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Doom 3 Web Site Now Operational 332

Posted by CmdrTaco from the it's-really-almost-here dept.
thrash242 writes "After much re-re-re-rechecking, the official Doom 3 site finally has some real content, instead of just 'Coming soon' - it also confirms the August 3rd ship date. Woohoo!"
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  • When loading the article for the first time, I recieved "Nothing to see here, please move along..."
    Not April 1, I see...

    Congratulations ID software, now I can remove this gb-sized beta and replace it with a multi-gb-sized release!

  • Last week called (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 18, 2004 @09:01AM (#9730565)

    and it wants its story back

  • It's not that much different (Score:4, Interesting)

    by MrRTFM ( 740877 ) * on Sunday July 18, 2004 @09:01AM (#9730570) Journal
    Just a new flash demo

    Damn - I wanted to see monster guides, mapedit tutes, system specs, etc...

    Oh, well - I'm happy to wait for this game, should be really good.
    • Yes, there certainly isn't enough changes to worth posting a Slashdot story about this. It still has the same desktops, only one of which I downloaded last January.

      Please, wake me up when there is something actaully worth seeing. I looked at the site last week and it certainly hasn't changed since then.

  • Hmmm....... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Prod_Deity ( 686460 ) <satanic.redneck@ ... com minus distro> on Sunday July 18, 2004 @09:02AM (#9730571)
    "It confirms the August 3rd ship date. Woohoo!"

    That just confirms that I'm pre-ordering it insted of HL 2. THANK YOU id!!

  • Really Creepy (Score:5, Interesting)

    by mfh ( 56 ) on Sunday July 18, 2004 @09:02AM (#9730575) Homepage Journal
    I went through the whole thing last night and they did a great job on it! The site is really creepy, setting the mood by going full screen flash mode. The music and the information listed there is all quite well put together and interesting. Did 2design [2design.org] do that site? Felt like his work, IMHO.
    • It's quite possible, since it completly fail to render correctly in firefox AND konqueror under linux.
      Usually, one of them manage to get through shiny eye-candied badly designed site, but having both of them to fail require some experience in flashy sites.

  • August 5th (Score:2, Funny)

    by woah ( 781250 )
    It confirms the August 3rd ship date

    Shouldn't that be August 5th?

    I mean I'm not that good with dates usually, but it is my birthday date.

  • Finally a good use for Active Desktop (Score:4, Funny)

    by dslknowitall ( 562532 ) on Sunday July 18, 2004 @09:04AM (#9730587)
    Guess I'm the only one who has this set as their wallpaper in XP?
    http://www.ua-corp.com/nosound.html [ua-corp.com]
    Of course, I found it thanks to [H]

  • Time... (Score:5, Funny)

    by manavendra ( 688020 ) on Sunday July 18, 2004 @09:06AM (#9730605) Homepage Journal
    ..to upgrade the graphics cards!

  • Flash? (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Albanach ( 527650 )
    I'm still looking for the skip intro button. It's supposed to be a website. If ID want to relase a movie trailer they could give us a .torrent to an MPEG. The website on the other hand should - quickly and concisely - let us know where we can buy it, when we can buy it, how much for and what we need to play it.

    • Re:Flash? (Score:3, Insightful)

      by Timesprout ( 579035 )
      You really don't understand the concept of selling an image do you. If it looks cool enough people will not care about price, store locations etc. They will just make their minds up to get it.

      • You must be a marketer, because you don't understand the concept of making a website do you? I quit after the second part of the Flash site sat around loading. Fuck that. If I want info about something, I'm not going to sit and wade through some stupid "image" of it to get to it. Give me a damn website with INFO and let the stupid masses play with the pretty flash crap. I'm not interested.

        Thanks to flash, I left the site and I don't plan to return. I'll wait until I can actually get some info about it, tha

        • Re:Flash? (Score:3, Insightful)

          by BJH ( 11355 )
          ...the stupid masses who (a) are stupid and thus are willing to dig through an all-Flash website and probably to put down their cash for a game on the basis of how cool it looks, and (b) are a mass, which means there's a lot of them.

