/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7857168
Yeah I'm not buying it either, it got trashed by boomer critics but Carpenter was a big deal with horror fans and video clubs, the original produced by Hawks was also well known, X-Files was the biggest show of the mid 90's (probably also why TR3 had Area 51) and its first season had a Thing homage/ripoff episode, Extermination was released a couple years after and it was a Thing ripoff, the game adaptation a year after that, etc. Lara literally references The Fly so the devs knew their 80's gory creature horror. Also game development is a team effort, even if one dev denies the influence (source?), it's always possible it was a conscious influence for other devs. Capcom denied for years the influence of Alone in the Dark on RE because of legal reasons.