The Gamer's Quarter

dhex · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 9:36 pm Post subject: frankenstein wish fulfillment

so i've been playing doom 3. since i don't have a hardcore gamer card, i don't have to worry about it being revoked for liking doom 3, despite it being a somewhat cheap roller coaster of fan service and absolutely stupendous sound design. to revisit one's 15 year old self (in a way) is interesting, to say the least.

however, i find myself wishing that there was a kind of mode where there were no monsters, only you and your flashlight. someone could have pulled the brains out of this game and left the body, only to switch it with the sensibility of a system shock 1 or 2. games which doom 3 owes quite a bit to in some ways, which is fitting because system shock itself owes its existence in part to wolfenstein 3d and doom.

anyway, folks here are far more well-travelled in games and design than i am, so i wonder - have you ever had a dream switcheroo or three? or do they all end up sounding like something a bunch of stoned product development executives would have come up with?

of course, this could also veer into the beauty and savagery of user-created materials, wads, mods, tcs, etc.

http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/index.php?id=11865
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dessgeega · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:33 pm Post subject:

i want someone to make the quake eye candy mod for doom 3.
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dhex · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:39 pm Post subject:

is that the pencil and paper shaded mod?
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dessgeega · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:57 pm Post subject:

that's the one that makes it look not ugly.
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dhex · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 9:45 am Post subject:

ahh

i like the doom 3 engine, though i feel it should pain me to say so.

and the chainsaw. they got the chainsaw really right.
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