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The Castlevania Dungeon Forums => Hardcore Gaming 101 => Topic started by: Lelygax on September 18, 2014, 08:44:34 AM

Title: The Waste Land
Post by: Lelygax on September 18, 2014, 08:44:34 AM

Steam page (http://store.steampowered.com/app/316970/?snr=1_4_4__tab-NewReleasesFilteredDLC)

Its a cool metroidvania that came out on Steam these days, Im sharing this because it seems to be good and some scenarios seems to be a homage to CV3 forest or even SCV4 spinning room:

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(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.akamai.steamstatic.com%2Fsteam%2Fapps%2F316970%2Fss_6739d5880f338c85f2ff873219dbe18d88011f29.1920x1080.jpg%3Ft%3D1410899078&hash=02f1ce73f4ce679d87b8bd9310847a3b)

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Title: Re: The Waste Land
Post by: X on September 18, 2014, 09:54:20 AM

The games definitely sporting CV III sprites. some a little bit altered though. Looks interesting. I should check out a vid of this sometime.

Title: Re: The Waste Land
Post by: uzo on September 18, 2014, 10:04:52 AM

I guess stealing Castlevania assets is the cool new thing for indie devs to be doing. Those are definitely CV3's backgrounds. Looks like the character is edited from Julius too.

Shameful. Looks like shit anyway all thrown together like that with no consistency. Probably plays like garbage too.

Title: Re: The Waste Land
Post by: Aridale on September 18, 2014, 10:40:55 AM

yeah its not that great. I bought it the other day and played it about an hour lastnight. First thing I noticed was the cv3 sprites. Theres one npc guy that looks like a John Morris edit too

Title: Re: The Waste Land
Post by: Gunlord on September 18, 2014, 11:29:55 AM

The idea is interesting, but if they just stole CV3 sprites I can't support them. ~_~

Title: Re: The Waste Land
Post by: Shiroi Koumori on September 18, 2014, 10:35:41 PM

I hope other people outside of this forum also notice that these guys are stealing assets.

Title: Re: The Waste Land
Post by: Dracula9 on September 19, 2014, 12:31:36 AM

I'm amazed Greenlight didn't notice or care that he's using copyrighted resources. How this even got put up on Steam is beyond me.

Lazy motherfucker. >:(

Title: Re: The Waste Land
Post by: Belmontoya on September 19, 2014, 07:45:43 AM

You know if they're lifting art from cv then they must be from other games too. But hey, it looks like maybe they made that life bar from scratch.

Shameful.

Title: Re: The Waste Land
Post by: Lelygax on September 23, 2014, 04:37:11 AM

So THATS why it reminded CV3... :(

Title: Re: The Waste Land
Post by: Jorge D. Fuentes on September 23, 2014, 05:23:19 AM

Reusing assets is acceptable only if the game is free, or a homebrew, and definitely not if it's ON STEAM.
It's supposed to be a professional game if it makes it to those platforms.  Can't be going around ripping off stuff.
Those orange blocks are totally from CVIII's first stage.  The forest wood could arguably count as well (though it may have been edited).

I say this as someone who often uses assets from other games (though my sprites are usually my own).