Forget Speed, Expansion and Penetration: Doom 3

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Yep, in Doom 3 on Xbox you don't worry about modest velocities, controlled expansion, or even bullets overpenetrating. You shoot the flesh right off the skeleton. Admittedly, Doom 3 takes place in the future and they have flesh eating rounds by then....right?

I started as 'recruit' and it doesn't look as if I'll ever get off Mars Base, or make expert. I die a lot, you see. It's dark in there and you have to reload all the time. What a drag; I liked the infinite self loading quality of the original; if you had the bullets in stock, the gun would keep shooting.

It would help if we had the instruction manual, but it's misplaced temporarily. We might be able to open a weapons locker. I really need the mini gun. In Doom 3, I'm quite buff and can easily carry about 7 different weapons. This contrasts nicely with the munk who does not want more than 28 oz in khuk on his belt in this world.

I'm sorry to say there is no khuk for close quarter use. It would help. Those demons and undead couldn't touch me If I could lob off arms. And the khuk doesn't need a reload.

Doom Three is scary. I haven't been this disturbed since the first dungeon I entered on Diablo. God, I hated that place.
My son's won't play this game yet. They are content to watch Dad die. Carter got straight A's so this was his reward....er..my reward for adequate DNA contribution?

Until I get the mini gun, the shotgun is still best. That follows reality pretty well I think. I really could use a LAW 12 but they no doubt were outlawed...

And a AK Bowie would look mighty nice decorating the briskut of a bad guy.

I'll be on Mars tonight getting my butt kicked by Demons if anyone wants me.

The game is so scary Carter points the vacumn hose at the screen like it's a weapon, and Baby has a squirt gun in his hand. I don't blame them. I'm tempted to bring Rusty's AK bowie down into the basement with me to play the game. We put the Xbox where it belonged- in a dank place.


munk
 
You can forget speed as some things are just better done slowly and thoroughly.:rolleyes: ;) :D Expansion And Penetration however will always be important and will never go out of style.:grumpy: :rolleyes: :p ;) :D

:o Not.:p
 
I played the PC version...

The weapon locker codes are given as clues from some of the messages on your PDA. Some guy will write something or other followed by a locker number and the key code.

I enjoyed it best played with the lights off and the volume up. Kinda creepy at times which was good. I think the use of the shotgun hightened the suspense of the game. Even with the minigun you still have to go back to the shotgun as the mini eats ammo quickly. I saved it for special occasions. :)
 
Right now I can't make it a hundred yards past these demons. They get me every time. A grenade thrown into a small hall with a t end failed to kill a zombie. I can wait for shooters to appear in the corridor behind the corner of of the hall and they still win. The darn Demons come up behind you. This game is not fair.

I'm not getting to Delta sector.
Bravo company will just have to save Mars without this recruit.
I need the plasma rifle. The BGF 9000 would be good.




munk
 
I didn't remember the game being that hard. :D

I think it's probably the mouse and keyboard being more precise that made the difference. It's easier to shoot the head using the mouse. Or maybe you're moving too far, too fast. There was a lot of goodies and ammo tucked under desks and such.
 
There's certainly an art to first person shooters. If in doubt, check the mouse sensitivity, especially if you're using an optical mouse.

I'll admit it - I haven't tried Doom 3 yet, pretty inexcusable if you ask me. Just when I'd managed to find enough time outside of Il-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles for Half Life 2, I wound up with a copy of Swat 4 and started playing it online. A game where sparing the bad guys' lives is not only possible, but rewarded? The rest, as they say, is history.

When I'm flying, though, I still shoot pilots after they bail out - "Uncle" Joe Stalin is counting on me to bring home the goods. I haven't gone entirely soft.

Good games are like the rain...there's either not enough or entirely too much. Sometimes both.
 
The Xbox control is completely different from a mouse. I like the mouse. the Xbox has both more you can control, and all the more harder to do it. You have to sinc three or four key buttons and sticks. A child learning on it would be better than this old man.

