Dorks vs IGN

[A Black Falcon]

Official Doom 3 benchmarks. http://www2.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjQy

That's not true at all, and if you've read any recent id software interviews you'll know that the remaining members of id have lost very little and still function in very much the same way as they did from the beginning. They just have more money and experience now.

Read.
http://archive.gamespy.com/legacy/editor...om3_a.shtm (recent followup - http://www.gamespy.com/articles/531/531715p1.html)

It is a fact that Tom Hall and John Romero did most of the design for Doom, and they left. It's also a fact that no one who made any maps for Doom or Doom 2 is still with ID, nor have any of those people been there at the beginning of the Doom 3 project. Yes, the ID people know FPSes. But the people there are ones who were working on the Quake games mainly, not Doom... except for the Carmacks of course. Which is why the art style is similar. :)

It's simply not a great game, and never was. It was praised for its graphics, that's it. The gameplay is average at best. Sure there are some games that I look fondly at because of nostalgic reasons, but a good game will stand the test of time.

So universal acclaim, continual appearances on all of the the best PC games ever lists (that magazines or major sites do), etc, etc... look, it's perfectly fine to say you dislike it, but trying to deny that it belongs on ANY best games lists or halls of fame? Huh? It's not even remotely sensible.

http://pc.ign.com/articles/101/101195p1.html
http://archive.gamespy.com/articles/july01/top50index/ (look in the top 10)