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now that ive a PC that can play the latest games, i got Doom 3. all i can say is that visually, the game is arresting. it is the best looking first person shooter i've ever played. in the sound arena there is much left to be desired. what you have is all of these TOTALLY sci-fi looking levels, and these extremely dark , gothic tones. it just does not match. and then there was that crappy menu music. why does it have to be.. i dunno.. so ROCKY? let's get some alien sounding synthesizers in there, some grungy sounding bass lines for rigth before im getting attacked by a squad of imps... anyway's, i've just got to delta labs. having a lot of fun blasting the shit out of enemies. the PDA thing? not really a fan. it's kinda lame. |
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I loved it! Played it in my dark cellar with surround sound, lovely. |
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And yeah, I dig the PDA, works great. |
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GREAT game. loved the PDA. |
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Is your computer powerful enough to play Pong ? The graphics totally blow me away. |
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i dont have surround on my pc, just some nice headphonesl. i think this games perfect for headphones. just wish they didnt make everything so GOTHIC and, OMG 666, THE MARK OF THE BEAST! evil! that shit does not scare me. |
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Well it's better than the film anyway. |
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yeah that movie was a piece of shit |
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It's dark and evil because it's a doom game and doom games are about the demons of hell attacking humanity. Doom1, Doom2 and now Doom3. Too bad they wrote the hell part out of the movie as it's easily the coolest and best parts of the game. |
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Oh man, so untrue. This was the only not-so-scary level. In hell everything can happen and devilish creatures belong there. But it was fun. The best level was the one that introduced babys from hell. When I first heard their bone-chilling whispering I refused to open the door and stopped playing for the next 3 days. When I saw them it turned into a peculiar feeling you only get when you shoot a baby in the face and it actually IS the right thing to do. I mean, groovy, yeah. The only disappointment in this game was the skeletor with homing missiles - lame, very lame. And I think it plays best without any music. |
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I didn't say it was the scariest part of the game, but it was the coolest. Those "modular" walls rebuilding themselves and the all the design was quite stunning, but the earlier/darkest parts were of course much more filled with tension and "fear". I wish they would make a complete pre-accident version of the facility so I could just walk around and watch everyone working etc, wish they would do the same with black mesa from Half-Life too. |
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Ah, that I can agree with. I saw such level design tricks before in Painkiller though. |
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the game is arresting |
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e-geraldine |
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checking on idiots? nice one. You're obviousley not staying up late, idiot. |
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haha! that was meant for another thread. |
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GERALDINE |
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Tell me you're drunk! |
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I've got a pregnant girlfriend with twins soon. I wish I was pissed out of my mind! Thankfully they aren't going to be identical twins. I love kids but I do need to escape pretty soon. |
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I probably am! I'm going to die soon at this rate. |
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i am in a coma so this is my last post in a few months probably see you around |
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What a coincidence. I just recently acquired a 3 GHz laptop and bought Doom 3 a couple of days ago for $20. So, I'm kind of a late bloomer as well. |
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Awesome! Congrats. Get ready for 0.5 hours of sleep a night. :) |
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I loved Doom 3. I know the whole one handed flashlight nonsense is rediculous, but I made a concerted effort not to let it bother me and once I got over that I thought it was great. I think the darkness of everything was pretty awesome, really. |
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twins, eh? congratulations.. and now is your chance to create the Classic Twin pairing.. a Good Twin and.. an EVIL TWIN! |
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I couldn't shake the feeling I was playing an old doom game. hey a door, ohnoes I need the red key, etc. etc. HL2, although about as linear, felt much more like a living world to me. I love it when a game does that. |
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Yeah, doom was exceedingly linear. It would've been cooler if they had broken away from that a bit. |
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HL2 got silly in that aspect too, though. the bit just before the hoovercraft/boat thing, when you had to walk over a field filled with buried headcrabs.. there was this strange little path created by planks and crap fallen over in such a way that you couldn't just walk across the field. still, I thought Doom 3 showed too much of the skeleton of a game and HL2 had me more immersed. |
