Sales show Doom 3 was "not bad" - Willits

Le-mo - 509 days ago

It wasn't "good" either.

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andron666 - 508 days 23 hours ago

It had very little to do with the original Dooms. And as a game it was misguided.

The changing back and forth between flashlight and weapon was the most contrived and stupid game mechanic ever.

The graphics were much too dark and drab. They tried to cash in on the survival horror and asian horror film hype, but it didn't fit with the Doom game universe at all...

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Daxx - 508 days 23 hours ago

I liked it.

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Alexander Roy - 508 days 23 hours ago

People also buy those crappy movie games. People also bought E.T., Superman 64 and ShaqFu. Sales are no sign of quality, rather than a lot hype, marketing campaigns, advertisements and brand recognition.

Doom is a widely known series. I'd bet alot of people bought it, because they liked the predecessors.

I don't mean to bash the game. I didn't find it appealing, but I'd say there are a lot games that are worse.

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morganfell - 508 days 23 hours ago

Hmm I own all of the Unreal titles. Yet I haven't played them in months yet spent the past two weeks playing Doom III and ROE again. It was a damn good game. The engine would have powered quite a few titles also but Id never bothered to build a tool kit to make the game engine a licensing franchise.

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MC_KOOL_K - 508 days 23 hours ago

starting me with a crap pistol {i like to arrive fully kick azz}

no replay value {a new weapon would have done}{wtf was that orb all about}

had to search the internet because i didnt know what the bosses were about

overall fully enjoyable and the set scenes were amazing

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bigcheda - 508 days 23 hours ago

it was a good game, it just had unrealistic expectations given its pedigree

shame really because some people dismissed it based on it not reaching its hype

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Nancy Reagan - 508 days 23 hours ago

I liked Doom 3 better than Quake 4, if that means anything.

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BloodSpillXXT - 508 days 22 hours ago

I loved the game! The graphics were awesome at the time it came out, and the game had a great atmosphere.. Scary as sh!t

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Revvin - 508 days 21 hours ago

I think a lot of people like me bought Doom 3 without waiting for reviews because they were big fans of the Doom series. When such a well known franchise releases a sequel of course it will sell well but that doesn't mean it was a great game, it wasn't even that good. Single player was a little dull, too dark though what you could see looked very very good for its time and still does now.

Multiplay was really poor though, its like iD just couldn't be bothered. As a long time Doom fan having spent hundreds of pounds on long distance phone calls ringing BBS services that ran 4 player Doom games with some special software (before the days of the internet at home) I was looking forward to the more gladitorial aspect of Doom 3. I felt in larger scale games a lot of the time it was the guy who had the best luck where he respawned that won the game. Of course there was skill but if you were lucky enough to spawn near one of the better weapons such as the rocket launcher and happened to have a fight going on nearby you were guaranteed to rack up the points. My memories of Doom 1 and 2 were that it seemed more skillful with just two, three or maybe four players fighting it out in a smaller environment.

Unfortunately Doom 3 multiplayer never took off, maybe it was the lack of dedicated server support or maybe the lack of games modes but Doom multiplayer just died overnight. No real effort got put into Doom 3 from my perspective as a player. Unreal Tournament has long since lead the way as iD seemed to be more content in creating a licenseable engine instead of making the great games they used to make.

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