Doom 3 release date?

here's why i don't think it'll be released publicly before quakecon. i do hope though that it does at least come out during. only becausew if it's before, all of quakecon will consist of a bunch of more or less single player games happening. which would blow at a LAN party. but i don't doubt that during it, probably on saturday night it'd be announced that it's out that week and a few copies will be given away, and by a few i hope they mean 3,000 :)
 
Anyone know if Doom 3 has reached Grand Master status yet?
 
whatcha smoking, Its coming out this summer cause I said so... I have been to the future, where there is crazy stuff everywhere, and flying cars and such, and there was doom3. :rolleyes:
 
Genocidal said:
Maybe their next game will be that project trinity which they put on hold for Doom 3.
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wow, i remember reading about that when i was like 13 and quake 2 was just coming out and PCgamer was talking to carmack and he said "what's this trinity project you're doing?" and etc. i always just assumed it really meant doom 3, what with the trinity being three and doom 3 and etc.
 
masshole said:
man...

I dont mean to sound like an a-hole, but with all the hype, talk about Doom3, delays and etc etc etc... this better be the best game ever invented and have MINIMAL flaws. (i.e. bugs)

just my .02
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I really don't recall, but haven't past Id releases been relatively bug free, especially when compared to recent big releases that are patched the day before they're available and still don't work well?

The funny thing about the hype, it's mostly generated by the fanbase. It's not like Daikatana where we're innundated with ads saying how John Romero's going to make us "suck it down" or Gabe "Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf " Newell does an Iraqi Information Minister impression every time he speaks about the game and its release date.

I don't think it can live up to the hype though. It could be the best game of this year and people are still going to bash it. It could be the best FPS of all time and iconoclasts will still bash it. The only possible scenario where it could live up to the hype is to surpass it so that:

1) Half Life 2 finally comes out and it undeniably sucks balls, not just buggy, but all-around shitty
2) Doom 3 magically produces an engrossing single player plot
3) The visuals in the shipping product actually look significantly better than the screenshots we've seen for years.

Not that 2) was ever a major design goal nor does the screenshots look bad, but at this point the game would just have to completely blow away expectations to satisfy the hype. 1) would just help shut up the fanatics and iconoclasts (although then we'd have to deal with D3 fanatics, but then again, if the game did accomplish 2) and 3), no one could really dispute them).
 
through an most honest opinion, i have e-mailed, consulted and read many web sites/magazines in this month relating to doom 3's release, and i have put together that truly in june 15,16, more or less will be the release of doom 3, u dont see any demos "yet"
because the game is so damn big and the demo alone would be a mega d-load.
also there has been many times where a game demo has been released 2 or more dayz after the actual release of the game.
ID has declared that D3 is complete and will be released, all that is left is some paper work on distribution, legal issues and such.
(And if not released on the promissed date, it gives us gamers to get as pissed off as we want at the company, but i do not think this will be the case)
 
yup, its the first time ID actually gave a timeframe. everything else was speculation and crap.
as for the game itself, i could care either way. all i know is that we'll be able to make some insane mods from the engine.
the demo isn't out because they are busy finishing up the game, they stated that after the game is done they will work on a demo.
 
SacLANd said:
yup, its the first time ID actually gave a timeframe. everything else was speculation and crap.
as for the game itself, i could care either way. all i know is that we'll be able to make some insane mods from the engine.
the demo isn't out because they are busy finishing up the game, they stated that after the game is done they will work on a demo.
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"Is my pen compatible with this paper?" -SacLANd with regards to "Will DOOM 3 run on computers of now?" :D
 
question:

1. What is project trinty?
2. What is estimated size of Doom 3.

Other than that I have full faith that Doom 3 will be out this summer before Quakecon. Although I think Doom 3 is way over hyped, but I'm not going to tear down anybodies dreams today, at least.

Caliche
 
Caliche said:
question:

1. What is project trinty?
2. What is estimated size of Doom 3.

Other than that I have full faith that Doom 3 will be out this summer before Quakecon. Although I think Doom 3 is way over hyped, but I'm not going to tear down anybodies dreams today, at least.

Caliche
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oh, but this hype is what game companies thrive for. If you have hype you feel uber that people are starting rumors about your company. YOUR game.

haha. Hype is what keeps the games and the industry alive.
 
