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by Steve Gibson, May 21, 2002 7:59am PDTWell, since DOOM3 will certainly be the talk of the town around here when E3 starts tomorrow, we'll just go ahead and get rolling with a quote from one of the id Software guys to freak you guys out. Here's what Marty Stratton said yesterday in one of our links:
In fact, the game looks so amazing that one obstacle we face is making sure people know that what they see is NOT pre-rendered. Everything we are showing is running in real-time in the game engine -- there aren't any special tricks or CG cut-scenes -- this is how the game looks. You won't believe it until you see it -- and even then you still may not believe it.So hopefully we'll get some pretty pictures to look at tomorrow. Right now all we have is vidcaps, and Maarten
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I may be hyping it up a little too much myself, but id has never disappointed me.
Now it doesn't matter who you are; if you are a CSer, UTer, or a Quaker. You can not deny your roots of Doom!!
Every one of us played doom back then, and its what personally got me into gaming.
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As somebody already mentioned, the id marketing machine has just gone up a gear because giving a good impression to the public/journalists at the most prestigious gaming exhibition will help them to sell more copies. Whoever id hire to do this are going to be touting it as being the shit-hottest godamn shit ever, because thats what marketing involves.
As for the graphics engine, it'll almost certainly make the game look very pretty- if anyone can pull that off, it's Carmack.
Bearing these things in mind, consider Quake 3. In the early test versions of the game it was apparent that the game would look pretty, but we also witnessed the graphics engine change a lot before the final release. With Doom 3 in its infancy, speculating about what it will grow into graphics-wise is a waste of time. I won't even get into Quake 3's gameplay, but suffice to say that while id have a great record in cosmetics, they do not have such a good one in creating inspired gameplay. No matter how many tests and demos they release, we'll all have to wait for the final version to see if id can bring back the magic. Gameplay is a three-edged sword that is hard to wield, and we can only hope that Carmack and his cronies have not forgotten how to do this. If you give fuel to id's publicity machine then they will start to take good sales for granted, Doom 3 will be more likely to suck, and John will get ANOTHER Ferrari! Make the fucker work for his bread and butter and cocaine powered sports cars :)
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id has scrapped the ultra detailed monsters for lower poly ones, yet theyre still very high quality. This way they can atleast cram 10-15 or so on screen before your geforce melts. Anyone wanna take bets?
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But what worries me is the Gameplay !?!?!!? I hope they don't get carried away by the beauty. Almost every game company say gameplay is number 1 priority to us but majority of them still swing towards beauty and I'm sorry to say id software has done just that in the past.
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000066IUJ/ref=pd_sim_vg_dp/202-2182313-2761435
BOUGHT!
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/glance/-/videogames/B000067NYP/202-2182313-2761435
can you believe this shit?
http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/doom2k/Fake%20Contest/3/fake/082200_doomfake_21.jpg
http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/doom2k/Fake%20Contest/2/fake/082200_doomfake_17.jpg
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http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/doom2k/Fake%20Contest/12/fake/082200_doomfake_71.jpg
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whew, I'm tired. nap time
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I'm also convinced the game probably won't be all that hot. BUT I have a strong suspicion that mod makers/licenses will fill that gap. The former for free.
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http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/doom2k/Fake%20Contest/7/fake/082200_doomfake_45.jpg
This is what those complaining fags who didn't agree with the 'new' DOOM motif (supposedly), would have liked D3 to look like.
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By that I mean releasing a high-res, in-game movie tomorrow on Fileplanet.
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They should stick like a "BEST PLAYS/FRAGS of the server" type of thing. I mean, not only would be another world but it would be cool to see who's fragging how.
I cant wait to see all this.
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yay!
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You have a four year old PII 400/256PC-100/GeForce2MX system. You want to play UT2003, SOF2, Jedi Knight, War3 and Morrowind badly, but you can't because your system is old as dirt. You have also been holding off on upgrading for over 9 months already to wait for DOOM & DOOM-engine capability. Do you:
1) Upgrade to top of the line CPU when AMD relases the next Athlon revision (not ClawHammer, they are releasing one more revision of the current core this summer) in 1-2 months and Intel counters with ramped up clock speeds. Include a TI4200 and upgrade to top of the line video card when DOOM hits.
2) Wait until October/November when ClawHammer and 3Ghz+ P4's are out along with NV30.
Price isn't an issue. DOOM capablity and desire to play UT2003/Morrowind/Warcraft3 are. What do you do, soldier?
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Parhelia
and
Parpheilia
are quite close....hmmmm
Plus everyone stared at me when we discussed exhibitionism =)
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Anyway, that's just my .02.
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gonna build the most amazing machine for this game.
dual hammers
1gb of ram
some SCSI HD, havent decided
NV35 of 30
dunno about the sound card
perhaps the logitech z-560's, maybe they will have a 5.1 system then.
The results of a truly an American icon funnay Shack event:
http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/doom2k/Fake%2520Contest/1/fake
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Remember the graphical "jump" from Wolf3D to the original Doom? Remember the same kind of graphical leap from Doom to the original Quake? We haven't had that kind of a move forward with Quake to Quake2 and Quake2 to Quake3. Hell, I used the same exact computer to play Quake2 and then Quake3.
Hopefully Doom III will be a huge leap forward in graphics... something to make us gamers go out and buy completely new computers for. Then this new demand for hardware helps pull the industry out of its slump.
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Then again, I have always been a Hardcore ID Software fan. Sorry if it sounds like I went off the deep end, but I am just pumped up.
Sorry, I just got off the Unreal site with comments and they posted that Unreal 2 will blow Doom 3 out of the water. Then again, these are probably 10 year old kids.
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