Re: DOOM3, a big disappointment

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 00:41:23 GMT, "Michael-NC"
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>> >> On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 20:28:55 -0700 (PDT), foo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Cabinets
>> >> Everywhere) wrote:
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>> >>> The problem with DOOM3 is that it just isn't
>> >>> all that much fun to play. I was in awe of the
>> >>> original DOOM in it's day and long awaited this
>> >>> latest release, but the fact is DOOM3 is kind
>> >>> of boring. Condition Zero was fun and had replay
>> >>> value -- Not DOOM3, just try going through it
>> >>> again, yawn. UNREAL 2004 looked rather cartoony,
>> >>> but it was fast paced and fun too. DOOM3 was just
>> >>> a maze of dim twisty passages all the same with some
>> >>> dark shapes they you had to shoot out of the way
>> >>> so you could get to more dim twisty passages.
>> >>
>> >> I rather liked the Blair Witch Project when it first hit the
>> >> theatres. It was genuinely creepy, something that movies had been
>> >> missing for years before.  When it came out on DVD I gathered a
>> >> group of friends over to watch it.
>> >>
>> >> They laughed all the way thru the show.
>> >>
>> >> The guys is particular wouldn't let themselves get into the proper
>> >> mood for the movie.  A buncha 20-something males sitting around not
>> >> letting themselves be scared when that was the *point* ruined the
>> >> experience for everyone including themselves.
>> >>
>> >> I think this phenomenon is what is ruining Doom3 for some players.
>> >> They're either playing with a buncha friends sitting around watching
>> >> over their shoulder, or they're running thru the game trying to
treat
>> >> it like Goldeneye.  Either way, they aren't allowing themselves to
be
>> >> immersed into the creepiness of the setting.  Its a slower-paced
>> >> game, obviously on purpose.  The flashlight limitation is there for
>> >> a reason and you modders are cheating yourselves out of your $55
>> >> when you use it.
>> >>
>> >> I'm sad to hear that the game wasn't entertaining for some of my
>> >> fellow gamers, especially when the fault is their own.  I'm enjoying
>> >> the heck out of Doom3, but then again I like to be scared by scary
>> >> movies.
>> >>
>> >> -s-
>> >
>> > What a pompous and self-serving load of crap.
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>> Self-serving?  Does he have stock in id or something?
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>No, but he probably has to continually restock his metro***ual,
touchy-feely
>ego. For Christ's sake, can't someone not like a game because it's
graphics
>are too dark and gameplay too simple without being accused of denying
their
>feminine side and not allowing themselves to be scared???
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>What kinda ****ing new age bull**** is he trying to sell?  LOL!

Well, at least he actually explained himself this time :)

As for the actual complaints, "too dark"?  What does that even mean?
Are you complaining of the fact the game deliberately tends to send
you down dimly-lit corridors as a poor design decision, or that you
couldn't properly configure your hardware and the game is dark in
areas when its supposed to be light?  I've heard both complaints, and
at least personally find neither to be too valid of a critique.

"gameplay too simple"?  I guess the game could have been designed as
more of a Rainbow Six type of game, squad oriented and hyper- (if not
over-) realistic.  This gamer wouldn't have been interested in Doom3
being handled that way, single-shot kills aren't fun and the pace if
often glacially slow.  So again, a weak complaint IMO, what do you
want out of the Doom franchise?  I'd think a creepy atmosphere, going
about killing demons and zombies.  Looks like they got it right.

But this type of response is pretty much what I was commenting on, the
young male still insecure enuf in his maleness that apparently
actually being creeped out by a horror movie makes you a girl.  I'm
truly sorry to hear that this mindset kept you from enjoying Doom3,
perhaps you should just move along and let those who do enjoy the game
discuss it without your increasingly troll-like responses. 

-s-