Doom 3 Vaporware no More

gilxa1226 writes "The waiting will soon be over... I was browsing Best Buy's website, and saw a preorder for Doom 3. It looks as though the release date is 4/1/2004. Doom 3.com also has info on presales."

4/1, eh?

[i_am_syco]

...... APRIL FOOLS!

To quote penny arcade...

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow, what a great engine!

I can't wait till someone makes a game with it.

First week of april, NOOOOO!

[kryptkpr]

I see what's going on here.. 4/1/03.. they're trying to make college/university students fail their 2nd term final exams! (usually the first through third week of April)

Ohh noooooo

[bain]

We're all DOOMED !!!

When it's finished...

[Decaffeinated Jedi]

<insert obligatory Duke Nukem Forever joke here>

01 April 2004 ....

[bain]

I can see the hardcore gamer trying to figure out if fate is toying with their sanity.

Did you hear that wailing sound?

[Dark Lord Seth]

That was the sound of utter terror from ten-thousand Nvidia, Ati, AMD and Intel engineers who can now look forward to putting out a bleeding-edge new graphics card / CPU in less then four months. Expect casualties.

Yeah !

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe it will be released earlier, thanks to ATi.

Re:Did you hear that wailing sound?

[Telex4]

That was the sound of utter terror from ten-thousand Nvidia, Ati, AMD and Intel engineers who can now look forward to putting out a bleeding-edge new graphics card / CPU in less then four months.

And the spontaneous orgasms of thousands of Nvidia, Ati, AMD and Intel sales persons awaiting the gullible geeks desperate for a video card upgrade to enjoy the full splendour of a video game for > 300

4/1/03...where was I???

[ErnstKompressor]

How could I have missed that release??? My copy must *really* be back-ordered

Ok.. Whats next?

[jamesjw]

Duke nukem forever announced for late '04? :)

-- Jim.

Re:Doom3

[Patrik_AKA_RedX]

DNF is another story

What do you mean DNF is vaporware? It's already for sale [gamasutra.com] in Ukraine.

Re:GameStop and EB have varied Ship dates

[fafaforza]

My guess is when / it's / 200-done

Re:Completely Meaningless

[FrostedWheat]

That's nothing. Amazon UK has been taking pre-orders for Duke Nukem Forever [amazon.co.uk]!

Re:Did you hear that wailing sound?

[TigerNut]

Nah... you just need that new Pentagram 6.66 GHz CPU that's in beta testing...

Whimsical Release Dates

[Keiran Halcyon]

I work at my local Best Buy very near the display which holds the Pre-Order for Doom 3. I looked in our system, and the date listed for Customer Fufillment (ordering out of stock or not released productsS) doesn't even match the 4/1/04 date. Everyone knows they just make up a date and use it for awhile, but 4/1/04 isn't even the first date set for Doom 3. It's changed at least twice since it sat on that shelf.

Funny enough, sitting right next to it is Counter Strike: Condition Zero. It's release date has changed twice as well. I see people go by all the time and go "It's OUT! YES!" and then bitch and swear when they see pre-order.

Re:4/1, eh?

[gnu-generation-one]

4/1, eh? ... APRIL FOOLS!

WTF? 4/1/2004 has been and gone, 7 days ago, and I can't remember it being April yet.

Re:old news

[nekura]

In the Best Buy I work at, we've had the pre-order boxes out since around the time I started working (mid-November). For some reason, a $10 price tag and the words "Preorder Only" add up to equal "OMFG DOOM 3'S OUT" in a lot of people's minds. God it's a bitch working software sometimes. =D

Re:Completely Meaningless

[LearnToSpell]

This item will be released on 31 December, 2004.

Sweet!

Please note that release dates are subject to change.

Aww...

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Offical

[rudy_wayne]

The official release date is April 23, 2004. I know this is true because I just made it up.

Re:To quote penny arcade...

[AKnightCowboy]

They may not be great innovators, but every game they've made has been of high quality. You may be bored of FPS games, but that doesn't mean they all suck.

I have problems with id software continually releasing the same kind of "evil" dark games. Why can't they make something a little lighter? All the Dooms and Quakes concentrated on evil satanic monsters and nothing but mindless killing. As a Christian I have to wonder what this is doing to the children who end up playing these games behind their parents' backs (for example at a friend's house who has liberal parents or a single mom who is working hard to support the family). id should be ashamed of themselves for releasing such garbage. Why can't they make a good quality game about American soldiers hunting down evil terrorists?

Re:To quote penny arcade...

[gabe]

Killing thousands of evil cybernetic zombies from hell is known to cause gamers to give thousands of dollars and tons of presents to sick children [penny-arcade.com].

Re:4/1, eh?

[AnotherFreakboy]

uh, non-americans use "sarcasm", saying things which are untrue or very obvious for humour.