Youtube Yogscast: Guild Wars 2
If you go to 13:12 in the video, they go into the arena, and in it you'll find giant worms with very similar artistic looks to the Aehallh Worm in our game.
STO wiki
Not only that but the animations and everything about it (including that your fighting them in an arena in a hunting/ gladitorial competition) bear close resemblance to what we have in the STO episode of "Coliseum".
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Its not like its an industry success story.
(I personally like the older FE's and the Doff system)
Of course they probably got it from Dune, but still.
On a side note, I consider these worm NPCs to be among the most horrendous in any game. :eek:
They are one of the first mobs you run into in a farm field right outside one of the Sanctuaries.
Yeah, that was Maw the Mountain Heart . That thing was nasty to cap.
And they look remarkablly like the "worms" in Hellfire Peninsula in WoW.
There is very little you will not be able to find in other games if you look hard enough. There is very little that can be original about a worm, a human, an orc and so on and so forth. It is well known the industry tends to borrow from each other.
I'll get to Dune later. Me? I'm still ****ed off that LOTRO stole orcs from Everquest! Brad McQuaid should sue Turbine!
LOL This is an interesting thread.
GW or for that matter ARENANET the studio - DID NOT, I repeat, DID NOT rip off anything from STO.
For starters GuildWars 2 has been in developmental way before the existence of STO - second, the worms were not inspired by STO, its more likely CRYPTIC was inspired by GuildWars or the movie DUNE.
In Guild Wars there were several versions of these worms, some small, some giants, and one rare one that was a Behemoth.
They existed in the dessert, and in the snow - GW:EN had Frost worms - pesty enemies that were a pain to beat.
Even if anyone did rip them off from STO, STO hasn't' exactly made prominent use of the ones it has.
Just like in the modding world, there are people who just say, hey, great minds think alike, and there are others who send you cease and desist PMs first, and check who actually created the idea later. At other times a good idea is unfortunately ignored but someone necromances the thread 6 months later and posts an identical copy as his own
ps. Are the STO space armours inspired by Tron? Especially if you play a science character, the blue panels and EL lighting are TRON-ish.
When it comes right down to it, I've seen most of what I've expirienced in STO so far in other games at least half a dozen times...
Basically: If it works... Make it too...
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