Post by: darknight06 on February 08, 2006, 04:07:46 PM
Post by: Stimutacs Addict on February 08, 2006, 04:30:39 PM
Post by: Epitaph on February 08, 2006, 04:35:44 PM
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Originally posted by: Stimutacs Addict
cool! I can finally pet the puppy!
I bet you cant wait for the kitty version.
Its pretty sad really, you would think nintendo could sue over this kind of rip off.
Post by: Artimus on February 08, 2006, 04:36:23 PM
Post by: KnowsNothing on February 08, 2006, 04:38:05 PM
so that's, uhh, a sony nintendogs. Add that to the pile of Sega Brain Training, and whatever the hell that WarioWare clone was
Post by: Bill Aurion on February 08, 2006, 05:02:28 PM
Post by: Chris1 on February 08, 2006, 05:18:57 PM
Post by: darknight06 on February 08, 2006, 06:48:28 PM
Post by: King of Twitch on February 08, 2006, 07:29:22 PM
Post by: BigJim on February 08, 2006, 07:33:19 PM
Post by: Hostile Creation on February 08, 2006, 08:20:10 PM
I like how the system is not made for it nearly as well as the DS, at all.
Post by: nitsu niflheim on February 09, 2006, 02:24:40 AM
Post by: KDR_11k on February 09, 2006, 03:58:10 AM
Yeah, it's interesting that it doesn't look any better than a DS game. I only see one dog and the interface seems to have changed to Deutsche Telekom (errr... T-Com) colours.
Post by: JonLeung on February 09, 2006, 05:58:55 AM
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Originally posted by: MJRx9000
Sony copies what Nintendoes.
XD
Remember this commercial? Someone should TOTALLY remake that but with that slogan.
Post by: Ian Sane on February 09, 2006, 06:41:21 AM
Trust me. You don't want game companies suing over stuff like this. If they went sue crazy then each genre would be limited to one company. Would you want Square Enix to be the only company to make RPGs or id Software to be the only ones making first person shooters? I think it's best we all just let the clones slide so that when a really great derivative game gets made we don't have to worry about lawsuits. Gunstar Heroes would have never existed if Konami sued Treasure over the similarity with Contra.
KDR brought up K.C. Munchkin. That lawsuit was crap. K.C. was clearly a maze game but it played quite differently and it was BETTER than the Atari version of Pac-Man so gamers lost out.
The only time a lawsuit makes sense is when a game rips off another so much that it actually has like the same exact level layouts so that it's almost literally the same game with different art. Games that are only similar shouldn't be sued over. Hell Capcom didn't even win their case against Data East when Fighter's History is clearly Street Fighter II with slightly different character appearance.
Who cares if Sony makes a puppy game anyway? Anyone who is interested in Nintendogs is going to buy a DS for the real thing. The only people who buy blatant knockoffs are people who already own the "wrong" system and can't afford to get the other one. The PSP target demographic isn't the sort of people who play puppy simulators. I doubt it will even sell that well and virtually no one will buy the PSP for this over the DS for Nintendogs. Nintendo should be flattered that their idea is popular enough to have clones. That's like the measuring stick of a classic game.
Post by: Smash_Brother on February 09, 2006, 07:14:38 AM
–SB
Post by: bustin98 on February 09, 2006, 09:29:16 AM
Ok, over the top a little, but there are a million directions Sony could go with out copying the dog idea.
Post by: JonLeung on February 09, 2006, 09:50:36 AM
Post by: attackslug on February 09, 2006, 09:55:31 AM
Still is one hell of a blatant ripoff...
Post by: Epitaph on February 10, 2006, 07:49:34 PM
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Trust me. You don't want game companies suing over stuff like this. If they went sue crazy then each genre would be limited to one company. Would you want Square Enix to be the only company to make RPGs or id Software to be the only ones making first person shooters? I think it's best we all just let the clones slide so that when a really great derivative game gets made we don't have to worry about lawsuits. Gunstar Heroes would have never existed if Konami sued Treasure over the similarity with Contra.
To some degree thats true but it could also have the reverse effect where companies would try to be original so they are not sued.
Post by: Kairon on February 11, 2006, 12:07:40 AM
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Originally posted by: bustin98
Sony should have went with another pet, maybe throw some fantasy elements into it. Imagine a pet dragon or griffen with semi-realistic graphics in a home setting. Keep the fire extinguisher handy! Out for a walk . . . hey! your dragon ate my dragon!
Ok, over the top a little, but there are a million directions Sony could go with out copying the dog idea.
OMG. I would KILL for a pet dragon that I could have fight other dragons! OMG! DIGIMON ALL OVER AGAIN!
No...seriously...I loved the original Digimon. My Digimon kicked my brother's Digimon's butt.
~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com
Post by: bustin98 on February 11, 2006, 04:25:24 PM
No matter. I don't care what kind of animal / robot is in a pet sim. I wouldn't buy it. There's nothing that would make me say 'Gotta have it' to a pet sim. Even if you had to train it then take into battle from a FPS point of view.
Post by: TMW on February 12, 2006, 11:01:54 AM
Also, it kills you if you forget to feed it.
EXTREME.
Post by: Smash_Brother on February 12, 2006, 11:27:32 AM
Awesome quote. I hope people get the reference.
As for the topic, without being able to "touch" your dog or "call" it, what's the point? Half of Nintendogs was the fact that you had tactile and verbal interaction with your virtual pet, upping the immersion factor.
Without those, you go all the way back to "Dogz" and "Catz" on the PC all those years ago.
Post by: mantidor on February 12, 2006, 11:31:36 AM
Post by: Smash_Brother on February 12, 2006, 11:58:13 AM
Yeah, that'll go over well.
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 12, 2006, 12:21:06 PM
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