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.
Both companies have copied each other on many occasions.AccursedTheory said:1987.Crazy_Dude said:What was actually 1st? Cause Starcraft was released in 1998 dunno about 40k though.Ever look at W40K Space Marines beside... well... space marines?
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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.AnubisAuman said: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.Sovvolf said: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).Darkauthor81 said: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. lolzSovvolf said: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.Darkauthor81 said: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!?"
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.
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.AccursedTheory said: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.
Same with the movie called "Transmorphers" XDDeadSp8s said:I saw dis movie at blockbuster called "Paranormal Entity". I lol'd.
Waaaaaiiit... doesn't the Hydralisk look like... the Aliens from Aliens?! aaaaargh!!! it is a cycle of ripoffs!!!AccursedTheory said:1987.Crazy_Dude said:What was actually 1st? Cause Starcraft was released in 1998 dunno about 40k though.Ever look at W40K Space Marines beside... well... space marines?
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