Doom 3 = Delayed Until 2004

TenSixTenSix Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7932Members
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<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->During Activisions's financial quarterly conference call (you can listen to the event right here), company execs updated their 2003 release calendar and the long anticipated id Software first person shooter Doom III was not among the games planned for release this year (Some of you may remember that at last year's E3 show this banner proclaimed that Doom III would be released this year). During the conference call, the execs stated that for planning purposes they have Doom III penciled in for the fourth quarter 2004 fiscal year (Jan-March 2004) but added that id Software, not Activision, dictates when the game will finally be released. Activision also had other game titles that were announced as being delayed, including True Crime: Streets of LA, which will be delayed from September until later in the fall of 2003 and the Gray Matter first person shooter Trinity which will be moved into sometime into the fiscal year 2005 (which begins on April of 2004). Activision also announced that Rome: Total War, the console Call of Duty game and Quake IV are all currently scheduled to be released in the fiscal 2005 time period. Activision execs also speculated during the conference call's Q&A session that they believe that the successors to the current game consoles won't show up until late 2005 at the earliest.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

The curse of Daikitana begins...first its one delay, next thing you know its being released for your grand kids on the Gameboy 2100! Half-Life 2's rule is inevitable now. Muwahahahahaha
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  • NumbersNotFoundNumbersNotFound Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7556Members
    Hilarity? more like mass murder <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    This is like what happened to me and Ocarina of Time. They said it was coming out months before when I pre-ordered it, and I went back and they're like... "It doesn't come out until (insert date here)" and that was even a week early. But that sucks for DOOM, now HL2 has NO compitetion. All in time though.
  • DiablusDiablus Join Date: 2003-03-31 Member: 15080Members
    edited July 2003
    This no competition for HL2 is going to be a huge battle for us non-pre orderers, i know for a fact i wont get my hands on a HL2 box of mine at least a month or two after its release due to the hungry gamers who sleep outside EB jsut to get a stupid game.. i.e. Vice City, haha what losers they wasted a whole day and night just to find out that VS was horrible, III was MUCH better i say.

    Edit: i just have a feeling sombody is gonig to say 0mgz Nu8z0r VS w45 t3h l337 , now before we whitness a post like that read this and go back to the topic of no HL 2 competition and the waiting times for buying HL2
  • InfinitumInfinitum Anime Encyclopedia Join Date: 2002-08-08 Member: 1111Members, Constellation
    This could spell Doom for ID (Pun intended) As Liku said, HL2 now has NO competition.

    I can already hear the reviews
    "Great engine, but it ain't no HL2"

    *sighs*

    We'll they're more or less right. Doom III has a superb engine, but it's so heavily scripted and the game environment is at a level of interactivity that can't even compare to Half-life 2. A lot more linear than an open-ended experience.

    Trust me on the review comment <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • GreyPawsGreyPaws Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8659Members
    Its the only move they could make to save their title. If HL comes out at the end of this year it will kill anything else on the market. Especially shooters
  • QuaunautQuaunaut The longest seven days in history... Join Date: 2003-03-21 Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    Great engine? Dude, some of the stuff coming out in 2004 has a LOT better engine that Doom 3. Not to mention, its gonna suck no matter what. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • MulletMullet Join Date: 2003-04-28 Member: 15910Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--TenSix+Jul 22 2003, 04:50 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (TenSix @ Jul 22 2003, 04:50 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <a href='http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&threadid=43062' target='_blank'>Blues News</a>
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    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->During Activisions's financial quarterly conference call (you can listen to the event right here), company execs updated their 2003 release calendar and the long anticipated id Software first person shooter Doom III was not among the games planned for release this year (Some of you may remember that at last year's E3 show this banner proclaimed that Doom III would be released this year). During the conference call, the execs stated that for planning purposes they have Doom III penciled in for the fourth quarter 2004 fiscal year (Jan-March 2004) but added that id Software, not Activision, dictates when the game will finally be released. Activision also had other game titles that were announced as being delayed, including True Crime: Streets of LA, which will be delayed from September until later in the fall of 2003 and the Gray Matter first person shooter Trinity which will be moved into sometime into the fiscal year 2005 (which begins on April of 2004). Activision also announced that Rome: Total War, the console Call of Duty game and Quake IV are all currently scheduled to be released in the fiscal 2005 time period. Activision execs also speculated during the conference call's Q&A session that they believe that the successors to the current game consoles won't show up until late 2005 at the earliest.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    The curse of Daikitana begins...first its one delay, next thing you know its being released for your grand kids on the Gameboy 2100! Half-Life 2's rule is inevitable now. Muwahahahahaha <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    But you guys gotta realize somthing....Valve is making Half-Life 2. Since when has Valve been on time? In a couple weeks it will say, "HL2 Delayed Until 2004" <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • TenSixTenSix Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7932Members
    I love Florida, hot cute girls, great tanning weather, bikinis, and I could prolly hand the guy at EB a $20 and get HL2 a day before its released...
  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Infinitum+Jul 22 2003, 04:16 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Infinitum @ Jul 22 2003, 04:16 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I can already hear the reviews
    "Great engine, but it ain't no HL2" <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    100% True.
  • PerfectionsFlawPerfectionsFlaw Join Date: 2003-02-14 Member: 13555Members
    I forgot the release date for Deus Ex invisible war, otherwise I'd bring it up as competition. I'm pretty sure though it's sposed to come out in 2004. And when that happens Doom will have problems in the market.

