Are you pretending this isn't Zelda?

[DragonElderX9]

The least you guys could do is say A Link To The Past is a huge influence for you, but you don't even mention Zelda anywhere. It's clearly a clone of LttP, even the music is just a couple notes off.

[Icedfate]

binding of isaac is heavily influenced by zelda, and lot's of the items are direct references to it. and nobody sued those guy yet.

like an annoying fairy familiar that shows you secret bombable walls.
the fact that you use bombs to blow holes in the walls.
the map layouts, and the room transitions.
the heart containers for health
and much more.

there are also many items that reference Nintendo stuff, like "the gamekid" and "how to jump"(looks like a super mario bros. cartridge).

they haven't gotten into trouble for it. . .
I think they may even be looking to get the game on Nintendo, it's already on Xbox.
but I suspect Nintendo won't publish it because it has religious imagery in it.

Nintendo is so silly with that, like in the dungeons and dragons NES and SNES games, they changed the "bless" spell to "empower" because "bless was "too religious" and that's just dumb, because you're fighting demons and devils and dragons and and a cleric is turning undead zombies and vampires and mummies and stuff and that's okay, but casting a bless spell? oh no, we can't have that.
then they censored the blood from the original mortal kombat, like wtf, they took away the main reason people played that game.


yeah, I digressed.

p.s.

as for "stumbling on this page", I found it because steam put this in my queue.

p.p.s
theres also a game on steam called "20XX" which is an obvious reference to Megaman X, and they haven't got into trouble either.
they also listed in their description "if you like Megaman, this game is for you". . .

[solamon77]

Originally posted by FeMaiden:

binding of isaac is heavily influenced by zelda, and lot's of the items are direct references to it. and nobody sued those guy yet.

like an annoying fairy familiar that shows you secret bombable walls.
the fact that you use bombs to blow holes in the walls.
the map layouts, and the room transitions.
the heart containers for health
and much more.

there are also many items that reference Nintendo stuff, like "the gamekid" and "how to jump"(looks like a super mario bros. cartridge).

they haven't gotten into trouble for it. . .
I think they may even be looking to get the game on Nintendo, it's already on Xbox.
but I suspect Nintendo won't publish it because it has religious imagery in it.

Nintendo is so silly with that, like in the dungeons and dragons NES and SNES games, they changed the "bless" spell to "empower" because "bless was "too religious" and that's just dumb, because you're fighting demons and devils and dragons and and a cleric is turning undead zombies and vampires and mummies and stuff and that's okay, but casting a bless spell? oh no, we can't have that.
then they censored the blood from the original mortal kombat, like wtf, they took away the main reason people played that game.


yeah, I digressed.

p.s.

as for "stumbling on this page", I found it because steam put this in my queue.

p.p.s
theres also a game on steam called "20XX" which is an obvious reference to Megaman X, and they haven't got into trouble either.
they also listed in their description "if you like Megaman, this game is for you". . .

Binding of Isaac has been released on the Switch and on the 3DS.

Yeah, gaming in general owes much to Nintendo. Paying homage to this fact isn't going to get anyone sued.

[chaosavy]

I agree!

A crime of how awesome it is.

[chaosavy]

hehehehe - hilarious. Keep the jokes coming!

[solamon77]

Originally posted by LAIKA ( Ла́йка ) / KUBARK:

Should be free, since it is a copy (it is not inspiration, nor homage, it is copy itself). I hope that Nintendo do something ... it is unfair that someone "steal" a successful work, change one thing or another, put a new name and sell.
If it were free, it would be regarded as a tribute ... but the developers clearly want to profit from the work of Nintendo. With most of the young people nowadays never played ZELDA of SNES, they will idolize this clone ... it's a pity, cases like this are common on Steam ... (castaways paradise for example, is a clone of Animal Crossing)

With all due respect, do you feel the same thing about Axiom Verge vs Metroid? Or what about the Far Cry series vs Horizon: Zero Dawn? Doom vs Half-life? Fallout vs Wasteland? Just out of curiosity, where do you think the line is drawn? Because legally, a game can only copyright it's trade dress and the creative way it expresses an idea, not the base idea itself.

