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Clippersfan wrote...

Lotion Soronnar wrote...

I think this is appropriate:

Or maybe not, given that it is contested, but I can't be arsed looking for a better picture...
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LMAO... Oh no. Please don't tell me my favorite movie as a kid was jacked too??? 


It is: http://en.wikipedia...._the_White_Lion

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Darth Malice113 wrote...

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Clippersfan wrote...
I am not worthy :Bowdown:. I love Sci Fi and don't know what half of those are :(


You don't know Babylon 5?

You should watch it, one of my favorite sci-fi series. Image IPB


B5 was one of the reasons I was drawn to Mass Effect.

If you like Mass Effect be sure to check out B5. You'll probably enjoy it. Image IPB


B5 was great, and Fans of ME will probably also enjoy Farscape, a great scifi show that ran from 1999-2003 before Derpfi(scifi/syfy lol) canceled it. For fans of happy endings you'll greatly enjoy the ending; no worries of a depressing end! I think Netflix has the whole series up for the time being.

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Halo is even sorta similar to Mass Effect. Ancient alien race responsible for great technological achievements mysteriously disappears, come to find out they were all killed in a mass extinction (although self doing). A military specialist hero finds out the secrets of the ancient aliens and stops the mass extinction from occurring again.
0mG BuNgee shud sue them!

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ENIGMA 19 wrote...

Halo is even sorta similar to Mass Effect. Ancient alien race responsible for great technological achievements mysteriously disappears, come to find out they were all killed in a mass extinction (although self doing). A military specialist hero finds out the secrets of the ancient aliens and stops the mass extinction from occurring again.
0mG BuNgee shud sue them!


Not in this cycle it seems. But they WILL recycle :).

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Mass Effect series is also heavily plagiarizing Star Control 3

This is Star Control 3

Tens of thousands of years ago, an immensely powerful civilization vanished from the galaxy with no explanation, leaving no traces except for ruins of their cities and huge caches of their technology.

Over time, younger races evolved, and as they discovered these caches of technology left behind by the ancients, they began to build a galactic civilization of their own. Some considered the ancients to have been just another race in the galaxy, while others worshipped them as their creators and progenitors. Now, Earth has just been admitted membership into the galactic alliance, but has to prove itself worthy before it can earn the respect of the older races.

You are an elite agent of this new galactic civilization: a human who serves and protects the galaxy, and commands the galaxy's most advanced starship. Over the course of your duties, you discover a new threat to galactic peace: the apocalypse that once wiped out the ancients is set to return.

As you pursue a way to stop the cataclysm, you learn the secrets of the ancient past. You learn how the ancients themselves were NOT the creators of the technology that everyone uses. You learn how they also discovered the technology just as the younger races did. You learn how they discovered afterwards that their entire evolution had been manipulated. And finally, you learn how this unknown enemy from beyond known space craves sentient life, cultivating sentience in the galaxy like a giant farm, only to sweep in every few hundred thousand years to harvest everything and wipe the slate clean for the next harvest. You learn how this cycle has continued unbroken for many millions, perhaps billions of years.

The ancients, however, were close to finding a solution to ending the cycle, but were too late and found themselves trapped in their own sanctuary that they had created to hide themselves from the cataclysm.

Now it is up to you to finish the puzzle that the ancients left behind and finish their work, and end the cycle.

From this point you have to travel across the galaxy, meet other civilizations and gain their trust to form an alliance. Every alien civilization will ask you to do an important task for them (for example, help a warrior race who was near extinct to find the lost females they need, help another race re-take their home planet).

The last mission is a suicide mission. You will have to launch an attack against a powerful "battle platform", and plant a bomb.



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lol, the endings are ripped from Deus Ex., even the colors!

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Don't care, and even if it was jacked, they spent a lot more time designing and writing than that.

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Well, Bioware has better naming conventions, I'll give them that.

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Oh well at least now we know why the endings are the way they are…

Even then its a great trilogy….

