Quote from: x-M-x on May 17, 2012, 02:25:51 AM
Plus the 'ALIEN' franchise is older... FAR OLDER so how the hell can they compare? 0.o
kids...
in fact it's mass effect who ripped/stole idea's/themes etc from the alien franchise ? lol...
Because nobody's disputing the two series, as a whole. This is specifically about the vehicle and suit designs of '
Prometheus'. Not the first four films.
And the work for that has been going since shortly after '
Mass Effect 2' being released - and heavily lauded in most media as the next raising of the bar in science-fiction.
It's
very conceivable, yes, that the people hired for designing the suits and vehicles for '
Prometheus' at least took a passing look at stuff which was very famously plastered all over magazine covers and more, about the first two '
Mass Effect' games, for inspiration.
In essence, this is no different to the reverse. It's just easier to see.
As I've said before, the Prometheus does have some design features which were directly stolen from other stuff in the series (the engines, for example, are four miniaturised direct copies of the rear section of the Sulaco, as I've said before), but it's very obvious, especially for the costumes, that there was some '
Mass Effect' visual influence which bled in.
I'm going to just link my original post here, because it says virtually everything needed.
http://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/index.php?topic=42974.msg1334227#msg1334227In essence, you couldn't put the Normandy in '
Aliens', because it wouldn't look like a logical technological progression alongside the Sulaco, dropship and more. But you
could dump just about any of the hardware from '
Prometheus' into one of the ME games and it would fit
perfectly.
Doesn't mean it's a direct rip or anything. Just that the basic influence is clear, beyond just paint schemes (although, in fairness, that's an obvious clue, too).