I had some fun with The first descendant but I wouldn’t say that a strong, distinctive art style is one of its core virtues. It’s a pretty derivative game from head to toe. Now it turns out that some of the free-to-play loot shooter’s in-game icons are made almost entirely from Fate 2.
Forbes Writer Paul Tassi some of the most outrageous examples of “borrowed” art discovered by determination players so far, and perhaps the most blatant is a weapon called Different Dream, which looks exactly like Destiny 2’s IKELOS sniper rifle and Sleeper Simulant. In fact, there is much of the dark, angular circuitry look of Destiny’s Rasputin Warmind technology, which serves as a visual motif in The first descendanta game that also happens to be about space magic and alien hordes.
However, the more direct imitators include several The first descendant‘s symbols that almost look like they were used Fate 2 Art as a placeholder before being adjusted at the last second to offer the slightest hint of deniability. There’s the skull and crossbones when Destiny players die, a number of weapon perk icons, and other assets from the Bungie game used to quickly identify information about gear and abilities when switching builds.
The reaction of some players was to point out that some of the Fate 2The in-game icons appear to be from Creative Commons art. The account BungieLeaks referred to a website that contains an icon for an artifact perk icon that was used by Bungie in one of the last seasons. In other words, it is possible that both The first descendant And Fate 2 use some open source graphics and the former happened to choose to use exactly the same graphics as the latter.
Regardless of whether there are potential legal or licensing issues, the similarities have given more ammunition to fans who feel The first descendant is a soulless simulacrum of existing live service loot shooters like Warframe And The corporate division. Pastiche is neither new nor bad, at least when done right. Many games remix existing styles and concepts to great effect. They usually avoid making it seem like they literally just uploaded the same JPEG.
Bungie and Nexon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
