Doom fans will be happy with Doom 4

id Software has told Doom fans that in-development Doom 4 will be right up their street.Little is known about the game, but the legendary first-person shooter studio told Eurogamer is will be "distinct" from its other shooters – including the id Tech 5-fuelled Rage.

If its got level design like Doom and Doom 2 then it will be a breath of fresh air in a stale market

All that concerns me is if it will be more like Doom and Doom II. Hoards of enemies on screen, circle strafing and big-ass guns blasting demons to little pieces.foxhound_fox

id Software has told Doom fans that in-development Doom 4 will be right up their street.

Little is known about the game, but the legendary first-person shooter studio told Eurogamer is will be "distinct" from its other shooters – including the id Tech 5-fuelled Rage.

"It's going great. It's awesome," id's design director Matt Hooper told Eurogamer.

"We have so many talented people, and as a company we've grown so much. But we've been able to keep them [the Doom 4 and Rage development teams] separate.

"With Rage we're concentrating on making our game as good as it can be. Those guys support us in whatever way they can. And we'll do the same for them."

Doom 4, due out simultaneously on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, was expected to show up at last year's QuakeCon. Explaining its no-show, id CEO Todd Hollenshead said the development team was not ready to demo the game. It is still without a release window.

Doom 4 is, according to comments made by Hollenshead in 2009, "not a sequel to Doom 3, but it's not a reboot either".

"Doom 3 was sort of a reboot. It's a little bit different than those, and if I told you why, I would get my ass kicked when I got back. So I'll just have to leave it at that.

"It's very much deep in development. But everything I've seen on it is ****c Doom, so I don't really have worries that people aren't going to like it and start talking about it," he said.

"They're [the Doom 4 team] going in their own direction," Hooper added. "They're doing something Doom fans will be happy with.

"I try to support them as much as possible. It's a good thing. We're separated enough to be able to go our own ways, but still connected where we can help facilitate both those directions.

"It is distinct enough. It would be dangerous... We don't want to make a re-skinned Doom [with Rage] and then Doom 4 be a re-skinned Rage. That would be bad.

"It's worked out really nicely where we have enough connection to take advantage of things like technology and talent, but enough separation to be able to go in a unique direction."

id's next game, post-apocalyptic shooter Rage, launches this September. Doom 3 released in 2004. Eurogamer turned up a 9/10 in our Doom 3 review.

If they don't add health regen and don't make it

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I think it's gonna be ok.

I enjoyed Doom 3 . I even didn't mind the switching between flashlight and gun thing as it was clearly a design and gameplay choice.killzonexbox

• NO pitch darkness
• NO theme trying to be scary and failing
• NO bland gray colours (Doom II had more appealing colours)
• NO weak as hell weapons that just do not feel right.

And i will be hyped..

• NO pitch darkness
• NO theme trying to be scary and failing
• NO bland gray colours (Doom II had more appealing colours)
• NO weak as hell weapons that just do not feel right.

And i will be hyped..

Lucianu

They need to have a split, have some parts survival horror, sections with long dark corridors, jump scares, the usual tricks. Then have some sections where it's all about shooting for a bit. If they can pace it well that would be great.bobbetybob

and please no kill-streak...killzonexbox

Guess I'll go get it setup on the desktop. Oh yeah, for everyone who doesn't know about this: http://www.skulltag.com/ It turns Doom (and Hexec) .wads into modern online shooters.

foxhound_fox

I also have a HD texture pack and High Quality music pack both in that source port, makes the game look so much better, and with that hardcore music pack it pumps my freakin' blood.

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Guess I'll go get it setup on the desktop. Oh yeah, for everyone who doesn't know about this: http://www.skulltag.com/ It turns Doom (and Hexec) .wads into modern online shooters.

Lucianu

I also have a HD texture pack and High Quality music pack both in that source port, makes the game look so much better, and with that hardcore music pack it pumps my freakin' blood.

i swear if it has regenerative health im going to lose faith in game designers!campzor

i swear if it has regenerative health im going to lose faith in game designers!campzor

Where'd you get those? :o

DarkLink77

I'm gonna post them in 10 minutes.. gotta find the links again.. and make a coffee..

They are .zip btw., you just put 'em in the "Skins" folder, it's easy. Made a couple of more screenshots.

It's hard to make screenshots wen you're blasting away countless demons from hell on Ultra Violence.

[QUOTE="campzor"]i swear if it has regenerative health im going to lose faith in game designers!Secret-Face

I think its pretty safe to say Doom 4 is going to be awesome.

I think its pretty safe to say Doom 4 is going to be awesome.

evilross

'Aight, here, i looked for my older messages in my inbox.

Doom HD texture pack for all source ports (download the one for skulltag)

Hi res items is also a must.

I have a remixed music pack for the entire Doom 1 game in skulltag, forgot from were.

