Why has nobody ever even tried to copy one of the most famous games of all time? It should be a layup. Just make it decent and you have millions of baked in day one buyers. Preorders. Accolades. Considered by most to be the GOAT and not a single true copycat.Metroid made its one genre with dozens of copycats annually. Mario launched platformers which died off over time due to popularity but definitely not at the time. 2D Zelda has isometric and pixel clones. Not a single Ocarina clone. WHY.It would be so easy. Literally just mirror the game. make 6-8 colorful and distinct dungeons and a collection of items that could be the same damn thing. A small overworld with a handful of mediocre places to explore and NPCs. Im a normie and BoTW is one of the most trash shit games Ive played and I curse it for encourage bland open world trash. Even nintendo didnt bother adding colorful, distinct biomes or dungeons in either version.An indie dev could make a low poly copycat and make sales. Why? Why is this so hard? Not Darksiders, just grey grimdark washed out garbage. Okami kind of, I mean dropped right around Windwaker and is fine, still not the dungeons and Im not a furfag. Unironically Dark Souls would be the closest and still lacking a handfull of distinct colorful biomes. WoW classic and BL come the closest to that varied world you could explore but thats it.If I had a brain with a single cell that could conceive game development this would be it.
>>724252508>Why has nobody ever even tried to copy one of the most famous games of all time?OoT is fucking stupid, that's why.Every 2D Zelda is better and those have inspired plenty of decent games.
But they did anon and made a better game too.
Even Nintendo failed to copy their own formula. How do third parties have a chance?
>>724252508Nintendo themselves copied it four times and it's already a copy of lttp
>>724252508nier replicant is literally just edgy ocarina of time you replay a bunch of time to get the real ending
>>724253030copied from eternal darkness btw
>>724252508Take OoT, literally just completely rip it off from the graphics, movement, story, and combat. Add farming, marriage and house decorating. BOOM! you just sold a game to literally every single woman on earth.
>>724252508Making a Zelda game takes talent and creativity.
>>724253323lmao
>>724252691Dont be a contrarian faggot. Video games are a business. Theyre made to make money. If you actually played OoT on launch no, you wouldnt be sitting on a forum complaining about it, youre just a revisionist faggot ignoring the fact that nobody copied the top ranked game of all time. >>724252798>Not Darksiders, just grey grimdark washed out garbage.learn to read>>724252843Majoras Mask is excellent. Twilight is meh, windwaker and skyward began their mechanics over design failures although WW is also fine. BoTW should be buried.And again, its still not a copy like Im talking about. Jesus I mean give a small group of devs a month and they could could do what im saying; a handful of varied and distinct dungeons. You could be so lazy about it and still be successful. You could literally just be like 'this is the blue dungeon it has blue stuff like ice and water, this is the red one it has red stuff fire, this is white its crystal and wind' Its not that hard. I bet you could make it minecraft level of graphics and make a million bucks with less than a year of development. >>724253030its not, I played it. Once again this is not a game based around dungeons.The appeal of OoT was a series of distinct, colorful areas. Intro is tree, fire cavern, water fish.Adult is dark forest, bigger fire cavern, underwater, purple creepy shadow, yellow desert, mega castle. This is not hard. >>724253190exactly. just copy the fucking thing, and you dont even need crafting. In fact dont do it, add a dlc and rake it in.
>>724254051I too like MM but it diverges from the formula quite a bit. It wasn't exactly overflowing with dungeons.
>>724254051>If you actually played OoT on launch no, you wouldnt be sitting on a forum complaining about itN64 was the weakest system at the time and remains the weakest Nintendo system. Every previous Zelda was better. You just have nostalgia for the 3D graphics because you're retarded.
>>724254051>Not Darksiders, just grey grimdark washed out garbage.>not the one answer that would destroy my whole baity argumentYou know Darksiders did it right but don't want to seem like you're losing the argument before it started.
>>724254647My topic in the intro of this thread was around colorful distinct biomes. Not post apocalyptic grey, purple, occasional lava areas that run into one another. No, you havent posted anything different. i even mentioned Darksiders in the intro but you brought it up regardless and made zero other points. There was zero reason for you to say anything as it proved nothing.>>724254523Its not nostalgia, I didnt say shit about how I feel about it, I asked why it hasnt been copied for the sake of business. You cant prove it, youre not addressing the point at hand, youre doing the usual /v/ faggot bullshit because you think its cool. If Im a game developer who wants money I am looking at the best ranks games of all time and figuring out what I can do to copy that formula and profit.and to that point if >>724254647actually did copy that then they wouldve had cultural lasting power
>>724252508because indie Zelda clones lack soul, it lacks everything that makes Zelda, Zelda.they can have the items and the dungeons like a traditional Zelda but it just isn't Zelda so it sucks balls.
>>724255294Zelda fans are just a really REALLY vocal minority that makes the games seem bigger than they actually are.
>>724252508It truly is grim, Nintendo killed Zelda, and no one is attempting to make a game similar to it.
>>724255554>The Zelda series has sold over 170 million units, with one source citing a total of 170.912 million as of March 2025, including the main series and its sub-franchises like Hyrule Warriors and Tingle's games. The main series alone had sold approximately 158.83 million copies by that date, with the franchise's most recent sales data reaching over 170 million by August 2025>Breath of the Wild (Switch) 23.09% (29M)Ocarina of Time (N64) 23.08% (7.6M)Wind Waker (GCN) 20.39% (4.43M)Wind Waker HD (Wii U) 17.4% (2.36M)Breath of the Wild (Wii U) 12.54% (1.7M)Along with a TV show or movie being madeWhat?
Okami did and it flopped
>>724258260Part of that was just Gamecube not selling, the other part was the paintrbrush and going with a wolf, and also that was right around WWAgain Im not critcizing it as a game, but the public is generally stupid and trying too many unique things puts them off.
>>724252508Beyond Good and Evil, and Enslaved felt like Zelda style adventures when they were new. Of course there's also Shadow of the Colossus. Games just weren't into directly copying each other back then, and now we have every flavor of open world game anyway.
>botw fag mad that his game is a glorified asscreed clone
>>724252508Apperantly its way harder than you think
>>724259348Okami was on PS2 only
>>724252508I'm trying. Zelda progression systems and special items mixed with Dragon's Dogma combat. Should be fun, I hope.
>>724262926>still crying about a game eight years later>he's mad, not me
>>724265047Hey, I remember you from /ddg/! It looks like your game is coming along nicely.
>>724262926are you legitimately fucking retarded? what is your purpose for even posting? i said multiple times that game is fucking dogshit. god this board is such a shithole>>724265047Good on you. You have a website or YT or something to follow?
>>724252508zelda is nintendo's own nortubel
>>724266096>/ddg/my man! yeah it is. I have all the basic stuff done. Now I'm optimizing the enemy AI before moving onto finally making content for a demo that should arrive, hopefully, before the year ends>>724266698yeah! you can follow me here:>https://tintodev.itch.io/project-goblin>https://x.com/tinto_gamedev
>>724252508nobody told me growing up would mean seeing all the stuff I love turn into shit
