DOOM 3!!!

[Jim Duncan - Weather]

I already got it, even though my computer will never be able to run it.

[whoreable]

its pretty damn good, especially for the first hour or so. then to me it seemed about like any other fps.

[ArrowX]

Does it give you a sense of insignifigance when youre killing some of the larger monsters? Like they promised. I can't wait for S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl

[eggyolk]

i bought it gusy

[Driscoll]

I've been really anticipating this game. I was a DooM freak when I was little. It was one of my first "real" (non-shareware) PC games.

So yeah. I hope they don't (or didn't, in this case. So it's out now?) screw it up.

[jaz013]

Well, Doom 3 sucks, why?, just because my PC can't handle it!!!! This goes for every new game :P.

I hope I can get a new PC with enought power to run that damn game (at lest decently). Then it won't suck anymore :D. Meanwhile, I'll find someone with a decent PC and obligate him/her to buy it.

[eggyolk]

god damn! why must i be plagued with shitty PCs. i cant run this game for shit

[AChimp]

I got it today, and I promptly creamed my pants at how good it looks. The sound effects alone are amazing, too.

A note about the requirements, though. I have a 2.4 P4 with 1GB of RAM and a Radeon 9600, and I cannot run it playably in any resolution higher than 1024x768, and if I even turn on the lowest level of anti-aliasing (2x... it goes up to 16x), the play bogs down like a motherfucker, although the still shots that I get to see make me blow my load.

I can run it on "ultra-high" quality, which really just ups the polygon count and increases the texture detail, but there are minor pauses when there's lots of stuff happening, making it impractical for normal play. It gives you a warning when you set it to ultra-high, too. It tells you that it's going to be using 500MB of RAM just for textures. :O

1024x768, no anti-aliasing (it really doesn't need any) and high detail is smooth as silk.

The best things about it so far are:
- fire effects rival those in pre-rendered CG movies
- models cast shadows on themselves, even their noses and dimples do.
- faces move to match words
- lighting effects are fucking amazing. I walked around for a few minutes turning the flashlight on and off. :O
- exit wounds on bad guys

I also got a free copy of KotOR from the store when I bought it.

[Spectre X]

Originally Posted by AChimp

I got it today, and I promptly creamed my pants at how good it looks. The sound effects alone are amazing, too.

A note about the requirements, though. I have a 2.4 P4 with 1GB of RAM and a Radeon 9600, and I cannot run it playably in any resolution higher than 1024x768, and if I even turn on the lowest level of anti-aliasing (2x... it goes up to 16x), the play bogs down like a motherfucker, although the still shots that I get to see make me blow my load.

I can run it on "ultra-high" quality, which really just ups the polygon count and increases the texture detail, but there are minor pauses when there's lots of stuff happening, making it impractical for normal play. It gives you a warning when you set it to ultra-high, too. It tells you that it's going to be using 500MB of RAM just for textures. :O

1024x768, no anti-aliasing (it really doesn't need any) and high detail is smooth as silk.

The best things about it so far are:
- fire effects rival those in pre-rendered CG movies
- models cast shadows on themselves, even their noses and dimples do.
- faces move to match words
- lighting effects are fucking amazing. I walked around for a few minutes turning the flashlight on and off. :O
- exit wounds on bad guys

I also got a free copy of KotOR from the store when I bought it.

Oh fuck. I just came.

[AChimp]

There's some in-game cut scenes, too, when they introduce certain monsters.

I'm loving this game. I haven't had this much fun in years. It's been a long time since an FPS actually startled me, and Doom 3 has done that a couple times already. Locked doors that suddenly buckle because something on the other side is trying to get through, monsters that can crawl on walls, monsters dropping from the ceiling...

[Spectre X]

It sounds like it's the manifestation of most known terrors, wrapped up in a canister of awesome filled with liquid swank in order to keep it from melting down to the core of absolute fright.

[ArrowX]

shit you'll be walking along in a relatively clear room then WHAM one of those huge ass Hell knights or whatever comes smashing through a fucking wall.

I like the way they got rid of the "Hanna-Barberra effect"

[Matt Harty]

I just might get this game :o

[eggyolk]

me 2

[AChimp]

SCREAMING FLYING HEADS OF DEATH

[AChimp]

This is what many places look like in the game.


Turning on your flashlight is necessary and it makes pretty lighting effects. You can't really tell from the screenshot, but they've made it so that you can see DUST moving in the fucking air really close to the light.


OMG HUNCHBACKS WITH CHAINSAWS

[Mad Melvin]

I. Want. This. Game.

[eggyolk]

Oh shit, I haven't gotten that far.

[AChimp]

FAT GUY - FACE + WRENCH =

I'm trying to get a good screenshot of the imps, but they are too fast and if you don't kill them right away they tear you to shreds. They can crawl on walls and leap down hallways by crouching and springing forward. They can toss you around and when you get hit, the screen goes blurry for a second. :O

[Matt Harty]

I'm running it on the lowest settings possible with anti aliasing off and it still slows down when im in large areas.

Still playable, although this game is very linear.

[Mr. Vagiclean]

damn chimp, post a picture of you shooting one of those things in the head for us poverty stricken fellows and i will sleep with happy thoughts

[AChimp]

I got a close-up of an imp :O At least, that's what I'm calling them.


Skeletons with rocket launchers hurt. GETTING THIS SCREENSHOT ALMOST KILLED ME


Dead skeletons with rocket launchers.

When you kill demons, their corpses disintegrate like they're burning up. They turn into those funky orange dots like in this picture.

[AChimp]

Old server broke. Need to fix the links.



CRAZY ROBO-BULLDOG THINGS

It jumped out of the way of my plasma gun.

[whoreable]

yea those demon guys are awesome, i love the first part you see one.

[AChimp]

Yeah, the expression on your marine's face is perfect.

They're not as tough to kill as they made it seem, though, but it is still awesome because it instilled pants-shitting, run-up-the-nearest-ladder fear of them in me for a little while.

As those cutscenes go on, the marine's expression is turning into anger rather than surprise at each new monster.