DOOM^3

edmundito · Wed 04/08/2004 21:57:09

Doom Cubed? I'm glad they're not calling it that! they just think that putting the three in a top left corner is cool... then again, where else would they put it without making the DOOM logo look bad.

I was wondering if anyone is buying the game. It came out like yesterday, and it looks pretty scary. Yeah yeah, I can see people saying "T3h g4me that k1ll3d 4dventur3 g4m3z!!!1" but really that's just a bad excuse.

Any thoughts of on DOOM and DOOM^3? I was wondering if anyone had anything to share.

I would buy it but... 1) It's $55!! I'll wait for it to be $20-30 if anything, 2) My video card probably can't handle it, and 3) I NEED TO MAKE AN ADVENTURE GAME. I can't be playing games right now. I'm already having a hard time making one with not playing games nor watching tv? what the hell am I doing, then?

Privateer Puddin' · Wed 04/08/2004 22:40:38

Not bad, by no means great (so far, i haven't got far but i often give up on games if they don't 'grab' me near the start, but i'm giving it a chance)

Personally, i'm waiting for a proper good remake of Doom (there are a few single maps remade, not very good though as of yet) with the number of enemies Doom had, so my pc is well and truely lagged

LGM · Wed 04/08/2004 22:41:55

I've played it.. It is very very resource intensive.. It even skips on my bro's computer.. But I can run it pretty well with everything set to low.

The game is shit scary! All the hype was correct..

Best. FPS. Ever

Ghormak · Wed 04/08/2004 22:49:38

Oh man. This game would be so much scarier if there were approx. 50 times less monsters in it, and those that remained would be five times stronger. As it is now, it's not scary at all. It's just "enter room, shoot everything that is in room (god forbid there would be a room with no monsters at all!), yawn, wait for monsters that teleport into room and then shoot them, go to next room". And the monsters! Each new monster introduced is more annoying than the last one! Spiders? Flying babies? Not scary. Just very, very, very annoying. This game had so much potential, but I just don't think it's great at all.

So my one line review would be "Way too many monsters, but damn it's pretty."

edmundito · Wed 04/08/2004 22:53:03

Custard, I thought DOOM 3 was a remake of DOOM.

Ghormak, yeah, I think that definitely I would poop my pants (maybe I said too much) if I came into a room and there was nothing and all of the sudden *GASP* a creature jumps out of the shadows, and it's hard to kill!

Privateer Puddin' · Wed 04/08/2004 22:55:21

It's a retelling of Dooms uh, 'story'

I mean a exact copy of the maps but on Doom 3s engine, perhaps guns in the middle of the screen too

Another thing that bothers me is the difficulty names, they're so boring, like 'Recruit' ... what happened to the ones that mocked you for taking the easiest difficulty?

Adamski · Wed 04/08/2004 23:04:25

Edit: I retract my statement having finished the game

I want to make an adventure game in that engine. It'd be pretty.

edmundito · Wed 04/08/2004 23:11:34

Maybe John Carmack freaked out after half-life and decided to make the names more serious and keep the sense of realism that you're actually some marine in a base in mars. Or maybe he thought he was too politically incorrect in the first DOOM. Then again, it's not like random monsters from hell ever attacked earth...or Mars. If you think about it, game/movie logic (but adventure games) is weird because there's I don't think anyone gets attacked by random bad guys, specially super intelligent animals.

I bet someone can make an exact doom remake mod, (they're going to do it with CS with the new Half-Life 2 engine! 1337) except you'll be missing out all the 3d map level modelling that has evolved (since on doom you couldn't really jump or go to rooms above or below you.. I think it was just one flat level with stairs that made you believe there were more levels).

