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[Doctalen]

 I think star wars had a role mainly because of the biotic powers are like the force.What other media inspired it though names of books would be nice? 

[Da_Lion_Man]

Halo!!!!!

[Annihilator27]

Da_Lion_Man wrote...

Halo!!!!!

Get your suit on, Things may get hot.

[Doctalen]

annihilator27 wrote...

Da_Lion_Man wrote...

Halo!!!!!

Get your suit on, Things may get hot.

I am a halo fan but i do not agree that that game inspired it. Please do not flame him. 

[Phaedon]

C.Hudson once met Garrus. It was a life changing experience.

[nikola8]

Star Wars- specifically Bioware's work on KOTOR. Aside from the lightsabre action, the games are quite similar (Mass Effect being better, of course). I don't believe it was halo inspired. Halo and ME have space, armor, and guns, and that's where it begins and ends.

[Phaedon]

Also Babylon 5

[DarthCaine]

After KOTOR they wanted something similar but their own

[DirtyVagrant]

nikola8 wrote...

Star Wars- specifically Bioware's work on KOTOR. Aside from the lightsabre action, the games are quite similar (Mass Effect being better, of course). I don't believe it was halo inspired. Halo and ME have space, armor, and guns, and that's where it begins and ends.

This. Bioware wanted a space story of their own to tell, probably without the restraints of LucasArts. Many people think the ME music is very... Bladerunner-esque, so that's an influence in one respect.

[Bamboozalist]

It was not just Star Wars. 70s and 80s Sci-Fi as a whole is the inspiration behind ME which is why you can find so many cliches in it.



Although I guess you could say Star Wars was its main inspiration for its inspiration since Star Wars was a throw back to the action adventures of the 30s and 40s.

[OGWS]

I imagine lots of things

[Doctalen]

Bamboozalist wrote...

It was not just Star Wars. 70s and 80s Sci-Fi as a whole is the inspiration behind ME which is why you can find so many cliches in it.

Although I guess you could say Star Wars was its main inspiration for its inspiration since Star Wars was a throw back to the action adventures of the 30s and 40s.

Uh i thought indiana jones was the throw back.

[Fiery Phoenix]

I'm not sure if this is true, but I recall reading somewhere that Mass Effect was originally a work of art envisioning the future and was never meant to be anything more than that, but then it was subsequently made a game. In any event, the series was clearly at least partially inspired by Star Wars.

[Bamboozalist]

Doctalen wrote...

Bamboozalist wrote...

It was not just Star Wars. 70s and 80s Sci-Fi as a whole is the inspiration behind ME which is why you can find so many cliches in it.

Although I guess you could say Star Wars was its main inspiration for its inspiration since Star Wars was a throw back to the action adventures of the 30s and 40s.

Uh i thought indiana jones was the throw back.

They both were. Star Wars was just the sci-fi version, but the opening credits and most of the tropes are straight out of the 30s and 40s action adventures. Also Metropolis but Metropolis has inspired pretty much any large city in Sci-Fi

[SSV Enterprise]

classic 80s sci-fi, like Blade Runner and Terminator. The big institutions of science fiction, such as Star Wars and Star Trek, obviously had a great influence as well.

Modifié par SSV Enterprise, 17 décembre 2010 - 09:24 .

[Beerfish]

Way back when, well before Mass Effect came into being and BioWare created a space game they copyrighted (or something along those lines) the name/title "Star Citadel". I think they were talking about it for quite a while before it came into being.

[Arken]

Bamboozalist wrote...

It was not just Star Wars. 70s and 80s Sci-Fi as a whole is the inspiration behind ME which is why you can find so many cliches in it.

Although I guess you could say Star Wars was its main inspiration for its inspiration since Star Wars was a throw back to the action adventures of the 30s and 40s.

I thought Star Wars was loosly based off the Odessey...:innocent:

[lovgreno]

To me it feels like they wanted to make a more mature version of Star Wars.

[HappyHappyJoyJoy]

DirtyVagrant wrote...

nikola8 wrote...

Star Wars- specifically Bioware's work on KOTOR. Aside from the lightsabre action, the games are quite similar (Mass Effect being better, of course). I don't believe it was halo inspired. Halo and ME have space, armor, and guns, and that's where it begins and ends.

This. Bioware wanted a space story of their own to tell, probably without the restraints of LucasArts. Many people think the ME music is very... Bladerunner-esque, so that's an influence in one respect.

This happens a lot.  Licensed games can be a PITA - you have to get approval for anything you do with the property, you have to pay $$, etc.

One other game I know of that did the same was Dune II, by Westwood.  They decided to make their own game - it turned into Command and Conquer.  That worked out well for them until EA bought them and shut them down <_<

[Vengeful Nature]

This sort of thing can be a bit of a sci-fi Rorschach Test, since everyone brings different percieved influences to the table.

I see Blade Runner, Alien/Aliens, Babylon 5, Fred Saberhagen's Berserker series, Iain M. Banks' Culture novels, amoungst others.

I'm not sure I see a massive Star Wars influence outside of the obvious.

Modifié par Vengeful Nature, 17 décembre 2010 - 09:44 .

[Jigero]

Star Wars (very little tough), Star Ship Troopers, Star Trek, Buck Rogers, H.P. Love Craft Novels, Philip K Dick Novels, Issac Asimov Novels, Ray Bradberry, Adam Turing, Eric Von Danikin,



just to name a few that I noticed. For example.



The Reapers definitely came from H.P. Lovecraft, like Call of Cthulhu, The Reapers are referred too as the "Old Machines" (Old Gods in Lovecraft Novels) the whisper to mortals and turn them into thralls and they even look like Giant Squids.



Asari: are a cross between tweeliks from star wars, Orion women and Vulcans from star trek



Korgan: are just the mass effect verison of Kilgons, Prominent heard crests, organ redundancy and a warrior race controlled by their emotions. On top of that Micheal Dorn who played a very famous Klingon did the voice for one of the Krogan. Almost as if it was a dead give away.



there is a bunch of other stuff, but it would like take me all day to talk about it.

[Bamboozalist]

Arken wrote...

Bamboozalist wrote...

It was not just Star Wars. 70s and 80s Sci-Fi as a whole is the inspiration behind ME which is why you can find so many cliches in it.

Although I guess you could say Star Wars was its main inspiration for its inspiration since Star Wars was a throw back to the action adventures of the 30s and 40s.

I thought Star Wars was loosly based off the Odessey...:innocent:

Guess what the action adventure serials of the 30s and 40s were based off of. Plus any adventure every told is loosely based on Homer's works which themselves where probably inspired by an earlier story.

[Phaedon]

Homer's work were inspired of how Ancient Greeks viewed the actual Trojan war, but are inaccurate, since it happened centuries before Homer's time.

[Moondoggie]

Sci Fi in general. The Dev's are obviously big sci-fi fans and pull influences from all sorts of things. You could probably find a bit of eveyrthing in it.

[lovgreno]

BioWare uses old clichés and stories in a new fresh way.