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Doom 3 Alpha Leaked

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the get-it-while-its-hot dept.

Alex_Ionescu writes "The Doom 3 E3 Demo Alpha has leaked to the public. It looks promising, altough I'm only getting 12FPS on a Radeon 7500. Did anyone else have the chance to play it and could post their FPS? Here are some sites with more information and screenshots: here , here, here, and finally here. "

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  1. Not interested... by NineNine · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm not sure if this is some kind of ploy working with various hardware manufacturers, but I ain't falling for it. Any game that's so ridiculously poorly written that you need a $2000 machine to run it on isn't worth getting. Hell, Warcraft 3 runs great on my P 1.2 laptop with who knows what kind of graphics card. Why is this so ridiculously hardware intensive? Hell, a $200 PS2 offers better performance at a fraction of the price.

    1. Re:Not interested... by t0qer · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      Framerate=life

      Haven't you ever seen the alien pc motto?

      As someone else pointed out, high framerate also makes the controls more responsive. The more responsive you are (epsecially in a FPS like doom) the better your accuracy, everything.

      It doesn't stop at just the responsiveness of the controls either, playing any FPS on a tv over the net blows. I know this from trying CS on my 52" wega via the SVHS out on my video card, and playing halo for the Xbox.

      I guess if you don't really want to take playing doom3, or any other FPS seriously, then yeah, go ahead and play on your crappy little PS2.

      But understand this, I snapped at your initial comment because you talked shit about doom3 like it was garbage code produced by an idiot, and that just wasn't the case. You sound like a man who's jealous of carmack (and who wouldn't be with the fine mamma he has by his side :)

      Your comment lacked comment sense, deal with it.

    2. Re:Not interested... by t0qer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Hey nine nine, one more thing...

      Before u go saying I got shit from mommy and daddy, go read my journal, and fuck off. I doubt you've had to work as hard as I have. See now you're steppin over the line. I just stuck to comments about your comment in relation to the story, but now you're talkin shit about my upbringing?

      Are you sitting here on sunday drinking yourself beligerently talking shit to someone you don't even know on slashdot because,

      A. Talkin this way to real people scares you
      B. You're just bored and trying to fill up digital space?
      C. You're just a big freeking loser.

      I'd opt for c, I dunno. Maybe some other /.ers would care to drop some insight on this.

      Maybe you're not drinking and thats the problem. Chill out, stay ontopic, and don't talk out your ass ok? It'll make slashdot more fun for you.

  2. Re:Um... by Sludge · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    I agree. I don't know why in hell slashdot/cmdrtaco would post this. If slashdot got slapped for pulling this stunt, I wouldn't feel one bit of remorse, nor would I support any sort of defense.

    This shows a serious lack of respect. For the first time, my opinion of slashdot/taco has dropped severely.

  3. Re:Um... by Sludge · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I'm the one with the four digit user id.

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  6. Re:See Yesterday's Post! by Moofie · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    That's funny. I don't buy anything id puts out, because I know it won't be anything other than an engine technology demonstrator with deathmatch built in, and oh yeah maybe a couple single player levels thrown in as an afterthought.

    I make it a point to buy games that people who are not id make with id's engines.

    I believe I'm not alone, too. But I'm not sure you guys will count my invisible rabbit.

    --
    Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!