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Title: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: Sarafan on May 07, 2008, 04:33:46 pm
http://planetdoom.gamespy.com/fullstory.php?id=150779

Great! Lets hope this one will be a new hell on earth. :D
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: Admiral Nelson on May 07, 2008, 04:44:39 pm
I thought Doom 3 was terrible, I certainly hope the game is more like Doom 1 and 2....
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: Colonol Dekker on May 07, 2008, 05:18:35 pm
I don't i like Doom 3 :p
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: Nuke on May 07, 2008, 05:55:11 pm
the purpose of doom 3 was to market the current idtech engine. the same engine was used in alot of brutally kickass games, like quake 4, prey, ect. id makes the best engines i think. its good news.
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on May 08, 2008, 01:33:27 am
Doom 3 rocked . .. the hell levels were so awesome.
Though the Cyber Demon was a Cyber Panzy.
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: NGTM-1R on May 08, 2008, 02:40:10 am
Doom 3 was a gigantic piece of crap.
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: Colonol Dekker on May 08, 2008, 08:58:53 am
It was better than quake 4.
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: CP5670 on May 08, 2008, 11:49:56 am
I generally liked Doom 3 as a game, but I hated that graphics engine it used.

This could be an interesting game in any case. I'm looking forward to it.

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the purpose of doom 3 was to market the current idtech engine. the same engine was used in alot of brutally kickass games, like quake 4, prey, ect. id used to make the best engines i think. its good news.

Fixed. :p

I think they dropped the ball this time around and messed up some otherwise good games by building them on that engine. The main problem I have is the fixed physics rate, which means you get an annoying frameskip/microstutter effect at all times. Most people don't seem to notice it until it's pointed out to them, but it looks absolutely blatant to me and it stuck out the very first time I started Doom 3. There is a way to get around it but it has other tradeoffs.

D3's graphics themselves were quite inconsistent. Some things looked great and others looked lousy. I think Riddick:EFBB, which came out around the same time, looked better in many ways.
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: Flipside on May 08, 2008, 02:40:21 pm
The whole secret of Doom was NOT taking on super-tough enemies, there weren't actually that many in the original doom, the secret was one man walking into a room packed with Zombies, Imps and Demons, and walking out of a bloodbath. Doom 3 took itself way too seriously, it's like someone sat down and tried to think up 'how could this be feasible in reality?', which is totally irrelevant.

Basically, they tried to turn Doom 3 into a horror, which DID work, but I don't want to feel like I'm trying to survive, I enjoyed that feeling of 'Green hat? Check. Shotgun? Check. Hordes of Satan? Check. Let's go kick some ass to some Midi Pantera."

Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: Roanoke on May 08, 2008, 03:49:59 pm
The whole secret of Doom was NOT taking on super-tough enemies, there weren't actually that many in the original doom, the secret was one man walking into a room packed with Zombies, Imps and Demons, and walking out of a bloodbath. Doom 3 took itself way too seriously, it's like someone sat down and tried to think up 'how could this be feasible in reality?', which is totally irrelevant.

Basically, they tried to turn Doom 3 into a horror, which DID work, but I don't want to feel like I'm trying to survive, I enjoyed that feeling of 'Green hat? Check. Shotgun? Check. Hordes of Satan? Check. Let's go kick some ass to some Midi Pantera."



Nah, it was too clunky/clumsey to really scary. It's almost become a cleche but SystemShock2 did it much better. I think Serious Sam took over where Doom2 left behind.
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: Flipside on May 09, 2008, 01:27:22 am
Heh, well, it was pretty spooky, though that was partly to do with the creepy soundtrack, I think. Fear was supposed to be scarier, but I found it just....well... weird and somewhat repetitive. Like most horrors, the scariest part is when it is quiet.

One of my favourite tricks in Doom was to get the creatures to fight each other, in fact, there was one level with a SpiderMon & a CyberDemon that counted on the player using it. That was apparently possible in Doom 3, but there were never enough creatures in the room to test it.

My own opinion is, don't worry about the shiny so much, and start worrying about making the hordes of hell back into hordes, to be mown down by that shiny, shiny chaingun ;)

Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: achtung on May 09, 2008, 01:50:37 am
I hope the shotgun doesn't suck this time around.
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: Roanoke on May 09, 2008, 04:02:27 am
Heh, well, it was pretty spooky, though that was partly to do with the creepy soundtrack, I think. Fear was supposed to be scarier, but I found it just....well... weird and somewhat repetitive. Like most horrors, the scariest part is when it is quiet.

One of my favourite tricks in Doom was to get the creatures to fight each other, in fact, there was one level with a SpiderMon & a CyberDemon that counted on the player using it. That was apparently possible in Doom 3, but there were never enough creatures in the room to test it.

My own opinion is, don't worry about the shiny so much, and start worrying about making the hordes of hell back into hordes, to be mown down by that shiny, shiny chaingun ;)



The first Quake was great for getting bad guys to fight each other.
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: Mars on May 09, 2008, 10:36:22 pm
I thought Doom 3 was everything a shooter should be honestly.
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: Galemp on May 09, 2008, 10:42:18 pm
Nah, Serious Sam and Painkiller were the true heirs to Doom.
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on May 10, 2008, 02:02:01 am
Nah, Serious Sam and Painkiller were the true heirs to Doom.

