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"Fishy_stink_ho" <gomu2003@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Michael-NC" <NoAddress@desolate.com> wrote in message
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> > Have a nice life Gramps and try to keep up on current events.
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> > > Michael-NC wrote:
> > > > "McGrandpa" <McGrandpaNOT@NOThotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > > >> Michael-NC wrote:
> > > >>> OK, D3 is an extension of D1 and it's just what Id wanted huh? How
> > > >>> the hell you can argue that when you compare what Q2 was to Q1 and
> > > >>> what Q3 was and still is to Q2 is beyond me. Id laid a giant egg,
> > > >>> the game is a steaming pile of dung ...
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> I've played them all, and I think D3 is pretty damn Kick ass.  You are
> entitled to your own wrong opinion, however.  I think the darkness and the
> monsters scared you, and your trying to justify your cowardice at being
> scared of a PC game.

Ya know, that's about the most ridiculous charge I've _ever_ heard. The
uniform criticism the game is getting revolves around a few issues; it's
dark, you have to cycle that stupid flashlight, the lighting is all out of
whack, the monsters jumping out are predictable and it's the old find your
way through the maze to the next maze, etc, etc... After playing only 20
minutes, I've already known before hand that a monster was going to be
lurking in a particular dark spot and merely turned off the flashlight,
strafed over to the corner and let loose a load of buckshot only to be
rewarded by shredding the flesh of the lurking zombie. Surely this is not
what Id intended. Did they really want to telegraph where all the monsters
are hiding? Who knows. Id seems to be more in the game engine business than
game business these days.

Folks who have played Farcry and Painkiller have been treated to great
gameplay and have seen the FPS genre advanced and the bar being raised in
ways the Id probably never thought about. Doom3 is kinda boring to me. I'm
playing it with my 13 year old and tried some of his saved games where he
has cheats enabled. I'm seriously considering enabling them on my saved
game, it's somewhat satisfying to have some freaking firepower when 80
spiders come _walking_ around the corner to get you. It's a little tedious
to dispatch 80 spiders without a rocket launcher...

> Sure some stuff could be different, some things could even be better.  But
> this is the new standard for PC games.  Far Cry was fun too, but niether
of
> these was as deep as Half-life.  They were both fun however, for me and
many
> others.  When HL2 comes out, we may have yet a new standard.

I have no doubt we will.

> The frightening ambiance recalls only System Shock2 in the sense that I
> often did not want to know what was around the next corner, but HAD to
find
> out.  This is good shit.  I feel bad for anyone who cannot appreciate the
> art of game development at this high level.

One man's art is another man's bullshit...

The one game that does "scare" me is America's Army. There is a game that
really forces you to emotionally invest yourself in it. The tension is real
and palpable. One mistake and either you, a team mate or both of you sit out
till the next round. Sometimes I don't play it right away because I'm just
not ready to be immersed into that strained atmosphere, I have to be ready
and in the right state of mind to play. Doom3 has no special emotional
involvement for me.