I mean, what's more important, the guy who invented the plane or a guy who also built a plane later down the line?
Games should get credit for being the first to come up with new systems. There is also some credit to be had in making improvements to the formula, but it doesn't mean that copying another game makes you as good as that game, otherwise those early porn game and Christian game Doom clones should be remembered as fondly as Doom.
I mean, what's more important, the guy who invented the plane or a guy who also built a plane later down the line?
Games should get credit for being the first to come up with new systems. There is also some credit to be had in making improvements to the formula, but it doesn't mean that copying another game makes you as good as that game, otherwise those early porn game and Christian game Doom clones should be remembered as fondly as Doom.