Kid Icarus Wii
- Definately a title I'll pick up next year along with a system.
Alan Wake
- Might wait for a review on that one. The graphics look sweet, but if the adventure's no good, it'll collect dust.
HLE3
- Let me beat HL2, E1 and E2 and I'll get back to you on that one.
TheAussieReaper wrote:
Gimme Doom 4 with a decent story line, that actually follows the first 2 of the series with hell on Earth and I'll be happy.
Agreed.
To recap the main stuff for other people:
Doom 1 (Episodes 1-3): Player fights from demon-infested (wrought by teleportation experiments by UAC) Mars moon Phobos, to semi "in-hell" moon Deimos, to the surface of Hell.
Ultimate Doom (E1-3+4): Between Doom and Doom 2.
Doom 2: Player gets spat out by a disgruntled hell to find that Earth is infested with demons.
Final Doom: Two user-made 'sequels' to Doom 2 (the first taking place on Jupiter moon Io) placed in an official retail package.
Doom 3: A remake of Doom 1. This time, the moons are left out and you're left sucking sand and pitch, jaggy-edged black shadows with guns that have no lights. Criticized for its modified storyline, but didn't differ quite as radically as the widely-criticized #$&stain movie.
Last Man Standing Coop: a mod that makes Doom 3 palatable
online. Doom 1 was noted for its coop gameplay, but Doom 3 had so many technical difficulties that I could understand why they took it out of their official product (besides which, they'd have to redesign the levels for it).
To box this up for people who haven't lived through Doom like people around or near their mid 20's-30's, we played Doom 1 and were blown away. This game didn't fuck around: you either shotgun a room chock full of bad guys or get your face ripped off and stuffed up your ass. Equally impressive was Episode 1's ending, popping two tall shouting demons we've never seen before about 20 feet in front of us. After they're dead (a ridiculous amount of bullets, if you don't have any rockets), you only have one exit, and you get screwed immediately upon entering. The epilogue even gloats about it. Next thing we know, we're fighting through a architecture that is a bizarre merging of technology and demon flesh (E2), and come out in mostly living flesh and stone walls (E3). Then, depending on whether you play E4 or not, you think you've won the game then, but no. You arrive back on Earth through teleportation to find most everyone dead, but screw that. Your pet bunny's head has been staked right in front of your face. Enter Doom 2. Space marine, bent on revenge, fights through a bunch of levels to kill a demon that's bringing demons to Earth. Epilogue mentions him settling down to help rebuild.
We've been wondering what's next for awhile. Final Doom whetted our appetites somewhat, but it wasn't enough. Now come Doom 3, which takes place on Mars. What? Wait...is this a sequel or a remake? If it's a sequel, what are they [UAC] doing making the same mistakes [experiments] again? If it's a remake, what the fuck are they doing on Mars? We bought it anyway, and were fascinated at how enemies came at you in ones or even threes. Boy, was it ever easier than dozens and dozens pouring from a room into the small hallway you're hiding in! What it lacked for quantity, it tried to make up for quality, in what was a headache-inducing orgy of non-gradient shadows, monsters covered in perpetual flawed slime and the occasional in-game cutscene. Deathmatch was laggy, and there was no coop. Honestly? I would've rather them take an old engine like Quake 3, spruce it up a bit, and
picked up from where they bloody well left off.So there you have it. Doom 3, as a remake of Doom 1, turned the series into a confused numerical mess. Doom 4 can go several ways:
a) Jump to one or any combination of Phobos/Deimos/Hell to satisfy classic gamers.
b) Skip the mess and jump to 'Hell on Earth' stage.
c) Ideally, a combination of 'a' and 'b.'
A merger with the Quake universe (the second in the series had a BFG x000, indicating that it's in the same universe as Doom) seems unlikely. I'm not sure combining demons from hell with a series that jumps from Chthonian deities to Strogg to tournament gaming, back to Strogg and a Strogg vs Earth prequel would make much sense.
Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2008-07-02 09:19:45)
