Comments on: id: No More Monster Closets, Promise!

By: Michael Cohen

Michael Cohen — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:38:30 +0000

It was like the in the earlier Dooms. I remember one room you’d enter, pick up a keykard and the walls of the entire room would lift up revealing a much larger room, FULL of Imps and Cacodemons.

By: warcroft

warcroft — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:29:57 +0000

Like Resident Evil. When theres music, theres baddies. When the music stops you know all the baddies are dead.
Or Gears of War, it plays a chime when all the enemies are dead.

Monster Closets are in every game.

By: mambodog

mambodog — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:26:12 +0000

Its just a cheap way to startle you, like all the sudden loud noises in Dead Space. Repeatedly spawning enemies in areas players have just cleared is annoying enough, but in Doom 3 they would spawn in ridiculous little boxes that didn’t even make sense in the context of the world.

By: Aran

Aran — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:45:46 +0000

Agreed. Actually, given the amount of times it was used in Doom 3 I actually started to become paranoid about what would cause monsters to actually ‘appear’, and I remember at least two or three occasions where I actually passed up picking up a power up because I was scared of beasties attacking and not being able to handle them!

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:41:06 +0000

From what i can gather, these are TWO DIFFERENT GAMES and GENRES.

Doom is meant to be scary. So these random monster closets, which i haven’t experienced as i’ve never played that much of Doom 3, make sense to have in a horror game.

Rage is like, hmm.. Adventure/Shooter. Maybe even RPG, i don’t know that much about Rage though. I mean it has COLOUR! Doom, not so much.

By: Grassdragon

Grassdragon — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:40:33 +0000

I’m just playing through Dead Space now (a bit late, I know, but money is tight). It really wouldn’t be the same game without monsters spawning right behind me at potentially any time.

If you walk into a room, kill a few things, then know it’s empty for good, where is the suspence?

By: David Wildgoose

David Wildgoose — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:30:56 +0000

I know, Call of Duty is full of them.

By: Matthew McCay

Matthew McCay — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:28:27 +0000

There was nothing wrong with ‘monster closets’ or what normal people call it, trigger spawned monsters