Conspiracy theory! Games Workshop rips off Rifts again!
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I would say it's coincidence.
it's about a generic mecha design as you can get. it's not really origonal, inspiring, or particually interesting.
it's about a generic mecha design as you can get. it's not really origonal, inspiring, or particually interesting.
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Nekira Sudacne wrote:I would say it's coincidence.
it's about a generic mecha design as you can get. it's not really origonal, inspiring, or particually interesting.
Agreed. Both Warhammer and Rifts are pastiches of various genre fiction and media. They're both drinking from the same well. It's bound to happen.
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Ever hear of "Generic Mecha Design"?
Well, your pictures pretty much epitomize it. of course they resemble something from palladium. They resemble a half dozen different models, simply because they're so bland.
Well, your pictures pretty much epitomize it. of course they resemble something from palladium. They resemble a half dozen different models, simply because they're so bland.
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Well if PB goes after GW for simularities then whoever made Guyver would have to go after PB for even stronger simularities in Splicers. Who cares if you like the game play it. Didn't Thumper's mother teach you anything? If you don't have anything nice to say...
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Zer0 Kay wrote:Well if PB goes after GW for simularities then whoever made Guyver would have to go after PB for even stronger simularities in Splicers. Who cares if you like the game play it. Didn't Thumper's mother teach you anything? If you don't have anything nice to say...
Or for that matter the predator lookalikes in aliens unlimited galaxy guide. And all the Gundam looking mecha in the Triax book..
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Kikkoman wrote:It'd be coincidence if it was just one, but everything together adds up.
howabout...
(not 40k, this is a model from the 80's I think, by Studio Nue, the Macross people)
http://static.flickr.com/39/91464256_287d4be476_o.jpg
does it look like anything to you folks?
Yeah, like one of the mechs from Bubblegum Crisis and AD Police.
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Marcantony wrote:Kikkoman wrote:It'd be coincidence if it was just one, but everything together adds up.
howabout...
(not 40k, this is a model from the 80's I think, by Studio Nue, the Macross people)
http://static.flickr.com/39/91464256_287d4be476_o.jpg
does it look like anything to you folks?
Yeah, like one of the mechs from Bubblegum Crisis and AD Police.
It also has elements of the Predator, the Jaeger and the Flanker from Triax
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will someone please shorten that damn link?
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I reccomend treading lightly. Copyright infringement is NASTY business, and Palladium could be dragged into court for years, not to mention shut down outright. In light of what happened recently, if Kev hasn't sufficient cause & evidence, let's not go there
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Nekira Sudacne wrote:will someone please shorten that damn link?
...and here it is in shortened form:
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Sir Ysbadden wrote:Another true fact about the influances of the artGomen_Nagai wrote:actually
All of rifts' Kevin long art was " Lifted " from Appleseed and Bubblegum Crisis and Other studio Nue projects
The gundamish mecha didn't arrive until late 90s
Quite true. For instance, is THIS a Triax Marauder or a Bubblegum Crisis Boomer? If you said the first, you'd be wrong. And if you think the Marauder predates the Boomer, you'd again be in the wrong. Bottom line is Palladium can't gripe too much because they've "taken inspiriation" for their art from others sources as well to such a degree in some instances that they are in no position to cry foul when others borrow form them.
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Gomen_Nagai wrote:actually
All of rifts' Kevin long art was " Lifted " from Appleseed and Bubblegum Crisis and Other studio Nue projects
The gundamish mecha didn't arrive until late 90s
Do you mean that PB didn't start having Gundam infulence until the 90s or that Gundam wasn't around until the 90's? If it is the latter and not the former then... so what if it is the former and not the latter than Gundam has been around longer than that.
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It is a type-C boomer duh. There is enough difference to notice. Saying that they look the same you can then say that everyone who has drawn a bipedal form has stolen from Leonardo.Dead Boy wrote:Sir Ysbadden wrote:Another true fact about the influances of the artGomen_Nagai wrote:actually
All of rifts' Kevin long art was " Lifted " from Appleseed and Bubblegum Crisis and Other studio Nue projects
The gundamish mecha didn't arrive until late 90s
Quite true. For instance, is THIS a Triax Marauder or a Bubblegum Crisis Boomer? If you said the first, you'd be wrong. And if you think the Marauder predates the Boomer, you'd again be in the wrong. Bottom line is Palladium can't gripe too much because they've "taken inspiriation" for their art from others sources as well to such a degree in some instances that they are in no position to cry foul when others borrow form them.
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