          Sorry, but I think their marketers are probably doing their job...

          • Re:Flash? (Score:5, Insightful)

            by danila ( 69889 ) on Sunday July 18, 2004 @10:13AM (#9730961) Homepage
            You don't really understand. (a) It's not just the geek standard-loving flash-hating crowd that leaves such sites in dusgust. It's your average Joe Shmoe that opens something on his 33.6 dial-up connection, waits a bit, doesn't see anything informative, looks around for clues, doesn't find them and says "fuck it". Ask anyone who had the tiniest bit of usability testing experience. The stupid masses are not stupid when it comes to being forced to do unfunny things. (b) When someone comes to doom3.com they already got the image. They are interested, but nothing more - just interested. No matter how good Doom3 is it's just a game most people can live without. And there are many games just as good as Doom3 is. If id wants to sell as many copies as they want, they should cater to their customers, not attempt to force them to "buy an image". They don't want to buy an image, they wanted to buy a game, but no more, thank you very much.

          • Re:Flash? (Score:5, Insightful)

            by halowolf ( 692775 ) on Sunday July 18, 2004 @10:20AM (#9731000)
            Sorry, but I think their marketers are probably doing their job...

            <rant>

            If this is their idea of doing their job, then I would fire them. Its a few weeks till launch and all we have on the official website, is 3 wallpapers, some screenshots and a single demo movie (quite pretty), and a pre-order link.

            Now is the time that D3 should be getting hyped, and being shoved down out throats at every opportunity. The official website should be a showcase for the game, getting us revved up and excited for its release, giving us the lowdown on everything that anyone would wan't to know. It certainly doesn't live up to my exepectations on what an official website should be.

            Perhaps, they are relying on other websites to do their job for them, or are just trading on the id and Doom 3 name knowing that its just going to be selling like hotcakes anyway. But at the end of the day, at this point in D3 development I think the website should be more than this.

            </rant>

            • Re:Flash? (Score:3, Interesting)

              by Ford Prefect ( 8777 )
              The official website should be a showcase for the game, getting us revved up and excited for its release, giving us the lowdown on everything that anyone would wan't to know.

              A potential example of that - Bungie Studios' site [bungie.net].

              Love them or loathe them, Bungie seem pretty good at that PR thing. Id communicate through occasional updates on their finger service, Valve through emails and posts on other people's forums, and leave their own [doom3.com] sites [half-life2.com] as unsullied, unused shop windows with a few smatterings of out-of

            • Re:Flash? (Score:3, Insightful)

              by thrash242 ( 697169 )
              Well, the point of the story is that there now *more* than that on the site now.

              For certain games or movies, sometimes having too much info available isn't a good thing. It keeps things suspenseful to keep things somewhat quiet. I wouldn't want to see info about every weapon, every enemy, all the bosses, all the levels, etc. It would ruin the mystery and fear that's supposed to go along with this game.
          • No, Natural Selection is doing the job.
            You missed the point and lost the plot.
        • Actually I sometimes design web sites when I am not concentrating on the server stuff. The high levels of skills I developed have enabled me to recognise that when a product is not yet released, and the details are not yet set in stone and they have a bright shiny button that says pre-order on the main page (even thought I dont have flash installed on firefox I can see this) staring me in the face, I know there will be some useful information there, like many of the things the original poster wanted. So the

          • ...I know there will be some useful information there, like many of the things the original poster wanted.

            I wouldn't know. I can't open it because I have pop-ups disabled thanks to marketing, and I don't intend to enable them just for this.

    • I agree with you up to a point. That point is that it won't be released for two weeks! Give them time! Not only are we expecting them to pump out two websites (doom3 and ua-corp) don't forget they only finished the PC IBM compatible game, not the OSX, Mac, Linux, or X-Box games.
      • But Carmack said in one of his interviews about this [some time ago] Microsoft was putting some serious ca$h for the xBox to be available on the shelf "day & date" with the PC version. Enough to make them pause and think about it.
        Does the delay indicate they made up their mind or is it a compromise?
    • No I'm sorry, get off your high horse.

