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First Doom3 Tourney @ QuakeCon
Rogerpq3 writes "The battleground is set - it's confirmed that the 9th annual QuakeCon 2004 video game festival and tournament at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas on August 12-15 will host the first DOOM 3 deathmatch championship ever. Be there to game, hang out with 5,000 of your closest friends, and compete for $150,000 in cash and prizes in the NVIDIA QuakeCon 2004 Championship Tournaments. Online registration for QuakeCon 2004 has begun at www.quakecon.org, and the event is free to all attendees."
If I were there, I just know I'd be the really embarrassed guy who gets knocked out first...
T.
Now id has quite an incentive to not push back the release date.
Be there to game, hang out with 5,000 of your closest friends, and compete for $150,000 in cash and prizes in the NVIDIA QuakeCon 2004 Championship Tournaments.
Provided you have a computer that can Doom 3.
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id.com is not the website for iD Software. idsoftware.com is.
I thought Doom3 didn't have multiplayer? (Score:2, Informative)
How is an incorrect thought informative? Doom 3 has multiplayer. This has been known for almost a year now.
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coop!=multiplayer..
iirc multiplayer was in it all along, but xbox version being the only one with coop(id, if you hear this: we don't want another 'fuck you' from a games company making the xbox version only one with coop)
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
It has multiplayer deathmatch with, I believe, up to a whopping 4 players.
Only the XBox version has cooperative mode, unfortunately.
Oh, and going to id.com won't help you much. idsoftware.com, on the other hand, is probably what you're looking for.
You obviously have never been to a Gaylord hotel if you insist on making fun of the name. Their hotels are some of the largest and niceset on the planet. www.gaylordhotels.com
if you had RTFA you would know that this is the first time that people will have played Doom3 multiplayer (even the leaked beta didn't have that).
Doom3 is still going to be released after quakecon. This tournament doesn't affect the release date.
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...than the Duke Nukem: Foreverathon being held August 32nd in Nigeria.
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What!? Arey they promoting Doom3 multiplayer capabilities? Wasn't Doom3 supposed to be a single-player focused game?
The original doom was a 4 player deathmatch. Maybe they just wanted to keep it true to the original DM playstyle.
You mean that I'm the only one here that lives in their parents' basement and is allergic to socializing??
I've been lied to for years!
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Actually that sounds like the average Slashdot article write-up
The article clearly states that Doom3 will not be released before Quakecon. The official release "date" for Doom3 is Summer.
So, Doom3 in summer (June ~21st - Sept ~21st), after Quakecon (August 12-15), narrows it down. Most people expect a late August release.
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Practice what?
It's the same as any other FPS with snazzier graphics. Practicing against ID's braindead AI bots isn't going to help you against real humans.
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Yes, and JR's ranch is nearby as well. idiot...
:)
The last time I wore a cowboy hat and boots was in OKLAHOMA when I was in boy scouts.
Actually, if you want a clear vision of what grapevine looks like...
Imagine... A giant, garish discount mall, DFW airport, multitudes of ugly car dealerships and chain restaurants, a VERY dirty Cinemark theater, oh, and Gamestop.com's shipping warehouse...
And no, if you stay at the Gaylord, you won't get your copy of Doom3 any faster... Gamestop's warehouse does NOT accept visitors.
But, you can visit Southfork Ranch, as seen on Dallas. It's in lovely dirt field filled Parker, TX. Just exit I-75 at Parker Rd. in Plano and head east. It's about 20 minutes off the highway. In the middle of nothing. Enjoy.
I'd like to know where Texas of all states picked up this stupid ass connotation of cowboys. You're just as rarely and as likely to see someone matching this description in NM, NV, UT or CO than TX.
But if you truly want me to break tradition, I'll be the one waiting outside of DFW airport for you in a soccer jersey and a cricket bat.
If you win the competition and the $150,000.00 you could then buy a computer for yourself that will be able to run Doom 3, and you would still have just enough money left over to order yourself the game.
Online registration for QuakeCon 2004 has begun at www.quakecon.org, and the event is free to all attendees.
No, no. Online registration began back on April 14th, 2004. It was full in about a day.
However, there is a waiting list. When you get there there will be two huge lines snaking around the walls. The smaller line is for those who've pre-registered, while the other snakes around entire second floor of the place, each player hoping for a spot in the grand ballroom.
For those who haven't registered and wish to attend, be sure to get there EARLY. And I mean 5AM or earlier if you wish to get in.
Good thing I got registered 30 minutes after it began...
Well, amazon lists the release date as August 3rd...
As an interesting aside, if you do a search for doom 3 on their main page, one of the "featured links" is a 3d stripper you can talk to
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Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
http://www.doom3.com/
Official Id Software site. Release date:
Coming soon.
looks like there is about 1600 people on the waiting list.
[RIAA] says its concern is artists. That's true, in just the sense that a cattle rancher is concerned about its cattle.
Let's hold a huge convention featuring cash prize tournaments based on a piece of software that is testing new video card technology, has taken years to design and build, is probably going to be so massive that we'll need to ship it on DVDs, and won't even have been on the shelves for two weeks.
And just to make sure all of our eggs in one basket, let's drop support for any of the team-based competition games set in WWII even if they do seem to be kind of popular right now.
Awesome.
Hats off to iD's Doom3 QA team... ya'll must really have your stuff together to make them feel comfortable enough to do something like this.
Is Amazon making, producing or distributing the game? No. Whatever they say is a guess. Just like every other retailer.
The official doom 3 site made by Id Software says coming soon. I'd believe the guys actually making the game before a retailer who wants to get a bunch of orders.
egad- can you imagine how that hotel is going to smell? and has Mountain Dew been piped in or are they using communal vats? carl
This is going to be a great way for NVidia to show off their latest video card playing Doom3. But what would be better is if they have some footage of Doom3 being played on a Linux machine with an NVidia card.
(I recall Doom3 is going to be released natively for Linux, although without official support?)
Maybe it would help push ATI to develop better Linux drivers!
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While this may be the first day that a lot of people play DOOM3 Multiplayer, it definitely won't be the first day that anyone has played DOOM3 Multiplayer.
At QuakeCon in 2003 there was a dedicated DOOM3 deathmatch booth that allowed attendees to play DOOM3 multiplayer. They shuffled attendees through in about 15 minute intervals for three days.
It was kick ass.
Travis "Ash" Bradshaw
Director of Staffing
QuakeCon 2004
It's not confirmed
Sorry, that's just speculation. The Aug 3rd date was first put forward by ebgames (who is always accurate as we know) and then every other retailer jumped on that date.
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umm. you're wrong. In the article it states:
"With DOOM 3 launching this summer, there won't be anyone who has had time to practice or master the game, and almost any QuakeCon attendee has a chance to walk away with one of the exclusive DOOM 3 prizes."
This would imply that DOOM 3 would not be released before QuakeCon or else people there will have had some DOOM 3 practice before the deathmatch event. Since the QuakeCon date is from August 12-15, this would mean DOOM 3 is set to be released sometime after August 15. The August 3 date was based on another distributor's educated guess. It was not a statement from id Software.
I don't trust a site where it has over 70 user reviews from a game that isn't out yet.
If this is the first time anyone has played Quake 3 Deathmatch, then I've somehow hit a timewarp..
In which case I need to go buy some Tickets.
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