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fuchikoma
01/12/09

In reply to Blue Dragon Chinese Coincidence Or Not?
I don't know what life in China is like, but it seems like instead of localizing things, they make their own copy - of specific IPs - from scratch. Clearly meant to be placeholders for the things they're copying, but "the Chinese version."

I don't know why this is, apart from maybe avoiding legal battles. Maybe it really is cheaper to make the whole thing from scratch in China instead of just paying a fair licensing fee and localizing it? My only other guess would be that it's a tradition stemming from official government versions of things that don't have any of the unapproved content of the originals? That's purely speculation though.
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FarmboyinJapan
01/12/09

In reply to Blue Dragon Chinese Coincidence Or Not?
Didn't Alexander O. Smith write the lyrics to those crazy hair metal songs????
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Sousuke
01/12/09

In reply to Blue Dragon Chinese Coincidence Or Not?
It is humorous how the finger pointing is so one sided. If you want to say Chinese copied Blue Dragon, might as well say Akira Toriyama copied Journey to the West when he made Dragonball. Heck, even Jackie Chan should sue him because Dragonball had Master Roshi disguise himself as Jackie Chun.

How about the Lion King? It was a complete rip off of the anime Kimba the White Lion.
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Atheist Jew
01/12/09

@Sousuke: The Lion King debacle is unfortunately hardly known to the populace at large. One more crime Disney should one day answer for!
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TheHeartless
01/12/09

In reply to Blue Dragon Chinese Coincidence Or Not?
China's ability to rip off everything that has ever existed is dwarfed only by my ability to always be surprised when they do.
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aw3str1k3r
01/12/09

In reply to Blue Dragon Chinese Coincidence Or Not?
I see no difference.

*plays Pretendo Vii*
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Frologic
01/12/09

@aw3str1k3r: lmao
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The Sad Onion Symbol Thing
01/12/09

@aw3str1k3r: You know there seriously is a KenSingTon Vii. You're are you playing on a Phanisonic tv or Phony?
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aw3str1k3r
01/12/09

@kwkwyjib0: Yeah, I couldn't remember that KenSingTon made it though. Phony? No, I'm loyal to Filips!
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excaliburps
01/12/09

In reply to Blue Dragon Chinese Coincidence Or Not?
Ah Chinese company pilfering an IP??! What is the world coming to?! This is preposterous!

China is known for their cheap labor and sad as it may be, copyright infringement.

Oh and before anyone gets pissed, I'm Chinese and I admit this is the thing going on there. =D

Well at least Toriyama's a cool icon to steal from.
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Leyviur
01/12/09

@excaliburps: There's nothing wrong with admitting the truth. It's unlike the people of the world who are all "HAHA CHINESE QUALITY ITEMS" without thinking that 90% of the exported goods in the world are made in China.
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excaliburps
01/12/09

@Leyviur: Too true. A lot of people are very ignorant of what you just said.
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FP_slomo788
01/12/09

In reply to Blue Dragon Chinese Coincidence Or Not?
A Chinese product similar to a non-Chinese one?

That's a coincidence alright.
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excaliburps
01/12/09

@FP_slomo788: Why yes I think it is! ;)
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resonate
01/12/09

In reply to Blue Dragon Chinese Coincidence Or Not?
That hair metal was SOO atrocious and it was so heart warming that they decided to include it in every single boss battle. -_-
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Omnimon
01/12/09

@resonate: Haha, I'm doing the mechat roaming on disc 3 right now, leveling to make the actual game the least of a challenge as is possible (ok I really want the golden poo achievement), and I actually don't mind the boss music. :(
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Superpiccolo
01/11/09

In reply to Blue Dragon Chinese Coincidence Or Not?
Nice 'Homage' there fellas. That is to say nice job at perfectly copying the art style of Toriyama San, no really nice job, no sarcasm here. If you must copy, why not copy the best.
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Black-Dog-Howls
01/12/09

@Superpiccolo: Cause that isn't Oda? O'hohohoho
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LordThayer
01/12/09

@Superpiccolo: I honestly did not know that anyone thought Toriyama was "the best."
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-MasterDex-
01/12/09

@LordThayer: Toriyama would be amoung the best in my opinion. He's got a very unique art style. I find the only problem I have with him is that he tends to overuse certain character concepts.
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bnpederson
01/12/09

@-MasterDex-: What, you mean like all of them? The man's been putting a new scarf on a model and calling it a new character for two decades now.
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Manji Kengo
01/12/09

@-MasterDex-:

"tend" isn't strong enough of a word.
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-MasterDex-
01/12/09

@bnpederson: lol, true but I think Freedom was a good example of how great his style can be when he adds a bit of originality back into the mix
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FreddieMachete
01/12/09

@Superpiccolo: Well Dragonball ripped off a classic chinese story and now the Chinese ripped off Toriyama.

Queue the Elton John now.
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Taiyz
01/12/09

@FreddieMachete: There are so many goddamn anime and manga based on Journey to the West, you really can't claim anything against them apart from redundancy.
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