DOOM 3 Demo Released

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• I hear the performance of ATI's Linux drivers is causing/has caused problems with the port. [raises fist... : minasoko

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• d3 by far, pk got a little stupid : derean
• I liked Painkiller a lot but hated D3. Painkiller was fun because it was really really fast. : larcho
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  I don't see how you can compare the 2. they are no where near alike in gameplay really besides the fact t... : dilutedq
  • Aye. Painkiller could be an arcade game in it's simple but true action while Doom 3 aims to concentrate o... : MrLonghair
• I think they are comparible games and overall I'd say PK was more entertaining... : tunis5000
• painkiller was easier to sit back and snipe your way through most of the game. D3 put it in your face. ... : Slowtreme
• I had much more fun with Doom3. Painkiller was fun and the physics with slow-mo were awesome to play wit... : gyvoji
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  pk was way better, it had that sense of weight and reaction to gameplay which id doesn't even seem to hav... : thebigbeefsandwhich
  • yeah you keep telling yourself that... :/ : eskimo spy
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    If DOOM had a different name, people would like it more. : DinK
    • It would need to be a different company also.... too much bias out there. : myLeftTesticleofFury
• Doom3- but I do like painkiller . : brutal
• I loved Painkiller's hell level. That shit was so visceral. If I believe hell existed, it would be exac... : godhatingatheist
• D3 by far. Painkiller was a prettier Serious Sam. I do not like Serious Sam. I do not like Green eggs ... : johnny rotten
• I couldn't make it further than 3-4 levels into PK without being bored to tears. Doom3 kept me entertain... : myLeftTesticleofFury
• painkiller's hell level was way more interesting than doom3's. I was amazed by the creativity and thought... : kemical

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• Half life wasnt repetitive, you went through the labs, then outside, then back underground then to xen. T... : marmite
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  Negative. That's what FPS were back in the days. Now, I expect far more from a FPS. Take a Look at NOLF, ... : perforierer
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    I don't think so. Those are different kinds of games. Neither is necessarily "better" than the other. ... : myLeftTesticleofFury
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      True. Personal taste is the most important part. But the thread starter said, that people that don't like... : perforierer
      • I agree with you about everything but the "repeating gamestyle" part. The game was quite varied. The t... : myLeftTesticleofFury

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  Just for boxes, debris, death animations (meaning that an enemy will fly away if you hit it right with th... : [7]kami
  • The fact that it's there is what's revolutionary... Now, someone just needs to put it to use. The probl... : myLeftTesticleofFury
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  There was a thing with disposing of toxic barrels using some kind of toxic barrel grab-and-toss machine..... : thaperfectdrug
  • Yeah, that was really well done. : rorshack

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  Am i the only one who liked having to use the flashlight seperatly? I thought the system created a greate... : Angry_Badger
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    I agree. These people just want everything to be incredibly easy for them. : Alec Matias
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      No, we just wanted a fun game. : MTWomg
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        I thought being scared shitless was half of the fun. : kingdepork
        • WTP, IA : fleabug
      • I find it fun, and there are mods for those who don't. You had a choice between seeing well and being ... : nudel
      • it was fun for me. Holy shit people have different opinions!)(#*!)@(#* : armybob
    • Anyone who complains about using a flashlight totally missed the point of the game if you ask me. That g... : Pneum0
  • Nah. The whiners are just noisy. : freqq28
  • I thought it suited the game perfectly. : silentzero
  • A lot of folks think id didn't think about it...it was a design decsion. The game wasn't supposed to be ... : dillonrp
  • I agree! I thought that was the whole point of the game, was to scare you.. not let you have a flashlight... : slip42o
  • I was perfectly happy with the implementation of the flashlight. The whole point was to have to say "Wha... : Mitchell Gant
  • I really wanted a flashlight + gun mod, but I played through the game before the first mod came out... an... : esky
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  Its a shame that you can't really see all the great artwork because most of it is undershadow and in dark... : computerBoy
  • Agreed on the flashlight. It was meant to be atmospheric without the whole (taped) flashlife + gun. Thats... : kurumba
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    I was disapointed that you couldn't at least use your pistol and flashlight together. Then again, that ... : Saman
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      wha....? I NEVER had anything jump out at me when I was crawling in a vent. Halfway through the game I re... : cap n KRUNCH
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        The tension isn't from having monsters jump out at you, it's from not knowing whether they will. The b... : Sebastian Sylvan
        • heh, well yeah on that. And admittably my palms got pretty sweaty going through those crawlspaces the fir... : cap n KRUNCH
  • clear out the area, then walk back with your flashlight! : the archvile
• legitimate gripe required, more like. pbbth, whatever for you flashlight whiners. : eskimo spy

