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Sorry for the poor quality and cheesy nature of this thread but I only plan on buying one.
On one side, Half Life 2 got 96% and is rated the best game of all time on gamerankings.com. The grav gun and enemies, not to mention the jaw dropping visuals sound sublime.
On the flip side, I want to scare the be-jesus out of myself with my swanky new Medusa 5.1 headphones and am eager to play some Doom for old times sake.
I thought I'd ask people that have actually played them. I did play half a level of Doom 3 on a mates PC and it was pant fillingly good.
Also, what's the multiplayer like on Doom 3, does it have any? - can you have Co-op? I hear the multiplayer on HL2 is nowhere near as good as the single player.
So - weech won doo yu thnk iz da best?
[S]sorry
On one side, Half Life 2 got 96% and is rated the best game of all time on gamerankings.com. The grav gun and enemies, not to mention the jaw dropping visuals sound sublime.
On the flip side, I want to scare the be-jesus out of myself with my swanky new Medusa 5.1 headphones and am eager to play some Doom for old times sake.
I thought I'd ask people that have actually played them. I did play half a level of Doom 3 on a mates PC and it was pant fillingly good.
Also, what's the multiplayer like on Doom 3, does it have any? - can you have Co-op? I hear the multiplayer on HL2 is nowhere near as good as the single player.
So - weech won doo yu thnk iz da best?
[S]sorry
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Sorry for the poor quality and cheesy nature of this thread but I only plan on buying one.
On one side, Half Life 2 got 96% and is rated the best game of all time on gamerankings.com. The grav gun and enemies, not to mention the jaw dropping visuals sound sublime.
On the flip side, I want to scare the be-jesus out of myself with my swanky new Medusa 5.1 headphones and am eager to play some Doom for old times sake.
I thought I'd ask people that have actually played them. I did play half a level of Doom 3 on a mates PC and it was pant fillingly good.
Also, what's the multiplayer like on Doom 3, does it have any? - can you have Co-op? I hear the multiplayer on HL2 is nowhere near as good as the single player.
So - weech won doo yu thnk iz da best?
[S]sorry
On one side, Half Life 2 got 96% and is rated the best game of all time on gamerankings.com. The grav gun and enemies, not to mention the jaw dropping visuals sound sublime.
On the flip side, I want to scare the be-jesus out of myself with my swanky new Medusa 5.1 headphones and am eager to play some Doom for old times sake.
I thought I'd ask people that have actually played them. I did play half a level of Doom 3 on a mates PC and it was pant fillingly good.
Also, what's the multiplayer like on Doom 3, does it have any? - can you have Co-op? I hear the multiplayer on HL2 is nowhere near as good as the single player.
So - weech won doo yu thnk iz da best?
[S]sorry
Doom 3 bored the hell out of me. And I was only 40 mins in.
Half-Life 2 is the way to go.
Half-Life 2 is the way to go.
Doom 3 is dull dull dull.
I'm not hearing a lot of praise for Doom 3.
I played doom 3 for about 20 mins.
I played HL2 for erm, about 25 hours.
I played HL2 for erm, about 25 hours.
Doom 3 i thought was really good, I didn't think muchof halflife it looks pretty and has nice effects but got bored driving all over the place and no really doing anything for about 70% of the game. Wish i had got 25 hours out of it i mite have felt like i got my moneys worth.
why only buy one? It's xmas get both and painkiller and farcry if you haven't got them. Go on do it.
Get them both but i like the atmosphere that doom 3 had. Doom 3 multiplayer isn't very good. Where as you get counterstrike:source and the new deathmatch with hl2 which are pretty good.
why only buy one? It's xmas get both and painkiller and farcry if you haven't got them. Go on do it.
Get them both but i like the atmosphere that doom 3 had. Doom 3 multiplayer isn't very good. Where as you get counterstrike:source and the new deathmatch with hl2 which are pretty good.
ßora† §agdiyeV wrote:
> I'm not hearing a lot of praise for Doom 3.
You won't hear anything considering we're miles away from you.
> I'm not hearing a lot of praise for Doom 3.
You won't hear anything considering we're miles away from you.
Half-Life 2 is perhaps the best game I've played this Millenium, whereas Doom III was almost certainly the biggest letdown I've had this Millenium. Ravenholm in Half Life 2 is far scarier than anything in Doom III (well, anything that I saw, I only got a few hours in before I uninstalled it and gave it back).
Basically it all depends on the type of FPS game you want to play as doom3 and halflife 2 give very different experiences.
Halflife 2 has alot of outside levels mixed with some resonable inside areas. It also has some driving of a buggy and a boat. Ravenholme was the one level in halflife 2 that i thought was really good. Loads of headcrab zombies coming wave after wave. but this was the only part of halflife 2 that had atmosphere in it. All the rest was run around blasting things. Fighting the striders or flying things (don't know their name) came down to finding a rocket crate and hiding somewhere near it till you can get a shot (not very exciting).
Doom 3 is a inside corridor game, it doesn't try to scare it goes for cheap jumpy scares much like all the "horror" films of late. It has a good atmosphere and is a good game if you play it all the way through before judging. There is alot of story in the game too in the PDA's in the audio log and e-mails.
I'd say most people like halflife 2 so thats probably the one you should go for as your more likely to like it. But in the end it's all down to personal preference.
Halflife 2 has alot of outside levels mixed with some resonable inside areas. It also has some driving of a buggy and a boat. Ravenholme was the one level in halflife 2 that i thought was really good. Loads of headcrab zombies coming wave after wave. but this was the only part of halflife 2 that had atmosphere in it. All the rest was run around blasting things. Fighting the striders or flying things (don't know their name) came down to finding a rocket crate and hiding somewhere near it till you can get a shot (not very exciting).
Doom 3 is a inside corridor game, it doesn't try to scare it goes for cheap jumpy scares much like all the "horror" films of late. It has a good atmosphere and is a good game if you play it all the way through before judging. There is alot of story in the game too in the PDA's in the audio log and e-mails.
I'd say most people like halflife 2 so thats probably the one you should go for as your more likely to like it. But in the end it's all down to personal preference.
HL2 gripped me from start to finish.
Doom3, while having astoundinly good gfx, bored me senseless at the half way point. Still finished it, but it became a chore. Empty room. Monster spawns. Cheap scare. Back off, no room to manouver. Kill monster. Empty room. Monster spawns. repeat to fade.
Doom3, while having astoundinly good gfx, bored me senseless at the half way point. Still finished it, but it became a chore. Empty room. Monster spawns. Cheap scare. Back off, no room to manouver. Kill monster. Empty room. Monster spawns. repeat to fade.
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