Sony Interactive Entertainment has filed a lawsuit against Tencent over its upcoming game Light of Motiram, with Sony saying it is a “slavish clone” of the Horizon series.

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    2 days ago

    I went to the game’s website to see how they portrayed the game as opposed to taking whatever cherry-picked similarities Sony chose to use as their argument.

    Wow. It is fucking identical. Maybe the gameplay is different, but the art is indistinguishable.

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      Yeah I don’t have the greatest love for Sony but they have a really good point with this.

      It’s basically the same game; Robot animals have taken over the world because reasons, Humans survive in small groups and have reverted to some kind of native american inspired spirituality for some bizarre never explained reason, you play as hyper athletic female warrior type who has to fight said robot animal things, your mission is to acquire some long lost secret technology from before the world was taken over by robot animals.

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      The hint of gameplay in trailer looks like a near copy of monster hunter games to me.

      Edit - funny though, Monster Hunter x Horizon actually seems like a great combo, but not like this.

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        Horizon is such wasted potential. 2 games in 8 years, and a LEGO spinoff. Where is Horizon 3? Where is Horizon Warriors? Where is the Horizon RPG?

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          The world needs to be fleshed out so an RPG would actually be pretty good. The problem is it’s a pretty world but it isn’t really very interesting. The humans who occupy the world are frankly boring and you can only fight so many robot elk before you want to do something else.

          A prequel would be interesting, detailing what happened and maybe explaining how things ended up the way they now are.