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Doom 3 Alpha Leaked
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. "
Look at those screenshots -
The antialiasing is all wrong.
In two screenshots, it says Doom III Alpha. In the rest it says Doom III Codename Alpha. Who calls 'alpha' a code name?
There are obvious photoshop artifacts all over the place.
Anyway, ID's got to be one of the companies the least worried about leaked alphas at this moment, since the only people who can run it are the weirdos who buy $400 video cards every four months, suggesting that they have the cash to happily buy the game when it comes out.. Not like all those warez kiddies who photoshop screenshots on the computers their parents buy for them.
You'd almost think a 'net company would know
this is what peer to peer is for, get it of of the news groups and out on limewire and kazaa. please, or give me a good link to what to DL
I want 2D games back.
Huh? What the fuck is wrong with downloading the alpha? You might be disillusioned or something if you don't remember it's an early built, but hell, nobody is losing any money. I have no idea why you think playing the alpha is disrespectful, of all things. (For the record, I haven't ... yet.)
Switch back to Slashdot's D1 system.
If I didn't know it, and I read it, it's news. Just because it's not news to YOU doesn't make a damn bit of difference to anybody who's NOT YOU.
/. is not designed to be just a news site...it's also a place to DISCUSS news. That means, in order to have a discussion, they have to post the story. If that /. post happens a few days after the story breaks, you STILL get the utility of the discussion.
/. isn't always first with the story. What difference does that make? How does that decrease /.'s utility? I mean, I read a lot of poeple pissing and moaning about how bad this site sucks...But those same people are still reading, so obviously the site is doing something right.
The obsessoin with scooping the competition is a legacy feature of print journalism, and to my mind, a very detrimental one.
So
As far as why I'm making such a big thing about it, this thread just tripped on my pet peeve, so I ranted about it. That's what happens around here.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
http://saveie6.com/
I click in to read this article and I see a banner ad at the top from ATI for a Radeon 9700.
Yeah, I hear a lot of complaining, but riddle me this: Is Id actually gonna lose money because this was leaked? Is there anyone who would go to all the trouble of downloading an ALPHA VERSION, and then not get the full version later?
Isn't it possible that all of the publicity might even help Id with free advertising?
I mean hell, they've even gotten a free slashdot story out of it. A million geeks seeing your upcoming game--that's advertising.
Sycophant.
First off, I'd like to say being a student on a limited budget I buy very few games. My collection of modern games includes Starcraft, Quake 2, Red Alert 2, Quake 3 and Warcraft 3 and recently added Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2. I still play all these games actively. Before I purchased any of these games, I download an illegal warez copy and examined the game inside and out. If I wasn't bored within two weeks, I purchased the game. This leaked release, which I have downloaded and played, has ensured id at least one buyer. Being an avid Quake fan (Unreal sucks) I know I will play this game for hours upon hours. I am extremely excited for the final product, I will fight tooth and nail for a copy on the release date.
---Maybe this is begging the question---
Could people PLEASE stop misusing the term "begging the question"? It has nothing to do with "raising interesting or relevant questions" or "answering my own dumb question." It's a logical fallacy having to do with assuming the conclusion of an argument in its premises.
Making any judgements from a snapshot intended for a non-interactive demo is ill advised.
So we can still keep buying all that HYPE about it and keep believing that it's somehow revolutionary, and not a cheesy Resident Evil / Half-Life ripoff?
And keep believing that all those pixel shaders and stencil shadows actually make anything besides the models look better, and that running at 20fps on a brand new machine is actually worth using all the poorly designed new graphics features?
Right...