that's by the asylum, and all of their films are blatent rip offs, for instance...LobsterFeng said:
check it out... there's too many: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Asylum#Production
Most blatant plagiarism you have ever seen.
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check it out... there's too many: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Asylum#Production
what he means is that the Terminators is a completely different film series from the Terminator (notice the no s) so the film the Terminators was a rip off of the original terminator filmsGenixma said:
I wouldn't say starcraft was a massive ripoff of warhammer 40k. Some, but not massive.Doom-Slayer said:
My main point is the gameplay type is vastly different. If blizzard made a cardboard game called starcraft instead, I'd be more likely to agree.
It's a fine line between inspiration and theft when it comes to concepts and ideas. Animal/beast-like aliens (Alien came before 40k) and the technologically advanced type of aliens are more or less stereotypes that have been established in movies and used a lot I think primarily because they are easier to relate to by most people. During the years they have evolved and yes, blizzard can be said to have stolen some ideas/concepts, but the amount of additional content and work compensates well for that.
Of course you could say designers should be more creative and define weird non-humanoid or non-physical type of aliens, but that would be too abstract for games that are made for fun.
Also, I think the "zerg", "protoss" and human type of races are the more "realistic" ones. I'm not buying all the other poorly defined plant-aliens, humans with shells on their heads, rock-monsters etc. that are just made up on the spot and doesn't have any sensible connection as how they would function outside that specific movie scene, like how they live, eat, communicate, their history, society etc.
Plagiarism's EVERYWHERE. I recall on one gaming site I used to visit from time to time there was a feature they ran one day talking about which films hey thought would make great games and they extended it to asking the readers to comment what they thought as well-and also which books we felt would do the same. Anyway, we all commented and it was an interesting enough debate and, oddly, well above the usual thowaway nature of said site.
Imagine my shock, disgust and annoyance when a couple of weeks later they ran a similar/arguably(though no mention was made of the community's addition)follow-up article but managed to have their writer for hire seemingly nick a ton of the ideas almost verbatim from our comments(even a couple of my daft ideas)with no credit given to ANY of us.
At the time I just wrote it off as a site and left it at that but having spoken with a couple of people about the exact issue I found that comments accusing the site and the writer had been taken down and the whole thing apparently covered up and taken as far as permanent bans for some chaps and chapesses!
Now, my point is, really, that while I'm sure this has happened before and will again ,it's a fact you get the media you deserve but when the very media you need to be calling out the plagiarism within gaming is rife with it itself where does that leave us on either score if we're shut up the moment we say anything about it? About having our own ideas stolen? What authority then has the right and ;power to chastise the industry when it allows copycatting of the lowest level which we see all the time?
Imagine my shock, disgust and annoyance when a couple of weeks later they ran a similar/arguably(though no mention was made of the community's addition)follow-up article but managed to have their writer for hire seemingly nick a ton of the ideas almost verbatim from our comments(even a couple of my daft ideas)with no credit given to ANY of us.
At the time I just wrote it off as a site and left it at that but having spoken with a couple of people about the exact issue I found that comments accusing the site and the writer had been taken down and the whole thing apparently covered up and taken as far as permanent bans for some chaps and chapesses!
Now, my point is, really, that while I'm sure this has happened before and will again ,it's a fact you get the media you deserve but when the very media you need to be calling out the plagiarism within gaming is rife with it itself where does that leave us on either score if we're shut up the moment we say anything about it? About having our own ideas stolen? What authority then has the right and ;power to chastise the industry when it allows copycatting of the lowest level which we see all the time?
That's Asylum for you. The are the lords of plagiarism. For good laughs, look up Transmorphers on IMDB, or any one of their many other films, like their version of Sherlock Holmes. For anyone further interested in them, the Cinema Snob infrequently bashes on their movies to great effect.LobsterFeng said:
Most arse hole pop singers who "sample" old beats/lyrics and take credit for it ENTRIELY. Yes, Jason Derulo, steal the beat from "Show me love" and say it's your damn own, apart from in some size 4 font legal manuscript where it might just ackowledge said "sampling". An other example includes 50 cent ripping the entire beat out of Crystal Castles' "Courtship Dating", which rubbed me the wrong way completely.
It all sounds the same either way to me.
It all sounds the same either way to me.
Ok ok. maybe plagiarism would be the Wrong word. Nintendo is "self-cannibalizing" if that makes you any happier.orangeapples said:
I've had WAAAY too many discussions and flame wars with Nintendo fanboys so I'm also not going to going to bother with your wall of flame. I'm just not seeing why a new Call Of Duty should raise so many cynical eyebrows when everybody's dying for the next mario game like it'll be doing anything different.
Oh, and BTW, the "you're so uninformed!!1" argument has gotten VERY old my friend. I've probably played more Nintendo games than you've played games from every other publisher so just stop with that "Do you even KNOW about *insert Nintendo game*?!" bullcrap. Please. Also stop with the all the paragraphs people. I'd rather spend the time reading a book.
...and the origin 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes' is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'. That isn't my point.Genixma said:
These movies were made to be rip-offs of the blockbusters to increase their exposure. Not interpretations of the characters from their original source.
Note, the only reason I mentioned 'The Omega Man' is that the original movie isn't very well known and as such, the name of The Asylum's version may not have made sense to everyone. Probably wasn't worth adding in hindsight
Not unless I was to also add that King Kong is based on the original movie from '33, Thor is based on the comic, Da Vinci Code is based on a terrible book and Pirates of the Caribbean was based on a theme park ride
That surprises me less than I thought it would. U2 copying someone else isn't a strange idea. Hell, they've been copying themselves for how long now?MiracleOfSound said:
Also didn't expect to see something inappropriate at 0:52 in that video...
Please tell me I'm not the only one that noticed............
