I’ve had some enjoyable with The First Descendant however I wouldn’t say a robust, distinctive artwork fashion is one in every of its core virtues. It’s a fairly by-product recreation from head-to-toe. Now it seems that among the free-to-play loot shooter’s in-game icons look like ripped virtually wholesale from Future 2.
Forbes author Paul Tassi rounded up among the most egregious examples of “borrowed” artwork noticed by Future gamers up to now, and maybe probably the most brazen is a gun known as Totally different Dream that appears precisely like Future 2’s IKELOS sniper and Sleeper Simulant. Actually, there’s plenty of the darkish, angular circuitry-look of the Rasputin Warmind tech from Future that happens as a visible motif in The First Descendant, a recreation that additionally occurs to be about area magic and alien hordes.
Extra direct copycats, nonetheless, embody a number of of The First Descendant’s symbols that appear virtually like they used Future 2 artwork as placeholders earlier than tweaking it on the final second to supply the slightest trace of deniability. There’s the cranium when Future gamers die, plenty of weapon perk symbols, and different belongings from the Bungie recreation used to rapidly establish details about gear and skills when swapping builds.
The response of some gamers has been to level out that a few of Future 2‘s personal in-game icons look like sourced to inventive commons artwork. The account BungieLeaks pointed to 1 web site that features a image for an artifact perk icon that was utilized by Bungie in a latest season. It’s doable, in different phrases, that each The First Descendant and Future 2 are utilizing some open supply artwork and the previous simply occurred to resolve to make use of the identical precise ones because the latter.
No matter if there are any potential authorized or licensing points, the similarities have given extra ammunition to followers who really feel like The First Descendant is a soulless simulacrum of current reside service loot shooters like Warframe and The Division. There’s nothing new or dangerous about pastiche, a minimum of when achieved accurately. Loads of video games remix current types and ideas to nice impact. Often they keep away from making it appear like they actually simply uploaded the identical jpeg.
Bungie and Nexon didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
