every single game is a rip off of pong

[quote]Before you flame, just stop and think for a minute. It's pretty easy to spot the sources that Bungie blatantly rips off. Just as Halo was Larry Niven's Ringworld combined with Starship Troopers, so to is destiny an awkward mash-up of older, better science fiction. Consider the following: -Destiny has a loose alliance of different races living together (similar to Mass Effect) -Destiny has psychic space-magic (pretty much identical to Mass Effect) -The heroes of Destiny fight a powerful but mysterious alien enemy with strange motives (Mass Effect) -The "good" races of Destiny are aided by an even stranger race of extremely powerful aliens, these aliens shelter the good races from harm and establish a sort of benevolent dictatorship. Despite all this, no one really knows who the good aliens are or why they take such an interest in protecting their society. Some suspect that their motives might not be entirely pure (this is pretty much the whole plot of Childhood's End) -And of course, Destiny is a multiplayer RPG/shooter that revolves around PvE missions, collecting loot, and weapon customization with several different character classes (Borderlands) With this evidence presented, it becomes plain to see how unoriginal Bungie's writing team has become. It's sad that such a successful game studio has to rip of so much material from other sources. I hope Bungie will try to be more original in future titles but sadly that seems unlikely. Thanks for reading.[/quote] Before I begin this allow me to state that it is highly possible that, due to how long our race existed and told stories, originality died out millennia ago. Though what matters to me more is that I think you're looking at this game the wrong way. 1. If your first argument is about those living in the city, then you're actually talking of three variations of a single species in a rather sturdy alliance. If you talk of the city's opposition, you talk of five different races who all also oppose one another to a degree. 2. Your third argument isn't exactly fitting for Mass Effect, which you say is being ripped off there. The first game leaves a clear idea that the reapers follow a cycle of letting organisms develop to a point before wiping them out for a new set of organisms to take their place. That would make the reapers more like the status-seeking Fallen and militaristically expanding Cabal. What follows the definition of mysterious and powerful though are the Vex, Hive, and "unnamed" 5th race. 3. As mentioned by another user, the traveler is a single entity being that is also very much dead.

I feel like Mass Effect was ripping off Star Wars lol

1. The alien races don't live together. I read somewhere that they fight each other. 2. The space magic was given to them by a mysterious being. 3. True. 4. There is no race aiding them. It's the Traveler. It's not a race it's an object. The Traveler is also dead. 5. You can say that about a ton of games! That is by far the lamest thing I have ever heard. I could say it's like diablo or WoW or just about any game. That is really low choosing the broadest comparison and saying that makes it similar. That is like saying a plane and a shopping cart are the same because they have wheels and move.

I'm positive all of these ideas have been around long before video games started using them. As for the gameplay it seems more like most modern MMOs rather than Borderlands which just feeds the loot ache we all have sometimes.

You're being unoriginal in criticism with the sole intention of provoking people. Define inspiration, its the nature of progression. Borderlands is merely a combination of prior established gameplay elements. The only crucial difference is how well it's pulled off, provided the elements carried are done with taste and respect.