Carmack at GDC Follow-up

To follow-up on the discrepancy between the two accounts of John Carmack's address at the GDC yesterday, a reader named Rene Patnode who attended the talk offers his perspective saying the HomeLAN Fed account is the more accurate of the two: "I can tell you that HomeLan Fed is a LOT closer to the truth. He mentioned Quake II as a former possible idea, but it was only that. What he did say was that the likely next id game will be a slight variation of Doom 3.... I personally would expect a mission pack or something on the order of Team Arena. Pretty close is also better than really close." Likewise, GameSpy's Carmack Address Recap likewise confirms that it was Computer and Video Games that came away with the wrong take on the facts here:
One interesting idea that Carmack said was discussed early on in DOOM 3's development was a product specifically meant to be a rendering showcase. In this case, the idea was to do a "Quake 2 remix" - to rebuild the game using all-new assets and technology. "But even the idea of just reskinning an old game brings with it the problems that as we have newer graphics technology, media creation demands get worse and worse..."
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Originally posted by The Half Elf:
Yeah I'm gonna crap my pants the first time I play Doom3, why you ask? Cause my 3 gig processor with 2 gigs of ram and 1/4th a gig of ram video card will only play the game at 600x480 getting 30fps, and me having a shit fit cause of the res and framerate.


Um...apparently you missed the PR awhile back where John himself stated that Doom 3 would run, albeit slow, on a 1 Ghz CPU, 512MB RAM, and a Radeon 7000 series or GF2. With your setup, you should see 1280x1024, 32-bit, and 4x AA, with 30 fps or more.

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