Anyone else get Doom 3?

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Icon of Sin

BalisongFlipper
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Ok, I know there are some gamers here and Doom 3 was released today... I got it at a midnite sale and played it for about an hour last nite. Absolutely the most suberb looking game I have ever played, run a little choppy somtimes but I spent tody at work looking up fixes for it which should solve my issues when I get home....

So anyone else have it and how is it running?
 
I don't have it yet. Will be long time, as games are currently low on my purchase list. At least 1 of my friends will have it, so I can tell how it runs on his system, if you are looking for comparions.

It does look really graphically impressive. Someday...
 
It looks pretty, but as I understand it, it has a very minimal multiplayer aspect. I'm not gonna blow my money on a game I run through once.

I'm waiting for Half Life 2.
 
Like Centaur, I'm solidly engrossed in Far Cry for the moment. I'm also concerned about it's system requirements. Not that my systems a slug or anything with a 3 ghz P4C and a gig of PC3500 in dual channel mode, but I've heard that my 128mb GeForce FX5900 might not be up to the task of running it with all the eye candy on, and if you can't run it with all the eye candy, what's the point? I am really curious though to see what they came up with after all these YEARS of development!

I'll probably pick up a copy once I find it on sale somewhere. I hate paying top dollar for a new game only to find it for 30% less a month later. If the reviews are really over the top I might pop @ 39.99.

It looks like HL2 is still a ways off as the reports from E3 said that there wasn't a playable demo shown. Maybe by the time HL2 comes out, I'll be ready to spring for a new video card to take advantage of all the new programmable pixel shader magic. Even with Far Cry, I have to turn the water detail down to middle levels which ticks me off.

John
 
Yeah, "Far Cry" is pushing my edge of my systems's capabilities also. I've got an AMD Athlon XP2000 with 512M RAM and a 128M ATI Raedon 9500 graphics card. I noticed it in the game when you're using the vision goggles.

However, later today I'm on my way to Fry's to pick up a new ASUS motherboard, an AMD Athlon 64 processor, and another 512M of RAM. That should kick up the old system just a wee bit.

I justified it with the missus by telling her that since we're getting cable internet access next week, we'll need a faster system. :D
 
Centaur, I spin upgrades a little more at my house. Generally my outgoing parts are still pretty decent, so I point out to my wife that what's coming out of my system is going into her system so we're BOTH getting an upgrade. She's not a gamer, so the video card is a hard sell, but she always appreciated the speed increases that come from a faster CPU and more memory.

John
 
Need to wait till end of summer for new computer...or just wait till it's out on xbox. HALO 2 will kick its ass tho
 
Dewm 3 is a little pricey. :(

Farcry was very good but I found the multiplayer a little chunky.

I still play Counterstrike. :) I think it still has the best mix of realism and arcade butt clenching action.
 
Jadis,

How have you been playing Halo 2 when it hasn't been released yet? Inquiring minds (and twitching thumbs) wanna know.
 
From what I've read, doom 3 relies much more heavily on your video card than anything else. I too only have 128 megs on mine. Again, from what I've read, that should run the game ok, but really only at about an intermediate level of graphical detail. They really overdesigned this game. ID says there is no video card currently available that will run it perfectly at it's highest graphical level.

I just picked up a copy on the way to work tonight, and can't wait to give it a try in the morning.

Icon, what fixes did you find, and where did you find them?
 
I'll pick it up for winter. I don't play computer games when it's nice out. :)
I remember finishing Doom's first ten freebie levels in one night. I know I'll love Doom 3, though I'm tempted to get a 256mb video card (I have a Radeon 9700, 128mb).
The $55 pricetag is steep, too. I usually wait until they're down to the $35 level. They always drop, and they're still fun a year later.
One of the best games ever was free- Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. Makes you wonder...
 
Return to Castle Wolfenstein was a fantastic game. Enemy Territory was designed as an expansion for RtCW, but they took too long getting it out the door, and by that time Battlefield 1942 was out. I think they released Enemy Territory just to see people playing it, but realized that not very many folks would spend money to get it. I know I wouldn't have.

Just in case there are any game designers reading this.... enough with the Deathmatch multiplayer. You want examples of how team-based multiplayer games should be, see Return to Wolfenstein.
 
I think th ebest free game ever in Counter Strike. From what I know, even all these years later it's still the most played game on the internet.

John
 
jmxcpter said:
I think th ebest free game ever in Counter Strike. From what I know, even all these years later it's still the most played game on the internet.

John
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Amen to that. Best multiplayer fun there is.
 
OK, I'll eat my words. I was at Fry's last night and they had it on sale for $43.00. More than I'd usually pay for a game, but my wife made me buy it (no, really). I have to say that it's a lot different than I expected. After a very long start up sequence, you get attacked out of the blue and the combat is less frantic than in the other Dooms, but somehow more intense. The graphical environments are really immersive and the level of detail is pretty amazing. I love th ecopies of Booty magazine scattered about the command center and the Turbo Turkey Punch video game you can play in the cafeteria. While the graphics are great on my machine, I know I'm not getting all that's available. My machine is pretty solid but the system analyzer in setup only puts my settings at medium visuals with a 1024x768 resolution. For references my machine is as follows:

P4c 2.4ghz w/800mhz fsb overclocked to 3.0ghz in an Abit IS7 mobo
1 gb (4x256) Corsair XMS PC-3500 ram
Nvidia GeForce FX5900 128mb video card
2x80gb Maxtor SATA 7200rpm hard drives in a striped Raid 0 array
Soundblaster Audigy Gamer sound card

While my system is not absolutely state of the art, it's not too far off and this game will bring it to it's knees withthe settings on high. There does seem to be a bug in the audio processing as it runs fine when set to stereo playback, but has audible glitches when I try to run it in surround sound mode.

All in all, so far it seems like it is a well done game. I'm not sure anything can meet the expectations that have been built up after most of five years in development, but IMHO Doom 3 rocks.

John
 
Im running doom3 on:

Athlon 2700XP
1 Gig DDr
and the new Geforce 6800 GT.

Running at 1024x768 on high qualitiy with all advanced check and AA on 2x and it runs smooth and looks incredible...

Love this game, not much in multiplay, but modders will soon change that. And besides, if you want multiplayer from ID, you have Quake 4 to look forward too.
 
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