very original

[Anonymous No.7847262]

[Anonymous No.7847265]

>>7847262
His name is Vega, retard.

[Anonymous No.7847276]

Same company that bitched about Fighter's History supposedly copying their material

[Anonymous No.7847369]

>>7847276

[Anonymous No.7847390]

>street fighter is original
>said no one ever

[Anonymous No.7847449]

>>7847369
you know, i don't mind people ripping other ideas off, as long as they do something slightly different. i never played fighter's history, but is their anything that distinguishes it from SFII?

[Anonymous No.7847484]

>>7847369
1. real life person
2. real life person
3. manga
4. both are video games. THIS IS COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT!

[Anonymous No.7847512]

>>7847484
It doesn't have to be the same kind of media for it to be copyright infringement, and even individuals can successfully sue if their image is used without their consent. It's called right of publicity.

[Anonymous No.7847519]

>>7847512
>and even individuals can successfully sue if their image is used without their consent
its a hell of a hurdle to prove they're actually using your image and personage instead of just likeness, ask lindsay lohan

and afaik the bruce lee lookalikes are "allowed" as homages by the bruce lee foundation or whatever the name of the people who are handling his rights now

[Anonymous No.7847558]

>>7847519
>bruce lee lookalikes
There are lots of Bruce Lee clones in Hongkong movies during 70s.
Jackie Chan often uses the term Bruce Chair and Bruce Table for them.
He didn't want to become a Bruce Lee clone because he thinks that fake things can't beat the original.

[Anonymous No.7847563]

>>7847519
I don't know, M. Bison is much more obvious than Lacey Jonas. But it looks like Tyson didn't even learn about it until 2019, so that might be why he didn't sue.

[Anonymous No.7847626]

>>7847276
>>7847369
https://www.polygon.com/22519568/resident-evil-4-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-capcom
HOMAGE!

[Anonymous No.7847656]

>>7847563
If Tyson knew back then, would he have thued them into bolivian?

[Anonymous No.7847774]

>>7847656
He probably wouldn't have given a shit. All that was on his mind was making people a meaty pile of mush.

[Anonymous No.7847978]

>Guile's design is based on Polnareff according to Capcom devs
>even though his design is clearly based on Stroheim instead
>meanwhile, it would be Benimaru from KOF who more closely resembles Polnareff
>Stroheim was extremely nationalistic, patriotic, and an ally to the end
>Guile is extremely nationalistic, patriotic, and an ally to the end
What did Capcom mean by this?

[Anonymous No.7847993]

Weren't these characters copied from Kato? Major antagonist from Teito Monogatari. Atlus used the same design for Reidou

[Anonymous No.7848106]

>>7847993
Yeah, he's kind of a stock character in a Japan by this point, kind of like Dracula.

[Anonymous No.7848116]

>>7847449
Data East apparently copied the play mechanics of Street Fighter II way too closely when they made Fighter's History.

[Anonymous No.7848197]

>>7847265
>he goes by the weeb name
Hahaha what a loser

[Anonymous No.7848201]

>>7847262
M Bison (Jap) is mike tyson woah did you know

[Anonymous No.7848332]

>>7848201
>woah
Did you know that's not how whoa is spelled?

[Anonymous No.7848973]

>>7847369
RYU RIP-OFF!!!!!!

[Anonymous No.7848974]

>>7847265
>he goes by the true name
based

[Anonymous No.7849015]

>>7847262
Riki Oh is a fun manga. I especially recommend the 1st ova. Also,
>nips rip stuff off
Big news

[Anonymous No.7849023]

>>7849015
>manga

Grow the fuck up.

[Anonymous No.7849036]

>>7848332
I say woah as whoa-ah desu

[Anonymous No.7849041]

>>7849023
>video games

Grow the fuck up.

[Anonymous No.7849043]

Anime/Manga and Vidya used to be intertwined, you know?

[Anonymous No.7849081]

[Anonymous No.7849116]

>>7849015
What's your opinion on the live-action film?

[Anonymous No.7849160]

Lady Miss Kier sued Sega for Space Channel 5 and lost even though the "homage" is as blatant as it gets and copies even her dance moves
Apparently they wanted her in the game and later decided to just copy her style

[Anonymous No.7849168]

>>7847484
Yeah I'm gonna have Goku fighting Evangelion mechs in my videogame since they're originally from manga.

[Anonymous No.7849262]

>>7847262
Reminder that Guile is based on a Nazi soldier.

[Anonymous No.7849279]

>>7847369
More than homage they were all stereotypes at the time. The last one is a company trying to capitalise by jumping on the sf band wagon.

