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Subject: Halo a rip off
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i know will be flamed for this buy it is just some thing i noticed halo was origanly desinged as a staitgy game is has 3 races like sc terran/humans covetent/protoss flood/zerg im wondering if bungie got there idea for halo from star craft hmm just some thing i nocticed and i im porbly wrong because i think halo was in the making before star craft came out but if not then its some thing to think about.

  • 07.29.2004 6:47 PM PDT
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also i am a very big fan of halo and it is my favrite game in the world and all ways has been

  • 07.29.2004 6:48 PM PDT
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who really cares

  • 07.29.2004 8:22 PM PDT

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Wow, man - Could you be any MORE behind the times? That was like half a decade ago.

Get with the times. And if that's your take then StarCraft and Warcraft were Ripoffs of Dune II.


I don't mean to sound ignorant. It's just that there are many more current things to discuss...


[Edited on 7/29/2004 8:31:15 PM]

  • 07.29.2004 8:29 PM PDT
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yes but this is the first time i have thought/heard of this

  • 07.29.2004 10:10 PM PDT
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In the end isn't everything a rip off something.....


not really but does it really matter

  • 07.29.2004 10:58 PM PDT

bah

No, Marathon is a rip-off of nothing. And guess what, it had many races just like Halo does. Bungie copied themselves there.

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Bungie copied Halo from me - I originally wrote Halo for the Commodore 64. But I had to move to the C-128 to get the full 16 colors...

  • 07.29.2004 11:24 PM PDT

Wow, you're right! I mean, the whole idea of having a race of humans in a science fiction story has got to be stolen from Star Craft! Nobody else has ever done that!

I haven't played StarCraft, so I can't apply any Socratic irony to the rest of the races you mention (although the whole "Zerg" thing is apparently some sort of race that assimilates others - does anybody else think "Zerg" sounds a lot like "Borg"?).

I think you'll find Halo has a lot more similarities to actual SF, like Niven, Rowley and Banks, rather than this tackier-than-tacky sort of clichéd Sci-Fi rubbish.

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  • 07.30.2004 7:25 AM PDT
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haha lol halo is sooo like star trek because they both have humans wow! and its like star wars and pamela anderson in stipperela and and ... what you said was point less. and also if youv never played star craft then why whould you say its "sci-fi" insted of [b] sf [b]

  • 07.31.2004 3:54 PM PDT
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Dune 2 rocked.

  • 07.31.2004 4:30 PM PDT

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LOL

  • 07.31.2004 4:35 PM PDT
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i guess halo and star craft r the only games in the wourld that have ships aliens and humons they could make milleons in sueing people. o wait mabe DIFRENT GAMES WITH SIMERLER CONSEPS ARN'T RIPPOFFS....

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Hmmm He said it was speculation and he hadn't been sure on the release.He was only pointing out similarities.


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i guess halo and star craft r the only games in the wourld that have ships aliens and humons they could make milleons in sueing people. o wait mabe DIFRENT GAMES WITH SIMERLER CONSEPS ARN'T RIPPOFFS....


Number 2, Fix that and make it look like it was written in English, by someone who made it past middle school...

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  • 07.31.2004 4:41 PM PDT
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Just because games are similar doesn't mean they're rip offs. Honestly, game dovelopers see what works, and they emulate it to an extent. It's to be expected. Many games simply take 'inspiration' from another. It's not like it's a flat out copy.

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The zerg is nothing like the Flood. First of all, the Zerg do not use guns, Flood do. Zerg travel interstellar space by using their natural organic bodies, the Flood travel by using ships. The zerg are bred, the Flood is a parasitic lifeform.Yes both do not use armour of the coventinal sence. Yes both are organic, but isn't all life ( don't get me started on un-organic life)?

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I dont think Halo is a rip at all i love halo so much man there r alot other games that r a rip off dont even thikn halo is a rip i think Driver 3 is a rip $50.00 for a short stupied game o wow

  • 07.31.2004 11:40 PM PDT
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What about the small Flood parasites, they look like the headcrabs from Half Life, which are like the facehuggers from Alien, which are probably like something else...

What about Tribbles? Are they rip-offs of Martian Flat Cats?

The sad thing is 90 percent of you won't know what the hell either of those two things are. God, I'm so OLD....LOL

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Tribbles are just mutated Dust bunnies -- that like to bang...a lot. I mean a lot.... The gestation period for a tribble is like 15-30 seconds.


And they don't like certain klingy races.

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  • 08.01.2004 1:12 AM PDT
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some more simalarites between flood and zerg are that they both assimalate other races just incase you didint notice the reson for the hunter flood(the flood with guns,cant remember thier real name right) is because they abdapted so they have the "hunter style" and grunts for the bomb style they assimalte life forms and we dont know that they travel in star ships because they havent the covetient thought they were that doesent meen they did allso the zerg were created by a allpowerful speicies so were the flood(we think)and the zeg kiled thier "masters" same thing with flood(again a idea but a good one) hmm some simarilarities now i whould like to say hurra for getting to moderators in here and i just feel like defending this thoery probly most not true but keep counteracting this idea.

  • 08.02.2004 7:17 PM PDT