There is a big difference between paying for the right to use those sounds/phrases and someone just lifting them for their own use.

It'd be very hypocritical if blizzard was bitching about their intellectual property if they didn't respect others...

braammbolius

179 Posts

June 17 2010 14:15 GMT

#22

talking about recycling :D

Stropheum

United States1124 Posts

June 17 2010 14:35 GMT

#23

That's because the Aliens series is the most epic TvZ everrrrrrr

PacketOverflow

United States80 Posts

June 17 2010 14:36 GMT

#24

There are still people these days still don't know how heavily SC borrows from Aliens? Besides all the lines from the dropship pilot, there is also the Terran Marine who borrows lines like "How do I get out of this chickenshit outfit?" - Hudson

There is also the Hydralisk which features the same toothy grin and long head shape as the Alien from the movies.

And don't forget how the Confederacy's treatment of the Zerg is almost textbook Weyland-Yutani. The UED as well.

Blizzard chooses their sources well, Aliens is one of my favorite movies of all time.

gds

Iceland1391 Posts

June 17 2010 14:41 GMT

#25

meegrean

Thailand7699 Posts

June 17 2010 14:41 GMT

#26

I think it's Starcraft that copied some sounds from various movies

Ghin

United States2391 Posts

June 17 2010 14:47 GMT

#27

To me this thread seems about as ridiculous as someone saying that the governor of California is copying the Thor pilot. Blizzard likes to respect classic nerd entertainment by adding pieces of it in their games. The similarities between WoW Arthas and LOTR Sauron are an easy and obvious example, and there are many more. Most, if not all, of Starcraft can be traced back to classic science fiction, and the references could probably fill a book.

olof

Sweden254 Posts

June 17 2010 15:00 GMT

#28

delete

Lexpar

1813 Posts

June 17 2010 15:43 GMT

#29

On June 17 2010 23:15 braammbolius wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh84g8rC2oA

talking about recycling :D

I enjoyed that a lot. It seems though that most of the recycled animation was used for cheaper films: I've never seen the one with the fox (robin hood retelling?), or the one with the cats. As an animation company, it makes a lot of sense for them to trace over old lines and only change small details... It takes hundreds of thousands of man hours to make those films

Skvid

Lithuania751 Posts

June 17 2010 15:54 GMT

#30

I remember i once heard the scream you get from clicking on T academy in Prison Break when that badass villain chick broke out from some sort of rape basement :|
The sound played when she killed a guard. Im 100% it was the same sound.

Edit: after few google searches i was unable to find a video (all that were uploaded were removed due to copyrights), but i found a topic on gosugamers where someone else have noticed it.
http://www.gosugamers.net/starcraft/thread/296521-starcraft-prison-break

that's not a fake... download Prison Break s04e05 Safe And Sound
that scene is at the end

dtnmang

Vietnam752 Posts

June 17 2010 16:15 GMT

#31

So why does the Terran Academy uses the Howie scream and followed by some music? Does it even have anything to do with an "academy"?

SleepSheep

Canada344 Posts

June 17 2010 16:19 GMT

#32

yeah, i've seen these before, it's really interesting i found.
i discovered another related youtube video awhile ago, i found it just as interesting though it relates to music instead of movies it still deals with a reused sound effect

cHaNg-sTa

United States1058 Posts

June 17 2010 16:25 GMT

#33

Another famous "scream". The Howie Scream that is used commonly in several movies. Notice how our beloved Terran Academy also features the exact same sound. Why? I'm not sure lol.

SichuanPanda

Canada1542 Posts

June 17 2010 16:28 GMT

#34

The Scream from the Terran Academy is called 'Gut-renching scream while fading into the distance' and has been used in countless movies prior to the release of SC (this scream is not the same as the Wilhelm, but it is the same principle in its wide-spread use).

Edit: I've never heard it called the Howie scream before.

Dataleif

Sweden252 Posts

June 17 2010 16:32 GMT

#35

terran dropships says this im not mistaken.
We're in the pipe, five by five
quote from Aliens (1986) Ferro: [as dropship enters atmosphere] We're in the pipe, five by five

oo_xerox

United States852 Posts

June 17 2010 16:34 GMT

#36

i have heard the sound that units do when fighting in AOE2 in movies involving swords fights, i swear i thought it was mere coincidence, god bless tl.net :D

shalafi

394 Posts

June 17 2010 16:39 GMT

#37

In the Brothers Grimm film they use the same sound as in Warcraft 3 when it goes from day to night (the wolf scream + some of instruments fading out).

On June 18 2010 01:32 Dataleif wrote:
terran dropships says this im not mistaken.
We're in the pipe, five by five
quote from Aliens (1986) Ferro: [as dropship enters atmosphere] We're in the pipe, five by five

That's not a reuse of a sound, it's an Easter Egg. There are a ton of these in the unit quotes, almost all of them.

JimmyJRaynor

Canada16699 Posts

June 17 2010 16:45 GMT

#38

Mike Morhaime and Chris Sigaty are great fans of Ridley Scott

you'll notice question 5 of that "Join the Dominion exam" is straight out of Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" .. a sci fi cult classic.

all their fiction is filled with Ridley Scott references

Bibdy

United States3481 Posts

June 17 2010 16:59 GMT

#39

First noticed this scream thing when I played Unreal years ago. All kinds of screams and yells in the background in the opening level are used all over the place in TV shows movies and games. Occasionally hear that hilariously long and overdone "Eeeh aahh ooooh! Uurgghh!" one from time to time.

UdderChaos

United Kingdom707 Posts

June 17 2010 17:04 GMT

#40