Evening Reading

Just announced:

The new id project.

Check it out:

http://www.starbreeze.com/movies/enclave11921.mpg

Doom 3 will be your Star Wars Ep 1, your Die Hard With A Vengance, your Alien Resurrection.

While some people might find them decent (damned fools) they're sequels which should NEVER HAVE BEEN MADE.

Respect your past great achievements - let them rest in peace.

Thanks!

-Lex

Why get rid of Fox, dump Gilligan Anderson, she seems to be a real bitch.

Thank you most kindly

http://www.campchaos.com/cartoons/napsterbad/sue_56k.html

Gotta love these

IMHO they should let doom stay dead, but if they have to bring it back , i hope they honestly try yo make it not seem like the "good old days" because it cant be done, and will just be stupid. I would be much happier if Doom3 turned out more like deus ex than Doom, just because if they make it a perfectly like Doom, its still going to suck, because Doom was fun when Doom was new. Now its just like, fun for free or something, but i cant seem myself playing that for more than a few hours

Eternal Arena

http://planetquake.com/corven/

Play it here - 202.243.167.11

Just logged on after an all out go at act2 ........I feel dizzy and kinda sick ........

Was the Quake3 demo being played at last years QuakeCon? If so, then that is what that demo was recorded with.

you all will enjoy this :)

http://slc.urjet.net/cdow/100peoplestack.jpg

Geggy tah?

you all will enjoy this :)

http://www.stomped.com/news/comments/963974664,57343,.html

* S P A M M E D *

Doom 3, although a noble pusuit CANNOT succeed!!

As gamers get older and think back to the good old days, they often reminisce(sp) about DOOM. The game was was groundbreaking at the time and left a HUGE mark on the gaming public. This mark has grown over time, leaving people the impression that DOOM was even better than it actually was.

This distorted memory can have two reactionbs with the news of DOOM3

1. OH SWEET, I remember DOOM. I remember that i used to blah blah blah.......
2. NO WAY. NO ONE CAN BEAT DOOM2!!! THIS WILL SUCK!!!

these 2 opinions seem fundamentally at odds. The split in the vote on whether or not DOOM3 will be any good is between these two seperate groups of people. Those who remember the good old days as fond memories and those who would like to recapture the past and experience the unattainable bliss that DOOM brought them.

While top ex-doomers are sitting around talking about rocking people's nuts, Doom actually rocks my nuts. Thanks.

Hey steve, howza 'bout some Radeon reviewage :)
From what SharkyExtreme says, this looks like the card to beat.

Well since Steve didn't post the link to the stinkyfeet project look at the following link:

http://ontap.com/health/stinkyfeet/

(I would hate to be this guys podiatrist)

Mark Wahlberg has my vote for the role of Spiderman. :)

"- Some girl actually got married to her favorite puppy over in India."
What the heck Steve!!!!! How the h*ll can you marry a puppy?! That's sick what she is gonna do with that puppy!! WTF!! That's way messed up. What is this world coming to people!!? I need to calm down.

So more debating on Doom 3 eh? - .... doom world can see the potential turmoil in the community..

id have sinned digging up something which died such an honourable death...

oh yeah nad then theres the new GTS mx card which is supposed to be a bit faster than the geforce SDR boards, but im not sure if they are out yet or how much, but i know thet are a lot cheaper than the regualr GTS

i can't get the kiss demo to work at all

i've got a herc 2 (gf2) 32 mb, 460 celeron, 128 mb ram, .... plenty of free space for swap, etc.. ive tried plenty of modes for video and it still doesn't work, any ideas?

oh jesus
http://www.zdtv.com/zdtv/superguides/aol/helpandhowto/story/0,20008,2186036,00.html
do they think that first pic is REALLY going to get people to use this? =)

p://www.somethingawful.com/jeffk/fpssurvivar
UPDAETE!D!!

h4x0rs can take over you hard drive just by SENDING you an e-mail?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/432208.asp
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2605031,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01
http://www.sans.org/newlook/resources/win_flaw.htm

Look at this spam I just got in my email. Looks like BS to me.


