Author Topic: Doom. (Read 590 times)

WhiteHawk · « **on:** January 26, 2004, 10:15:48 AM »

Just rediscovered my 3.5 floppys with the words doom scrawled on it. Installed it and started to play. Boy that game kicks arse, especially after i figured out how to get it out of 320x200 res and into 800x600(max).
btw, they are working on another doom game that looks absolutely awsome.

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #1 on:** January 26, 2004, 10:29:55 AM »

http://www.doom3.com/

Im honestly getting excited about this game.

ravells · « **Reply #2 on:** January 26, 2004, 10:34:24 AM »

Incredible detail and textures. I hope you don't need something like a cray to run the game with all the graphic options maxed out.

Ravs

Charon · « **Reply #3 on:** January 26, 2004, 11:07:57 AM »

I wonder just how much horsepower you're going to need for Doom 3 and Half Life 2 when they finally launch. I have an AMD 2500 / Ati 9500 pro combo that I how will be able to run them pretty well.

Charon

mrblack · « **Reply #4 on:** January 26, 2004, 11:21:40 AM »

looks great trailer was very nice:aok

Tarmac · « **Reply #5 on:** January 26, 2004, 11:33:44 AM »

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Originally posted by Charon
I wonder just how much horsepower you're going to need for Doom 3 and Half Life 2 when they finally launch. I have an AMD 2500 / Ati 9500 pro combo that I how will be able to run them pretty well.

Charon

Supposedly it's not supposed to be a huge jump - the cool graphics are supposedly mostly innovations in the texture instead of resource-hogging lighting or high polygon models.

That being said, you'll probably need a DX9 video card to get the full benefit of the stuff (speculation).

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #6 on:** January 26, 2004, 11:40:44 AM »

Pure speculation here, but Id imagine HL2 will be very system spec friendly. The original HL was so popular because everyone and their brother could run it on their caveman systems.

Doom 3, again, based only on ID's past track record will probably be a system hog.

ra · « **Reply #7 on:** January 26, 2004, 11:41:16 AM »

I still remember the 1st time I played Doom. I downloaded it from the local BBS (pre-Internet days) and fired it up not even knowing what it was. I figured out how to play it right away because the controls were just like Castle Wolfenstein. But it blew me away. Sounds coming from different directions, spooky lighting, enemies splattering on the wall. It was a huge leap for gamers in the x486 days.

ra

2Slow · « **Reply #8 on:** January 26, 2004, 12:08:00 PM »

I still play Doom! Have it on 4 machines on the home LAN. When we have company over, someone always asks about it and then we are off to hours of killing each other.

pugg666 · « **Reply #9 on:** January 26, 2004, 12:32:45 PM »

ahh the countless hours wasted playing deathmatch in doom and duke nukem 3d

Doom 3 looks awesome, i just hope the gameplay matches the graphics.

Charon · « **Reply #10 on:** January 26, 2004, 04:54:10 PM »

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I still remember the 1st time I played Doom. I downloaded it from the local BBS (pre-Internet days) and fired it up not even knowing what it was. I figured out how to play it right away because the controls were just like Castle Wolfenstein. But it blew me away. Sounds coming from different directions, spooky lighting, enemies splattering on the wall. It was a huge leap for gamers in the x486 days.

I hear ya Ra. It was the first game that made me jump in my seat playing with the lights turned out

Duke Nukem 3d was a great contender too when it came out. The coolest weapons and great atmosphere. The shatter (ice) gun, the shrinker:rofl -- playing that H2H and squishing your buddy. The Jetpack! Any year now and the sequel with go gold

Though, after the huge disappointment from DeusEx 2 Invisible War, I'm almost happy it's still vaporware.

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I still play Doom! Have it on 4 machines on the home LAN. When we have company over, someone always asks about it and then we are off to hours of killing each other.

I made the switch to Unreal Tournament as the home lan game of choice. It runs well on a minimal system with a limited 3d graphics card and give a more contemporaty gameplay. I haven't tried Duke 3d H2H on a windows 98 environment. If it works that would be a good addition too.

Charon

Pongo · « **Reply #11 on:** January 26, 2004, 05:03:22 PM »

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Originally posted by Charon
I wonder just how much horsepower you're going to need for Doom 3 and Half Life 2 when they finally launch. I have an AMD 2500 / Ati 9500 pro combo that I how will be able to run them pretty well.

Charon

I have the same set up and wonder the same thing.

Ah the first time I played Doom. I had snubbed my nose at it a few times cause I thought it was Wolfenstien 2 but man when I first ran that thing. Increadable. A turning point in gaming for sure. And the net work code..wow.

SunKing · « **Reply #12 on:** January 26, 2004, 05:07:43 PM »

popped my gaming cherry on DOOM back in the day..... been a gaming junkie ever since. Cant wait for 04 summer games to be released.

Hope to find a game again that could suck me in and scare me like DOOM was able to.

2Slow · « **Reply #13 on:** March 10, 2004, 11:36:25 AM »

I still have Doom on the home network. It is a blast getting folks into a 4 way duel! Granted, the newer stuff really is good, better response options, kneel, duck, lay prone, and stuff. But Doom does fine for a quick first person shooter. Learning curve is shorter.

deSelys · « **Reply #14 on:** March 10, 2004, 02:51:07 PM »

Doom was nice but the best fun I've ever had on a LAN was with Alien vs Predator.

I had installed it at the office and during the lunch pause I (alien) was eviscerating my newbie colleagues (marines) who were really freaking out, scared to the point of screaming and shooting themselves trying to get me....

3 sessions later they had the hang on it and they were constantly pinning me on the walls and ceiling with the smartguns.... The fun stopped for me then... until I came back as a cloaked predator