When does "tribute" become "plagiarism"?

When does "tribute" become "plagiarism"?

What did it plagiarize and how did it plagiarize it?

When a game starts copying art assets straight from the source material.

When it has stolen assets.

When you don't like it.

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When it had stolen code, stolen art assets, stolen music, stolen copyrighted materials. Vague ideas like farm sim are a lot harder to consider stolen. Unoriginal, derivative maybe but not really stolen.

Answer the question.

When you name it Mother 4.

OP is claiming the game ripped off Harvest Moon. Really, it should be obvious

Mitt Romney reporting in.

agreed.

When does "plagiarism" become freedom hating prison?

The entire purpose of Stardew Valley was to make a modern Harvest Moon. He has done nothing wrong so far.

It's not plagiarism though.

OP is a moron if he is claiming this.

This.

OP is a retard

I'm the bottom, I'm not claiming it's bad. I like them both

You mean retro Harvest Moon, because the new games forgot what made the series fun.

I'd say this. Stardew Valley is unoriginal maybe but I'd say it's more of a fan-made Harvest Moon.

what harvest moon game has had gay marriage?

PATCH FUCKING WHEN

Magical Melody has a character you're lead to be believe is a guy but is actually a girl when you marry him.
And then the game crashes too.

VERY SOON

cant wait to start a new farm on a river

long story short its a good game formula that had been neglected.

Stardew valley gave people what they wanted from harvest moon for a long time. Farm, marry, customize, mine, dungeons, chill. all in one game.

The term plagarism as defined by Merriam-Webster's official dictionary is:

>transitive verb
>to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source

So, somewhere between the game becoming a representation of the development team, and the game being a representation of the core content is was created from. To be clear, the point at which the game is no longer creatively bound to the intellectual property that was originally cited.

this.

Rune factories were close but its like they can't resist adding gimmicks.

If you like it it's 'tribute/homage' if you hate it it's 'plagiarism'.

Only RF game I ever played was 4 but it didn't seem gimmicky to me.

It copied FoMT, which was the first Harvest Moon game that was just endless grind with no purpose that is the trademark of the HM/SoS series now.

I have more trouble thinking of things it didn't copy from harvest moon. Automation of watering, those little gnomes, the bundles which is just a pain in the ass replacement for finding all the gnomes in HMDS because you have to, without mods, go to the community center every time you want to further it, mining, the casino, greenhouses, mushroom farming which HMDS and others probably did better anyhow, the governor is literally gourmet. The story is literally a 1:1 copy of HM, straight down to being judged by your grandpa. Power berries are star drop berries or whatever they're called and do the same thing.
The biggest differences are the people, the fishing, there's alcohol, makers take time to produce what they make, how marriage works. Skills and crafting as far as I know. But there might be HMs that did the same things. Hell, all the worthwhile non cheat mods are just features HM has anyways.

I still love it anyways.

STARDEW VALLEY KEEPS CRASHING

And yet BTN/FoMT is one of, maybe even the best HM for it as it's pure basic farming gameplay.
The new games focus way too hard on story or gimmicks no one asked for.

>He has done nothing wrong so far.

Except make it SJW shit

I never liked the bringing monsters with you and making them work the farm idea. Seemed like a cop out.

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>not, when does pandering become the norm to sell

Hi, reddit

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Any survivor?

I just started playing (about a week in). Is there a quick and easy way to make dosh in this game?

Well some of the Japanese girl versions allow practically the same thing, straight down to kids.

Oh, I completely ignored that feature, only kept monsters for drops like eggs and furballs.

Typical dumb frogposter

first time I've seen this image of sachiko without the weed edit in a while

Shut the fuck up.

I can't think of anythin off the top of my head, but when you find a Dino egg, don't donate it. Save it for when you get a big coop.

moron

when did Cred Forums become Cred Forumsmblr

When you arrived.

Nope, just do the standard stuff like planting crops and buying a chicken as soon as possible.

I didn't like the whole thing with monster farming in RF, especially since it was even worse than keeping cattle in Harvest Moon. But I had to bear with it for my waifu.

No but one of us must be left behind brother

Also while we're on the subject of chickens, don't know if it's true, but don't keep void chickens and plain old chickens in the same coop, they don't like each other.

The only thing they "plagiarized" is the gameplay but I don't think you can patent gameplay concepts like powerups, farming or dating sim
It only bothers people that feel like that kind of gameplay is no longer "exclusive" to their console and feel uncomfortable knowing that other people are having fun

Its not true, I have void and normal in the same coup and both have max happiness.

FUCK OFF CLINT

I open mail box
game goes byebye

there is no combat in harvest moon

Is every FPS plagiarizing Wolfenstein?

when did sjw lose all meaning

>A modern Harvest Moon

Ha ha.

It's not even as good as the SNES game, let alone actual modern HM's like SOS and RF4.

>Ha ha.
what

dont give name fags attention

haha

fuck off "cody"

That's literally what it is.

By the dev's own admission no less.

His entire idea was to take Harvest Moon and put it on the PC, so he did that. Surprise surprise people liked it.

>try to gay marry
>ruse
>game crashes

Does it also delete your save file, because that's the only way I can imagine this being funnier.

That's because 4 is the best RF game.

Having stupid gimmicks doesn't mean its a bad game, most people like RF4.

I really want to like SoS more than I do, but holy shit what the fuck was the point of having seven different farms and no shipping box?

>Is there a quick and easy way to make dosh in this game?

Sell silver and gold quality produce.

Transform all normal quality. Beers, juices, wines, jellies and pickles are all worth a ton.

>Except make it SJW shit

Not sure what's SJW about it. Because there's one black guy in the village?

This game needs to let you construct generic barns to house your production. There's not enough space in my house for all these beer barrels. Brewer 4 life.

When is the next fucking update already! I want to play with my friend and get mad when he does stupid shit.

Well, you can construct a bunch of animal barns and fill them with barrels, but something like a warehouse or shed without the feeders and stuff in them would be cool.

-tips fedora-

Should I buy this game tomorrow and play it? Is it fun? I like rpgs with crafting elements. I like pixelshit graphics. I don't remember any specifics but young me liked harvest moon.

When the /v-pol/ decided anything with black men, woman, gays, ext is 'EEVIL SJW TRYING TO DESTROY OUR SAFE SPACE'

I recall a large amount of people collectively shit their pants in anger when it was announced in Dishonored 2 you could -gasp- play as a female! THE HORROR

Just let me marry best girl already.

Please love me

Its a fun game.
Great way to relax and kill time

Soon, user. Soon.

Does it really matter when the official creators aren't making any new HM games?

Honestly this is just HM but better.

Just let me cuck Demetrius and steal Robin from him already

>Two marriageable redheads.

Stardew Valley knows what's up.

I got gay with Sebastian and I'm proud of it.

I stole his only friend

>"H-hey Abby, hows it going?"
>Shes 6 months pregnant
>"Great! I don't think I've ever been happier!"

>one black man
>one multi-racial relationship
seems realistic to me, statistically.
>ability to marry anyone
unrealistic, but i'm not playing a farming game for realism. i'm playing so i can have a run where i marry my waifu, or my husbando.