Most blatant rip offs you've ever seen.

[Sarah Kerrigan]

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 >_>

 

[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.

 

[AmayaOnnaOtaku]

I cannot remember the name of the game: It stole art from Warcraft 3 and Neverwinter Nights and was a really crappy RTS with half a dozen ads on every screen. It was such a blantant rip that I emailed the legal departments of Blizzard and Bioware. After that I never heard about the game ever again

 

[Throwitawaynow]

Starcraft = Warhammer

Yep, Zerg = Tyranids

Yes, but let's not forget where GW got the Tyranids in the first place. I dare say that Blizzard didn't rip off 40k so much as they just ripped off the same source 40k did.

Yes, Starship Troopers the book. Although Starcraft is the only one said to be influenced, no mention of warhammer. Sad really, warhammer is put in a bubble. Warhammer rips it off as much as Starcraft does but then Starcraft is also said to rip off warhammer.

 

[tobi the good boy]

The Lion King

 

[icame]

Well I may as well grab the obvious one before someone else does matrix and GITS


But I don't care they are both awesome movies and have their own originality. Neither did either of their directors as GITS then gave a shout out to the matrix in one of their future shows.


I don't think the problem is how much you copy but how many original things you add to it and how good a job you did that determine weather it's a crappy ripoff or not.

Holy crap...didn't even know that about the Matrix. I've even watched ghost in the shell too...

 

[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.