The three races actually control the world and are getting ready to assimilate us all!

LIES, STARSHIP AVP SUPCOM AND SINS DO NOT HAVE LITTLE BUGGERS TRYING TO REANIMATE DEAD CORPSES AND DESTROY ALL LIFE!


and thats just really unlikely

Shamrock? I may be way out there on this one, but I say... get a girlfriend. 'Nuff said.

Why does it matter? So what, they copied. Life goes on, no one cares.

Might as well throw in Star Wars for being inspired by Flash Gordon and many elements in Halo being based off Star Wars.

Copying ideas and tweaking them is not a bad thing.

- PR-0927

true, i just think that honorable game companies like bungie wouldn't copy better companies like blizzard but still alls fair in love and war

Honor is a rare (And often career or company ending) concept in business.

Umm wait, Bungie is not an "honourable" company. Remember they sold out to Microsoft - originaly MAC developers who switched to PC to make a really awesome concept game then MS took em since they needed a killer app for the Xbox.

Secondly, Blizzard is not a "better" company, they are the same - they sold out to the masses, now they cannot do the stuff they used to, with that much money you CANNOT run risks. I mean could YOU risk YOUR billion dollars on a bunch of 30 year old chavs? I wouldn't.

The real work is done by the small companys who have less to lose and who can't simply buget 50 million for UBER graphics. Instead they have to prove they can make an awesome game.

Err how did I get on this subject? Anyway companys who refuse to use the best ideas on the market for thier product are called idiots. They don't last very long.

I'm curious then, who are these other races in the Protoss?

All right I'm not the only one who thought this.

seriously the archon are a different race

Can companies be honorable? Maybe so, but the only ones I see at the moment (that come to mind) are Stardock and Crytek.

As for Blizzard being "better," it's not. I find Blizzard worse, easily, as I don't find any interest in their games (at all), while I tend to find intense interest in Bungie's. Therefore, Bungie is superior to Blizzard, for me. It varies from person to person.

And copying another company is not a bad thing. At least, if the copying isn't a carbon copy or a small variation of carbon copying. Again, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

- PR-0927

Bungie did not 'copy' Blizzard, its simply the standard three race formula:
Balanced(usually the player race)-Terran/Humans
Quality-Protoss/Covenant
Quantity-Zerg/Flood
They are simply using the same formula that many other games have used or will use.

As for the Ancients Xel'Naga/Forerunners, sorry but that is a common element of a lot of SciFi/Fantasy and is used as a cheap way of bringing in tech higher than the creators of the universe want to be the norm.

You must have missed the whole Patch 1.3 thing ...

They canceled support to the first game so they could implement it in a new product. Honorable? I don't think so.

While releasing a new game is alright by me, they should not have outright canceled the patch and still claim support.

Nope; the archons are simply the merged souls of two high (or dark) templar.

Um who cares? I have noticed that the obvious rip off Bungie included in Halo is the Halo itself which I believe certain people fron Bungie have gone on record to admit that the Halo ring world was inspired by the Vavatch Orbital from the brilliant 1987 scifi novel 'Consider Phlebas' by Iain M Banks.