** OFFICIAL DOOM 3 THREAD** - DOOM 3 1.1 PATCH RELEASED!

[mAdMaLuDaWg]

Originally posted by: EngenZerO
my gamestop or ebgames wont be selling till tomorrow... how will I survive the night... gah!!!

BAAH... you got it lucky, I have an Exam on Thursday and Saturday. Plus I have a 9 to 5 job and a 6 to 10 class through the week which doesn't give me a chance to pick up till Saturday... of course, I could have DLed it but I rather do it the right way... iD deserves my hard earned money!

 

[Regs]

Ok I drove around my county today with no luck. Gamestop wont sell it to ya unless you reserved it which I think is stupid. Way to turn down a sure sale jerks.

EB is the samething until the 4th.

My best buy doesnt have it yet.

Im just going to have to wait with the rest of ya 😉

 

[Regs]

Originally posted by: yukichigai

Originally posted by: Homerboy
they should alow you to find "duct tape" and use it to tape your light to your gun or your arm

Marines do not have the training to properly use duct tape. 😀
scary First Person Shooter. When I first played Silent Hill for the PS1 I got hooked on scary games, and because I went in on such a high quality game in terms of creepyness my standards are likewise very high.

I agree with ya. I love horror/thrill based games. Like Silent Hill, Resident Evil, and Fatal Frame. If it has exciting game play with a well thought out sci-fi/horror plot, that's all I need. The graphics are just icing on the cake.

 

[Spudd]

Originally posted by: Regs
Ok I drove around my county today with no luck. Gamestop wont sell it to ya unless you reserved it which I think is stupid. Way to turn down a sure sale jerks.

EB is the samething until the 4th.

My best buy doesnt have it yet.

Im just going to have to wait with the rest of ya 😉

They likely won't sell it to you because what they have in stock is already allocated to pre-orders. Of the 5 Gamestops around here, the only one getting in their stuff tomorrow morning will have 40 copies. 32 of which are pre-orders already.

 

[Regs]

Originally posted by: Spudd

Originally posted by: Regs
Ok I drove around my county today with no luck. Gamestop wont sell it to ya unless you reserved it which I think is stupid. Way to turn down a sure sale jerks.

EB is the samething until the 4th.

My best buy doesnt have it yet.

Im just going to have to wait with the rest of ya 😉

They likely won't sell it to you because what they have in stock is already allocated to pre-orders. Of the 5 Gamestops around here, the only one getting in their stuff tomorrow morning will have 40 copies. 32 of which are pre-orders already.

Can't argue. It's only fair. But I never really got the purpose of a pre order since all of them would order as many as possible to sell. Odds are on the day it comes out in a well developed commerce state, you are going to be able to pick up a copy without a pre order. It's a win win situation for both the store and customer anyway.

 

[XNice]

runs sweet on my rig... high detail 1024x768

 

[EngenZerO]

Originally posted by: mAdMaLuDaWg

Originally posted by: EngenZerO
my gamestop or ebgames wont be selling till tomorrow... how will I survive the night... gah!!!

BAAH... you got it lucky, I have an Exam on Thursday and Saturday. Plus I have a 9 to 5 job and a 6 to 10 class through the week which doesn't give me a chance to pick up till Saturday... of course, I could have DLed it but I rather do it the right way... iD deserves my hard earned money!

BAH!!! me lucky... bro I have an algorithms lab due tomorrow night, algorithms hw due wednesday, 20 page paper on OS power managment due next monday, and networking lab due next monday. tonight was suppose to be game night.

 

[Excelsior]

You can punch the cans!

And I run it at 1024x768 medium detail (haven't tried high) with 8xAF Performance, 0xAF.

It runs nice.

2.2Ghz AthlonXP
9700Pro Cat 3.10.

 

[Bucksnort]

Originally posted by: Matt Stone
Any idea when Gamestop will be shipping online orders? I'm guessing tomorrow since I still haven't heard anything.

I got overnight shipping and mine now says shipped. I heard that if its 2 day mail then they ship tomorrow.

