http://dbd.game/killswitch
Any chance the T-800 from The Terminator (first film) comes to dbd as a Killer?
Killer : T-800
Codename : The Terminator
Survivors : Sarah Connor, Kyle Reese
Map : You have two choices for the Map. You can either pick the Robotics Factory at the end of the film during the final chase with the final girl (Sarah Connor), or you could pick the Police Dept. Since there's already a RCPD, I would go with the cool Robotics Factory.
Skins : You have several choices of skins for Terminator. You could use him in his full human disguise, or his half human half robot, OR the end of the film when his flesh is burned off and he is a full on robot killer.
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Terminator wasn't a horror movie though. DbD goes off of horror.
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Also, what about ALIENS?
Killer : Xenomorph
Codename : The Alien
Survivors : Sigourney Weaver's character, I forget her name
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The Terminator (1984) was definitely a horror movie, man. A killer robot is chasing her to kill her, and she is literally a final girl.
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It's not though. It's always been labeled as an action movie. Since it came out. But whatever. I'm sure you'll argue about that until you're blue in the face.
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well, alien was pegged as action too. (shrug)
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for sure!
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Please no.
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Stranger Things isn't exactly horror either.
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Well it sure isn't a romantic comedy.
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I could see Alien in DbD alot easier than Terminator.
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With the addition of trickster which is everything but scary I’m pretty sure anything is possible.
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the t-800 was in Deathgarden, if that counts for anything
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Neither is Terminator. What's your point?
Your argument was that Terminator wouldn't work in DbD because DbD is only horror. I just pointed out that there is at least one license that's not strictly horror.
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The original 1984 The Terminator is a slasher horror movie in a sci-fi disguise. If you haven't watched it, go watch it. It's only the sequels that turned the Terminator franchise into action movies.
I'm telling you, go watch it. Terminator even walks very slowly and has several scenes that are identical to Halloween with Michael Myers.
The ORIGINAL Terminator film... it's about a killer robot who is after his target (obsession) Sarah Connor (final girl). During the film, Terminator kills many people in brutal horrific ways. It is most definitely a slasher film in disguise.
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yeah, I know, just, still. I've got to be contrary. :P (jk)
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I mean, I find trickster scary.
I think DBD does a really good job of handling societal fears and (most of the time) turning them into incarnate metaphors
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Please watch this final scene of 1984 The Terminator, and tell me this isn't a slasher horror film in sci-fi disguise. The entire film is this killer robot murdering people trying to reach his Obsession, Sarah Conor. His very first kill, he rips someone's heart out with his bare hands.
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Stranger Things wasn't horror and we had that for 3 years
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Would be great to see this unstoppable killing machine brought to its knees by flashlights and wooden pallets 🤦♂️🤦♂️
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It's still at least got horror defined as a secondary category, much like Left 4 Dead.
The Terminator is an action flick through and through.
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I agree that it's a horror movie. I never said it wasn't.
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No, the original Terminator is not an action flick.
The sequels were.
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With Nemesis being the most recent killer to make the gap bigger in what can and cannot be used since he is from an action game makes T-800 possible. As for will we ever see it? Nope. Extremely expensive and you need Arnold which is a whole other thing.
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Ripley was her name and that license is already in the hands of another dev. It is also one of the most expensive properties to license.
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Then use the robot version from the final chase. No Arnold required
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the first Terminator movie was labeled Horror. Same goes for Stranger Things. Obviously not pure horror but no one ever said that’s a restriction for DbD. Resident Evil movies especially the ones after the first are also more action than horror..
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You still have the problem that the original is most definitely classified as a Science Fiction Action Film and that the license is also in the hands of another dev and is extremely expensive.
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I just looked it up... yeah, Disney owns Aliens and Predator since they bought out 21st Century Fox.
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the original movie is also classified as Horror along those other genres. Also BHVR already bought the license for Deathgarden. So it should be possible if both parties would be willing to.
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You keep saying this, and you're right that it has horror elements, but it's way more of an action sci-fi film then it is a horror one.
Incorporating a license because it has subtle horror themes is just opening the door to allowing ridiculous action licenses to be added in the future.
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Those labels are put there by people who don't know any better. James Cameron himself said The Terminator was a horror movie, as he was making a John Carpenter-like film at the time. Cameron was trying to become famous, and 1978's Halloween and The Fog and other films put John Carpenter on a rise to stardom. Cameron was trying to emulate it, but put his own twists on the genre. Instead of a killer who disappears and reappears in stealth mode, The Terminator has no need for that and just plows straight ahead like a robot.