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I liked Doom 3, good game. The linearity didn't bother me, it's not like I wanted to wander around a huge space colony getting lost or anything. I just wanted to walk around a huge space colony, look at stuff (I really like angular metallic halls and weird containment units) and of course kill shit when shit jumps out at me. I just liked the setting, in general... even though my hand was being held, at least I was being led through a detailed industrial environment and it felt immsersive to me. Case in point, whenever I walked by windows with a view of the Martian surface or sky, I felt pretty queasy thinking about what would happen if they broke. It's not a big point, but it made me realize I was into the game. The fighting was old school and kind of OK. Hell was stupid as hell though. And the game was stretched way too thin, as is most every FPS game these days. But I liked it. On the other hand, I played Quake 4 the other day, and despite being nearly indistinguishable from Doom 3 at first glance, it's total shit. And that just further makes me appreciate the little things that made me enjoy Doom 3. The pace in Q4 is sped up to point where I can't even see what the fuck I'm gunning down, and there's no time to enjoy the artistic elements of the game (what little ''art'' there IS in this game, anyway... ugh). |
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why do people complain about linearity in first person shooters as if they never played mario mario was pretty linear, howcome nobody complained that mario was too linear |
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congratulations, Jivv ... as the father to a six-month old, I can tell you that tonight I have had 90 minutes of sleep and it is now 8am.. but it's, uh, worth it! :p |
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I still never played it. The price of that game totally plummeted to like ONE dollar used... John Carmack is a cool character. Woder how his rocket did in that contest. |
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ha ha ha !!! |
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dear Cygnus, look this images... |
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oh man how did i miss that comic : D thats heaps better than the film btw |
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It sure is a nice game but the environment is a bit unvarying. Too much of the same if you ask me... then again, what else can someone expect from Doom. I don't know if it's something for you but be sure to check out Call of Duty 2, this game is really amazing! And like qrter said, HL2 is worth checking out as well. |
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all the games you mentioned + commander keen 4. its when the game really took off. plus. it has pong. |
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HL2, CoD2, F.E.A.R. - be sure to check these out. HL2 is especially great. Also be sure to miss on Quake 4. Think about Civilisation 4 if you want a break from shooting. |
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Well, there are definitely linear games that can be so much fun that you are engrossed and not at all distracted... I mean hell, old school games were like this almost exclusively. Contra, Super Mario Bros and the like; you just had a great time running through it.. I mean, those games were as linear as they could possibly be and yet retained hella fun and playability. Now, with this generation of game they've got the power to give the player utmost freedom in these realistic 3 dimensional environments, So, when they pretty much force the corridor 1-direction only playing style, it kinda distracts you and pulls you out of what is meant to be an immersive virtual world. I guess what I'm trying to say is that as the games have gotten so much more advanced in the way they look, the devs have to pay even more attention to the artificial constraints they put on the player or else they run the risk of making the game LESS immersive. |
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if it was ultrareal itd be too scary i get scared playing wolfenstein 3d so... know what im sayin? |
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great game, carmack rullz |
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im not playing vidjoe games untill f.e.a.r is on xbox. |
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the responsativitry on fear seemed really loose |
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people complain, because people have grown up, yet games seem kind of stunted. all kinds of money is pumped into making games look more and more realistic, yet the gameplay stays at an infantile stage. you also see this in storytelling - only recently are game designers catching on to the idea that perhaps they should focus a bit more on the writing, not just on visuals. like I said, HL2 also is very linear, and that certainly has been one of the things that really disappointed me about the game. but the gameworld seemed so much more alive than what I saw in Doom 3. |
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Thanks Paul. |
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just bought this. Im able to play it full spec and it's totally awesome. Yes linear, but great fun. Even at full spec i feel like the graphics aren't good enough, but that's because ive been watching videos of MGS4. Just got to a bit where these big dog things are kicking my ass. |
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man ive been playing this on and off for weeks, and i just found out im barely half way through. It's huge!! delta labs 1. |
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you're not too far from the end now mate |
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