To quote the U.S. Copyright Act itself (17 U.S.C. § 102(b)), “in no case does copyright protection … extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated or embodied [in a work of authorship].” Copyright doesn’t protect ideas or concepts, but rather the original manner in which an idea is expressed — the purpose of copyright is to protect creative expression.

So, to conclude and reiterate, what this means is that a game can copyright it's trade dress (Link, the Triforce, Ganon, Zelda, the way the story is expressed, etc), but not the original idea of the game (a top down, fantasy action RPG). If this weren't the case, there would literally be only a small handful of different video games out there because any time someone made a game in a genre that already exists, they would be subject to being sued. The fact that the law works this way is better for everyone. (http://www.baercrossey.com/1195/how-not-to-clone-somebody-elses-video-game)

[Entercoven]

@Solamon77 You forgot to mention that Hydlide did Legend of Zelda before Legend of Zelda was even around. I suppose the creators of that game should ban Breath of the Wild for stealing their thunder.

Just because a game is similar does not make it the same game. There are certainly similarities, many in fact, but nothing about the game is a direct copy.

This isnt a fan game, even if they are fans of LoZ, doesnt mean this game should be regaurded as such.

[solamon77]

Originally posted by Entercoven:

@Solamon77 You forgot to mention that Hydlide did Legend of Zelda before Legend of Zelda was even around. I suppose the creators of that game should ban Breath of the Wild for stealing their thunder.

Just because a game is similar does not make it the same game. There are certainly similarities, many in fact, but nothing about the game is a direct copy.

This isnt a fan game, even if they are fans of LoZ, doesnt mean this game should be regaurded as such.

Good point. Sometimes I try and forget that Hydlide ever existed such is it's awfulness! :-D

[Wykstromius]

Looks less like an homage and more like a cash grab.

[solamon77]

Originally posted by Wykstromius:

Looks less like an homage and more like a cash grab.

Right...

Three years of hard work, scrimping, eating ramen noodles, running up credit card bills, and living the poor life only so that way at the end of it all they can hopefully make enough money to stay in business and do it all again. These indie devs are downright diabolical.

[korytoombs]

Too bad Nintendo didn't sue Alundra because right now in your argument they could just claim to have been inspired by that.

[solamon77]

Originally posted by korytoombs:

Too bad Nintendo didn't sue Alundra because right now in your argument they could just claim to have been inspired by that.

Why do you want Nintendo sueing people? It would make for a demonstrably worse video game market. Do you really want one company controlling all output in a specific genre? Imagine if Id Software was able to copyright FPSs after they made Wolfenstein. Here is a list of games that would have never been made:

Half-Life
Halo
Call of Duty
Medal of Honor
Crysis
Team Fortress
Killzone
Overwatch
Bioshock
Duke Nukem 3D
Destiny
Portal
Unreal Tournament
Left 4 Dead
Borderlands
Titanfall
Battlefield
Metro 2033
F.E.A.R.
Bulletstorm
etc, etc, etc

In your example, the FPS market would be limited to Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake, and Rage. What a wonderful world that would be.

[Sabin Stargem]

Originally posted by Solamon77:

In your example, the FPS market would be limited to Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake, and Rage. What a wonderful world that would be.

I am so glad that Virtual Hydlide didn't have a defining role like Ocarina of Time did. Thinking about it that is chilling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaLHt1ajC5w

[korytoombs]

I don't want Nintendo suing anyone.
I was obviously responding to someone else' post here.

[solamon77]

Originally posted by korytoombs:

I don't want Nintendo suing anyone.
I was obviously responding to someone else' post here.

I don't think that was as obvious as you thought.

[SenorPollo]

1. Launch a new game.
2. Read the actual text on the screen during the intro (with your finger if you have issues reading correctly) and realize that the grandpa starts a story about a kid in Hyrule before getting stopped by his grandchildren.
3. ???
4. Profit.

They are not hiding anything, before hateposting stuff like this, consider paying attention to the game.