    ......Why do people like Quake? <b>::scratches his head slightly confused::</b> <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • esunaesuna Rock Bottom Join Date: 2003-04-03 Member: 15175Members, Constellation
    On a semi-related note. id have the stupidest name ever. I first thought it was id, as in, "eye-dee", but after hearing it said on trailers, movie clips and so on, it turns out to be id. Oh dear.
  • dr_ddr_d Join Date: 2003-03-28 Member: 14979Members
    /me gives DOOManiac a sympathetic pat on the back

    there, there....
  • TenSixTenSix Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7932Members
    I always thought it was "eye-dee" too, what the hell does "id" mean? What the hell?

    I almost forgot about Dues Ex 2 as well, that + HL2 is going to be a frikin dream come true.
  • MedHeadMedHead Join Date: 2002-12-19 Member: 11115Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--::esuna::+Jul 22 2003, 07:05 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (::esuna:: @ Jul 22 2003, 07:05 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> On a semi-related note. id have the stupidest name ever. I first thought it was id, as in, "eye-dee", but after hearing it said on trailers, movie clips and so on, it turns out to be id. Oh dear. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    id
    n.
    In Freudian theory, the division of the psyche that is totally unconscious and serves as the source of instinctual impulses and demands for immediate satisfaction of primitive needs.
  • SoulSkorpionSoulSkorpion Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 423Members
    Well, they'd better beef up the storyline and the networking (4 player LAN only? What were they THINKING?!) or HL2 is going to walk all over them.
  • Gimpy_Doodly_DooGimpy_Doodly_Doo Join Date: 2003-03-15 Member: 14521Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--MedHead+Jul 22 2003, 06:38 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (MedHead @ Jul 22 2003, 06:38 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> id
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    In Freudian theory, the division of the psyche that is totally unconscious and serves as the source of instinctual impulses and demands for immediate satisfaction of primitive needs. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    immediate satisfaction of primitive needs.

    Like puttin a good engine out with a crappeh Game to go with it?
  • DOOManiacDOOManiac Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
    edited July 2003
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    :(

    [edit]
    For added clarity, I've amended the following picture:
    <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/uploads/post-10-1058947035.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
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  • AllUrHiveRblong2usAllUrHiveRblong2us By Your Powers Combined... Join Date: 2002-12-20 Member: 11244Members
  • TenSixTenSix Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7932Members
    <img src='http://members.aon.at/amorpheus/hl2_d3.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

    Nuff. Said.
  • ZelZel Join Date: 2003-01-27 Member: 12861Members
    i had a feeling that would happen. maybe because the leaked alpha looked like crap compared to HL's released videos, i knew that iD had a lot of work to do to catch up.

    so theyll be working the game into the engine like a fine bread dough for an extra year.
  • Dr_ShaggyDr_Shaggy Join Date: 2002-09-26 Member: 1340Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--DOOManiac+Jul 23 2003, 02:37 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DOOManiac @ Jul 23 2003, 02:37 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><span style='font-size:30pt;line-height:100%'>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooo
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    <sheds a tear for poor Maniac>
  • MulletMullet Join Date: 2003-04-28 Member: 15910Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--DOOManiac+Jul 22 2003, 07:37 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DOOManiac @ Jul 22 2003, 07:37 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <span style='font-size:30pt;line-height:100%'>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooo
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    Bahahahahaahahahaah


