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curl-6 1 day ago
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HoloDust said:
curl-6 said:

I never heard much disappointment about Doom 3 graphically, more that its gameplay diverging so much from the older games was controversial. Riddick was definitely an impressive showpiece in its own right; I believe it was one of the earliest games to utilize dynamic resolution scaling, which was how they gained the headroom to it off on Xbox.

Well, it is anecdotal, since it is my experience with it - at the time, all my mates were PC gamers as well, and new id Tech game was always something that was anticipated, both for gameplay and visuals.

But Riddick launched just a couple of months earlier, and it really took us all by surprise - so when DOOM3 popped up, it really didn't do much for any of us. By itself it was quite fine, but it didn't look as good as Riddick (in addition to being a lot duller gameplay wise, both compared to Riddick and previous DOOMs).

An interesting perspective; thanks for that.

I guess I never heard that side of it as wasn't much of a PC gamer at the time (outside of Age of Empires and other older stuff, as our family PC was nowhere near up to the task of handling Doom 3) I just heard about how amazing it looked online, and eventually played it on my Xbox, where it blew away any of the other games I owned.