{"id":124,"date":"2004-08-05T10:54:27","date_gmt":"2004-08-05T02:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2004\/08\/2004_08_05_1054.php"},"modified":"2004-08-05T10:54:27","modified_gmt":"2004-08-05T02:54:27","slug":"just-a-bit-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/08\/05\/just-a-bit-more","title":{"rendered":"Just a bit more…"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\"\"<\/a>\n*Can’t wait to blast some demons!*\n<\/center>\n\n
**UPDATE**<\/center>\n

Doom 3 brings most “non-bleeding edge” systems to their knees. The inadequacy of my AXP2400, 1GB RAM, and GF4 Ti 4200 is glaringly obvious. I have to play it on 800×600 2xAA with NO special effects (shadows, particles, and bump-mipmapping) for my framerates to be “playable.”<\/p>\n

I think I will soon have to put my photography on hold, and start treating my PC with some well deserved upgrades. Definitely a new CPU past 3Ghz (or equivalent, if I go AMD), and maybe I should try spending for a bleeding edge graphics card for once.<\/p>\n

Easier said than done though. I’ll give myself a deadline… By Christmas, I should have been able to complete all the necessary upgrades.<\/p>\n

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The game is beginning to become a disappointment. I’m beginning to think that the only thing this game’s got going for it, is its eye-candy, which I can’t really appreciate since I had to turn off almost all the blasted graphical effects.<\/p>\n

I’m a story person. Unlike my friend Joel<\/a>, I don’t mind the gameplay so much – of course it does matter, but not as much as the story. If the gameplay makes the story unfold too slowly for me, then I lose interest. Ergo I usually make sure that I do not die, since that is the worst thing a game can do to interrupt the storyline. Any kind of cheat (except skipping levels, unless they’re impossible) is fine by me.<\/p>\n

Anyways, back to DOOM3. The original DOOM had the concept of a dimensional gateway opening (by accident or whatever, it doesn’t matter), leaving the human inhabitants of whatever place in question in imminent danger. A few years later, Half Life released an EXCELLENT take on the same concept. And not only the story, but the incorporation of it to the gameplay was superb.<\/p>\n

Now we have DOOM3. All the eye candy aside, ID Software is lucky that DOOM started the concept – otherwise I’d say DOOM3 was a Half Life wannabe. The feel of the game is similar to Half Life.<\/p>\n

I still haven’t finished the game, so I am expecting some interesting twists in the plot. There BETTER<\/strong> be some twists, else DOOM3 will just demoted to “something like Half Life,” which is sad since ID was first with the “story.”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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