Most blatant rip offs you've ever seen.
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Although my knowledge of batman comes only from the two last movies and some cartoons, I really don't see that much similarities between them, other than the "dark and gritty" thing and their stupidly stubborn adherence to their ideals ("never kill" and "never compromise"). Also according to tvtropes and Wikipedia, the characters from watchmen are expys of Charlton Comics? heroes that DC had just gotten the rights of.Sovvolf said:
Holy fuck, as if I never noticed that. That's hilarious. Lol, Star Wars with dragons. And now in the latest book he even has his own blue light saber.GrimTuesday said:
How about this?
Both shitty teenage 'romance' novels with immortals, psychic powers, and extreme amounts of wangst.
Both shitty teenage 'romance' novels with immortals, psychic powers, and extreme amounts of wangst.
That movie The Island ripped off one plot point from the book Spares, by Michael Marshall Smith.
Not exactly ripped off , since Dreamworks bought the rights to Spares and were planning on making it a movie. But then the production got stopped for several reasons, probably most involving the execs not being able to understand what the movie was about. So they decided to take bits and pieces of the story and pepper it into several other scifi movies that were being made at the time, the biggest borrower being The Island.
Read the book, it's a great story and I still hope for an adaptation some day.
Not exactly ripped off , since Dreamworks bought the rights to Spares and were planning on making it a movie. But then the production got stopped for several reasons, probably most involving the execs not being able to understand what the movie was about. So they decided to take bits and pieces of the story and pepper it into several other scifi movies that were being made at the time, the biggest borrower being The Island.
Read the book, it's a great story and I still hope for an adaptation some day.
In all fairness, unoriginal as some of Paolini's stuff is, the execution is so good that I enjoyed them. That's really what matters, as it's hard today to get anything completely original.
that shitty recolerd Chinese RX-78-2 first it looked like a shitty Gundam and now it looks like the Rx-78-2 mashed with a Gouf done by a modder tripping on acid
also ANY MP3 player/game system made in China that isnt made by a big company
also ANY MP3 player/game system made in China that isnt made by a big company
Both companies have copied each other on many occasions.AccursedTheory said:1987.Crazy_Dude said:
And to point out the tyranid/zerg comparison with pictures...
The first Warcraft game was supposed to be a Warhammer RTS. GW backed out, and Blizzard was left with an orphaned game, which they adopted to make "Warcraft: Orcs & Humans." With the success of 40k, the logical step for new IP for Blizzard was a sci-fi strategy game with ancient races, space marines, and swarming aliens.
Early in the franchise, especially pre-Starcraft, things looked a lot different (like Dreadnoughts and Tyranids). The Zerg had a rather unique feel to them, while the Tyranids where much more in the vein of "Alien" than anything else. With the success of Starcraft, the Tyranids took a particularly Zerg-like spin since, hey, it was selling. The warhammer models have always altered to mimic what styles are popular, so that's nothing new.
So yeah, neither can be particularly accused of being the sole offender or heavier borrower.
They were Charlton comic book expies, They were going to be the real deal but when Alan Moore decided to start killing them off they he had them taken away. Again its arguable with the Batman thing, its mostly the whole dark, gritty and uncompromising hero thing that and Nite Owl is also an influence.AnubisAuman said:
Its arguable that Watchmen has a big influence on most modern superhero we see. Its often credited as kicking off the whole dark and gritty superhero theme... Which wasn't Alans intention and it was kind supposed to be a deconstruction and a parody of superheroes... Many seem to have missed that point and sort of followed Watchmens example.
Again, as I've said about six times already. Its arguable, its a theory that is held by quite a few. Not my theory, personally I find it a little shaky to say the least.
Virtually all FPS games are the same. Pink Pistol or purple bazooka, point and shoot.
Exceptions are: Duke Nukem for being awesome and Metroid Prime for perfectly combining platforming with FPS.
Exceptions are: Duke Nukem for being awesome and Metroid Prime for perfectly combining platforming with FPS.
News to me. I'd validate your story but googling tyranids brings up the massive boner people have for the new codex that finally came out.AccursedTheory said:
It doesn't matter to me either way. I like both universes quite a lot and the similarities are so insanely superficial (looks only) that it's not worth further investigation on my part.
At the end of the day gamesworkshop passed up a big oppurtunity and instead later released an mmo that floundered pretty hard (shame too I wanted to like it but just couldn't).
PS. DOW1 amazing. DOW2 made me sad face.
Since when was Warhammer about small platoons battling other smaller platoons? They finally add Tyranids and you get like...5...great thanks.
Ah well. I can dream of a future where DOW3 is as good as 1