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No Doom 3 This Year?
Ant writes "According to an article at Blue's News: 'Though id Software basically invented the idea of using "when it's done" as a release date, and thus did not specify a release date when DOOM 3 was announced, many have been assuming that the game would be available for this year's holiday season. Now a report on HomeLAN Fed cites Activision's 2003 release calendar and quarterly financial conference call... [saying that] Activision admits that this matter is entirely in id's hands, but that they are not expecting the game this year, and have it "penciled" on their calendars for fiscal Q4 (Jan-March) 2004.' Additionally, Quake IV is now due in Fiscal 2005 (which begins April 2004)."
Or maybe Doom Whenever?
if(!cool) exit(-1);
Obligatory: Doom 3 Forever.
"DOOM!"
"DOOM2: Hell on Earth"
"No DOOM 3? What the Hell?"
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
...No wonder I couldn't find it on Kazaa!
...I will be able to afford the hardware needed to play it at 1600x1200 when it is released.
That leaves a chance we'll get play Duke Nukem first!
I think id did start the "when it's done" trend. 3D Realms has just interpreted that as "just in time for the LAN party at the end of the universe".
"Prefiero morir de pie que vivir siempre arrodillado!"
1.) Duke Nuke Um Forever
2.) Team Fortress 2
3.) Doom III
They're calling it the "vaporware of the century pack" and it will be available for the low cost of $0.00 that's right folks, free.
Just playing, I mean it's not like there aren't screenshots that people love and a huge crowd of ever-anticipating buyers just waiting.
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
Isn't a FPS recycling by it's very nature?
but idspispopd better still work.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
I'd hit it.
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Of course there's Doom this year. It's called the RIAA.
By the time this thing comes out, that'll be the definition of a $200 Wal-mart PC.
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
1) Hype cutting-edge game of popular franchise
2) Release demos to pique interest of target market
3) Never release said product
4) ???????
5) PROFIT!
I don't think it'll come as a shock to anyone that when you let the engineers decide when a product is ready to ship, that it will never ship.
Unless he's an electrical engineer.
Or for ATI to develop drivers to run their cards ...
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Those who can, do, and those who can't, well
This also hurts any bullied geeks planning a school shooting, now forced to keep using outdated Doom and Doom II mods to map out their attacks. When Kleinbold and Harris began their spree they were completely unprepared for jumping or for how prettily water reflects in real life.
Nobody thinks of them.
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Oh yeah? Uh... MICROSOFT SUCKS!!! OPEN SOURCE FOREVER!!
Dammit... PC game comedy died with Old Man Murray.
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Given enough time and incentive, I can turn Doom 3 into a Microsoft Windows compatible
operating system. The question is how much incentive and how much time it will require.
Well, for starters...
I'm sure Clippy will be a helluva lot more polite, when you're pointing a Rail gun at his paperclip arse.
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So, wait, I don't think I got it from the 6 or 7 posts above this one. Is this Quake IV or Doom IV we're talking about? I think we need at least 4 more people to explain.
... I'll make sure you get another memo.
Did you get that memo?
My chances of getting laid this year just increased! I may even pass college with this much free time on my hands!