doom is a father, doom is a legend - doom is god
doom created an entire generation of gamers, it is one of the most influential and important games of all time, and an enormous number of people utterly love it
and with doom 3, the game had a lot to live up to, it was continuing a legacy of genre-spawning weight, and so people had extremely, extremely high expectations for it
and the funny thing with people when their expectations aren't met is instead of rationally acknowledging the quality as it is (be it good or mediocre or bad), they throw out a knee-jerk reaction that it must be utterly terrible, because it's not as good as they were expecting - that's really the reason why it's so loathed, people won't give it an honest chance - it'schildish elitism and nothing more
but those people who did give it an honest chance will find that it's a fairly straightforward run n gun with a fairly contrived and increasingly predictable horror mechanic with nothing besides the spectacular visuals to make the game stand out - it's nothing at all like the original doom games (which i still play today, and love) - the original doom games were fast paced hard action shooters with massive swarms of demon horde to destroy, doom 3 is a one-enemy-at-a-time a to b corridor shooter with a focus on boo! horror scares
it's not a bad game at all - it's hardly great, but definitely better than most people acknowledge, it's just that it highlights perfectly an ever-increasing problem with gaming - great visuals, naff gameplay... that's why it's already faded into relative obscurity of the gaming annals while doom 1 and 2 will forever be remembered, not just for being revolutional, but for being utterly great too - even by today's standards
A-S_FM
Great post. Looks like there still are people on the internet that gives intelligent opinions.
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