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

[Boogak]

Originally posted by: Dulanic
Oh man I am having too much fun playing this.... my only disappointment is the inability to turn on surround sound with 4.1 speakers, you would think you would beable to? But man what fun this game is, someone else said it right.... it's almost draining to play it. Make sure you set your flaslight to an easy to hit key, youll be using it alot

Change your speaker type to 5.1 in Windows Control Panel -> Sounds and Audio Devices. This will allow you to check off surround sound in Doom 3. From what I can tell with my 4.1 Audigy 2 and classic Klipsch v2.400 setup, it doesn't really need the center channel - I still get the required sounds thru my front 2 speakers.

 

[Homerboy]

Im not OVERLY impressed as of yet (granted I will admit I have only played maybe 90 mins of it)
While visually impressive and submersive (this is a game to ONLY play at night with all the lights off in your room) the game play is pretty blase'

And the whole "creepy and scare ya to death" aspect wore thin pretty quick on me. Sure the first few things were like "WHOAH MOMMA!" but after that its almost predictable.

I will say its almost TOO dark. Hell half the time your shooting into the pitch black at a set of glowing eyeballs or something possibly moving in a threatening manner.

I think the fact that Farcry being released before D3 really took some of the glow off of it. I;ve already seen jaw dropping graphics so id loses some points there. Granted there's more abuse of it in D3.

Don't get me wrong its a very good game... but I have yet to tag it as "great". Maybe it gets even better as you get into it, but I don't think its sets the bar any higher than FarCry has already.

 

[HostVisions]

I agree Homerboy. Thus far it's more of a scarefest than anything else. At first it was creepy now it's predictable and a little frustrating because you'll start getting wacked around and it's so dark you can't see WTF is going on. Need a way to hold the flashlight and the gun at the same time.

 

[Homerboy]

Need a way to hold the flashlight and the gun at the same time.

EXACTLY my thought... its retarded not to be able to. or at LEAST give me a little light on my gun (maybe an option further along?) The guns thus far (shotgun and machine) are pretty slick though.

Helpful hint: if you see ammo, health laying around consider it a trap. 90% of the time as soon as you touch it, it will trigger something and the mosnters will get you!

Gimme HL2 now please.

 

[CVSiN]

hehe whatever happened to the 20th century assault rifle/shotgun flashlight mount =P
I mean common we have had those since the 70s =P
hell even in Aliens they had them mounted on thier body armor =P

 

[Homerboy]

I mean I play a game to PLAY it, not to drop to the PDA every damn 5mins for retarded door codes and sh!t. Here's an idea why not automatically give me the "key" if I find the PDA with it on it? I mean is that not exactly the same as finding the "green key" to open the "green door"? Except now id is requiring me to drop to a dif screen, sift through some boring ass emails and type in a 3+ digit code. BORING and stupid.

 

[Spudd]

Update for South Florida area: Called up the two Gamestops on Pines Boulevard. The one in the mall is getting his copies this afternoon when UPS drops them off. The Gamestop in the Boulevard Square isn't getting anything until the 4th. Best Buy says they will have it on the 3rd, and Ebgames in the Pembroke Lakes mall said they'll have it tomorrow, Tuesday. The Gamestop in the mall said they'll be getting about 40 copies, 30 of which are pre-orders. Roughly 10 available to walk-ins later on.

 

[Homerboy]

they should alow you to find "duct tape" and use it to tape your light to your gun or your arm

 

[*kjm]

Quick question for anyone that played the game with slower systems. I have

Athlon 1.4Ghz non XL
768meg ram
ATI 8500
all SCSI setup

As you can tell it has been some time from my last upgrade. I have the funds to get a AMD 3000 64 and mother board or a 6800GT. What have the guys/gals with lower end systems and better video cards been seeing with this game?

 

[XNice]

get a GT, amd64 cpus will be droppin down in price soon....amd gameplay is changed much more drasticly gettin a better gpu than cpu.

 

Gamestop called me and said it would be there tonight.

 

[gizbug]

First off
Gamestop has HAD the game in, in the back room. I've had 3 people I know working there, and confirm it
For those who bought it early, those stores were fined HEAVILY by activison

The game runs fine at 1280 res, 4AF, 2.8 P4, and a 6800GT

 

[torpid]

EB here (madison, WI) is not participating in the 7pm thing... not enough supply / shipping problems or similar.

Tomorrow late afternoon / early evening for us.

 

[Spudd]

Originally posted by: gizbug
First off
Gamestop has HAD the game in, in the back room. I've had 3 people I know working there, and confirm it
For those who bought it early, those stores were fined HEAVILY by activison

The game runs fine at 1280 res, 4AF, 2.8 P4, and a 6800GT

The Gamestop by you maybe. Not here. :roll:

 

[mAdMaLuDaWg]

Oh why oh why do awesome game releases always have to fall during exam week for me?
Could someone please post an honest review of the game? Some people say that the game starts getting boring and predictable after the first hour or so.
I really want an honest review... I'd be surprised if any review from a mag/site blasts this game for anything. The PC Gamer review didn't even mention the flashlight/gun problem... heck, their only complaint was about the dry humor... guess they just got swept in with the hype

 

[SLCentral]

EBGames in Lawrenceville, NJ said that they don't have any in yet, but may come tonight, and if it does, it goes on sale tonight. Problem is I have to pay with my dads credit card, but hes on business in Europe, and they won't let me buy it, so it looks like I'm screwed...

