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[killdatninja]

As long as it has Co-op from the Xbox version I'm in.

 

[Kydd BlaZe]

DooM 3 on Xbox was good shit. Back in the day, I hoped that id would port it to the 360 when it launched, but I guess this port is better late than never.

 

[Varna]

Surprised by all the hate in this thread. I for one am looking forward to this.

I was quiet fond of this game. I remember building a new PC to play this. Definitely enjoyed it more the HL2.

Not sure if I will buy ... if they had co-op campaign I might reconsider. I spent so much time with last man standing.

 

[RoboPlato]

This could be cool.

 

[The_Inquisitor]

Alright I might reverse course on purchasing this. But not even close to full price.

 

[jett]

Is there some indication that it'll be 60fps?

It's an eight year-old PC game. It'd be an embarrassment if it didn't run at 60fps.

Then again that's what I thought when Half-Life 2 was announced for PS360.

 

[pmj]

The fact that Rage was + the fact the Carmack believes 60fps is a holy grail that has a profound impact on a game's control and gameplay. An engine that old is absolutely guaranteed to be running at 60fps on consoles given what we know about Carmack's core beliefs.

I seem to remember the 360 port of Quake 4 struggling to hold 30 fps. Quake 4 is more taxing than Doom 3, but not by a lot. Double the framerate for the Doom 3 port to the same hardware would be impressive, and surprising.

 

[Teknoman]

If they did all this, but still didnt fix the busted weapon sound effects (seriously why do all the weapons sound so tinny/metallic instead of packing a punch) in Doom 3...well...I dont know what to say. I guess there really isnt any chance of people that own DOOM 3 and Res getting a free update, since you could just buy the games for cheap again. Official widescreen resolutions are probably a lock.

 

[James Woods]

RoE is pretty good. I enjoyed the artifact but I wasn't too hot on the grav gun. Unlike HL2 I thought the gunplay in Doom 3 was decent so I preferred the regular guns.

 

[KageMaru]

The fact that Rage was + the fact the Carmack believes 60fps is a holy grail that has a profound impact on a game's control and gameplay. An engine that old is absolutely guaranteed to be running at 60fps on consoles given what we know about Carmack's core beliefs.

Wasn't Doom 4 rumored to be dropped to 30fps to include more effects?

It's an eight year-old PC game. It'd be an embarrassment if it didn't run at 60fps.

Then again that's what I thought when Half-Life 2 was announced for PS360.

IMO people underestimate how hard it is to run a game at 60fps. I would be really surprised if this ran at 60fps with the stencil shadowing they are throwing around everywhere in the game.

 

[teruterubozu]

Played DOOM 3 couple months ago - Mac App store had it for $5 one day.
It was fun.
Update seems unnecessary and unnecessarily expensive.

 

[Ridley327]

The fact that Rage was + the fact the Carmack believes 60fps is a holy grail that has a profound impact on a game's control and gameplay. An engine that old is absolutely guaranteed to be running at 60fps on consoles given what we know about Carmack's core beliefs.

idTech 4 is notoriously unstable on consoles, though. Lest we forget what a disaster Brink turned out to be in that department, and that was a game released just this past year.

 

[1-D_FTW]

Wasn't Doom 4 rumored to be dropped to 30fps to include more effects?

I'd hope not. But who knows, maybe Bethesda laid down the law and told him to get with the program.

 

[Scrum]

Count me in, my old copy disappeared
I have no idea whatsoever what happened, I was probably drunk.

 

[Teknoman]

Where was the price listed?

 

[Cdammen]

Doom 3 with UE4 ! Do it Crytek.

Good job, this is the most confusing sentence I've read today.

 

[dummydecoy]

I love how your crosshair transforms into a mouse pointer when interacting with Doom 3's numerous in-game terminals. I hope they don't gimp that feature.

 

[Zeppelin]

I'd hope not. But who knows, maybe Bethesda laid down the law and told him to get with the program.

