Doom I I I

[DuaneJeffers]

I bet you have heard about it, but I have it. I want to know what people think of the game AFTER playing it.


I know that I love the game. It is very exciting and very cool. I think some of the dynamic lighting is very cool and I can't wait to see what else it can do.

-Duane

[deeder7001]

doom 3 doesn't look very impresive to me like HL2 does.

[devils night]

Originally posted by DuaneJeffers
I bet you have heard about it, but I have it. I want to know what people think of the game AFTER playing it.


I know that I love the game. It is very exciting and very cool. I think some of the dynamic lighting is very cool and I can't wait to see what else it can do.

-Duane

Looks like we have a software pirate on our hands

[LollipopLustKil]

Well, it did get leaked not long ago. 23000+ people on a Bittorrent link last I saw.

[DuaneJeffers]

Originally posted by devils night
Looks like we have a software pirate on our hands

Does look like a software pirate to you?

-Duane

[horse-fly]

The game came out today, foolios!

[squakMix]

Originally posted by deeder7001
doom 3 doesn't look very impresive to me like HL2 does.

I second that. However, I'm still definitely buying Doom3

[d0rk]

I bought the game today...played it for about 30 minutes and had to stop to turn a few lights on.

The graphics are fucking amazing! I turned it up the highest quality and when I turn fast or have something jump out on me I would lag.

Running a P4 3.2 w/HT, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, 120 GB SATA HD, and 1 GB of ram. I wanan upgrade to 2 GB and better video card to see if I still lag.

I recommend this game to anyone who thinks their machine can handle it, and I think HL2 looks a lot better than Doom 3 but I need both

[DuaneJeffers]

The Graphics still look amazing on my crappy ass computer w/ the Medium Setting. Also, I'm an id Fanboy and they never have made a bad game in my opinion. However, I would drop Doom 3 for CS:S anytime. I know that HL brought me in to the genre of First Person Shooters, but I mean, Doom 3 is a HUGE game, and 2004 is a HUGE year for First Person Shooters.

-Duane

[squakMix]

I just got back from the store. I cant wait to try it out

[EfaustuS9]

Posted this in another thead but it is more applicable here.

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Originally posted by EfaustuS9
Think you have what it takes to make Doom 3 look beautiful on your machine?

I suggest any one interested in this game check out this comprehensive Id sanctioned hardware review of what it takes to run this beast.

HardOCP did the performance to hardware analysis over a period of 3 days at the Id labs, here they spent their time swapping out various CPU's and GPU's and recording how each respectively preformed with Screen shots and FPS at various configs.

http://www2.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjQ0

The system the produced the highest preformance marks was...

AMD64 FX-53 (U Go AMD,gotta love a 2.4Ghz outpreforming a 3.4Ghz)
ABIT AV8 MOBO
2GB XMS DDR3200RAM ( )
256MB Geforce 6800 Ultra OC (401Mhz)

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You want Ultra Settings... Your PC cant handle Ultra Settings .

[shakey_snake]

Doom 3 is unbelievable. Crazy graphics,and it still plays just like the old Doom.
As in Run and kill stuff. I love it.

[zootm]

The engine is excellent, and the game is pretty well constructed. The way all the old Doom enemies and things have been integrated is excellent. The console thing is amazing, also.

But it gets kinda repetitive after a while.

[EfaustuS9]

Here are some preformance tweaks for DOOM3

Speed Your Doom3: Part Two
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17732

[cyu]

Played it for an hours, almost wet myself a few times. Its hard for me to keep playing without developing heart problems. The graphics are amazing, and screen hypnosis is emminent.

[Rovastar]

Yeah it is good what I have played so far you can really get into it if you let yourself.

Flashlight, gun, flashligh, gun, etc

Actualy some bits taht make you jump a little bit too.

But does it need an 18 cert?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3558892.stm

and

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3559624.stm

[zootm]

I'd say an 18 certificate is appropriate, yes. It graphically depicts violence towards humans and creatures which were once humans

[cyu]

I don't get all this crap about teenage violence linked to video games. I play tons of violent games and I haven't been in a fight since 3rd grade.
Oh and the doom movie idea
Look at resident evil.

[Mr Jones]

Didn't you hear?, video game related violence is last weeks news, this week video games are good for you...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3553352.stm

And educational as well..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/3560318.stm

[Bizznatch]

bought it the day after it came out

i'm running it at Ultra Quality at 1280x1024

smooooooth

BTW Nvidia > ATI on this one, i get much better framrate on this game with my GeforceFX 5900 Ultra than my friend gets with his 9800XT. and i even have a slower CPU...

[nybergh]

I´ve been playing doom3 for a couple of days and I must say that it´s an impressing game. It´s quite stable and so, the only problem is that it refuses to output 4 speaker sound. But still with stereo the sound is very, very realistic. The sound engine without EAX support beats anything I heard before.

