Am I alone in thinking what a total insult it is for Bethesda to release this BFG edition Doom III? I mean, a ten year old game, which I bought on the SOLD OUT label for £5 about 6 years ago at Game Plc. Oh wait it comes with Doom 1 & 2? Well that's awesome. Six floppy discs worth of data is always a bonus. Oh there are 7 new maps never played before? OMG that's worth the £40 right there. Oh and the 'enhanced' graphics... enhanced graphics for console hardware, which I had in my PC in 2004. Yeah, I'll take 4 copies please!
Don't you think it's sick?
The only reason I could begin to justify what they have done is if a console owner who had never played the original Doom III wanted to buy it. But I don't think the average console gamer in 2012 would even LIKE the game. It's way harder than anything else out there FPS wise. And console gamers don't like the idea of playing a game for over 10 hours and then realising they can't finish it.
So apart from the odd hardcore and open minded, skilled console gamer new to the Doom franchise, and even then £40 is STILL far too much to ask ( I mean it's almost humiliating ) ... then who the fuck would buy this overpriced shit?
Not to mention, I already own a few copies of Doom III (one of which I bought from a car-boot sale last year for 50p) and I played though it recently. I played it in 1920x1080 with 8x AA and clocked in around 240fps + on my modern gaming rig. Last week I came across a mod that some guys made for Doom III around 2010/2011. It's a free mod, which includes new high resolution textures, SSAO, motion blur, HDR, Bloom, Parallax Occlusion Mapping and a ton of other enhancements. Did I mention it's free? Yeah and it makes the 'BFG' edition of Doom III look like a ZX spectrum port.
Maybe Bethesda should have tried to hire the guys who made that mod, because god knows they are short handed and work on low budgets. Or maybe they enhanced it solely for consoles, which can't DO any of the engine tricks that the FREE mod does ... so they just added some lighting and slapped £40 on it.
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Am I alone here? ^^
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