Most blatant rip offs you've ever seen.

[Rockchimp69]

Avatar, I guess. One example is that they took the Grandmother Willow from Pocahontas among other things.

The entire story is Pocahontas

 

[bl4ckh4wk64]

Medal of Honor 2010 is a shamefully ripoffs Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. No seriously it is pretty much modern Warfare 2 in Iraq.

You mean a dumbed down BC2 in Iraq? Cause MOH had recoil if I remember correctly...

 

[Tdc2182]

Medal of Honor 2010 is a shamefully ripoffs Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. No seriously it is pretty much modern Warfare 2 in Iraq.

Not really. No.

OT: I could go with the oh so obvious Avatar, Dances With Wolves Comparison. But that would be in poor taste.

Hmm. Cant really think of any right now.

 

[Woodsey]

Dante's Inferno = God of War?

Also:

Oh ITV, I wonder where you got that triangular "play icon" idea from, hmmm?

Well, probably the billions of other play-icon triangles...

Medal of Honor 2010 is a shamefully ripoffs Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. No seriously it is pretty much modern Warfare 2 in Iraq.

Bah, they're allowed.

 

[Art Axiv]

Limbo of the Lost - it's a game that got somehow got published; it literally stole screens from other, better games [such as Oblivion, Unreal Tournament 3 - the list goes on] placed them in an engine that allowed them to create a game around these pictures and released it as an adventure game - they even stole cut-scenes from films such as Pirates of the Caribbean and Spawn; not such much a rip-off as just plain plagiarism but there you go...

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/06/12/limbo-of-the-lost-an-astonishing-tale/

Limbo of the Lost:

[img=Limbo of the Lost]http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/images/june08/limbo1-limbo.jpg[/img]

Oblivion:

They thought this was a good idea?

They did:

For now, let?s finish with this quote from an interview with Majestic, as spotted by QT3.

Gordon: So have any more recent games influenced your current project?
Steve: The project is more influenced by film and literature rather than other games, we want the experience to be as original as possible and as such we have made a calculated effort to keep away from other games in the genre. Limbo of the Lost is an experience first and foremost, secondly wrapped up in a game media and genre.

 

[Chairman Miaow]

Almost every line Duke Nukem is famous for is stolen from something else.

 

[DefunctTheory]

Oh, I remembered one.

Battletech/Robotech.

Oh, FASA, you thieving bastards.

 

[D_987]

They thought this was a good idea?

Somehow, yes:

Spoiler: More pictures comparing it and Oblivion

And yes, that's just the Oblivion rip-offs...

Spoiler: Unreal Tournament

Just Google around for threads made on the likes of NeoGaf [http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=310683] when it was released.

 

[Milenkov]

The Asylum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Asylum) builds it's entire repertoire around capitalizing on Major productions, as stated in the article itself, the lengths they go to are quite ludicrous.

 

[eggy32]

The Lion King and Kimba the White Lion.
It's like Disney didn't even try.

 

[titaniumChampion]

The Dark Knight ripped off Dirty Harry.

 

[Master_of_Oldskool]

Once, in a convenience store, I saw a line of cheap toys called "Transmogrifiers", with such beloved characters as "Optimius Prime" and "Starholler".

 

[Raistlinhawke]

"Dante's Inferno" of "God of War", "God of War" of "Devil May Cry"

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

Everything is a rip-off of something else. Nothing is ever original.

Eragon isn't ripping of Star Wars or whatever else people claim it to. It's just using a very well-used series of tropes. Just like everything else. There are very few things that haven't already been done in stories before.

Plus I consider a rip-off to be very close to the original.

Here are some of there brilliant movies.
[spoiler/][image/]http://www.theasylum.cc/images/posters/avh_large.jpg[/IMG][/spoiler]
[spoiler/][image/]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2a/Transmorphers.jpg/220px-Transmorphers.jpg[/IMG][/spoiler]
[spoiler/][image/]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/24/Earthstopped.jpg/220px-Earthstopped.jpg[/IMG][/spoiler]

These are rip-offs.

 

[Meneghetti]

Not read the books, but managed to watch the entire Eragon movie.

It's fascinating, though, it means the story must be so unimportant. Star Wars is a classical, Eragon is appalling rubbish, but they are exactly the same...scene for scene often.

You managed to watch the whole movie 0_0 I'm impressed, not even Robert Carlyle could save that piece of crap, it was even worse than the book.