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• Yeah probably, that happens with every game. :) : SpiderMonkey
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  eh, like what? : jonc
  • None of the stuff from these shots is in the game any more: http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/doom3/DOOM... : kraemer

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  haha sure it did <nudge nudge> ;) : moneyshot
  • detail level: virtua fighter one : kingdepork
• the you've got some magic gf2.. I've got a gf3 ti500 and i am squarely limited to rather crappy res/detai... : e1ghtball
• I can confirm. Similar system & GF2 : deadlycookie
• I played through it on a 64mb GF2 the first time around, with only 1.5ghz athlon... had to disable lots o... : esky

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  With games like Doom ]|[ that take so long to make, and cost so much money, I think a company's focus has... : MatthewPhillips
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    this makes no sense .... if your spending that much money on one game, than you should make it your prior... : atreus
    • Well yeah you just answered your own reply ;) Doom ]|[ is that big that it doesn't need a demo for pe... : MatthewPhillips
    • Wrong. It makes perfect sense. If you have a high profile game, the people who are waiting with baited ... : myLeftTesticleofFury
  • It's only because of id's name can they afford to do this. Any other company would put a demo out before... : monohydrate
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    With just a little planning, they could have a demo ready to go 5 minutes after the game goes gold. That... : aerelorn
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      Dude, it's fucking Doom. Like they even need to do a demo. I think this is just expected so they put on... : mrwolf710
      • agree'd. end of discussion. : lingo
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  sales are probably starting to drop off, so now they release the demo to get the people on the fence wait... : tunis5000
  • Plus kids are back in school / university (especially) and this is something for free that they can downl... : MatthewPhillips
  • Perfect sense. : freqq28
  • well, some of that time was spent taking time off, so it might have been coincidence that this might be u... : cap n KRUNCH
• I think the old school demo ways are only important if your game is very under the radar and people know ... : kingdepork
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  I doubt the lack of demo had any noticeable affect on pre order or 1st day sales. : slothman01
  • it'd probably actually be the reverse actually. people would be like "this game sucks" and just skip it. ... : moonbreaker
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  YES!! WHY THE HELL IS A DEMO EVEN BEING RELEASED AT THIS TIME??? : myredself
  • yeah because by this time people who were even slightly interested in experiencing a bit of the game have... : jono181
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  I think they have just come to realize that an early demo does not generate enough extra revenue to justi... : scatti
  • No demo up front because they suspected the game would be getting very mixed reviews by the gamers themse... : stephen_tacoma_wa@speakeasy.net

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  Remember each weapon flash is a dynamic light so if you were to have 16 people in the same room firing at... : peter
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    Well the simple solution to that would be to turn of the muzzle flash in multiplayer. Instead they went ... : torigurtland
    • Unfortunately, your simple solution shatters the gameplay dynamics that are provided by the advanced grap... : myLeftTesticleofFury

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• True dat. And the linux server. : rorshack
• yea the final patch would be nice...i want my WS support : Madwacker
• ws support is already included in the released beta patch. : lonestar3
• the beta patch cut my framerate in half, especially in the later levels. Did anyone else have this happe... : the archvile
• Yeah. Plus some netcode optimisations would be nice. It's awfully quiet @ id software. I expect faster en... : [7]kami

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  Oh btw, this is from a clean install about 2 weeks old with not a lot of software installed on it. firef... : Optimus Prime
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    (1) No idea what "defiler pack 1.9" is (2) I have almost the exact same setup on a 2-year old install ... : MatthewPhillips
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      640x480 yeah THAT's a nice resolution. back in 1996! :) Got it working without Defilier Pack http://h... : Optimus Prime
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        Well, honestly, with your video card, that's the res. you should be playing it at for the best visuals - ... : MatthewPhillips
        • I played quite a bit at 640x480 w/ AA and high quality w/ an XP1800 - IMHO it looked different, but "as g... : eskimo spy

