Official Doom 3 Thread

[geldonyetich]

I finished Doom 3 today.  It wasn't too bad.   The last boss wasn't nearly as tough as the Guardian.

The gameplay is tolerable, in my opinion.   It's a standard First Person Shooter, sure, but it's not really sucky FPS.   I've played sucky FPS: Doom 3 isn't one of them.   The environments are the main star of the show - I especially liked the interactive things such as the cranes and rail vehicles.

Towards the end, I was really good at swapping between my flashlight and weaponry (it helps to know that hitting the f key again swaps you back to your last used weapon), and I could actually guess where the enemies were if I was in the dark.   Once you've got this down, it doesn't bother you much that the game is mostly dark - it actually does make the enviornment a bit more interesting.

[Sable Blaze]

I finally broke down and bought it.

I've been enjoying it. It is different. It's not traditional DOOM. No "bring on the underworld" stands. It reminds me most of Alien Trilogy on the PSX and Metroid Prime. Small numbers of relatively difficult enemies and dripping with atmosphere. I still haven't adjusted to actually taking imps seriously. Of course, I started on ultraviol...err, veteren difficulty.

My hardware is a bit off, but performing surprisingly well. Onboard sound on the nForce2 is about to get the boot. Not adequate in this game. The 3000XP/Ti4400 combo is adequate. Good framerates at 1024x768 with 2xAA on medium. Probably could stretch it a bit more, but it runs pretty smoothly and looks good enough for now. The FX6800 should be here next week, so it'll be a moot point then.

I like it. The environments definately have more than a few stand and stare moments. Pretty amazing. I'm curious what Raven will do with this engine in Quake 4.

[SirBruce]

Towards the end, I was really good at swapping between my flashlight and weaponry (it helps to know that hitting the f key again swaps you back to your last used weapon),

Until you use your PDA.  Then the f key "forgets" what your last weapon was.  Very fucking annoying.

Bruce

[geldonyetich]

Yes, this is true.  Course, once you're aware of it you can just semi-quickly swap to a weapon and get your flashlight out again.

[Ironwood]

Bought this game.  Installed it.  Played it.  Crashed to the Desktop.  Updated drivers.  Played it again.


My God, talk about a step backwards.  What a fucking sucky game.

Way to ignore years and years of 'non-graphical' game development.

Fuck.

[Furiously]

Finished it Saturday night. It should be up on Ebay later today.

[Shockeye]

The Inquirer has a story on a person with too much free time on their hands. Doom 3 on a Voodoo2 SLI setup.

Check the gory screenshots here.

[Alkiera]

The Inquirer has a story on a person with too much free time on their hands. Doom 3 on a Voodoo2 SLI setup.

Check the gory screenshots here.

That's just silly.

However, that game looks much more playable than the screenshots I've seen of standard Doom 3.  No Dooming Darkness, mainly.

Alkiera