What the hell? All Duke's lines were taken from other, far more creative movies! Did Duke have ANY original lines of his own?

I think you have uncovered the real reason DNF has been delayed so long! They haven't found a movie (such as "Army of Darkness") that has enough quotable lines they can steal!

This is known as the Kill Bill approach. Rip off all your ideas from other, lesser known games and movies and hope nobody notices. And if they do, cover your ass by passing it off as a respectful 'homage'.

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Is this a backhanded swipe at Tarentino? If so, it's ludicrous. He is up front about his influences and masterful in his direction. If you want to belittle someone who rip off ideas, belittle the people that to it badly

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Then you won't mind when people do it. Since you don't care it shouldn't bother you. Now STFU troll, and leave people alone.

I'm sorry, could you translate that? I don't speak stupid.

Quake II. They purposefully make reference to Quake II, the most craptastic singleplayer experience ever.

If you really believe that, you haven't played many single-player games.

Hope the games have nothing to do with the arseholes behind the recent Dawn of the Dead remake. I'm sure all fans of the genre will join me in saying it was horseshit.
Games with the nihilistic feel of the original films, though.... bring em on.

Umm, no, we won't. I love the original "Dawn.." as well as all of GR's movies. I also happen to love the new "Dawn.." Not all Dotd fans are as close-minded as you apparently are.


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Call me crazy, but I think I'll wait to play the game before I trash it.

I've worked with two software companies. Both of them used illegal software on a daily basis. Does that mean that Valve does? No. But I would bet the farm that if you looked at every pc used at Valve, you'd find something that wasn't quite kosher. Does this mean that Valve\Vivendi\whomever doesn't have the right to protect their investment by any legal means they see fit to implement? Absolutely not. They are perfectly within their rights to use cd-keys, require disk authentication, and whatever legal means to ensure their software isn't stolen. They are perfectly within their rights to ban users who have obviously engaged in software piracy. On the other hand, any user who is wrongly banned has every right to sue. A user stands to lose what they paid for the game - around $50 US. Valve\Vivendi stands to lose millions. I'd have to side with the big boys on this one.
But let's keep this in perspective. Stealing software is wrong, and if a person is charged and convicted, they will be punished. But to state that software piracy is the moral equivalent of murder is just plain stupid. I suspect that if only those who had never pirated any software---EVER, were allowed to post, this thread would be a whole lot shorter, and many of the people coming down so self-rightously hard would be oddly silent.

This marks the final chapter of Ion's descent into irrelevance. After the debacle that was John Romero, Warren Spector was their only hope of producing material that had any real value at all. With his departure, they are no longer a viable entity.

...you are being awfully unkind to morons.

"They gave creative input, amongst other 3D Realms co-owner George Broussard perfected the idea of Bullet-Time."

The only thing GB has EVER perfected is how to spew bullshit out of one side of his mouth while stuffing food in the other.

I am really amused by those who refer to DOOM 3 in a negative light. I don't like opera, but that doesn't mean that all opera is garbage. It simply means that opera doesn't appeal to me. The quality of DOOM 3 is evident to anyone who understands FPS games. It is certainly not the best FPS I've ever played, but it is a technical masterpiece. Anyone who trashes it is only showing themselves to be unable to see real quality.


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I love it. It's eating up my time.

Game Show Host: "For 1000 points, how do you spell vaporware?"

Contestent: "D U K E N U K E M F O R E V E R"

Game Show Host: "That's correct..now for 2000 points and the game, how do you spell lying bastard?"

Contestent:"G E O R G E B R O U S S A R D"

Game Show Host: "That's correct!! You win the grand prize! A copy of a REAL game...DOOM 3!

The "random black and white" artifacts you're seeing are heat related. I had to underclock the memory on my 9800 Pro to get them to go away. This is a known problem with many 9800 pro's. I was lucky enough to get the company I bought the card from to allow me to exchange it for a quality Nvidia product. No more ATI for me..

It's really incredible the things people can be snobby about. As a PC network admin, I HATE Win98. It's a poor choice for critical business applications, especially when a user needs to run several at the same time and they all use network resouces.

On the other hand, if you intend to run only one application at a time, or say one game, and you aren't too concerned with the occasional crash, it is probably a better choice. Win98 allows a much more direct interface between the software (the game) and the hardware. Win NT, Win 2k, and Win XP all introduce a whole new layer between the application and the hardware (it's call the HAL or hardware abstraction layer for those of you who care.) that does wonders for stability but does cause somewhat slower performance. That is a simple fact of life.

I would not consider using Win98 at home or work. But I can certainly understand why a hard-core gamer might.


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I wasn't overclocking..but I think ATI must have been. I installed Radclock to give me access to the core and memory speeds. Then I gradually bumped it down until the artifacting went away. I had to bump the core to 317 and the memory to around the same to clear up the corruption.

I've owned five GeForce cards without a problem. I thought I'd take a chance on ATI. I've learned my lesson.

Does anyone else have texture corruption running DOOM 3 with an ATI Radeon 9800 pro 128? I'm getting some strange "sparkles" on some surfaces. It's very annoying.

Thanks

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Someone indirectly associated with an id employee has told me that this person (the id employee) asked if he could delay something until after June 15th, as that date was an important "deadline". The phrase "shipping date" came up. For what's it's worth.

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...Ahhhh, I get it. You're not just Anti-American, you're homophobic as well.

Using the word "gay" as a derogative term really kills any agrument you may have had. It labels you as a juvenile, childish troll...and does so accurately.



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