Even with my Gforce4 Ti4200 64 MB and a motherboard that doesn't support AGP 8x I'm completely stunned by the graphics and by the smoothness of it. And those light (or should I say 'darkness'?) effects... I never thought my XP2100+ with 256 MB RAM and the AGP stupidity mentioned above would give a nice doom3 experience, but, hey it works just fine, although loading a level takes 2+ minutes.

And I´m scared stiff. It´s stupid that a Marine From The Future is not wearing night vision goggles or some helmet with a constant light, but it gives you that helpless and manic "swithing between flashlight and weapon" feeling, especially during the very first levels when you are contantly short of shotgun ammo and with only a pathetic pistol against zombies lurking in dark corners.

[nybergh]

Doom III uses Ogg Vorbis and JPEGlib.
Good.

[Starbucks]

This is no joke. When I played Doom 3 on my system, my mouth was watering. It was soooo much fun I loved every minute of it. I am a fan of Doom 2 and Doom. Screw the pretty graphics, the game play was sooooooooo goooooood I didnt even notice how smooth and crisp the models and effects were. Doom 3 brought back a lot of good memories.

I recomend every doom lover to buy this game.

[DuaneJeffers]

I recommend every First Person Shooter lover to buy this game. This game and Painkiller.

-Duane

[nybergh]

This guy didn´t like Doom3 that much

[DuaneJeffers]

that guy is a dumbass

he gave a game that was a blataint rip off of Doom a great rating because "it showed christ in a good light"

-Duane

[cyu]

Rating: 0 out of 5 due to high levels of occult images and sounds, massive gore, and terrifying exposure to hell and demons. No game has gone so far as Doom III.

~Dan Harrison

Boohoo. Doom3 is suppose to be remake of the previous games. This guy shoulda expected it to be gorey.

[Koopa]

Doom³ is awesome. Damn, I love my flashlight...

The sound is amazing, but I think, you just can feel 100% Doom, if you have a 5.1 speaker system.

With stereo speaker, you loose a lot of the Doom feeling.

[YtseJam]

Right now, I'm literly in Hell.
Damn that huge beast is friggin... HUGE.

[PAK-9]

I'm a total id software fanboy too, I have (and still do) play Quake3 until I have to prise my muscle spasmed hand from the mouse, so I had been anticipating doom for a long time. Heck as soon as I downloaded it (yea yea I'll go and buy it legit soon) I ordered a whole bunch of new kit just so I could run it properly. Now I can almost run it smoothly on ultra with my 3 gig P4 (overclocked to 3.3) and GeForce FX5900xt

So what do I think of it now I've played it a lot? Well first of all the graphics engine is better than I expected... I mean 'breathtaking' isn't a word I would usually use to describe computer graphics but for D3 I'll make an exception. It needs a ninja PC, but hey, we're talking about an id software game here! Of course it needs a ninja PC, this engine is going to be used by so many games over the next few years (look at Quake 3, that engine was used by tens of games). I cant wait to see what people do with the lighting and physics, even Quake 4 will be different enough to be exciting.

The game itself? well, here is where I'm not so happy... its fun and all, shutgunning a zombie in the face with pixel perfect accuracy and watching him disintegrate in amazing detail... but the gameplay style of 'walk into a room - it IS a trap' and 'see a blatant trap - walk into blatant trap - get killed by blatant trap' can be a little irritating. Having things spawn behind you does keep you on edge and can scare you but frankly I'm not looking for a game to keep my heart racing and make me jump, its not particularily fun. The original doom(s) were more about hordes of enemies not sneaking around and being surprised. Its hard to say all of the new stuff (like the lighting) is in the spirit of doom (doom didnt even have lighting!). Still....amazing engine

[DuaneJeffers]

1) Tsck Tsck, you shouldn't download

2) the XT line is reserved for ATi cards not nVidia

3) I got confused ... what do you mean by "kit" and "prise"??

-Duane

[dylman]

Originally posted by DuaneJeffers

2) the XT line is reserved for ATi cards not nVidia

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduc...122-183&DEPA=1

I couldn't resist.

Nvidia introduced the 5900XT as a slightly lower-specced card, the idea being that people would then assume that the ATI 9800XT was an under-performing card. I don't think it worked that well...

[PAK-9]

Originally posted by DuaneJeffers
1) Tsck Tsck, you shouldn't download

2) the XT line is reserved for ATi cards not nVidia

3) I got confused ... what do you mean by "kit" and "prise"??

-Duane

1) Yea yea, I just dont usually like forking out £30 on a game (on my tiny student budget) if I'm not going to play it much. I will buy doom pretty soon, I owe it to Carmack

2) XT's are just the non-ultra versions of GeForce FX's, I havent checked but I dont think you can buy anything except an XT or an Ultra.

3) By 'Kit' I just meant computer hardware... 'Prise' just means to force something (usually open)... http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/prise

Another note on D3... The idea of putting the level editor (D3Radiant) into the executable seems like a good idea, but the execution is all buggy. It needs some hacking to get it to run properly and you have to wait for Doom3 to load before you can run it (even with command line switches you still have to wait for Doom to load before radiant loads). The realtime rendering in the editor is pretty darn funky though.