Icee said:
oh, but this hype is what game companies thrive for. If you have hype you feel uber that people are starting rumors about your company. YOUR game.

haha. Hype is what keeps the games and the industry alive.
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Yeah...hype is also what kills games. I personally don't think DOOM 3 will live up to this hype. It will be an awesome game no doubt, but it's been so long in the making and people's expectations are so high, that the game will just suffer from any flaw(no matter how miniscule) that it may have. Here's a big one: NO CO-OP FOR THE PC VERSION. :mad:

Add to that the fact that it's just another FPS game. Sure they are making it a priority to have the single player experience as immersive as possible, but in the end there is only so many times that you can play the SP over and over again. So for what it's worth, the SP and the MP better be damn well fun...because it's been done over and over and over again.

Oh yeah, and just because DOOM I may have really jump-started the FPS genre, doesn't mean DOOM 3 will be another ground breaker. IMO, DOOM 3's biggest driving factor is the graphics that are speculated to be outstanding.

Don't get me wrong, I will definitely get the game on release date(whenever that might be). I even reserved my copy from BB. And, I'm definitely excited about this game.

But in the end, hype definitely kills many a game. I HOPE, DOOM 3 will live up to all the hype.
 
Trinity is a game they were working on at the same time as Quake 3, then they put that on the backburner to focus on Q3 and were gonna resume it after they shipped that game. But then they decided to do Doom 3 as the next game after Q3...
 
I'm not concerned at all about the "next project" when they can't even ship the "now project". I don't give half a shit about Doom3, I was really excited, but that was..ummm... a year and a half ago? Come on id soft...

I'll give you a PM when I'm playing Doom3 with my great grandchildren lol ;)
 
All these statements about a release date but where are the sources to back them up? As much as I would like to see it released then I just dont see it happening unless it goes gold in the next day or two.
 
Personally, I am pretty turned off to D3 at this point. Particularly when games like Far Cry and The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay (sadly only on the Xbox) come out. At this point D3 has to be better than the screenshots to live up to expectations.

But then again that is beauty of used games. :D
 
spiff:
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/05/11/news_6097046.html

Activision and id Software announce that the PC version of Doom 3 will ship to stores this summer.
Activision and id Software have today announced that the PC version of Doom 3, which is also in development for the Xbox, will ship to stores this summer. No specific release date has been confirmed at the time of writing, but today's announcement is sure to be welcomed by fans of the series who have been awaiting the third installment since it was announced back in 2001.

"Doom 3 is the most anticipated PC game of the year and fans around the world are eagerly awaiting its release," said Ron Doonink, CEO at Activision Publishing. "id is delivering the most compelling horror gaming experience to date, so get ready for Doom."

"This summer we're sending game fans on a first-class trip to Mars--with a layover in Hell," added Todd Hollenshead, CEO at id Software. "Doom 3 is coming to the PC and delivering the most atmospheric, terrifying and visually mind-blowing gaming experience ever conceived."
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typically a game goes gold 3-4 weeks before shipping. summer could mean all the way to the end of august.
 
SacLANd: hope it's cool that I sigged you. It's been a long time, but you never noticed. :p :D
 
SacLANd said:
spiff:

typically a game goes gold 3-4 weeks before shipping. summer could mean all the way to the end of august.
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Thanks but I still dont see a mid June date making it. Although some games have been going gold in about 2 weeks or less now. FarCry for example went gold 10 days before it was release if I remember correctly.
 
and for the record, id software has never given a release date for doom3.

never. all other release dates have been estimated, speculated, deduced, guessed, fortune told, by everybody else.
 
i know there is alot of hype about the release day, and many people have even had proffesional interviews saying when around the game will be released, if every word out of these statments were true, then i would be playing doom5 and a half by now, the most reliable source for me has even screwed up "PC GAMER" they say that doom 3 will be released in june, by i really dont know where they get there sources, most of my recolection that i have done a crapload of research on, i have figured out to a estimated standpoint that d3 will be released in june.
ID only said mid june or summer, If true, the wait is minimal, if not true, everybody grab your torches.
 
*Shrugs*. You know, D3 has never struck me as a heavily hyped game, at least not in comparision to HL2.
 
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