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Half Life 2 was suffering in the birthing pains of Steam, which was horribly buggy and unstable when it first launched, and for a mid-range rig back in 2004, the then-new Source engine had a ravenous, almost unnecessary appetite for RAM.ĭoom 3 and its id-Tech 4 engine, comparatively, installed and ran without a hiccup. I remember actually preferring Doom 3 to Half Life 2 back then, mostly because Doom 3’s engine just ran more stably on my admittedly modest rig. It takes some getting used to but after a level or two I was back in the groove.ĭoom 3’s gameplay is just as rock-solid as it was eight years ago. It also, somewhat realistically, only illuminates the left 75% of your view. The actual flashlight beam texture is grainy and low-res, and maybe this is just my perception, but it doesn’t seem to cast as dynamic or powerful shadows as the original flashlight. Darkness was a huge aspect of the game’s atmosphere and impacted the gameplay tremendously-it’s probably the whole reason id worked so damn hard back then to make the light and shadow system so realistic and creepy.īeing able to switch your light on whenever you want does take something away from the experience, but it also feels like the armor light is sort of half-implemented. It added an element of strategy and challenge that isn’t there anymore.

I have a feeling this is a half-smirking joke by id on their more vocal fans.Ī lot of critics are being rather hipster-ish and claiming that “I liked the old flashlight! It made the game tense!” Personally I think it’s a bunch of crocodile tears, because back when the game first came out there was an inordinate amount of whining about the flashlight, and I actually did and still do prefer switching back and forth. Amusingly, when you go to grab your gear from the first equipment locker, the old flashlight is still in there-you just can’t pick it up. You can’t even pick up and use the original, separate flashlight anymore. First of all id listened to all the needless complaining about having to switch between a gun and a flashlight they implemented an “armor light” that you can switch on at any time, the only downside is that the light slowly drains power and must be switched off for a few seconds to recharge. I started with Doom 3, and it is true that id has made a few changes. Naturally, I dove right into this feast of blood, violence and demonic hell-spawned terror. So BFG Edition isn’t exactly the complete, essential Doom collection, but it still has plenty of Doom packed into a single $30 compilation, and it’s the only place you’ll get the Lost Missions. For good measure it also comes with the Xbox Live Arcade versions of Doom 1 and 2 from a few years ago, which has Nerve software’s modern Doom 2 mission pack No Rest for the Living. It also includes Doom 3’s original expansion pack, Resurrection of Evil, as well as a new 8-mission bonus episode called the Lost Missions. I’ve spent some time exploring BFG Edition over the past few weeks-perhaps too much time, I’m not sure when I grew this beard-and I’m here to report on what I found.īFG Edition isn’t just Doom 3.

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Then again I always felt that Doom 3 fell just short of its potential, so I was pretty excited when I heard that id Software was re-releasing it as Doom 3 BFG Edition.

I have some fond memories of Doom 3-I even built my first gaming rig to play it back in ‘04 as I was just starting college. It’s an addiction I thankfully never kicked, or perhaps an alluring nightmare I can’t put to rest. But Doom…there’s something virulent about it, that heady mix of violence, triumph, adrenaline and terror.

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Wolfenstein 3D was the small burning taste I needed, and then Doom got me hooked-I was a PC gamer, primarily of first person shooters, until years later when GoldenEye 007 tempted me back to consoles and I spent several subsequent years as an ardent Nintendo fanboy. It’s ironic, then, that I became a gamer because of a video game that WAS the devil, or at least about shooting up the devil and his minions. My parents weren’t exactly of the “video games are the DEVIL!” variety, but they did think it was more sensible to own a home PC you could do homework on instead of a console that only played games. I played those of course-plenty of friends owned them and I have fond memories of Track and Field, Sonic the Hedgehog and Mario All Stars-but I never owned any of those groundbreaking games or consoles. Unlike a lot of my generation, it didn’t start as a full-on hobbyist on classic consoles like the NES, Genesis and SNES. I have an interesting genesis as a gamer.