Read his interview here : https://gamerant.com/the-terminator-1984-horror-movie/
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They had that license for specifically that one instance when it seemed as if the game were going to make a comeback and T-800's actually fit that setting, but that game did not flourish sadly and NRS is currently making use of the license.
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Those labels are put there by people who don't know any better. You're using the tag section of websites that was probably edited by a 21 year old intern. James Cameron HIMSELF said it's a horror movie, based on John Carpenter films.
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From the article :
This isn't to say that The Terminator is a horror movie on the strength of what it later inspired. Instead, it's a horror movie on the basis of how Cameron made it. It's set in a grimy, poorly-lit 1984 Los Angeles that's falling apart at the seams, where the T-800 muscles into the few bright spots in it and immediately blows them all to hell. Linda Hamilton's Sarah Connor, who's just a young waitress in the original film, spends the first half of the movie at the center of a net that's slowly closing around her, with the T-800 constantly getting closer, and everyone who tries to protect her ends up dead. She's much like Laurie Strode, or Laurie's genre descendant Sydney Prescott, who's been thrown into a nightmare through no fault of her own. Suddenly, Sarah's life is burning down for no reason, and nothing can save her.
Thematically, then, and in terms of its overall presentation, The Terminator is James Cameron making a John Carpenter fan film, down to its cinematography and lighting choices. The biggest difference, and the one that seems to cause most of the genre confusion, is that the T-800 uses some particularly impressive guns. If the visual language of the film wasn't so centered around firearms in general, with the balletic mayhem of the police station massacre or the dangerous red laser sight on the T-800's .45 pistol (one of the first appearances of a laser sight in a film, in fact), there'd be less question about whether or not it was a horror movie. If the T-800 didn't use guns at all—if it favored the same knives, hand tools, and improvised weapons as a Jason or Michael—there'd be no question at all.
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Just because a killer uses guns = action movie?
Killer uses a knife = horror movie?
That's not how horror movies should be defined.
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Yes his original script leaned closer to a horror movie, but this is an article giving the article writer's opinion by and large. The script that got shot definitely trended more towards scifi action than horror. By and large fan response is as we are here, divided at best. Does it have horror elements? Yes. Is it what most call a horror film? Not really. Would Terminator be a fitting license for this game? In my opinion, no. DBD couldn't do it justice as the way dbd plays would be too limiting in gameplay or design. Terminator is at its best when you have that arsenal of weapons along with precision and relentlessness of a robot. That is why is worked better in Deathgarden.
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I agree, T1 was a horror movie rather than action film.
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How much money do you think that will be then just for the robot still? I mean I guess they can try since it was in Death Garden. But then what would the exoskeleton do? I would like them to pull out a blaster.
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Nemesis was the first one to do this. An action character with small horror elements.
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His secondary attack would be ranged. He would pull out a .45 pistol with the laser sight just like in the movie, but he doesn't shoot automatically. He "scans target" and the laser sight would show the long red beam, and survivors can SEE the red beam on them or around them, and there is a half a second delay before he shoots. So the survivor can see the red laser sight beam and try to dodge it.
And his robot eye scanning would be perfect for reading Perk Aura's.
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The scanning could put some sort of effect on them. It could be sort of like Ghost Face. The longer you stare in the red scanning vision then the become exposed.
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Doesn't MATTER BHVR cannot afford Disney or James Cameron period.
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BHVR already got Terminator license for Deathgarden, their other game.
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that would be perfect, because frankly its easy to dodge since theres so many obstacles to run behind and stuff
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exactly. James Cameron himself said so. T1 came out during the slash horror film success in Hollywood. He simply put a sci-fi twist on a killer (T-800) with an obsession (Sarah Connor).
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Evil Dead was more comedy than horror (except the 1st one).
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I was just about to say this
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"If you add slasher characters then they'll add silly characters"
Like FNAF? The T-800 is literally a slasher villain. He is an indestructible being going about systematically hunting down and killing people. Saying it isn't a horror film is like saying Jason X isn't one because it's mostly tongue and cheek and silly and is sci fi. The film follows most slasher tropes. An unkillable killer stalks a woman or multiple people, killing them one by one, culminating in a final girl chase where the heroine barely kills the unstoppable killer. Including false death moments for the killer, ala Halloween or Friday the 13th. It's like when people try to argue Alien wouldn't fit the game.
Terminator is not a flat out straight horror film, but neither is it a straight up action film, and the character of the T-800 fits fine in a game about hunters hunting people down and killing them.
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