I finished the old doom easily enough- the second hardest level. There was one hard level where it was Death Death and Death indeed! They even warned you- are you sure you want this? There's nothing fair about it."

If Carter could bring himself to shoot zombies, he'd do better than I. His brain is like mine used to be- he actually remembers which hallway he turned down. Fantastic. It's almost the same hall for me. I can't tell. But I'm the best fighter in the house. doesn't matter if it's Hexen or Heretic or whatever. I'm very good about twisting around and shooting at things that suddenly appear.

Does anyone play Warcraft 3? I'm thinking of getting it.


munk
 
I was going to pick up Doom3 but I got Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic instead. It's one of those immersive time-eating games. I've had to ration my time with it. I'll pick up Doom 3 soon though. I like gettin scairt. :D
 
I have an X box and several games that I plug in and play when my grandkids come to visit. They like beating me up in the wrestling one and ganging up on me in the gun boat one.

I like freaky flyers...no matter how many times you run into each other, no one dies.

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What other Xbox games are forumites tearing up? It's a great PM diversion for the non-drinker.... recently got the wireless controller and 10 games in 2 days :eek: . Used ones are as little as 5.99-7.99 at the mall.

Sounds like nasty has Bloodwake, one of my faves. Currently working on Men of Valor (Vietnam FPS), Gottlieb Pinball (when tired- no brainer games are great- has The Black Hole pinball table from 1981), Crimson Skies, Roadkill, Need for Speed 2 Hot Pursuit, Test Drive: Eve of Destruction (trailer race rocks), Gladiator: Sword of Valor, WarWings (WW1)... ah. Also Medal of Honor: Rising Sun- you haven't lived til you survive a fanatical bayonet charge via the use of a Thompson. I must have 30 games.

Seen a screen shot of a game with a khuk, but don't remember which. Will get Doom3 when the price drops... they're all $20 after a while.



Ad Astra
 
I'm an xbox junkie. Before the new house and spending what little free time I have mowing the grass/cleaning the garage etc, my weekend entertainment was like clockwork. Get off work, drive to my apartment and park, then hoof it the two blocks to Best Buy to pick up a new game and waste my weekend away. I have traded in most of my games to buy new games. With the future Mrs. not working that much right now money is tight. i have to recycle:)
Some of my favorite games have always been the Hitman games. Nothing like being a hired gun to take out a target. Oh you can run and gun your way right through. Agent 47 is a bad mother...shut yo mouth, but the fun comes from plotting, assuming the identity of someone else, quick silent kills where you are in and out before anyone knows what happened. Cool stuff:D
Blood Rayne 2 was also one of my favorites. You play as a sexy half human/half vampire lady with large blades on your arms, a harpoon, and wear enough spandex to make Lance Armstrong cry;)...be sure to check out the alt costumes after you beat the game. Yowza!
The Splinter Cell games are some of my favorites as well. The first two were pretty good and really set the stage for a lot of steath action games. However, the 3rd one that just came out a couple months ago is my favorite. Kind of tough, but really fun and realistic.
My hands down favorite game that I own at the present is Star Wars: Battle Front. It never gets old. I'm not a huge SW fan, but this game is just fun to play. you get to replay your favorite battles of the first 5 movies. Capture checkpoints or take out the entire enemy force. Play as either the Empire or the Rebels OR as the Republic Clone Army or the Droid Army. You even get to drive/fly the SW vehicles. This is a great game to play to kill about 45 mins. Just load up you favorite maps and put them on random order.

jake
 
I get together once a week(if I'm lucky) for a thursday night smackdown with 4-10 other nutjobs in a dark house stocked with beer and barbeque. There are cables and power strips all over the damn place and tripping is common. Each player has his own console and TV. The mayhem is quite chaotic and trashtalking and other infantile behavior is encouraged. The girlfriend is envious and wants to join in, but no boobies allowed. It distracts from the game.
She and I will play co-op on the campagin levels and she revels in using the needler(picture a giant french tickler with pink crystals sprouting all over)to blow up her enemies and giggles as alien body's ragdoll across the landscape. She yelps, screams and generally really enjoys herself so much that the neighbors must think I'm beating on her.
To this day I haven't found a more enjoyable game than the original Halo. Halo 2 was a disappointment.
 
