They look so damn similar, from the style and color of their armor down to their behavioral traits. Seems like Bungie simply saw the success that Doom had over their Marathon series and thought to themselves “you know what our next game needs? A massively overpowered super soldier in green high tech armor who spouts sarcastic one liners in the face of an overwhelming alien invasion” and went to town with that concept. And it worked like a charm, they cranked out six massively successful games before id/Bethesda decided it was time to reboot the Doom franchise 2016.

Perhaps it was payback for them to give Doomguy the Crucible in the reboot games (which looks a lot like the energy sword from Halo), but I can’t help but think these two are essentially the same character.

  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
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    18 hours ago

    Fascinating. Thanks for the link.

    The first dude seems like a blatant copy of Guile to me, so I had to look up what the court thought:

    In spite of the intentional similarities between the two games, the court concluded that Data East did not infringe upon Capcom’s copyright, as most of these similarities were not protected under copyright.

    Capcom vs Data East

    So 100% guilty of being a blatant copy, but not illegal.