I'm pretty sure Carmack himself has said that they aim for 30 for Doom 4.

 

[SteveWD40]

http://zdoom.org/

Never knew that added controller support, thanks.

 

[phosphor112]

So... I can't beat down demons with a flashlight now? =/

 

[Levyne]

Will get for PC, when it first came out I could barely run it

 

[ArjanN]

Well that looked like Doom 3.

This. It might be a step up for the console versions I guess, but that doesn't look any better than the original PC version as far as I can tell.

 

[Apdiddy]

I have the original Doom 3 on Xbox but can never seem to find the Resurrection of Evil expansion, so this is perfect.

Now if Bethesda/id would do the same with Quake I - IV on Xbox 360 and PC, that would be amazing (although I'm not exactly sure what could be remastered with Quake 4).

 

[TTP]

What does BFG stand for anyway?

edit: oh, it the name of the weapon. Big Fucking Gun.

 

[SkyMasterson]

I got this on XBox day one and loved it and thought they did a great job with it.

But please tell me this will have co-op!? That was a great addition to the Xbox version. One of us would aim the flashlight while the other would shoot, so intense!

Make it happen id!

 

[red731]

Remastered? :/

Oh my, soon to be eight years that have already passed and I remember how I got and played Doom 3 for the first time.

I'm feeling old.

Will get for PC, when it first came out I could barely run it

GeForce 4 MX 440 or GeForce 2 GTS....such a long time

 

[Rickenslacker]

I wonder if the medpacks in these iterations of Doom 1+2 will replace the red cross with pills like the XBLA version of Doom 2.

I also hope they pump up the enemy count for 3. More than the LOL SO DARK gripe everyone had, the enemy encounters were pretty barren.

 

[jvm]

Been hoping for AGES that PS3 would get a version of Doom and/or Doom ][. Finally.

Day one.

 

[Genesis Knight]

The fact that Rage was + the fact the Carmack believes 60fps is a holy grail that has a profound impact on a game's control and gameplay. An engine that old is absolutely guaranteed to be running at 60fps on consoles given what we know about Carmack's core beliefs.

Yeah, that's where I'm going with my prediction that it would be 60FPS on consoles.

Wasn't Doom 4 rumored to be dropped to 30fps to include more effects?

Console single player only; MP and PC SP/MP are 60.

I seem to remember the 360 port of Quake 4 struggling to hold 30 fps. Quake 4 is more taxing than Doom 3, but not by a lot. Double the framerate for the Doom 3 port to the same hardware would be impressive, and surprising.

Quake 4 was launch title and not handled by id, but you make a good point. 30->60 would be quite a surprising performance increase. I guess Carmack is just SO into 60FPS (it's like his mantra these days) that it would be odd for him to do a remastered Doom 3 without it.

 

[Neuromancer]

Would have been awesome if Doom 1 & 2 had been a remake with the same engine used for Doom 3 in this new version.

I would honestly be more excited about a Doom 1 overhaul but hey I'll take what I can get!

Many people don't know this about me and I don't like to talk about it but... Doom 1 may be my favorite game of all time.

 

[erlim]

Whoa this is crazy, wasn't there a rumor for this game in like 2008?

 

[neorej]

terrifying horror masterpiece

Someone thought Doom 3 was scary?

 

[Rickenslacker]

Someone thought Doom 3 was scary?

You mean you didn't piss yourself walking into a completely dark empty room only to have a single imp portal in and telegraph his appearance for 30 seconds?

 

[Genesis Knight]

Someone thought Doom 3 was scary?

DOOM 3 was super creepy with headphones and the lights off; sorry you're so jaded.

 

[vatstep]

I've never played it, so I'm moderately interested. I'll probably wait for a price drop, as I wouldn't be surprised if they try to charge $60 for this.

 

[Tylahedras]

Wish they were throwing in Doom 4 as well so it was more of an actual HD collection, but since it has 1&2 I guess I can justify a purchase at the right price.

 

[Himself]

I'm into it.

