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Doom3 got it? Played it?
Entil'Zha
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OK OK, so who has actually bought doom3. i admit it, i bought it, AND a brand new video card to play it with (bleh, there goes another $200) I was actually suprised that i didn't need to upgrade anything besides my video card, technically my old viddy card (a GeForce 4 MX440) met minimum specs, but i decided to go hog wild and pick up an FX5900XTV. Other than that i'm playing it on an Athlon Xp 1800+ with 768 megs of PC2100 Ram definately not top of the line, and it plays like a dream.
THe game is pretty darn good, aside from it being ANOTHER First person shooter in an oversaturated market, ITs got all the feel of a doom game, including being Really freakin creepy, I haven' been that creeped out by the noises a game makes since System Shock 2 (if you have 5.1 speakers for your PC, then its great, You actually hear creatures whispering things behind you)
Now i just wish i had more time to play it, since i got it, between work, and having to deal with taking care of a dying kitten (bleh that sucked bigtime) i've only been able to play it for about 2 hours total. but i'm impressed, it makes me long for a FPS set on B5.
THe game is pretty darn good, aside from it being ANOTHER First person shooter in an oversaturated market, ITs got all the feel of a doom game, including being Really freakin creepy, I haven' been that creeped out by the noises a game makes since System Shock 2 (if you have 5.1 speakers for your PC, then its great, You actually hear creatures whispering things behind you)
Now i just wish i had more time to play it, since i got it, between work, and having to deal with taking care of a dying kitten (bleh that sucked bigtime) i've only been able to play it for about 2 hours total. but i'm impressed, it makes me long for a FPS set on B5.
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waiting for HL2....
looks good on my brothers computer, i'm playing it on lowest settings on my ti4600, getting about 20-40fps. graphic-wise it's stunning if you got the hardware to go crazy with the detail settings also the sound is real freaky if you have surround sound (least so my brother tells me). if you want eyecandy get the game, if not then you aren't missing out on anything.
P4 2.4Ghz HT / 1024Mb PC-3200 / Radeon 9800
although D3 doesn't care about resolutions as much as I figured it would, based on the time I played it.
[B]Got, Playing it regularly. Love it. It's pretty much everything I thought it was going to be. I wasn't expecting it to revolutionize shooters, just look pretty and be creepy as hell. It does both very well. [/B][/QUOTE]
thats exactly the way i feel about it, Its exactly what i expected, im' having a blast playing it.
as for Farcry being better as someone said, I may be the only person on the planet who was totally unimpressed with Farcry, i didn't think it was that good at all.
ITs kinda silly BUT, bring up the console in Doom3 and try one of the old doom cheat codes..
Its damn boring as a game but stunning as a game engine.
I will wait for real games using D3 engine...
[B]as for Farcry being better as someone said, I may be the only person on the planet who was totally unimpressed with Farcry, i didn't think it was that good at all. [/B][/QUOTE]Heresy. It had me hooked from the beginning. It's got some damned creepy points later on, too...
And I have to say that the down-to-earth mayhem of the original Doom still kicks like a mule! Down to the shotgun, best weapon in any fps throughout the genre's history. :D
By the way, if you think you're not interested in the original Doom anymore, try it out nevertheless... Amplify it with [URL=http://www.doomsdayhq.com/files.php?class=1]this[/URL] and some good music and get ready for one hell of a showdown! OpenGL / Direct3d, lighting effects and the almight mouse aim! And jumping too... if you feel like it. And this is still clearly the same Doom! I played ten years ago... great achievement and a groovy thumbs up to the developer. (Which. ,methinks, is Finnish.) I tried to dl some model packs for the game as well, but to me they ruined the whole game. The old sprites with nothing but [URL=http://www.doomsdayhq.com/files.php?class=1]this[/URL] installed works best imho. (Sonata Arctica, AC/DC and/or Lordi recommended for the background music. ;)) :D Even I was surprised by how much fun it is nowadays... playing it through with Ultra Violence as I speak. :) I'd forgotten how much fun it is to run around in panic while blazing away literally dozens of enemies at the same time armed with nothing but a shotgun... Time might have gone by this sort of thing, but DAMN, it is fun for a change again. :)
I just upgraded to Win 2000 Pro, so technically I should be able to play Doom3, but if I need to feel creepy in an fps -style game, I'd rather take the System Shocks to another playthrough. 7th... perhaps?
