OldDog
February 14th, 2001, 02:03 PM
When you take the readme or something that comes with Doom, which explains the story, it says that you have fell behind, your fellows have entered the base, blah blah. You hear awful combat sound and silence. Than you go to investigate, blah blah. This time I want to live that part, because it was never delivered! Hell, Doom starts with you in a room, with a door in your back. Which was pretty cool in 1994 but see, the beginning of any story is very delicate, because that part is responsible for all the mood that comes. When I saw the intro movie in Quake ][, I went like "hey, here is that intro they forgot to put in Doom!"
Other things:
-Why never again were we able to send an enemy like 2 to 10 ft. backwards after a massive close range shotgun blast? Sometimes even falling off cliffs or "rolling down" stairs. That was key for Doom coolness, and it´s sad to see that no Quake or any other FPS reproduces that. Nowadays, it´s just like cutting the strings of a puppet, it´s just a scripted fall. id guys: dynamic skeletal behavior is the future.
-I don´t want to sneak behind a zombie soldier to find him waiting for something doing that kind of standstill break-dance. He was your pall in the Marine Corp., but he saw so much horror that his brain has fried. I picture this: you´re walking in the dark, and start to hear this sound, like someone sobbing and moaning. Closing in, you realize that in the distance there is a soldier like you, so afraid that he is hiding in the corner. When he sees you, he screams like hell and go for you, trying to rip you apart. Of course you kill him, but is a sad thing. You´ve seen his desperate eyes, he was not the same man you once knew. You just can imagine what´s responsible for his state, and if you can possible end the same way. Now, that´s horror, not a soldier with blood in his shirt waiting around the corner.
-What´s wrong with real life guns? Game designers go insane trying to imagine new lightning, plasma or whatever crap. I say: Just look at Shooter´s Bible, Guns Digest or something. Of course Doom is in the future, but c´mon: the coolest guns always where the shotgun and the machine-gun. Developers: understand now the success of Half-Live?
-Final point: will the media accept Doom with open arms? I´ve never seen that topic, and it´s critical. I can see right now CNN reporting the new Doom, showing rivers of blood and some demons, and than some pictures of the students killed in the school massacre of the month.
OldDog
Brazil
Other things:
-Why never again were we able to send an enemy like 2 to 10 ft. backwards after a massive close range shotgun blast? Sometimes even falling off cliffs or "rolling down" stairs. That was key for Doom coolness, and it´s sad to see that no Quake or any other FPS reproduces that. Nowadays, it´s just like cutting the strings of a puppet, it´s just a scripted fall. id guys: dynamic skeletal behavior is the future.
-I don´t want to sneak behind a zombie soldier to find him waiting for something doing that kind of standstill break-dance. He was your pall in the Marine Corp., but he saw so much horror that his brain has fried. I picture this: you´re walking in the dark, and start to hear this sound, like someone sobbing and moaning. Closing in, you realize that in the distance there is a soldier like you, so afraid that he is hiding in the corner. When he sees you, he screams like hell and go for you, trying to rip you apart. Of course you kill him, but is a sad thing. You´ve seen his desperate eyes, he was not the same man you once knew. You just can imagine what´s responsible for his state, and if you can possible end the same way. Now, that´s horror, not a soldier with blood in his shirt waiting around the corner.
-What´s wrong with real life guns? Game designers go insane trying to imagine new lightning, plasma or whatever crap. I say: Just look at Shooter´s Bible, Guns Digest or something. Of course Doom is in the future, but c´mon: the coolest guns always where the shotgun and the machine-gun. Developers: understand now the success of Half-Live?
-Final point: will the media accept Doom with open arms? I´ve never seen that topic, and it´s critical. I can see right now CNN reporting the new Doom, showing rivers of blood and some demons, and than some pictures of the students killed in the school massacre of the month.
OldDog
Brazil