Forum Overview :: Doom III :: Tons of great arcade games are clones! Come on!

[quote name="Worm"]I'm honestly still upset about hearing port misused so I think I'll ramble some more. A port is trying to directly lift a game and move it to new hardware, sometimes it ends up accurate, sometimes it doesn't, but it's always a port. It's just about intent really. Spelunky HD, XBLA Robotron 2084, Ninja Gaiden Sigma, these are all ports. Pacman CE Galaga Legions, Space Giraffe, and Space Invaders Extreme are all definitely not ports. I'm honestly not sure about Jetpac Refueled or Bionic Commando Rearmed, but I didn't play them or the originals much and if someone else wants to get into a discussion about at what breakpoint new features override having the same levels in regards to being a port, honestly I'd be really interested in reading it. I think 'clone' isn't a term that makes much sense now-a-days but when you call Galaxian a Space Invaders clone I think it's pretty obvious what we're talking about. I guess we could call Watch_Dogs a clone, but maybe Chimera is a better word for it. Sequels I think are pretty fucking self explanatory but with Western games you have maybe 1 to 3 sequels that might as well have been expansion packs and then you have one that's an actual sequel. Talking bad about clones is silly since it's just a term generally for a sequel done by a different company. Bitching about ports only makes sense if they blow. Sequels are just a blight because of this modern era of gaming, video-game sequels used to be pretty fucking great, before game developers adopted the habits of CBS Comedy producers.[/quote]