Re: DOOM3, a big disappointment

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 01:29:08 GMT, dizzy <dizzy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 14:46:15 -0400, Steven L Cox
><stevencox56@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>I enjoy the scariness of it as well.  However I'll admit it would be
>nice to get a breather from the claustrophobic conditions once in a
>while...  And a little more light.

I'm enjoying the game but my main complaint with this game is the
claustrophobic level design.  Admittedly it works for the atmosphere
they're trying to create, but the realist inside knows that one of the
reasons (if not the main one) for the cramped layout is to make the
game runnable on any current system.  Even a medium-sized room already
takes a sizable bite out of top-end videocards, trying to do some of
the open-ended designs seen, say, some levels of Quake2 would surely
bring a $5000 extreme gaming machine to its knees.

Give nvidia/ati a coupla generations (just a year, nowadays) and we'll
have the "firepower" to combine this level of graphical detail with
more open level designs.  But for the time, its hard to take this big
step back when you've become spoiled by the sprawling designs of games
like UT2004.  

-s-