Doom 3 - Are you finding it boring?

LegacyUser

I am. Just can not stick it for longer than an hour. It is a huge effort to play it. I simply am not mad about it. Too much of the same thing. Run around, kill monsters, find a key card, open the safe, stock up on ammo...and repeat.

Anyone else?

the_syco

cheesedude wrote:

I am. Just can not stick it for longer than an hour. It is a huge effort to play it. I simply am not mad about it. Too much of the same thing. Run around, kill monsters, find a key card, open the safe, stock up on ammo...and repeat.

Anyone else?

Are you playing easy, medium, or vetern?

Pugsley

And what exactly did you do in Doom and Doom2?

SantaHoe

I'm with you cheesedude, I find myself getting bored of it really quickly.
Haven't completed it, but I just can't bring myself to play it again.
Doom 1 and 2 were great because it was an all-new gaming experience back then, since then it's been done to death and then done some more... I think our expectations have risen in the meantime.
It's a good game for what it is... but what it is just doesn't draw me in for some reason

LegacyUser

Pugsley wrote:

And what exactly did you do in Doom and Doom2?

That was a revolutionery experience. Something totally new. This just has better graphics and that is it. As santahoe says, good game for what it is...i can not get into it though.

EDIT: Oh ye playin it on medium

nowwaiting

BORE IIII is a more appropriate title I feel as if I am playing the same complex/base level over and over again picking up PDAs that do they same things just in slightly different locations - iD this is not 1993 it's 2004 I expect more

OfflerCrocGod still in exile for no particular reason :eek:

j0e9o

any1 willing to sell there copy pm me but i dont want to buy if u use cd online

[CALIBUR]

Sweet jesus... doom3 boring ! the game is out of this world.

Giblet

I honestly think you want the game to have sex with you or something. It's fantastic for what it is, A GAME!

obewan

An outstanding game. Graphics/sounds and gameplay are hard, if not impossible to beat.


Mick.

tman

i'm about 4 hours into it now. and so far its held my attention far better than any other game i've played recently (the outdoor stretches of far cry were fairly moreish though)

a finely sculpted shooter

Placebo

is there ne big bad guys in this? feel free to post an image.

satchmo

Boring, not a chance! I've been playing it with the lights out and surround sound turned up, and it has me on the edge of my seat. It has what no other game I can think of has - atmosphere. And it has it in stacks. I'm constantly tense, and at one stage I didn't even want to move just in case something jumped on me! I'm not one to talk to myself usually, but I've found myself saying "what the **** is that?!" out loud more than a few times, as well as a couple of "JESUS!" yelps.

Recently I've found myself becoming bored with FPS games simply because none of them really gave me anything new, besides prettier graphics. I even gave up on Far Cry because it just seemed so much of the same stuff over and over again (although I might eventually go back to it when I've some spare time) . I just can't see how you could say the same thing about Doom 3 - this game actually scares me, and I can't remember the last time a game has done that, if ever.

The only reason I've stopped playing it tonight is because I need to wind down before I go to bed... you wouldn't believe the ****ed-up dreams I had last night!

BadCharlie

It scares you will it scares me 2. I dont think I have ever been scared in a game before. I love watching scary movies as for some strange resin I find them funny. Where people around me might be screaming I be there laughing. But with this game its different it does scary me I guess IM just not used to it. The sound is great this is what gives you the creeps. Its no wonder this game took so long to make "maybe a bit 2 long". The amount detail and effort they have put into this game.

All off yee have to play it on lan even just with your self and collect the skulls, its just cool

bizmark

The game scarys the crap out of me just a while back i got to a door where a child started crying then laughing as your whole screen goes red .....Damn you id!

amp

nowwaiting wrote:

OfflerCrocGod still in exile for no particular reason :eek:

Creating a new account to bypass a ban will get your ban extended. You know exactly why you where banned.

Back on topic.

orangerooster

Not at all-the further I get in the better it gets although Im only playing it in short bursts on veteran as thats what a friend told me to do-it definitely enhances the experience that bit more.Havent been bored by it once-amazing game.

Deadwing

Bring back offlercrocgod!!!!!! Down with this sort of thing!!
*ahem*
Back on topic, doom, boring? Sweet jesus man what copy of doom are you playing? The one with all the levels missing and the lead charachter replaced by barbie and the zombies and demons replaced by horses, and instead of being called doom3 its actually called barbie race n ride?

