Most blatant rip offs you've ever seen.

[MASTACHIEFPWN]

James Camron's Avatar.
**Spoiler** the movie also sucks.

 

[Small Waves]

Everything Vídeo Brinquedo ever made.

 

[deonte9109]

All form of art draws inspiration from other pieces of work. If you are willing to research enough, everything can be traced back to the first cave drawings. Sometimes the similarities between one piece of work and an older piece is closer than others but that older piece could still be compared to yet an even older piece of work. But I guess if I had to name a ripoff, I would say that every video game was a ripoff of Pong.

EDIT:
I just remembered a ripoff. China just recently released footage of their fighter jets demostration and some of the footage was cut from Top Gun.

 

[dagens24]

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?

That's not a story; that's written diarrhea (word vomit).

Seriously though, all classically sturctured stories have already been told in one fashion or another once you break them down to the core concepts.

Example: Iron Man. Sure, maybe it's the first story about a playboy bachelor billionaire who builds a techno-suit to defeat evil, but that's just superficially. At core of it is the story of a man who has no respect for life and faces death and then realises the error of his ways and must right them. That story is as old as time.

 

[GothmogII]

I adore what I am going to say and I am no reason ripping on it but..

Dead Space and Alien(s).

It's basically a complete ripoff, including the. "THERE COMING OUT OF THE VENTS!!!!!" (which I'm sure was a homeage...)

Dead Space was intentionally based on the 'mood' of Aliens. EA admitted to that before the first game came out.

When your that blunt about it, I'd call it 'inspired by,' not ripped off.

oh ok. thank's for clearing it up ^^;

I always thought Dead Space was an homage to Event Horizon. It is to similar to be called a ripoff; nobody is that blatant.

Never mind I got one.

The movie Pandorium is basically a rip off of Dead Space if anyone has seen it >_>

Pandorium is about one guy going crazy in space and declaring himself God.

While events of the movies may be similar, the intent is not.

Though, yes, this similarity occurred to me too when I was watching the movie.

*cough* Event Horizon *cough*

Have to check back in the thread, but I wonder if anyone has already mentioned the Deadspace/Event Horizon connection?

Technically though, as a movie, Event Horizon is far more subtle about how it handles its ghoulies then Dead Space does. In fact, I think Dead Space could have actually ripped it off for real instead of just being similar and been a better game because of it, mainly by focusing more on the psychological terror instead of the biological/jump scares terror. Games often do this seemingly out of the notion that you have to have something to kill or it's not a game. Which is fine, but I'd prefer it wasn't so blatant. Less is more as it goes.

 

[DefunctTheory]

I adore what I am going to say and I am no reason ripping on it but..

Dead Space and Alien(s).

It's basically a complete ripoff, including the. "THERE COMING OUT OF THE VENTS!!!!!" (which I'm sure was a homeage...)

Dead Space was intentionally based on the 'mood' of Aliens. EA admitted to that before the first game came out.

When your that blunt about it, I'd call it 'inspired by,' not ripped off.

oh ok. thank's for clearing it up ^^;

I always thought Dead Space was an homage to Event Horizon. It is to similar to be called a ripoff; nobody is that blatant.

Never mind I got one.

The movie Pandorium is basically a rip off of Dead Space if anyone has seen it >_>

Pandorium is about one guy going crazy in space and declaring himself God.

While events of the movies may be similar, the intent is not.

Though, yes, this similarity occurred to me too when I was watching the movie.

*cough* Event Horizon *cough*

Have to check back in the thread, but I wonder if anyone has already mentioned the Deadspace/Event Horizon connection?

Technically though, as a movie, Event Horizon is far more subtle about how it handles its ghoulies then Dead Space does. In fact, I think Dead Space could have actually ripped it off for real instead of just being similar and been a better game because of it, mainly by focusing more on the psychological terror instead of the biological/jump scares terror. Games often do this seemingly out of the notion that you have to have something to kill or it's not a game. Which is fine, but I'd prefer it wasn't so blatant. Less is more as it goes.

Event horizon has been mentioned a few times in connection with Dead Space.

Like Pandorium, Event Horizons intent is different than Dead Space's, which was to be an actiony version of the original Alien. Any similarities between the two are accidental. EA has been candid about the DS/Alien link, so I think they'd mention Event Horizon if it had an impact on the game.

 

[RedRussian]

The Lion King

Yeah the lion king in Hamlet with cute animals.Almost scene for scene in some spots.

 

[teutonicman]

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.

I lol'd

So this country called Canada totally ripped off the US...

