DOOM 4 announced Comments by Tom Bramwell

Where do I pre-order?

Thos job opportunities are for other games - this one is coming out on Wii!

"DOOM is part of the id Software DNA"

Is this the new "It has potential"?

Anything Doom-related is automatically awesome. Even the movie - it made me laugh so much.

Doom news is good news. As a "good" Catholic I demand more bloodthirsty demons from hell to shoot at;-)
...and where the hell is my Quake Live?!

Why don't id do shareware anymore :(

'spose I should get round to playing Doom 3 then.

Another generic space marines shooting aliens in brown corridors game, yippee.

But maybe they'll be using the Rage engine in this Doom? Free-form alien shooting on a whole planet of brown!! :D

Doom 3 was a borefest (even though it looked lovely), hopefully this will get back on track to actually being fun

Well if you're all complaining of shooting baddies on a planet of brown ( despite said planet and inhabitants being drawn and animated brilliantly) please go and write your own 3d shooter that loooks, plays and sounds as good as Doom 3, but part of my challenge to you is not to use the colour brown.

When can you have it ready by ?

Doom 3 did get boring but it was still a great game, I'm up for part 4!

"Why don't id do shareware anymore :("

Because most people spend years on the shareware products of ID and didn't need to buy the whole thing? :D

great!!

Maybe, as Doom 3 was a reimagining of Doom 1, sort of, this will be a reimagining of Doom 2: HELL ON EARTH!!!!!112. But then I fear it would turn into genero-shooter very quickly, but hopefully iD would think of something to stir it up a bit.

Nice, I really liked Doom 3. Felt very similar to System Shock. I hope this one comes out for Linux, too.

"Nice, I really liked Doom 3. Felt very similar to System Shock. I hope this one comes out for Linux, too."

please tell me that was a joke

Loved Doom 3 - As long as this isn't anything like Quake 4, we're in business!

Cool, i liked DOOM 3, just let us have torches on our guns this time..... ok? great.

the speed of doom and the sheer volume of enemies is what made it fantastic back in the day. if you're fighting hell spawn on mars, how about you drop the pretentious realism factor that takes away from the fun factor and give us a lovely looking game that actually PLAYS like doom eh?

/pre orders anyway

Maybe I'm a bit of a pussy but Doom 3 scared the shit out of me!!

"No details of the game, presumably another first-person shooter"

do you really need to add that? as if anyone is going to think "oh i wonder if doom 4 will be an RTS"

Doom 3 was excellent especially as you got deeper into the base some very freaky bits in there. Be interesting to see what they do next with it, Doom 4 is very good news.

Oh good, another engine demo...

Cool, i liked DOOM 3, just let us have torches on our guns this time..... ok? great.

Wrong!

@ ElasticTangent: Me too! That's what made it so good!

fuck yeah! Doom is sick, bring it on.

I'm sure I'll be spending many hours on this game, and loving it.

Best news ever!

Loved doom 3, hopefully, like katsumoto said, this one will be a DOOM 2 remake and will take place on Earth!

Id rather some more quakey goodness, dont get me wrong Doom is good fun and Doom 3 looked gorgeous but if id could just step back to the same premise of Quake 1 with latest graphics engine......

*walks onto lift*

*tum de dum*

*BZZZZZZZZZ*

PLAYER KILLED BY AWESOMELY GORGEOUS SHAMBLER! (with fur that looks furry)

sorry I just really did love quake..........

"Nice, I really liked Doom 3. Felt very similar to System Shock."

Eh? If by 'similar' you mean 'not similar at all', then yeah, it did.

What was scary in the slightest about Doom 3? It resorted to shock tactics almost every time, to a point were it became mind numbingly tedious. Walk into an empty room, hear a sound, move over to look at it. MONSTER JUMPS UP BEHIND YOU! Once you knew to look behind you every time you enter a room, it just became silly.

Can't say I'm particularly excited about a new one, but I'll give it a chance.

First before playing Doom 3 it's the law you have to play in a darkened room with headphones on.

What was scary about Doom 3? There were loads of great moments. How's about when entering wards "help me" and other terror related rantings are scrawled on the walls in blood with dead bodies and blood trails everywhere, pentagrams and other demonic symbols glow on the floor. Lights flickering you enter a corridor, you hear children then you see FLYING DEMON BABIES!

