Konami Acquires In The Groove in Bullshit Legal Battle

[ChaoofNee]

http://www.inthegroove.com/page/Press_Release

How can this make sense considering the old Street Fighter vs. Fighter's History batteru?

Fucking hell, this is retarded. Konami can't do it better, so they bitch until they're the only game in town.
God bless America.

[EvilMog]

I almost gave and damn then I realized this is over DANCE games. Who gives a shit!

[Cheebs]

Damn. And I really like In the Groove.

Oh well, at least I got the one PS2 release.

[Cheebs]

Something really doesn't seem right here.

Is Guitar Hero in trouble as well?

[ChaoofNee]

No, just ITG.

[Contra]

The last time I watched someone play ITG, it was a guy wearing a tail and a naruto headband. Interestingly enough, this was around the time that I decided to retire from dance games for good.

Seriously, good riddance.

[edit] and to answer Cheeb's question, Guitar Hero is still safe. Harmonix and Konami have been friends and partners for a while now, and the big difference is that Konami decided not to bring Guitar Freaks over, while there have already been several versions of DDR on home consoles with more coming out. It's not about Konami "bitching about not being able to do it better", ITG is a blatant rip-off that treads all over Konami's I.P. and was potentially costing them money on future releases on their own original product.

Plus, RoXor is a fucking stupid name.

[ChaoofNee]

ITG added a lot to the game besides a shitty-looking interface.

Again, though, how does this end up like it does while similar suits never do?

[Contra]

ITG added a lot to the game besides a shitty-looking interface.

Again, though, how does this end up like it does while similar suits never do?

Simple. You're looking at it from a hardcore ITG fan's perspective. Let's take a look at it from a different way.

I don't play dance games anymore. To me, ITG and DDR look exactly the same. Music, stupid looking background, arrow comes up and you step on it. You say that ITG added a lot of things, but what are they? I don't know and neither does your average courtroom. Or even your above-average one. With Fighter's Destiny and Street Fighter, you can look at the characters and say "Well, they're obviously different." because, well, they are. Fighter's Destiny had a goofy clown and Karnov, Street Fighter had M.Bison and Vega. However, with ITG and DDR both, there's music... and then you step on arrows. And that's basically it.

Perhaps if Capcom had a claim on the fighting game genre as a whole, there would be a difference, but they don't. On the other hand, Konami appears to have a good amount of claim to the "step on arrows to happy hardcore while a background tries to give you epilipsey" genre.

[Cheebs]

Again, though, how does this end up like it does while similar suits never do?

For real. Guitar Hero treads on exactly as much intelectual property.


Then there's the whole Daytona Vs Ridge Racer... Virtua Cop Vs Time Crisis.

etc. I don't see what makes this particular situation any different aside from the difference in money Konami has Vs what Roxor has.

[Contra]

You guys aren't listening. Any dope can tell that Virtua Cop and Time Crisis are different, in any number of ways just by looking. It takes a lot of playing the games to tell, even in the tiniest of ways that ITG and DDR are any different at all. There's a difference between being in the same genre and being a carbon copy. Why has ITG been sued to death, but that korean slanted-arrow game is still around? It's because you can look at them and say "Oh, hey this game is different! It's all...slanty!" That makes them similar, bit diffrent enough to pass. ITG is basically the exact same game as DDR and that's why it's dead now.

And Guitar freaks does tread on IP, but Konami and Harmonix are partners, so I doubt any suing will be going on. Besides, at least Guitar freaks has two extra frets.