Identical weapons/characters from other games?

Has anyone ever noticed the similarities between guild wars stuff and other games stuff. Ive noticed several between guild wars and neevrwinter nights, prettty late so i cant think of all of them at the moment, but an obvious one would be the Jade Armors look exactly like animated armors from NWN. I know theres tons more and they pop up alot and its bugging me i cant think of them atm. List similarities youve found!

The Forgotten = Zerg



Or perhaps Ophidians from Ultima Online:

LMAO hahaha. zerglin'

Hmm, if you count the names there are tons. But I'm unsure if you're talking graphic wise or effect.

You sound like Guild Wars is only the second RPG you've ever played. There's very little true originality in any RPG; Guild Wars is better than most.

Agreed, these games all build off a lot of the same archetypes. I give them a lot of credit for the devourers (even if I do loathe the damn things) and several other enemies. I mean, how often do you see evil dwarves, much less evil dwarves that ride mammoths?

So you were inspired to make an entire topic about this because of "several" similarities, but could only point out one?

Killroy stonekin, nope no relation to Leeroy Jenkins
Oh and the darkness, definately no reference to 8bit DnD especially the Ogre slaying knife, no sir

those are homages, not ripoffs, lol...they are intentional

Wow.

I guess I'll play along.

And how about BONETTI'S DEFENSE.

Haha!

Real original, Anet!

And don't forget--Rodgort is Trogdor!

Real clever, Anet. I hope you get sued for trying to sneak that one in. Man, I'm paying you people for this?

/duh

The mission with glint is almost the same as the crystal ball in NWN:
in GW you are ported into some object as small as the sand particle and kill the dragon.
in NWN you are ported into the crystal ball and kill the dragon.

The ritualist is from Lineage II Chronicle III ftp://ftp.lineage2.com/e3-2004/e3_cg_divx.avi

And the assassin is from Diablo II, of course.

well those are from arena net and well half of the designers of gw came from blizard

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=11706

It's all been covered. =)

Well the similarities are there because they all have essentiually came from the same inspiration.... Dungeons and Dragons. I cant believe Im the first person to mention it. Its funny how few even know about the original inspiration for the games they play. It all started a long time ago(whether you like to admit it or not) with a bunch of nerds(Im a nerd, dont worry) hanging out in some dingy basement all crowded around an 'Apple 2e'... 'hey wouldnt it be cool if we could program the computer to play DnD', and hence CRPG'ing was born.
Now the games share more similarities to each other than too the original PnP game(tho some like NWN draw directley from DnD, and use the mechanics of the game), but the original inspiration is the same, and for most it is DnD.

Much like how every single fanstasy novel gets alot of inspiration from either Lord of the Rings or Conan the Barbarian, RPG's get inspiration from DND and other precursors to the whole revolution of RPGs.