“I hope the gore in Doom 4 is like Mortal Kombat 9’s fatalities”
And it turns out that the new Doom game will have “finishing moves” as well as chainsaw gore that looks similar to that screenshot…
Actually the gore is even better - it seems to be dynamic:
My next suggestion might psychologically scar people but I think it would be more realistic if the enemies screamed while being chainsawed up rather than being silent. One day I think there will be a game or a mod where normal looking people can be attacked with a chainsaw but you didn’t hear that from me. :eek:
Yeah, I have too much IRL chainsaw experience. I know a (ex) dentist who lost a couple fingers to a chainsaw. He eventually tried to return to work, but could not keep clients. Another guy I know died while clearing property in the evening after work.
I had a dentist with a missing finger. I used to cuss him about it when he had both hands in my mouth and couldn’t understand me.
My favorite way to place Doom I & II was with the M-16 patch, which changed the saw into a bayonet.
By “realistic gore”, you mean the part where the chainsaw fouls up and gets jammed after the first time it’s used on moist, fibrous flesh, right? Or the part where it suddenly kicks back as soon as it hits the bone underneath, and bounces off the user’s face?
That only happens with cheap Wal-Mart brand saws. Get yourself a good Stihl with an free-floating blade and self-lubricating reservoir and you can dismember [del]corpses[/del] zombies to your hearts content! Not that I have any first hand knowledge, you understand?
(I really don’t, I made that all up. All I know about chainsaws is that Ash uses one to kill deadites.)
As a programmer, I’m impressed by the lighting, shadows, detail, etc. That’s hard to do. The blood sprays are a bit globular though.
As a gamer, this is just over the top to the extreme. “Oh, cool, we can punch the imp’s head off! Wait, no chainsaw it in half! wooo” Blech. I liked the original and Quake and Return to Castle Wolfenstein, but I think I’ll pass on this version.
Doom 3 is set in the year 2145 - not sure about the new Doom game. Though the chainsaw looks old fashioned perhaps it has some improvements. You originally found the chainsaw inside a corpse so maybe it is suited for killing people. So it already started off in “moist, fibrous flesh”. I’m not sure about bone but I thought chainsaws could handle ice and hard wood.
Yeah, you probably could build a weaponized chainsaw, if for some reason you really wanted to. But you’d be much better off starting with a powered kitchen knife, since some of those are already designed for cutting through meat and bone.
And yes, we all know that the real reason that the chainsaw is in the game (any version of it) is just because it’s cool. And that’s a perfectly good and valid reason to put something in a video game. But when that’s the reason it’s in there, it kind of misses the point to describe it as “realistic”.
Heck, even the gore isn’t very realistic, either. If you really did have a moving-blade weapon capable of bisecting an enemy bilaterally, then it wouldn’t look anything like that clip when you used it. What it would look like would be red. Nothing but red, on the whole screen.
Doom 3 included a memo from the provisions supervisor complaining about several crates of chainsaws that were mis-delivered to Mars. (“There aren’t any trees here!”)
Many, many years ago I worked as a small engine mechanic. Once a year the local butcher would bring in his saw for servicing. It was exactly like an electric kitchen knife, except 3 feet long and powered by a chainsaw motor. The ickiest part of the job was cleaning the hair and blood out of the air filter.
I think all these questions of “realism” are missing the critical point of the chainsaw, namely that as a weapon; it kind of sucked. Even at the time, I knew that the only appeal was that it was so over-the-top. You’re corned by a pack of cacodemons, you whip the saw out and drive it into the nearest one’s face… then you wait twenty seconds for it to die, and meanwhile its friends are all pelting you with plasmaballs, until you melt into a puddle of gelatinous goo. God gave us rocket launchers for a reason.
And if you really can’t let a lack of realism go, note that in Bethesda’s imaginary world, apparently numbers go in a different order- 1, 2, 3, 1.
It was better than the fists with the spiked brass knuckles. (Who knew those were standard military issue?)
The real use of the chainsaw in Doom 1/2 was against demons (the pink hairless melee only dudes) and their invisible cousins. They couldn’t bite you while getting chainsawed in the face, so you saved a lot of ammo if you got good at chainsawing them instead of giving them the 3(?) shotgun blasts to the face it would take otherwise.
It was also handy when you had long, narrow hallways and only had one enemy at a time, also saving ammo.
If you were using it in against a pack of cacodemons in a wide open area, the problem was not the chainsaw.
