DOOM 3 Sales [Aug 24, 2004, 09:05 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
This press release
(thanks Frans) announces that DOOM 3 is selling like hotcakes: "The game debuted
as the #1 best-selling PC game in the U.S. for the week ending August 7,
according to NPD Techworld. Additionally, DOOM 3 was the #1 best-selling game
overall in the U.K. for the weeks ending August 14 and August 21, according to
the U.K. Chart Track and the #1 best-selling PC game in Australia, for the weeks
ending August 8 and 15, according to GfK Inform Database. For the week ending
August 15, DOOM 3 also was the #1 best-selling PC game in France, according to
GfK; the #1 game in Germany, according to Media Control; and the #1 game in
Sweden, Denmark and Norway, according to Manual Sweden, Manual Denmark and
Manual Norway."
if I want a story, I'll go read a damn book. If I want to have fun, I'll play a game
I am so sick of hearing this argument...not that it really is one. You're implying so many stupid things: books are not fun; good stories are not fun; games with good stories are not fun; games without stories are always fun. Wtf? What drives you to complete an FPS other than to find out what happens at the end? Bigger guns...bigger enemies? Welcome to the 21st century pals. Games have moved from a shunned hobby to a full-on form of art. Video games have trailers now for fucks sake. And you want a game with oldschool gameplay (i.e. click mouse until demon dead, rinse, repeat hundreds of times)? If you want an old-school game dust off a real old-school game and play it. Most of us have moved beyond 1995 and expect something more from a game. If a company other than Id released this game, and it had lesser graphics, it would only sell 10,000 copies.
The other one the Id fanboys always throw out is "Id did exactly what they set out to do". I didn't realize that Id set out to make a game with no story, tedious gameplay, no replay value, and totally devoid of innovation. If that's what they set out to do, they nailed it. I don't even see mods as a valid reason to hang on to Doom3. After HL2 comes out, I think we all know where the modders will be heading.
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