Teh Name...

[Coopersville]

If there's going to be other characters that DoomGuy interacts with in the game, he should probably have a name. It would sound dumb for him to be referred to as, "Hey, you!" He could at least have some sort of military code name or number to go by.

[Katarhyne]

Sure, I agree. Doom 3 feels exactly like Doom. The ambience, the mood, the setting - it really does feel exactly like what I would have thought Doom would have been save the relatively limited technology of the time.

It FEELS like Doom.

But it PLAYS exactly like Half-Life. When I was playing through it, I had this feeling, and it was "Geez, this is going to be a great game." I don't have that feeling often when playing demos, and even less often when playing betas or alphas. The last game that gave me that feeling was Halo, but before that, it was Half-Life - which, coincidentally, play extremely similarly. Imagine that.

[dsm]

Katarhyne said:

Sure, I agree. Doom 3 feels exactly like Doom. The ambience, the mood, the setting - it really does feel exactly like what I would have thought Doom would have been save the relatively limited technology of the time.

It FEELS like Doom.

But it PLAYS exactly like Half-Life. When I was playing through it, I had this feeling, and it was "Geez, this is going to be a great game." I don't have that feeling often when playing demos, and even less often when playing betas or alphas. The last game that gave me that feeling was Halo, but before that, it was Half-Life - which, coincidentally, play extremely similarly. Imagine that.

Ah, finally a decent explanation that makes me understand a little better.
You see, I have to deal with two sides, one side that says it plays like Half Life and one side that claims it plays like Doom. Now to me it'd make more sense if id designed Doom 3 to feel like Doom, because it's a retelling of Doom that seeks to fairly accuratelyt copy Doom, not Half Life.
When somebody says "it plays like Half Life", I automatically think of a game where the gameplay is like HL (which imho is teh suck, except for a few things), complete with annoying and difficult puzzles that you have to figure out to advance, weapons that don't seem to have much effect on most enemies (except for the explosive weapons mind you). I assume that by saying "it plays like Half life" you mean that it has some of the same elements in terms of crouching increasing accuracy etc.?

Well good, fine, ok, as long as the game feels like a Doom game I should be ok *phew*.