Black Ops campaign: There is ripoffs and then there is homages...

Seriously while I was playing through the single player campaign yesterday I was dumbstruck, with how they managed to blatantly rip off countless movies, such as Platoon, Apocalypse Now, Terminator 2, The Deer Hunter, Tropic Thunder etc........

I know this kind of thing happens all the time, but when they base a whole level off that famous scene in the Deer Hunter, it just makes me go facepalm.

How about some originality ? :|

I'd prefer if they fix the online first. :P

I would like to play a match for more than 3 minutes before being disconnected.

Originality=/=good It was mildly amusing for 4 or so hours. You should know what to expect from cod's sp post 4.:P

Seriously while I was playing through the single player campaign yesterday I was dumbstruck, with how they managed to blatantly rip off countless movies, such as Platoon, Apocalypse Now, Terminator 2, The Deer Hunter, Tropic Thunder etc........

I know this kind of thing happens all the time, but when they base a whole level off that famous scene in the Deer Hunter, it just makes me go facepalm.

How about some originality ? :|

it's called a "cliché".

There's thousands of movies out there, quit complaining that they rip off of movies, it's almost impossible not to, they all contain many similar cliches (as another poster said).

Seriously while I was playing through the single player campaign yesterday I was dumbstruck, with how they managed to blatantly rip off countless movies, such as Platoon, Apocalypse Now, Terminator 2, The Deer Hunter, Tropic Thunder etc........

I know this kind of thing happens all the time, but when they base a whole level off that famous scene in the Deer Hunter, it just makes me go facepalm.

How about some originality ? :|

I thought the whole sailing downriver thing was a light-hearted homage to Apocalypse Now, if such a thing is possible.

You can add Fight Club and A Beautiful Mind to the list as well

My biggest problem was when you get into the jeep, woods goes "it's built like a tank but manueverable to"

I hate in game advertising.... ruined the entire story for me....

The only direct 'ripoffs' I saw were Terminator 2's motorcycle/shotgun and Deer Hunter's Russian roulette (Mao, diddy MAO!) scene. That's it. I think you're stretching a bit...

My biggest problem was when you get into the jeep, woods goes "it's built like a tank but manueverable to"

I hate in game advertising.... ruined the entire story for me....

ps3wizard45

I thought the game was a step up from MW2.

You realise all those movies were based of an ACTUAL WAR that happened, I know, crazy right! The only scene I saw that was actually a rip off was the Deer Hunter bit.bobbetybob

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My biggest problem was when you get into the jeep, woods goes "it's built like a tank but manueverable to"

I hate in game advertising.... ruined the entire story for me....

Verge_6

You realise all those movies were based of an ACTUAL WAR that happened, I know, crazy right! The only scene I saw that was actually a rip off was the Deer Hunter bit.bobbetybob

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My biggest problem was when you get into the jeep, woods goes "it's built like a tank but manueverable to"

I hate in game advertising.... ruined the entire story for me....

ps3wizard45

[QUOTE="bobbetybob"]You realise all those movies were based of an ACTUAL WAR that happened, I know, crazy right! The only scene I saw that was actually a rip off was the Deer Hunter bit.MFDOOM1983

Seriously while I was playing through the single player campaign yesterday I was dumbstruck, with how they managed to blatantly rip off countless movies, such as Platoon, Apocalypse Now, Terminator 2, The Deer Hunter, Tropic Thunder etc........

I know this kind of thing happens all the time, but when they base a whole level off that famous scene in the Deer Hunter, it just makes me go facepalm.

How about some originality ? :|

I'd prefer if they fix the online first. :P

I would like to play a match for more than 3 minutes before being disconnected.

Ragnarok1051

it's called a "cliché".

BrunoBRS

The only direct 'ripoffs' I saw were Terminator 2's motorcycle/shotgun and Deer Hunter's Russian roulette (Mao, diddy MAO!) scene. That's it. I think you're stretching a bit...

Verge_6

THe entire premise of Victor Resnov was based around the same idea from Fight Club

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The only direct 'ripoffs' I saw were Terminator 2's motorcycle/shotgun and Deer Hunter's Russian roulette (Mao, diddy MAO!) scene. That's it. I think you're stretching a bit...

BPoole96

THe entire premise of Victor Resnov was based around the same idea from Fight Club

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The only direct 'ripoffs' I saw were Terminator 2's motorcycle/shotgun and Deer Hunter's Russian roulette (Mao, diddy MAO!) scene. That's it. I think you're stretching a bit...

Verge_6

THe entire premise of Victor Resnov was based around the same idea from Fight Club

I can't think of a movie that did that before Fight Club. A Beautiful Mind did something similar a few years after, but I made a connection between Black Ops story and Fight Club far before the twist was shown

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The only direct 'ripoffs' I saw were Terminator 2's motorcycle/shotgun and Deer Hunter's Russian roulette (Mao, diddy MAO!) scene. That's it. I think you're stretching a bit...

Verge_6

THe entire premise of Victor Resnov was based around the same idea from Fight Club

Hans Zimmer in MW2. Ed Harris in Black Ops. You think they'll manage to throw enough cash around to get Sean Connery or Nicolas Cage for the next one?

