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post #1 of 18
7/17/05 at 8:05pm
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Some of the most inspired and downright cool enemy design in video games.
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post #2 of 18
7/17/05 at 8:49pm
No offense, but I've always felt the monsters in Doom were pretty generic and uninteresting - especially those in Doom III. The first two games are fun though, and I appreciate what they did for gaming in general.
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post #3 of 18
7/17/05 at 8:54pm
C'mon man - you gotta like the Imps.
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post #4 of 18
7/18/05 at 1:56am
What's weird is, looking at that picture, I immediately remembered that it's name is Cacodemon.

A Cacodemon. Just the name alone should begin and end this thread.
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post #5 of 18
7/18/05 at 2:17am
Inspired? Not even close. Cool? Only if you're a 14 year old metal fan.
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post #6 of 18
7/18/05 at 9:51am
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Inspired? Not even close. Cool? Only if you're a 14 year old metal fan.

Please.
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post #7 of 18
7/18/05 at 10:34am
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Originally Posted by Dan Whitehead
Inspired? Not even close. Cool? Only if you're a 14 year old metal fan.
Especially since I'm 90% sure it's almost an exact lift of a Dungeons and Dragons monster (which are mostly inspired by myths and stuff in the first place, aren't they?).

NOT the Beholder (the one with all the extra eyes), mind you, but another similar one that looks, again, almost EXACTLY like the one from Doom.

Also, I've read books mentioning cacodemons that I'm pretty sure were written before Doom was even thought of, so it's not like any credit can be given to the name.

Sorry to assist in the deflation of your thread, Werbal.
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post #8 of 18
7/18/05 at 11:05am
As with so many other aspects, Half-Life is better.
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post #9 of 18
7/18/05 at 11:52am
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson
As with so many other aspects, Half-Life is better.
Agreed.
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post #10 of 18
7/18/05 at 12:20pm
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Originally Posted by Jubei
Please.
You're welcome.
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post #11 of 18
7/18/05 at 9:50pm
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Originally Posted by Smeagol
Especially since I'm 90% sure it's almost an exact lift of a Dungeons and Dragons monster (which are mostly inspired by myths and stuff in the first place, aren't they?).

NOT the Beholder (the one with all the extra eyes), mind you, but another similar one that looks, again, almost EXACTLY like the one from Doom.

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post #12 of 18
7/18/05 at 9:53pm
Damn, that does look like a Cacodemon. . .
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post #13 of 18
7/19/05 at 11:02pm
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Originally Posted by Jubei
Please.
Come on, dude. Upside down heads that walk around on spider legs? Half baby/half insects or whatever they were? Doom has never, ever been an example of inspired creature design.
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post #14 of 18
7/22/05 at 12:52am
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Originally Posted by D.T.
Come on, dude. Upside down heads that walk around on spider legs? Half baby/half insects or whatever they were? Doom has never, ever been an example of inspired creature design.
Are you being sarcastic? I can't tell, but if you are being sarcastic the upside down head with the spider legs is basically a lift from the Thing.
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post #15 of 18
7/22/05 at 1:22am
Yeah, that's not particularly inspired.
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post #16 of 18
7/22/05 at 1:41am
Considering we've had 30 plus years of really good sci-fi and fantasy books, movies and video games, the odds of something being truly original is going to be slim. I would think by this point, whatever demon or alien or whatever is going to have elements from at least a half-dozen previous creatiions.

That being said I loved the giant scorpions with chaingun hands in Serious Sam. Science is fun!
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post #17 of 18
7/22/05 at 2:55am
This game is going to look so silly on the silver screen.
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post #18 of 18
7/27/05 at 11:14pm
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Originally Posted by Momotaro
Considering we've had 30 plus years of really good sci-fi and fantasy books, movies and video games, the odds of something being truly original is going to be slim. I would think by this point, whatever demon or alien or whatever is going to have elements from at least a half-dozen previous creatiions.

That being said I loved the giant scorpions with chaingun hands in Serious Sam. Science is fun!
Oh that's a given, but that fact also makes it a given that most things are not very inspired, especially not Doom's monsters. The fly-babies were kinda neat tho.
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