Doom III: Single-Player Comments by Kristan Reed

And actually mate, I'd forgotten how Doom was. So after playing a bit of Doom 3 I downloaded and tried Doom for Windows 95.

To my surprise it's actually much alike, with hidden monsters and triggers, spawning enemies and flickering lights.

You had more enemies to fight, but then there's got to be something there to scare you, and back then it couldn't be neither lighting nor sound.

@Striker

You claim the majority like it then do you. The figures as I already stated come from the shops in and around london. This is immediate feedback to the distributors and hence people I work with and know in the industry. Amazon is claiming 44% off the recommended retail price are you seriously telling me that is normal for a new game. I happen to know it isn't and this isn't limited to online retail either with places like Gamestation and Game doing similar deals to shift copies.

Simply being vocal does not make something true so you can sit and chant the matra doom3 is good all you like. Luckily reality doesn't bow to your will.

As I said if you liked the game then nothing anyone says should bother you. Clearly negative comments about doom3 Do bother you so I guess even you are having trouble ignoring the obvious i.e. that ID have made a $55 tech demo and you went out and bought it oops!

Have you checked other PC games prices already?

No? You really should to stop making such a fool of yourself.

And I don't claim nothing, I just fail to understand how you discovered the opinion of the majority of gamers...

I don't even say the game is great! I just say that if someone feels like I do playing it, hat is , scared, then the game is a succes to those players.

I don't care if you like it or not. It is you that has a problem with people liking it if you ghave to come to an internet forum to say for a fact that the majority of gamers don't like it... that's a stupid thing to say in itself, as saying the majority liked it would be.

"Even Amazon uk is selling Doom3 for 28.99 here now and it has an average user review of just 3 stars."

EVEN Amazon are selling at this price? You sound very shocked by that. Which is funny... because they've been selling it at that price from ages ago - right when pre-orders began. mx2.co.uk and play.com have also been selling it for around the £25-29 mark. That's quite a standard online retail price for PC games nowadays, didn't you know? Has no one told you? What the hell are you talking about?

With regards to HMV... I'm not surprised they dropped their prices... show me a moron who'd actually pay £45 for ANY PC game... *sigh*

2 Cents worth -Brilliant game. Does exactly what Carmack said it would. It's Doom, updated, scary as hell, intense and VERY pretty. Really enjoying it. Very much a "What the Fuck was that ????!!!!" game. Quite glad it turned out as it did actually, anything else and it would have felt to far removed from what made the original Doom so much fun.

299

300!

@ penhalion

Thank you for your comment. However, you are incorrect in your assumption.

In response to your "assumption". My parents bought me my first computer when I was 12 years old. I first saw Doom when I was 17 years old. I was visiting my girlfriend at university when I saw it on someone Else's PC. I saved some cash and bought a PC 6 months later, suffice to say, along with Heretic, Hexen, Doom 2, I played Doom quite a bit back then, before Duke Nukem 3D arrived, followed by Quake.

I disagree with your opinions on Doom I'm afraid. And I never once said, to quote "overtly dark", don't know where you got that one from. I stated a very well know fact; Doom 3 is a remake of Doom. This fact which you seem unable to comprehend, answers the criticisms you have about Doom 3.

Oh and finally, just to make it personal like you did. I don't think you've ever played Doom, nor Doom 3 for that matter. I think you wingeing on this post because you don't have the PC to run it, and your just bitter.

Oh and I'm 29 now. And I don't like being called a liar. And I should be free to express my opinions on posts like this without being accused of being one.

Doom 3 is a remake of Doom.

Please explain, because I have yet to encounter E1M1, or any other map, or even any distant variants thereof.

You mean the script is a remake, or something? I don't know what you're getting at.

Edit: Penhalion, you must be the sort of person who is destined to spend his life as some office prick. The sort of person who starts talking about spreadsheets during the good part of a movie. No imagination, no feelings, deviod of all joy and childlike wonder.

Not being able to experience the adventure of this game, not being able to immerse in its beautifully crafted world and feel the butterflies in your stomach, basically because your only dreams consist of rows of numbers and technicalities, preferably in Microsoft Excel, is one thing. Trying to force that grey, numb world of yours on other people is something else entirely. You better quit while you're ahead (even though you're not).


Btw, the last two paragraphs go out to anybody who judges the game by a list of checkboxes (like somebody said).

More of a re-interpretation than a re-make. Doom 3 assumes the events in Doom never happened.

I'm surprised at how some people seem to feel that criticising Doom 3 is akin to heresy. I enjoyed Doom because it was fresh and original. Doom 3 is not fresh or original - hence I'm not finding it particularly enjoyable. Ok I lie, it was for about two hours.

If other people like it then fair enough, but don't call me a dumb gamer or whatever you like because of it. So some people like to play a game that offers something original whilst others prefer to be stuck in the past and are afraid of change. Whatever...

...losers.

Nikanoru,

I see what you saying, it isn't a remake in a level by level sense, but early on in development of Doom 3 I distinctly remember id software use the term "remake", which is why I've chosen to use that term. Its just more fleshed out. Doom 3 feels like Doom to me. I have a good imagination, so there was always more to Doom in my head. Its good to see some of things I wished for back then, come to life now.

Mofo,

There someone goes again. Because people have a different opinion to you they are "losers" and "afraid of change".

Everyone else,

When I played Doom 3 for the first time, I got Doom remade. Perhaps I am seeing this game though rose-tinted-glasses, but I think its brilliant. And the younger people I meet think is brilliant too, even though they missed Doom. I wasn't expecting anything more than Doom 3 has brought to the table. Some people on this post are criticising Doom 3 for things it didn't . I just think it should be criticised it on things it set out to do.

Its like saying to someone "You've got a crappy tattoo" when they haven't even got a tattoo. Do you see what I'm saying?

Started playing from scratch on my laptop. (Runs really well too :D) I noticed something pretty funny; check out what the guy who gives you your PDA types on his terminal.

Maybe a bit late in the day to ask.....but are we going to see a multiplayer review of this? Unless it's already done and I missed it.

The only reason I'd buy it is for the MP element, and so far all I have heard is about the SP experience.

So where is the multi player review? It's only been 3 and a half years.

haha

Hello. This is 2008 calling. Turns out Doom 3 was better than a lot of games that followed in its footsteps. There will be this supposedly AAA game in 2007 called Bioshock that not only has a worse story but worse graphics, worse gameplay and is pretentious to boot!