I don't think my wife has ever played a video game. She will come down into the basement disapprovingly and interupt with some nonsense house work question- "where's the ------?"

If the boys are on the game she'll decide it's time for a bath- for them. or they need to pick up their rooms.

This is summer vacation though and the games rule.

when you get into one of those sword and sorcery games that take weeks to finish she gets upset. Absentee family. When I'm finished with this cup of coffee I'm going down to the basement to play Doom 3 some more. Last night I made it to the objective in the labs. My sons and I understand we are doing a service for humanity by destroying zombies, aliens, and demonic threats.
We took the AK Bowie down last night for moral support.



munk
 
For my part I've been through the entire Diablo series, including DII and the expansion set, but I never got into the "online" version too much (too much trading and cloning of "fabricated" ultra powered weapons I guess). I recently finished off the Lord of the Rings Third Age game (my boy is 10 and has a Game Cube, which in my admittedly limited experience has a greater variety of appropriate games for that age).

For online gaming I put all too much time into some of the original MUDI and MUDII though I doubt I could find my way thru the druids catche these days, its been a long time. Actually the community there most reminds me of this forum.

Never got into Doom for some reason
 
Doom is all nice and creepy...what with the beefy slime everywhere.

But hey, for that 007 in a Hawiian shirt experience, try out Far Cry. Nothing beats a 7'5" beast with a rocket launcher and a grin 'cause his lips are missing. All that in a tropical paradise.

http://www.farcry.ubi.com/screenshots.php
 
Well down here Sundays are Halo2 night. So far only 4 of us are regular players so it kinda ruins the fun of the big CTF maps. Original Halo was the only game we had more than 4...record of 14 at one time, now THAT was intense. Not much more relaxing than using that Energy Sword to slash your buddy in the back of the head. Course I am starting to see a curve in the blades. Most FPS were on our list of games, the Rainbow Six series, Ghost Recon series, SW: Battlefront is fun as well. Trying to get more copies of Mechassault 2 in the group since that has more variety of fighting than the original. Also a little known game called First to Fight was the shiznit here for about 2 months. US Marines in Lebanon in 2009 or so, slums and close quarter fighting, sewers, house to house. Call in Mortars, Cobra gunships or snipers. But in all of them you know it's time for a break when half your group takes M249's or M60's and waits for everyone to start the mission and head off.......and then hose them all down, then keep it up as they spawn back up. Crimson Skies was my favorite flying game, great game and good control styles.
I played Warcraft 3, some new additions but still pretty much the same as #2. Diablo2....I had to get a second copy of it after my first one was unreadable from overheating from too much playtime. Star Wars Lego is a really fun game. Legos Legos and more Legos....will bring you back into your childhood in no time. Both of the Knights of the Old Republic games were so much fun I called in sick to work a couple times to keep going. Jade Empire is like those but kung fu and actually is a bit more fun to play, though nothing beats dual wielding lightsabers.

Munk...if you don't mind being considered "less than a real player" according to some serious hardcore gamers. Gamerevolution.com is the place for you, Choose your game console or other game machine and then look for the game you need help on. They have a quite a list of codes and walkthroughs (there are both for Doom 3 including locker codes) :D

Well I think I've rambled enough, geez I can carry on about stuff until I run out of breath and collapse.
 
I have dial up, so playing on line is out of the question- but those locker codes....well, on the Old Doom I used the cheat codes to get all guns and all ammo....moral decay on my part.


munk
 
I just don't do Xbox, or any of those platforms. My boys, however, are junkies. Halo, Halo2, Halo live are the current addictions. We have had Halo parties where they invite their buds over for extended sessions. We furnish the food and drinks...they play for hours. You can't believe just how much food and Mountain Dew 8 or 10 boys can consume in several hours of Halo :eek: .

Jeff
 
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