Doom 3 remastered with BFG Edition for PC, Xbox 360, PS3
Doom 3 is being remastered for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in the BFG Edition, announced today. It packs a jazzed-up Doom 3, its expansion, a new seven-level mission, the first two Doom games, and changes including... an armour-mounted flashlight!
Why, it seems like only yesterday that we were all jazzed about the launch of Doom 3, but at almost eight years old (eight!) it's now being remastered for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The BFG Edition of Doom 3 includes its expansion pack Resurrection of Evil, a new seven-level mission, the first two Doom games, and changes including... an armour-mounted flashlight!
Doom 3, RoE and the new 'Lost Mission' boast "improved rendering and lighting," a check-point save system, and support for 3D displays, head-mounted displays and 5.1 surround sound. Yes, head-mounted displays, a pet passion of id Software's rendermancer John Carmack.
"DOOM 3 was enthusiastically embraced by gamers worldwide at its release," Carmack said in today's announcement. "Today, the full experience has been enhanced and extended to be better than ever, and is delivered across all the platforms with a silky smooth frame rate and highly responsive controls."
Doom 3 BFG Edition is scheduled for release this fall, published by Bethesda. There's no word yet on how much it'll cost. Perhaps, off the back of this, 2012 may be the year we finally hear about Doom 4 at QuakeCon.
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Doom 3 is being remastered for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in the BFG Edition, announced today. It packs a jazzed-up Doom 3, its expansion, a new seven-level mission, the first two Doom games, and changes including... an armour-mounted flashlight!-
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now you can see what you are shooting at.
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Silly British English!
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So do you guys think Rage's commercial failure last year is the reason why this is getting released? I'll pass on this one, id.
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Was RAGE a commercial failure? I thought it seemed like it did pretty well.
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No one knows for sure but there were denied reports of DOOM 4 being on hold due to Rage's "disappointing" launch
http://kotaku.com/5851953/doom-4-indefinitely-postponed-following-rages-disappointing-launch
Disappointing is probably the key word here - the id brand alone probably gave it enough momentum to not be a complete sales flop. Most people figure it was a commercial flop because they either didn't like it or they noticed how it faded quickly out of view, never took off as a MP title, etc.-
I can't imagine they sold enough to break even. They would have had to move about 2-3 million to break even I would assume.
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Hard to tell exact numbers but it showed up on the NPD in october with 550mil copies, then dropped off from there.
I do remember hearing that the reason why the ending was abrupt was because they wanted to do a dlc continuation but they had to scrap it to work on some other project because it wouldn't have been worth it.
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I gathered that it wasn't such a huge success and that's the glass-half-full mentality. I haven't played it though so I can't really say much. I can say it's odd that's it's already dropped to $20 retail.
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Usually id games stay high priced for a long time. Rage dropped fast.
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Uhhh, the past. Traditionally id games have stayed fairly high for long periods.
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No. Nothing that involves console launches happens that fast.
It's driven by the change in ownership/publishing for Id. This is more likely the same deal as when Bethesda/Zenimax annoucned the re-release of Quake4 for consoles. I think there is a legal issue (probably, all conjecture here) that's requiring them to actually issue Bethesda-Zenimax-produced releases of stuff that Id previously released through Activision. Seems like they're just going through the back catalog, now.
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I am sure a lot of people will be negative about all of this, but honestly Doom 3 is one of those games I enjoyed playing and I never bought it on Steam since I had a boxed copy, but this might be worth it if the price is right. Plus I avoided using the ducktape mod because I felt it wasn't what the dev intended, now that it's officially sanctioned I am looking forward to it.
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Not much of an edit; set fov to 106.7, then use the customwidth and customheight values to set your resolution.
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What about the monster closets every 5ft in that game? Turn a corner another pointless room with enemies in it. At least we should be able to see in the dark in this game without need to mod it.
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The darkness is supposed to be another enemy in the game. You are supposed to be scared of being in the dark surrounded by monsters with only a flashlight and the muzzle flash of your gun to keep you safe.
Of course what happens is you start to get used to it and it isn't very scary anymore. The monster closets are a valid complaint, but they are spawns from hell, not exactly unrealistic to assume they can spawn anywhere.
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Yup; I played E2M5 of Doom on Monday night, and had a blast, even with all the trap triggers. Doom 3's traps were admittedly not as great, probably due to having to be a plausibly realistic Mars base, having memory and rendering constraints, and so on.
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yeah but you had cool weapons to shoot them, oh, and you could see the enemies just fine most of the time.
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Why not just make an expansion pack that upgrades the graphics engine. Think about what was done with Half-Life 1: Blue Shift expansion that added upgraded models and what not to the base game.
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They can sell the expansion over Arcade and PSN and provide a patch for PC.
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I'd love it if they improve the polygon counts on some of the models as well.
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Yah last I tried it I loaded a texture replacement mod that doubled the resolution of pretty much all the textures, it looked pretty decent with the higher resolution.
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Remember, it was a 2004 game, back when realtime lighting was very expensive resource-wise, and shaders and normal maps were very new. I forget how much video RAM my PC had, but it was an ATI 9600 pro, followed by an NVidia 6800.
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I hope the mounted flashlight is only an option.
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Okee doke. Not sure I'll be interested in re-buying the various Dooms yet again, but seems like a perfectly cromulent thing to do.
Buuut... y'know, I find that I'm just a tiny, tiny bit disappointed that id caved on the flashlight thing. The whole idea that there was a see-or-shoot dilemma, saying that much of the game was pitch black, duct tape jokes, etc. -- all so firmly wedged into gamer conventional wisdom now that I guess it's a lost cause to object, but I never did have a problem with that when I played D3. I know there were other folks who had to play with bad monitors, or who just didn't want any shadowy places in their monster-shooter... eh, I guess now they'll get an "improved" version, but I'd bet that most are past caring.
