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History Of Doom Movie Debuts
Rogerpq3 writes "A G4/Tech TV feature on DOOM 3, offering a history of the DOOM franchise in the words of the folks at id Software. The clip can be found on the air on The DOOM Franchise, episode 310 of a series called 'Icons.' The piece offers clips from DOOM 3 and other games, interview footage, analysis and more, and for those without access to the program. You can download the movie at: 3DGamers, Doom3HQ, Doom3.de, Doom3maps.de, and FileShack. It's really worth the download for any Doom and id fans out there. (Thanks: BluesNews)"
...if this history is any guide. I had no idea early Doom was so simplistic with the blank textures and the white-on-white maps. How could you even see the monsters? The graphics must have really improved along with the ability to resolve the webserver name.
Does this mena that there will now be another good thing to watch on G4TTV? (The first being the back of my eyelids of course).
TechTV wasn't a GREAT network, but I never turned to it and felt like my brain was being removed from the back of my head. Now, post merger, the content is trite, the reviews are lame (but getting better at least), and the Screen Savers has passed into unwatchable. Maybe I am missing some show that comes on in my off time, but what is good on the network?
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You know this is one of those games I can never seem to get out of my system. I've bought the game at least 7 times and I still bought that "Collector's Edition" they did a couple years back. I play DooM Legacy (best linux port I've seen.) And I think I still have DooM95 installed on my wife's XP box. What is it that keeps me coming back for more of this game over and over again? Why can't I let this game go? Anywho I'm torrenting this file from 3DGamers and appreciate whoever brought this up as I lost TechTV in my recent move. If anyone knows of a better DooM client than DooM Legacy please send me a link as I still play DooM at least once a week!
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Sure we wang, can.
I've put up a mirror of this, here:
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/ Media/Videos%20and%20Trailers/
http://www.scifience.com/g4_icons_doom3-hi.zip
My mirror will be live at about 9:40AM EDT; I am uploading the file now at 1000KB/s.
FilePlanet also has this:
http://www.fileplanet.com/files/140000/143505.sht
So does FileFront:
http://files.filefront.com/3469815;/pub2/Doom%203
firs time bittorrent worked fast for me.
You also get to see the revamped Cacodaemon a.k.a. The Tomato, which now looks like the aliens in Invaders from Mars
g4_icons_doom3-hi.zip on 1Gbit/s Server :) Get it while its hot!
Doom is such an integral part of gaming history. How many of you played it as your first game? How many of you remember the first modding tools? Or the joys of downloading your first TC? Anyone remember Aliens TC by Justin Fisher? That mod had better atmosphere and gameplay than most comercial games I've played. Fourty or fifty years down the line I bet our kids look back on doom as the Model T of PC gaming.
There is a torrent available here.
- First played doom on a 486 at my buddy's place
- His mother had to kick me out after playing on the family computer for 8 hours at a time
- Could not afford a system that could run Doom
- Finally got a p100 and bought Quake
- Headfirst into the mod community
- Made levels for Quake, Q2, Q3
- Mods include Thunderwalker 2, Allstar2 CTF, Painkeep Arena
- Invented Doom for Columbine that will likely never see the light of day (for obvious reasons)
- Decided to design Doom 3 mod tenatively called "Doom 3 Bloopers" where we have some fun modding the orginal game
- Still can't afford a computer that can play latest Doom Game
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...makes it sound like they're talking about the long-forgotten Hollywood deal that would have made Doom into a blockbuster movie. Of course, like many game related movies, it went nowhere. In fact, the plans were changed to a "Quake Movie" after several years of negotiations. That also went nowhere.
;)
My guess is that the only reason why Tomb Raider was made into a (bad) movie, was because the opportunity for *cough* "eye candy" was so much higher. Not that it mattered in the end. Jolie was nothing like the Lara Croft we were expecting. They might as well have made a Doom movie with a grunt in a push-up bra!
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
The new website is SO bad. Doom III
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DOOM is released in 1994
DOOM is replaced by the faster, better, more engrossing quake in 1995
DOOM, along with its' sequels, is released to the $9 bargain bins in 1997, where it languishes to this day
Oh yeah, open source someting something; who cares? It's not like they Open Sourced the wad or anything important.
It's obvious that Comcast sees no future in "tech", but instead sees all the money going into video games. Thus, they bought TechTV and merged it into their own G4. TechTV lost everything but a few shows... which are being "G-Phorized", moving to L.A. If you notice, the screen savers before being pulled until Sept 7 when their move to L.A. is complete, lost a lot of the confidence that they had before. Hopefully G4TechTV ratings will sink to below what the TechTV ratings were, and someone at comcast will get a clue. Loud people playing first shooters take up about 60% of the day. ALL of the news (except the screen savers) is gaming news.
When is it going to be on TV?
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Much like your SEX LIFE, eh AKAImBatman? Don't dispair; you'll always have porn!!
I think i'll just bash my head to the wall until i fall in a coma. That will help me get through these two weeks.
The wait is killing me!
"The same thing we do every night. Overdose on codiene and get buggered in a turkish bathhouse.
Let's not forget those great Doom books!
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Watch Cinematech if nothing else. It has no annoying hosts and just plays a bunch of random game trailers or gameplay movies. Back before the merger, the only way for me to watch G4 without bashing my head into the wall was to watch that.
