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Subject: Halo copied Starcraft?
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Halo copied starship troopers,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wwilCs4Jqg

Hell yes

  • 06.28.2011 1:01 AM PDT

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  • 06.28.2011 1:02 AM PDT

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Whenever I watch Starship Troopers, I think of Halo.

  • 06.28.2011 1:17 AM PDT

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Very broad comparisons but different games.

  • 06.28.2011 1:18 AM PDT

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Zeratul (some Protoss leader)

Sangheili

Pretty similiar. Oh well, though.

  • 06.28.2011 1:32 AM PDT


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Zeratul (some Protoss leader)

Sangheili

Pretty similiar. Oh well, though.


Zeratul is also cloaked, and more badass.

  • 06.28.2011 1:40 AM PDT

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Posted by: Sneakytaco
I don't see any sign of Halo being like Starcraft. Bungie didn't use Starcraft to inspiration. If Bungie did copy Starcraft, Halo would of been a RTS unlike Halo Wars, which was created by a different company other than Bungie. That's it.


Back in 1999 Halo was supposed to be an RTS before Microsoft bought Bungie and add the title C.E

  • 06.28.2011 1:47 AM PDT

Halo draws inspiration from a lot of sources.

StarCraft wasn't the first to make a species with advanced technology and a race that wanted to absorb the galaxy.

  • 06.28.2011 2:37 AM PDT

Posted by: Sneakytaco
I don't see any sign of Halo being like Starcraft. Bungie didn't use Starcraft to inspiration. If Bungie did copy Starcraft, Halo would of been a RTS unlike Halo Wars, which was created by a different company other than Bungie. That's it.[/quote]

Back in 1999 Halo was supposed to be an RTS before Microsoft bought Bungie and add the title C.E


No it wasn't. Where are you getting that info from?

  • 06.28.2011 2:37 AM PDT

Halo didn't "copy" it was influenced by other Sci-fi games, movies and books...
People act like every videogame, book or movie is totally original... well it isn't it had influences from other sources.
Also in no way is having a influence a bad thing, it is how we improve.

  • 06.28.2011 4:30 AM PDT


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Posted by: Sneakytaco
I don't see any sign of Halo being like Starcraft. Bungie didn't use Starcraft to inspiration. If Bungie did copy Starcraft, Halo would of been a RTS unlike Halo Wars, which was created by a different company other than Bungie. That's it.[/quote]

Back in 1999 Halo was supposed to be an RTS before Microsoft bought Bungie and add the title C.E


No it wasn't. Where are you getting that info from?

It was originally going to be a TPS.

  • 06.28.2011 4:31 AM PDT

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Posted by: Sneakytaco
I don't see any sign of Halo being like Starcraft. Bungie didn't use Starcraft to inspiration. If Bungie did copy Starcraft, Halo would of been a RTS unlike Halo Wars, which was created by a different company other than Bungie. That's it.[/quote]

Back in 1999 Halo was supposed to be an RTS before Microsoft bought Bungie and add the title C.E


No it wasn't. Where are you getting that info from?

It was originally going to be a TPS.


Watch this and this started to 11:00 from Alex Seropian mouth "the idea wa to create a strategy type game like Myth"

  • 06.28.2011 5:47 AM PDT

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Posted by: Halochief89RvB
Halo didn't use Starcraft for inspiration. Most of it was from movies such as Alien,Aliens. If you look the Pelican looks alot like the Marine Dropship in Aliens. The scene in Halo CE where they first encounter the flood was taken exactly out of Aliens when the Marines go into the colony for the first time.
Sergeant Johnson is based ofF Sergeant Apone of Aliens. Halo CE's Marines (personalities and armor) are based off of Aliens as well. The Halo ring is taken from Larry Niven's Ring World Proof

The Covenant isn't based off of anything (the idea I mean, The Sangheili seems to be inspired by Samurai mixed with "The Predator" Yautja) The Covenant is the typical all powerful alien bad guys who are stronger then the protagonist humans.

If anything most of Halo's things are based off movies and other famous parts of Media. Also parts of Bungie's previous game Marathon inspire most of Halo also. Like the Forerunners to the Jjaro. The Jjaro were an advanced race of beings who millions of years before the Marathon games disappeared from the Milky way galaxy.

StarCraft was originally Blizzard's cancelled Warhammer 40k project. Thats why Terran marines look so similar to Warhammer 40k's Space marines.

So Terrans-Imperium of Man,other factions
Protoss- Eldar, Other Eldar factions
Zerg- Tyranids.

So theres that.

The Aliens also use a "hive" mentality, except with a Queen instead of a Gravemind.

Also, having aliens vs humans vs alien hive doesn't mean they copied Starcraft. Hell, AVP came out before Starcraft, so if anything, Starcraft copied AVP.

  • 06.28.2011 8:32 AM PDT

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Whalo copied nothing it is its own universe. end of threadWrong. Halo copied Larry Niven's Ringworld concept, but other than that everything else pretty unoriginal too.

A United Earth's military (UNSC) vs. an alien threat (Covenant), and they have one super soldier that will save the day.

So no, almost nothing about HALO is original, but what they have done with it is the best that I've seen.

  • 06.28.2011 9:30 AM PDT
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Funky is Fun.

All because one game has something in it, doesn't mean that NOBODY else can use it.

  • 06.28.2011 9:33 AM PDT

if you are implying that Alien vs. Predator (the game) came out before Starcraft then afraid you are very much mistaken...also the fact is, nothing is original anymore because more or less everything has been done in some form or another, there are only a few 'stories' and all others are just a derivative of those stories, like the similarities between Starcraft and Halo, Avatar and Pocahontus, ironically Robocop and Frankenstein, most science fiction has stemmed from H.G.Wells War of The Worlds, which was the daddy of alien invasion style stories, written well over a century ago!

  • 06.28.2011 11:27 AM PDT

Guess what, Starcraft copied Warhammer.

  • 06.28.2011 11:28 AM PDT

it was probably inspired by Warhammer, no denying the Zerg and Tyranids have a lot of similarities, could consider the Protoss very much like the Eldar, extremely advanced, ancient and for the most part nomadic with little like for 'lesser' species, and the Terrans are like the Imperium of Man, but less religious nut-jobs with no god-emperor!

  • 06.28.2011 11:29 AM PDT

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if you are implying that Alien vs. Predator (the game) came out before Starcraft then afraid you are very much mistaken...also


Alien vs Predator came out in '94 for the Atari Jag.

  • 06.28.2011 11:30 AM PDT

wow! that relic! totally forgot about that one! man its been tooooooo long, can't believe it has been that long!

  • 06.28.2011 11:33 AM PDT

etc.

To be fair, the ekdar aepre just space elves, and the dark eldar are space El ves with a bdsm fixation.

Every idea is sparked by somethingelse.

Also, I dig eldar, som don't get all offended on me.

  • 06.28.2011 2:08 PM PDT

Actually I believe Halo was already in development before Starcraft came out. I could be wrong.

  • 06.28.2011 3:46 PM PDT

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no if anything Halo copied Pong like every other video game in existence did because pong was the 1st video game.

Halo was also starting as a RTS around the same time.

[Edited on 06.28.2011 5:09 PM PDT]

  • 06.28.2011 5:07 PM PDT

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