Not saying Resident Evil had only ONE source of inspiration, but what sort of mindset would take these two games into consideration and conclude that the one on the left is the "main" influence?
Isn't it a case of Sweet Home being made by the same staff?
They are both equally influential. For example the lore told through notes scattered around the mansion was a thing in Sweet Home, before AitD.While we are at it, Sweet Home home also inspired Otigiriso which pretty much kickstarted VNs, a separate genre from adventure games
>>12001243take a second and think about what the point of this thread is.
>>12001243Sweet Home is the main influence for the "survival" aspect and certain storytelling trappings.Alone in the Dark is the gameplay framework they grabbed nearly verbatim to channel that influence and make a game out of it.
>>12001257Pushing people to heavily imply arguments supporting a commonly held misconception they share, rather than actually presenting them?
>>12001243RE ripped off everything from Alone in the Dark and we have confirmation of this but Snoys on this board lose their shit and start sperging out at anything Mikami says and insist he's lying and that they know more about the game's development than him
>>12001263>If you think that Sweet Home made up 63% of the influence of Resident evil then you would be WRONG the answer is Sweet Home made up only 42% of the influence! Online discourse is saved, rejoice!take a second and think about what the point of this thread is.
>>12001273Maybe you should take a "second" yourself (i.e. your meds)
>>12001283You admit in the OP that you think both games influenced resident evil yet are upset that people think one more more influential than the other. where in my quote did I misrepresent your opinion?
The Japanese for some reason refuse to ever credit western games at all. It's starting to change recently, but all the old fucks will deny very obvious influences if they came from the west.
>>12001273basedI for one feel better knowing that online discourse is healing one thread at a time. God bless America.
>>12001243I remember way back when Wikipedia edit policies were more lenient and somebody obsessively edited the RE article to remove all mentions of Alone in the Dark lol Fans do a lot of heavy lifting for corporate prThe overplayed Sweet Home influence was obviously just that, pr revisionism, kinda like the Kimba influence on the Lion King. It's the sort of thing creators wouldn't really mind acknowledging, but a total no-no for executives and management, specially when a surprise megahit lands on their lap.I think Mikami didn't start openly acknowledging the AitD influence until the 2010s, and even then he mostly mentioned the fixed camera angles setup even though the action and interaction controls are also basically identical.
I never see this mentioned in interviews or info on the game but I feel like they looked back at Sweet Home once again when making RE0, it's very similar
i never understood it either, aitd clearly inspired 99% of the bones it is bodymaybe crapcom hates the fr*nch
>>12001303Are you all right, anon? The OP clearly acknowledges one of the two is more influential than the other; in fact it would be a remarkable creative feat to balance every influence involved in a given creative work into perfectly even proportions.Of course, if somebody really, REALLY wanted to dismiss one of those influences but couldn't because it's too glaring to not make an ass of themselves in the process, I assume undermining the point of gauging that proportion at all may seem like a handy fallback.
>>12001315that ax gonna get him lmao
If you admit that an influence which is very similar to your work is the main influence, it can come across as copying. If you cite a secondary influence, one which is more removed from your work, as your primary influence, it looks like you r personal brainpower added more to the finished work. In reality, hardly anybody gives a shit as long as you do something to make your work stand out on its own, which they clearly did with RE. It's especially funny when it comes to ROCKman games, where the composer pretends to have never heard of so-and-so song, when it's blatantly obvious that inspiration was directly taken from specific ROCK songs, which shouldn't be a surprise, given the musical inspiration is right there in name.
The AitD influence was so obvious I don't even know who they thought they were fooling. Practically every single review from 1996 says something like "It's Alone in the Dark, but polished and more fun."
>>12001492This
if im gonna play RE, how decent are the gog versions?
>>12001251Yes, same people, intended to be Sweet Home 3D.