And thanks for the spoilers.

the bit at the end with the ships and the fighter jets felt like it fell directly out team america lol...was just expecting the song to come on tbh.

Now I havent seen Deer Hunter, so I cant relate, but unless these scenes have been over used in multiple movies, books, games, etc... they still arent cliches.II_Seraphim_II

THe entire premise of Victor Resnov was based around the same idea from Fight ClubBPoole96

Hans Zimmer in MW2. Ed Harris in Black Ops. You think they'll manage to throw enough cash around to get Sean Connery or Nicolas Cage for the next one?

And thanks for the spoilers.

McStrongfast

Willem Dafoe if they aint already done it, thats if they revisit that vietnam time period :P

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THe entire premise of Victor Resnov was based around the same idea from Fight Club

bobbetybob

I'm not saying that it was based off of schizophrenia like Fight Club, it's more that the protagonist goes through several events with someone who he feels is real, gets into some trouble, blames everything on the imaginary person, finds out the person isn't real, and the story ends soon after

[QUOTE="II_Seraphim_II"]Now I havent seen Deer Hunter, so I cant relate, but unless these scenes have been over used in multiple movies, books, games, etc... they still arent cliches.funsohng

THe entire premise of Victor Resnov was based around the same idea from Fight ClubBPoole96

Seriously while I was playing through the single player campaign yesterday I was dumbstruck, with how they managed to blatantly rip off countless movies, such as Platoon, Apocalypse Now, Terminator 2, The Deer Hunter, Tropic Thunder etc........

I know this kind of thing happens all the time, but when they base a whole level off that famous scene in the Deer Hunter, it just makes me go facepalm.

How about some originality ? :|

Megaman5364

nothing in this world is "original" now days so whats the problem? Lady GaGa?? Nah, we had Cindy Lauper long before that...Nothing is new...

i don't mind that they rip off movies, as long as it is in good taste.

i think ripping off similar scenes of other games is a worse offense though. darksiders did this a bit.

I'd prefer if they fix the online first. :P

I would like to play a match for more than 3 minutes before being disconnected.

Ragnarok1051

I don't know why but that happens to me ONLY if I play a seriously good game.:( It's like Activision hates me cuz I'm not buying their games new.:P

Also I seriously don't see how the campaign is special or any good. Then again, I'm no fan of COD anyways.:P

The scene from Black Ops and the scene from The Deer Hunter are so similiar it's not funny, the vietnamise dude in BO, even yells out Mao when he slaps Woods in the face, and they escape from the POW camp exactly the same way they do in the Deer Hunter and the way it starts off ( them being held underwater in cages ) is exactly what happens in the Deer Hunter also ! GOsh !Megaman5364

No they were not similar. So what the guy said "Mao", that's what they say, the Deer Hunter didn't invent Vietnamese. And the underwater cages were a real thing. And the escape was nothing like deer hunter, AT ALL. There was no Russian guy waiting forthem in deer hunter. There was no log in black ops. And in the deer hunterm de niro made them put in more bullets, in black ops, they just predicted the bullet was in the right place do IDK where you got the same. And no one got beat to death with a pipe in the deer hunter. No guuy took a chunk off his head in black ops. IDK where you're getting that they were so similar. Russian Roulette was an actual thing that happened in Veitnam, the Deer Hunter didn't invent it.

The worst was probably The Deer Hunter and the russian roulette scene. De Niro and Walken being forced to play.

The Vietnam war ripped off so many movies about the Vietnam war! What an unoriginal war!

The first Vietnam mission reminded me a whole lot of the Vietnam intro scene from Forrest Gump. They even played the same song Fortunate son.

[QUOTE="Megaman5364"]The scene from Black Ops and the scene from The Deer Hunter are so similiar it's not funny, the vietnamise dude in BO, even yells out Mao when he slaps Woods in the face, and they escape from the POW camp exactly the same way they do in the Deer Hunter and the way it starts off ( them being held underwater in cages ) is exactly what happens in the Deer Hunter also ! GOsh !Hatiko

No they were not similar. So what the guy said "Mao", that's what they say, the Deer Hunter didn't invent Vietnamese. And the underwater cages were a real thing. And the escape was nothing like deer hunter, AT ALL. There was no Russian guy waiting forthem in deer hunter. There was no log in black ops. And in the deer hunterm de niro made them put in more bullets, in black ops, they just predicted the bullet was in the right place do IDK where you got the same. And no one got beat to death with a pipe in the deer hunter. No guuy took a chunk off his head in black ops. IDK where you're getting that they were so similar. Russian Roulette was an actual thing that happened in Veitnam, the Deer Hunter didn't invent it.

Movie homages are nothing new in COD. COD1, 2, and WAW had a crapload of SPR and Enemy at the Gates nods, it's just what games like COD and MOH are about. Infact, most WW2 games with a D-Day level pretty much take from the famous scene from SPR.

As for BO's campaign, it's probably one of my favorite in the series, and it's only natural to include some similar setpieces to Vietnam War movies in a game with a major section in Vietnam.

People go out of their way to bash COD here. It's not the best FPS series, and MW2 was a piece of junk, but sometimes I feel posters here try to find any way they possibly can to hate on it.