[game_preservation] Limbo of the Lost

[Stuart Feldhamer]

I know this response is  a bit late, but I just wanted to point that by the
time that you wrote this email, where you wrote "if only because this
thing's going to get pulled from the market within a couple weeks", the game
had already been pulled from every retail outlet. I actually could have
gotten my hands on a copy but I messed up. Whatever copies are still out
there are being hoarded and/or sold at outrageously high prices. I would
have bought the game in any case as I collect all adventure games, but there
are people out there who clearly bought it just because they thought it
would be a future collectible. Time will tell I suppose.

 

Stuart

 

From: game_preservation-bounces at igda.org
[mailto:game_preservation-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Captain Commando
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 9:31 PM
To: IGDA Game Preservation SIG; David Thomas; Rafael Fajardo; Judd Ruggill
Subject: [game_preservation] Limbo of the Lost

 

Hi all,

I figured I'd bring this one out to see if anyone has been following up on
it recently. It's a horrible game that has plagiarized practically
everything called 'Limbo of the Lost':

http://kotaku.com/5019034/limbo-of-the-lost-devs-protest-innocence

Apparently, they ripped entire levels and models out of Oblivion and stuck
them all into the game.

Now the reason why this is interesting is because you can see a cult
developing around this as we speak: there is already a wiki chronicling all
of the things this game ripped off:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbo_of_the_Lost#Controversy

http://lotl.wikia.com/wiki/Limbo_of_the_Lost_Wiki

I think there's definitely something interesting culturally about this game,
how it's a commercial release which has cobbled together the plagiarized
bits of so many other games. I figured I would bring it up for discussion as
I think there's a connection here with preservation (if only because this
thing's going to get pulled from the market within a couple weeks :P).

-DM

-- 
The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

"Until next time..."
Captain Commando 

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