Doom 3 story line

[Elie]

looks too similair to half life 1 or is it my imagination?

I mean a something goes wrong at a lab in mars which unleashes evil, is the same as the half life 1 story where they were conducting experiments on alien lifeforms and something there went wrong.

Anyway, the site www.doom3.com has a cool trailer of the game and it looks amazing!
To be released August 3, 2004, I hope this is the official date

Cheers,
Elie

[Wombat]

It's more fair to say that HL looks too familiar to Doom. Doom3 isn't all that different from past Doom plotlines.

[schmosef]

touche

About the trailer, it looks ok... but what's with all the flashing? I hope the game is a little easier to see.

[Tjalfe]

Will there be no playable demo to play with this time around?

[Jon P. Inghram]

There's supposed to be a demo released a little after the full version hits the shelves, but if the final version runs twice as fast as the leak, it'll still run half as slow as it should considering how lame it looks. And the lighting/shadowing system is just a gimick that gives then an excuse to make all the levels poorly lit with zombies hiding in every darkened corner. If I wanted to play a "scary" game I'd play Undying, which I have.

[SaTaN^666]

who here has preordered it? Ive placed one on ebgames and it comes with a bonus collectors model ...my only low is that my parhelia wont run it"scratches head"

[xortam]

Originally posted by SaTaN^666
who here has preordered it? Ive placed one on ebgames and it comes with a bonus collectors model ...my only low is that my parhelia wont run it"scratches head"

Thanks for the heads up. I guess I'll be picking up a pewter figurine as well.

[Mehen]

doom3 looks lame? uhh... alright... i dont even know what to say to that

[Jon P. Inghram]

Ignoring any game play or story issues, (which I can tell most developers do all too often ) the quality of the art design is the essential part of graphics, not the technical quality.

For example, the laughable light bloom effect that's all the rage in games now, what's the point? The marketing people who come up with this crap must have some serious vision problems (or really filthy glasses) if they think it makes games more "realistic."

The shadows in D3 seem to mainly exist to make eternally wobbling light fixtures more "dynamic," and to make people go "ooh, ahh" when you use the flashlight. I'm only looking forward to Half-Life 2 because it appears to have something remotely resembling a story that exists in-game, although I'm not holding out too much hope that it'll be worth a crap either.

[DGhost]

the shadows in doom 3 are scary in a more subtle way - a light that is gently swinging back and forth in a bathroom, allowing you to see more and more of the scene every time it swings. the contrast between the darkness and the light when you do it... the fact that smaller monsters can be lurking in the shadows of larger ones...

flickering lights have been something that games have had for a long time. since Doom. what Doom 3 does with the lights is bring it to the level where they can truely do effects that hollywood film makers have been able to do for years...

about Half-Life 2... i was never impressed with the first... it always seemed to me that they killed a lot of the gameplay when they decided to make it so scripted... there was a lot of oo ahh stuff in it, but how much of it could you interact with? add to that it was (and still is) a fairly unpolished product coming from developers with little experience in the retail market... I dunno, with Valve's history for releasing "quality" titles, I just cannot find enough excitement in me to be interested in HL2.

[SaTaN^666]

hl2, to me is VERY interesting with the physics engine, I have the alpha of hl2 and i play it once a while, VERY VERY great physics. Very nice graphics. however... this game seemed to focus more on the graphics then storyline, or so appears to me. Im not interested in the storyline at all, nor multiplayer. but the coding done in this game is VERY good, I was able to run this on my parhelia with above 40 fps? compare that to my doom 3"COMPLETEly tweaked down to run as fast possible" getting me a 10-20 fps while standing still.I love doom series, big fan of it. I only purchsed hl1 for the cdkey in cs, and I will probably only buy hl2 if there are any good mods for it online.

[leech]

Originally posted by Jon P. Inghram
There's supposed to be a demo released a little after the full version hits the shelves, but if the final version runs twice as fast as the leak, it'll still run half as slow as it should considering how lame it looks. And the lighting/shadowing system is just a gimick that gives then an excuse to make all the levels poorly lit with zombies hiding in every darkened corner. If I wanted to play a "scary" game I'd play Undying, which I have.

As far as scary games; Alien vs. Predator (All of the games, except the side scrolling fighter that was in the arcade...) were great for giving you heart attacks. Too bad Primal hunt is either impossible or too short...

Leech

[Mehen]

yeah, AvP was really scary as the marine, because you feel so weak compared to your enemies

[leech]

The original Doom's story line was pretty much the same.

Some scientists are experimenting... actually I think the first one was supposed to be on Phobos, right? If I recall correctly, the scientists were attempting to open up a dimensional gateway for shipping cargo, or something like that, and they ended up opening a gateway into hell. They sent in the space marine guys to investigate, and that was all she wrote... then you were the last one left... Army of One...

I'm just hoping for a co-op mode...

Leech

[Wombat]

Originally posted by leech

I'm just hoping for a co-op mode...

Leech

Only on X-Box Live, from what I hear.