• Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    GTA clones stopped (THANK GOODNESS FOR THAT).

    I mean, open world games are commonplace. It’s like saying “doomclones” stopped. Yeah, they became fpses.

    but on the other hand “realistic crime open world games” kinda gta knockoffs were more commonplace back then.

    Unfortunately, somehow, gta feels like a gta knockoff. I didn’t even finish V, and the satire just seemed less biting, and late to the punch. Like the jokes it was making had already been made elsewhere, so it felt stale and done before.

    • weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works
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      20 days ago

      These two cases aren’t the same though. Doom built a whole new genre by building on Wolf 3D’s foundation, it just didn’t have a name at the time. Very few 90s fps games actually play like Doom, or even try to. They all got their own thing going.

      GTA clones definitely wanted to be like GTA, I can tell by just looking at them. I didn’t play any GTA inspired games besides Retro City Rampage so I don’t know which titles in particular deserve to be seen as knockoffs but they were out there.