Rip-off songs?

sammy · Post by **sammy** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:35 pm

Ok, I've been checking this out lately and it seems to me that a lot of video game songs are actually taken from other existing songs. I recently heard from CTfan that the Robo theme was from someone else (can't think of the name now), but I also discovered another one myself. I played Starfox for the first time last week (

) and noticed that the menu music is the same as the music from Rebel Strike when you pause the game. There are some others but I can't think of them now.

ganonbanned · Post by **ganonbanned** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:19 pm

ben posted This
in a thread recently

joevennix · Post by **joevennix** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:25 pm

Yeah, the Halo 2 music (guitar solos, etc.) was completely stolen from some obsolete band if I remember correctly. They settled case out of court, meaning someone got a crap of $$$

sam fisher · Post by **sam fisher** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 2:03 am

And the fact M$ owns Bungie means that they got enough to buy the world!

Nicholai · Post by **Nicholai** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:46 am

sam fisher wrote:And the fact M$ owns Bungie means that they got enough to buy the world!

Uhh, Microsoft only owns rights to Bungie, making them exclusive producers for the X-Box. If Microsoft OWNED Bungie, wouldn't they call it..Microsoft?

sam fisher · Post by **sam fisher** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 4:03 am

Bungie is a division of Microsoft Games which itself is a division of the Microsoft corporation. Geez get your facts straight.

Edit: Here are the facts to back it up

ALL HAIL THE WIKI wrote:(MGS), branded with current logo and moniker in 2002 (formerly the Microsoft Game Division), is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Microsoft Corp. which develops and publishes video games for Windows-based PCs and the Xbox and Xbox 360 video game consoles. MGS publishes games for several Microsoft-owned first-party developers, including Bungie Studios and Rare Ltd.. MGS also publishes games created by third-party developers, such as Bioware and Bizarre Creations.

Nicholai · Post by **Nicholai** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 4:42 am

Microsoft doesn't own ALL assests to Bungie, otherwise why wouldn't they just call Bungie Microsoft?

sammy · Post by **sammy** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 6:42 am

Some of the songs that KK Slider sings sound very familiar too. I don't know about the whole Bungie thing but I do know that a company doesn't always change the name because it is owned by a bigger company (take cookies for example

).

Sword_Gun · Post by **Sword_Gun** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:38 am

well CS redemption :p
http://csredemption.ytmnd.com/

sam fisher · Post by **sam fisher** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:50 am

Microsoft owns 100% of the Bungie company.

codeman · Post by **codeman** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 10:24 am

Nicholai wrote:Microsoft doesn't own ALL assests to Bungie, otherwise why wouldn't they just call Bungie Microsoft?

why does compaq still exist when it's owned completely by HP? the business world is crazy

Post by **CronoTriggerfan** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:18 am

Same with Naughty Dong and Sony, too.

Mostly, though, it's so if a division of a company is shamed by releasing total crap (IE Squaresoft's DOG division releasing a ton of crappy PC games back in the early 80s) the mother company isn't shamed, and a division can simply be terminated. Or in some cases, a division loses fundings/goes bankrupt despite making incredible games, like Quintet did with Enix.

CTFan

Extreme_Jesus · Post by **Extreme_Jesus** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:17 pm

Not sure about this one, but the music from the first level of Doom sounds like a slightly speeded up (and midi) version of Saxons's Never surrender