Actually while I'm being grumpy about this let me just copy a whole Willits quote from Polygon:
"We didn't have enough ammo in the original. It was too dark. There weren't checkpoint saves. No flashlight. That one was so big, we put it on the sell sheet."
Checkpoint saves, fine, but the rest just sounds like sanding off the bits that gave D3 a little bit of mood, tension, and (on Veteran difficulty) challenge. Harumph. Well D3 wasn't enough of a classic game for me to get all riled up about changes, and the original will still exist. I just thought I'd share my reflexive crankiness.
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I agree with you completely about them caving on the flashlight thing. It never bothered me at all. Like others pointed out - it was intentional in design, added a lot of tension to the game, and I feel like it would have been a worse game if they made the flashlight part of the gun.
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I'm ashamed of this, but I never did find the duct tape email. Is it on a PDA or kiosk that I never found?
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If there was an in-game mention of that, I never saw it either!
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Really....tell that to the jokers paying 15 dollars for 4 maps in COD. People WILL pay full price for this I bet...just not as many. I know I won't be.
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i doubt the jokers paying $15 for 4 maps in COD are gonna be the core of Doom3 sales. Theyd rather spend their money on more maps for COD.
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$40 is too much. $30 is more reasonable but I probably wouldn't pay for it again unless it was <$20.
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and here I thought the Aussies had it bad :(
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I have bought the Doom series so many times. Well, here's to one more!
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As a doom3 hardcore fan, i'm getting this on day one. However, i don't know what graphics upgrade have they done but if you look in the trailer, you still can see that there's still no soft-shadows which is pretty disappointing
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rgr that
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Yah looks the same here... I home that isn't the remastered version.
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2-3 hours of new content (plus Doom, Doom 2, and the Doom 3 expansion). I assume it supports widescreen resolutions without editing a .cfg file. The trailer looks like they might have added some lights, but it's hard to tell if those are just cherry picked locations.
One of the articles I read mentioned that there's now a light on your armor, so the flashlight issue shouldn't be a thing anymore, and it sounds like they tweaked the pickups throughout the game to some extent.
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Well remember that unlike Quake 4, DOOM 3 was never on the modern consoles. Quake 4 was a 360 launch title but DOOM 3 was from the Xbox 1 era. And if you'll recall it looked like hammered ass on the Xbox 1 with cut down levels, graphics and sound, but it had some exclusives like Co-op if I recall.
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yah I'm sure quite a few people from the younger generation never played Doom 3.
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Because it's 8 years old?
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I bet Carmack cleaned up this game and got it working for his head-mounted stuff... then decided to polish it up and make a full release out it. It makes sense because it's a slightly lower-end engine which could easily run on a lower powered device (the type of chip which could fit into a headset). I have a feeling that's how the whole thing go started.
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By the looks of the trailer the wimpy sound design wasn't remastered. Also, duct tape in the future yet?
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yah sucks he had to pull the plug, always loved the sound & music from Quake.
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You can still get the NIN sounds on the internet. He did a very good job, they're dumb not to use him again.
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Getting desperate, are we :\
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I hope the actual reason for releasing this is the fine tuning of the game towards VR headsets. maybe its something crazy
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ohh shit look at that headset track head movement http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIkrQK60N-4
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Doom3's been modded to look amazing with sikkmod shaders and monoxead's high res displacement map textures. The open source engine is getting new tools, and full on megatextures.
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You can get it, and there's someone else who packaged it up with sikkmod and the wulfen textures: http://www.moddb.com/mods/cverdzislav
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Man I wish they would port Doom 64 =/
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wait, checkpoint saves? does that mean no quicksave? I mean sure checkpoints make the game a bit harder.
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I think I will probably get this, loved Doom 3.
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And we still don't have Half-Life in Source.
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HL1 is very outdated as this point, it would pretty much require remaking all assets to bring it up to par with most games today.
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Hmm. I'll probably buy this since I never played the expansion.
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Still love the Doom3 Monster designs.
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hells yes. And while you're at it please do this for the whole back catalog.
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new levels ?
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I don't really feel like replaying this game. It was such a chore of a game to play. The bits where it was scary and shooting were fun. But in betweens sucked.
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Does this have the coop mode that was in the Xbox version? I'm guessing it doesn't but playing Doom3 with a friend and making your own monster closets was a blast.
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It's already been modded for coop- http://doom3coop.com/ and http://www.d3opencoop.com/
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Well the Xbox had coop through the whole campaign so hopefully they can easily implement it on the PC. I think there's a mod that gives you the option for coop in the campaign but it's pretty unstable and not widely used when I was looking into it.
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coop that doesn't scale resources in an SP game is awesome.
That's what I loved about System Shock 2. Though there was a way to exploit the Psi stuff to make ammo IIRC. But 3 or more players it was hard because there was nothing to go around. 2 was perfect though.
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Adding HD-textures (which has already been done in the mod community six years ago) will not be enough to excuse the three boring minispider-levels and the dark, boring level design which gave no impression at all, and I'll bet they still have enemy bodies burn to ash and disappear after dying (instead of bleeding and staying on the ground) which was a pussy move from the ones who created frigging DOOM.
Also, checkpoint system? Is that an IMPROVEMENT? So instead of being able to manually save after surviving a group of mobs while playing on Hardcore setting, we now have to survive five or six groups in straight succession before reaching the next checkpoint? That's the one of the worst and most hated elements of console game conventions. Obviously iD doesn't rely on betatesting. -
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