Most blatant rip offs you've ever seen.

[Valkyrie101]

True Crime was one helluva GTA rip-off. That is, until it suddenly became involved with all kinds of supernatural mumbojumbo. It was still pretty entertaining though.

Not that much of a rip-off: it was clearly inspired, but free-roaming games aren't exactly original or niche. The gameplay was pretty different, because it focused on "cool stuff" and martial arts rather than causing chaos.

What was with all the supernatural stuff anyway? It just randomly started in one of the storylines, and didn't make any sense.

 

[Gentleman_Reptile]

I swear on my life, I saw a movie advertised on late night TV called "Wind With The Gone".

 

[LandoCristo]

I'm a believer in the idea that almost nothing created while sane, sober, and alive is entirely your own, and that you just take a bunch of influences through your day and combine them to make a new idea. That said, I still don't feel like stuff like Transmorphers or Eragon have enough creativity or ingenuity in them to call originals, and I feel that they could get sued for intellectual property theft if hit with a heavy enough lawyer.

 

[Theron Julius]

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.

No. Read the book. Right now. The Eragon movie is a pile of shit compared to the book. They didn't even try to go for accuracy. Don't form an opinion of the book series because of the movie.

 

[octafish]

On a more serious note, I always found the Zerg in Starcraft to be a massive ripoff of the Tyranid from Warhammer 40K

Ever look at W40K Space Marines beside... well... space marines?

Really? Blizzard, come on.

Do people not know this? Really? Blizz were developing a Warhammer 40k game but the deal fell through so they took the art they had already worked on, tweaked it alittle and used in their new RTS and the rest is history.

Anyway one time I worked on this investigation into a dodgy repair man who used to rip off old ladies by claiming their roof was damaged and he could repair it. He would then climb up into their roof cavity and just drive nails into a piece of wood for a couple of hours and charge them about a 1000 dollars for "repairs". What a shit of a man.

 

[DefunctTheory]

Do people not know this? Really? Blizz were developing a Warhammer 40k game but the deal fell through so they took the art they had already worked on, tweaked it alittle and used in their new RTS and the rest is history.

Anyway one time I worked on this investigation into a dodgy repair man who used to rip off old ladies by claiming their roof was damaged and he could repair it. He would then climb up into their roof cavity and just drive nails into a piece of wood for a couple of hours and charge them about a 1000 dollars for "repairs". What a shit of a man.

Proof please. No one else can provide it, despite my repeated request for it.

We all know War craft was supposed to be Warhammer, but there is no proof that Starcraft was W40K.

 

[Berserker119]

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?

Well, I mean, look at the trees. And the ground. It's as if it were the same place.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Its very unoriginal and, in my opinion, poorly written, I don't think it should have gone to print in the first place so it doesn't matter how old he was.

*cough*

I did in fact know about the commonalities between Star Wars and Campbell's book but my point still remains that Eragon is almost the exact same thing as Star Wars, just with dragons they have colored swords for fucks sake.

As does the Dungeons and Dragons film, and quite a few others [http://www.toplessrobot.com/2008/08/the_10_most_blatant_star_wars_ripoffs.php].
I'd actually say that Eragon rips off LotR more, but Paolini draws a distinction between plagiarism and ripping off [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2004/jan/25/booksforchildrenandteenagers.features].

But then, put Gandalf, Obi Wan Kenobi and Dumbledore together and try and tell them apart.

 

[DefunctTheory]

But then, put Gandalf, Obi Wan Kenobi and Dumbledore together and try and tell them apart.

Gandalf has a WAY cooler hat.

 

[Fightgarr]

Uh... it took you this long to realize that fantasy recycles ideas? The farm-boy turned hero isn't just a trope of fantasy it basically is fantasy. Star Wars was FAR from from the first to do this story, and it definitely won't be the last. There are so few original fantasy writers out there, that sifting through the shit becomes trudging through a fucking bog. Yeah, Eragon was written by some 15 year-old who had just red The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter and decided to throw something together. But that's what a fucking 15 year-old does. Congrats on figuring out fantasy is generally full of shit[footnote]Disclaimer: I actually love some fantasy, it's just that it's very rare for me to find authors I enjoy.[/footnote].

 

[stinkyrobot]

Thats pretty shameless

 

[RedRussian]

The Lion King

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

Actually not just hamlet that was a meh adaptation.

look up a movie called 'kimba' the white lion. the story is EXACTLY THE SAME, the lion is even called KIMBA

you mean the japanese kimba? Yeah Disney should be ashamed.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

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Eragon wasn't intentionally ripping off Star Wars, it simply was using the same fantacy archtypes that have existed since the dawn of myth, the "hero with the thousand faces" story type (google that phrase to learn about it). Lucas was a big fan of this type and intentionally put it into Star Wars.

Now, for rip-off's, I can't decide. Their is an entire part of the film industry devoted to making straight to DVD crap makes of famous films, changing the title slightly to not get sued, examples including "The Day the Earth Stopped," "Troll 2," "The Attack of the Olyimpians," and "Snakes on a Train."

You may want to note that three of those four come from the infamous Alsylum studios, who have moved on to make horrible giant monster movies for the Syfy channel.

 

[demoman_chaos]

Kinect is a rip-off of the PS Eye. The technology behind it is different, but in function it is exactly the same.
Kinectimals is a blatant rip-off of Eyepets.
Crash Bash and Crash Team Racing were rip-offs of Mario Party and Mario Kart.
Sonic Shuffle was a rip of Mario Party.
Nintendo stole Tetris (I believe Atari was the first to make Tetris on the NES, but somehow they lost the rights to Nintendo)

Not to mention the VAST array of old Pong rip-offs, everything from Atari, to the Odyssey, to the Intellivision, and hundreds more all ripped off Pong.

 

[Sub_par]

i hope you realize that star wars is just a rip off of samurai movies and westerns with no innovation other then the setting, it has nothing but classic story archetypes that have been used for hundreds if not thousands of years, so it will be very similar to other books and movies that use the same archetypes.

 

[ramboondiea]

well nier makes quite a few references to the legend of zelda games, with a compleatly blatant boss battle, but doesnt try to hide it and even plays the item music in quite a comical fashion so its okay.
but the worst one was probly snakes on a train, its a shame as usually those mockbusters are hilarious

 

[SailorShale]

Manic Digger.

Seriously. How lame, just buy Minecraft.