Doomed: How id Lost Its Crown

bonch writes "Steve Bowler, lead animator for Midway Games, has written an article for Next Generation called Doomed: How id Lost Its Crown. He talks about id no longer being the king of the hill in the FPS genre, losing the multiplayer gaming wars to Counter-strike and the engine licensing wars to competitors like Unreal 3.0, and focusing too much on rendering realistic environments at the expense of modern gameplay features. From the article: 'It's hard to stomach having to shoot a zombie in the head the same number of times as in the body (six rounds from a pistol, thanks for asking) to dispatch it, when you can shoot a light fixture and watch how realistically light dances around the room.'"

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Dupes: How Slashdot Lost Its Crown

[TripMaster Monkey]

Dupe...original article can be found here.

Almost the same title, too.

Re:Dupes: How Slashdot Lost Its Crown

[Evro]

You'd think this would be so difficult:

http://www.google.com/search?q=id+Lost+Its+Crown+s ite%3Aslashdot.org

Of course you have to keep shooting

[Approaching.sanity]

Zombies can remain animated independant of if their head is intact or not.

Who writes these things anyway? Honestly folks.

Re:Of course you have to keep shooting

[CDLewis]

> Zombies can remain animated independant of if their head is intact or not.

Indeed, they'll keep coming back almost as often as this story.

Re:Of course you have to keep shooting

[killtherat]

Obviously somebody needs to bone up on their
Zombie Survival Strategy.

Top 10 Lessons for Surviving a Zombie Attack

1. Organize before they rise!
2. They feel no fear, why should you?
3. Use your head: cut off theirs.
4. Blades don't need reloading.
5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair.
6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it.
7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike.
8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert!
9. No place is safe, only safer.
10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.

Headshot!

[October_30th]

'It's hard to stomach having to shoot a zombie in the head the same number of times as in the body (six rounds from a pistol, thanks for asking) to dispatch it

Now that's something I've never understood in the movies or in the games. I mean, if you're a zombie, you don't have a brain. Period. It's all mush and all you want to do is to eat the brain of someone else for some obscure reason (protein content, perhaps?). So, why would a headshot be more effective against a zombie than a bodyshot? It just doesn't make any sense. If I were facing a zombie and I had a shotgun, I'd just shoot his bloody legs off and run away bravely.

Re:Headshot!

[zenneth]

If I were facing a zombie and I had a shotgun, I'd just shoot his bloody legs off and run away bravely.

Sir Robin?

Re:Headshot!

[servognome]

Great. A debate on zombies, with logical explainations and references to source material.

I can't imagine why more women don't participate in these kinds of discussions. :)

Re:Seriously-

[TripMaster Monkey]

Even minors in the days pre-electricity could do this.

Yeah...amazing what they let children do back in the pre-electricity days, isn't it?

Spellcheck will not save you. At some point you need to know what the hell you're talking about.