History Main / SincerestFormOfFlattery

* SonyComputerEntertainment isn't even trying to hide that ''VideoGame/PlayStationAllStarsBattleRoyale'' is wholeheartedly copying the concept of ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros''. First, a {{Wii}} can be seen in a production video detailing the inspirations, and Superbot has admitted to borrowing from ''SSB'' to make the game.

* SonyComputerEntertainment isn't even trying to hide that ''VideoGame/PlayStationAllStarsBattleRoyale'' is wholeheartedly copying the concept (not gameplay, ''concept'') of ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros''. First, a {{Wii}} can be seen in a production video detailing the inspirations, and Superbot has admitted to borrowing from ''SSB'' to make the game.

* ''GearsOfWar'' creator Cliff Bleszinski frequently cited the game ''Kill.Switch'' as the inspiration for ''Gears of War'''s [[TakeCover cover system]].

--'''Attributed to Charles Caleb Colton'''

-->"We’ve always been very open about the huge influences that {{ICO}}, [[ShadowOfTheColossus SoTC]] and {{Okami}} had on us during our development."

* The makers of the ''{{Wii}}'' game ''TheConduit'' have stated they are taking tips from ''{{Halo}}'', and trying to make the Wii's Halo.

-->"We’ve always been very open about the huge influences that [[{{ICO}} Ico]], [[ShadowOfTheColossus SoTC]] and {{Okami}} had on us during our development."
* David Jaffe has gone on record saying both that ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' was heavily inspired by ''DevilMayCry'' and later on that he think's Devil May Cry's fighting system is better. [[http://www.gamespot.com/users/JLuke360/video_player?id=JHRnxDb55bgLuj7f See for yourself]].

* Supposedly, when the Wachowskis were peddling the script for ''TheMatrix'', they brought with them a comic book and told prospective buyers that, basically they wanted to do something like that as a movie. The comic in question? ''GhostInTheShell''.

** Also ''{{The Invisibles}}''.

* The deveopers of ''CartoonNetworkPunchTimeExplosion'' have admitted to being heavily influenced by ''SuperSmashBros''. [[http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/interview/26388 They even had testers play both games one after another to make their own game feel like SSB as much as possible]].

Just the inspiration being obvious is not enough. There has to be a direct admittance that this is so. Admitting in the form of a TakeThat might still count, as it's just denying that they are following this trope, [[ImplausibleDeniability even when we know better]].

* ''DorfQuest'' has stated from the beginning that it was inspired by ''RubyQuest'' and was an attempt at another sort of "quest".

* Hideki Kamiya, the director of ''{{Okami}}'' said the ''{{Zelda}}'' games influenced this game. Although he thought ''Twilight Princess'' could have looked better, he admitted that [[http://www.joystiq.com/2007/03/06/okami-creator-disappointed-by-twilight-princess/ "it's no overstatement to say that I created Okami because of Zelda."]]

* David Jaffe has gone on record saying both that ''GodOfWar'' was heavily inspired by ''DevilMayCry'' and later on that he think's Devil May Cry's fighting system is better. [[http://www.gamespot.com/users/JLuke360/video_player?id=JHRnxDb55bgLuj7f See for yourself]].
** Likewise, the developers of ''VideoGame/DantesInferno'' have happily stated they were just out to make a ''DivineComedy'' version of ''GodOfWar'', essentially.

* Looking at videos and screenshots, it's pretty obviously where ''[[PlaystationAllStarsBattleRoyale Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale]]'' is [[SuperSmashBros getting its "inspiration" from]]...

* In an interview, the director of ''{{Xenogears}}'' was asked "You're a fan of ''GGundam'', aren't you?" His response was simply to smile.

->''Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.''\\
-- '''Attributed to Charles Caleb Colton'''

** Likewise, the developers of ''DantesInferno'' have happily stated they were just out to make a ''DivineComedy'' version of GodOfWar, essentially.

* I can''NOT'' believe that no one has mentioned the classic animated show TheFlintstones, which was Hanna Barbera openly admitted was inspired by TheHoneymooners.

** Not just the comic, too. Watch the GITS movie's scene of Kusanagi going invisible. Then watch the Trinity scene.

* ''TheBigO'' is quite open about being {{Batman}} [[AC:[[{{Recycled IN SPACE}} With Mecha!]]]]
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