Halo a rip off of Starcraft?

I just noticed how similar starcraft is to Halo. Halo has the covenant, a super high tech race, the Humans, Warriors in special field combat suits, and the flood, a race of all organic creatures that asimilate all life forms into themselves. now with a little copy and paste magic...


Starcraft has the Protoss, a super high tech race, the Terran, Warriors in special field combat suits, and the Zerg, a race of all organic creatures that asimilate all life forms into themselves.

So, any 1 else see the connection?

 

Ah another idea about something ripping of something else, true very true halo does seems alittle similar but then again please name 1 rts game that hasn't "ripped" off anything in fact i think if you get a list of units from one of the newest games in the market and trace its line of "ripped" off units you will end up with the very first rts ever made.....

 

Sigh... no. If it's a "rip off" of anything, it's Starship Troopers... the book... from 1959. So is StarCraft in the same way.
Also, it takes a bit from their previous game, Marathon, from 1995.

 

I say yes because I don't like halo!

that and i did find it funny how they have 3 virtually parallel races to those of SC

 

Starcraft a rip off of WH40K?

 

Eldar (possibly Tau)= Protoss

Tyranids = Zerg.


Yeah....

And I kinda want the terrans to have librarians as spell casters .

But there are way more races in 40k than in starcraft.

 

Future, Space, War

You make universe from those elements and you are ripping off already =)

 

I'm with Paragon in that Starcraft and Halo ripped from someone else, but the people they stole from ripped the idea from some one else. In other words, both Halo and Starcraft are unoriginal.

Maybe when gaming companies start to hire decent writers, we won't have to deal with all the bland, unoriginal games being made/out. Seriously, I think sometimes the programmers just read random sci-fi books and make games based on them. As it stands now, the only decent games with good story lines come from Japan, which is sad.

 

How dare you accuse Halo?!!?!! I will wring your neck!

Edit: Hey, it's my 100th post!!

 

You could accuse anything of ripping off of anyone these days.

There are always the same elements that makes stories, fictional universers, characters great and interesting.

You could trace it back all the way to the beginning of mankind with mythology.

 

^^^ Exactly, everything is influenced by something else. And if they do it in an interesting way it doesn't really matter.

 

I hate Halo. I despise that game with a fiery passion. I'd have my tongue ripped out, my skin flayed off, my finger nails painfully removed, my mouth cauterized shut, my eyes gouged out before I'd even consider playing Halo.

That said, Halo is not a ripoff of Starcraft anymore than Starcraft is a ripoff of Warhammer 40k, or Warhammer 40k a ripoff of Starship troopers/Lord of the Rings.

People seem to have the misconception that just because a game takes inspiration from another source, that the game is "ripping off" the original source.

Yes, the races in Halo, Starcraft, and Warhammer 40k share many similarities, yet the storyline and themes of the three games are very different.

 

One decisive thing I've figured out with all games is that they are developed off the inspiration of books, movies, or other games. You see as games are themselves an extension of the most similar aspect of all things that involve imagination they are stories. They may be similar and they may be unique. If you were to say track down everything to its point in origin we could go so far back and farther than this reference to Homer. So, yes, SC2 takes aspects of other games, but, unless it was called Halo 4: Into the Koprulu Sector I would have to say its like all other stories and trying to convey a message. It may be a subtle message or it can be the basic one of its something fun to do ,which, most games portray. The only thing that really matters is how you perceive that story or game. All else is irrelevant.

Also I agree with paragon on the point that yes Starcraft 2 is based of SST from 1959. Does it really matter all that much that it is based off something that could be considered successful? You don't see people developing things that aren't considered successful around the world and selling it in large quantities as it would be stupid. Thats my 20 cents. **Thanks for correction paragon.

 

this is unforgivable.

 

Now to start off I'll say I don't like Halo in the least. Now that that's out of the way I'll say I voted no. The reason is, and I'm sure dozens of people have said the same, that EVERY Sci-Fi story has very similar races. They have the xenoform race like the zerg, a really high tech, sometimes psionic, race and they have the humans. Even the Aliens and Predator series of movies were like this, and Warhammer 40k as well as countless others, so in short? No, its not a ripoff.

 

Wow. Way to overanalyze it. Of course game developers are going to be influenced by other Sci-Fi books, movies, games, stories.

Where else are they going to get ideas? Scientific research? OH NO STARCRAFT IS A RIP OFF OF GENETICS RESEARCH!?!?!?! WTF!?!?!?!?

No game that was awarded so many awards from all sorts of people and makes the top of "Best Game Ever" lists is a ripoff.

 

1959*

So you hate a game that you've never played. I'm sorry but this completely invalidates your opinion. At least the games I hate, I've actually played.
And Halo is a good FPS with competitive and balanced gameplay.

 

Yea, I have no problem with Halo... except that its an FPS.

Plus I never understood how people can play those games on consoles? Aiming becomes being able to jump until the enemy comes INTO your crosshairs.... sniping becomes obselete..

In my opinion the best FPS ever was Black Hawk Down by Novalogic. Best gameplay, maybe not so much with the graphics....

 

Sniping is obsolete? lol

As someone who has been sniped A LOT, I can tell you that's not the case.

 

I can agree with you to a point Joneagle_X that Halo has no problems with it save that it is an FPS. The thing about Halo though is that its in a universe that can not in the interest of the story be played out as anything else. Halo revolves around the fact that you are the Master Chief. You are the Hero. You take it from the perspective of the Hero. That is the main allure imo to an FPS. (Other than a incredibly deep storyline.) I mean it wouldn't be Halo if you weren't right their in the action. As Halo as an adventure game? No, as Master Chief has no special moves. Halo as an RTS? No,( Despite the fact of Halo Wars ,which, imo will hurt the Halo Franchise as it is only a filler.) as you would not have the same feel as a Hero when you control him plus about 100 more troops. This being said Starcrafts heroes and storyline make it suitable for a RTS, FPS, or Adventure.( Given the circumstances of the Adventure.) As I myself like FPS's as well I do see your point about jump, aim, fire, repeat., but, I like FPS as more of a game that you can play with your friends and have a relatively similar level of skill. Just my 20 cents yet again.