      You're not the intended audience for this site. This is supposed to be a promotional website for the next two weeks for gamers to go in and enjoy. If you want the three lines of text you're looking for that say where/when/how to buy goto idsoftware.com

      Not every website is so single minded any more, go back to 1996 if you want just text and some animated gif's.

      Bitching like this is just immature.
      • This is supposed to be a promotional website for the next two weeks for gamers to go in and enjoy

        How much effort would it take for them to have a small, unobtrusive link on the main page that says "click here for the hypeless version"?

        Yeah, maybe most gamers will go there and drool over the eye candy (which I couldn't even get to work correctly, in Mozilla, and gave up after my third click). But some of us (who will still pay them real money to buy their product) don't want pretty pictures, we want a
        • Ummm, goto http://doom3.com right on the frontpage there is a button for pre-ordering. Along with the date of release. That takes care of finding out the price.

          ID hasn't even released any specs so those'll be hard to find them at the moment.

          So I don't see what the point is about complaining about the flash, there's nothing other than hype in the flash section so why damn the entire site? No I take that back, there's a list of links to doom3 fan sites etc. But I think if you could google for those.

          IDsoftw
        • While i can agree with the form of the website, I can't agree with the information available :

          If i compare this to VALVe's HL2, -alot- of (editing/modding) information is allready known about it , and alot of people (including myself) have started making assets for HL2 mods.

          "id" , on the contrary, have released very few specs about their engine : On one hand I admire them for being so leet, to not be needing twenty interviews a day, like Gabe Newell had/has (and which backstabbed him once the source was

    • And actually what was I thinking. On the front page of Doom 3 in big ass bold letters

      "SHIPS AUGUST 3"

      and then below that a button to

      "PRE-ORDER"

      Did you even goto the site?

      Mod him down, he's just trolling.

  • Trailer (Score:5, Informative)

    by Quixote ( 154172 ) on Sunday July 18, 2004 @09:17AM (#9730658) Homepage Journal
    Direct link to the large trailer [doom3.com], for those who don't have Quicktime installed.

  • System Requirements (Score:5, Informative)

    by Dave21212 ( 256924 ) <dav@spamcop.net> on Sunday July 18, 2004 @09:18AM (#9730668) Homepage Journal

    So what's the real story on the system reqs ?

    Is it... [doom3portal.com]

    From September's PC Gamer issue, they have the system requirements as:
    Minimum:
    P4 1.5Ghz CPU (or equivalent).
    384MB of RAM.
    64MB graphics card.

    Lowest supported GPU is a Geforce 4 MX (worse than Geforce 3).
    Supported cards:
    GF 4 MX.
    GF 3.
    GF 4.
    GF FX (and higher).
    Radeon 8500s, 9000s and higher.

    They themselves recommend:
    2Ghz CPU.
    512MB RAM.
    Radeon 9800.
    5-channel sound card and speakers.
    • So what's the real story on the system reqs ?

      And your sig

      The best Requirements Document [constitution.org] ever written.

      If your PC doesn't match the requirements, all you need in the 2nd ammendment to have some fragging fun
    • Those minimum specs are wrong.
      In facts, they are:
      CPU 8086/4.77MHz
      512KB RAM
      1 FDD 5"1/4
      DOS 3.11
      And here's a screenshot on a system like that:
      http://mark0.ngi.it/var/doom3.gif [mark0.ngi.it]
      :-)

      Bye!

    • Athlon 1200
      512MB RAM
      ATI 9800 / 128MB

      works great for everything else though ... it'll probably play doom3 ok on lesser graphic detail, and it'll be the first time i booted into windows in 3 years.

    • BwaaHaaHaa (Score:3, Interesting)

      by bogie ( 31020 )
      Um, Sorry. Anyway anyone trying to run Doom 3 on a GF 4 MX is going to be pretty unhappy with the results. Of course that doesn't keep the idiots from PC Gamer stating that "So long as you have a GeForce 4MX card, you should be able to play Doom 3 with many of its bells and whistles at a decent clip." Sure, and there are WMD in Iraq...

