Lords of Shadow ripped off by Dracula Untold

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So what do you guys think about this? I find it to be quite the sacrilege. Lords of Shadow is my favorite video game trilogy and to see it ripped off while the game goes underrated pisses me off. I'm not sure but seeing the vast similarities (and I'm talking about the synopsis not just the screenshots) there's a possibility that Konami file a lawsuit against universal pictures.

Great?

Lords of Shadow ripped off Shadow of the Colossus and God of War.

Umm...isn't Dracula public domain? Write Dracula shit if you want, no one can stop you and you don't have to pay any licensing fees to anyone.

Having said that, that doesn't completely erase the possibility of copyright infringement, but most of your complaints seem to be standard genre stuff. Wolves and bats (Konami didn't invent this), spooky castles (Konami didn't invent this), invading armies (Konami didn't invent this), and similar costume designs and photographic/video compositions (Konami did not invent this). If anything, all this shows is that the movie is cliche as shit, which isn't grounds for a lawsuit seeing as how Castlevania is cliche as shit too.

Should replace Konami with MercurySteam, since Konami merely endorsed what they came up with, regardless of how much like Castlevania it actually was. >_>

Shadow of colossus i doubt , God of War and Devil May Cry definately =P

It does outright rip-off things from Shadow of the Colossus. And no, not Devil May Cry, because DMC actually has good combat.

How LOS rips from Shadow of colossus ? Do you mean couple of those titan battles where you have to climb the titans and attack weak points in order to defeat em ? Ahhh , yeah only SOTC colossi battles were pure awesome compared to LOS lol.

Yep, LOS2's first few hours are almost a direct ripoff from DMC's story...

Holy Hell...

Minor spoilers for lords of shadow

It seems that Baba Yaga is in this movie (says IMDb)... THE HELL???

LOS doing a crappy job doesn't change where they obviously got inspiration from.

It's been a while since I've played either but..

First few hours of DMC

That's just the first hour of 2 of DMC.

First few hours of LOS2

Even the combat is exactly the same, and I don't mean style, I mean the moves and the input for them. For crying out loud, in your very first battle against a mini boss in LOS2 they specifically tell you to try this one move, which just so happens to be Dante's signature move. That was just shameless. (Back when I noticed the similarities I actually found a YT video where they showed some of Dracula's moves matching moves from Nero (Devil May Cry 4) frame by frame so I guess it wasn't just DMC they took it from)

Also, to conclude, I don't care that it was a ripoff from several games, since they took the good part of each of them, but such an extensive copy was a bit disappointing at the beginning, but it then branched out and because it's own game.

TC, now that you're older I think it's time I tell you what your parents couldn't: There's no such thing as an original idea.

I agree to some extend especially when it comes to dracula. A sensitive passionate dracula who loves to have a family isn't exactly a new idea. But if you have read my last post there's someone among the cast for this movie that I personally never knew of prior to playing LoS. It can't be a coincidence.

It doesn't matter if it isn't a coincidence. You can write your own Dracula script and try and get it made into a movie, and so long as you don't copy any thing without permission, you'd be golden.

Terminator was a ripoff. Does anyone care?
Avatar? Sexy cat womens? Done in the 80's.

Maybe for second rate developers like MercurySteam.

@foxhound_fox said:

@geniobastardo said:

Let me remind you ripping off is a part of the industry.

Maybe for second rate developers like MercurySteam.

Valve - 1984/war of the worlds

Naughty Dog - Outright plagiarizing Helen Mirron and Elly Page, Indiana Jones e.t.c.....

Every fantasy game ever - Lord Of The Rings

He's right. Most, good or bad are either "inspired" or outright ripping off stuff.

Before saying that LOS ripped GOW, maybe we should take into consideration that GOW has set the new standard for modern Hack n Slash games. Heavenly Sword and Dante's Inferno follow the same formula and are sick games. Remember when Double Dragon set the standard for beat em ups and spawned hundreds of clone games for generations? Please stop pretending that GOW didn't change the playing field.

Bram Stoker's Dracula, the movie with Gary Oldman and Keanu Reeves has Dracula turning into a wolf creature.

Ottoman Turkish armor of Mustafa III

Dracula did have a son.

Oh my goodness they too had a white guy with dark hair playing Dracula? Whaaaat?!?!

I don't understand why people say that LoS ripped off GoW. GoW ripped off LoI which in turn ripped off DMC, this was literally admitted by the devs (the part about being inspired in LoI and LoI devs being inspired by DMC) so people should really stop saying it ripped off GoW because LoI is older than GoW.

Also they're hack and slash, they aren't precisely known to have original gameplay amongst series. It's a pretty straight formula.

As for what OP says, you're simply drawing too many lines where there shouldn't be any.

This thread's way past the expiration date.