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I really should write a bigger post about this sometime, but have you guys played (or heard of) Arkham Horror? It's this RPG-ish multiplayer board game where you fight tons of lovecraftian monsters spewing out of portals to other dimensions, controlled by elder gods. Tons of fun, and all the stars of the Lovecraft bestiary are there. Might be good inspiration for monsters I could figure out how to translate the experience to good ol' Quake.
Crazy intense boss battle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucahQg_wWZA Makes me wanna play some Hexen. but im having trouble imaging it walking, it doesn't have legs like the shalrath with the knees bent out
The legs indeed stand indsside out.
I don't know what it is.., making a fast chalk of the model goes fine, as soon as I try my best it ends up in verticemeshes. It does look like it has three legs from where I am sitting.
You could have aggressive flailing of arms, Aggresive waving of tenticles, and running towards player; perhaps casting a spell with adifferent motion...... I know, only the tentacle screw is hard to tend, because of the oppertunity to make them wail without getting crossed.
Also my usual three leg walk is a bit hard to lay hands on as I mostly experience this on drunk feet. http://members.home.nl/gimli/zork4.gif Convertion of the antlion to Quake1.
Rather a heavy model as it takes 1050verts / 2361tris. Sad I have only the standpose with skin, so to make it worthwhile it needs a decent base frame. http://members.home.nl/gimli/AntLion.gif The original skintex is 256x256, as doom files. And that was also much work to get in Qml 199 x 300. I've been trying with odd shapes of the baseframe, but it only gives vertice loss. It has come to my conclusion following the response to A Roman Wilderness of Pain that it's best to just not have boss monsters at all. Personally I loved the end battle because it was immensely challenging and took me several goes to figure out, which is exactly what a boss battle SHOULD do. The whole idea of a boss is that the player has to figure out how to use all of the tools that he's been supplied with to engage in a battle that's probably five or ten times harder than anything that's come before. Tronyn's boss battle did just that -- had I not used the grappling hook to evade danger spots I would never have been able to recoup the ammo or gain the cover required to take out the final boss and win the game. Another crucial part of the strategy which I only figured out after two or three deaths was to conserve the Tome of Power until after I had activated most of the Boss moments, which thanks to the grappling hook was still reachable. To me, that's everything a boss battle should be. It required a very small amount of trial and error, but that only intensified the feeling of satisfaction at the end.
I think a lot of people are far too quick to turn on God mode as soon as they encounter a tricky situation that they don't immediately recognize, which is a shame. There's a lot to be said for finishing an episode with an interesting or different combination of regular monsters, as it challenges those who enjoy being challenged but also doesn't scare off the people who don't. I think I'm repeating myself: Bosses should just provide peaks in difficulty and at most require mild variations of normal gameplay patterns. I hate when i have to figure out stuff specific to the boss battle. I love when there's several strategies to chose from and you can try to find the best. That doesn't work if there's only one that works and all other fail, though.
Recently played through metroid prime, and the boss fights kept pissing me off (mostly controls related "what buttons do I need to press in what moments to survive!?" moments though). Good examples are the descent 1/2 bosses (except the final d2 boss, which you had to shoot in the back to kill). They have special powers like robot generation, invisibility, homing missiles, etc., but all those features also exist on other, normal robots, so there's nothing to figure out than the best way to do the most damage without getting hit. I agree somewhat with megaman above, but I take more of a middle stance: Boss fights should reuse and extend game mechanics that have already been established, true, but they should also be interesting and can have some puzzling elements to them. Puzzles fail when they are not foreshadowed by previous gameplay.
I think the chthon and shub bosses were good, the main problem is the game mechanics they rely on were never properly established beforehand. However chthon was not that bad, players are already trained to look for buttons and see what they do. I think the main problem with chthon was that you can't immediately tell that he's invincible, because you will probably attack with rockets, which don't spawn blood even when they do damage. If i was attacking him with a shotgun or nailgun, it would have been much easier.... perhaps the rockets should have actually bounced off him, to make it clear. Shub was harder because 1. telefragging is never introduced before that point, 2. the spikey ball's behavior is never introduced before that point, and 3. shub bleeds, implying that you can kill her with weapons. I like the Doom 3 boss battles. I'm probably dumb.
The seeker thing wasn't established before, and it seemed a bit I like bosses like Sarge. I like minibosses, too. The Arwop boss battle was well thought out, I have nothing against the mechanics used. It was just over the top. In my opinion. Would it be a hard qc nut to refleckt the dmg of a shield back to the player, meanwhile protecting the monster?
The shield is from Dissolution of Eternity.
Seeing that double chainsaw makes me want slippery oil floors! Blocking incoming damage is one shield purpose. Aiming the ame damage back to the player are two. I think it has much to do with arguementing all weapons again. Unfortunately the gif that someone (Lunaran?) posted a while back I have saved on another machine . . .
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