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Doom 3 picks up quite a bit in the back half (not gonna become amazing or anything mind you), but if impatient fire up the DLC which is more actiony faster. Doom 4 is worth playing and is basically nothing like Doom 3
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I found Doom 3 very underwhelming a few years ago. The guns are wimpy, particularly the shotgun, and even in the original non-BFG edition you were given plenty of ammo for the assault rifle which is your workhorse for most of the game which feels anti-Doom. Eventually you'll reach a point where you can predict the encounter design where any time enemies spawn in front of you it's guaranteed one appeared a few hallways back and will ambush from behind when you feel safe which just sucks. Very briefly they tease you with Hell which has infinite sprint and better paced encounters but nah man, FEAR came out less than a year later and is the better spooky shooter and Dead Space is what Doom 3 wanted to be.
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Jul 28, 2020 01:21
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Doom 64 is the true Doom 3.
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Jul 28, 2020 01:26
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Groovelord Neato posted:Doom 64 is the true Doom 3. This is correct.
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Jul 28, 2020 01:29
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:
Your workhorse, the shotgun, has the worst pellet spread in the history of ever and on top of that it does not feel good to use
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Jul 28, 2020 02:07
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The Doom 3 experience: Enter a new room, turn 180 degrees, shoot the imp that spawned behind you.
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Jul 28, 2020 02:16
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Groovelord Neato posted:Doom 64 is the true Doom 3.  64 is better at being scary as well. The Nightdive port is a must. 3 sucks.
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Jul 28, 2020 02:45
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(more duke3d chat) also shooting the facehuggers before they get to you is frustrating at best. is there a more reliable way or better weapon to use than the chaingun or what
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Jul 28, 2020 04:00
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Overwatch Porn posted:(more duke3d chat) also shooting the facehuggers before they get to you is frustrating at best. is there a more reliable way or better weapon to use than the chaingun or what hold down the quick kick button
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Jul 28, 2020 04:12
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I can’t remember but perhaps the best solution to the Duke Protoplasm Problem is to ABC: Always Be KiCking.
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Jul 28, 2020 04:13
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it's to delete them out of the game file
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Jul 28, 2020 04:15
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Can’t handle all the Doom 3 hate. It’s definitely got issues, but it’s still a super immersive corridor crawler if nothing else, and I only played it to completion last year. I still prefer all the other Dooms to it, but it’s still good in its own right.
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Jul 28, 2020 04:16
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The atmosphere of Doom 3 is amazing and still genuinely impressive. The gameplay loop of imp whack-a-mole is not.
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Jul 28, 2020 04:23
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Plan Z posted:The atmosphere of Doom 3 is amazing and still genuinely impressive. The gameplay loop of imp whack-a-mole is not. I posted this a while back, but it’s still worth sharing - Doom 3 was aesthetically gorgeous. https://youtu.be/OQAd-HHdf1c With the sound pack from the leaked alpha, a lot of common enemies and weapons sound much punchier and more menacing. Those meaty sounds don’t fix the fundamental monotony of a lot of monster encounters or the weapon issues, but it does make a surprisingly big difference in suspension of disbelief. Still eats my brain that when id was brainstorming the BFG Edition, someone actually concluded the original game didn’t have enough ammunition. What the gently caress, guys?
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Jul 28, 2020 04:43
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Hasturtium posted:I posted this a while back, but it’s still worth sharing - Doom 3 was aesthetically gorgeous. So much of vanilla Doom 3 feels like they gave it one final blind public test and everybody freaked out because some nerd said it wasn't metal enough. Like the complaint the game was too dark, all the lights were there they were just set to like 1/10th of the brightness they should've been so the ship you arrive in the intro is entirely in black shadow.
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Jul 28, 2020 05:47
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One really specific compliment I can pay for Doom 3 is that the guns all click and clack in really satisfying ways. Their firing noises are largely unimpressive, but I really love the sounds of the reloads. Very few games these days have guns that make more than piddly 'chik' noises when you operate them.
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Jul 28, 2020 05:56
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al-azad posted:So much of vanilla Doom 3 feels like they gave it one final blind public test and everybody freaked out because some nerd said it wasn't metal enough. Like the complaint the game was too dark, all the lights were there they were just set to like 1/10th of the brightness they should've been so the ship you arrive in the intro is entirely in black shadow. This gels with how BFG Edition seems to have been brightened by someone doing the exact opposite, leading to some areas looking different and worse (in addition to having a built-in duct tape mod so more ambient light was arguably not even needed)
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Jul 28, 2020 06:35
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SeANMcBAY posted:Does anyone know if Blood has a chance of coming to Switch? All the talk about is making me want to try it. Fallom posted:it's to delete them out of the game file
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Jul 28, 2020 07:38
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Thanks, meme thread: https://twitter.com/grogloopy/status/1287872122681831424
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Jul 28, 2020 08:57
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SeANMcBAY posted:
Sorry, as Doom64 overlord/Nightdive port guy, I officially decree that Doom3 is actually good. No seriously, everyone on the Kex3 team likes Doom3, especially Quasar, we don't understand what the deal is. Heck, Kaiser used to make Doom3 maps.
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Jul 28, 2020 09:43
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on the third episode of Duke and I'm not really fond of the insane number of hitscanners around every corner. weapons are cool and satisfying though esp the pipe bombs. a little weird that ep 1 was city, ep 2 was space, and now it's ... more city??
