Doom 4 Preview Exclusive to QuakeCon Attendees - Won't be Posted Online

[Rad Party God]

i have a GTX 670 and have had no problems with the new order BUT yeah thats like winning the lottery

You know, I really missed this about the video-game industry, and I'm fairly pleased to see id is still pulling this. I missed the few rare titles that pushed the limits of hardware. I miss games that make you realize just how dated a 4-year-old rig can be.
Just my perspective, I don't mean to dump on yours Gamuh. I too was pretty sad I couldn't play TNO. Time to upgrade soon I guess! I'm just glad that a title I'm actually excited for is going to force me to finally upgrade my powercolor 4870.

What rubs me in the wrong way though, is not that it needs better hardware, is that it doesn't look any better than freaking Crysis 1 and yet it needs MORE hardware than Crysis for roughly the same quality.

And yet it needs twice the amount of ram, 7 times the harddrive space, and roughly 3 to 4 times the CPU and GPU.

My point still stands, freaking id Tech 5 is a bust.

 

[Vigormortis]

I never said Doom3 was a bad game mind you but for the most part I dunno. I think my issue with DOom3 is that it took itself a little too seriously. I mean DOom and Doom 2 there was a bit of tongue in cheek about it

Oh, I don't necessarily disagree with you. And I never implied that you had called it a bad game. (though, anyone is certainly free to)

I was just saying that, at least to me, it felt very much like a contemporary take on the classic formula. I can certainly see how one wouldn't, and I do agree that there was a lesser (but not nonexistent) sense of a "tongue-in-cheek" attitude behind aspects of the game, but for me it felt very much like a throw back.

That said, I'll openly admit part of that feeling, or perhaps even the majority of that feeling, was borne out of a sense of nostalgia while playing the game back then.

As for Doom 4, I think you and I would share a hope or desire to see the game be more akin to the previous Doom games rather than a modern shooter with the Doom moniker slapped on.

 

[Glaice]

Another skeptical nail in the coffin for id for me, doing this is just alienating the rest of the "non-privileged" Doom fanbase who didn't or can't go to Quakecon. Isn't the point to get people's interest is to expose it to as many people as you can, not this exclusionary BS?

Skepticism in full drive here, and will look for it online when it does show up. Sorry id, but you aren't what you used to be 21 years ago now that Carmack has left to pursue other opportunities in the gaming/business world.