I’ve had some enjoyable with The First Descendant however I wouldn’t say a robust, distinctive artwork fashion is one in all its core virtues. It’s a reasonably spinoff sport from head-to-toe. Now it seems that a few of the free-to-play loot shooter’s in-game icons look like ripped nearly wholesale from Future 2.
Forbes author Paul Tassi rounded up a few of the most egregious examples of “borrowed” artwork noticed by Future gamers thus far, and maybe essentially the most brazen is a gun known as Completely different Dream that appears precisely like Future 2’s IKELOS sniper and Sleeper Simulant. The truth is, there’s quite a lot of the darkish, angular circuitry-look of the Rasputin Warmind tech from Future that happens as a visible motif in The First Descendant, a sport that additionally occurs to be about house magic and alien hordes.
Extra direct copycats, nonetheless, embrace a number of of The First Descendant’s symbols that appear nearly like they used Future 2 artwork as placeholders earlier than tweaking it on the final second to offer the slightest trace of deniability. There’s the cranium when Future gamers die, numerous weapon perk symbols, and different belongings from the Bungie sport used to shortly establish details about gear and skills when swapping builds.
The response of some gamers has been to level out that a few of Future 2‘s personal in-game icons look like sourced to inventive commons artwork. The account BungieLeaks pointed to 1 web site that features a image for an artifact perk icon that was utilized by Bungie in a latest season. It’s attainable, in different phrases, that each The First Descendant and Future 2 are utilizing some open supply artwork and the previous simply occurred to determine to make use of the identical precise ones because the latter.
No matter if there are any potential authorized or licensing points, the similarities have given extra ammunition to followers who really feel like The First Descendant is a soulless simulacrum of present stay service loot shooters like Warframe and The Division. There’s nothing new or unhealthy about pastiche, at the very least when accomplished accurately. Loads of video games remix present kinds and ideas to nice impact. Normally they keep away from making it appear to be they actually simply uploaded the identical jpeg.
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