I’m going to voice myself out with an emphatic “MEH”. I wasn’t a huge fan of Doom3 when it first came out and I don’t think I’ll be a big fan when it’s REMASTERED, even if it has NEW LEVELS (emphasis totally added). What do you think? YAY, meh, or DAFUQ?
Yeah Ill go with the Meh side too, why not make an all new Doom game in general? I guess the new trend right now is to release HD versions of old games, but Doom 3 isn’t that old is it? Doom 3 was great but I don’t think a update is all that needed.
Basically, from what I can tell, they are running WAY behind on getting Doom 4 out (if they even have a story written) so they decided to just add to Doom 3. That, and they finally added the ability to both hold a flashlight and fire a gun at the same time (something that had to be fan added for the PC version). Much like the other HD remakes though it doesn’t really look better texture wise to me. I think that an HD remake should be a full remake with new textures as well.
The real exciting part is that it is actually the entire doom series, including 1 & 2.
I fail to see how this is more exciting. Is Doom 1&2 all HD-ified? If so I guess that would be cool but if Doom 1&2 are just straight copies who cares? Shoot I have like a billion copies of 1&2. I can see how if you absolutely only want to reply all the games on the XBX360/PS3 (achievement whore) then maybe this would be cool but for me Meh.
Shit, you can play them on your damned phone for Pete’s sake and even that’s overpowered. Not impressed by throwing shareware in to a package either, not to mention that 1 & 2 only use the X axis so it’s always going to be better with KB & Mouse. Not sold on the package and the more I talk about it the dumber the idea sounds.
I believe 1 & 2 are hd-ified. That’s the only selling point I can see from this, since doom 3 doesn’t really look like it got updated at all from what I can tell, as if I remember correctly, came out around the same time as HL2 and this still manages to look worse. It is pretty meh though, as all are hd remakes, even kingdom hearts Eric.
Great points, #1 HL2 is still one of the best games ever made IMHO and it baffles me that games still have trouble looking as good. #2 Yes all HD remakes are “Meh” you are correct, however they are usually a great starting point for people who have not yet played any of the games in the past. KH, GOW, Ico, yadda yadda yadda, What makes the Doom HD remake so lame is that all of the Doom series is over done and playable by anybody now. Especially since I cant imagine that Doom 1&2 are redone, if they are then that is more of a selling point than Doom 3, as I would GLADLY pick up the game if that were the case.
Agreed, they’re pretty much all meh. I say I would get KH primarily because I loved the games and still owned both PS2 games until my original PS3 died. I’ve actually played each a couple of times and get a hankering to play them again every now and then. I would only rebuy the HD ones because I can no longer play the PS2 versions on my PS3. I don’t care what Sony says, getting rid of the backwards compatibility of PS2 games on the PS3 pissed me off a lot. I guess their ultimate goal is starting to be realized though, I’m going to start rebuying games that I used to play on the PS1 and 2 all the time (ie. FF7, FF8, FF9, Chrono Cross, KH1, KH2, etc.). If the PS3 game out with much better RPG’s, that were as engrossing as they used to be, I would be playing those multiple times. But alas they just don’t make ’em like they used to. 🙁 *le sigh*