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Jul 28, 2020 10:14
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Overwatch Porn posted:on the third episode of Duke and I'm not really fond of the insane number of hitscanners around every corner. weapons are cool and satisfying though esp the pipe bombs. a little weird that ep 1 was city, ep 2 was space, and now it's ... more city?? Episode 3 feels like a more natural Episode 2 than Episode 2 does but honestly its just that Episode 2 sticks out and doesn't mesh with the other episodes at all. Episodes 4 and 5 and 2/3rds of the expansions all are very terrestrial urban environs
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Jul 28, 2020 10:19
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In my years, I've learned to really appreciate Episode 2. I used to flat out hate it, but it's not so bad at all.
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Jul 28, 2020 11:07
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Overwatch Porn posted:on the third episode of Duke and I'm not really fond of the insane number of hitscanners around every corner. Welcome to BUILD, try not to get crushed by a door.
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Jul 28, 2020 11:08
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The Kins posted:Probably not. Fresh Supply was piggy-backing off of Atari's rights to distribute the original PC version digitally, Night Dive would probably have to deal with Warner Bros to do a Switch port and while they've made big strides with Bethesda and Doom 64, they still seem to have a bit of trouble getting the megapublishers to notice them. Hopefully I'm wrong and a huge idiot! Least of all Warner. Fox and Activision were both like "No One Lives Forever? Who cares, all yours" while Warner Bros dropped a trademark counter at the last second to be like "hold up, we own Monolith? Maybe we have some dusty papers somewhere give us an absurdly long time for discovery because copyright law is absolute bullshit"
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Jul 28, 2020 13:13
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Doom III, I keep meaning to pick up the BFG edition on sale but never did yet; it's had a couple of VR mods that apparently work very well due to the game's inherent slower pace / non-twitch gameplay and low monster count. Doesn't work with the regular copy of III which I already have 
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Jul 28, 2020 13:27
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I keep thinking I wanna try Doom 3 in VR but I'm concerned that the trites are gonna set off my arachnophobia. They never bothered me in flatscreen but VR is a different beast.
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Jul 28, 2020 13:36
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chaosapiant posted:it’s still a super immersive corridor crawler if nothing else
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Jul 28, 2020 14:58
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al-azad posted:Least of all Warner. Fox and Activision were both like "No One Lives Forever? Who cares, all yours" while Warner Bros dropped a trademark counter at the last second to be like "hold up, we own Monolith? Maybe we have some dusty papers somewhere give us an absurdly long time for discovery because copyright law is absolute bullshit" they didn't even want to send an unpaid intern to look through their files, that's how little Warner cares about their ip. but god help you if you test them. god i hope microsoft buys them. i bet they would be WAY DOWN to work with night dive on anything or maybe im optimistic. port monster truck madness to kex
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Jul 28, 2020 14:58
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I mean Doom 3 isn’t a bad game, especially for its time, but it’s just not what I’m looking for in an FPS.
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Jul 28, 2020 15:03
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I got Doom 3 on release and it was easily my biggest video game sequel disappointment prior to Diablo 3.
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ETPC posted:god i hope microsoft buys them. i bet they would be WAY DOWN to work with night dive on anything or maybe im optimistic.
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Jul 28, 2020 15:32
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The Kins posted:I have to wonder what you're basing this on, since MS/Xbox seems more interested in releasing new things rather than re-releasing old things. Sure, Master Chief Collection got a PC port, but it took an entire console generation of patching and kajoling to make it happen, and Age of Empires was openly testing the waters for a new game (and, since it went so well, an entire new studio) life finds a way
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Jul 28, 2020 15:49
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Plan Z posted:One really specific compliment I can pay for Doom 3 is that the guns all click and clack in really satisfying ways. Their firing noises are largely unimpressive, but I really love the sounds of the reloads. Very few games these days have guns that make more than piddly 'chik' noises when you operate them. It's kinda sad that the plasma rifle reload sound is a high point of the game, but man, what a sound effect. 
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Jul 28, 2020 17:50
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ETPC posted:port monster truck madness to kex Hey Rocket Pan, when are you guys bringing the Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing remaster?
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Jul 28, 2020 18:21
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The Marathon shotgun reload sound is forever etched into my brain. I don't know if it's the best but it's got the most excessive click clack noises. Something about the rhythm of it...
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Jul 28, 2020 18:27
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Groovelord Neato posted:I got Doom 3 on release and it was easily my biggest video game sequel disappointment prior to Diablo 3. I remember thinking Doom 3 was “ok” when it came out. I initially dug the tone and the lighting effects but I distinctly remember wanting to be done with the game by the end. Then Half Life 2 came out and completely blew it away and I’ve been hesitant doing a re-play after all these years because it was a merely “OK” FPS in 2004 and I doubt it has aged particularly well.
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Jul 28, 2020 18:27
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The venn diagram for Doom 3 apologists and Prequel apologists is a flat circle.
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Jul 28, 2020 18:31
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Solaris 2.0 posted:I distinctly remember wanting to be done with the game by the end. Yeah basically. I just played through it recently and it hangs on for way too long with nothing new to offer until the end.
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Mordja posted:The venn diagram for Doom 3 apologists and Prequel apologists is a flat circle. i think every star wars movie has been childish poo poo and anyone who tries to pit them against each other has failed at a fundamental level to realize that it was always that way and the only difference nowadays is the presence of cgi but doom 3 is still pretty okay
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