    GG Id software.
  • SoulSkorpionSoulSkorpion Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 423Members
    edited July 2003
    <!--QuoteBegin--DOOManiac+Jul 23 2003, 10:37 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DOOManiac @ Jul 23 2003, 10:37 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <span style='font-size:30pt;line-height:100%'>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooo
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    rotfl
  • ApeApe Join Date: 2003-06-17 Member: 17448Members, Constellation
    edited July 2003
    Argh, my eyes are on fire!

    4 player LAN only? What the f*ck is that sh*t?!

    Seriously though, I doubt Doom3 is going to be the complete dunger a lot of people are making it out to be, I believe the engine is going to help create an incredibly intense atmosphere, which is what will be the biggest attraction (besides the pretty graphics).

    I won't rule out Doom3, but I think HL2 is going to pwn all regardless.

    <span style='color:white'>[edit]</span>Soulskorp, what's your sig all about?
    I've got a guy who can speak fluent Japanese next to me, even he reckons it doesn't make much sense.<span style='color:white'>[/edit]

    Use the edit button.</span>
  • MedHeadMedHead Join Date: 2002-12-19 Member: 11115Members, Constellation
    edited July 2003
    Well, his sig looks like it's a song...

    <a href='http://www.animelyrics.com/anime/witchhunterrobin/shell.htm' target='_blank'>http://www.animelyrics.com/anime/witchhunt...robin/shell.htm</a>
  • WittmanWittman Join Date: 2003-06-17 Member: 17437Members
    edited July 2003
    We can't make any real judgements on either game until both are out. From what we've seen, id has released about 4 different engines, one of which halflife was built off of. We've seen numerous games released by id, sure Quake 3 has a bit of a half baked product. Also many of you are basing your judgements off of their older games according to today's standards which is not fair to them.

    There's no doubt in my mind that HL2 will be a hands down better product, but Doom 3 will have a better engine. I'm afraid for id, that what made doom so popular in the mid 90s simply won't work now days, the classic arcade 'shoot-em-up' style game that everyone loved has since lost it's importance in today's gaming community. Now days, most gamers would rather use their minds and interact with NPCs in other ways than shooting em full of holes and running past them to pick up the red keycard.

    Don't get me wrong, I know Doom 3 will have these modern day features, but it won't feel like the original game, and instead a new game with the Doom name franchise slapped onto the box cover. They have stated that a game more centered on multiplayer will follow as they want to focus most of their attention on the single player aspect of the game. Then they'll focus on creating a game centered around multiplayer "Doom 3 Arena" anyone?

    So try to refrain from the school yard "my toys are better than yours" attitude, the more you build up HL2 in your minds, the more of a chance it has to dissappoint us.
  • ApeApe Join Date: 2003-06-17 Member: 17448Members, Constellation
    Yeah it's the theme song from some Jap cartoon.
  • SoulSkorpionSoulSkorpion Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 423Members
    edited July 2003
    <!--QuoteBegin--[A]pe+Jul 23 2003, 12:16 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> ([A]pe @ Jul 23 2003, 12:16 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Soulskorp, what's your sig all about?
    I've got a guy who can speak fluent Japanese next to me, even he reckons it doesn't make much sense. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    It's the chorus (sort of) of the intro to Witch Hunter Robin.

    <a href='http://www.animelyrics.com/anime/witchhunterrobin/shell.htm' target='_blank'>clicky</a>.

    ...

    "Jap cartoon"? It's called anime. Baka gaijin <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • Smoke_NovaSmoke_Nova Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8697Members
    Doom 3 must fear the Half-Life.



    As it looks right now, Doom 3 will be a game you play through one or two times singleplayer, and so few people will be able to run it in multi that it won't work well enough to be fun.


    BF1942, while it gets 64 players, doesn't have like 500k polies per square pixel.
  • DOOManiacDOOManiac Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
    For added clarity, I shall add this to complement my previous comments:
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