[Anonymous No.7849301]

>>7849262
Araki straight out lifted shit all the time from fashion illustrators like Tony Viramontes or Antonio Lopez. It all comes around

[Anonymous No.7849368]

>>7847449
it has a unique stun mechanic and karnov

[Anonymous No.7849369]

>>7849279
>The last one is a company trying to capitalise by jumping on the sf band wagon.

People have always done that, tv sitcom is popular? MAKE ONE JUST LIKE IT FOR OUR NETWORK!
mortal kombat is popular? MAKE DOZENS OF MK KILLERS!
song is popular? just copy the style.

Capcom had no right to sue them, just like Data East Vs Epyx ended in being thrown out of court.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_East_USA,_Inc._v._Epyx,_Inc.

Capcom just didn't like them having the same kinda gameplay, which at the time was groundbreaking.
if SNK had released Fatal Fury 1 with all characters selectable and no plane hopping they would have been sued by Capcom as well.
Capcom knew that their new approach to fighting games was a hit and they tried to bully people into staying with the broken SF1 style or slower tactical International Karate style.

[Anonymous No.7849438]

>>7849301
Man, fashion used to have testosterone. That illustration looks like he could caber toss the average zoomer.

[Anonymous No.7849441]

>>7849116
I haven't seen it in years, but I was used to watch it while getting high. Fun times, 7,5/10.
Also got me really interested in Hong Dong cat III movies, along with the usual John Woo/Ringo Lam stuff

[Anonymous No.7849625]

>>7849116
>What's your opinion on the live-action film?

It's completely insane, so people just assume it's some crazy film and nothing like the comic. Instead it's actually completely faithful to the story. But it's only the first part of the manga! He just went to jail so he could investigate. Then he just decides to leave, and it's a full distopian crazy story. I only got a bit into the next part. I should revisit it.

[Anonymous No.7849652]

They also ripped off Charles Bronson

[Anonymous No.7849653]

[Anonymous No.7849702]

>>7847262
very original

[Anonymous No.7849784]

>>7847369
The only argument in Capcom's favour here is that the medium is the same -- SFII's roster is a hodge-podge of pop cult and manga tropes, but these at least referred to figures in other media, and were purposefully transparent nods to their sources. Japanese players were supposed to recognize M. Bison as Mike Tyson, or Guile as an ironic twist on Jojo's Nazi officer, and part of the fun of the game for Japanese players was that referentiality. Whether the designers of Fighter's History were citing the same set of shared references from which Capcom's designers were drawing or whether they were pulling directly from Capcom's work itself in terms of character design is ambiguous, but that Fighter's History was in precisely the same medium and genre/format as a very successful antecedent would tend to bias one in favour of the latter interpretation.

[Anonymous No.7850025]

>>7849160
They couldn't ask for another?
No, they couldn't ask for another.

[Anonymous No.7850095]

>>7849653
uuhh

[Anonymous No.7850123]

>>7849653
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9tvzw3E5tw

[Anonymous No.7850179]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SNb6tEVlB-Y

[Anonymous No.7850182]

>>7850179
Whoops wrong link
https://youtube.com/watch?v=J1vwlTZ5EGQ

[Pr?nc?ss Sevenleaf No.7850197]

>>7847262
I thought this was common knowledge? Like, I assumed this is why they updated the portraits in later revisions.

[Anonymous No.7850208]

[Anonymous No.7850731]

[Anonymous No.7850905]

>>7849168
You could do that and nobody would bat an eye since there are a million characters copypasted from goku and a billion humanoid mechas you fucking retard

[Anonymous No.7850937]

Senko no Ronde copies an old manga Toward the Terra so much it crosses into plagiarism lawsuit material.

[Anonymous No.7851017]

[Anonymous No.7851051]

>>7847978
>Guile's design is based on Polnareff according to Capcom devs
Interesting. I never would have guessed.
>even though his design is clearly based on Stroheim instead
Definitely a closer resemblance there, but basing an American soldier's design on a Nazi is just awkward.

[Anonymous No.7851054]

Aren't some of Cammy's attacks really similar to Gally's fighting style from Gunnm too?

[Anonymous No.7851065]

>>7849081
wow, thats pretty blatant

[Anonymous No.7851067]

>>7849081
uncanny

[Anonymous No.7851072]

>>7851017
this ones cool is there any others stuff from goldsrc games like this

[Anonymous No.7851081]

>>7851017
>Map: C1A1C
Oh yeah, from game. Cool.