      I can't wait till Doom 3 goes retail and the Id forums are overloaded with users running 2.0GHz Celerons with Geforce 4mx's asking why they can't run it at anything other the
    • It's for exactly this reason that I'll be getting the XBox version.

      (Currently writing this on a Celeron 850, so there's not a hope in hell of my PC running it anyway).

  • Mac? Sorry to ask, but... (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Damek ( 515688 ) <adam&damek,org> on Sunday July 18, 2004 @09:19AM (#9730670) Homepage
    I hate to be the one to mention it (OK, no I don't), but still no mention of when it'll be available for Mac? Or, more importantly, what the system requirements for Macs might be? Ah well, I guess I shouldn't complain, they don't mention Linux anywhere either but we know it'll be available right away for Linux, so it'll probably be available right away for Mac too. Ha.
    • ...did you not fully comprehend? They will ship it when it's done and fully tested. Have you not read the original "We've gone gold!" message?
    • According to Todd Hollenshead's plan file : Mac and Linux: Unfortunately I don't have dates for either of these. However, Linux binaries will be available very soon after the PC game hits store shelves. There are no plans for boxed Linux games. More remains to be done for the OSX version of DOOM 3 and that will take some time. We won't release the OSX version until it's just as polished as the PC version. The date for OSX DOOM 3 remains "when it's done", but I can confirm that it's definitely coming. Here

  • Ingame Video and developer comments (Score:5, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 18, 2004 @09:27AM (#9730707)
    In case you haven't seen it, there's a video of the G4 Tech TV show featuring Doom 3 ingame footage. Plasma Gun, BFG, Lost Soul, Reveant...

    http://www.quake.de/files/doom3/videos/doom3g_4_hi gh.avi [quake.de]

  • Doom 3 Unleashes Web Design Hell? (Score:5, Funny)

    by draevil ( 598113 ) on Sunday July 18, 2004 @09:30AM (#9730724)
    The gates of hell are indeed open! I think the creator of the midi-tune-playing-in-the-background site escaped from the bowels of hell to create that monstrosity.

    Never mind the minimum-spec for the game, what the hell is the mininum spec for displaying that site? :)

    PS: It doesn't render correctly with mozilla-firefox and version 7 of the flash for linux player.

  • Where's the content? (Score:4, Informative)

    by Nailer ( 69468 ) on Sunday July 18, 2004 @09:31AM (#9730725)
    Maybe it's Slashdotted. All I get is a full screen window with a white background and black area down the side. No text, pictures, or animations.
  • ...null-productivity week (a day won't cut it). With HL2, coming out as well, everyone's going to be calling in sick so productivity will be negligent. They might as well acknowledge it and be done with it.

  • Wait a sec.. (Score:5, Funny)

    by Epistax ( 544591 ) <epistax @ g m a il.com> on Sunday July 18, 2004 @09:53AM (#9730849) Journal
    Dehacked is going to work, right? Don't tell me I've been holding on to WinTex for nothing.

  • diablo? (Score:4, Funny)

    by SpootFinallyRegister ( 787720 ) on Sunday July 18, 2004 @09:53AM (#9730852)
    Did anyone else watch the flash page loading screen tick up to 100% and think they were playing diablo?

  • Woot (Score:2, Interesting)

    by laserbeak ( 794029 )
    Can't wait for this game.
    Looks like doom 3 will make a shit load by releasing it before hl2.
    what i want to know is if hl2 can release it on the same date..? highly unlikely.

  • Major oversite (Score:2, Funny)

    by Asmor ( 775910 )
    Ok, so we're making this game-equivelent of an extremely hyped, anticipated sequel and graphics masterpiece. Let's give people wallpapers, and make the "big" option 1024x768! Lame.