I had to pause to recover quite a few times.

Oddly, I didn't notice it was a rip off of Star Wars at first, I was distracted by how awful it was.

Made something like $120M profit, too.

The movie (if we can call it that) piratically only share the name with the book.

They kill the character that will be the MAIN character of the second book!!!! They changed EVERYTHING of the book! So, it's harder to link it to Star Wars...

PS.: GrimTuesday, I haven't saw the similarity between Eragon and Star Wars until I read your post! What you've said made complete sense!

 

[Viennetta]

Firstly, I am aware that this may not be the most popular thing I could do, but im gonna defend Eragon, or rather the inheritance series in genreal.

Firstly, do NOT judge the books by the movie, it was killed by Hollywood who seem to baulk at the idea of complex plots or deep characters (ie Arya - very different in the book) in movies that are not so already assured to succeed that the will risk trying something new.

Secondly, although the plot started off as based on Star Wars (not a secret, Paolini states this in the intro to book 3), the plot does get much better and more original with time. I know "it gets better later" is a weak defence, but it does, so it's worth bearing with it.

Finally, there are some great original ideas and characters in the book - the completely new (to my knowledge, please correct me if im wrong) way he handles magic, and the witch Angela.

Anyway, rant over. Please correct anything I got wrong, but I quite enjoyed them so treat this post as it was intended, as a point of view not a fanboy "don't hurt my book" attack on other points of view.

damn i just got ninjaed -.-

Anyway when people start going THIS IS RIP OOOOOFFF *kicks movie to square hole*
They have habit to forget difference between rip off and loaning ideas.

good thing is that most of people have gone to real rip off where loaning... lets call them things that go like yathzees like god of war stamp. They are not the original but rely deeply on one game and use its working base mechanics to their own advantage which is loaning and good safe idea for game developer to try riding the wave.

And if we go to fantasy section it allways will go
*insert fantasy thing*---> rips off Tolkine/If asian go straight to part 3 ---> Rips off from dawn of time old myths, legends and folklore.

So the funny thing is that nothing new has born since ancient times... just ripping off and making it look new

I'd say loaning is where the simple idea can be found commonly throughout multiple different works from different periods. In this instance, use of the Hero's Journey as a basis for the story is no problem. The real problem is that he wasn't writing a Hero's Journey, he was just writing Star Wars but using names from Lord of the Rings and stealing wholesale his ideas of dragons and magic from other, far superior, works.

And if you're going to defend someone like CP from claims of plagiarism, you might start with all the scenes and dialogue copied directly from David Eddings. That's the most offensive part of it all.

OT: Anything by Gameloft, or whatever that company is that produces rip-offs of all big franchises. The utter lack of shame involved beggars my belief.

If I'm mistaken and it isn't Gameloft, then sincere apologies for this libel.

 

[zehydra]

This one's kind of old, but here it is:

Listen to the main melody of "Shakermaker" by Oasis.

 

[zehydra]

Every modern story is a re-telling of an older story.

Not necessarily.

Here:

Once I went to the zoo. The zoo was noisy, so I came back home and sat in front of the couch and ate doritos for two and a half hours. I was becoming drowsy on the couch, when all of a sudden a large walrus appeared in front of me and started to recite lines from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and it began to rain death.

What older story is that a retelling of?

 

[Guy32]

The Curious Case of Forrest Gump

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1897317

 

[Iwana Humpalot]

I love Star Wars, a lot, but I also love fantasy book as well so a few years ago I picked up a certain fantasy book that people had been saying was super duper good and was the best thing ever (this was back in middle school I think). This book as Eragon. So I read it, and I somewhat enjoyed it although I couldn't shake the feeling that I had already read this story before, that's when I realized that I had, it was Star Wars... with dragons.

It had everything, princess is attacked by bad guy, send away something for old wise master to retrieve, fresh faced farmboy finds it, finds old wise master, gets his family killed as a result, runs away to train with old master, finds rougeish man who helps them...

I could go on and on but I'd rather know your thoughts on the matter of not just how crappy the Inheritance books are but also what other things have you seen or read that was an obvious rip off of another, better book/movie/anything else you can think of.

OMG! You just ruined the whole book for me! Why didn't i see this rip off. Damn it! And i thought it was original..

OT: Saints row is rip-off from GTA, but i still love both game series.