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Aleos Vance

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In all fairness, unoriginal as some of Paolini's stuff is, the execution is so good that I enjoyed them. That's really what matters, as it's hard today to get anything completely original.
 

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that shitty recolerd Chinese RX-78-2 first it looked like a shitty Gundam and now it looks like the Rx-78-2 mashed with a Gouf done by a modder tripping on acid
also ANY MP3 player/game system made in China that isnt made by a big company
 

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AccursedTheory said:
Crazy_Dude said:
Ever look at W40K Space Marines beside... well... space marines?
What was actually 1st? Cause Starcraft was released in 1998 dunno about 40k though.
1987.

And to point out the tyranid/zerg comparison with pictures...

Both companies have copied each other on many occasions.

The first Warcraft game was supposed to be a Warhammer RTS. GW backed out, and Blizzard was left with an orphaned game, which they adopted to make "Warcraft: Orcs & Humans." With the success of 40k, the logical step for new IP for Blizzard was a sci-fi strategy game with ancient races, space marines, and swarming aliens.

Early in the franchise, especially pre-Starcraft, things looked a lot different (like Dreadnoughts and Tyranids). The Zerg had a rather unique feel to them, while the Tyranids where much more in the vein of "Alien" than anything else. With the success of Starcraft, the Tyranids took a particularly Zerg-like spin since, hey, it was selling. The warhammer models have always altered to mimic what styles are popular, so that's nothing new.

So yeah, neither can be particularly accused of being the sole offender or heavier borrower.
 

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AnubisAuman said:
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Though, technically, everything is a rip off of something. There's only so many ideas and we've used up all of them.

For instance I was watching this movie and my friend said this one character is such a batman rip off. Now, I was really enjoying this movie. So this pissed me off.

So I responded. "And Batman is a rip off of Dirty Harry and Dirty Harry was a rip off of every character John Wayne played who were all rip offs of every bad ass on the side of the angels before them. What's your point!?"
Batman as been around since the 1930's and he was influenced by Zorro. Dirty Harry as nothing to do with Batman in any way, shape or form. Not even the modern Batman as anything to do with Dirty Harry.
Oh my bad, ancient batman is a rip off of Zorro. Modern batman is a rip off of all former bad ass law enforcers. My bad. lolz
Actually... No, the modern Batman is arguably a rip off of Rorschach from the Watchmen. Its arguable as TDKR and Watchmen came out around the same year and Watchmen accidentally kicked off the whole darker and edgier hero wave of the late 80's to 90's where Batman also became more darker and edgier. Its sort of ironic though given that Rorschach was a Batman expy (along with another character from the D.C universe Alan Moore wasn't aloud to kill off).

Again, its arguable. He's certainly not a rip off of all bad ass law enforcers. I could point to a good few comic heroes that are, just not Batman.
Although my knowledge of batman comes only from the two last movies and some cartoons, I really don't see that much similarities between them, other than the "dark and gritty" thing and their stupidly stubborn adherence to their ideals ("never kill" and "never compromise"). Also according to tvtropes and Wikipedia, the characters from watchmen are expys of Charlton Comics? heroes that DC had just gotten the rights of.
They were Charlton comic book expies, They were going to be the real deal but when Alan Moore decided to start killing them off they he had them taken away. Again its arguable with the Batman thing, its mostly the whole dark, gritty and uncompromising hero thing that and Nite Owl is also an influence.

Its arguable that Watchmen has a big influence on most modern superhero we see. Its often credited as kicking off the whole dark and gritty superhero theme... Which wasn't Alans intention and it was kind supposed to be a deconstruction and a parody of superheroes... Many seem to have missed that point and sort of followed Watchmens example.

Again, as I've said about six times already. Its arguable, its a theory that is held by quite a few. Not my theory, personally I find it a little shaky to say the least.
 

Antwerp Caveman

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Virtually all FPS games are the same. Pink Pistol or purple bazooka, point and shoot.
Exceptions are: Duke Nukem for being awesome and Metroid Prime for perfectly combining platforming with FPS.
 

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Tyranids were released in 1995. Starcraft was released in 1998. Sorry.

WARCRAFT was originally going to be a Warhammer game. It was mentioned already. Starcraft has no relation to Warhammer 40K that myself, or any other user that has mentioned this can dredge up. If you can provide a source for this, i would be thankful.

Personally, I prefer Dawn of War over Warcraft and Starcraft. Warcraft is boring now a days and Starcraft is... a game I have no business playing.
News to me. I'd validate your story but googling tyranids brings up the massive boner people have for the new codex that finally came out.

It doesn't matter to me either way. I like both universes quite a lot and the similarities are so insanely superficial (looks only) that it's not worth further investigation on my part.

At the end of the day gamesworkshop passed up a big oppurtunity and instead later released an mmo that floundered pretty hard (shame too I wanted to like it but just couldn't).

PS. DOW1 amazing. DOW2 made me sad face.

Since when was Warhammer about small platoons battling other smaller platoons? They finally add Tyranids and you get like...5...great thanks.

Ah well. I can dream of a future where DOW3 is as good as 1
 

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Even his name is sort of a rip off, from Lord of the Rings.

Eragon.
Aragorn.

I mean, come on.
 

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Black Ops shamelessly rips off Modern Warfare 2's multiplayer in every way. Graphics weren't copied though they seem shoddy, like they didn't even try, just rushed it.

Treyarch didn't even do that great of a job (when compared to Modern Warfare 2). I prefer MW2, the gameplay just seems more entertaining to me. That's just my opinion though, take it for what it is.
 

SIXVI06-M

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AccursedTheory said:
Crazy_Dude said:
Ever look at W40K Space Marines beside... well... space marines?
What was actually 1st? Cause Starcraft was released in 1998 dunno about 40k though.
1987.

And to point out the tyranid/zerg comparison with pictures...

Waaaaaiiit... doesn't the Hydralisk look like... the Aliens from Aliens?! aaaaargh!!! it is a cycle of ripoffs!!!