 

[Freeza Under The Shower]

so uhm, I replayed both Doom 3 and the expansion a few months ago. :/

Stump is right on the money btw. Oh, and on modern monitors and systems, the game is bright enough to be played without the flashlight (LCD backlight seems to have that effect when using default settings).
It was terrifying as fuck when I played it on a CRT in 2003 though.

 

[Neuromancer]

Someone thought Doom 3 was scary?

Obligatory OMM quote

Erik: I'm sure it will.  Okay, final question.  Doom 3 looks like it's going to have really amazing lighting. On its one monster at a time. Do you think developers will learn anything about Frantic Action Feeling from Serious Sam?

Roman: No, I don't think so. They are even telling that AI will improve! I have a suggestion. Why don't we have one enemy per level? Why bother putting thousands of enemies on a level, finding right spots for spawning enemies, waiting for the right moments to activate enemies. You just drop one enemy in the middle of a map and you are finished with it. That would be an epic fight with one really clever enemy, with you docking, jumping and hidding for hours fighting that superbot. Imagine the mutiple possibilities. You can jump left, right, backward or forward, hide behind doors, pick the best weapon, fire one bullet, fire another one. You can even have time to think what and how to do final kill. Possibilities are endless. Now, is that the Frantic Action Feeling or what?

Erik: Exactly.  You know who was scared by one monster? 

Roman: No.

Erik: My grandparents!

Roman: Yes, and also a baby.  Maybe George Broussard.

 

[x3sphere]

Judging from the trailer the textures still look really low res, so not much of a graphical update... here is a screen grab I took:

I think the PC version at max looks similar actually, been awhile though.

 

[joeygreco1985]

Quake 4 was launch title and not handled by id, but you make a good point. 30->60 would be quite a surprising performance increase. I guess Carmack is just SO into 60FPS (it's like his mantra these days) that it would be odd for him to do a remastered Doom 3 without it.

Didn't Prey use the same engine and also run at 30 FPS on consoles? Maybe the engine just isn't suited for higher on that hardware

 

[Z_Y]

http://www.amazon.com/Quake-4-Xbox-360/dp/B007V2LMAM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1338405325&sr=8-2

While on the subject of Bethesda/Id, it looks like they are pushing out a re-release of Quake 4 next month. (the launch version was published by Activision)...anybody know if it is going to include the Quake 2 bonus disc like the launch version?

 

[theinfinityissue]

Oh my god. I thought, as the only Doom 3 fan on the face of the earth, my prayers would go unanswered for the rest of my life. This is fantastic news. Don't get me wrong; Doom 3 had issues. Serious, pervasive, and sometimes laughable (lolducttape) issues. But it was still a great experience, and if you've never tried it you totally should. It is criminally underrated.

 

[gstaff]

FUCK YES! TAKE MY MONEY! I actually got onto Id's facebook last year and asked them why the fuck they haven't released a remastered version of Doom 3 for the current systems. Guys, you can thank me for this. Seriously.

thanks!

 

[Genesis Knight]

Didn't Prey use the same engine and also run at 30 FPS on consoles? Maybe the engine just isn't suited for higher on that hardware

True, also...Brink.

Spoiler

f that game

But again...neither Brink, Quake IV, nor Prey were handled by id. Still, I'll have faith in Godmack until we hear that this is 30FPS.

 

[Taco_Human]

I have Doom 3 on an old steam account but I could never fix it to play it at a proper resolution. This includes the old doom games so I may give it another go if it comes to steam.

 

[Genesis Knight]

edit; these 500s made me double post

 

[neorej]

DOOM 3 was super creepy with headphones and the lights off; sorry you're so jaded.

Seriously? Predictable "scares", cliche scenes... apart from a few minor jumps I thought it was pretty tame.

Maybe it was due to watching horrormovies since I was 12.

 

[Always-honest]

edit; these 500s made me double post

Why are there 500's anyway?

 

[Raptomex]

Day 1 for me. Doom 2 is still the best, though.