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Doom 3 done!!

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It's understandable to be cynical given the HL2 nonsense we have been subjected to time and time again, but I'm betting this is the real deal and D3 will hit shelves within a month's time. The :clock: is ticking....
 
Did that reveiw make it seem it like D3 is a lot like System Shock 2 to anybody else?

PDA's with email and door codes etc.

Colleagues turned into zombies running up & down corriders

Searching for airlocks

Teleporting to an entirely different setting (OK, you take the escape pod in SS2)

Since I loved SS2, that's really good news for me. Excitement/antipation level just went up. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Fern
Did that reveiw make it seem it like D3 is a lot like System Shock 2 to anybody else?

PDA's with email and door codes etc.

Colleagues turned into zombies running up & down corriders

Searching for airlocks

Teleporting to an entirely different setting (OK, you take the escape pod in SS2)

Since I loved SS2, that's really good news for me. Excitement/antipation level just went up. 🙂
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Me, too. SS2 was a good game!
 
I'm excited too, however, I am a bit concerned about how my 3GHz P4C (@3.5GHz), and RADEON9500Pro (Warp11 BIOS) will do with it. I know my system is good, but I'm not one that can even go buy a 9800Pro, let alone an X800 just becuase D3 doesn't run well.
 
Originally posted by: SneakyStuff
Unlike FarCry, iD took it upon themselves to hire a proesffional writer to make the plot for DoomIII, the single player mode is supposed to be intensely driven BY this plot, and I think, don't put me down for sure, but DoomIII is going to be just a tad scarier than FarCry 😉 Anyways, who cares! If you've played Doom, Doom II, Final Doom, you'll love seeing all the monsters in "True 3D" 😎
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Wow, so iD was actually smart enough to outsource the storyline for D3? Cool, it might might actually NOT SUCK then. Good news to me.
 
Originally posted by: GeneralGrievous
Your buddy works at best buy for a reason, my guess is because radio shack turned him down.
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Actually, best buy has such a high interest in potential employees that they stopped hiring people under 21. I wanted a summer job there but they turned me down. 😛

I was too young, never mind that I know more about electronics than the fools they have working in their TV/videogame/PC departments.
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Somehow, I doubt that, at least that the entire corporate-franchised chain has prohibited under-21 hires. Specifically, I would think that they would be the target of an age-discrimination lawsuit from a greedy lawyer faster than you could blink. Aside from the theoretical, I know someone that was a dept. manager at BB locally at 18, and at a different story, I had to speak with a manager once, and I would be very hard-pressed to say that the fellow was any older than 21. I've seen several employees at that store that I think are under 18 even.

They probably turned you down because your knowledge made you overqualified for the job. 😛
 
Originally posted by: newb54The reason half-life was and still is the most played game is because of its great multiplayer gameplay and great mods like counterstrike and teamfortress. Gameplay will always matter a lot more than graphics.
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Actually Doom is the most played game. It is estimated that it was played by 20 million people. Can't quite say that about HL, can you? And isn't 90% of the HL user-base CS-1337-kiddies??? 😀 :laugh:
 
Originally posted by: Triforceofcourage
I want to play Doom 3 as much as the next guy but there is no way I am paying $55 to play it. I will wait till it drops to 40.
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hahahahaha...you cheap bastard. 😀 Just spend the extra $15 and skip out on a pizza or movie.

EDIT: added smiley to change the tone.
 
Originally posted by: Childs
Originally posted by: Triforceofcourage
I want to play Doom 3 as much as the next guy but there is no way I am paying $55 to play it. I will wait till it drops to 40.
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hahahahaha...you cheap bastard. 😀 Just spend the extra $15 and skip out on a pizza or movie.

EDIT: added smiley to change the tone.
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You are correct sir, I am a cheap bastard 🙂 But I can't see paying more for a PC game than a console game. Usually its the other way around. Doom 3 must be made by people in bizarro world 🙂
 
Yeah, you are a cheap bastard. It's possibly going to be one of the greatest games of all time. What is the likelihood of it going down to $40 anytime soon? id games in the past have stayed at MSRP for 3-6 months. What if it doesn't go down in price just like MS FlightSim 2004? That thing stayed at $55 for almost a year. All your friends will be playing it and you will just be by yourself with no Doom 3.

Is that looooonnnngg wait really worth $15?
 
Bestbuy always drops the price a good 10-15 dollars the week the game comes out or the week after for PC games. I got UT 2004 the DVD special edition for $30. Bestbuy always does this so if I get the game a week after it comes out I think I can contain myself. I can wait a week you impatient bastards 🙂 Broke college student signing off 🙂

Oh and a quick edit, The Legend of Zelda series is the greatest games of all time so that would have to leave Doom a distant second.
 
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