lol Its a sad fact but its true, WC3 copied the hero idea from WBC3 it would seem. Though Blizzard has copied many other ideas over the years the first Warcraft game was going to be a Warhammer game but then they canceled it and so Bliz made it their own. A lot of the basic race and unit ideas for Starcraft were taken from some things in Warhammer 40k blizzard has made a living kidnapping ideas and making them different and sometimes better sometimes not.

All games have been remade from older games. An idea stolen from this game or that. Makes no difference what company you choose they all do it. Nothing original has come out for years. They just beef up the graphics a little each year and slap a new name on it.

I agree that "Big Games" aren't known for their creativity nowadays. Well, to be honest they are very creative in serving the same old but in a slightly different way.

But there are a huge market of Indie Games that can be mindbogglingly strange and odd. Problem is they are hard to find.