Doom 3 has instantly shot into my top 3 games of all time, the atmosphere doesnt let up for one second, youre constanly nervous, on edge, waiting for the next monster to jump out of the shadows, or the next crying baby section or whatnot. Compared to other next gen FPS's, IE far cry, doom pisses all over it. Now i loved far cry, its a classic, but dooms atmosphere, storyline, action, character design, is just vastly superior, despite far crys bells and whistles like vehicles and stuff.

Karl Hungus

I hate to say it, but Doom 3 has to be one of the most tedious games I've ever played... I just keep getting a sense of 'seen it/done it' before. It just seems to predictable, with enemies 'Oh-So-Suddeningly' popping out, and the level design is pathetic at best. Maybe I've played too many scary games in my time, but the so-called "Shocks" feel so god damn tedious it's almost like I'm trudging through the game just to see more of the plot.

Although a lot of the plot details are really good, I think it's a pity that everything went to hell so early in the game. It would've been nice if they slowly built the plot a bit more instead of everything just exploding into hellishness. A favorite snippet of plot was where I found the audio log of the Doctor who describes a patient coming in, going crazy with a scalple, which is a pretty direct refference to Firefly! In fact, it's described almost identically to the chap in Firefly who 'Survived' the reaver attack then went scalple-happy on the meds while he was on the operating table, right down to the detail of the guy slicing his own tongue in half! Anyone else notice that?

elexes

Karl Hungus wrote:

I hate to say it, but Doom 3 has to be one of the most tedious games I've ever played... I just keep getting a sense of 'seen it/done it' before. It just seems to predictable, with enemies 'Oh-So-Suddeningly' popping out, and the level design is pathetic at best. Maybe I've played too many scary games in my time, but the so-called "Shocks" feel so god damn tedious it's almost like I'm trudging through the game just to see more of the plot.

indeed i think the game was not up to any of my hopes . im now looking for hl2 to show me what im missing ... doom3 reminded me of quake 2 for some reason o and the multiplayer is pants

Nietzschean

i'd have to agree with the original poster, i got bored senceless rather fast....just went back to playing nam

dangerman

yeh totally agree. I got bored of it pretty early in the game. I plowed through it anyway to see if it would surprise me. nope.

i wrote a fairly long-winded review here [contains spoilers]:

a thread only for those who've finished it. [Doom3]

silverside

I got bored of it on the 1st level, went back to playing Doom2 with JDOOM.

when's the next game using the FarCry engine coming out? - I can't wait!

tba

Whenever the lights go out, or I hear a sound I totaly loose control and start firing wildly in all directions, I cant help it. I yelped once.

It is a bit sameish alright, but the candy and the creeps make up for that.

And screw the farcry Engine whens Unreal 3 coming out?

Sleipnir

meh, it's okay but it's nothing spectacular and the storyline is alomst exactly like HL.

HL: Start a new job at a secret base on earth.
D3: Start a new job at a base on mars.

HL: Get sent down to the bowels of the base to a secret experiment
D3: Get sent down to the bowels of the base to bring some guy back up.

HL: Something goes terribly wrong
D3: Something goes terribly wrong

HL: Get back to the top fighting monsters on the way.
D3: Get back to the top fighting monsters on the way.

Some bits are good and pretty scary but......naw, not 'ground-breaking'

Azza

Its good enough. good atomsphere but they did not go out of there way to do anything new and exciting. Then again I can't think of anything new to dow with the fps genre.

Deadwing

Slepinir if you compare the (flimsy) story of doom 1 to HL you can see the exact same comparisons. Secret base, doing experiments, something goes wrong, hell breaks loose. Only HL fleshed the story out with set pieces.
Doom 3 is a classic. Some people love it, some think it sucks, thats just the way it is. Personally i havent been this engrossed in a game in ages. Even with Far Cry, i loved it for about a week or 2, got bored, left it, and only months later picked it up and finally finished it. Doom 3 had me right from the word go.

mewso

I certainly don't find it boring. I find it very scary but not the most imagintive game around. I like it but it is essentially a showcase of the engine. I haven't finished it yet but I'm half expecting to see licensing fees and details on how to aquire it to appear at the end.

