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Posted: Jan 24th 2012 6:15PM nerdydesi1 said

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Ahh, the Origin logo morphed! : 0
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Posted: Jan 24th 2012 6:19PM xiLeShadow said

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DOOM 4!!!

Can't wait. Just hope they stick with the DOOM roots instead of modern-ifying it.


They also said that they are making it a PC-centric game and pushing new tech forward instead of compromising so much with old console hardware.

Hopefully all this remains true.
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Posted: Jan 24th 2012 6:43PM Granger said

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As much as I'd love a highly interactive Riddick-meets-Dead Space Horror FPS experience out of DOOM 4, knowing id, it will be just like DOOM has always been. And I'm sure I'll enjoy it just the same. I mean, I really liked RAGE and DOOM 3, so why not?
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Posted: Jan 24th 2012 6:25PM Ramen of Doom said

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Quake-con Steam bundle here I come!
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Posted: Jan 24th 2012 7:15PM Razer922 said

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@Ramen of Doom This. Picked up the Quake pack over the Holiday sale for $7.50, so I'm looking forward to any sales on what I don't yet have.
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Posted: Jan 24th 2012 7:51PM Prince David said

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I'm ready for Doom 4
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Posted: Jan 24th 2012 8:38PM sigma8 said

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I am really hoping the answer is yes...but... Is this franchise still relevant?
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Posted: Jan 25th 2012 10:52AM (Unverified) said

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@sigma8
For just about any other franchise from that era, I would say no. But this is DOOM we're talking about. DOOM. The grandfather of first-person shooters. (I know Wolfensein is a bit older, but DOOM birthed a new generation of gamers.)
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Posted: Jan 25th 2012 7:26PM DietSoap said

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@sigma8 It was relevent with 1 and 2, it was relevent with 3, can't imagine it won't be relevent with 4.
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Posted: Jan 24th 2012 9:41PM JC Freeman said

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ORIGINCON!
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Posted: Jan 25th 2012 2:28AM OliaCym said

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Doom 4, now with 200% more voice acting and cutscenes. Prove me wrong, iD
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Posted: Jan 25th 2012 1:06PM afrosheen said

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@OliaCym Now with 300% more monster closets and the only guy in the universe that can't duct tape a flashlight to his gun.
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Posted: Jan 25th 2012 10:49AM (Unverified) said

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This year marks the third year they were supposed to show something for DOOM 4. The game was announced in May 2008. I'm not sure how many revisions the game has undergone, but seeing how the engine is ready, I don't see how this can take much longer to release. Unless they went back to the drawing board after RAGE was released.

Personally, I liked a lot of things about RAGE. I don't quite feel they explored the story to it's full potential, which seems to be a problem with iD, but overall it was quite enjoyable.

Looking forward to what they come up with for DOOM 4, being that it's my favorite iD franchise.
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Posted: Jan 25th 2012 11:00AM greyloki said

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@(Unverified) I wouldnt be surprised in the least if they did go back to the drawing board after Rage got slammed critically (and commercially, from what I've heard).

I remember 10 years ago when UT was running circles around Q3A as far as the critics went, and the id leadership all blew it off. Now that they're owned by someone else, they might not be able to do that.
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Posted: Jan 25th 2012 11:35AM (Unverified) said

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@greyloki

Yeah, I've read similar things about Rage's critical response. I think one of the big problems with it was that iD put all their eggs in one basket. From what I recall, Carmack devoted his keynote and the question panel at Quakecon last year to Rage. Someone asked Carmack about DOOM 4 (which they had promised to talk about during 2010 - http://www.shacknews.com/article/59981/id-promises-doom-4-news) during the QA panel. He responded by saying he doesn’t "really have anything to say about it," and that 2011 was the "year of RAGE."

While the Bethesda umbrella sounds like a pretty neat place to be, I'm not entirely sure how they operate. I would assume iD has a lot of creative freedom, but I could be completely wrong on that. There could be pressures from Bethesda that keep pushing DOOM 4 back. Who knows. If I were to guess, I would say iD has less reign over their products considering the disappointing response to RAGE. After all, iD is still a business, and RAGE took many years to complete. I can't see that favoring them well considering the returns after its release.

Again, I personally enjoyed RAGE. It wasn't everything it could have been, but they certainly deliver in the art department. Here's hoping they'll wise up, take some pointers from Bethesda and invest more into their stories and world they're creating. Looking pretty and playing well is great, but it can only go so far in an FPS this day in age.
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Posted: Jan 25th 2012 10:55AM greyloki said

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Hurry up and go to Quakecon before Zenimax shuts down id software!
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Posted: Jan 25th 2012 12:32PM Goldenspiral said

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So will all the displays and artwork be set up beforehand, or will they bring in the art and set pieces after the event has started and people are walking around? Maybe at the end, they'll just turn the lights out and expect you to figure out what happened.
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