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Damn dirty zombies!
Why do I panic so much when they start to speed up as they approach me?
Why does my aim go all skew-iffy, and why can't I blow their zombie heads off?
I'm not talking about a Resident Evil title here, or any other survival horror. No. What's giving me the creeps big-time, are those damn zombies on Conker's Bad Fur Day!
When I first encountered them I struggled to get used to the controls, using the gun and stuff, but I soon got first those first pesky zombies. I thought they were gone, and I wouldn't have to deal with them again, but no. After the excellent 'bat-bit' in which you have to capture people ias a bat, and drop them into a mincer, those bloody zombies come back!
it was only last night that i discovered this, and probably won't get a chance to play the game in a great hurry, so I'm left thinking about those awful zombies.
The thing is, they're not exactly human zombies, they're fluffy cuddly zombies. With eye sockets hanging out.
But still, they look genuinely gruesome.
Maybe it has something to do with the general 'cuddly' look to the game, with Conker himself looking very sweet and innocent, and enemies including wasps and dung-beetles, that hardly look threatening. Maybe it's the stark contrast with those horrid zombies, that look so grim, with bloody tufts of cuddly hair, and they way they will keep coming at you, even if they have to crawl until you blow their heads off.
What I really think does it is the sound though. The way you can hear the zombies groan, but you might not be able to see them. you know they're hiding, but where? And the music is downright creepy, including a babies laugh every now and then.
So if I can't handle Rare's vision of CBFD zombies, how the heck am I going to deal with the undead on Eternal Darkness?
Why do I panic so much when they start to speed up as they approach me?
Why does my aim go all skew-iffy, and why can't I blow their zombie heads off?
I'm not talking about a Resident Evil title here, or any other survival horror. No. What's giving me the creeps big-time, are those damn zombies on Conker's Bad Fur Day!
When I first encountered them I struggled to get used to the controls, using the gun and stuff, but I soon got first those first pesky zombies. I thought they were gone, and I wouldn't have to deal with them again, but no. After the excellent 'bat-bit' in which you have to capture people ias a bat, and drop them into a mincer, those bloody zombies come back!
it was only last night that i discovered this, and probably won't get a chance to play the game in a great hurry, so I'm left thinking about those awful zombies.
The thing is, they're not exactly human zombies, they're fluffy cuddly zombies. With eye sockets hanging out.
But still, they look genuinely gruesome.
Maybe it has something to do with the general 'cuddly' look to the game, with Conker himself looking very sweet and innocent, and enemies including wasps and dung-beetles, that hardly look threatening. Maybe it's the stark contrast with those horrid zombies, that look so grim, with bloody tufts of cuddly hair, and they way they will keep coming at you, even if they have to crawl until you blow their heads off.
What I really think does it is the sound though. The way you can hear the zombies groan, but you might not be able to see them. you know they're hiding, but where? And the music is downright creepy, including a babies laugh every now and then.
So if I can't handle Rare's vision of CBFD zombies, how the heck am I going to deal with the undead on Eternal Darkness?
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Shanks got it too, by the looks of the topic he just posted.
Well, the next post I'm about to read is a story addition by Strafex... ;0)
Whoa, surreal experience just there.
Clicked on the previous page of this thread, and I get a bunch of SQL messages, followed by all the usual posts - only every single one was greyed out, with 'user removed' in red writing.
Perhaps it's a premonition....
Clicked on the previous page of this thread, and I get a bunch of SQL messages, followed by all the usual posts - only every single one was greyed out, with 'user removed' in red writing.
Perhaps it's a premonition....
er-no wrote:
"I didn't have the problem at all... clean your control stick Grix :-D I found it really easy with the laser beam on the shotgun to blow their heads off."
No... you don't understand. Nothing wrong with my control, I'm just crap. :0)
"I didn't have the problem at all... clean your control stick Grix :-D I found it really easy with the laser beam on the shotgun to blow their heads off."
No... you don't understand. Nothing wrong with my control, I'm just crap. :0)
ResÆvilfan wrote:
and er-no if you mean the
> graveyard in CV you can't blow their heads off,
Which why he was talking about Conkers Bad Fur Day where you blow zombie squirrel heads as much as you please with an unlimited amout of ammunition in your trusty shotgun!
:-D
Ofcourse, you don't ALWAYS blow their heads off.
Sometimes only half their head gets blown off with loads of blood spurting out everywhere.
What a mess...
and er-no if you mean the
> graveyard in CV you can't blow their heads off,
Which why he was talking about Conkers Bad Fur Day where you blow zombie squirrel heads as much as you please with an unlimited amout of ammunition in your trusty shotgun!
