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The long dark is one of my favorite games of all time and I have to say, I don’t know how you can say just the cover photo looks similar. Here are some very similar things I noticed:
- You have a picture of an in game menu that looks exactly like TLD
- The way the flare and torches are handled is wildly similar, especially in your video where you are holding off wolves.
- That frozen body with snow all over it? It literally looks like it was copy pasted from TLD.
- You mention that there will be two modes, story and endless, very much like TLD too. I would wave that as a coincidence if everything else, including the name of the game, feel like a rip of TLD.
I can’t just look at these things and think it is a coincidence, they are all so similar.
I would have been more likely to wishlist and had less of a negative reaction if you:
- Didn’t act like there is nothing similar between the games and owned up to the fact you were inspired by such a masterpiece of a game.
- Actually was bringing something new to the table here, most of your trailer is showing everything I know from TLD, if you have new proprietary systems and ideas, like cooking why aren’t you showcasing them? All I see is an animation for cooking.
- The game looks really rough at the moment, and I respect the ambition. However, when I seen 2024 as the release date and this is what there is on show, I can only assume the rest of the game lacks the same polish.
I do wish you luck, but in my opinion as someone from your likely target audience I would not purchase your game.
The long dark.
Assuming the game mechanics are still in place? I’ll be fine. Maybe I’ll even live a few years on the Great Bear island.
However, if I am in that scenario with real world mechanics? I’m Fucking dead, so hard, so fast. Then again I guess the wildlife would be less aggressive and maybe people would actually be around. Still probably dead, though.