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CerberusSoldier wrote...

Halo was jacked from something called Ring World . so I am not surprise


Actually, it was not. Ring world was a completely seperate story with a much larger scope than Halo could possibly imagine. All Bungie did was use the theory of a ring world and Dyson Spheres and implement them into their story. Ring Worlds and Dyson Spheres are simply scientific theories of how humans could live on an artificial world if, say, our sun is exploding and we find that hey, we just can't live on mars. So they make their own habitable world.

Surprisingly, Halo is mildly original, save the fact it mimics MARATHON, which was another Bungie game.

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fetissimies wrote...

Mass Effect series is also heavily plagiarizing Star Control 3

This is Star Control 3

Tens of thousands of years ago, an immensely powerful civilization vanished from the galaxy with no explanation, leaving no traces except for ruins of their cities and huge caches of their technology.

Over time, younger races evolved, and as they discovered these caches of technology left behind by the ancients, they began to build a galactic civilization of their own. Some considered the ancients to have been just another race in the galaxy, while others worshipped them as their creators and progenitors. Now, Earth has just been admitted membership into the galactic alliance, but has to prove itself worthy before it can earn the respect of the older races.

You are an elite agent of this new galactic civilization: a human who serves and protects the galaxy, and commands the galaxy's most advanced starship. Over the course of your duties, you discover a new threat to galactic peace: the apocalypse that once wiped out the ancients is set to return.

As you pursue a way to stop the cataclysm, you learn the secrets of the ancient past. You learn how the ancients themselves were NOT the creators of the technology that everyone uses. You learn how they also discovered the technology just as the younger races did. You learn how they discovered afterwards that their entire evolution had been manipulated. And finally, you learn how this unknown enemy from beyond known space craves sentient life, cultivating sentience in the galaxy like a giant farm, only to sweep in every few hundred thousand years to harvest everything and wipe the slate clean for the next harvest. You learn how this cycle has continued unbroken for many millions, perhaps billions of years.

The ancients, however, were close to finding a solution to ending the cycle, but were too late and found themselves trapped in their own sanctuary that they had created to hide themselves from the cataclysm.

Now it is up to you to finish the puzzle that the ancients left behind and finish their work, and end the cycle.

From this point you have to travel across the galaxy, meet other civilizations and gain their trust to form an alliance. Every alien civilization will ask you to do an important task for them (for example, help a warrior race who was near extinct to find the lost females they need, help another race re-take their home planet).

The last mission is a suicide mission. You will have to launch an attack against a powerful "battle platform", and plant a bomb.


If you had not labled it I would have though I was reading the outline to ME.

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Well let's face it BioWares writing capabilities are severely overrated.

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I originally bought ME1 (before it was ever a huge friggin' franchise) because I always saw that it was a nod to some of my favorite old school sci-fi. Jack Wall's music, the computer interface designs, the lens flares, film grain; story aside, I found that the box presentation harkened to my inner sci-fi nerd in ways that I really enjoyed.

That's not plagiarism, that's an homage.

Now here's the thing about sci-fi: it's all the same dang story, with the same dang stock characters. You can draw parallels between Mass Effect and Star Trek, B5, Stargate, Halo, Blade Runner, and pretty much every other old school sci-fi story out there...that's called being in a genre. Before Legion, there was Data. Before Shepard, there was Picard, or Kirk. Before Grunt, there was Worf. Before FTL, there was Hyperspace. Before Mass Effect's skintight plastic-looking armor, there was...other skintight plastic-looking armor.

I honestly don't think the Mass Effect writers when devising ME1 were exactly striving for the cusp of originality: there's better ways to go about it than by living in the same stock vision of the future as has been done a hundred times before. I always felt like the universe as they envisioned was a nod to what I assume was their favorite stories/environments from this genre when they were growing up.

You're not going to knock Kill Bill for plagiarizing Karasawa's films, are you? ...And those even used the same camera angles!