Epic Now Making Minecraft-Inspired Fortnite Franchise

[exfileme]

Epic revealed a new IP during Spike TV's 2011 Video Game Awards Saturday night that seemingly borrows from both Team Fortress 2 and Minecraft.

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[Goldengoose]

Definitely sounds interesting. I think i'll wait untill they actually start making it and release some details before i get excited about anything.

 

[N.Broekhuijsen]

Looks fun!! I'll definetely be trying it out!

 

[Darkerson]

Looks interesting. Will be nice to have something a little different from them, compared to what they usually churn out. Just hope they dont borrow too heavily from MC/TF2.

 

[Steveymoo]

I think the moral of the story here is:

If you're a big company, it's fine if you want to steal successful ideas from smaller companies, and use them for your own profitable gain. But if you're a smaller company... God help you if your game or idea is even remotely anything like that of the bigger company.

 

[molo9000]

[citation][nom]Steveymoo[/nom]I think the moral of the story here is:If you're a big company, it's fine if you want to steal successful ideas from smaller companies, and use them for your own profitable gain. But if you're a smaller company... God help you if your game or idea is even remotely anything like that of the bigger company.[/citation]

Minecraft itself was heavily inspired by Infiniminer.

"Stealing" successful ideas is the bread and butter of the video game industry.
"Doom clones" got the FPS genre started. Dune 2 clones got the RTS genre started, etc.

 

[de5_Roy]

grand theft auto clones got sandbox-type games started ;D

 

[belardo]

And Space War started it all.

 

[mouse24]

[citation][nom]Steveymoo[/nom]I think the moral of the story here is:If you're a big company, it's fine if you want to steal successful ideas from smaller companies, and use them for your own profitable gain. But if you're a smaller company... God help you if your game or idea is even remotely anything like that of the bigger company.[/citation]

I'm lookin at you scrolls/bethesda fiasco

 

[chomlee]

They all stole there ideas from Pong!

 

[HolyCrusader]

[citation][nom]de5_roy[/nom]grand theft auto clones got sandbox-type games started ;D[/citation]
There were open-world, sandbox games out long before the GTA games. The furthest-back I can think of to a sand-box type of game would have been the Starflight games. Of more recent games, you have the Elder Scrolls games (Arena and Daggerfall), the first two Fallout games, and (to a lesser degree) the Baldur's Gate games (for the PC).

 

[RipperjackAU]

Looks like a video game version of...

Looking forward to DESTROY stuff around town, to BUILD my fortress, which minions during the night will try to DESTROY!

 

[clonazepam]

I wish somebody would steal more from "Leisure Suit Larry" and kick it up a notch. How about a "Leisure Suit Larry Vs. Zombie Strippers".

 

[lpedraja2002]

Anyone else hears the Scout's voice from TF2 on that trailer or was it just me?

 

[DroKing]

Ok finally we got something different out of all of those lame triple A titles! Now I might actually be pumped for a new game *ORGGGGGLLLLLLEEEEEEE*

 

[eddieroolz]

I stopped reading when the title was written in an aZn-SpEaK format.