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    Author hired to pen Doom 4 plot

    http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/01..._graham_joyce/


    Whoa, whoa, whoa, WHOA!!! Stop right there.

    Doom has PLOTS??!??! since when?

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    Re: Author hired to pen Doom 4 plot

    interviewer: are you 14?
    interviewee: yes
    interviewer: you're hired!

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    Re: Author hired to pen Doom 4 plot

    Saw this on Gamespot the other day. It'll be interesting to see where this goes...

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    Re: Author hired to pen Doom 4 plot

    I can do that right now!

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    tunnels or corridors (Small if possible)

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    Some guys with guns

    Plot (basic)

    Aliens / mutated things need to be killed by some guys with guns (see characters)

    Plot (fleshed out)

    Bad things are going on in dark corridors in a dark place, guys with guns are sent in to find out what has happened to stupidly weak scientists / tech people. Guys with guns find lots of dead people and lots of living aliens / mutated things. Guys with guns kill all aliens / mutated things in dark tunnels. Plot note: Guns must become more elaborate, aliens/ mutated things must become bigger, tunnels should become smaller and darker as the game goes on.

    All bosses should be stupidly easy apart from the last, this must be stupidly hard.
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    Re: Author hired to pen Doom 4 plot

    LOL Jay

    Not going to argue with that!
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    Re: Author hired to pen Doom 4 plot

    Quote Originally Posted by Jay View Post
    I can do that right now!

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    Dark place
    tunnels or corridors (Small if possible)

    Characters

    Some guys with guns

    Plot (basic)

    Aliens / mutated things need to be killed by some guys with guns (see characters)

    Plot (fleshed out)

    Bad things are going on in dark corridors in a dark place, guys with guns are sent in to find out what has happened to stupidly weak scientists / tech people. Guys with guns find lots of dead people and lots of living aliens / mutated things. Guys with guns kill all aliens / mutated things in dark tunnels. Plot note: Guns must become more elaborate, aliens/ mutated things must become bigger, tunnels should become smaller and darker as the game goes on.

    All bosses should be stupidly easy apart from the last, this must be stupidly hard.
    Hmm sounds familiar, think i have played that game

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    Re: Author hired to pen Doom 4 plot

    What is it with games needing a plot these days?

    Surely it should be:

    Guy, lightly armed, carrying a coffee walks around somewhere when he is accosted by mutants. He spills his coffee. This pisses him off so he decides to kill all the mutants. 40 hours of mutants follows, then a really big one, the killing of which apparently means there are no more mutants.
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    Re: Author hired to pen Doom 4 plot

    Quote Originally Posted by Steve View Post
    What is it with games needing a plot these days?

    Surely it should be:

    Guy, lightly armed, carrying a coffee walks around somewhere when he is accosted by mutants. He spills his coffee. This pisses him off so he decides to kill all the mutants. 40 hours of mutants follows, then a really big one, the killing of which apparently means there are no more mutants.
    very good - could be almost any Hollywood blockbuster!
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    Re: Author hired to pen Doom 4 plot

    DON'T SAY THAT.

    They'll get the Rock to star in it.

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    ...and Uwe Boll to direct it
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