Ha, I'm talking about this so much, and I don't even like FPS that much. I liked Halo, and I've yet to beat the stupid game. I borrowed half-life too, and I've yet to beat it. I did beat Wolfenstein 3D shareware!!!1

Haddas · Wed 04/08/2004 23:18:40

The game is scary in the beginning. at least on easy, when there aren't that many monsters. Zombies creep me out. at least when they walk in the shadows and you're sneaking around with a flashlight, atrying to avoid getting eaten. I have to run it on medium on my PC. they could've added disembodiment (spelling) to the zombies, I mean, right now they just die or break down, zombies are much more scarier when they continue walking towards you when your shotgun just blew half of them away. The demons? Not bad, but not scary.
I like when you collect peoples PDA (Personal Data Assistant), and there's random information, sometimes keycodes, and even real spam from the future! Pfft... MartianBuddy

Annoying:
- The spiders and flying heads. Not challenging, not scary, a waste of bullets.
- You can see a brain flying away when you shoot a headless zombie to pieces.
- The cheap blade effect, when the monsters just fry.
- Hard to get weapons

I love the berserker effect.

I'm sure there's more, but I can't think of it now.

shbaz · Thu 05/08/2004 01:25:59

$:-\$

I'm not fond of fps games, but those graphics kick ass. I can't wait for other games to come out on the same engine.

I wish Blender was like the Doom 3 engine. Maybe one day.

Moox · Thu 05/08/2004 01:33:40

Im gonna wait for halflife 2. I never really like the original.

Hollister Man · Thu 05/08/2004 02:12:27

I've heard that HL2 is gonna be good. I read that if you catch one corner of a building on fire (even by accident) you can actually burn down the whole level. The fire spreads to burnable objects realistically. The reviewer accidentally shot a barrel instead of a crab-zombie and blew the flaming body onto another barrel, which exploded, and lit a warehouse on fire. When he returned later, the whole building went up. Thats cool. I wouldn't want to play either D3 or HL2 on anything but the maximum settings, cause those kinda games are kindof a waste of time if you don't have the pretty graphics to look at, IMO.

Sylpher · Thu 05/08/2004 02:19:13

Since everyone missed it.. or ignored it. Netmonkey I got your joke and it was funny.

I haven't played but I plan too. I am seeing a lot of "Well, I can't wait for some good mods to come out/can't wait for someone to make something really cool with the engine." Which says enough about the game itself to me.

rodekill · Thu 05/08/2004 03:06:08

I played it tonight on my brothers system, which can actually run it.
I put it on veteran right away, cause I wanted the suspense and all that jazz.
I'm blown away, that's all I can say.
Absolutely what I was hoping for.
Now hopefully the mod community will do some crazy stuff with it.
And also a free computer will fall on my head.

LGM · Thu 05/08/2004 04:11:56

hehe.. Actually, it STILL looks pretty on the crappiest settings.. I also found some tweaks on www.d3iles.com that you put into the console:

Ctrl+Alt+~ brings up the console, then you can type these in:

"r_gamma 1.2" - This sets the gamma a tad higher if you have troubles seeing. Default is 1.0

"com_videoRam=128" - This sets the value for how much RAM your card has... Course, if you're card only has 64 MB, the value would be 64, not 128. And even then, don't bother changing this setting... 64 is default.

"image_cacheMegs 96" - Changes the allocated space to use for textures. You can use any number you want.. But 96 seems to do the trick. I use 128, and someone got it up to 256.

These tweaks really help the game run faster. The only slowdowns I experience now are from having too many enemies on the screen at once.

My initial reviews of the game, you ask? Well, it's just what I expected.. Purely gorgeous carnage fun. What more could you ask for?

Privateer Puddin' · Thu 05/08/2004 09:30:33

An even better tweak is so you don't have to press Ctrl and Alt when you want to bring up the console

Chicky · Thu 05/08/2004 10:38:18

ohh great argument starter...

Halo2 will beat Doom3 in soo many ways.

doom3: http://3dnews.ru/documents/3941/doom3-benchmark-03.jpg

halo2 multiplayer (moving screenshot(big file)): http://media.teamxbox.com/halo2_3dscreenshot_01.mov

Disclaimer: it took me over 10 minutes to find a bad doom3 screenshot... that was the worst i could find

Privateer Puddin' · Thu 05/08/2004 10:42:04

Everyone to their own eh

Haddas · Thu 05/08/2004 11:25:17

I'm not going to tell which one is worse or better before playing them. Doom 3 I have played and found awesome. Half-life 2 has yet to be played.

Privateer Puddin' · Thu 05/08/2004 11:31:25

you can't compare still image of one with 'motion' of another ... i think you're just a twisted xbox fanboy

looking at the halo2 one, there is some horrible lighting going on there