[Anonymous No.7851105]

>>7851081
>zoomer never played Half-Life

[Anonymous No.7851142]

[Anonymous No.7851160]

>>7851105
>anyone who hasn't played Half-Life is a zoomer
>there can be no one my age who isn't into shooters

[Anonymous No.7851329]

>>7847265
Hi! Actually on this board we refer to him as "Dictator" :)

[Anonymous No.7851371]

Well fighting games in general rip off popular movies, animes and whatever fancies their sensibilities, or because it looks plain cool
>>7847563
He looks like the kind of guy that wouldnt care

[Anonymous No.7851384]

>>7851371
Forgot gif

[Anonymous No.7851389]

>>7851384
Yes i know mk was supposed to be a bloodsport game but they could have at least changed the clothing

[Anonymous No.7851395]

>>7851389
Forgot pic goddamnit, in drunk sorry

[Anonymous No.7852172]

>>7847262
How the fuck was Capcom not sued into oblivion?

[Anonymous No.7852490]

>>7852172
The photographer whose assets were used has just recently sued them, same for the frankenstein's army director, from wich they stole the propeller head dude

[Anonymous No.7852560]

>>7851160
I had other FPS games at that age when it was out so I’ve never played it either. Didn’t play the second game either.

[Anonymous No.7853527]

>>7848973
This guy know his history

[Anonymous No.7853642]

>>7848973
This is shamefully blatant. Then again I heard somewhere Japan doesn't have strict copyright laws like the US so they can get away with it.

[Anonymous No.7854393]

>>7853642
Japan seems to have this unwritten rule that if you wanna come up with something just rip off two things that you are a fan of and combine them.

So in my case i'd say "I really liked Outrun and Smokey and the Bandit, so I'mma make an Outrun game with a smokey and the bandit theme"

Funny how they still sued Data East even though they clearly created SF2 by those standards.
but like others said they were just trying to keep others from making games that played like SF2, because it really was a game changer.

[Anonymous No.7854406]

>>7852490
Isnt that guy just being a hipster s.0.y and wanting his farts to be heard?

[Anonymous No.7854493]

>>7852490
Who? What? What assets?

[Anonymous No.7854528]

>>7847369
Capcom does no wrong. Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.7854810]

>>7847449
Original art

[Anonymous No.7854817]

>>7847262
Japan was all about plagiarism before the 2000s.

[Anonymous No.7854820]

Has Nintendo been guilty of this kind of thing? Just wondering.
>>7854406
The resemblance is striking. I think the director has a plausible claim. https://www.gameinformer.com/2021/05/10/frankensteins-army-director-claims-resident-evil-village-monsters-are-based-off-his
>>7854493
Check the Polygon link earlier in the thread. Some photographer's designs were lifted for Resident Evil 4.

[Anonymous No.7855452]

>>7854528
Nooooooooooooope.

[Anonymous No.7855515]

>>7854817
Like China

[Anonymous No.7855543]

>>7849081
i don't know how the fuck i pretty much never even noticed dracula in the background of that cover. well, guess i'm retarded

[Anonymous No.7855548]

>>7849081
Hard to believe that Video Game and D’n’D nerds used to overlap, eh?

[Anonymous No.7855593]

>>7855515
Japan took cutouts of other people's work, then add a bunch of cool/weird shit to make something "new." China takes your stuff, copies it exactly to the best of their ability, then denies it ever belonged to you

[Anonymous No.7855604]

>>7849652
Great movie

[Anonymous No.7856458]

>>7849160
Remember Samba De Amigo on Wii had Groove is in the Heart on a Space Channel 5 stage with Ulala as well. Nice fuck you from Sega.

[Anonymous No.7856628]

>>7847262
>>7847369
Pretty sure Boxer's original hairstyle is a reference to Takagi from Osu Karate Club.

[Anonymous No.7856689]

>>7851142
Ripoff or not, that cover art looks sick.

[Anonymous No.7856897]

>>7855593
>then denies it ever belonged to you
That's what pisses me off the most. Like okay, you copied it, at least have the balls to say you copied it. Don't try to turn it around on me. No one's buying that act but they stick steadfast to it. It's like your kid telling you he didn't eat the cookies when there's crumbs all over his face. Come off it already.

[Anonymous No.7858774]

>>7847262
> BREAKING NEWS: CAPCOM ARE A BUNCH OF TALENTLESS HACKS
wow. what a surprise. wasn't aware of this.

