Halo 2 Rip-offs

[7hoR]

I just bought Halo 2 tonight, and have been playing through the single player. The game is great: Graphics, Gameplay, Story, Weapons, everything. One thing I did notice is a couple of what seem to be 'rip-offs' (or at least in my opinion). I've seen a few creatures that look just like Doom 3 monsters, that thing that looks exactly like a strider, and even HEADCRABS. I mean, the headcrabs put the topping on the cake. They jumped on my teammates heads, were the same color, and ran around like Half-Life 2 headcrabs. Just thought that all of these things that seem like rip-offs are pretty funny.

 

[brightgreen]

imitation is the greatest form of flattery!

 

[sobergrad]

I also noticed that those annoying little flying buggers somewhat resemble those aliens in star wars episode 2

 

[lans]

The smaller flood is a rip off of the headcrabs. The headcrabs are a rip off of the facehuggers in Alien.

The scarab looks NOTHING like the strider.

So HL ain't that original, either. :dozey:

 

[sobergrad]

The flood reminded me more of creatures from resident evil

 

[7hoR]

The scarab looks NOTHING like the strider.

You really don't think so?

 

[sobergrad]

Strider has 2 legs and the Scarab has 4

The scarab looks more like metal gear from mgs 2

 

[DiSTuRbEd]

Bah...

 

[sobergrad]

sorry, I meant to say striders have 3 legs

 

[Shadow][]

Halo 1/2 is also like Unreal 2

Cortana is Aida, and always talks to you through radio while in combat
Master Chief and John have the same voice, and same armor
Same futuristic envormnments
etc.etc.

 

[Ownzed]

Yeah Halo is to lame to make its own stuff up.

 

[She]

The headcrabs are a rip off of the facehuggers in Alien.

You forgot Unreal

 

[Pressure]

They're all rip-offs of stuff I've made up. I came up with every idea in existance and every idea that will be proposed in the future before time existed so to me nothing is original because I came up with it first.

 

[SpuD]

If your thread is about Halo 2, it doesnt belong in the General Half-Life 2 discussion, this is why we have other categories on the forum.

Moved.

 

[Neutrino]

Most everything is a ripoff of something else. That's life.

 

[CyberSh33p]

psh, life is a ripoff of day of the tentacle...

 

[destrukt]

yes, they 'ripped off' . . .

 

[Bad^Hat]

The Strider is a rip of the machines from War Of The Worlds.

The Headcrab is a rip of the face hugger from Alien.

 

[BRODIEMAN2k4]

I was kinda thinking the sentinal beam was a ripoff of the gluon gun, which was kindof a ripoff of the ghostbusters


so yeah, it's an endless chaing of ripoffs

 

[Ames]

Without rip-offs...we'd be in a world full of first person tabletops where we use paper bags as guns. OH NOES!!??!? NOT THE PAPER BAGS!!!!#!$

 

[Foxtrot]

You really don't think so?

NOTHING alike.

 

[AmishSlayer]

NOTHING alike.

Apart from the fact that it's a big machine...yeah...no similarities.

Everything has been influenced by something else in some way or another. It doesn't make them ripoffs.

I hardly think the sentinel beam is like the gluon gun either. It shoots a constant beam of energy...but just because it does that doesn't mean it's a ripoff either.

People seem to be reaching for similarities here.

The voice of one of the marines was David Cross...so that's obviously a ripoff of his voice part in GTA:SA...and that's obviously a ripoff of his work in Mr. Show...which is ripped off of Bob Odenkirk and David Cross' mind. Yeah...everybody is a thief.

 

[TheHitman5]

UT2k4 rips off halo's vehicles...who cares.