Games that felt impossible for their console

[HoloDust]

curl-6 said:

HoloDust said:

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.

2004 was one of really great years for PC gaming in general, but especially for FPS aficionados - prior to DOOM 3 we got FarCry 1, which looked stunning and is one of earliest examples of linear-wide FPS games, Battlefield Vietnam, which for me was not as good as Battlefield 1942, but still lots of fun and paved a way to brilliant Battlefield 2, already mentioned Riddick, DOOM3, and then Call of Duty: Unfited Offensive expansion, do this date one of the best all around expansions in gaming, and to top it off, Half-Life 2 toward end of the year.