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.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 week ago
They’re both “generic future soldier guy.”
They’re still distinct enough that no one would confuse them.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’ve only played the original doom, from the early 90s. In that gsme your only view of your character is a little head in the hud. This head does not have armor on. You only see a human face. The promo/box shows the armor, so I’m not saying he isn’t wearing it. I’m just saying you don’t see yourself in game wearing it.
I’ve never played halo.
All that being said, the photo in this post shows both master chief and doom guy. I have no idea which is which. 50/50 chance I get it right.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 week ago
You never played multiplayer? You never saw the dead Marines in the first level? You didn’t see the box art for the game and the intro menu?
gibmiser@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah I was going to point out #3.
I bet that halo took the original space marine doomguy armor and modernized it, then doom later realized but didn’t have a way out since halo had become so successful.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 week ago
It wasn’t necessary for both to be green. Master Chief could’ve had a blue (or a red, or a silver armor) and he’d still be the same.
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Green is the universal color of soldiers. The regular soldiers in Halo were wearing green. Master Chief’s armor was green because he was a soldier. It made perfect sense to me.
BigPotato@lemmy.world 1 week ago
John Halo and the Marines are Marines and not Soldiers. Though, I’m not certain Halo ever shows a non-Navy Servicemember in 1-4.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
About point 2: I would argue that you could convince any judge that these characters are sufficiently distinct in the legal sense. IRL, people might still confuse them, but that’s not the point here. Just look at some of the competing car designs to get a feel for what is legally distinct enough these days. You can come up with a cartoon character, car or a sci-fi warrior that copies over 90% from something else, and you can still get away with it.