[QUOTE="campzor"]i swear if it has regenerative health im going to lose faith in game designers!Secret-Face

Is there going to be another mysterious shortage of duct tape?

Is there going to be another mysterious shortage of duct tape?

LordQuorthon

'Aight, here, i looked for my older messages in my inbox.

Doom HD texture pack for all source ports (download the one for skulltag)

Hi res items is also a must.

I have a remixed music pack for the entire Doom 1 game in skulltag, forgot from were.

Lucianu

I have music packs for all of doom1,2, and final doom.

I use jdoom though, don't know if it'd work with skulltag.

What, you scared of the dark? *trollface.jpg* The choice between light and protection was a very good element in D3, it made for much more hectic gunfights, and the lack of security knowing you could be faced with demons at any time when the lights were out.

And for crissakes, they had a mistaken shipment of CHAINSAWS delivered to the base... so why could they not have duct tape?

Also, darkness in multiplayer was great fun.

foxhound_fox

As fun as it may be for you, which is valid, there's always a certain element of metagame logic that's just too obvious for some of us to ignore. I mean, I understand it's a video game. I can magically heal myself just by standing still somewhere? Yeah, I'll buy that. My character flies around shooting laser beams out of his nostrils? Yeah, I'm in. My character is from the future and, yet, he's unable to understand that ductaping the flashling to his gun makes things far easier? I'm not buying that. I know he's a space marine and everything, but people are not that stupid.

I hope so, 3 was a slight disappointment because they tried to make it a horror game... hopefully they learn this time we just want to blast satan's minions back to hell!

I hope so, 3 was a slight disappointment because they tried to make it a horror game... hopefully they learn this time we just want to blast satan's minions back to hell!

Espada12

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I hope so, 3 was a slight disappointment because they tried to make it a horror game... hopefully they learn this time we just want to blast satan's minions back to hell!

Secret-Face

Nah, the first two games were action games with monsters basically. The theme for Doom 3 was trying to make it a horror game by making the place overly dark, requiring you to switch between gun and flashlight and stuff like that.

[QUOTE="campzor"]i swear if it has regenerative health im going to lose faith in game designers!Secret-Face

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I hope so, 3 was a slight disappointment because they tried to make it a horror game... hopefully they learn this time we just want to blast satan's minions back to hell!

Espada12

Nah, the first two games were action games with monsters basically. The theme for Doom 3 was trying to make it a horror game by making the place overly dark, requiring you to switch between gun and flashlight and stuff like that.

And trying to be different, not a rehash of previous sequels/fresh is bad how, exactly? I would have killed myself if Doom 3 was exactly like Doom 1, 2, Ultimate Doom, Final Doom, Plutonia Experiment, etc... I love Resurrection Of Evil (the mission/addon pack) for Doom 3, it was a perfect mix of old school and Doom 3. People used to complain about the mindless Doom-esque shooters just 2-3 years back ("No more mindless monster-killing! We want more substance in our FPS-games!"), that's the reason they did Doom 3 the way they did. Painkiller tried to bring the genre back, but it only had a small cult following. Now you're all asking for the Doom-clone era to come back?? Gamers are so weird, never know what they want.tume-x

No I'm not asking for the game to straight up be like the originals.. we are in 2011 after all. I want it to be more like them though. Doom 3 was a reboot to the series (Carmack's words) and overall with the flashlight mod and other things.. it is a really good game. They just need to make it a little more like the originals. Also I didn't play ROE so I dunno how that was.

Bow do you think they will be able to keep Doom 4 fresh and at the same time, true to it's roots, Without making it a boring linear shooter? I hope ID can pull it off.ChiefFreeman

Thats the thing though.... Doom was not a linear shooter.

Modern shooters are far, far more linear. Point a ---- point b. Thats pretty much it for stuff like Halo, Killzone, Call of Duty, whatever.

Games like Doom, Hexen, Duke Nukem, Quake, and Unreal were anything but linear.

haha i lold

no, Doom fans will not be happy that Doom 4 will be a console port, they will not be happy it has regen health, they will not care since John romero left over 10 years ago

id are dead, the talent left years ago, if Carmack is going to be making Console games instead of pushing technology, than Bethesda lost out on 100million

haha i lold

no, Doom fans will not be happy that Doom 4 will be a console port, they will not be happy it has regen health, they will not care since John romero left over 10 years ago

id are dead, the talent left years ago, if Carmack is going to be making Console games instead of pushing technology, than Bethesda lost out on 100million

HaloinventedFPS

Console port or not it's not like Doom had some special formula that couldn't be done on consoles. I have faith D4 will be good, and I want to see it on PC since it's going to look x3 better than Rage according to carmack!

here is your Doom 4

keep in mind the graphics will probly be worse than Doom 3 with mods due to Consoles