Most blatant plagiarism you have ever seen.

[Ice Car]

Half of what most of the idiot peers in my class write as a presentation is copied word for word off of Wikipedia.

One guy did a presentation and was required to cite his sources mid-presentation. He said "From Wikipedia" at least 15 times in his presentation and there were audible giggles throughout the classroom, from me too. So sad.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

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............

Not sure what Freud would have to say about it but yes, I saw that too.

 

[th3xile]

The new Medal of Honor.
Sooo, we start with more or less the same opening as Bad Company 2, then later on continue with the Airplane Scrapyard in Afghanistan from MW2 (I mean how more specific can you get? A scrapyard level? OK. An Airplane Scrapyard level. Also, OK. An Airplane Scrapyard level in the same place as that other game? Oh for fuck's sake!). Then near the end is the sneak level set in the snow, wherein you have to time your shots, so you and your partner (bearded of course) can kill two guards simultaneously.

...Wow. This is one of those moments where you see someone so wrong that you wish you could actually tell them how wrong they were in person. How are the openings same in any way? BFBC2: You and your squad of Army rejects are looking for a dangerous element. MoH: You and your squad of Navy Seals are attempting to find an informant on the Taliban. The second MoH level was an airfield. An ACTIVE airfield that you are attempting to capture (The level was actually homage to the show Generation Kill, they even quoted the "that was pretty f-ing ninja". In MW2 its a giant scrapyard that you're there for mostly no reason. Guess why it's in Afghanistan. BECAUSE THATS WHERE US FORCES ARE RIGHT NOW. I don't really know where your going with the last level. Its in the snow and it's sneaking. Are you really complaining that they use a smart tactic to avoid being heard?
OT: I remember reading about some game that got themselves sued for directly copying screenshots and backgrounds.

 

[TheKramers]

World of Warcraft = Warhammer
Starcraft = Warhammer 40k

Honestly i'm kind of surprised they got away with it.

Lolz, I've been saying that for years. Warhammer was created long before Blizzard was even a company.

 

[Redingold]

Team Fortress 2: Chinese Bootleg Edition. [http://fc.xunlei.com/]

Also, holy hell! Legible captchas?

 

[orangeapples]

Ok ok. maybe plagiarism would be the Wrong word. Nintendo is "self-cannibalizing" if that makes you any happier.
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.

self-cannibalizing I can accept. Because they are. But they are not plagiarizing which is what this topic is about. We know that they come up with a game title and try to shoehorn which of their Nintendo characters sells it best. Kirby's Epic Yarn and that one Star Fox game (Advetures?) are proof enough of that. I also think that's how Spirit Tracks came into being.

I'm not a Nintendo fanboy in any way. I'd like to think I'm not a fanboy of anything. I try to appreciate all games/media for what they are worth. I am a Nintendo fan. Unlike fanboys, I can also talk about when things I like are being stupid. But what I am is very picky about word choice. I would have done the same if you said Activision and Call of Duty, just an FYI. And you admitted, you picked the wrong word.

So we're in agreement then: Nintendo re-packages their old games and will literally place a "NEW" sticker on the box and fans just eat it up. And I talked about how Nintendo's use of their characters to reskin a game to increase sales is quite shady. Nintendo isn't plagiarizing their old game franchises. But Nintendo is bastardizing their old game franchises.

In the future, take like 5 minutes to explain your case because on the internet, I do not know how long you've been arguing this. All I can see is: LOL NINTENSUCK IS 4 BABIEZ!!!

And since I've got you here:

Games like Mario, Zelda, Call of Duty are what I categorize as safe games. Safe games, you know will be good and worth the full price. The difference is this: Let us look at the release dates of the past 4 games of main Zelda games (home consoles because Skyward Sword is not contrasted to Spirit Tracks) and Call of Duty:
Ocarina of Time (1998), Wind Waker (2002), Twilight Princess (2006), Skyward Sword (2011)
World at War (2008), Modern Warfare 2 (2009), Black Ops (2010), Modern Warfare 3 (2011)

With Zelda there is breather space in between each release. There has been time since people played the last Zelda game. You get a full game for the full price of the game.

With Call of Duty the games are released year after year after year. It gets annoying considering the campaign sucks (no one plays those games for the campaign; there is an option that will bring you to the multiplayer screen on start up). People play the game for the multiplayer and people do not like paying full price for a game that is essentially and patch and update. It is the same reason why people do not like Madden, or any of the sports games that have a big red changing number on the cover. Will MW3 be a good game? yeah, because it will just be a patch and update of Black Ops and that was a patch and update to MW2 and the only reason why people want MW3 is because they played MW2. They only have the campaign to justify the full price of the game.

