Doom 3: BFG Edition

http://www.vg247.com/2012/05/30/doom-3-bfg-edition-coming-to-ps3-360-and-pc-this-autumn/



This means Doom 4 is going to get announced soon.

 

Doom 1 & 2 will come with split-screen?

 

meh, ZDoom et al are perfectly acceptable. Maus control, higher res, mods galore.

 

They both had split-screen on the Doom 3 limited edition for Xbox.

 

So, I was thinking of playing doom 3 for a while for some reason, and couldn't decide whether to play the original doom 3 or the BFG edition. So, I am necroing this thread.

I've read that bfg edition is brighter and with mounted flashlight but with a little worse textures. Does the game being brighter improve the experience or worsen it? Is BFG edition worth it or should I stick to the original?

 

Stick with D3 vanilla and use mods. BFG was clearly meant for console players only.

 

Not to mention that Bethesda got flak for messing with the original Doom 1 and 2 games by altering the graphics, seemingly to comply with complaints from the Red Cross. People didn't like that at all.

Also, the BFG Edition seems to require Steam by default. If you have access to vanilla Doom 3 then I don't see a reason to get the game again for some extra, mostly unwanted, content.

 

I have no experience with doom 3 mods at all. Which ones are best?

 

Well, you could get the mounted flashlight mod, if you are a pussy.

 

I have no experience with doom 3 mods at all. Which ones are best?[/quote]

The Dark Mod, obviously....
Oh wait, it become standalone.

Then maybe Arx - End of the Sun?
Oh, no progress...

There is some megamod that tweak graphic and visuals but have confusing installation and files throwed around internet so good riddance installing it.

 

Whilst I also find darkness annoying in shooters (I find it's far better suited to stealth, horror and slower-paced game styles), Doom 3 is balanced around the mechanic of having to choose between visibility and weaponry. Being able to have both your flashlight and gun out at the same time breaks it.

 

I got the BFG version for $5 in some sale and compared them. The BFG edition looks MUCH worse to my eye. Also the game was not meant to have the flashlight and gun at the same time and it basically breaks the level design, if you care about such things.

 

It breaks the design of ONE level; in most situations it doesn't matter and/or is balanced by the new limited battery life. The bigger sin of the BFG edition is that the last level of Resurrection of Evil is missing the "Blue Columns Room", which was by far the best part of all Doom 3 as it actually felt like something you would have seen in Doom I/II.

 

Really? Content was removed from that edition of the game?

 

It was just one part of one level, but yes. I'm kinda baffled at WHY it was removed. The area had a very high monster count -- it totally felt like a Doom II level -- so I could see console memory limitations being the reason, but on the other hand the 360 came out AFTER Resurrection of Evil, so I would think even that POS of a console would be able to deal with the load.

 

If that's the reason that's silly, especially considering that Doom 3 was developped for PC first and then ported to consoles.

 

Carmack specifically said that they had A LOT of trouble with console limitations trying to port the game over to 360 - one result of which being the more heaviy compressed textures - so it's entirely possible it was for that reason.

 

I dunno, Doom 3 already had rather large RAM requirement for it's time and if I remember correctly, RoE had even further, around the 512mb ballpark which is how much Xbox360 has and that too needs to be shared with backround OS

 

Don't play Doom 3.

 

Only reason to get it is that Arx mod/game but, as mentioned, its progress is updated maybe every six months tops. So... don't expect it anytime soon.

 

BFG edition source should be released too for the dark mod (it's slightly better apparently)

 

"Doom" 3 was a huge, almost "Fallout" 3 grade disappointment no amount of mods can save that game. Unless of course they fixed the cramped corridor-ish level design, the look and the number of enemies, the weapons, the boring sedate pace of the whole thing.

It does have nice sound design and the engine and lightning were obviously pretty impressive. Lol@buying a port of a watered down port of an already decidedly mediocre game.

Just play a proper FPS, maybe Doom and one of the many great WADS floating around on this here internetz.

For inspiration:

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/good-doom-heretic-hexen-wads.78193/

http://www.doomworld.com/10years/bestwads/

 

It was a bad Doom game but not necessarily a bad game in general, basically.