Doom 4

I didn't like Doom 3 all too much, but I'm sure many here did:
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/05/07/ [...] are-hiring
http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php? [...] 6&Itemid=1
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inqu [...] 8/doom-way

Hmm, that's one doomed space marine.

That is exactly what happened to me. I played the demo then returned the retail game unopened. It wasn't until I found it in a bargain bin that I repurchased it, mostly for benchmarking purposes. I still couldn't get into playing it though.

I managed to get through it, only because my son was too scared to play it himself (he was 12 at the time) but he wanted to watch me play it through to the end. Played through the first few levels of the expansion and got bored and uninstalled it.

However, my daughter and I played several co-op levels on my network and we had a blast. Killing demons in the midst of satanic symbols, rivers of blood, and people impaled in various ways made for good family time

I still doubt they'll be able to capture the feel of Doom 1 & 2 in this one, but I look forward to seeing how their attempt goes.

I loved Doom3 when it came out due to how amazing the graphics were at the time, but as the game has aged, it's not as entertaining as say Half-Life 2 was.

i completely agree with 3ball
i liked doom 3

i thought i didnt at first, but i got use to the dark surroundings.
that made the game even more fun; not being able to see your enemy, except from the fire blast from your gun.
the visuals are still pretty decent
playing it in the dark with the sound turned way up on my 5.1 was freaking awesome.
a lot of parts scared the crap out of me
i cant wait for doom 4 to come out.

That would be awesome....do the People eyebrow to scare off the demons.

I remember when Doom 3 was coming out and so was HL2. I looked at both and the characters for Doom 3 seemed bland and unrealistic. HL2 just seemed much better at the time.

I also played the demo at max settings albiet it wouldn't let me change the res to anything above 640x480 for some reason. I was so unimpressed and bored. One thing that annoyed me was where the demons would spawn from. Some came from behind stairs when nothing was there.

Heck Painkiller was a much better game with the same style graphics not using IDs game engine either.

I agree that Doom 3 is not everybody's game; that's PC gaming (and life, thankfully) for you.

But looking at user reviews around the net the past few years many of the scores you see are pretty ridiculous.

Average haters review:

Glorified tech demo. too dark. got old after 15 minutes. 2.5 out of 10.

That's pretty silly if you ask me.

3 words.......
Duct Tape Mod.

I tried playing through it but got tired of teh darkness and having to switch from gun to light and uninstalled it. After i found teh DTM i reinstalled and had alot more fun lol. True it took alot of the scare factor out of it but to me it made it a more enjoyable experience.

Yep i remember when it came out like it was yesterday i had my new trusty socket-A athlon 3000+ with a brand new FX5200...lol and 512mb of ddr-400 ram..lol truley my first build!

Ohh the graphic's were awesome for the time!! I played through it like 3 times just taking my time checking out all the textures and stuff. Then when i later got a pci-e board and a 7600gt i played through it all again maxed the hell out and had a blast again!!

I cant wait for Doom 4 to come out im going to buy it as long as they dont totally screw it up.

u look for a bad guy but its tooooo dark then u turn on your flashlight and u find out u shouldnt have done tat. hhhhhhhhhm theirs a piece of armor shard in tat dark corner lets go get it! *gets it* and looses more armor than he gains! yes tat is doom 3! cant wait 4 the next 1...

Okay, one thing that I have to admit that was cool in the expansion was grabbing imps fireballs in mid-air and throwing them back at them. Of course I did expect Gordon Freeman to pop out of a corner and whack me with a crowbar for stealing his gravity gun though.

The thing with doom 3 was that the best parts of doom 3 were the over the top moments where they expose you to something you may expect to happen per say; but you would've never visualized it, the stuff of nightmares:

read- intro when everyone is being turned, the point where you find the guy upside down with alien demony **** growing from him sliming the room up, the whole "demon baby fly" thing, stuff like that.

Thats where the expansion failed was that they tried to make the expac a "story action sequel" instead of making it an independant cinematic type experience like doom3 was more or less meant to be.

Doom 3 you either loved it or you hated it - it was 1 or the other; some people enjoy that kind of atmosphere, others have no patience for it. The same thing can be said about FEAR, Gears of War, Crysis; all games that are definitely excellent within the genre - but they are simply not for everyone.

Games that I think anyone can enjoy in the genre? CoD series/Half-Life series.