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 Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:18 pm Post subject: Limbo of the Lost-gate - (Topic locked see page 1) |
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*EDIT* This topic has been locked due to complaints recieved about certain posters disclosing personal details.
Certain individuals (you know who you are) will be PMd by an admin warning them that posting anymore personal details anywhere on the GR forums will result in an immediate IP ban. *End EDIT*
Edit - It's not just Oblivion, read on!
Limbo of the Lost, developed by Majestic Studios and published by London based G2 Games, appears to contain locations with striking similarities to places found in Bethesda's Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (as reported by GamePlasma.com earlier today).
Limbo of the Lost:
Oblivion:
Bethesda have been contacted:
| Danielle Woodyatt, PR Representative for Bethesda wrote: | | We aren't going to comment. Screens pretty much speak for themselves. Legal is looking into it. |
This was posted over on GAF, and it turns out that Oblivion wasn't Limbo of the Lost's only 'influence'.
Step forward Thief: Deadly Shadows.
Limbo of the Lost:
Thief: Deadly Shadows:
Looks like they added a few skulls to throw us off the trail.
But wait!
The skulls are an item from one of the Diablo games:
"Wall of the Eyeless, Bone Shield"
http://battle.net/diablo2exp/items/normal/ushields.shtml
Surely the game's trailer would be free of such blatant plagiarism...
Limbo of the Lost trailer (skip to 02:40 if you can't bear watching it all):
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/28891.html
Looks just like this bit from the Spawn movie, but with a colour change (00:24):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KMYx8lG59A
Just before that, at 02:36 in the Limbo of the Lost trailer, you also get a glimpse of the chapter 2 level 6 boss level from PC game Painkiller:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJniAgD5wT0
Limbo of the Lost is actually on shop shelves right now:
http://www.game.co.uk/PC/PointandClick/~r330135/Limbo-of-the-Lost/
I wonder what other games and movies they've stolen from? 
EDIT - more stuff from further on in the thread.
Morrowind's Orcish armour:
Limbo of the Lost:
The weapons are from Morrowind too apparently.
Interview with the devs:
| Quote: | Gordon: So have any more recent games influenced your current project?
Steve: The project is more influenced by film and literature rather than other games, we want the experience to be as original as possible and as such we have made a calculated effort to keep away from other games in the genre. Limbo of the Lost is an experience first and foremost, secondly wrapped up in a game media and genre.
Gordon: During the long gestation for this game, what sort of changes have you made to bring it up to date.
Steve: All of the game (apart from initial background story and some character designs) had to be re-written, all the characters had to be created in 3D and animated, all the background scenes re-created, all the sounds, coding and music?..basically everything had to be redone or newly created for the PC version. This is not an old game that has been dressed up. This is the original concept, dusted off and re-created. |
http://www.quandaryland.com/jsp/dispArticle.jsp?index=795
Limbo of the Lost:
Diablo 2:
Limbo of the Lost:
UT2004:
Limbo of the Lost:
Painkiller:
Vampire: Bloodlines spotted:
http://www.bethsoft.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=848828&st=20#
http://pc.gamezone.com/gamesell/screens/s29203_4.htm
Pirates of the Caribbean spotted:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=11552930&postcount=218
Some of the dialogue from the trailer (the bit with the daemon speaking) has been lifted from Rune:
http://www.inkslinger.org/writing/samples/writing/writingsamplerunescript.html
| Quote: | | The dead do not welcome the presence of the living, warrior. You remind them of all they have lost. |
Press release has been issued by the US publisher:
| Quote: | – Tri Synergy, Inc. ( www.trisynergy.com) would like to publish an official comment regarding recent comparisons of level design and artwork between Majestic Studios’ Limbo of the Lost and Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion/Eidos Interactive’s Thief: Deadly Shadows.
Tri Synergy is just as shocked as everyone else is by the recent screenshot comparisons. At no point during our dealings with Majestic Studios up until the point that the comparison was first publicly made by a third party did we have any knowledge of these similarities. Additionally, Tri Synergy will discontinue distribution of Limbo of the Lost in both retail and online outlets.
We have contacted the developer, Majestic, and are anxiously awaiting their response. As soon as we know more on this matter we will issue another statement.
More information about Tri Synergy is available from www.trisynergy.com. |
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| This story was hillarious. How did they think they would ever get away with it? |
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Just a coincidence.
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| That is absolutely unbelievable! |
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Zuma and pretty much everything else Pop Cap Games spews out.
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The funny thing is that Oblivion's a couple of years old, and it still looks better.
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This looks like they just stuck a floating hand onto a bunch of Oblivion screenshots.
The Great Giana Sisters of the new millennium!
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I was about to post that Oblivion's environments were hardly unique for a high fantasy setting. Then I finally noticed that half of the screens I was looking at were comparisson shots.
That's amazing. They must have assumed that such a low budget game would escape close scrutiny.
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ahh, but will it blend? That is the question...
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| Prototype wrote: | | ahh, but will it blend? That is the question... |
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That's amazing!
I can't believe it's literally just nicked them straight from the other games. You'd think they'd have made more modifications but in some of the shots even the ornaments are in the exact same place on the shelves! It's ridiculous!
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So they stole from Oblivion, Thief, Painkiller, Diablo and the Spawn movie, but they also stole from Morrowind 
Morrowind's Orcish armour:
Limbo of the Lost:
The weapons are from Morrowind too apparently.
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| Mogster wrote: | I was about to post that Oblivion's environments were hardly unique for a high fantasy setting. Then I finally noticed that half of the screens I was looking at were comparisson shots.
That's amazing. They must have assumed that such a low budget game would escape close scrutiny. |
I was thinking that too. I was about to come in and be all like "Oh, so it has a medieval Britain feel to it, and suddently it's copying, and then I saw the photos!
Mental.
How hard would it be to just change it a bit? Even mirroring it might have made people overlook. |
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Fantastic stuff, they deserve a medal for their sheer audacity.
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| Quote: | Gordon: So have any more recent games influenced your current project?
Steve: The project is more influenced by film and literature rather than other games, we want the experience to be as original as possible and as such we have made a calculated effort to keep away from other games in the genre. Limbo of the Lost is an experience first and foremost, secondly wrapped up in a game media and genre.
Gordon: During the long gestation for this game, what sort of changes have you made to bring it up to date.
Steve: All of the game (apart from initial background story and some character designs) had to be re-written, all the characters had to be created in 3D and animated, all the background scenes re-created, all the sounds, coding and music?..basically everything had to be redone or newly created for the PC version. This is not an old game that has been dressed up. This is the original concept, dusted off and re-created. |
http://www.quandaryland.com/jsp/dispArticle.jsp?index=795
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