 

[warcrow]

Originally posted by: Regs

Originally posted by: yukichigai

Originally posted by: Homerboy
they should alow you to find "duct tape" and use it to tape your light to your gun or your arm

Marines do not have the training to properly use duct tape. 😀
scary First Person Shooter. When I first played Silent Hill for the PS1 I got hooked on scary games, and because I went in on such a high quality game in terms of creepyness my standards are likewise very high.

I agree with ya. I love horror/thrill based games. Like Silent Hill, Resident Evil, and Fatal Frame. If it has exciting game play with a well thought out sci-fi/horror plot, that's all I need. The graphics are just icing on the cake.

i'm with ya, Regs. I'm ahuge fan of horror games. Undying, Fatal Frame 1 and 2, Silent hill......I'm extremely excited for this game. In fact.....I think its safe to say:

Goddaamn! I havent been this excited for a game in years!

Its amazing what a release of an id game does to the gaming community.

 

[MattStone]

I got overnight shipping and mine now says shipped. I heard that if its 2 day mail then they ship tomorrow.

F*ck'n Aye! Mine says shipped too, and the fedex tracking says it'll be here tomorrow by 3:00. I figured Gamestop would have emailed a shipping confirmation...guess not.

 

[HeXploiT]

Originally posted by: Excelsior
You can punch the cans!

And I run it at 1024x768 medium detail (haven't tried high) with 8xAF Performance, 0xAF.

It runs nice.

2.2Ghz AthlonXP
9700Pro Cat 3.10.

You say it runs nice at that res, have you got your 9700pro oc'ed? I'm running an athlonxp 2.0ghz and a 9500pro oc'ed to 9700pro speeds. I'm hoping i'll be able to stretch to that same level of detail without many slowdows.

 

[DarkKnight]

My local best buy is selling doom 3 August 3rd, and some stores are opening at 12am to sell the game. I'm taking a day off tommorrow, buy the game right when the store opens and go to a LAN party to try out doom3 deathmatch!!! 🙂.

 

[flexy]

i just read (www.isonews.com) and from others that it is very repetive and boring. Lack of interactivity with the world.....etc..etc...

Just another boring 1st person shooter, gameplay wise at 1997 level. Nice gfx/sound....well...i will upgrade my machine soon (fall)...but for sure not for some st*pid/repetive 1st person shooter which gets boring after one hour ??? And the lack of real multiplayer....here already a red flag went up when i read about that months ago....nothing beats a nice (optional) multiplayer session ..and they just skipped that and concentrated on zombie graphics instead? Ok...

 

[kami]

****SPOILERS*******


WOW! I just got to HELL and this is where the game really starts to shine. If you thought you were scared just in the UAC base wait until you go to hell. The Hell Knights are freakin HUGE!!


😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀

 

[flexy]

Originally posted by: Homerboy
they should alow you to find "duct tape" and use it to tape your light to your gun or your arm

lol..too bad you are not a game develoepr...could have made millions 🙂 (for ID this was obviously already too much for a 'next generation' game....🙂 )

 

[HostVisions]

Originally posted by: flexy
i just read (www.isonews.com) and from others that it is very repetive and boring. Lack of interactivity with the world.....etc..etc...

That's pretty much the way it feels. Imagine being on the ship in 'Aliens' You get the picture.

I know, I sound like I'm slaming the game, and I'm trying not too. It's decent, not terrible, just not as good as I'd hoped. I'm about 3 hours worth of play into it, and just getting tired of the same old stupid tricks. You want to scare me? Do something original, not scatter a bunch of armor shards on the ground and make demons pop out of the woodwork when I go to collect them..EVERY time.

At one point in the game, you are in front of a terminal that shows camera views of various parts of the complex. I was 'half' expecting to be switching views when a baddy would jump up at the camera from off camera. Even though I was expecting it, I would have been scared a bit, and it didn't happen. Likewise at the point you encounter a dead marine plastered on the ceiling with a midline incision with his chest cavity wide open. In the dark. When I hit him with my light I half expected him to jump to life, and I would have freaked. Didn't happen. Instead, so far it's been more of the repetitive stuff.

I'd give it 82% out of 100.