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Hey, uh, Steve, I don't quite like how the DOOM article is listed here as part of the evening reading when it's the only gaming-related item in that list. It deserves its own topic, even if it's a small one. :)

I posted this over at GTF as well, but since I was part of the cause of a huge flamewar about this when it first announced, I sense that I have the obligation to let the Shack know that I have changed my mind. :)

**********************************************************************
Okay, I read this article and I've changed my mind about a few things. If you weren't keeping up with it before, I hated the idea of a sequel to DOOM. But anyway, here's what I think right now:

I think that maybe I was assuming too much that this would be an attempt to basically recreate ALL of what was DOOM but in a newer graphic engine. Now I'm thinking that the idea has a *lot* of potential, especially if it's done right. It doesn't necessarily have to be DOOM 1 and 2 in a newer graphic engine.

I started thinking about what DOOM would look like and play like in a modern game...I can just see (and hear) it in my head, the player starting off in a military base (sort of like DOOM E1), immediately being assaulted with visual and audible clues that something has gone terribly wrong. There's blood on the floor and the walls are riddled with bullet holes and blast marks. Lights are flickering, and you can hear them flicker...not just see them. Somewhere down a hallway, you hear a very faint human moaning sound...it sounds very painful.

As you look around, you (the character in the game, not the person on the keyboard/mouse) become a bit tense, and you can hear your heartbeat and your breathing. (This would be a REALLY cool touch!) Every once in a while, you'll hear grunts or footsteps, but they're usually faint. Maybe sometimes, you'll step into a dark room and you'll see eyes glowing (an imp's eyes are, indeed, red)...I remember a scene like this in the WoT demo and it freaked me out the first time it happened.

I can just picture how atmospheric id Software could make this game feel with current computer technology, especially with the audio part of it. Whether they get someone like Reznor to do the soundtrack, or someone else (a neat idea in my opinion would be a sort of orchestral soundtrack, similar to that of a movie), it could add a lot to the tension itself.

As for the gameplay, I think it would actually be better to slow it down quite a bit. I mean, sure, one of DOOM's vital elements is the pure carnage, but if you slowed down the action and made enemies rarer (but tougher), you could lean more towards a horrific experience instead of a scary but exciting one.

Also, at the very least, you've gotta have the basic pistol and shotgun in there. The double-barrel should make a return too, but personally I liked the regular shotgun better for the single-player mode.

A kind of neat thing to do would be to have miscellaneous stuff lying on the floor (a can of soda, or whatever...stuff suggesting that the base was occupied) that you have to avoid while walking around the base to avoid making noise. Also, it would be kind of cool to see some elements that games like Deus Ex and System Shock 1/2 have introduced...don't make the new DOOM a first-person RPG, but maybe have a choice to make at the beginning...you could specialize in stealth or in being the type of soldier that would walk in with guns blazing?

Ah, anyway, this post is long enough already. To summarize: I think id Software could actually make a very awesome game with this, contrary to my opinion before.

http://www.sans.org/newlook/resources/win_flaw.htm

what the hell is this? Did you guys know about this?

Eric Roberts
Longtime DOOM player, level playtester, and part-time level designer. Visit Ricrob's Place...blahblahblahblahblah...

Isn't Eric roberts some B-movie actor?

tell me what u think of something i wrote

fate

ever think we suffer a fate?
uncontrollable events that must happen?
this must be true to a point,
not religiously but scientificaly.
everything that happens was started,
everything that was started finishes,
everything that finishes starts something new.
we live this domino ride everyday
physically and chemically.
we cannot defy these laws,
this can be proven..,
but where do these laws take us?
who made them?
these were rules forced upon us,
we will never break them,
we only have one path to take,
this paths name can be dubbed fate.

X-Files is doomed without Mulder, Mabey theyll do the soap opera thing and try to say lou phillips is mulder

Goddamnit they better end it next season so they dotn have to ruin it by replacing him

And I quote John Romero: "I would definitely make it plot-driven with lots of staged events to further the plot along."

Okay now, who can think of the last time Romero tried to do this? *ahem*