When plagiarizing turns funny

locallyunscene

<div class="IPBDescription">Limbo of the Lost</div>I saw this and just had to share...


by plagiarizing an original article{<a href="http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/06/18/limbo_lost_saga/" target="_blank">link</a>, <a href="http://forum.gamesradar.com/viewtopic.php?t=120121&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0" target="_blank">thread with more pictures</a>}:
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->A copy of the game found itself in the hands of Eric Franck, a writer with website GamePlasma. He gave it a try and was surprised to find some of the scenes in the game seemed strangely familiar. He fired up Elder Scrolls: Oblivion and was shocked to see images from the older game apparently reproduced in the new title:
Limbo of the Lost
<img src="http://regmedia.co.uk/2008/06/18/lol_1.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
Elder Scrolls
<img src="http://regmedia.co.uk/2008/06/18/eso_1.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
Limbo of the Lost (top) and Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
Images courtesy GamePlasma<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

I found it on <a href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/18/1938223&from=rss" target="_blank">slashdot</a>.

DiscoZombie

<a href="http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/?p=1924#more-1924" target="_blank">a Rock Paper Shotgun take on it</a>

aNytiMe

Haha, its a point and click adventure with like .000001% of original content.

X_Stickman

I laughed heartily when I first heard of this.

I just..... I don't get it. There is absolutely no way in hell they thought they could get away with it. It *has* to be either an elaborate prank or a publicity stunt. If they were ripping off some generic games that no one plays, or even not-so-well known areas from popular games, I could sort of understand it. But this..... I dunno. It can't be serious. I have more faith in mankind than that.

Abra

Oh my god, that is gold!

I want to see an interview with the guys who did this, a current one. Just to see them fry. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
Haha what the hell were they thinking? How stupid are those guys?

Theslan

When I saw this, I just shake my head...

... to me, it seems like almost the trend I see in some programming class sometimes... but this is the apex of trying to finish a project and hope not to get caught...

DrSuredeath

Uh, Just go to the source man.
<a href="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=310683&page=14" target="_blank">http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php...683&page=14</a>

If I remember correctly, the game actually plagiarize:

Diablo II, Thief, Oblivion, Lord of the Ring, Morrowind, Unreal Tournament games and Pirates of the Caribbean, Spawn, Beetle Juice, Legend movies and Hexen soundtrack.

remi

Wiki about it:
<a href="http://lotl.wikia.com/wiki/Limbo_of_the_Lost_Wiki" target="_blank">http://lotl.wikia.com/wiki/Limbo_of_the_Lost_Wiki</a>

X_Stickman

I really want to hear the Dev's official response. There's a guy posting in a gamesradar thread claiming to be the main guy in it, but it's almost certainly not really him (still a good read, though).

I just really, really want to know what they expected to happen. The sheer amount of stolen material is just amazing. And considering they've stolen stuff from Disney movies for their cinematics, they are going to get their asses handed to them if anyone can ever be bothered bringing them to court.