08-04-2004, 07:46 AM
My local Electronics Boutique should have Doom 3 in stock starting today. I'm still undecided on whether to rush over and buy it, or wait for a future year when the game is cheaper and I have a computer that can handle it better. My current computer is almost verbatim the "minimum required" system to play this game. It is funny to think that back when I built this computer, which seems like eons ago, the game everyone was anticipating and building computers for was.... Doom 3! Thinking back a couple years, Doom 3 is probably the game I bought my GeForce 3 for instead of getting a <$50 budget card. So perhaps I ought to get the game and see if that card is up to the challenge.
Given the lack of anything particularly interesting in the CRPG (not MMOG) genre since Morrowind and Neverwinter Nights, this is really the only new game I've been looking forward to for quite some time. I am a bit of a Carmack fanboy, and I still play GLQuake from time to time. Even if this game is mostly eye candy, it will probably be the "eye candy flagship" for 2 or 3 years to come.
If Doom 3 is able to improve on Doom as much as RTCW improved on Wolfenstein 3D, it would be quite a game.
Given the lack of anything particularly interesting in the CRPG (not MMOG) genre since Morrowind and Neverwinter Nights, this is really the only new game I've been looking forward to for quite some time. I am a bit of a Carmack fanboy, and I still play GLQuake from time to time. Even if this game is mostly eye candy, it will probably be the "eye candy flagship" for 2 or 3 years to come.
If Doom 3 is able to improve on Doom as much as RTCW improved on Wolfenstein 3D, it would be quite a game.