an entire genre of games that make reiterations of your “recipe.”

That’s all. Enjoy Overwatch.

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imagine spawning an entire game genre out of your ingame mods and have AAA companies make entire games what used to be a small gamemode. (moba)

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imagine spawning an entire game genre out of your ingame mods and have AAA companies like Blizzard copy them because according to Terms Of Service they own all your ideas implemented with Custom Games :slight_smile:

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Laughs in Blizzard Dota

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all because you were too greedy to make a deal with the mod makers lol

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ehhh…

Most players looking at Dark Souls/Demon Souls spawning a genre haven’t seen or played Castlevania, or Metroid. As those games owe their design templates toward Metroid and Castlevania core level designs.

Overwatch isn’t a MOBA; it is based off of Quake Arena or Unreal Tournament.

Added post-hoc after the games were created so that Blizzard could take credit for them. Good thing the designers patented and copyrighted prior to the ToS changes.

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He isn’t talking about OW

Also OW has always been nothing more than a TF2 wannabe. It has nothing to do with quake nor UT

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This is referencing how DotA (which then went on to be the catalyst for LoL) was originally an old WarCraft mod IIRC.

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I mean
Yeah. If something is popular and liked, people copy it.

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I mean none of the characters are really similar to tf2

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Really?
Scout - Tracer
Soldier - Pharah
Pyro - Mei
Demoman - junkrat
Engineer - Torb
Heavy - Bastion/D.va/Orisa(?)
Spy - Sombra(?)
Sniper - Widow
And the most obvious ripoff of all: Medic - Mercy

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What are some soulslike games before dark souls?

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Imagine being so crazy that you decide to put a completely different genre of game inside your existing game.

I can’t wait for Soulframe. It’s an ambitious project for sure but it’ll be awesome.

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Imagine spawning an entire game genre out of your in game mods in your AAA game that was spawned out of mods in another AAA company game :sweat_smile: (autobattlers)

I can’t say it with a straight face (-;

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Why do you think Blizzard gave so much attention to the OW’s custom games mode that nobody plays and then demanded copyrights on anything you make there?

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Imagine making a ground breaking GotY in the hero shooter category, and then mismanaging the game so badly that you’re struggling to maintain a player base. :smile:

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Medic and mercy, yes.( sombra also ) But having the same weapon isn’t really them being similar. So everybody else is a no

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Not only that, but fumbling so badly that they practically killed the genre.

Seriously, outside of Paladins, all other objective-based hero shooters are either dead, mobile only, or considered a different genre entirely.

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Are there any other than OW, Paladins and TF2 on PC really?

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Not to my knowledge. Most have opted to be Tactical Shooters (Valorant & XDefiant), Battle Royales (Apex Legends), or Looter Shooters (First Descendant & Exoprimal).

Games like Battleborn or Gigantic have tried to be revived, but haven’t gotten much info as of late.

[And Crucible faded into obscurity.]

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