People don't like Call of Duty, not because it doesn't change, but because it never leaves and asks full price. By the time there's a price drop, the next game has come out.

 

[CoL0sS]

Hmmm a local songwriter comes to mind, who shall remain unnamed cause you probably wouldn't give two shits about him anyway. Also a lot of musicians here.

You guys might recall a little game called Darksiders *cough*poratlgun*cough*

 

[Canid117]

everything on this page [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheMockbuster]

World of Warcraft = Warhammer
Starcraft = Warhammer 40k

Honestly i'm kind of surprised they got away with it.

Becayse metzen is a tool. But the differences in the actual background make it far enough that most Warhammer fans don;t want the two related in any manner.

Aside from ripping off the appearance of the Eldar, Astarte's, Nid's, and Orks they share VERY little. Mainly in quality departments. As for appearance Eldar armoud gives them the shape of a protoss, terren may have power armor but they are polar opposites of the Astartes, nids devour the worlds they control and attack in much more vicious and larger swarms, and orks aren't beasts that can interbred with humans.

They get away with it because no one at GW or the fans want to touch the two if they know the actual details of both. They may have sold well on game quality but it certainly wasn't the writing that sold SC and Warcraft.

I am tired of pointing this out but the tyranids looked reptilian until sometime around 2001. And Orcs have been in fantasy since long before Warhammer.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Spoiler: a challenger appears

O rly?

One of the more blatant attempts of cheap animation studios to ride on the coat tails of more successfull companies, thinking that kids won't know the difference.

So so terrible.

Hmmm a local songwriter comes to mind, who shall remain unnamed cause you probably wouldn't give two shits about him anyway. Also a lot of musicians here.

You guys might recall a little game called Darksiders *cough*poratlgun*cough*

I actually smiled at that and took it as a respectful nod to Portal rather than a rip off.
Even the God of war knows that you should think with portals!

 

[ultrachicken]

Not a game, but Avatar.

The damn thing ripped off Dances With Wolves so much it's ridiculous.

I think it actually just ripped off the story of the Native Americans (-_-)

Considering the fact that the Na'vi were both able to organize their forces, and to win in the end in Avatar, proves that that was not a ripoff of the story of native americans vs. colonists.

Oh Avatar's just a rip on every 'man vs nature' movie ever created in the history of cinema. Maybe that's why it's so fucking predictable...

That is a more accurate description of what Avatar rips off.

 

[Dalek Caan]

Fortress craft comes to mind, about the only one that does.

 

[Dizeazedkiller]

I love how "average" fantasy elements are. You'd think by now people would try to break some of the molds and actually create some "fantastic concepts.

The thing about fantastic concepts is they are very hit and miss. If they aren't too different from ideas that have already been put out there, they'll just keep getting compared to other concepts, and if they are too different and too out there people won't accept it. So they stick with concepts that have already been accepted and have a 100% success rate (as long as the game is good)

 

[Evaheist666]

Ok ok. maybe plagiarism would be the Wrong word. Nintendo is "self-cannibalizing" if that makes you any happier.
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.

self-cannibalizing I can accept. Because they are. But they are not plagiarizing which is what this topic is about. We know that they come up with a game title and try to shoehorn which of their Nintendo characters sells it best. Kirby's Epic Yarn and that one Star Fox game (Advetures?) are proof enough of that. I also think that's how Spirit Tracks came into being.

I'm not a Nintendo fanboy in any way. I'd like to think I'm not a fanboy of anything. I try to appreciate all games/media for what they are worth. I am a Nintendo fan. Unlike fanboys, I can also talk about when things I like are being stupid. But what I am is very picky about word choice. I would have done the same if you said Activision and Call of Duty, just an FYI. And you admitted, you picked the wrong word.

So we're in agreement then: Nintendo re-packages their old games and will literally place a "NEW" sticker on the box and fans just eat it up. And I talked about how Nintendo's use of their characters to reskin a game to increase sales is quite shady. Nintendo isn't plagiarizing their old game franchises. But Nintendo is bastardizing their old game franchises.

In the future, take like 5 minutes to explain your case because on the internet, I do not know how long you've been arguing this. All I can see is: LOL NINTENSUCK IS 4 BABIEZ!!!