       Yeah I picked up Painkiller but it won't run on my integrated graphics card, I'll check it out sometime. . . .
   
       As for FEAR, it wasn't that scarey. But Fear:XP was pretty damn creepy.
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: NGTM-1R on May 10, 2008, 04:18:59 am
I thought Doom 3 was everything a shooter should be honestly.

I should not find it easier to play a shooter by walking backwards most of the time.
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: Colonol Dekker on May 10, 2008, 04:43:13 am
It still beats Quake 4. The command ship looked bloody ugly.
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: Flipside on May 10, 2008, 06:53:21 am
Everything in Doom 1 looks bloody ugly these days, still great to play though ;)
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: Colonol Dekker on May 10, 2008, 06:59:58 am
Wokenstien was better as it had robo hitler and you could eat dog food.
Doom 1 music is some of the all time best. . . Especially the tune from the first level.
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: Flipside on May 10, 2008, 10:09:59 am
I think that was a Midi version of 'Mouth For War' by Pantera...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugmxdT5qnE4

Now that is something worth kicking Demon-butt to ;)

Edit: Dimebag (the guitarist) is, alas, dead, but the lead singer always looked like a cross between Justin Timberlake and David Beckham, and had a voice that was nothing to do with his looks...
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: Roanoke on May 10, 2008, 01:47:50 pm
I thought Doom 3 was everything a shooter shouldn't be honestly.

There, fixed it for you.  :yes:
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: Mars on May 10, 2008, 02:40:25 pm
Well honestly, FEAR sucked... badly. Never played painkiller.

Doom 3 was a return to shooters like Red Faction, and Quake (the original)
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: Colonol Dekker on May 11, 2008, 08:37:48 am
As much as i love :v:....Red Faction bit Ass......the worst kind of Ass.
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: Roanoke on May 11, 2008, 11:40:39 am
The first one was good. Duuno about the sequel.
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: General Battuta on May 11, 2008, 12:37:16 pm
I really enjoyed FEAR, mostly because of the soldier AI and the way their attitude towards you evolved throughout the game.

At the beginning, they'd get an order to attack and give a crisp 'yes sir!'. Towards the end of the game, if they got the same order from their squad leader, you'd hear them yelling a panicked '**** that!'

Then you could jump them and they'd start screaming 'it's him! He's here!"
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: Ransom on May 11, 2008, 12:52:50 pm
FEAR bothers me. It's essentially a decent, mindless action game that has had disjointed horror bits jammed into it like pieces from the wrong jigsaw puzzle. There's no real pace to the narrative or any harmony between the shooting segments and the horror/story ones, and the result for me was a sense that I was playing parts of two barely related games. The damn thing is downright schizophrenic.
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: General Battuta on May 11, 2008, 01:21:37 pm
That's very true and very valid criticism. I concur.
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: Nuke on May 11, 2008, 04:45:51 pm
i play fps games to look at the perdy graphics. if i want gameplay il play freespace, or starcraft.

though i must play any game discribed as schizophrenic :D
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: Flipside on May 11, 2008, 05:07:08 pm
No gatling guns that I remember though, a schizo without a Gatling Gun isn't half as much fun ;)
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: Nuke on May 11, 2008, 07:01:07 pm
damn. i should do an all gatling gun mod for doom 3 :D
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: Ryan on May 11, 2008, 07:09:01 pm
I just looked up Doom 3's requirements and noticed my computer can run it. Anybody think its worth getting?
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: Mars on May 12, 2008, 12:56:45 am
I do, but most of the people here would disagree with me.
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: Colonol Dekker on May 12, 2008, 07:46:12 am
It's worth getting :yes: but don't pay over ten quid for it.
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: Nuke on May 12, 2008, 12:50:30 pm
id get it just to play into cerberon or doom 3 classic
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: Triple Ace on May 12, 2008, 08:09:10 pm
I just looked up Doom 3's requirements and noticed my computer can run it. Anybody think its worth getting?

Get it and the expansion pack. The expanison is about half the length of the main game but worth getting, and the double barrel shotgun in it rules.
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on May 12, 2008, 09:14:49 pm
I just looked up Doom 3's requirements and noticed my computer can run it. Anybody think its worth getting?

Get it and the expansion pack. The expanison is about half the length of the main game but worth getting, and the double barrel shotgun in it rules.

     The only thing that sucks about the expansion pack is that you have to use the shotgun or the double for like 2 hours early on. It's pretty annoying because personally, the shotgun's not my favourite.

       The end boss is pretty hard too, compared to the pansy cyberdemon. Though it helps that he has better "helpers" in the level.
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: phreak on May 14, 2008, 12:55:24 am
I think that was a Midi version of 'Mouth For War' by Pantera...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugmxdT5qnE4

Now that is something worth kicking Demon-butt to ;)

Edit: Dimebag (the guitarist) is, alas, dead, but the lead singer always looked like a cross between Justin Timberlake and David Beckham, and had a voice that was nothing to do with his looks...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_of_Doom#Sound
Title: Re: Doom 4 announced!
Post by: IPAndrews on May 14, 2008, 11:20:04 am
This installment will be called:

DOOM 4: APATHY ABOUNDS