Doom3, a generally very average shooter with a nice engine, was utterly stomped upon by Halflife 2, in terms of gameplay, AI, storyline and atmosphere. 90% of the time, HL2 looks better than Doom3 aswell.
hl2 was buggy, had the worst ai i have ever seen and was basically a physics show off game. shit i could go thru whole levels on the hardest setting and not even get shot...run out in the open in the middle of a big fire fight and never get hit...hold a soda can and block hundreds of rounds...the game was lame on so many levels...
a defining attribute of a government is that it has a monopoly on the legitimate exercise of violence...
Freakaloin wrote:hl2 was buggy, had the worst ai i have ever seen and was basically a physics show off game. shit i could go thru whole levels on the hardest setting and not even get shot...run out in the open in the middle of a big fire fight and never get hit...hold a soda can and block hundreds of rounds...the game was lame on so many levels...
Geoff.
Dont lie on the internet.
Even the pathfinding in HL2 is better than Doom3. The flocking algorithms are non existant in D3. But then again, i doubt you even know what they are, do you?
the only atmospheric parts of hl2 were the beginning, the village and the end. the rest was driving around in boring environments.
doom3 rocked the world with it's atmosphere.
Doom3 was a 1 trick pony, and that got boring about 2 hours in. After that point, the rest of the game was tedious. After the Hell section, it was pointless.
"i wonder what happens when i pick that 50th mysteriously easy to find armour pickup next to a wall marked THERE'S A MONSTER CLOSET HERE"
there were a few brillant moments in hl2..but in general i was super dissapointed...the game ddidn't flow and the ending was retarded....and all the good stuff was taken out...plus the stuttering problem wasn't fixed until i was on the last level...
a defining attribute of a government is that it has a monopoly on the legitimate exercise of violence...
would've been more impressed by hl2 if i hadn't seen a havoc demo before playing it - the havoc system is really good stuff. nothing else about the game really stood out as particularly noteworthy (except maybe the time it took to install).
d3 didn't hold my attention, but it did almost make me applaud when i saw it start up for the first time.
chronicles of riddick was better than either of them.
