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Doom III Officially Announced

Posted by michael on from the boom-click-click-boom-click-click dept.

Jacek Fedorynski writes "The end is near. First, id Software's site is updated for the first time since the Quake II times and now they officially announce Doom III!" If you recall, there were some screenshots released last year, but I don't think there's been much since then - these are probably out of date.

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  1. great! by The-Pheon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now i will have a replacement for solitare at work.

    hope they include a "Boss Key" ;O)

  2. Now I'll have to.... by parkanoid · · Score: 4, Funny

    Overclock my geforce2 above boiling point, like that guy who opened a dimensional rift with his CPU.

  3. The key to restarting the tech economy by Brian+Stretch · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, Doom 3 could do it. Betcha it comes out right about the time people are looking for a way to justify buying nVidia's latest & greatest and AMD's shiny new ClawHammer. Surely they'll do a x86-64 compile? Millions will buy new gear to play the game in all its glory. Hooray, we are saved!...

    ...but then tech worker productivity will plummet for the next month, the Internet will crash from millions playing Deathmatch, the federal deficit will skyrocket, and the whole economy goes into the crapper. Damn, I knew there had to be a catch.

    Screw it. Pass the railgun, lock & load.

  4. Re:Why link to Yahoo!? by Servo5678 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why link to Yahoo? Because we like ID and don't want to /. them ;-)

  5. Finally a new version ... by laxian · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... so that for future school shootings ... when the media mentions that the kids played "video games like Doom", they will be talking about something that modern kids *actually* do.

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  6. Hack time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    That's where the soldering iron comes in.

  7. System Req's... by Wheaty18 · · Score: 2, Funny

    All your resources are belong to us.

    Yeah I know, but it's late, give me a break ;)

  8. That's nice, but i'd rather like to know by zurmikopa · · Score: 2, Funny

    Will idkfa still work?

    I may no longer use cheat codes, but nostalgia will force me to try this one.

  9. Re:What, another *space marine* game? by Ravagin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Think the storyline might be different this time?

    If you recall, the first DOOM was space marines vs Hell. In the grand tradition of Dante's divine comedy, DOOM 3's space marine protagonist will take on the mildly rude legions of Purgatory.

    On the distant moon of Pluto, a top secret government project goes horribly wrong, opening a portal into Purgatory itself! Heathens, unbaptised babies and who knows what else have been set loose, and only you can save humanity.
    And they killed your rabbit.

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    Karma: T-rexcellent.

  10. Re:DOOM 3 poised to ruin old games? by bobv-pillars-net · · Score: 5, Funny
    When I caught myself sidestepping around corners, I decided it was time to start sleeping at night instead of playing Doom.

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  11. Re:But... by Squareball · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do what I do.. move the mouse and say "oh this damn thing locked up again!" and then hit reset! ;) Works every time. AND it got me a new work computer because they were convinced mine was too "old" and locked up too much because of it.

  12. idtla by MadFarmAnimalz · · Score: 3, Funny

    Open letter to John Carmack:

    The masses demand their 'iddqd' and 'idkfa'. We wimps wanna Doom too. And three even.

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    Blearf. Blearf, I say.
  13. Karma Whoring: Better than Solitaire and Doom by DarkHelmet · · Score: 4, Funny
    There's a much more popular game than Doom, solitaire, or anything else for that matter out on the market.

    It's called Karma Whoring.

    The goal of the game is to come up with the most inventive, interesting, and funniest comments you can think of just in order to eventually make it to 50 karma points. When you do, this Magical Taco comes out of the sky and gives you the Sword of Moderation.

    With this sword, you can strike down and flame other would-be people who are trying to attain karma. Your high karma score is devalued if lots of other people have Karma as high as you.

    The goal is total domination and popularity among your peers. Imagine the results:

    Friend: Thresh is such a great quake player.
    Me: So what!?! I have 45 karma on Slashdot!
    Friend: Really?!?!
    Girls: Oooh, can I have your autograph?

    Technologically the engine behind Karma Whoring is pretty weak. Whilst Doom 3 amazes people with its pretty OpenGL graphics and Violence, Karma Whoring is only built using PERL of all things. It's text based, much like some of the older games of the 80's. But didn't we all like Zork anyway? :)

    Where Karma Whoring is better with is multiplayer. Whereas Doom will only have one character class, Karma Whoring has many. And you can choose your role. Karma Whore, Spammer, Nerd, Geek, Troll, Flamer, or even Anonymous Coward.

    Karma Whoring is more addictive than Doom. In fact, many of the people who score high Karma also experiment with other addictions. Especially with the line, "Those moderators are all on crack". This is a literal expression.

    The best thing is that Karma Whoring doesn't just have a boss key, it IS the boss key! You can always tell your boss that you're "researching important information on how to configure and optimize your apache server for optimal traffic", even when what you're really doing is browsing at -1 and blackholing the WIPO Troll.

    Best of all, it's free! The only thing you have to pay with is reading a Katz article and an anime story now and then. Compare that to $49.95 and tell me which one you prefer :)

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  14. You are mistaken on Doom's & Doom2's in-game s by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Doom1's in-game story and game manual never said you were a "space marine." The game goes on and on basically on fighting and "pushing" all hell back through the "portal". Doom1's players and later unofficial strategy manual authors filled in the loose gaps in Doom1's story. ID Software later appended some retro ideas to bring in those players' and authors' "opinions" into a story with more background. Wolf3D was the same. At first playing Wolfenstein 3D, I thought I was in my bedroom, in my pajamas, armed with pointy magic marker, and I drew ketchup all over my grandpa and ran outside the doorway. To my right side, I saw "spot", my dog, in his dog pen and to the left and righ I saw my mom and dad armed with ketchup-water guns. I magic-markered on both of their shirts and they died on the ground. My dad was dressed up in brown pajamas and used a single-handed pistol, my mom in a blue gown with a double-handed super-soaker.

    ...anyway, I loved Wolfenstein 3D. It doesn't require anything beyond a 256 KiloByte RAM Videocard, as opposed to doom1 requirng 512 KiloByte RAM Videocard and Doom3 requires a 128 MegaByte RAM Videocard. I think John Carmack should rot in hell and when I crack his Doom2 sampler that has Doom2 on it and needs a password to unlock and play it, I will shoot a missile through the Big Goatse man's exposed brain and hurt his eyeballs all over. I think John Carmack likes me, but I told him i'm not gay and I don' like Texas trash. The only thing that isn't Texas trash is the thing that's made in China and you find it on the ground 'cause Texans litter alot. That means all of Texas is made in china and the only trash is the people walking around on two legs.

    haha. OH and shout outs to my scientology friends, h3x0r-elmo, and my churchofsatan.org friends.