:-D
Ofcourse, you don't ALWAYS blow their heads off.
Sometimes only half their head gets blown off with loads of blood spurting out everywhere.
What a mess...
Strafex wrote:
By the way Meka, you seem
> to be going at a crawling zombies pace! It was when I first got the game when
> you mentioned meeting them in the graveyard.
The Game gave you a quick tip and
> you'd done it.
A whole month later and you're still in the vampires
> house.
I guess I don't envy being a married father with 2 kids just yet, not
> if it leaves you with little time for gaming...
It's one of the games I can't play during the day, and most evenings lately I've been playing Championshiop Manager, or watching movies, so haven't had too much time for the ol' N64.
By the way Meka, you seem
> to be going at a crawling zombies pace! It was when I first got the game when
> you mentioned meeting them in the graveyard.
The Game gave you a quick tip and
> you'd done it.
A whole month later and you're still in the vampires
> house.
I guess I don't envy being a married father with 2 kids just yet, not
> if it leaves you with little time for gaming...
It's one of the games I can't play during the day, and most evenings lately I've been playing Championshiop Manager, or watching movies, so haven't had too much time for the ol' N64.
Dringo> Sounds fair good that actually :-)
and er-no if you mean the graveyard in CV you can't blow their heads off, sucks i know but it was getting too realistic so they just make a sound with blood splatting everywhere. The remake will cheer you up though you can ram your trusty combat knife through their heads, ouch hehe
and er-no if you mean the graveyard in CV you can't blow their heads off, sucks i know but it was getting too realistic so they just make a sound with blood splatting everywhere. The remake will cheer you up though you can ram your trusty combat knife through their heads, ouch hehe
Grix Thraves wrote:
> Same here.
Zombie is ahead of me. I can actually see him this time.
Ok.
> Take aim. Takes a few seconds because I really can't get used to aiming with the
> darn control stick. Same with Goldeneye, I just shoot madly.
Ok, I'm taking
> aim, and the zombie begins to run towards me... arggh! Shoot! Shoot now!
I
> shoot... and miss the head entirely, and just fire the shell into it's chest,
> which does all.
I didn't have the problem at all... clean your control stick Grix :-D I found it really easy with the laser beam on the shotgun to blow their heads off.
> Same here.
Zombie is ahead of me. I can actually see him this time.
Ok.
> Take aim. Takes a few seconds because I really can't get used to aiming with the
> darn control stick. Same with Goldeneye, I just shoot madly.
Ok, I'm taking
> aim, and the zombie begins to run towards me... arggh! Shoot! Shoot now!
I
> shoot... and miss the head entirely, and just fire the shell into it's chest,
> which does all.
I didn't have the problem at all... clean your control stick Grix :-D I found it really easy with the laser beam on the shotgun to blow their heads off.
Those zombies were minging...
...I remember jumping on the tombstone in the graveyard where they can't hurt you and I just kept aiming down and blowing all there heads off...
errrughh.. I really didn't like them. But somehow still wanted to blow their fringin heads off.
...I remember jumping on the tombstone in the graveyard where they can't hurt you and I just kept aiming down and blowing all there heads off...
errrughh.. I really didn't like them. But somehow still wanted to blow their fringin heads off.
ED's sanity meter causes your character to halucinate so u could be fighting a great big monster and 2 seconds later he wont be there this makes you question whats real or not. Its all psychological in this story aboiut ancients and mystical goings on in an adventure spanning thousands of years from Romans with axes to World War 2 veterans. Its all brilliant and virtually every Zombie looks different the novel effect of pickign what part of the body to blow off is nice as well.
The historical accurate weaponry and events the edgar alen poe spoke about in his poems will make this the best game out. 4 years so far in development and with up to 60 hours of gameplay with a very intellegent camera system makes this brilliant.
Meanwhile RE looks more gothic than ED graphically better but i suspect itll play like the other RE games so very good but not spectacular which i expect ED to acchieve but then again.
Why do i need to check the site im an obsessed RE fan and i will get all the GC games although i already have RE2 and RE3 believe you me RE rules but will it beat ED i doubt.
The historical accurate weaponry and events the edgar alen poe spoke about in his poems will make this the best game out. 4 years so far in development and with up to 60 hours of gameplay with a very intellegent camera system makes this brilliant.
Meanwhile RE looks more gothic than ED graphically better but i suspect itll play like the other RE games so very good but not spectacular which i expect ED to acchieve but then again.
Why do i need to check the site im an obsessed RE fan and i will get all the GC games although i already have RE2 and RE3 believe you me RE rules but will it beat ED i doubt.
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