It's crazy how big Angry Birds is sometimes.

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by Marc v4.0

You seem pretty angry over all this, I must say. To a degree I'm having a hard time understanding.

I'm not angry at all about Angry Birds. I'm angry about my experience in this thread, because...

Ok, yes, they took the same concept and gave it a coat of paint and a few minor gameplay tweaks and releaed it.

...this is what I said in the first place, and I'm being repeatedly told that, no, this is not what happened and that these games are not particularly alike at all, and that I'm a nerdraging hipster for saying otherwise.

[Inbred Chocobo]

Originally Posted by POS Industries

I'm not angry at all about Angry Birds. I'm angry about my experience in this thread, because...


...this is what I said in the first place, and I'm being repeatedly told that, no, this is not what happened and that these games are not particularly alike at all, and that I'm a nerdraging hipster for saying otherwise.

The biggest difference between Angry Birds and Crush the Castle is the aesthetic quality. Playing both games in limited amount, Angry Birds clear shows a higher quality of execution. A lot more details were chosen, even if they are not readily apparent. Whereas Crush the Castle has a much flatter feel, nothing exciting and nothing that popped like Angry Birds has. (There is also the execution, where Angry Birds was designed with phone in mind, which you can tell, and Crush the Castle with flash game mode in mind, which you can tell as well).

(the Creators even acknowledge this by their new game, Kingdom Rush, which they have given quite a pleasing coat of paint, which makes the game infinitely more enjoyable).

Heck, the only reason this is brought up is because of the timing of the release date of Crush the Castle and Angry birds, being 9 months apart, about the time it takes to develop a game for the phone in the first place. Let's be honest here, if the dates were swapped, and Angry Birds came out first, Crush the Castle would be considered the knockoff, and I am willing to bet that people would be clamoring that it stole from Castle Clout instead.

I guess the best comparison is that this is like bringing up the fact that The Lion King stole its plot from that Japanese lion movie (I don't even remember the name of it at time of writing).

Did they have a lot of points of similarity, yeah sure, they did. Does that mean that The Lion King stole the movie from those Japanese film makers? No, it doesn't. Such a thing was inspired, not stolen. Does it suck that the Japanese film makers get no credit? It would be nice for Disney to at least own up that it was an inspiration. In the same vein, does it suck that Rovio hasn't owned up that the game was inspired by Crush the Castle, yeah it does, but thats all that I see there, inspiration.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Originally Posted by Inbred Chocobo

The biggest difference between Angry Birds and Crush the Castle is the aesthetic quality. Playing both games in limited amount, Angry Birds clear shows a higher quality of execution. A lot more details were chosen, even if they are not readily apparent. Whereas Crush the Castle has a much flatter feel, nothing exciting and nothing that popped like Angry Birds has. (There is also the execution, where Angry Birds was designed with phone in mind, which you can tell, and Crush the Castle with flash game mode in mind, which you can tell as well).

(the Creators even acknowledge this by their new game, Kingdom Rush, which they have given quite a pleasing coat of paint, which makes the game infinitely more enjoyable).

Heck, the only reason this is brought up is because of the timing of the release date of Crush the Castle and Angry birds, being 9 months apart, about the time it takes to develop a game for the phone in the first place. Let's be honest here, if the dates were swapped, and Angry Birds came out first, Crush the Castle would be considered the knockoff, and I am willing to bet that people would be clamoring that it stole from Castle Clout instead.

I guess the best comparison is that this is like bringing up the fact that The Lion King stole its plot from that Japanese lion movie (I don't even remember the name of it at time of writing).

Did they have a lot of points of similarity, yeah sure, they did. Does that mean that The Lion King stole the movie from those Japanese film makers? No, it doesn't. Such a thing was inspired, not stolen. Does it suck that the Japanese film makers get no credit? It would be nice for Disney to at least own up that it was an inspiration. In the same vein, does it suck that Rovio hasn't owned up that the game was inspired by Crush the Castle, yeah it does, but thats all that I see there, inspiration.

Kimba The White Lion is the name of the movie your talking about.

[rpgdemon]

Originally Posted by Inbred Chocobo

I guess the best comparison is that this is like bringing up the fact that The Lion King stole its plot from that Japanese lion movie (I don't even remember the name of it at time of writing).

Did they have a lot of points of similarity, yeah sure, they did. Does that mean that The Lion King stole the movie from those Japanese film makers? No, it doesn't. Such a thing was inspired, not stolen. Does it suck that the Japanese film makers get no credit? It would be nice for Disney to at least own up that it was an inspiration. In the same vein, does it suck that Rovio hasn't owned up that the game was inspired by Crush the Castle, yeah it does, but thats all that I see there, inspiration.

Really, Shakespeare is the one who ought to be mad about that whole shebang, not the Japanese dudes.