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[Mihail121]

Happy Doom 3 everybody! ;) ! Just wait till it gets dark then run the damn thing!!! I promise it's worth it!!!

[anubis]

i'm not even asking how you got it 5 days before the offical european release :)

[Mihail121]

Ehm... yes... don't ask ;) But i tell ya honestly - get those freakin' 3 CDs and play it!

[Noor]

thx :). I'm half way through the game. and I must say the GAME ROCK :)

[anubis]

you pigs... they delayed the european release till august 13th...

[bladder]

so much d3 noise on forums these days.... :sigh:

[Noor]

bladder said:

so much d3 noise on forums these days.... :sigh:

in a month you'd be saying "So much HL2 noise on the forums these days"... count me on that :). I know how fantasy people think ;7

[anubis]

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in a month you'd be saying "So much HL2 noise on the forums these days"...

are there any news i missed ?

[Noor]

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are there any news i missed ?

not really, I heard it should go gold by the end of this month, i'm not sure tho.

[anubis]

cool... that's fantastic news. well... i had my hopes on the hl2 + duke nukem forever bundle but if vavle wants to release the game "early" it's fine with me :lol:

[baldurk]

nkharrat said:

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are there any news i missed ?

not really, I heard it should go gold by the end of this month, i'm not sure tho.

Is this the same person from valve who said it would be released at the end of september last year?

Seriously, I think that Valve has realised that the big discussion of Doom 3 vs. Half-Life 2 has been lost. They know that now we can see, feel and touch Doom 3 and that HL2 isn't cutting it with screenshots anymore. I've been let down and lied to too often by Valve to care too much now anyway.

[davepermen]

thats just you, baldurk.

not everyone thinks doom3 is the greatest thing on earth. it is, definitely, for rather low end systems. there it shows sort of the end of line of what an older gpu/cpu combo can handle.

hl2 has other targets, first of all definitely in gameplay with its physics engine. and second, the graphics are more.. bright, more indirect, than doom3, creating a much more ambient scenario. feels great in realtime, too. just as doom3 has its quality, hl2 does. and doom3 was delayed quite some bit, as well. it was once planned to come more or less with my radeon9700pro. that card is now 2 years old.

[Mihail121]

Cool that you lead such a nice conversation but there's absolutely no sence in it. The guys that the want to play Doom 3 may play it and the ones that prefer HL2 - please, nothing against that too.

It's a matter of personal taste anyway...

[baldurk]

I didn't mean to start a flame war, sorry if I did.

To tell you the truth I used to be much more interested in Half Life 2, but after the delays last year, and Doom 3's launch, I'm not as interested. Bear in mind that Id's official stance has always been "when it's done". They never gave an official date of release before now. Activision may have done, Id may have aimed at one day or another, but they never confirmed a date and missed it like Valve did.

I agree with you dave, Doom 3 and Half Life 2 have different goals. However you can't say that Doom 3 is designed for older cards. That's not fair to say at all.

[anubis]

i don't see how requiring more than 256mb(they admit that it basically won't run smoothly with less than 512) of ram for a game makes it suitable for low end systems... btw, davepermen : did you play the game at all ?

[Ed Mack]

Does Doom3 not look a bit dead (don't...) and flat to anyone else? The colour is so muted and toned its beyond realism. The characters look quite plastic :(

[anubis]

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Does Doom3 not look a bit dead (don't...) and flat to anyone else?

it's a bunker... what did you expect ? each room painted in blue with pink dots :D

[davepermen]

anubis said:

i don't see how requiring more than 256mb(they admit that it basically won't run smoothly with less than 512) of ram for a game makes it suitable for low end systems... btw, davepermen : did you play the game at all ?

nope, as it's "not yet buyable here" .. :D

[davepermen]

i have a low end system. 512mb mem is _very_ cheap.. 60€ or so, here..

[baldurk]

I think you'd better think again about what a low-end system is dave. People who do graphics programming and spend lots of money on their systems can't be classed as having a low-end system :).