I was playing RAGE today, and noticed these…
Hardlight shield = Authority Shield?
Spartan Ops = Legends of the Wasteland?
…just a coincidence? Something else? Also, the Authority armor in RAGE looks similar to Locus (Gungnir?) in my opinion, ut I could be wrong.
Perhaps, but neither of these concepts are particularly original no matter which way you look.
At any rate I was not expecting such similarities with such a recent title, curious find OP.
A “light shield” isn’t exactly a new idea and even so, being inspired by new ideas isn’t a bad thing and other developers can think up new ways to use those ideas that can be beneficial to their gameplay or to gaming in general as they can show a new way at using those ideas.
Besides, half of Halo is linked to the Aliens movie.
I guess its possible that 343 took cues from RAGE, I’m personally just glad that someone finally compared halo to a game OTHER than call of duty for once.
There is nothing new under the sun.
I’m not saying this is a bad things guys, 343 may or may not have taken great ideas and made them better with Halo. i personally found this awesome as LoTw was amazing, and those shields were always fun to blow up 
> Jetpack = Wing Cap
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> Infection = Zombies
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> Look hard enough, and you can connect anything to anything. 
^This, and there’s also the nearly 4 years of development that have gone into Halo 4. Now I’m sure Rage had a length dev process as well, but I believe this to be a case of “convergent evolution”.
> Jetpack = Wing Cap
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> Infection = Zombies
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> Look hard enough, and you can connect anything to anything.
You’re completely missing the point. In my second post I explained that if they are based on said RAGE aspects, than I have very high hopes for Halo 4 as I enjoyed both portions of RAGE. I feel like you came here to senselessly bash me as if I was saying “CoD = Halo because you can shoot a firearm”, why would a Monitor do that?
> > Jetpack = Wing Cap
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> > Infection = Zombies
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> > Look hard enough, and you can connect anything to anything.
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> You’re completely missing the point. In my second post I explained that if they are based on said RAGE aspects, than I have very high hopes for Halo 4 as I enjoyed both portions of RAGE. I feel like you came here to senselessly bash me as if I was saying “CoD = Halo because you can shoot a firearm”, why would a Monitor do that?
I assume Cobb’s was making assumptions which isn’t good but theres been so much “oh they’re copying cod” and “it doesn’t feel anything like halo” talk that I can see why he would think you were saying the same thing.
> > Jetpack = Wing Cap
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> > Infection = Zombies
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> > Look hard enough, and you can connect anything to anything.
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> You’re completely missing the point. In my second post I explained that if they are based on said RAGE aspects, than I have very high hopes for Halo 4 as I enjoyed both portions of RAGE. I feel like you came here to senselessly bash me as if I was saying “CoD = Halo because you can shoot a firearm”, why would a Monitor do that?
I didn’t come here to senselessly bash anyone. I was actually joking around, hence the “:P” at the end of my post. Sorry if I offended you, bro. :\
The similarity between the HLS and AS is incredible. Either 343 liked the design and forerunner-ized it, or it is just a major coincidence.
First off Spartan Ops is nothing like the RAGE feature you linked to, both are CO-OP but one is 2 player and one is up to 4 player. Spartan Ops is using brand new environments not connected to the main Campaign what so ever and its delivered over 10 weeks, apart from the CO-OP aspect there is no connection. The shield comparison is just silly, both are shield’s and that’s where the connection ends.
> > Jetpack = Wing Cap
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> > Infection = Zombies
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> > Look hard enough, and you can connect anything to anything.
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> You’re completely missing the point. In my second post I explained that if they are based on said RAGE aspects, than I have very high hopes for Halo 4 as I enjoyed both portions of RAGE. I feel like you came here to senselessly bash me as if I was saying “CoD = Halo because you can shoot a firearm”, why would a Monitor do that?
I think you misunderstood what he was saying. He wasn’t trying to bash you. Merely reinforcing the point that there are a lot of similar gameplay elements in other games.
Case in point
Doesn’t mean I’m saying one copied from the other. Merely pointing it out.
I’d say 95% of games are unoriginal.
Every studio plays and looks at other games for ideas and innovations, there really isn’t too many new ideas you can put into a game really lol.
Unless of course you go all whacky and make a game so unique and weird it either A. is unplayable and B. Scares people off.
Well going by JJ’s logic, the OP seems to be looking hard for offense.
But… Jackal shield, and the other one isn’t a really good picture.
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> > I guess its possible that 343 took cues from RAGE, I’m personally just glad that someone finally compared halo to a game OTHER than call of duty for once.
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> Metroid?
wtf not? a great deal of the game was influenced (or copyed) from aliens aswell so I think the idea of people saying that halo copies from CoD is kind of redundant compared to everything else they were inspired by (stole).
> I guess its possible that 343 took cues from RAGE, I’m personally just glad that someone finally compared halo to a game OTHER than call of duty for once.
A shield made of light is a tried and true thing in Sci-fi, so nothing new there.
But I agree, I’m sick of the CoD comparisons…
> I’d say 95% of games are unoriginal.
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> Every studio plays and looks at other games for ideas and innovations, there really isn’t too many new ideas you can put into a game really lol.
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> Unless of course you go all whacky and make a game so unique and weird it either A. is unplayable and B. Scares people off.
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Pretty much this.
I swear all the mainstream shooters are looking alike nowadays with H4 being the most recent example.
I remember a time where shooter innovation was at its highest peak, every time I bought a new game it actually had new mechanics and it wasnt just a re-skinned/tweaked version of the other shooter mechanics.
Now its like every shooter stresses the same thing, “Player customization”, “Intense thrill Ride campaigns”, “Unlockable BS”, “Abilities/killstreaks to make you feel OP”, its like what happened to the innovation in the shooter genre? Whens the last time you heard about a “Death-match shooter”? When is the last time you heard about a “Real tactical shooter?” When is the last time you heard " NEW Unreal/Sci-fi shooter"? When is the last time you heard a dev say “We wanted to go on out on a limb and create something different”? Not very often, because it seems like everyone is sticking to the formula that currently works.
-Yoink-, I hope its just because the current console generation is coming to an end, or the shooter fanbase is going to start to get tired of playing the same class-based customization focused shooter. Thank god for CS:GO and Dust 514 for being DIFFERENT from the pack, I will be checking out both.
