Doom III

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:57 pm

I'm sure you just get the BFG again after all your weapons get taken away from you!

Doom 3 Sucks Ass · Post by **Doom 3 Sucks Ass** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 8:05 am

MONSTER FUCKING CLOSETS.

BOOBY-TRAPPED POWERUPS SITTING IN THE MIDDLE OF EMPTY ROOMS.

NEED TO USE MOD TO GET A GODDAMNED FLASHLIGHT TAPED TO YOUR GUN.

That's why Doom 3 sucks.

You might as well say that the best horror movie is blackness for an hour then someone popping up and saying "boo".

Eh · Post by Eh » Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:10 am

Yeah, I thought Doom 3 rocked. It did scare the shit out of me, mainly because I WAS creeping down mostly-black corridors (beautifully rendered mostly-black corridors) and something WAS going to jump out at me. I guess if you can't get over that element of the game you're probably going to have a hard time liking it. But (a) that's not all the game is about; (b) you can't criticize it on any sort of realism/consistency level, because, y'know, they're fucking demons; which leaves (c) you can only criticize it based on some sort of modern-game-players' textbook, which says (arbitrarily?) that it's necessary for an EVOLVED game to have some sort of non-David-Copperfield explanation for where a given baddie comes from.

So just because, say, Half-Life 2 explains the ant-lions popping out of the sand all around you BECAUSE THEY LIVE IN THE SAND ALL AROUND YOU that's somehow better? I guess. But you know, they pissed me off a lot more than their zombiezapoppin brothers in Doom 3.

Mind you, HL2 rocks, as well.

As does Far Cry.

They're all so goddamned good I want to cry.

(Oh, wait, okay, my one Doom-3-sucks comment. The flashlight. I played the whole game with the duct tape mod. And I was STILL scared shitless.)

Monster hiding in closet · Tue Oct 25, 2005 2:00 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 11:02 am

Ahhhh!

...

... Anyway, I see that I am not even a quarter of the way through and nowhere close to the "Hell" level. I guess that's why my impression of it may be colored. But I love monster closets. (For this game. If they all had it, it would suck.)

I think people just don't like id.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 11:32 am

[No10KST]You guys should have mentioned the jumping puzzle. I guess I had an option -- fight it out, or do jumping puzzles!!

Only the game gives no hint that what you are really deciding is between one of those two things.

I don't care how optional it was - wasn't. Wasn't. That "jumping puzzles" are in a first person shooter at all is just ... just... just outrageous. Night of a Thousand Shitty Threads? How about Night of a Thousand Shitty Design Decis-- okay, you know where I was going with that.

Vitriola · Post by **Vitriola** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 11:36 am

Which is it, 1,000 or 10,000 STs?

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 11:59 am

Vitriola wrote:Which is it, 1,000 or 10,000 STs?

[No10KST]Well... that's going to depend on you.