Mass Effect is a Copy of KOTOR

GamersNexus: "If anyone really wanted to see the genesis of this series, they just had to look back to an older sci-fi title that let you "choose your path," as the tagline claimed. Casey Hudson first flexed his story muscles in the 2003 space RPG, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR). He was joined by Mass Effect Senior Writer Drew Karpyshyn (who also wrote parts of ME 2).

After careful story analysis of KOTOR and Mass Effect, we reveal that the two really are shockingly similar."

[Godmars290]

Someone is just now realizing this?

[corrus]

REALLY ????????????

[TronEOL]

Why is anyone surprised that the developers old games are going to be like their new games?

Naughty Dogs' Uncharted and The Last of Us share similarities (and will probably share more when we play LoU).

Valve's Half Life, Portal and Team Fortress share similarities.

Epic's Gears of War and Unreal Tournament share very close similarities.

The "legendary" id Software's Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake and Rage are all practically the same game re-skinned.

I could really keep going but I won't since I'm sure most people will get the idea. Everyone needs to slow-down this Bioware hate train before more people end up looking like idiots.

[theWB27]

I think someone just wanted to make another Mass Effect story. Because as you stated...it's pretty obvious developers build upon their specialties...we don't see Bethesda making the next greatest racing game.

[cleft5]

You are so right. I am so sick and tired of this stupid Bioware hate train bullshit. Bioware actually tried to make up for their bullshit, has any other major video gaming company done this? Lets see, no free dlc from Capcom, Activision still charges for crappy old CoD maps, and do I even need to mention Blizzards online only garbage with Diablo 3.

All these other companies did this and they haven't even tried to make up for their blatant rip off of gamers. Yet, for some odd reason gamers give them a pass, but Bioware must be the devil.

[aliengmr]

/cough

CD Projekt RED

/cough/cough

[SlapHappyJesus]

I don't remember sexual innuendo making up 90% of Kotor's dialogue.

Really though, everyone knows this. It is especially so in the original, but the overall design and structure of the Mass Effect games maintained many similarities throughout the series.

[SageHonor]

Dragon Age and Jade Empire also share similarities to KOTOR... If you've played more than 2 bioware games.. im sure the pattern has been noticeable for you

[Trenta27]

When will Bioware break this trend is the real question.

[coolbeans]

Why should they have to?
They've dedicated an immense amount of time in creating a different universe. I think a bit of slack can be given to them retreading similar plot elements + archetypes that predate KOTOR by thousands of years.

[Trenta27]

I'm more talking about how the game is designed, such as the dialogue wheel. A refresh to that would be nice.

[coolbeans]

@Trenta27
I personally don't agree with that either.

[cleft5]

Bro KOTOR and the whole Mass Effect series is a copy of Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters. Dude nothing is original anymore so lets all stop trying to act like people are doing something wrong by copying. Only when people copy and give you a worse version than the original should we complain.

[Blastoise]

Yeah but knights of the old republic was a million times better.