My gripe with Blizzard

[Burris]

Let me start by saying I love Blizzard games. I bought Starcraft the day it came out, and Warcraft III. I was also an avid Warcraft and Warcraft II player. And played WoW for about a year.

But something I noticed awhile ago is their games are at least storyline wise, extremely derivative. I was talking to my friend who's a WoW player and he claimed Warhammer Online was a WoW rip off.

Warhammer 40k - Starcraft

Terran = Space Marines/Empire
Zerg = Tyranid
Protoss = Eldar/Dark Eldar

And Warhammer is far more obvious.

It seems to me many newer Blizzard gamers are not even aware of Games Workshop, and it seems to me to be entirely unfair to call Warhammer Online a "WoW Ripoff"

And yes, I am definitely looking forward to Warhammer Online.

[Mr. Burns]

...and they both borrowed heavily from Tolkien, who borrowed heavily from...

[Penguin]

http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/4485/wowhammerom1.jpg

[Burris]

...and they both borrowed heavily from Tolkien, who borrowed heavily from...

Well, Blizzard extracted the GW aesthetics, which Tolkein did not set in place.

[Cheeto]

I love that Penny Arcade comic. I've used that before on some kids who wouldn't get off my lawn. Never saw em again. Their families moved out the next day.

[jow]

Blizzard doesn't say "warhammer is a knockoff." dumb kids do.

[Steffmeister]

...and they both borrowed heavily from Tolkien, who borrowed heavily from...

Norse mythology.

FUCKING VIKING POWER! BOOYA!

[Ska Wars]

They're all borrowed ideas mate. As other people have already said, Warhammer is just an evolution of ideas put forward by Tolkien, where as IMO Warhammer 40k borrows alot of ideas from Herbert's Dune series.

People get ideas from everywhere really, very little is totally original. Hell, the guy who invented the Space Marines said he originally based the shoulder pads on Roman Shields, so the Marines would almost hide behind them as they peaked out to fire their weapons heh