Most blatant rip offs you've ever seen.

[Nouw]

Starship Troopers. Take it as you wish mortals!

Starcraft and Halo fall in that category without any shame. But erm yes Starcraft is the great leech.

Seriously, even in Starcraft 2 they continue to persist with their so called 'originality.'

Are you saying that Starship Troopers is or isnt a ripoff?
If you're saying it is then i WILL GO HULK, i LOVE that film and i have no idea why :')

OT- I usually see things like this in comics and manga where they just blatantly copy whole panels.

Also i just find the horrible B movie ripoffs hilarious, better than most comedies nowadays anyway

I meant the good book sir, the movie can be counted upon too. Watch the videos for Terran, I was just waiting for it to say 'would you like to know more?'

The book can arguably be called 'responsible' for a good part of Space Marines.

 

[pspman45]

Quantum Theory is an unashamadly collosally bad rip-off of Gears Of War.

I think pretty much everyone has figured that out by now

 

[there is no spoon]

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.

Interesting, Would you mind expanding on how exactly you came to that opinion?

 

[Giantcain]

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?

 

[Chefodeath]

Eragon is ludicrously derivative. From the Razac/Nazgul, to the Star Wars storyline, to the Pern-esque dragon bonding (the earthsea ancient language magic thing, the bad guy is your father/the guy you think is your father actually isn't... The list goes on).
The urgals/Beastmen were quite cool, but were then thoroughly fucked over in the film to just become a different race of humans.

Despite that though, the book series somehow keeps drawing me to it, possibly just from a desire to see how it ends. Despite the fact that every time the author says it will end, he attaches another book to the series...

This.

Despite its mass unorginality, I keep finding myself drawn to see how the series ends. I mean, sure he's ripping off more shamelessly than an overeager hooker, but at least his execution is good.

Creepy mental images now, gonna go take a nap.

 

[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!