The deeper you went into the base the more hell like it got especially when you hit the teleporters (Cool effects BTW). Rooms where half the room was normal and the other as though it had been ripped away. I thought id did a great job of getting the effect of hell breaching into the research base.

If nothing about Doom 3 gave you even the slightest feeling of creepiness then you must have been playing it outdoors in bright sunlight with lots of people about or you are dead inside and Beezlebub has already shown you the darkness that awaits when yo leave this world.

Cool, an A******re banner I hadn't adblocked so far! :D

Excellent news. =) Loved Doom 3, scary as hell *chortle*

Can't seem to remember what happened at the exact end though after it all.

The absolute worst thing about Doom 3 imo was how cheap it was in its gameplay. Walk up to a health station when your low on health and get attacked by some demons out of nowhere. Same thing goes when you pick up ammo and just about anything. I remember a room early on in the game which ammo lying around. Each time you picked up a piece of ammo, a stupid demon would spawn and attack you, every time. Its just like they couldn't be bothered to update the gamplay in any meaningful way and just resorted to cheap no fun gameplay.

Hopefully the latest version of id's engine doesn't include shite monster closet technology.

i'm pretty hardcore, but i could only handle doom3 in 30 minute intervals. scary stuff.

Doom 3 didn't really feel like a Doom game to me. Needs to be more like Doom 2.

Setting it on Earth suggests wide open areas filled with monsters like the first two games to me rather than another Doom 3 which I got bored with two thirds of the way in. Could be good.
At least all brown is better than all grey (I'm looking at you, Killzone 2 - the John Major of FPS games?),

I'd much rather see Doom 4 be a true Doom sequel, with brand new monsters and locations and so on... rather than a Doom 2 re-make as has been rumoured about for some time.

One. Trick. Pony.

Doom 3 was pretty scary (although ultimately tedious) but Doom 1/2 weren't, aside from a couple of surprise pink demons, so it didn't make much sense as a sequel. More Serious Sam/Doom high-density ultraviolence and less getting lost in the dark would be a lot of fun, I think. And co-op on PC please.

Doom was revolutionary, and Doom 2 was basically a giant stand alone expansion. Doom 3 was not revolutionary. Doom is dead. Quake is dead. iD might as well be dead. This should be the end of the discussion, other than to say Doom 3 was like System Shock in the same way Uwe Boll is like Martin Scorsese.

evil demons from hell!..what should i take into battle..a torch or a gun.. torch, gun, gun, torch????... i couldnt possibly hold both at the same time

Is Doom 64 on Virtual Console?

Nice... I love id news, there new tech looks lovely aswell so hopefully this game will rock.

@penhalion

Which part do you wish were a joke?

I liked Doom 3. It's an opinion. I'm serious.

I thought it was similar to System Shock. Also an opinion. I thought the style of the base, and especially reading the logs of other people was similar to SS. I liked System Shock a lot, back in the day. I hate FPS games. Its similarities to SS made me play and enjoy Doom 3.

I really do hope it comes out for Linux. Also serious here. I don't have Windows installed anywhere.

Also, I didn't care for Doom 1 or 2. Probably because they were not similar to System Shock at all.

Doom 3 was pretty disturbing to play imo. the constant weird whispering etc, made my hair stand on end! ok there were some cheap scare tactics going on, but their were plenty of creepy tense moments in the game. the possessed crying woman, the fake distress calls etc.

DOOM 4, YES PLEASE!

Doom3 must be one of the few fps games that actually got better the further in I played. I still think John Carmack could potentially come up with some more revolutionary ideas - how many people have pushed the envelope more than once (Wolfenstein, then Doom)? I think he can lay off the graphics algorithms now though, we're suffering from serious diminishing returns.

...as long as it doesn't have demons that teleport in behind me all the time then I'm sold. Well, I'm probably sold anyway but no teleporting would be nice, and no monster cupboards this time!

As for Doom3 being like System Shock, there are obvious comparisons in style, atmosphere and location (if not gameplay). You would have to be blind, or perhaps spoiling for a fight, not to see them.

"What was scary in the slightest about Doom 3?"

The long hallway before the portal with all the blood on the wall and the flashes. I loved that, it was really cool.