The Dark Knight "influence" from Metal Gear Solid is shameful

[Onyxmeth]

DTG said:

Onyxmeth said:

So if the Dark Knight influences in MGS 4 are disgraceful, then how disgraceful are the Escape From New York references in MGS as a series? The whole character's image, name, Naked Snake's eyepatch, the raspy voice are all taken from Kurt Russel's character Snake Plissken. How disgraceful! In fact Kojima himself must be disgraceful because he admits how influenced he is by motion pictures in his games. Wasn't Snatcher just a big Blade Runner ripoff and Policenauts was Lethal Weapon in space?

It's a good thing you ran from this topic quickly so you don't have to answer many replies that show the innacuracies in your arguments.

 

The difference is Kojima admits his influences and pays respect to its creators by doing so. The creator of TDK hasn't admitted that he took many of his ideas from Kojima and that's whats shameful here.

Let's just say he actually was inspired by the MGS series. How do you know he didn't admit to it? He could have told plenty of people, but maybe just not publicly. Is there supposed to be a press release to name all influences involved in making a motion picture? Is it required for all influences to become public knowledge? Usually it's all up to an interviewer asking the right questions. Do you honestly think Kojima made a big presentation of announcing Escape From New York was the main influence behind Solid Snake or is it possible interviewers picked up on it and asked him the question directly?

Secondly, you obviously don't read comics. Each Batman movie is inspired by it's source material, and you can find every stolen theme inside of these same comics, which all came out before the Metal Gear Solid series started.