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  Me. I bought it day-of-release and I am on, I think level 16. : MatthewPhillips
  • of course I am also playing it without SAVING ever. : MatthewPhillips
  • haven't had a lot of time to play it. getting closer to entering hell though. i have god mode on so i can... : rezombie
• I had to build a new machine. : Topaz
• I haven't finished it either. The game is good with lots of creepy things going on but sadly is has not ... : computerBoy
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  It gets very repetitive. I don't know if I'll ever finish it. : mrwolf710
  • i agree, it does lack variety compared to other games. i still had so much fun looking at the graphical d... : neo69
• Im still working on it. Got it realease day. Have lost motivation : bozer
• I got it day oafter release, but between work, wife, kids, etc., I don't get all that much time to play g... : FormerHPB
• i don't know if i'll go back, i think i'm halfway thru. : Silent1
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  The only way I could stand finishing it was using God mode. Man, if I would have played it without that ... : Torgo
  • same here, got about 3/4 the way thru and the game got so boring and annoying I just turned god mode on t... : crinos
• Bought it, got bored, convinced myself to start again, got bored again. Yet to go back. : Mugsy
• I got bored as well... the game looks good, but not enough to keep me interested. The bar has been rais... : persecutor
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  Too busy playing WoW. : d3tached
  • I hate you. :[ : cajuncook
• i stoped playing because it ran too slow on my computer. Going to pick it up again when i upgrade around ... : Modulus
• too busy in DoomEdit, and I was waiting on upgrading my RAM. my systems all good except for slow RAM, ca... : eskimo spy

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• Agree. I loved it. I don't always need someone to reinvent the wheel before I can enjoy a good shooter. ... : Mitchell Gant

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• oops cut and paste... "why the hell" : lowayne
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  Who knows? The story is very lame and doesn't make much sense. You might as well as how the base got so... : Torgo
  • That is weak sauce :-/ : lowayne

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• arrr, a little gift for talk like a pirate day, matey! : Senor PoopyPants
• According to various sources, it was meant to be released early next week, but gamespot jumped the boat, ... : rorshack

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  You have to be crazy to download it through dial up : larcho
  • i'm not, they are and blocking all the download spots ! : rookieone

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• I played the whole game and agree : peter
• because there's a little Greg Kasavin in all of us! : Senor PoopyPants
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  the only things that bugged me about the flashlight were the big performance hit and that it's so much of... : Fraxxxi
  • huh what? i saw no performance hit from the flashlight : Shadowdane
  • Yeah, I noticed those also. I would lower it when admiring the scenery/machinery. : thejm4n
• Most people complain because they don't know how to properly set r_brightness and r_gamma. : Sapiens

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  hl:uplink was awesome. best demo ever. : pupismyname
  • ^^ I gotta agree with pup there. Almost makes we want to go back and find that demo and play it again (if... : MatthewPhillips
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    Uplink convinced me to go out and buy Half-Life, many many years ago. Half-Life had been out for half a ... : Dog-From-Duckhunt
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      but the demo was just stuff they had in the game and took out for whatever reason. All they had to do was... : veggie
      • thats BS. "all they had to do" and "just stuff" takes a A LONG time now days : ( : ease_one
• INDEED! That was a great demo. Maybe HL2 will have a similar demo? Probably not... :/ : inkninja
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  Everyone smart had already downloaded day one =0. : crazywigga
  • everybody smarter also downloaded uplonk : pupismyname
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    What was Day One? : Kryn
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      i think it came free with graphics cards didn't it? I never played it though. : marmite
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        Does anyone remember the "ATI OEM" leaked demo of Half-Life? Came out in September 1998, I remember becau... : brushbaron
        • no because it was a deal with the monster mx300 sound cards right? not ATI? Man that was a bad ass demo... : ease_one

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  Say huh? Turning bumps and specular off makes a huge difference in IQ. : jake
  • Yea and like only a 2% difference in speed. Turn of shadows will give you the best result, spec/bump give... : The-Shadow-TS

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  In some ways I wish I had waited. I hope there are some good mods soon. : Fred Garvin
  • http://www.planetdoom.com/d3f/ ;) : SlimJim
• Music? Other then the Menu, the game has no music, it's all ambient sound from the enviroment. : The-Shadow-TS

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  neither does the full game : fen boi
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    Uh, yes it does. The full version, that is. : realityescapeartist
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      i guess he means.. Multiplayer that is any good : kurumba
      • it's good, but it's not Q3. : Pneum0
    • It's called a joke. And it's also true. We kept playing multiplayer at Quakecon and it just was too bor... : mrwolf710
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  Yeah, it's not really an issue though. Seeing as how Doom3 multiplayer is complete garbage, there are onl... : prostyle
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    lol - you're kidding right? Mod possibilities = zero for Doom 3? Damn. That has to be the stupidest comme... : slip42o
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      hehe he's just trolling after reading some of his other comments.. its obvious he didn't like Doom 3. B... : Shadowdane
      • Surely he just meant that no existing MP player base = no potential for mod makers to gain a player base.... : SpiderMonkey
• I think I know what to expect : byorn

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• Any time now... : rorshack

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• Because GameSpot put it up early. I wouldn't like to be whoever did that tomorrow! : AndyBurnes