Doom3 - LttP

Apologies for the big pic Game scared the **** outta me, walking round with a torch and some ugly bastard starts running at me so I take out the shotgun but gotta put away the torch 1st..wait where everyone go! Put back on the torch and surrounding by 8 of em = pants cack

Jesus, haven't played this game in yonks. Playing it on you're own in a dark room was nasty shìt.

I used to screw about with the in-game spawner for the craìc and throw odd pictures up on a Doom 3 community site. Went looking for them and can't believe they're over 5 years old :eek:

Where's the usual receptionist? Oh........eh........he's..........sick today.


"Hey Joe, watcha doin? What's that? What would happen if I pressed this?"

I think I did something crazy like played the whole thing through from 11am at night to 9am the next morning when I first got it. Love the game

Doom and Doom 2 in addition to Quake were very creepy, possibly due to John Romero being at the helm of all three. Quake would probably be the most disturbing as it wasn't drawing upon conventional hell mythology but Lovecraftian ideas, it was medieval, dark and weird. I prefer the creature designs of Doom and Doom2 to Doom3, they were more rooted in classical imagery for me, with the minotaur heads and the fact that the imps were slight elven looking things. Also liked the medieval/sci fi fusion and the odd images of pirates on the walls. The fact that there wasn't much in the way of story meant that you could construct your own version of events from the random imagery, I used to imagine the portraits on the walls were of demonic deities which the demons worshipped.

Doom 3 by contrast didn't have these elements. The creature designs just looked like generic 2000s monsters. However I did like the hellraiser reference in defeating one of the bosses. Also the Sarge is going to get lines were funny because you'd just think, ah what the hell, until one shock moment into the game and you get really freaked out because of what you shrugged off earlier as bad attempts at psyching you out. The blood smeared messages on the walls were also disturbing. However there was no soundtrack for the levels and the hell levels didn't match up to the same medieval weirdness of Doom 1&2. In addition was there a reference to some old myth when the scientist guy's head appears out from the mouth of the dragon at the end?

I never really enjoyed this game much. Lost interest after an hour or two. The levels were too confined. I'd much rather dash about Quake 2 singleplayer at a hundred miles an hour where you've space to rocket jump about and act the maggot. Quake 2 singleplayer wasn't even that great but it's a lot less linear than modern level design and the speed is kind of refreshing.