Do you have any troll themed proof?

 

[Composer]

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.

there all the same game
just different texture packs

 

[theultimateend]

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...

Zerg and Tyranid came out nearly in the same year.

Starcraft and Warcraft were originally planned to be Warhammer games (fantasy and 40k) and for whatever reason Games Workshop backed out.

Good thing too, since those games went nowhere.

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?

That's not a story; that's written diarrhea (word vomit).

Seriously though, all classically sturctured stories have already been told in one fashion or another once you break them down to the core concepts.

Example: Iron Man. Sure, maybe it's the first story about a playboy bachelor billionaire who builds a techno-suit to defeat evil, but that's just superficially. At core of it is the story of a man who has no respect for life and faces death and then realises the error of his ways and must right them. That story is as old as time.

Everything in life can be said to be exactly the same if you look at it specifically enough. Not a very strong point really :/.

Fun to read but not very strong.

 

[DefunctTheory]

Spoiler

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...

Zerg and Tyranid came out nearly in the same year.

Starcraft and Warcraft were originally planned to be Warhammer games (fantasy and 40k) and for whatever reason Games Workshop backed out.

Good thing too, since those games went nowhere.

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.

 

[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?

That's not a story; that's written diarrhea (word vomit).

Seriously though, all classically sturctured stories have already been told in one fashion or another once you break them down to the core concepts.

Example: Iron Man. Sure, maybe it's the first story about a playboy bachelor billionaire who builds a techno-suit to defeat evil, but that's just superficially. At core of it is the story of a man who has no respect for life and faces death and then realises the error of his ways and must right them. That story is as old as time.

sure that's a story. It's just a bad story. I like your wording of it.
What you're talking about are that most commonly appreciated stories follow similar plot patterns that have been passed down through the ages. Though I disagree, and I think there are a number of stories that are not influenced by old stories, yet may still resemble them.

 

[DefunctTheory]

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?

That's not a story; that's written diarrhea (word vomit).

Seriously though, all classically sturctured stories have already been told in one fashion or another once you break them down to the core concepts.

Example: Iron Man. Sure, maybe it's the first story about a playboy bachelor billionaire who builds a techno-suit to defeat evil, but that's just superficially. At core of it is the story of a man who has no respect for life and faces death and then realises the error of his ways and must right them. That story is as old as time.

sure that's a story. It's just a bad story. I like your wording of it.
What you're talking about are that most commonly appreciated stories follow similar plot patterns that have been passed down through the ages. Though I disagree, and I think there are a number of stories that are not influenced by old stories, yet may still resemble them.

I have to agree with you.

A story's plot arc may be similar, but that does not mean it was inspired by it. Its merely a product of our collective view of reality, and our common hopes, dreams, and wishes.

Human beings, at our core, are all the same. Its only the the details that are different.

 

[Joseph Harrison]

Family Guy has never come up with an original joke

 

[bushwhacker2k]

I read Eragon and found specific points that were practically copy+pasted from LotR and the Wheel of Time series, it was a bit ridiculous but it was decent overall, surprisingly.

I find a lot of ripoffs these days.

 

[VanillaBean]

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.

I totally agree with this, and I can honestly say I saw this connection after reading the second book Eldest (it totally reminded me of Empire Strikes Back). The good news is that by the third book, this Star Wars similarity is pretty much gone.

I think the reason for this similarity is the fact that the author of the book was only about 14 when he started writing the book. So his creativity spark really wasn't anything to brilliant, it kinda reminds me of the Extra Credits where they talk about story structure and they use Star Wars as their prime example. At the end of the day Star Wars has a pretty simple plot, but what makes it such a good movie is how all the great sci-fi elements fit and work togethor. Plus its just a really good telling of that story.

 

[zestamaster]

transmorphers...

 

[Rooster893]

Trevor McFur for the Atari Jaguar was a REALLY cheap ripoff of StarFox.

 

[Fidelias]

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 watched the movie, too. It was probably the worst movie I've ever seen. A good laugh though. Especially with that girly sparkle outfit Eragon wears at the end. I mean, I know a hero doesn't really give a shit about looking stylish, but I didn't think they wanted to lol the enemies into death.

Oh yeah, let's see.

Gotta go with the new Medal of Honor game. Blatant rip off of Modern Warfare 2. I was hoping they'd try to at least rip off a 'good' game, but oh well.

 

[Fidelias]

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...

Alien- Movie made in 1979
We've all seen these guys, though most would remember them from the Alien vs Predator movies, and not the awesome Alien movies they were first seen in.