FORTNITE MURDERS AMOGUS: IMPOSTOR

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It doesn't suck ass though.

How are you sure that Epic didn't try to collaborate with the Among Us studio and were unable to reach a deal for acquisition or something? Every game concept is an iteration from a previous idea or concept from a different game, this goes for movies and pretty much all entertainment.
judging from the devs being annoyed i doubt it

not saying anyone really owns the murder mystery game concept, but copying the map design and terminology isn't really innovative, just lazy and cashgrabby

pretty sure a company like epic is perfectly capable of coming up with something vaguely original when they have vbucks money to throw at projects
 

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Ehhh, I dunno

Surely if Among us is the better game it'll still retain it's popularity right?

Do you mind explaining what you mean by predatory? I'm curious what you mean.

Im high so bare with me

Among Us was made by three guys, right? It was niche, it wasn't original, but it wasn't copied. It got big, and you'd see a surge of free steam store imitations, exact imitations, ones you'd point at, laugh at and think how shameless it was that they were trying to hijack its success, right? Hoping that one kid would type the wrong name.

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Like, these are rip offs, right? Sure, they're less blatant about it, but some even try to do underwater base centers. Fortnite Impostors is as original as that. Except they have a bigger company behind them, more money. A company with a game that is literally almost connected to every other franchise, and instead of reaching out with what was a small indie dev company, they make their own, for a clear reason, that someone wants a yacht. And because they're a bigger company, they can afford to throw on more workers, to make the rip-off have extra fluff on top, its still a rip-off.

Its not the same as Terria being influenced by Minecraft, or Minecraft by Infiniminer, or H1Z1 Arma 3. There's no core differences other than different missions like order burger instead of fix wires. They didn't add any new concepts. They didn't change the setting And they got the player-base to dwarf Among Us. It'll hurt Among Us hard in the future considering most of the people who play Among Us are the same tweens that play Fortnite, and I'd wager people love Fortnite more.

I mean its about as original as a Roblox game of the same name (and its 3D!!!)

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Im high so bare with me

Among Us was made by three guys, right? It was niche, it wasn't original, but it wasn't copied. It got big, and you'd see a surge of free steam store imitations, exact imitations, ones you'd point at, laugh at and think how shameless it was that they were trying to hijack its success, right? Hoping that one kid would type the wrong name.

Werewolf%2BAmong%2Bus%2Bclones%2B2.jpg


fs2ydfvzrww51.jpg


OYZse3a.jpg

Like, these are rip offs, right? Sure, they're less blatant about it, but some even try to do underwater base centers. Fortnite Impostors is as original as that. Except they have a bigger company behind them, more money. A company with a game that is literally almost connected to every other franchise, and instead of reaching out with what was a small indie dev company, they make their own, for a clear reason, that someone wants a yacht. And because they're a bigger company, they can afford to throw on more workers, to make the rip-off have extra fluff on top, its still a rip-off.

Its not the same as Terria being influenced by Minecraft, or Minecraft by Infiniminer, or H1Z1 Arma 3. There's no core differences other than different missions like order burger instead of fix wires. They didn't add any new concepts. They didn't change the setting And they got the player-base to dwarf Among Us. It'll hurt Among Us hard in the future considering most of the people who play Among Us are the same tweens that play Fortnite, and I'd wager people love Fortnite more.

I mean its about as original as a Roblox game of the same name (and its 3D!!!)

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It doesn't suck ass though.

How are you sure that Epic didn't try to collaborate with the Among Us studio and were unable to reach a deal for acquisition or something?


Because the Among Us Devs are pretty clear about it on Twitter


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judging from the devs being annoyed i doubt it

not saying anyone really owns the murder mystery game concept, but copying the map design and terminology isn't really innovative, just lazy and cashgrabby

pretty sure a company like epic is perfectly capable of coming up with something vaguely original when they have vbucks money to throw at projects
Why does it need to be innovative if that part of the concept is already fine? There's no need to reinvent the wheel. The map design isn't identical as much as people are trying to make out that it is. I'm not sure what's "cashgrabby" about it considering Fortnite is free and Among Us is not.

Among Us is also extremely wealthy now and they've not exactly done much since the boom.
 
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The TTT-esque game is nothing new. Among Us, Murder, Dread Hunger, and a hundred other games.

There's a reason no one gets mad and says "Well, X game copied Among Us!!!" It's because, 95% of the time, they add something or do something new.

Epic Games is literally ripping it and adding nothing new. Even stole "Imposters" lol
 
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the idea isnt original it becomes kinda ehh when the maps are kinda the same and at that point it seems a bit iffy
no doubt in my mind its a cashgrab but the whole game is
 
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the idea isnt original it becomes kinda ehh when the maps are kinda the same and at that point it seems a bit iffy
no doubt in my mind its a cashgrab but the whole game is
company does things to generate more money, news at 11
 

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Yeah it does feel like putting this sort of gamemode on a space station with tasks, the ability to report deaths and hit a button to call meetings wherever, imposters having the ability to switch off certain things and calling it Imposters is far too on the nose in my eyes.

Its a cash grab but I also think very little was done to make it original beyond changing the map.
 
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You guys are gonna flip your shit when you find out Among Us gamemodes has been in Fortnite for over a year.
 

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Fortnite was bad

Fortnite 2 is a little better

I just dont like the playerbase
 

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theres a difference between social investigation games (TTT, werewolf, town of salem, amogus, secret nazi) and taking a games setting, on a spaceship, their terminology, reporting bodies straight away, and needing to do space station tasks, following the success of among us.

the difference isnt as wide as TTT to among us. the difference is among us and then Among Us Deluxe
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among us devs made bank off a flash game thats just scuffed ttt they can go cry about it
 

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i love people trying to compare TTT to among us when the games aren't even remotely that similar

here's what TTT and among us have in common:
1) you have "good guys"
2) you have hidden "bad guys" trying to kill the good guys

that's literally it, they are very different games beyond that, from so trying to say that fortnite copying among us is fine because among us copied TTT is just.... wrong

saying that among us copied TTT is like saying that war thunder copied world of tanks because they both have a gamemode where tanks shoot each other