I love how game companies flatter themselves. It makes me laugh.

Insomniac are idiots.

Shigeru did not steal from them.

Also Jak & Daxter 1 is better than the entire Ratchet series (even though the other Jak games sucked ass).

Fin.

It seems ridiculous that he would say something like that. It'd be like John Romero saying something like "Yeah, it seems like Cliffy B and the boys at Epic borrowed our idea of using a chainsaw as a weapon. It's really flattering to think that it made such an impact on them."

Or like, HEY THEY USED SQUARES AND WE USED SQUARES THEY MUST HAVE GOTTEN THE IDEA OF GEOMETRIC SHAPES FROM US!

That's a heck of an arrogant claim. Insomniac didn't invent round planets.

Oh no! DOn't say nothing bad about Nintendo! The fanboys will go crazy. You dumbass fanboys need to except the fact the siggy isn't god.

Wtf? This is bullshit.

Yes, as was said,, we need look NO FURTHER than with our dear friend, Sonic the Hedgehog to see a MUCH earlier use of "sperical worlds."

And the developer MAY be putting it in the hypothetical, but honestly, it still sounds like he's being a douche. I can't imagine that Nintendo played Ratchet and Clank and said, "Hey, let's design an entire GAME CONCEPT from some of the worst levels in THESE games!"

And this, 'Stealing concepts from other games' bitching is getting old. EVERY game made is it's own take on previous games' mechanics. The best games end up being made by people putting their own spin on other's ideas and fine tuning it further.

Is Halo the first FPS? Not even close. Is it probably the most widely KNOWN FPS at this point? I'd guess so.

If Mario Galaxy is guilty of taking an idea, it's from "Le Petit Prince"(The Little Prince). A well known classic French kid's story where the protagonist goes to a bunch of little planetoids and interacts with a character that lives on it. The author himself drew the illustrations and all the worlds where little bigger then the protagonist himself.

But he did jump and 'fly' from little planet to little planet in a very Mario-Galazy sort of way.

And that story was written ages ago when the NES would have been considered sci-fi(1943).

A nice summary of the story here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince

(I see in the bullet points someone already made the correlation with Mario Galaxy)

We had to read the story for school way back(that's what French schoolin' does to ya).

Don't you mean: "rachito ando curankeru" nandesuka?

And yeah, Miyamoto is not god guys, he has not made everything.

But Riser, again, I point to Le Petit Prince. And it's just the kind of storybook Miyamoto would have stashed under his pillow.

Even Dragon Quest VII had spherical worlds, and that was released before the original Ratchet and Clank.

@braulio09

I wasn't quite sure as to its propagation worldwide:)

But there are probably people who don't know who Shakespeare is so I figured better safe then sorry ;)

Well, I guess it's good that he isn't bashing another system or company like some devs.

COPIES OF THE UNIVERSE!

They used Mario's moustache in a different way: whiskers.

@ CrackaSlim: Yup, exactly. The the tech demo of Mario 128 has been around forever, and it's pretty clear you can see the basic concept there.

Didn't Sonic Adventure 2 have an annoying as all hell spherical world level?

Can we all at least agree that the Mario series doesn't even compare to the greatness of Ratchet & Clank?

Pathetic, nothing to see here, move along.

Not saying Miyamoto's a god but this really isn't that innovative a concept to come up with... Insomniac fails at modesty over their gloating and Shiggy fails at... well nothing really.

there have been lots of games prior that have had spherical worlds. already cited in this is Yoshi's Island, Sonic 3's bonus stage, and two of the knuckles/rouge levels on Sonic Adventure 2, and I know there are probably others. Insomniac needs to shut the hell up, they didn't create this idea.

From Ryan as Insomniac:



Hey peeps. This topic has touched a nerve! Figured I'd jump in and settle the question of what I really meant on the Super Mario Galaxy question. (Wish I could have been more articulate.) First, and more important, I can tell you that we're going to be running at a solid 60 fps in R&C Future. We've been consistent with saying that in interviews and on our podcast once we were able to confirm 60. When I commented about 40-50fps, we were still optimizing. We've gone gold since this interview was taped, and everyone should be pleased to know our framerate is as consistent as past R&C games.

Second, regarding the Galaxy comment. I have no idea whether anyone on the Galaxy team looked at past R&C games and was inspired by our spherical worlds. It would be flattering to think so, as we're all HUGE fans of Miyamoto-san and of all his games. Maybe that's just wishful thinking :) I'm sure it's safe to say that our team has been inspired by a huge variety of Nintendo games, including Mario! Bottom line: If you know Insomniac, then you know the last thing we're interested in is chest-thumping...that's *not* our thing. Ted wouldn't stand for it, trust me.

Hope this helps clarify things. Thanks though for reading the article...man, I look freakin' tired in the photos and like I need to eat more!

Take care, guys. Hope you check out our new podcast when we go live tomorrow...kick-ass Mystery Guest that just wrapped up a very kick-ass public beta.

Wow Insomniac...

Why does the fact that Super Mario Galaxy has spherical worlds mean that Miyamoto-san played Going Commando or Up Your Arsenal?

I mean its great that they did not come out and say "Galaxy obviously stole from us," but what they did say is not much better.

Developer respect level - %10

I knew those guys sucked hard, but I didn't know they sucked THIS HARD to say Miyamoto ripped them off. lolz