Doom 3 demo - positively surprised

[Harabec]

Last week I thought about upgrading my system.
After deciding to put the money on parts for my motorcycle instead, I downloaded the D3 demo to see how it goes anyway.

My system is quite old - P4 2.67GHz, 512MB PC2700 RAM and a good old Radeon 9700.
Wasn't expecting much...the game defaulted to 800x600, medium detail. This made the graphics look..."nice", but not much more than that.

Upped the res to 1024x786 and detail settings to High and what do you know, it runs better than it did in 800x600. How and why, I have no idea.

Anyway, I didn't like D3 itself, I prefer to actually be able to see something in a game. And then there is The Flashlight :disgust:
150 years into the future and they don't have any source of light while holding a weapon? Heh.

Anyway, now that I know my system CAN run D3 nicely, I'll be getting Quake 4 instead. Q2 single player was pretty fun (and nothing in HL\HL2 beats the BFG...), hopefully I won't be disappointed.

 

[mundane]

Originally posted by: Harabec
Anyway, I didn't like D3 itself, I prefer to actually be able to see something in a game. And then there is The Flashlight :disgust:

There are a number of mods available for the game to 'mount' the flashlight on your assorted weapons.

 

[Harabec]

Originally posted by: diegoalcatraz

Originally posted by: Harabec
Anyway, I didn't like D3 itself, I prefer to actually be able to see something in a game. And then there is The Flashlight :disgust:

There are a number of mods available for the game to 'mount' the flashlight on your assorted weapons.

Still, it is too dark for my eyes. Half Life 2 got it just right for me 🙂

I think I'll go look for some good HL2 mods in the mean time.

 

[Stangs55]

Doom 3 > Quake 4 imho (most will disagree though)

But both rather sucked.

 

[BladeVenom]

Stick with the demo. Doom 3 gets repetitive real fast. It's just obvious ambush, after obvious ambush, after obvious ambush...

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: BladeVenom
Stick with the demo. Doom 3 gets repetitive real fast. It's just obvious ambush, after obvious ambush, after obvious ambush...

I found it rather engrossing actually...

 

[Malak]

I was pissed in the movie when they turned the lights on in a couple of the rooms. I was like, "WTF why couldn't I do that? And why aren't they doing it in the whole damn station? WTF!"

 

[skace]

Quake4 and Doom3 are different experiences. I'd recommend Quake4 over Doom3, but not necessarily in place of it.