Gaming nuggets
Everyone seems quite excited now that Doom 3 has gone gold. Feh. When Return to Castle Wolfenstein came out, I played it, and thought that it was exactly like Escape from Castle Wolfenstein, just with better graphics. Now, that could have been what they were trying to accomplish, but why? Pointless remakes, be it in movies, music or games annoy the piss out of me. Case in point, the impending remake of "The Manchurian Candidate". Why would you remake this movie? This movie is one of the finest political thrillers ever crafted? They're just going to fuck it up. You have to know they they will. Return to Castle Wolfenstein certainly didn't fuck anything up, as technically it was a sequel, but there has to be something better to do with a development house's time and money then essentially remake a game with new graphics.
Which brings me to Doom 3. I loved Doom. I fucking, loved Doom. I spent so much time, in college, playing Doom, that it was on the calendar outside of my door as a daily event. After years (gulp! a decade to be exact) of playing shooters since then, I'd be happy to occasionally revisit Doom, but I'm not so sure I'd want to play it again, even with better graphics. Maybe it'll end up being a lot different, or the graphics are so different that it becomes a new game, but based on Wolfenstein, I have my doubts. My PC has no chance in hell of getting the game to run even marginally as well as it's designed to, so I'll just wait for the Xbox version. I'll gladly let the developers of the port deal with all of the graphical tweaking. I don't need to play the game at a resolution of 8 billion by 7 billion anyways, I'd like to keep my eyes for the future.
Also, I just found out that Sudeki has gone gold and will be released next week. This may be the RPG to tide me over until Fable. We'll see. Early comments are that the combat system is good but it's a short game. RPG's shouldn't be short. They should be long and epic and make you sit there and sweat as you try and figure out what to do next based on all of your thousands and thousands of options. Again, I say Feh. I still have Majora's Mask. Maybe I'll play that.
Which brings me to Doom 3. I loved Doom. I fucking, loved Doom. I spent so much time, in college, playing Doom, that it was on the calendar outside of my door as a daily event. After years (gulp! a decade to be exact) of playing shooters since then, I'd be happy to occasionally revisit Doom, but I'm not so sure I'd want to play it again, even with better graphics. Maybe it'll end up being a lot different, or the graphics are so different that it becomes a new game, but based on Wolfenstein, I have my doubts. My PC has no chance in hell of getting the game to run even marginally as well as it's designed to, so I'll just wait for the Xbox version. I'll gladly let the developers of the port deal with all of the graphical tweaking. I don't need to play the game at a resolution of 8 billion by 7 billion anyways, I'd like to keep my eyes for the future.
Also, I just found out that Sudeki has gone gold and will be released next week. This may be the RPG to tide me over until Fable. We'll see. Early comments are that the combat system is good but it's a short game. RPG's shouldn't be short. They should be long and epic and make you sit there and sweat as you try and figure out what to do next based on all of your thousands and thousands of options. Again, I say Feh. I still have Majora's Mask. Maybe I'll play that.
posted by Brandon at
1:00 PM
Seems the voltage in the UK is a little higher than Canada.
Ah the memories of DOOM.
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