Wolfy

I'd have to agree with the topic, am currently working my way through doom3 not playing but working as the game is becoming a chore. The game no longer scares me even remotely but the first time I came accross an imp i actually let out a cry as well as i ran backwards trying to shoot it and that has never happened to me before. But regardless the games flaws are becoming more apparent.... samey locations with just different shades of grey or green with flurescent blue or green here and there, basic basic basic AI making the enemies from the likes of IGI seem smart and more importantly once u play for a bit it becomes easy to spot where enemies will jump out at ya... game looses some of its touch when all u have to do is lob grenades around a corner at an unactivated monster u know is there follow that with increasingly annoying enemies like the spiders and flaming heads instead of increasingly harder enemies its like the game designers just wanna annoy the player into submission.
Also the game is too easy on standard difficulty.... im pretty far into the game and ive yet to be killed.... ive never played another FPS where i havent died on standard setting and im too far into the game now to restart..... follow that with silly **** like pick up some armour and a small alcove will open in the wall containing a monster who has been patiently waiting for u.... or the knowing feeling that whenever u approach an objective enemies will spawn... i mean i cant actually think of a good modern fps that still relies on spawn points.... there are other probs i have with the game but im not gonna sit here and write a novel. I will say to the people who say things like " but have u not played doom1 and 2" that games have moved on since then. What was once revolutionary is now just boring. But hell I guess I can accept some ppl dont like to think when they play a game and find it easier to accept a substandard game as a result :P

ps the games sound is fantastic, animation is brill and the lighting system is also great so it has some superficial pros'.

=Baz=

You guys know what type of game you are buying before u fork out the cash, you read reviews and see screenshots!

What you see is what u get when u buy a game, if its a fps thats what u get shooting!

Wolfy

=Baz= wrote:

You guys know what type of game you are buying before u fork out the cash, you read reviews and see screenshots!

What you see is what u get when u buy a game, if its a fps thats what u get shooting!

and???

regeneration

=Baz= wrote:

You guys know what type of game you are buying before u fork out the cash, you read reviews and see screenshots!

What you see is what u get when u buy a game, if its a fps thats what u get shooting!

Ummmm Deus Ex? System Shock 2? Thief 1,2 & 3? All first person, all not just mindless boring repetitive shooting, and all came after doom. Looking Glass studios would be rolling in their grave

regeneration

The HL2 fallout forums are broken (where the supposed mail came from) Does anyone have the full text of the mail they could copy and paste so we can look at it ourselves?

orangerooster

Wrong thread I think regen.

Anways-I've been playing Doom3 less and less since I got it but I still think its very good for what it is-more Doom.However the point about the increasingly annoying enemies is bang on-the floating heads especially-really quite horribley annoying and not at all scary.

Theres no point in not saying Doom 3 could have been more than what it is but I still think id delivered a spectacular and entertaining first person shooter unlike the developers of Far Cry who delivered a package holiday with a few dumb mercenaries and apes thrown in.

tba

=Baz= wrote:

You guys know what type of game you are buying before u fork out the cash, you read reviews and see screenshots!

What you see is what u get when u buy a game, if its a fps thats what u get shooting!

HA HA I didnt spend a penny, my brother bought it!

regeneration

oops, so it is. damn, had multiple thread windows open and quick-replied to the wrong one.

ID though delieverd a great tech demo, just like FarCry, but as a game, it's dull after the first few levels. I cant play it and NOT think about all the other games that have come out since doom1 - it's spectacular and amazing looking, but still a 10 year old game

Stephen

I can only play for about a half hour at a time (and hadn't played it for a week before today due to work and other time consuming ****e!), but it is still scaring me and keeping me on the edge of my seat (on alpha labs 4 at the moment).
The fact that enemies spawn out of compartments in the walls etc whenever you pick up ammo/health/armour is lame - but hey, i remember those same wall panels in doom1.

regeneration

Yeah so do I - I played Jdoom the other day to get me in the mood (and went to sleep straight after), but if doom3 was called anything else, people would go "yawn, boring sh*te; but looks pretty" but because it's doom3, people somehow lower their expectations because - well "its doom! yipee" It's a return of a classic, but it's still repetitive, dull, and short.
Comparison with a Ford Model T car, it was a classic in it's time, and served a purpose in history, but by god we don't need Ford rereleasing it with a little more horsepower after everything that's come after it.
Next year - al jolson returns to the cinema in a rerelease of the Jazz Singer.

elexes

i just made it into hell and the game i have to admit has improved . th way the walls just get made infront of you is a nice affect

PhoebeusFenix

Hey, since you guys are finding doom3 so boring, and you say the mp sucks. Would any one of you be willing to give your cd key to me? If so pm me or email me at stupidnoncharterreadingmoron@hotsexyteenXXXmail.com

Thanks

tba

sure my cd-key is - 1234-5678-nowa-yu

Stephen

Buy it, fúcktard.

regeneration

Some cheeky begger got a bent copy and now thought he'd be cheeky and ask nicely for someone's CD key while attempting to make a pithy comment about legitimate consumers feeling a little po'ed. ELSPA will be around in five minutes.