To me the shooters must have some sort of a gimmick to get me interested... D3 doesn't so far seem to have any. Neither did Far Cry, tried the demo, didn't interest me much after that. Half Life 2 seems to be a perfect blend of basic action, good physics and great environments without the 'creepiness with the cost of only a few enemies' -thingy. HL2 will be my next FPS, probably the last for a while. :D
Not to mention the time... I just don't have the time to play anymore. :p I'm starting my studies in Logistics the next monday, my gf takes quite a lot of my free time (obviously) and I'd like to draw too, every now and then... not to mention that I still haven't finished Metroid Prime, Resident Evil Zero, Pikmin or TLoZ: Ocarina Of Time and I just bought Eternal Darkness...
Argh! x-D
Come to think of it, when I tried some more 'consolish' titles on the GameCube, I've found most of them much more entertaining than most of the stuff that's come to the pc in a few years now. And, scarier still to most of the normal people out there, I've found myself enjoying the simple Zeldas and other 'candy-color' games much more than the normal, gray-brown pc-game.
So... PC and the GC complement each other almost perfectly. I suggest going out and buying (the now really cheap) GC to any hardcore PC -gamer.
But it just isn't [i]my[/i]cup of tea. ;)
[SIZE=1]I just felt like saying that people have opinions, but alas, I can only offer mine for I can't give any other. x-D[/SIZE]
(closes eyes and rubs temples with fingers.)
[SIZE=1]Out of sight, out of mind. out of site, out of mind. Out of sight, out of mind. Out of.....[/SIZE]
[B]Down to the shotgun, best weapon in any fps throughout the genre's history. :D [/B][/QUOTE]
The double barralled shotgun from Doom 2 is greater than all. It just makes such a satisfying "thump" when it's fired. :D
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by the_exile [/i]
[B]Ahem, any true PC fan might also be interested in PS2's wide variety of RPGs--as in real role-playing games, not mascot games. :p [/B][/QUOTE]
Yo! That'd be me. :D
;)
[B]Yo! That'd be me. :D [/B][/QUOTE]I don't even like PS2 RPGs, I was just defending my beloved console with all the fervor of an enraged fanboy. :D
[B]I like them because most of them haven't yet lost the concept of "story" and replaced it with guns. [/B][/QUOTE]I remember reading an OPM article on Xenosaga: "Non-gamers refuse to believe that the game has hour-long cutscenes. Believe, damnit!"
[B]Oh yes, it most certainly does. :D But Xenosaga is far out on the extreme end and besides, they're [b]good[/b] cutscenes. [/B][/QUOTE]Yes, I'm told that the story and themes are so deep that one has to set aside entire days to complete each section. I dunno, I might buy it next summer, when I have time. I like Nietzschian references with my games. :D
If they're gonna give us straight action where rushing towards the guy in front of you is a really smart tactic most of the time, they should at least give us enemies that we can unload a clip into and survive all that punishment, but then will go down after we give them a face full of gun.
The game makes your comp render all those pretty shadows, and then relies mostly on teleporting and putting things behind walls that open when you're not looking, neither of which are surprising, scary, or suspenseful. It's not even creepy. The game looks like it's supposed to be a horror game, but the designers decided the big twist of Doom 3 would be that the Marine is really an unstoppable killing machine who always has more than enough ammunition and medpacks lying around to do battle against retarded demons almost never do anything that's as cool or as scary as they look. And none of it keeps you on edge.
Yea, though you walk through the shadows of the corridors of Mars City, you will fear no evil, for your shotgun is with you. Its many shells and pump action sound, they comfort you.
But the game was fun. Nothing special, though; and there are other games people should get instead.
maybe blame my "old" computer that can't run the game with eyecandy on but i had far far more fun playing the original deus ex again a few weeks before doom 3 came out. eyecandy alone doesn' t make a good game.
going to be interesting what the modding community will make of the engine or what other games will use the doom 3 engine (with quake4 scheduled for 2005-2006, who knows...)
[B]well after finishing it i have to say, it did not really impress me. as someone elsewhere said they put a lot of effort in scripted events early in the game which made it feel nicely.. but the game lacked that in the end (and the end boss was a real wuss!)
maybe blame my "old" computer that can't run the game with eyecandy on but i had far far more fun playing the original deus ex again a few weeks before doom 3 came out. eyecandy alone doesn' t make a good game.
going to be interesting what the modding community will make of the engine or what other games will use the doom 3 engine (with quake4 scheduled for 2005-2006, who knows...) [/B][/QUOTE]
I'm actually not suprised by the comments on the game here at all, This is one of the most jaded gaming communities i've ever seen, and i've been part of gaming communities for quite a while, I think anything short of full immersion with smellOvision and full hallucinatory environments would fail to impress some people here. lol
I may give Farcry another try, now that i've got a good video card, but i was just totally unimpressed last time i played it.
In fact, i haven't been much impressed by anything since KOTOR, i really am enjoying doom3, but at its heart it IS just another FPS.