 

[SLCentral]

Forgot to mention, Gamestop in Lawrenceville, NJ also said that they don't have any in, will get them tomorrow or the 4th.

EDIT: CompUSA in Princeton/Lawrenceville won't get them until the 4th. Best Buy in Princeton/Lawrenceville won't get them until Tonight/Tomorrow, most likely Tomorrow or the 4th

I'll be getting it from EBGames tonight/tomorrow, I've worked it out with my mom .

 

[Boogak]

Originally posted by: mAdMaLuDaWg
Oh why oh why do awesome game releases always have to fall during exam week for me?
Could someone please post an honest review of the game? Some people say that the game starts getting boring and predictable after the first hour or so.
I really want an honest review... I'd be surprised if any review from a mag/site blasts this game for anything. The PC Gamer review didn't even mention the flashlight/gun problem... heck, their only complaint was about the dry humor... guess they just got swept in with the hype

I've played about 1.5 hours thru it, it is getting kind of monotonous. Basically the gameplay so far has been walk thru really dark areas, get surprised by monster, shoot monster, pick up PDA info along the way.

 

[mAdMaLuDaWg]

Originally posted by: Boogak

Originally posted by: mAdMaLuDaWg
Oh why oh why do awesome game releases always have to fall during exam week for me?
Could someone please post an honest review of the game? Some people say that the game starts getting boring and predictable after the first hour or so.
I really want an honest review... I'd be surprised if any review from a mag/site blasts this game for anything. The PC Gamer review didn't even mention the flashlight/gun problem... heck, their only complaint was about the dry humor... guess they just got swept in with the hype

I've played about 1.5 hours thru it, it is getting kind of monotonous. Basically the gameplay so far has been walk thru really dark areas, get surprised by monster, shoot monster, pick up PDA info along the way.

Aarghh... why am I suddenly getting less and less excited about this game? I think I might actually not pick up this game for ~$60 :Q ... damn, I'd never thought I would have ever said that.

 

[CVSiN]

I definatly agree about the PDAs and havign to listen to minutes of boring mood spoiling stuff to get to the key I need =/
very lame but rest is pretty cool so far

 

[Jeff7181]

I love it... very awesome game. It's the only game that's made me jump and smack the mouse on the desk, lol.

Oh... and the graphics and physics put Far Cry to shame IMHO

 

[mAdMaLuDaWg]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181
I love it... very awesome game. It's the only game that's made me jump and smack the mouse on the desk, lol.

Oh... and the graphics and physics put Far Cry to shame IMHO

How long have you been playing?

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: mAdMaLuDaWg

Originally posted by: Jeff7181
I love it... very awesome game. It's the only game that's made me jump and smack the mouse on the desk, lol.

Oh... and the graphics and physics put Far Cry to shame IMHO

How long have you been playing?

About an hour and a half I think... maybe closer to 2.


*EDIT*
You have to be realistic about what to expect... don't let the hype get you all excited and then be let down when you don't bleed on the keyboard I just wish I had 5.1 speakers and not these 4.1's Would be a lot easier to hear where the monsters are with positional audio... right now it's pretty much just left or right. It doesn't seem to be able to do anything with 4.1 speakers, which kinda sucks.

Anyway... the shadows and lighting are better than anything I've seen so far... tech demo's included. If you rush through the game, it feels kinda... hmmmm... what's the word... dull, shoot this, pick up that, shoot this again. But if you take a minute to look around, shine your flashlight in corners... actually PLAY the game instead of play THROUGH the game, it's very good.

I actually think the lighting on surfaces, like metallic surfaces that reflect light, are more realistic than what I've seen in Far Cry... I don't know if that's indicative of ALL Pixel Shader 2.0 stuff (probably not) but at this point OpenGL is looking like a pretty damn good API. The places it slows down is where you get the DX9 heat wave stuff and lots of light sources. I have my 9800 Pro @ XT speeds, with my 2.48 GHz Barton, and 1 GB of RAM... I have it set at Medium detail at 1024x768 (no AA or AF) and it looks great. Everyone that said AA isn't necessary in this game is ALMOST correct. Most of the time I don't notice any jaggies or shimmering lines... the only place you see that is on hand rails and stuff like that.

I do have one major complaint about it... the polygon count seems to be pretty low on creatures and people... their heads have VERY noticeable peaks and flat sides. Textures are beautiful though. I'm going to try it on some different image quality settings with FRAPS running and see how it goes.

 

[mAdMaLuDaWg]

I believe that you can get 5.1 experience w/ 4.1 speakers by setting the speaker to 5.1 in windows control panel as someone else posted.
I guess I will actually buy this game for ~$48 @ Circuit City on Friday.... I may even try to PM BB for $45 and use the $5 Gamers Giftcard coupoun which will bring it down to ~$40

 

[Jeff7181]

It's worth $50 to me... hell... if a DVD edition comes out, I'll buy it again and sell my CD version on eBay.