History Headscratchers / HouseOFTheDead

*** Except Curien and Goldman's work was based on Clement's, and in every game in the series mutants/zombies can wield weapons, which would imply that 'mutant' is the more accurate term.
*** Presumably, Zombies in this setting can use weapons. It's not something that completely negates the zombie term.

** In the intro of HOTD 2, we see Goldman approching Curien's body. He presumably fitted him into the Wheel of Fate, a resurrection device that operates over the course of twenty years.

** Hell, [[IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream AM ]] exterminated all but five humans, and he still has a hate-on to end all hate-ons for humans. Just look at his [[Quotes/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream quote]] on the matter.

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* In the second game, why Zombie Goldman appears in the Bad Ending? What kind of Bad ending is supposed to be? And how could he be zombified after falling from the roof of a skyscraper?! He should have turn into a zombified hamburder instead!

* When the Magician is rebuilt for HOTD 2, why doesn't Goldman protect his week spots?

** According to Overkill they're mutants, not zombies. Some are even capable of speech.

** It IS slimly, slimly possible to reload almost any kind of gun (particularly one-handed pistols) with only one free hand. It is HELL of hard, and when suspended as they are it would probably involve ejecting the clip and letting it drop while trying to "fit" the clip in with half your hand while holding the pistol with the other half. Like I said, harder than hell. But under such circumstances, you would be amazed at what a person can accomplish.

** You expected a coherent worldview from an artifical tyrant? Anyway, he doesn't stand much of a chance of ruling, destroying, or hating anyone now, y'know, being vaporized and all.

* In [=HotD=] 1-4 is there any reason given for the BigBad to do the initial [[strike: zombie]] [[NotUsingTheZedWord undead]] outbreak rather than just unleash the final boss? The ultimate plan always revolves around the final boss being unleashed, yet they bring out the zombies first which turns the AMS on to the fact that there's a plan in motion in the first place; the AMS kills the zombies then they kill t he boss. Why not just unleash the boss?

** There's some kind of "statement" (I'm not sure where it comes from. Japanese fact file, maybe?) that The Emporer "wasn't ready" when it confronted the AMS agents atop the Goldman building (by the time you get to HOTD 4, The World had plenty of time to fully mature and - as demonstrated in the game - was essentially indestructible). This explains why Goldman didn't just unleash The Emporer right away and how the AMS agents were able to defeat it at all.

* What is wrong with the infamous voice acting of HOTD 2? It is just so bad that it reaches a level which feels like they deliberately told the voice actors to sound as boring as possible. Even if they just get some random people off the street they can most likely do a better job then what they had.
* About the second game: A part from being set in "Venice"..... after getting through the city, you reach Goldman's Skyscraped, kill him and that's all. In the fourth game, however, you go again in the very same building (the bridge has even the hole made by the Hierophant boss), but the city is totally different!! What the heck!?

** Watch [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvhT990DSDU this]] at the very end, 10:37. It's not Karl, it's Kuarl.
** To clarify: The headless armoured fellow is called "Kuarl", while the little imp is "Zeal". Together, they form "Judgment".

** Because he ''won't'' do it in that order. Obviously.

** There's some kind of "statement" (I'm not sure where it comes from. Japanese fact file, maybe?) that The Emporer "wasn't ready" when it confronted the AMS agents atop the Goldman building. This is why they were able to defeat it at all. By the time you get to HOTD 4, The World had plenty of time to fully mature and - as demonstrated in the game - was essentially indestructible.

*** Which is a silly name, period. Best not think about it too much... (The little guy is "Zeal", BTW.)
*** To clarify: The headless armoured fellow is Kuarl, the little imp is Zeal. Together, they form Judgment Type 28

** For the sheer hell of it, I'm going to guess that first, he rules mankind, then he exterminates mankind, and then he spends however many years he has hating mankind and its memory after the fact.
** He could hate and rule some of them and destroy the rest.

** Well, there is no Ultimate Plan in 3, just an outpost that Rogen went missing in. It was the player who released the final boss anyways, to wipe out the last of Curien's project. The game also explains why Dr. Curien acted like that in 1. Namely that researching the virus drove him crazy. As for Goldman and why he waited to release the final boss? 4 sort of explained it as him testing humanity's worth to live. You still got me on 2, though.

* In [=HotD=] 1-4 is there any reason given for the BigBad to do the initial [[strike: zombie]] [[NotUsingTheZedWord undead]] outbreak rather than just unleash the final boss? The ultimate plan always revolves around the final boss being unleashed, yet they bring out the zombies first which turns the AMS on to the fact that there's a plan in motion in the first place; the AMS kills the zombies then they kill the boss. Why not just unleash the boss?

* So I saw a small amount of gameplay footage and there were zombies with blowtorches. Where did they get these things? Are they créme brulee zombies? For that matter, where do any of the zombies get their weaponry?