Most blatant plagiarism you have ever seen.

[martyrdrebel27]

okay, so i don't know if it's an homage or plagerism, but Braid is very highly influenced by Mario. i played and loved the game, but at times, i felt dirty. like i stole something.

FortressCraft.

yeah, that too.

oh, and monday night combat was totally a TF2 wannabe.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Argh. Was going to copy paste the OP, but was too slow.

 

[IBlackKiteI]

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 (-_-)

Yeah, but in this instance it ends well for the Natives.

World of Warcraft = Warhammer
Starcraft = Warhammer 40k

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

They didn't get away with it.
Not entirely, you'll see a ridiculous number of people, even Starcraft fanboys acknowledge that Starcraft was indeed 'inspired' by Warhammer.
Still, Starcraft is a damn awesome game and considering how much stuff is in it they didn't rip all that much off 40k. Though I wished they had at least changed the look of the Terran infantry in SC2 or something, make 'em look less Space Marineish, along with a few other things.
But overall aside from the entire Zerg race pretty much being copied from the 40k Tyranids there probably isn't a whole lot to fuss over.

As for Warcraft I'm not sure, I dunno much about Warhammer Fantasy.

Anyways I would go for gameplay elements being ripped off from other games, but I won't seeing as I won't stop and I'm pretty tired.
Soooo I'll just lazily say that 90% of Sci-fi is ripped from Star Wars/Star Trek/The other one and go to sleep.

 

[Doom-Slayer]

World of Warcraft = Warhammer
Starcraft = Warhammer 40k

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

FortressCraft.

These two. I tell everyone Starcraft is a massive ripoff of 40k and everyone looks at me and shakes their heads.

 

[Simon Pettersson]

Fortress Craft is a rip-off of Minecraft. Also, Minecraft is a rip-off of Infiniminer. BUT WHEN XBOX DOES IT, IT'S EVIL!

Microsoft didn´t make Fortress craft. Whats evil about it was that they didn´t wait for Minecraft to even come out before they made the game.

Infiminer was a work that hadn´t been worked on for some time and was flawed, Notch took the game mechanics and made antoher game of it.

Saying that Minecraft is a rip-off isa like saying that all shooters are rip-offs off space invaders, contra or doom.

 

[Milo Windby]

Some of the games mentioned are really good examples, such as Final Combat and FortressCraft.
A few games being talked about though just makes me wish I could slap people from across the internet -_- There is a difference between ripped off... and just being in the same genre...

 

[repeating integers]

These two. I tell everyone Starcraft is a massive ripoff of 40k and everyone looks at me and shakes their heads.

I think that's because everyone is sensible and doesn't actually care. I love 40k, but my god man, have you any idea how many things it's ripped off?

 

[Glamorgan]

Oh, there was some guy who was stealing episodes of Zero Punctuation, and putting a filter on it, then posting them on youtube as his own.

I can't remember the name though...

 

[Doom-Slayer]

These two. I tell everyone Starcraft is a massive ripoff of 40k and everyone looks at me and shakes their heads.

I think that's because everyone is sensible and doesn't actually care. I love 40k, but my god man, have you any idea how many things it's ripped off?

Sssshhh..unless the people Im arguing with can give evidence 40k ripped something off..it never happened...

Also the things it copied were pretty blatant too.

Zerg=Tyranids except tyranids are cooler
Protess=Eldar but orange and blue instead of white and blue
Humans=Humans(this one doesnt really count)
Zel'naga=Old ones (ancient race that created zerg/tyranids and one other race in that universe)

Also no...please dont respond with a counter-arguement you probably already had prepared saying things like "40k is ripping of warhammer fantasy ripping of Jrr tolkien ripping of mythology" because we all know that.

 

[robotam]

When describing games, we tend to get into huge flame wars over "X is rip-off of Y" and "X is completely original and Y should *insert horrible action here*." What is coincidence, what was simply inspired by, and what was sold as "a copy of X" just to sell it to the publisher is debatable subject that will leave all involved burned. This isn't about that.

What are the games that are so blatantly just stealing from another game that you wonder why the game hasn't been sued out of existence yet?

Here is the one I came across: FINAL COMBAT http://fc.xunlei.com/zhiye.shtml

haha, you funny person.

OT: I'd say any movie shown on the SyFy channel: "Alien vs Hunter", "War of the Planets", the "Day the Earth stopped". How are they allowed to make these films?

 

[Simonism451]

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.

 

[dls182]

Anything put out by The Asylum.....

