Doom 3 Goes Gold

    Actually I could have posted this and a ripped review from PCGAMER US but decided not to <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Just wanted to make Esqy suffer ^^ I´m not too impressed with what I´ve seen so far.

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    Well, August 5, is the OFFICIAL release date for the U.S. Europe will be getting it a few days later. This is the first game I have EVER pre-ordered. I love Doom. Can´t wait to play this one. &quot;Violence is the supreme authority from which all other authority is derived.&quot;

    It´s mor e stea;thy less ammo and a retelling of Doom 1

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    unlike almost all of the rest of the world´s population, i preferred original Doom to Doom2 - in fact i didn´t like Doom2 at all. Doom3 hardly has me wetting my knicks with desire either. Guess now I´m all growed up, shooting monsters doesn´t have the appeal it once did. I prob won´t be shelling out me cash for this one, unlike Soldiers, Rome:Total War, Flashpoint 2, and the CoD expansion. iD superceded Doom with the Quake franchise, and I think there´s more than a shade of &quot;let´s see what old titles we can rework to make some cash quick&quot; about it. What exactly is going to be new about it? oh no, not the stunning graphics! &lt;zzzzzzzzz&gt; big deal, you can see the details on the teeth (if you spend £250 on a top end Raddy) No matter what gets done with Doom3, it will not overtake HL as king of shooters, and when HL2 finally comes out, the door will shut on Doom3. (not bashing Doom - I loved the original and played it to death for years, and modded it, and played it MP on bulletin boards back in DOS days, and built me first 486DX just to play Doom on)

    "for once, i`ll actually tell you what i was thinking; but maybe i won`t have anything to say.."

    I was raised on Wolfenstein 3D and Doom. Those are the two reasons I love first-person shooters. I want Doom 3 because it´s actually not a sequel. It´s actually a retelling of the original story, with better graphics and sound. I have been and always be a big fan of Doom. @Taw: The doors will not shut on Doom 3 because of Half-Life 2. Both are fantastic looking games and they both look fun. I will certainly own both when HL2 comes out. I think Doom has as big a following as Half-Life does, if not bigger. Besides, the development of Doom 3 hasn´t been twisted around in a web of deceit like Half-Life 2. Doom 3 was delayed ONCE. After it was delayed, ID said that it would be done, &quot;when it´s done.&quot; Valve, on the other hand, missed it´s original September 30 release date. They pushed it back to December, when Doom 3 was SUPPOSED to be released, but they delayed HL2 again. Then they announce HL2 for April, but were supposedly hit by an anonymous &quot;hacker&quot;, and had their source code stolen. Delayed again. It just makes you wonder how far along on Half-Life 2 they actually are. See, now that Doom 3´s gone gold. Valve has got some catching up to do. They´re not releasing the game for another month and a half to two months. Doom 3´s going to steal the spotlight out from under Half-Life 2. But this is how I see the situation. I don´t know how anyone else sees it. &quot;Violence is the supreme authority from which all other authority is derived.&quot;

    ´course the doors won´t shut on Domm3, I was just being an @ss.

    "for once, i`ll actually tell you what i was thinking; but maybe i won`t have anything to say.."

    *Bangs head against wall* Dammit, fell for Taw´s taunts again! That´s it! *comes after Taw with a chainsaw*<img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> &quot;Violence is the supreme authority from which all other authority is derived.&quot;

    Yeah, well. I´ve got Painkiller, which has the exact same system requirements, and I can run that game just fine. I´m running that on this: AMD Duron 1.3ghz 256 megs SDRAM PC133 ATI Radeon 9200SE 60 gig harddrive Creative Labs Soundblaster Audigy Gamer So, I don´t think I´ll have a problem with Doom 3. Things still look really good on medium detail. Besides I won´t be running it at all those high resolutions, either. 640*480 is just fine with me. &quot;Violence is the supreme authority from which all other authority is derived.&quot;

    I´d have to echo Eskie´s statement, seriously I haven´t run anything at 640x480 since Windows 3.11, it´s just plain bad and unenjoyable. Though I must admit from playing the demo, Painkiller does seem like the kind of engine that would be fairly low spec machine friendly. Unfortunately im not seeing Doom 3 being happy on low spec machines, i´d seriously take thouse minimums with a pinch of salt. You´ll be able to run it, but I bet it´ll play like a geriatric mental patient ballsed up to the eyeballs on morphine.

    Doom 3, awesome. Nothing better than wading your way through a sea of dead imps with a rocket launcher, now, with better visuals! =D

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    Mee - An article? I´ve seen it; I love &lt;H&gt; <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>. Still, you believe benchmarks, especially those? *Shake shead* This one has much to learn. Well as I have said, Painkiller ran perfectly for me with everything on, and with 4x AA and 8x AF. If Doom 3 runs anywhere near as well with full detail, I´ll be amazed. Edited by - esquilax on 7/23/2004 12:12:19 AM