Authority a copy? : Othor Games

» Thu May 03, 2012 11:03 am

Authority looks, and acts, like the Enclave in Fallout. They just have so many similarities I can't help but think they're a copy. What do you guys think?

» Thu May 03, 2012 8:46 pm

Other people have said the same thing about the artwork resembling borderlands, but the truth is the story was written by a professional writer and the game began development seven years ago. If anything you could make an argument that the enclave is a copy of Rage. However, I'd suggest the US is a more likely inspiration for both. Like the first modern welfare state, the Roman Empire, the US has such overwhelming technological and military superiority its not funny. Right now the US military is equal to the next seven largest in the world combined with the Pentagon alone being larger then the entire governments of half the countries in the world. Technologically even a 40 year old F-16 is still a match for almost any aircraft in the world and a single aircraft carrier can knock out the entire air defense of most countries in a matter of days. Today the US routinely bombs and kills hundreds of people in the third world using remote controlled predator drones with perhaps its most shameful act in living memory being the threatening Haiti of all places with bombing its destitute population back into the stone age for electing a socialist president. The US has become so militant in recent years with a ten year long spree of perpetual warfare in three countries that we now have a leading candidate for president, Newt Gingrich, who has casually proposed invading half a dozen countries and starting WWIII if necessary.

» Thu May 03, 2012 11:14 am

Yea I don't think it is a copy you see "authority" types in all types of games and stories.

» Thu May 03, 2012 11:31 am

Other people have said the same thing about the artwork resembling borderlands, but the truth is the story was written by a professional writer and the game began development seven years ago. If anything you could make an argument that the enclave is a copy of Rage. However, I'd suggest the US is a more likely inspiration for both. Like the first modern welfare state, the Roman Empire, the US has such overwhelming technological and military superiority its not funny. Right now the US military is equal to the next seven largest in the world combined with the Pentagon alone being larger then the entire governments of half the countries in the world. Technologically even a 40 year old F-16 is still a match for almost any aircraft in the world and a single aircraft carrier can knock out the entire air defense of most countries in a matter of days. Today the US routinely bombs and kills hundreds of people in the third world using remote controlled predator drones with perhaps its most shameful act in living memory being the threatening Haiti of all places with bombing its destitute population back into the stone age for electing a socialist president. The US has become so militant in recent years with a ten year long spree of perpetual warfare in three countries that we now have a leading candidate for president, Newt Gingrich, who has casually proposed invading half a dozen countries and starting WWIII if necessary.

The Fallout series started in 1997 and the enclave has been part of the story in the following games including fallout 3 which came out in 2008...three years before RAGE came out.

I won't even touch the rest of your incoprehensible political rant.

What a ignorant and non informed opinion. Get your facts straight.

» Thu May 03, 2012 5:30 pm

Other people have said the same thing about the artwork resembling borderlands, but the truth is the story was written by a professional writer and the game began development seven years ago. If anything you could make an argument that the enclave is a copy of Rage. However, I'd suggest the US is a more likely inspiration for both. Like the first modern welfare state, the Roman Empire, the US has such overwhelming technological and military superiority its not funny. Right now the US military is equal to the next seven largest in the world combined with the Pentagon alone being larger then the entire governments of half the countries in the world. Technologically even a 40 year old F-16 is still a match for almost any aircraft in the world and a single aircraft carrier can knock out the entire air defense of most countries in a matter of days. Today the US routinely bombs and kills hundreds of people in the third world using remote controlled predator drones with perhaps its most shameful act in living memory being the threatening Haiti of all places with bombing its destitute population back into the stone age for electing a socialist president. The US has become so militant in recent years with a ten year long spree of perpetual warfare in three countries that we now have a leading candidate for president, Newt Gingrich, who has casually proposed invading half a dozen countries and starting WWIII if necessary.

Nope, you can't. Enclave first appeared in Fallout 2 back in 1998. Thirteen years before RAGE.

» Thu May 03, 2012 5:37 am

i think the athority is just what alot of designers think of when they need a bad futuristic military group for you to fight....i dont think there was much copying going on

» Thu May 03, 2012 1:26 pm

The whole argument is rubbish, because the idea of something like the Authority has been around long before Fallout and Rage both, nothing is a copy of anything.

By now everything's been done, for the most part, it's not about coming up with new ideas, it's about coming up with new ways to present them.

» Thu May 03, 2012 8:23 pm

I mean, did they really have to do powered up armor (enclave power armor) and osprey-type helicopters? (vertibirds from FO2)

» Thu May 03, 2012 7:01 pm

Well, who else would have the best equipment around, if not the evil Authority?

» Thu May 03, 2012 11:30 am

RAGE is still a GREAT game, am still playing it today. Being an avid Fallout player, it just kept bugging me