Did New Adventure Game Swipe Oblivion Assets?

[Andy Chalk]

Did New Adventure Game Swipe Oblivion Assets?

A new adventure game is in an awkward spot following reports that it has lifted graphics and textures directly from the hit The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion [http://www.bethsoft.com].

Eric Franck, a reviewer at Limbo of the Lost [http://www.gameplasma.com]. That familiarity turned out to be the result of near-identical similarities between several settings in Limbo of the Lost and The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. GamePlasma posted several examples, which include not just textures and architectural designs taken from Oblivion, but tabletops and bookshelves filled with identical items, set in identical arrangements.

In response to email inquiries, Limbo of the Lost publisher here [http://www.trisynergy.com].


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[UpInSmoke]

Did they think nobody would notice? wtf.

 

[tendo82]

I hear one of the developers' last names is Frey.

 

[Cousin_IT]

...At least give ur hot goods a new coat of paint before putting them back on the market :-D

 

[majorcat]

Maybe it'll end up being a collector's item.. before it gets pulled from the shelves, that is .

 

[fix-the-spade]

Oh dear, someone's gonna get sued...

I wonder if these people began their thieving careers on Deviantart, before graduating up to full corporate piracy. Could this be the start of a trend?

 

[Gahars]

Wow.

That's all I really need to say.

 

[SmokingRevolver]

What the guy above me said.

 

[The Potato Lord]

What the guy above the guy above me said.

 

[Echolocating]

I have another hypothesis. Limbo of the Lost was purposely set in the most generic and disgustingly unimaginative medieval world one could ever conceive. After the LotL developers painstakingly achieved this goal, the end result looked exactly like Oblivion.

I know, it's hard to believe at first, but I think you'll eventually come around to realize that I'm right. The only crime here is how both games look horribly cliche and unoriginal. ;-)

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Limbo no swiping! Limbo no swiping! Limbo no swiping!

 

[SomeBritishDude]

Oh...Wow. I've said before that Oblivion could be any fantasy world. These guys obiously thought so too.

 

[Lvl 64 Klutz]

"So guys, there's this game out for the PC, PS3, and X-Box 360 that I swear NOBODY plays, and I was thinking..."

 

[Pingrash]

These guys must be lazy. I mean I never thought somebody would go so far as to practicly try to sell the same game under a differnt name and say that they made it.

 

[shadowcode]

Any more screenshots? Supposedly they ripped from the following games, as well:
- Thief: Deadly Shadows
- Unreal Tournament 2004
- Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines
- Diablo 2
- Silent Hill 3
- Painkiller

 

[Andy Chalk]

And Return to Castle Wolfenstein, apparently. The hits keep coming.

This is absolutely unprecedented in my experience.

 

[RetiarySword]

Thats Skingrad castle I think, I remember sliting someones throat there!

 

[Aries_Split]

I can understand oblivion, who plays that. But to intrude upon the awesomeness of THIEF!
The bloody bastards...

 

[Vaynes]

The teaser trailer for the game rips scenes from pirates of the caribbean and apparently spawn, but i can't see that one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqwNejK2x6Y

at 1:47 theres a fly past of an island which looks suspiciously like Crysis

 

[L.B. Jeffries]

Interesting...after 20 years of shooting and fighting in generic brown castles and grey caves, people are just now starting to accuse each other of stealing ideas.

The thing about brown castles or generic green islands is that at a certain point they all start to look the same. Games are inevitably going to have overlap if they keep taking place in the same kinds of environments. You could make a decent argument that a castle or map layout isn't actually protectable (if they ripped their texutres it's a different story). The balance scale is at what point do you start to inhibit game development (and the precious, precious, money) if you let people sue over a castle in one game resembling a castle in another.

Pity they'll probably settle this out of court. It'd be an interesting case.

*edit*

I just got a minute to check the comparisons. Wow...scratch that.