[Anonymous No.7859826]

>>7856628
>funny school delinquent story with slapstick
>suddenly a girl gets raped and killed
what the fuck

[Anonymous No.7859858]

>>7859826
>suddenly a girl gets raped and killed
lol

[Anonymous No.7859946]

>>7849301
It call inspiration or mainly Pastiche

[Anonymous No.7861210]

>BREAKING NEWS: JAPS LOVE TO STEAL IDEAS FROM OTHERS

B'z used to be like the most popular, best selling band in Japan and it seems like 3/4 of their songs were rip offs of Western hits, but even of other Japanese songs! They were cheeky because there was no internet back then and they were separated from the Western world so nobody heard about them and their antics, but now it's all well documented. You can find videos on YT comparing their biggest hits to stuff they ripped off. I don't know how they can look at themselves in the mirror.

[Anonymous No.7861334]

>>7847978
I always assumed they based him off of Ivan Draco, even though Ivan is USSR.

[Anonymous No.7861376]

>>7861210
they probably don't care, george lucas doesn't care about plagarising his movies entirely

[Anonymous No.7861460]

The thing is "video games" wasn't a serious thing. It wasn't taken as a serious art and all the majority of developpers ever did wa copy other media. They still do, just less blatantly.

Back then nobody cared but now that the industry as a whole is worth billions, and now that "video games" is trying to pretend they're a legit art form on the same level as cinema, this kind of shit from the past surfaces to bite them in the ass.

Don't take me wrong, I am a /vr/ poster and games were better before the "we serious art now" shit.

[Anonymous No.7862412]

>>7847262
I think the honorable thing to do would be for Capcom to permanently retire M. Bison from the series and anyone else who they didn't create fully on their own.

[Anonymous No.7862443]

>>7862412
Street Fighter VI's roster: 0 playable characters.

[Anonymous No.7862831]

>>7862443
They could make new characters. They did for SF3 and people love them now.

[Anonymous No.7862859]

>>7862831
Were any of them really "original," per the mandate stipulated above?
You don't need to bother answering.

[Anonymous No.7863254]

>>7862859
How is Ibuki not an original character?

[Anonymous No.7863330]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZaSgnYLceQ

[Anonymous No.7863343]

https://youtu.be/DLsCDaiZZwk?t=604

[Anonymous No.7863364]

>>7863254
Do you KNOW how many ninja high school characters exist in manga and anime? She's a common trope.

[Anonymous No.7863374]

>>7863364
Everything is a "common trope" by now. I'm talking about characters who were blatantly ripped off design wise 100% off something else like OP's pic. Ibuki is totally unique looking.

[Anonymous No.7863405]

>>7863364
Generic doesn't have to mean borderline plagiarized.

[Anonymous No.7863462]

>>7859826
The story changes to a battle shonen later on and doesn't turn back.
Oddly enough, other than the two girls who got raped and killed nobody EVER dies just like in One Piece and every villain turns good upon defeat.

[Anonymous No.7863471]

What would fighting games be like without Hokuto no Ken and Jojo?

[Anonymous No.7863482]

>>7849081
Even though the PAL boxart was likely changed for legal reasons, I'd like to joke around that Euro kids would confuse the two

[Anonymous No.7863487]

>>7863471
Less fun. I'm fine with some ripping off, as long as they pit some kind of spin on things and don't copy a design wholesale.

[Anonymous No.7863547]

>>7863405
True -- but I was responding facetiously to the demand that any characters "not completely original" be retired. No Street Fighter character I can think of would meet that criterion -- which isn't to say that they aren't well-designed or haven't achieved iconic status. But SF has never been about naive ideas of originality -- it's about reference, pastiche, and humour. If you outlaw that in the interests of some theoretical ex-nihilo originality, you won't have any characters left.

[Anonymous No.7863617]

>>7863547
>No Street Fighter character I can think of would meet that criterion
Most of them would. Again the point you're missing is 100% blatant copy and paste characters like Bison. Either Capcom should remove him or pay the original creator of Riki-Oh royalties.

[Anonymous No.7863650]

>>7863617
Isn't Kato older than Riki-oh?

[Anonymous No.7863671]

>>7847369
Tyson/Balrog and Washizaki/Bison is more of an inspiration.

Lee/Fei Long is a homage.

Fighter's History has female Ryu.

[Anonymous No.7863676]

>>7863617
Umm, did you read my post? I'm not missing anything. If you're just really hung up on the fact that the original dictator portrait is clearly referencing that particular Riki-Oh panel, fine (I'm sure the reference was intended to be recognized, in any event). But there is no copyright on mid-century military garb or anything else about the character's assets that wouldn't constitute fair use. Dictator, like the rest of the cast, is just an amalgam of common pop-cult archetypes.