On the left we have major releases and on the right are movies released by The Asylum soon afterwards

Freddy vs. Jason - Vampires vs. Zombies
King Kong - King of the Lost World
War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds
The Da Vinci Code - The Da Vinci Treasure
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - Pirates of Treasure Island
Snakes on a Plane - Snakes on a Train
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem - AVH: Alien vs Hunter
Transformers - Transmorphers
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - Transmorphers: Fall of Man
I Am Legend (A remake of 'The Omega Man') - I Am Omega
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls
High School Musical 3: Senior Year - Sunday School Musical
The Day the Earth Stood Still - The Day the Earth Stopped
Terminator Salvation - The Terminators
Paranormal Activity - Paranormal Entity
Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes
Piranha 3D - Mega Piranha
Battle: Los Angeles - Battle of Los Angeles
Thor - Almighty Thor
Fast Five - 200 mph

Thanks to Wikipedia for speeding this up =)

 

[Tiger Sora]

Well considering you can't actually make "new" music anymore due to every note sequence has been played. Or so I heard (afew years ago). All music created I'm gona go off and say 2005+ is plagiarized.

Yeh and uhh Starcraft off of 40k thats just like..... was it so obvious that the whole community never noticed. An oversight of the highest caliber.

 

[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.

 

[Simonism451]

Sssshhh..unless the people Im arguing with can give evidence 40k ripped something off..it never happened...

Also the things it copied were pretty blatant too.

Zerg=Tyranids except tyranids are cooler
Protess=Eldar but orange and blue instead of white and blue
Humans=Humans(this one doesnt really count)
Zel'naga=Old ones (ancient race that created zerg/tyranids and one other race in that universe)

Also no...please dont respond with a counter-arguement you probably already had prepared saying things like "40k is ripping of warhammer fantasy ripping of Jrr tolkien ripping of mythology" because we all know that.

Tyranids=The Aliens from, well, the Alien films nand the Bugs from Starship Troopers
Eldar=Elves in space
Old ones=Great Old Ones (ancient race that created pretty much everything, depending on who you ask)
Empire=Nazis in Space plus the Empire (Star Wars) plus Colonial Marines (Aliens again)
Space Marines=Starship Troopers helmet design resembles the stormtroopers from Star Wars
Imperial Sentinel Walker=ATST from Star Wars

 

[warprincenataku]

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

I don't think you understand the meaning of plagiarism.

There was this one guy on Youtube who recoloured Yahtzee's videos and rebranded them as his own. Gah, that still irks me.

 

[J-dog42]

In a creative writing class I had, I had to peer review an Indian guys story. He obviously wasn't too confident with the English language so he had taken the plot of Bioshock straight off Wikipedia and added in a few bits of his own. Coincidentally, I had been reading the Bioshock Wikipedia page the night before.

 

[Nouw]

For those who are complaining about 'X' ripping off 'Y,' it's been happening since the beginning of the genre itself. Everything takes some kind of inspiration from an older source in the wonderful world of fantasy and science fiction.

Tolkien. Robert A. Heinlein. Just a few names among hundreds that helped shape the awesome that is the two genres.

Snip

I beg to differ. Yes there are 3 races. Yes there is a race of space bugs threatening doom for the other two.

But goddamn that has been used since science fiction was born or at least some time near it. Besides, Starcraft and Warcraft have 'done worse' than what those two games did.

 

[StrangerQ]

WH40K and WHfantasy look similar to starcraft and warcraft because... drums please
*drums*
GamesWorkshop and Blizzard had dealings way way back to make a warhammer game on pc.
Before the end GW pulled their hand away and blizzard left with their work in their cases.
This leaded to creation of Blizzards own games where they used work already done and made effort to make some difference from original plans.

Now the facts might be bit off since i was not able to find any reliable source but this seems to be concensus among different forums and fanbases.

OT:

 

[repeating integers]

These two. I tell everyone Starcraft is a massive ripoff of 40k and everyone looks at me and shakes their heads.

I think that's because everyone is sensible and doesn't actually care. I love 40k, but my god man, have you any idea how many things it's ripped off?

Sssshhh..unless the people Im arguing with can give evidence 40k ripped something off..it never happened...

Also the things it copied were pretty blatant too.

Zerg=Tyranids except tyranids are cooler
Protess=Eldar but orange and blue instead of white and blue
Humans=Humans(this one doesnt really count)
Zel'naga=Old ones (ancient race that created zerg/tyranids and one other race in that universe)

Also no...please dont respond with a counter-arguement you probably already had prepared saying things like "40k is ripping of warhammer fantasy ripping of Jrr tolkien ripping of mythology" because we all know that.

The old ones did not create the Tyranids in 40k. They created the Eldar and Orks, and unwittingly the Enslaver daemons.

Also 40k is a mishmash of all sorts of sci-fi and fantasy concepts to the extent that I don't believe it possible to rip off 40k - if you do, you're actually ripping off some other, older sci-fi idea.