Matthew94 said:
OMG, you have to see this new game. Duke Nukem 3D, its cover art is a complete copy of Dooms! It's rubbish as it's copying Doom!
Here's proof!
The main character standing on top of a pile of corpses shooting as enemies, stop the presses!
...right, here's the thing: Duke Nukem (the character) is supposed to be an over-the-top caricature of an action hero. Do you recognize these lines?
"Hail to the king, baby."
"I'm here to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and I'm all out of gum."
"Go ahead, make my day."
"I'm gonna rip off your head and shit down your neck."
"Yippie ka-yay, ************."
Army of Darkness, They Live, Sudden Impact, Full Metal Jacket, and Die Hard, respectively. Is it really so surprising that they made the cover of the game look intentionally like the cover of Doom when they reference piles of action-titles in the game itself?
Matthew94 said:
Serious Sam is a homage to older games, what's your point about it's cover that somehow makes it a worse game?
It doesn't affect the quality of the game. It just affects how original it was. Duke Nukem was supposed to be parody from the start. He was every action movie/game trope rolled into one person/game. Even the cover reflected it: it took Doom's iconic cover and replaced the Marine with a heavily-muscled, sunglasses-wearing avatar of testosterone.
From what I understand, Serious Sam's homage-aspects were supposed to be in
gameplay, not in premise. It's the difference between doing a straightforward parody of the
Friday the 13th movies versus making a movie about a nigh-invincible villain wearing a paintball mask and killing promiscuous teenagers with a Gurkha blade.