 

[XNice]

dont believe the hype. doom 3 is everything he said it would be and nothing he said it wouldnt be. you run down halls and get key cards to open more doors all the while shootin baddies and gettin scared our of your seat.

there is a coop multiplayer mod for the single player already in developement, and mutliplayer isnt limited to 4 people, it was purposely done. I think carmac would rather have the modders have a go at it and concentrate on the engine itself, that meaning graphics/sound.

my only annoyance is the sound situation, is it bad coding or bad gui? I have a 4.1 setup and as far as i can tell everything works fine without selecting surround.

Just know this game is hot if you like runnin down corriders shootin scary lookin stuff. if you want a more thought provoking fps than maybe HL2 will suit you better. I for one am plannin on gettin both.....one down....

 

[Regs]

Originally posted by: kami
****SPOILERS*******


WOW! I just got to HELL and this is where the game really starts to shine. If you thought you were scared just in the UAC base wait until you go to hell. The Hell Knights are freakin HUGE!!


😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀

I f'ing hate you. LOL 😉 Is it still dark?

And warcrow, Silent Hill 4: The Room looks twisted as hell. Almost twisted enough where they might get resistance from associations or even religious groups (also known as the Christians). Silent Hill and Grand theft Auto are the only reason why I still have a PS2.

 

[XMan]

How the heck do you enable the console?

Everything I've seen says the '~' key does the trick, but it doesn't do anything for me. And is 'com_drawfps 1' the proper command to see frame rate?

Aha!

Edit your shortcut as follows:

Doom3.exe +seta com_allowConsole "1"

 

[warcrow]

Originally posted by: Regs

Originally posted by: kami
****SPOILERS*******


WOW! I just got to HELL and this is where the game really starts to shine. If you thought you were scared just in the UAC base wait until you go to hell. The Hell Knights are freakin HUGE!!


😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀

I f'ing hate you. LOL 😉 Is it still dark?

And warcrow, Silent Hill 4: The Room looks twisted as hell. Almost twisted enough where they might get resistance from associations or even religious groups (also known as the Christians). Silent Hill and Grand theft Auto are the only reason why I still have a PS2.

Yea, the room looks great! I was a little bummed to see it come out on the PC looking so damn good after I had already beaten it on the PS2. Ugh. but I'm really looking foward to it.

Did you ever play Fatal Frame 2?

 

[warcrow]

btw



OMFG!!! 30 mins!!!!

 

[BlueWeasel]

I'm not sure if it's already been discussed (I'n too lazy to read the entire thread), but I read in the Telefragged review today that it takes roughtly 20-25 hours to finish the campaign.

IMHO, that's very impressive for a single-player FPS. I'm sure it depends on the skill of the player, but a game that takes a full day to finish playing all the way through, then it's worth $55 for me if the gameplay is good. In this day and time, it seems as though the length of single player games is going down the toilet, as the developers focus on multiplayer.

Granted, D3 is more suited toward SP, but 25 hours of gameplayer is amazing.

 

[warcrow]

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel
I'm not sure if it's already been discussed (I'n too lazy to read the entire thread), but I read in the Telefragged review today that it takes roughtly 20-25 hours to finish the campaign.

IMHO, that's very impressive for a single-player FPS. I'm sure it depends on the skill of the player, but a game that takes a full day to finish playing all the way through, then it's worth $55 for me if the gameplay is good. In this day and time, it seems as though the length of single player games is going down the toilet, as the developers focus on multiplayer.

Granted, D3 is more suited toward SP, but 25 hours of gameplayer is amazing.

Not to mention all the mods and for the SP and MP aspects of the game. considering that it cost $9 to see a movie now-a-days, $50 for 20-25 hours of gameplay is incredible!

CoD lasted me about 6 hours. Thanks just a ripoff IMHO!

 

[Regs]

I just played the original fatal frame. To tell you the truth, it was so f'ing disturbing to play twice. Then I continued to spend too much money to soup up my PC to gain the interest back on the consoles. Matter of fact, the last game I bought for the pS2 was Silent Hill 3 shortly after the release of GTA Vice City.