[Anonymous No.7863686]

>>7862831
the only sf3 characters anyone likes are makoto, ibuki, and alex

[Anonymous No.7863741]

>>7850208
what a kickass cover

>>7850731
You would never finish trying to collect every movie and actor that kojima used for shit

[Anonymous No.7863749]

>>7855515
yeah basically, Japan had a lot of stupid blatant copying in their history that they'll deny until they're fucking dead. It's really funny because then they'll still shit on Korea for having shit like Taekwon V (aka blatant ripoff of Mazinger Z).

[Anonymous No.7863759]

>>7849262
flat tops and tank tops were not popular in WWII. Looks more like vietnam or 80s special forces or someshit. Even more likely "schwarzenegger lookalike #152" which was popular in japanese media at the time.

[Anonymous No.7863781]

>>7863676
>referencing
It looks traced, dude

[Anonymous No.7863832]

>>7849116
It only covers the first arc of the manga, hence it is least ridiculous part of Riki-Oh

Especially when it ends with Riki finding out his dad is basically the Emperor of Mankind from 1000 years in the future come back to specifically get murdered by whichever of his two sons has fully harnessed their latent destructive abilities. Riki loses his first fight with him then learns to meditate from a ghost whale and cuts his dad's head off, who then tells him about the future while holding his own severed head for like three chapters.

It's completely batshit. At least the prison arc is roughly grounded as a Hokuto no Ken style martial arts story.

[Anonymous No.7863837]

>>7849301
He only used those references for splash panels and shit. His actual character designs didn't look like that. That's more of a nice easter egg for fashionistas than a ripoff.

[Anonymous No.7863845]

>>7847262
That isn't unoriginally, that is a reference. A very different thing and loved by fans.

[Anonymous No.7863850]

>>7859826
The shock value is the best part.

[Anonymous No.7864027]

>>7847265
Based. Fuck Americans and Fuck Capcom USA.
American Retards think "Hurrdurr Vega has the bullfighter because it sounds Spanish" but don't know that the name Vega isn't actually Spanish but it's not and they fail to grasp the astrological reference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars_in_astrology#Vega

[Anonymous No.7864031]

>>7848973
They both look like Kenshiro knock-offs.

[Anonymous No.7864035]

>>7849160
>Michael Jackson accepted but this bitch didn't
Who did she think she was?
Holy shit.

[Anonymous No.7864043]

>>7850123
Tbf Yoko only ripped off a part of this song and then did something original with it(afaik at least, all I know is that it only sounds like Top Gun at the beginning).
But with Guile's theme she just straight up ripped off "TRAVELERS" by Japanese Jazz-Fusion Band T-SQUARE. Many Capcom composers were obsessed with that song apparently because you can hear many music themes in their games sounding like that song. Like for example some of the songs in Area 88/U.N Squadron by Manami Matsumae sound a lot like that song.

[Anonymous No.7864136]

>>7864043
I always used to think Ken's theme was originally meant to be Guile's theme.

[Anonymous No.7864196]

>>7849702

[Anonymous No.7864232]

>>7864043
>Area 88/U.N Squadron by Manami Matsumae
This is really cool. Any other examples from TSQUARE?

[Anonymous No.7864256]

>>7864043
>Like for example some of the songs in Area 88/U.N Squadron by Manami Matsumae sound a lot like that song.
Not really and I have studied that soundtrack for the arcade and snes versions extensively

[Anonymous No.7864390]

>>7851160
nigger how the fuck do you browse /vr/ and can't recognize a HL screenshot?

[Anonymous No.7864406]

>>7851072
not goldsrc but from an official map

[Anonymous No.7864409]

>>7863781
But it clearly isn't. It's redrawn. The proportions of the face are rather different.

[Anonymous No.7864415]

>>7864043
I think it speaks to T-Square's ubiquity in the music scene at the time. Fun fact -- T-Square members also composed for video games. The Arc the Lad series is scored by one of T-Square's founding members.

[Anonymous No.7864416]

[Anonymous No.7864474]

>>7864406
sneaky goatse

[Anonymous No.7864546]

>>7863671
>girl ryu before sakura

Nah she is just a plain normal judo fighter, even Other Ryoko (SNK) had powers

[Anonymous No.7864579]

[Anonymous No.7864653]

>>7864546
Are they based on a real person?

[Anonymous No.7864658]

>>7863671
>Fighter's History has female Ryu.

No, Fighter's History has an homage to Ryoko Tani.

[Anonymous No.7864659]

>>7847262
Nice bait faggot

[Anonymous No.7864683]

>>7864658
>red dot flag with text
Stolen from SFII

[Anonymous No.7864693]

>>7864683
LAWSUIT

[Anonymous No.7864704]

Capcom's not alone in this, are they?

[Anonymous No.7864830]

>>7863759
>flat tops were not popular in WW2
Do you think Araki cares?