Hey !

As you surely know, Retro City Rampage is a great retro game in which you play as "Player", who traveled through time and have to get back in his era. He met a crazy doctor (like the one in "Back in the Future") who need special components to create an engine able to do it.

In this game there are TONS of Easter Eggs ! I saw the green Mario tube, the dog from the old game in which you had to shoot ducks and if you failed there was a dog saying you suck (I forgot the name of the game) etc...

And that's why I said "maybe deleted in few months". Because it's not only Easter Eggs, sometimes the developer of RCR (Brian Provinciano) use characters from movies or games in his own game. The problem is not that I don't like it, actually I love it cause it's a funny game, but did Brian paid the rights to use these characters, scenarios etc... ? It would be EXTREMELY costly to pay for dozens of movies and games's rights, especially for a little indie developer...

What's your opinion ?

PS : yes there is exactly the same thread here but it's only because I was on my brother's account when writing this... Shame on me >_<

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It qualifies as fair use and parody. Look it up.

1 decade ago
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this pretty much.

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Yeah but in this case I can make a game with Kirby as hero and just say it's "parody" and don't pay the rights :-/

1 decade ago
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And you can.

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As long as he claims they are being used as a parody no one can complain. Think about how many games make direct references to other games from different companies and how the developers never get in trouble.
Don't worry, the game is here to stay.

1 decade ago
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Okay :)

1 decade ago
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magicka has plenty of those ''easter eggs'' too

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A ton of games and mangas I've read do this. It doesn't seem to bother devs. much though, maybe if they insulted the game then it'd piss them off enough to try something.

But as the others have said, it's only a parody xD

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Didnt Braid practically straight up use Piranha Plants and Goombas as enemies? that guy seems to be doing fine

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