lol

If they didnt sue the ass out of StarCraft, which was a total copy-paste

They certainly aint gonna do it for Star Citizen

StarCraft ain't even remotely a copypasta

The zerg and 'nid similarities came because each informed the other's design
And Terran Marines are mostly convicts, not genetically engineered supersoldiers.

Protoss/Eldar have a ton of similarities, will say, but are also drastically different as well

For one the Protoss aren't space elves that fucked a chaos god into existence, forcing them to all become pseudo-liches.

I mean star citizen looks freaking awesome but they need to move along my brother got into it way back but there's nothing much to do they added planets with a bunch of bugs it'll be great in time just not to buy right now even though I want some of the ships just not yeah that price!

no

total copy-paste

any1 who was there at the time knew it

protoss are the only ones with slight originality

Warcraft was also a copy-paste

So many drastic differences though. Like, I can definitely accept that there was a lot of inspiration from one to the other, but they seriously weren't even close to the same

And this is just with lore from 1 and Brood War, not even touching the new stuff

You might be able to argue that Starcraft progresses similar to how 40K might have if the Warp and Big E both didn't exist at all, but that's about it.

dude

you know

space marines

didnt exist

till GW made em

and the design for the space marines is incredibly similar

the zerg are basically copy-paste

and protoss are the only one that can reasonably said to just be inspired and not copied

I dont consider StarCraft 2 because that does take a somewhat new direction

we're talking about the origins anyways

also because HotS and LotV kind of butcher the lore

Zerg are not copies of tyranids.
Protoss are not copies of eldar.

There are aesthetic similarities, sure.
And similarities in abilities, Zerg/tyranid hive mind, Protoss/Eldar psychic abilities. Sure.

But that’s about it. “Inspired by” sure. “Copies of”. Not at all.

And “GW Marines are SC marines” no. Other than the name and a general appraisal of “Oh sure, they’re both buff guys in armor”. No. They’re completely different. In origin, ideology, ability. Hell, even in a simple cost/power comparison, they are *complete opposites*.

Just about any person can don a suit of Terran power armor. Space Marines need so much more, implants and biological changes, to use their suits.

@Goodwood of Dank™ Exactly.

It’s obvious that the blizzard guys responsible for SC lore played some 40k, there’s inspiration there, but to imply that they simply copy pasted one universe to another and changed the names is absolutely wrong.

they are both aesthetically and mechanically copies of tyranids

If you're going to make comparisons between the two, you may as well compare them to the progenator of them both: the Marauder suit from Starship Troopers.

are you fucking stupid?

no

the Marauder suit doesnt look like it at all

@Scale_e because they're more like regular IG in StarCraft

but with Space Marine power armor

and considering that Warcraft was provably a copy-paste of Warhammer: https://kotaku.com/how-warcraft-was-almost-a-warhammer-game-and-how-that-5929161

had it not been for the fact that Blizzard had pulled this shit before, I might've been more forgiving, but it is in fact the case so I'm not

and bear in mind that this is the level that Blizzard themselves are willing to admit to

“At one time we wanted to make a warhammer game”

That’s it.

That’s your, And this articles, “proof” that it’s a copy.

Weaksauce dude.

They wanted to make a warhammer game. They couldn’t. So they made a *different* fantasy game. That draws on the same Tolkienesque source material as every other fantasy setting.