And since I've got you here:

Games like Mario, Zelda, Call of Duty are what I categorize as safe games. Safe games, you know will be good and worth the full price. The difference is this: Let us look at the release dates of the past 4 games of main Zelda games (home consoles because Skyward Sword is not contrasted to Spirit Tracks) and Call of Duty:
Ocarina of Time (1998), Wind Waker (2002), Twilight Princess (2006), Skyward Sword (2011)
World at War (2008), Modern Warfare 2 (2009), Black Ops (2010), Modern Warfare 3 (2011)

With Zelda there is breather space in between each release. There has been time since people played the last Zelda game. You get a full game for the full price of the game.

With Call of Duty the games are released year after year after year. It gets annoying considering the campaign sucks (no one plays those games for the campaign; there is an option that will bring you to the multiplayer screen on start up). People play the game for the multiplayer and people do not like paying full price for a game that is essentially and patch and update. It is the same reason why people do not like Madden, or any of the sports games that have a big red changing number on the cover. Will MW3 be a good game? yeah, because it will just be a patch and update of Black Ops and that was a patch and update to MW2 and the only reason why people want MW3 is because they played MW2. They only have the campaign to justify the full price of the game.

People don't like Call of Duty, not because it doesn't change, but because it never leaves and asks full price. By the time there's a price drop, the next game has come out.

I agree. I guess I didn't explain my thoughts much because when you're in the midst of all the discussions in different topics you have this false assumption that everybody's in the know. Anyways, you sound reasonable and (finally) I have found somebody with a logical view towards Nintendo.

Thank you.

 

[Pirakahunter788]

OT: Dwarf Fortress.. and Minecraft itself was a rip off of something else...

Minecraft wasn't so much of a rip off, as it was a spiritual successor. Also, the game you're thinking of is Infiniminer.

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

Country musicians who sing with a "country" accent, even though they don't speak it, is a plagiarism in my mind.

Plagiarism... of an accent?
Oh man, I could make millions if I copyrighted a British accent.

As if you could even understand me when I shout 'hoy your hammer over here' in my accent. The Home Counties have got nothing on the good ol' North East.

OT: I'm going to be called out on it, but I don't care; Saints Row ripped off GTA. Argue all you want, when I see Saints Row I see a game that tried to cash in on a popular genre created by another game. I have never liked Saints Row and never will, I probably won't stop thinking it ripped off GTA, even if it didn't, either.

 

[ChupathingyX]

I am tired of pointing this out but the tyranids looked reptilian until sometime around 2001. And Orcs have been in fantasy since long before Warhammer.

I did a quick observation of zerg units in Starcraft II and the only units that seem to share any familiar features with Tyranid units are;

*The Hydralisk head and Carbifex/Hive Tyrant head.
*The Infestor mouth and Lictor mouth (although Lictor's have had that mouth since 2nd edition)

Please give me anymore examples if there are any. Oh and I'm not saying you're wrong, unlike many other people I am aware that 40K was inspired by many real world things and books/movies, even some of the creators have admitted to that, and there's nothing wrong with being inspired by something.

Both 40K and Starcraft were inspired by similar things and over the years may have taken designs from eachother and now we have two slightly similar sci-fi universes that just come down to personal taste in which you prefer.

 

[Wintermoot]

that Final Combat game.
and pretty much 99.99% China export,s yearly.

 

[Canid117]

I am tired of pointing this out but the tyranids looked reptilian until sometime around 2001. And Orcs have been in fantasy since long before Warhammer.

I did a quick observation of zerg units in Starcraft II and the only units that seem to share any familiar features with Tyranid units are;

*The Hydralisk head and Carbifex/Hive Tyrant head.
*The Infestor mouth and Lictor mouth (although Lictor's have had that mouth since 2nd edition)

Please give me anymore examples if there are any. Oh and I'm not saying you're wrong, unlike many other people I am aware that 40K was inspired by many real world things and books/movies, even some of the creators have admitted to that, and there's nothing wrong with being inspired by something.

Both 40K and Starcraft were inspired by similar things and over the years may have taken designs from eachother and now we have two slightly similar sci-fi universes that just come down to personal taste in which you prefer.

I actually was saying that the Zerg did not rip off the Tyranids. I actually did go through a collection of images in another thread a long time ago and the two species looked quite different when they were both around. The Tyranids as I said looked very reptilian and didn't start to look like the Zerg until around 2001. Orcs were from Tolkien, power armored space marines and swarms of alien insects were both done before by Heinlein and others and telepathic aliens have been around since we thought there could be aliens etc. I get tired of seeing people say "Starcraft totally stole everything from Warhammer 40K which never stole anything from anywhere and had totally original ideas HURR DURR!"

 

[Terminate421]

Anything with Vampires since the release of Twilight.