Dr. Who: The Eternity Clock

My first encounter with the Daleks was, in fact, the episode Dalek. Which, frankly, did an awesome job of making 'em intimidating. What with the face crushing, the complete invincibility to any and all firearms, and the characterization. Not to mention the reveal of what they actually are.

Also, I still don't quite get the problem with the Lazerous Experiment. It didn't look any worse than most TV monsters I've seen.

Yes, I get the references. I know Dr. Who predates Star Wars.

And they're still R2-D2 and a trash can's love child. Not. Scary. The eggplant monster in It Conquered The World was more scary and less goofy.

edited 27th Feb '12 10:20:19 PM by JAF1970

Is a thing's scariness determined only by appaearance!?

Because a spacefaring race of Xenocidal cyborgs that only desire the Extermination of everything that isn't themselves?

A race that has time travel, and fought a time war against a race of beings known for their control over time and space and backed them into a corner?

A race whose outer shell, silly looking though it may be is impervious to anything short of a bunker buster?

That's not scary?

Also your image is not less silly or more scary than anything. Ever. At all. I think that image won most silly thing in the history of the human race. Even Daleks don't look THAT silly.

edited 27th Feb '12 10:33:01 PM by unnown

DALEKS DO NOT ANSWER HUMAN QUESTIONS.

DALEKS ARE SUPREME. DALEKS CONQUER ALL.

EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!! EXTERMINATE!!!

Heyheyheyhey HEY!

Game! Why was it made so generic?

Cheap cash grab.

This is going to be piss poor in the sales department.

I'm hoping it doesn't fail, if only because it means we have the possibility of other kinds of Who video game merchandise.

Really, Dalek battle machines are pretty damn practical as far as sci-fi military designs go. No legs to trip them up, protected by both science-y fields that prevent ballistic weapons from even reaching them and heavy armor strong enough to hold off anything but heavy energy weaponry. They are flight capable, surprisingly accurate as far as space soldiers go, can crush a man's face at close range and can superheat their outer shell to remove foreign materials. What they lack in typical "scary" features, they make up for with sheer utility.

Then there's what's inside that shell. It's like the Doctor said: "It's not wonder they're always screaming."

edited 27th Feb '12 11:36:52 PM by TheGunheart

I've always thought a game where you got to play as a companion would be best.

Companions like River, Sarah Jane, Ace and Jack were definitely more action oriented and would be more interesting to play as than the Doc himself.

Like Snake in MGS 2, seeing The Doctor through someone else's eyes would probably be best.

"No legs to trip them up"

Even a dog or a raccoon can tip over a trash can.

And by the way, it's nice that R2-D2 when strolling around the desert had nice flat ground to roll over. The Dalek's too. Paved streets.

I'd say the Daleks were fucked if they had to try to navigate the beach. Or hills.

Defeated because our heroes escaped into a mildly rocky plain!

They can fly.

EL-LE-VATE!

edited 28th Feb '12 8:36:16 AM by unnown

Something tells me somebody has never seen Doctor Who.

A dog or a raccoon would be unlikely to tip over a Dalek. They're kinda heavy, and stable.

And Daleks aren't trash cans. They're more like man-sized pepper pots if anything.

Man-sized pepper pots that hate you for existing, are immune to conventional weapons, can crush your face or vaporize you where you stand and are capable of flight.

edited 28th Feb '12 8:59:26 AM by unnown

I didn't say they were trash cans. I said they were the love child of R2-D2 and a trash can.

And sorry, this is not scary.◊

No, but this is:

Also, that's one of the BBC's promotional images. It's really not supposed to be scary.

edited 28th Feb '12 9:15:12 AM by unnown

...Pardon me, Mister JAF, but have you actually watched the episodes featuring the omnicidal fascist pepperpots?

...Come to think of it, it could be fun, playing a Dalek.

Daleks would probably be too overpowered, in the same way the Doctor himself would be too underpowered.

...Underpowered? Are we watching the same series?

Thinking in terms of gameplay here.

The Doctor is a smart guy with a screwdriver. Modern game design would be kind of hard to frame around that. Dialogue Trees can't provide enough information to let him talk his enemies to death.

Purely puzzle-based gameplay would probably get boring fast.

He runs a lot, but rarely fights.

I've been trying for years to come up with ideas for a good Doctor Who game that stays true to the show. Not sure if that's possible.

edited 28th Feb '12 9:48:17 AM by unnown

Oh really? Then what about this?

Either way, that doesn't hold up. They're far too heavy, have a wide base (unlike a trash can, which tends to be smaller at the base), and there's the whole matter of the "superheat the outer shell" part, which makes touching them suicide.

And, of course, there's the fact that they can simply fly.

edited 28th Feb '12 11:24:02 AM by TheGunheart

JAF, you miss the point. Nobody's saying that their appearance is scary. It's not. It's what the Daleks represent and what they do. They're basically unstoppable with firearms, make you burst into flames when you touch them, have instant kill death rays that they are unbelievably accurate with for sci-fi villains (they've even shot the main character on at least three occasions). But what they represent to us is the scary thing about them. They are humanity with all of our positive traits removed. All they have is hate for everything in the universe and will never stop killing, not ever. Even the (apparent) last one in existence, after its entire race was destroyed still kept on going. It survived more than half a century with all its features non-functional, with no support whatsoever with nothing at all. It endured falling through time itself and falling to the earth, screaming in pain for days. Then it was tortured for possibly years until it began to die. Then it singlehandedly regenerated itself and its suit to full power and destroyed an entire base filled with experienced mercenaries. Even when it learned that everything it ever stood for was long gone, it kept going, and would have destroyed at the very least Salt Lake City. This was a single Dalek. All because of its hate.

"I would play them, but since I'm a dirty American, I can't."

They're on sale somewhere, Gamers Gate or something. They're just not free.

Well, let's just say that the game lives up to expectations.

edited 25th May '12 2:52:23 PM by TheBatPencil

That bad huh?