Btw, very funny review on doom3:
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2304

If you're mad at me because I'm the only person in the universe who is too stupid to understand that shooting spiders in a dark sewage processing facility is terribly frightening, then feel free to complain about my lack of journalistic integrity on one of a million public forums about choosing the correct neon light for your Evangelion case mod. None of this will change my opinions regarding "Doom 3" though. I'm sick to death of the goddamn "dark industrial" motif found in every first person shooter since 1994. I easily grow tired of repetitive "find the button and press it" tasks which are only made difficult by the fact that the buttons are miles apart and in different Martian area codes. I don't want to shoot spiders, I don't want to shoot barrels which explode, and I don't want to shoot only when I have put down my flashlight and therefore cannot see anything.

Giblet

regeneration wrote:

Some cheeky begger got a bent copy and now thought he'd be cheeky and ask nicely for someone's CD key while attempting to make a pithy comment about legitimate consumers feeling a little po'ed. ELSPA will be around in five minutes.

Btw, very funny review on doom3:
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2304

Says the man who used to help run PlanetQuake

KdjaCL

Still playing it like Stephen when time dicates and still enjoiying it on Caverns 1, dont find it boring tho. Very playbable FPS which is orientated towards single player and being alone. In that it does a very good job.

Wonder what people expect in an FPS now , Doom 3 is Doom 1 with a shiner engine prety much what i didnt expect and thoroughyly enjoying playing.

kdjac

regeneration

KdjaC wrote:

Wonder what people expect in an FPS now , Doom 3 is Doom 1 with a shiner engine prety much what i didnt expect and thoroughyly enjoying playing.

kdjac

A little more plot, and point to your running about. Either have a plot and do it properly, or just admit you're a brainless shooter (stand up Serious Sam)
A little logic (replace colour keycards with PDAs and you got the same crowbarred level design.
A little variance in what you're doing (the key to a great game is that you can't put it down, not that you HAVE to put it down after an hour otherwise you'll realise how repetitive it all is).
A little variance in the scenary (2 basic areas, "hell" and the industrial complex look).
A little oringinality (how hackneyed is the "oooh blood, teeth, upsidedown heads and pentagrams are scary" thing - it doesn't work anymore)

But wait: It's not that I think doom3 is crap, it's not - it's just being HUGELY hyped up into something it's not - a classic. The engine's ok, but the fuss being made about this game, when great FPSs in the past with more depth got ignored is a shame.
2 years ago ID did the exact same thing with the quake3 engine and it was called Return to Castle Wolfenstein, and no one would call it's SP game a classic.

Karl Hungus

I actually came to a rather interesting bit in Doom 3 today that upped my enjoyement of the game 10 fold! I'm still pretty early on in the game, practically near the start tbh, but I just found a bit with one of those sentry drones, and I went along to follow it, found myself really trying to keep in beside it as not to loose it, giving evil marines a facefull of boomstick while trying to keep up with the drone! First time I actually found the game exciting, as opposed to the "Enter new room/corridor, something 'Suddenly' pops out, shoot, repeat" approach so far.

With more variation, interaction, and better level design, I feel that the game could've really been great.

Wolfy

actually u might notice those sentry drones will come back to u so dont run and gun and miss pda's and other stuff... while system shock 2 is nowadays imo a little rubbish one of the greatest things about it was the voice logs that over the course of the game became more disturbed as the ppl were infected... dooms pda dont cause any amount of disquiet.


edit: and i dont wanna be too harsh but if discovery a sentry drone increased yur love of the game 10 fold its easy to keep u entertained

BigEejit

It could have been much better .... a little less dark, a better AI .... i think it was rushed out the door to get into the marketplace before HL2 ....pity the boss's werent a bit harder too .... I killed the last boss first time of asking - he should have been wayyy harder ... those big spiders were harder

Big Nelly

Dont like it at all.....play about 20-30 mins and I am bored.......

koneko

Funny Doom3 review:

http://www.quartertothree.com/inhouse/columns/86/