What single player FPS campaign are you playing?

[MrPopo]

Ehh, I'd argue that after the first few levels in the original Doom you quickly figure out when the devs are going to drop walls and unleash hell on you and so it isn't much of a surprise there either.

[Gunstar Green]

True enough. I could still do without the punchy-rippy nest thing. Just give me the growls, that's truer to the original and it's enough.

[Ack]

I'd also argue that monster closets got soured by Doom 3's constant overuse of them. It got to a point where I'd just grab items backwards because I knew that was where I was gonna get hit from.

[Gunstar Green]

Doom 3 takes it in the complete opposite direction. It's all about the jump scares to the point where they're boringly routine.

[ElkinFencer10]

Doom 3 takes it in the complete opposite direction. It's all about the jump scares to the point where they're boringly routine.

I really enjoyed Doom 3's foreboding atmosphere and got really sucked into the game, but I definitely agree that the enemy spawns were waaay too predictable. Then again, I'm going to enjoy most games with a horror atmosphere (which is why I'm still confused as to why I hated The Evil Within).

[MrPopo]

Honestly, if they had made Doom 3 an original IP I would have enjoyed it more. It really feels like Carmek figured out how to do crazy lighting and wanted to demonstrate it and then picked one of his existing IPs.

[Tanooki]

Pretty much my feeling, fine game but not a DOOM game with D3 and it always felt that way too with it being a show off piece since they were heavily into at that rate licensing off IDTech engines to other companies.


Being on topic, DOOM (4) of course.

Is it me or does the head of the facility helping you out sound like the original voice for Optimus Prime in the 80s cartoon?

[ElkinFencer10]

Is it me or does the head of the facility helping you out sound like the original voice for Optimus Prime in the 80s cartoon?

I hadn't thought about it before, but now that you mention it, you're absolutely right.

[Gunstar Green]

I was actually convinced it was Peter Cullen until I looked it up. Apparently it's Darin De Paul.

Anyway spoilery territory:

Anyone else kind of jazzed that the story seems to take place in an alternate dimension while hinting that the Doomguy you're playing is the one from the first two games? The demons had to seal him away because he was too badass to kill.

[Xeogred]

I was thinking it was John Goodman...

(since I think they actually got him to do some guy in Rage in the beginning).

I'm actually still a big fan of Doom 3. Even replayed it with the BFG release a few years ago when that came out, and that version made me enjoy the expansion and the cool new Lost Mission episode as well (the texturing/design was a marvel here, my friend had Halo 4 at the time when it was new and it almost looked on par with that). I place it in the same vein as Bioshock and many others with the audio log narrative focus, which I'm always a fan of. I dig the pacing of these kinds of games. It's almost like they're adventure FPS's. I agree the jump scares were hilariously predictable and the game got better in the second half when they started doing that crap less.

It's just funny that looking back, Doom 3 is kind of a standard shooter. And this... which is straight up old school Doom, actually feels like a breath of fresh air for the genre out of the last decade or more. I can't think of anything to compare it to.