Was literally just about to buy the entire trilogy on Switch. Guess I’ll grab 3 and wait on 1 and 2 for any potential patch.
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Yeah this period was golden age of PC gaming for us at home. We were huge into Unreal but 2003 disappointed us while 2004 was good. I couldn't wait for HL2, FC and Doom. I played the leaks of HL2 and Doom 3 to death. We bought a Geforce FX, threw up and returned it for a Radeon 9800 PRO (which is my fave card ever since it held out for so long in an era were graphics advanced rapidly) and FC was holy shit. Then Doom came out and was holy shit. And then HL2 bettered them both imo. This was kind of a bummer for Doom, I was more impressed by HL2 back in the day.Absolutely agree about these 3 games. I upgraded to a Radeon 9700 Pro (I think it was anyway, my memory!) at the start of 2004 to play Far Cry and my mind was well and truly blown. Such visuals! Such open ended gameplay! Astonishing. And then the release for Doom 3 rolled around and I was so excited and when I finally got to buy it on release day...holy shit, it blew my mind again. The atmosphere! The lighting! The graphics! It couldn't be bettered. No game could improve on this, surely? And then Half Life 2 released and blew my mind yet again with the stuff it did visually and with physics. All three remain up there as some of my favourite ever games, truly a hell of a year for PC gaming.
Playing through Doom 3 on PS4 is wonderful, it looks and plays fantastically well, still has bags of atmosphere.
Watch the video (at least for Doom 3)I'm pretty curious how Shield and Switch stack up for D1-3? That would make for a fun DF comparison given it's the same exact architecture.
Same for RE5 when that comes out.
I was going to when I got home, should've known you'd touch on it.
Heck, I'd put the PS3 ports above the XBLA ones (not that the XBLA ones are bad).Well, in terms of official ports perhaps. There are better versions, though
They have issues, but I think they're still good on Switch if you want portable versions. I mean, the last official portable versions were on GBA, so even an imperfect port is an upgrade.Was literally just about to buy the entire trilogy on Switch. Guess I’ll grab 3 and wait on 1 and 2 for any potential patch.
I bought a GeForce FX 5700 Ultra with 256MB of DDR3 back in 2005, I think. I remember buying it over a Geforce 6800 because of the lower price difference. The fan on the 5700 was loud, and that card crapped out on me within months. It was under warranty though, and I did later swap it for a Geforce 6800 XT, which was a lower clocked 6800. The 6XXX series was a huge improvement in general over the mangled FX series.We bought a Geforce FX, threw up and returned it for a Radeon 9800 PRO (which is my fave card ever since it held out for so long in an era were graphics advanced rapidly)
It seems to be multiple things, mainly the original 35fps but Nerve busted the graphics, audio etc.Tis a bit funny how Doom 3 runs like a dream at 4K/60, but Doom 1 & 2, eh?
The FX line was shit, at least initially it was. It was quite shocking, our GF4 Ti4200 (OC'd) ran better. We refunded it almost straight away.I bought a GeForce FX 5700 Ultra with 256MB of DDR3 back in 2005, I think. I remember buying it over a Geforce 6800 over the price differences. The fan on the 5700 was loud, and that card crapped out on me within months. It was under warranty though, and I did later swap it for a Geforce 6800 XT, which was a lower clocked 6800. The 6XXX series was a huge improvement in general over the mangled FX series.
The Radeon 9800 Pro was a beast for years, and I bailed on PC gaming right around the time I couldn't play new games well with it.Yeah this period was golden age of PC gaming for us at home. We were huge into Unreal but 2003 disappointed us while 2004 was good. I couldn't wait for HL2, FC and Doom. I played the leaks of HL2 and Doom 3 to death. We bought a Geforce FX, threw up and returned it for a Radeon 9800 PRO (which is my fave card ever since it held out for so long in an era were graphics advanced rapidly) and FC was holy shit. Then Doom came out and was holy shit. And then HL2 bettered them both imo. This was kind of a bummer for Doom, I was more impressed by HL2 back in the day.
But upon replays I prefer Doom 3 to HL2. The latter has some very bad pacing issues with vehicle sections, and the AI and gunplay was even worse than I remembered. Doom 3 held up better imo.
They have an excuse. They can't simply port the original game, what are you thinking? They have to get the forced online website connection into the game somehow.They have no excuse for Doom 1&2 when this guy ported chocolate doom to switch in 45 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4Dv32-PoU4
And these fans ported GzDoom to switch themselves https://gbatemp.net/threads/gzdoom-for-switch.538010/
PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO THIS. Probably the best time I've had with my Rift so far. The Oculus Touch controller support is brilliant.When you finally get to make your Doom3 DF Retro then don't forget the Fully Possessed VR Mod (don't even know if you like it or can handle it, I personally think it's one of the best VR mods out there)
Doom 3 also still triggers that high-end feel for me. Which is interesting because Half-Life 2 and Far Cry certainly don't anymore. Carmack won.
The 7XXX series wasn't really shit. It was an iteration of the 6XXX series. A bit of an underwhelming release, but I don't remeber any criticisms over this line. I think the evolution of videocards at the time just made this series look outdated rather quickly. As did the the 6800 series, even though I did get many years out of my 6800 XT, it was a great card even though it was on the lower end of the 6800's. Ofcourse the 8xxx GeForce cards are legendary.The FX line was shit, at least initially it was. It was quite shocking, our GF4 Ti4200 (OC'd) ran better. We refunded it almost straight away.
6 line was good. 7 was shit I think, it lacked HDR+AA I think, PS3 also suffered from this.
Half-Life 2, Doom 3 and Far Cry all were released months apart in 2004. FEAR was released in 2005.The big 4 back in the day were:
HL2
Doom 3
Far Cry
FEAR
I’d be curious to do a side by side today. I haven’t seen FEAR in ages.
FEAR still has the best Ai i have seen in a shooter. yeah it's heavily scripted but it plays out great.The big 4 back in the day were:
HL2
Doom 3
Far Cry
FEAR
I’d be curious to do a side by side today. I haven’t seen FEAR in ages.
Doom 3 was certainly the most impressive. I remember downloading the tech demo leak, I think it was in 2003. It ran like shit but visually it blew my mind.
It was never 70fps. Doom was always capped at 35fps.at the risk of being destroyed by Era. Can they not speed the internal frame rate upto 840fps ( 840 lowest divisible by 70 and 60 ) 70 being original fps and 60 desired output.
35fps was the game's hard-coded simulation tick rate. All of their AI/Physics was tied to this. In-game recordings are also tied to this tick rate, which allows you to play back replays on any machine regardless of framerate.at the risk of being destroyed by Era. Can they not speed the internal frame rate upto 840fps ( 840 lowest divisible by 70 and 60 ) 70 being original fps and 60 desired output.
Yes, this book is incredible. Definitely a must read if you have an interest in how Doom works.If anybody is curious about the inner workings of the original Doom, might I recommend this book.
It goes into exhaustive detail about how the game works and how the magical combination of technology at the time led to the game we all know and love.