  • UAC Corp website (Score:4, Informative)

    by Elfich47 ( 703900 ) on Sunday July 18, 2004 @10:35AM (#9731074)
    The website for the United Areospace Corprotation [ua-corp.com] has also gone live. All it is doing right now is counting down. It shows about 15 days left.

  • ah, Doom I, how I do love thee... (Score:5, Interesting)

    by esoterus ( 66707 ) <{esoterus} {at} {gmail.com}> on Sunday July 18, 2004 @10:38AM (#9731085) Homepage
    I remember setting up a 14.4k modem duel back in the day when online fps was mano a mano ('92-'93??). I'll never forget how cool it was getting the connection to finally take and there we were, two guys on the opposite side of town hunting each other down in the hallowed halls of Doom. It blew my dad's mind - he had no idea such a thing was possible with his computer... That game will always have a special place in this geek's heart... Bring on Doom III!
    • I remember Doom taking out our networks. For some reason it broadcast every packet to all other computers on the network. I still have a Qic-120 tape backup in my closet with all the versions of Doom that ever floated through my college. 0.666 even. That and lots of Epic games.

      Now if only I had a tape backup unit that would read these huge old tapes. 30 Complete games in 100 megabytes. And we liked it!

  • Multi-processor (Score:3, Interesting)

    by jjohnson ( 62583 ) on Sunday July 18, 2004 @10:47AM (#9731160) Homepage
    Quake 3 had a multi-processor mode that could be enabled on the command line. Will Doom 3 have that?

    When are we finally gonna get games that can take advantage of my dual-Xeon workstation?
  • http://akamai.doom3.com/video/trailer_large.mov [doom3.com]

    I don't think we can slashdot akamai, but that quake.de link is pretty toasted at the moment, heh...

    I actually have not seen this yet (posting from 56K here) so I'm not sure what this trailer is and how it compares to the other file...

  • First Doom 3 tourney (Score:5, Informative)

    by ruiner5000 ( 241452 ) on Sunday July 18, 2004 @11:06AM (#9731271) Homepage
    This first Doom 3 tourney [txgf.com] will be held in Dallas August 7th-8th. See you there.
  • With these Load times for each section of the page it appears as if it is necessary to upgrade for the website alone.

  • Terrance and Phillip ending? (Score:3, Funny)

    by Eric_Cartman_South_P ( 594330 ) on Sunday July 18, 2004 @11:10AM (#9731300)
    Anyone else start laughing when you heard the little "Arrr Arrr" echo at the end of the demo? Just like the Terrance and Phillip movie preview for "Asses of Fire 2".
  • With all the hype surrounding the game, I'm wondering if I'm going to be able to even get my hands on a copy, (why can't id offer ISO downloads?). I'm wondering which of you /.-ers are going to pre-order, because I have a feeling everyone's inventory is going to be wiped-out!
    • I seriously doubt there is going to be a shortage of this game. They know how high the demand is. This isn't going to be a case of "we didn't know the game was going to be that successful".

  • Better than DOOM I?? (Score:5, Funny)

    by Tomster ( 5075 ) on Sunday July 18, 2004 @11:48AM (#9731509) Homepage Journal
    I dunno, the screenshots look about the same to me as the original DOOM.

    .

    .

    .

    Then again, I'm using Lynx as my browser.... :-)
  • Here's a torrent for that great G4TechTV Interview. Lots of in-game footage: http://www.filerush.com/torrents/doom3g_4.avi.torr ent [filerush.com]

  • Lame desktop wallpapers (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Patik ( 584959 ) * <cpatik@g m a i l . c om> on Sunday July 18, 2004 @12:55PM (#9731842) Homepage Journal
    Since when is 1024x768 considered large? IMO that's the smallest they should offer. Especially for a gaming crowd, you'd think 1600x1200 would be the standard large size.

  • Inevitable disappointment (Score:3, Insightful)

    by inkswamp ( 233692 ) on Sunday July 18, 2004 @04:15PM (#9733240)
    Carmack may want to get George Lucas on the phone. After all this hype and build-up, even the best game imaginable is going to get trashed when it fails to change the lives of those who play it.

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