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Alright, I will probably be modded down for this, but I still find it interesting as it validates something that I said about 2-3 years ago. Carmack stated on Icons:Doom that Doom was being developed with the Xbox in mind. They commented about having known before hand what the specifications and capabilities of the machine would be. We've seen the poor ports, and simpler interfaces, and now there is proof that even the best developers are curtailing themselves in order to keep things in line with the lowest common denominator. While this isn't necessarily a bad thing, it could sign the end of some mainstream PC style games. In particular, I have never truly enjoyed the sloppy, slow controls of FPS on consoles, nor have I ever enjoyed playing an rts on a console. Hopefully, if such a trend does occur, there will be a new movement of indies to come out and fill the void that could be created.
Why must they destroy everything likable in the world...
I checked out the videos this morning. Anyone else notice the weird frame advance problem that causes the video to go back one frame every few frames? It gets into sync every once in a while for about a second, then goes back out. That was on Windows Media Player 9, the one most likely to play it back properly.
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
Did anyone notice that everyone was pronouncing the ID in ID software as a word, instead if individual letters. "eye-D" I thought that was always the right way to say it. It's like pronouncing router as "rooter", it's just stupid and shows the type of people who made that video.
I gave G4 TechTV a few eeks before deciding to take it completely off my dial. Both networks were already lacking, but at at least TechTV had shows I cared to see.
The G4 content is a bore. It's a fill of porn stars and games and how the two relate.
I ended my extended cable tier three weeks ago and wrote Charter a letter about my thoughts.
Anybody know of a way to get this - other than G4 - because I'm mildly interested if I run out of Tivo content.
Yell & scream & rant & rave... it's no use... you need a shaaaave ~ Bugs Bunny
yeah, i think its about time for my signed doomII CD to hit good ol' ebay. More than enough people foaming at the mouth over the doom series now.
-C-
I notice on the clip that they call the company "Id softare" rather than "eye-dee". I have never heard anyone actually say it the first way before...which is correct?
If you can't see the value in jet powered ants you should turn in your nerd card. - Dunbal (464142)
I'll probably buy the game, yadda yadda, but *man* I find these games built around technology instead of story reek. So they hired a scifi writer? Big whoops - in the quickie excerpts I saw sad ripoffs of Alien(1-4), Blade 2, and they're even *obviously* ripping off the feel of Half Life. Yup, ID has always been about blowing things up, but it holds my interest for about a week. Instead of getting all worked up about poly counts(what made their jaws drop in 2002 are now common technology displays nowadays), would it hurt them to do something original again, like Doom 1?
I was around when all the Dooms came out, I was playing till the wee hours of the morning like everyone else...these guys are a part of gaming history, make no mistake. Watching these movies, I sorta felt like I was watching the Stones or Rush..."geez - you guys are *still* doing the same thing?".
They just have louder speakers...
DT
In the video some guy says 'every gamer' is desperate to get their hands on Doom 3. This may generally be true of PC gamers, but I have some pretty savvy non-PC friends who get all the latest Xbox and PS2 games who've never heard of Doom (or, at least, may have screwed with Doom on the PCs back at school, but have no idea there's a number 3 due out). I think we tend to overrate ourselves here in the PC sphere..
This is a case where the /. effect is actually beneficial to the downloader.
Sounds more like some crappy TV show.
Mod parent up Funny, idiots.
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OK, so this is a 142MB zip file. What's inside of it? QuickTime? WMV? I don't wanna spend 1/2 hour downloading it on my G5 to find that it's a WMV.
Nuff said.
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Hah!
My first computer game was a version of Star Trek, written in some form of BASIC on a PDP-10, played on an ASR-33 teletype.
That's right, every time you wanted a map of the sector, it was printed out on a piece of paper at ten characters/second.
My first real-time interactive game was called Orbit.
It was written by a friend of mine and myself in FORTRAN for a PDP-11 with a Tektronix 4010 display.
It used the front-panel switches of the computer to control the spaceships.
It was similar to Asteroids without the asteroids, but the ships could fire missles, lay mines, and dock with each other, there was a planet in the middle of the screen that you could land on and that would extert a gravitational influence on everything (ships, mines, and missiles), and locational/fuel guages on the sides so that you could navigate back to the screen (none of this wimpy wrap-around universe stuff).
I tried writing a 3D "FPS" version of it, but the computer was 'way too slow to do anything 3D in real-time.
The department (SUNY/AB EE) banned the game from the machine when they had to replace the front panel switches, and when they learned that the graduate students who were supposed to be using the machine for their projects were instead wasting their time playing Orbit.
(All of this happened around 1974-1975.)
Those who sacrifice security to condemn liberty deserve to repeat history or something. - Benjamin Santayana
1. It's pronounced "ihd", not "eye dee".
2. A router used in woodworking is always pronounced "rowter", because it comes from the word "rout", which is always pronounced "rowt".
However, "router" as used in computers is derived from "route", which can be pronounced "root" or "rowt", depending on what part of the country you are from (e.g., near "route 66"), your upbringing, etc.
Therefore, "router" can be pronounced either "rowter" or "rooter".
Since I am partially schizoid, I pronounce route "root", and router "rowter".
Those who sacrifice security to condemn liberty deserve to repeat history or something. - Benjamin Santayana