DooM 3: RoE $15 at BB this week

Post by **Psyche911** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 8:26 am

Worth it?
I've got a $5 gift certificate, so it would cost $10+tax. I'm not sure if it's worth that much, what do you all think?

Post by **MKJ** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 8:28 am

OMG and its still very lame !

Post by **Psyche911** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 8:30 am

Yeah, thanks for your input.

Post by **MKJ** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 8:35 am

dont know what came over me

Post by **MKJ** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 8:36 am

although i did gave you my honest opinion on the matter if its worth the $15

Post by **Psyche911** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 8:38 am

But it could just be $15 lame, and okay to buy at this price. Or maybe it's really $2 lame, in which case I shouldn't buy it.

Post by **MKJ** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 8:43 am

well i didnt like it, didnt even finish it cause i got so bored with the repetitive gameplay and the not-so-great looking enviroments. gray, gray and some more gray. at least quake had brown n red

Post by **stocktroll** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 7:07 am

how's the engine license sells going?

Post by **Psyche911** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 12:24 am

Uh...Who knows.

Prey and ET: Quake Wars are using the DooM 3 engine. I don't know what else will.

Post by **Eraser** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 7:45 am

I had RoE around somewhere for a long time but never really continued playing it after the first 3 levels, but now I've continued and it's good. It's pretty much more of the same Doom3 but now with less monster closets, monsters spawning right behind you and armor-in-the-center-of-the-room-triggering-enemy-spawns situations. So IMO they took the shitty things out.

The super shotty is really sweet. It's sound has so much oomph it's just great to use it.

Post by **o'dium** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 9:08 am

RoE is 10x the game Doom 3 was. Amazingly, it had some great parts to it. The bosses were grea,t the demon powers, were not.

It fixes a lot of problems doom 3 had, and its a shame THIS wasn't doom 3.

It is a short game, unfortunatly, and the grabber is shite because everybody expected it to be as cool as HL2's and it just isn't.

Now if i say its not half bad you know there must be something there to like

Pick it up, its worth it. Even if its just for a semi decent MP game (The mp maps rock in RoE)

As for engine sales... Yes Doom 3 stinks. It stinks because of the amount of work you gotta do to make a game for it, so people are running away. I'm not finding the workload that taxing TBH.

Prey looks stunning and is leading the pack over Quake 4, and ET:QW looks like its gonna own everything but its too far away to tell, and they REALLY changed a bit for it.

Post by **Eraser** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 11:50 am

o'dium wrote:the grabber is shite because everybody expected it to be as cool as HL2's and it just isn't.

Depends on how you look at it. The grabber is much more of a weapon than HL2's gravity gun is. Well yeah, you could chuck sawblades at monsters with it, but only because the designers put those blades there and that was only in one level.

Grabbing the bolts imps and the other beasts shoot from the air and throwing those back at 'em is pretty fun. And the warping effect is pretty neat as well.

Post by **o'dium** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 2:51 pm

I'll be honest. I used the grabber a couple of times. Once was on the first boss, because i was FORCED TOO. The other time, was picking up a rock just as i got the grabber. WOW, it limits how long i can hold something to 0.000003 nano-seconds.

If they removed the time limit, MAYBE it would be good...

Post by **DooMer** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 3:41 pm

The only weapons I used were the dbs, and the grabber. They dont want you using shit as a shield, and it adds some skill when shooting it, because you dont have much time to aim. Theres really no need to hold things for an infinite ammount of time. Its just a gameplay mechanic is all.

Post by **Psyche911** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 1:17 am

Well, I hadn't read the comments from o'dium down, but I did buy it today. It was under $11 after my $5 off coupon. Haven't played it yet.

Post by **Psyche911** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 5:06 am

What a fucking waste of $11 and my $5 off coupon.

You want to know how many CTF servers there are? I don't mean the in-game browser which only shows like 2, I mean ASE. There's 9. Nine servers.

So I try any gametype and even the ones that show a decent ping in the in-game server browser or ASE still usually end up being 150+. It's laggy as hell.

I'll go play through the SP game and hope it makes up for the multiplayer (it's supposed to be the other way around FFS).

Post by **DooMer** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 5:13 am

d3 mp has always been that way. 50 ping feels like 200.

Post by **dzjepp** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 5:23 am

It's because half the faggots run servers from their home boxes. The d3 mp is gay anyway, quake 3 is where it's at.

Post by **Eraser** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 7:28 am

Psyche911 wrote:I'll go play through the SP game and hope it makes up for the multiplayer (it's supposed to be the other way around FFS).

Why?
It's always been made clear by id Software that Doom 3 isn't about the multiplayer. It's a single player game in the first place, not the other way around.

Post by **Psyche911** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 3:12 pm

But people all say the SP is the same thing all over again. They bitch about monster closets and small dark hallways. But I thought the MP was supposed to be much improved, and the added CTF mode. Whatever ...