Doom 3 beats HL2 out the gate

Doom 3 has gone gold and will ship on August 3.

http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/boa...threadid=50067

Looking forward to it, if not as much as I look forward to HL2.

Mike

Mike Kohary wrote:
> Doom 3 has gone gold and will ship on August 3.
>
> http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/boa...threadid=50067
>
> Looking forward to it, if not as much as I look forward to HL2.
>
> Mike

I've never been a big fan of ID's games (except maybe Q2 in
multiplayer).. this one could be the one to change that.. or if not,
it'll keep me going for a couple of months while we await HL2 :-)


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"Ben Cottrell" <bench@bench333.screaming.net> wrote in message
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> Mike Kohary wrote:
> > Doom 3 has gone gold and will ship on August 3.
> >
> >
http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/boa...threadid=50067
> >
> > Looking forward to it, if not as much as I look forward to HL2.
> >
> > Mike
>
> I've never been a big fan of ID's games (except maybe Q2 in
> multiplayer).. this one could be the one to change that.. or if not,
> it'll keep me going for a couple of months while we await HL2 :-)

Was never much of a quake fan myself, would still like to complete Q2, but
it got a bit boring, and at the time I was out in the sticks with a crap
28.8 modem, so MP was out of the question. By the time I got a better
connection found I'd long since lost the cd.. or loaned it to some B**tard
who never gave it back, whatever.

Doom, however, well

One of the first times I ever played MP = Doom 2! (ok, 2 player) FPS, at Uni
in the early '90's, couple of 386's (?) some nicked phone line cobbled
together and badly soldered to a couple of RS232 serial connectors.

Don't remember any ping or packet loss problems however, how times have
changed

Dave
AKA Sloth[AGHL]

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it's been over ten years.... etc. etc....




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Sloth wrote:

> Doom, however, well
>
> One of the first times I ever played MP = Doom 2! (ok, 2 player) FPS, at Uni
> in the early '90's, couple of 386's (?) some nicked phone line cobbled
> together and badly soldered to a couple of RS232 serial connectors.
>
> Don't remember any ping or packet loss problems however, how times have
> changed

I remember trying out Doom multiplayer via null modem link on a pair of
486DX66s, it was OK - although we had Duke Nukem 3D and Command and
conquer waiting for us to play aswell, so Doom barely got a look in.
Gotta say that Duke3D was an absolute blast to play, doom seemed a bit
average in comparison at the time... packetloss wasn't really an issue
for us either, although for 2 people, a port speed of 11500 over a
distance of 3 metres was quite enough :-)

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On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 1237 -0700, "Mike Kohary" <spam@be.gone>
wrote:

>Doom 3 has gone gold and will ship on August 3.
>
>http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/boa...threadid=50067
>
>Looking forward to it, if not as much as I look forward to HL2.
>
>Mike
>

anyone know if they will release a demo at some point?

"Mike Kohary" <spam@be.gone> wrote:

>Doom 3 has gone gold and will ship on August 3.
>
>http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/boa...threadid=50067
>
>Looking forward to it, if not as much as I look forward to HL2.
>
>Mike
>
Yikes! It's going for $54.99 on Amazon US. HL2 is still under the $50
dollar mark. Oh, if you order both of the games together, you save a
whole $5.50! :-)

Erik

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 22:43:43 +0100, Ben Cottrell
<bench@bench333.screaming.net> wrote:

>I've never been a big fan of ID's games (except maybe Q2 in
>multiplayer).. this one could be the one to change that.. or if not,
>it'll keep me going for a couple of months while we await HL2 :-)

Ironically, I'm playing Doom/Doom 2 at the moment, using Doomsday with
3D models and hi-res textures, and it's a lot of fun. Doom 2.5, kinda.


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