Holy burning milque toast! Doom III -DEMO- half a gig!

[Godzilla]

http://www.3dgamers.com/dl/games/doom3/d3demo.exe.html

 

Did the whole world just grow T1s at home and I missed it?

 

and I thought 50 meg game demos were a bit oversized :-)

[walter_J64bit]

http://www.3dgamers.com/dl/games/doom3/d3demo.exe.html

 

Did the whole world just grow T1s at home and I missed it?

 

and I thought 50 meg game demos were a bit oversized :-)

 

I flee like I'm back no 56k with this download!

[ElephantStyle]

Big demos are common nowadays. Where have you been?

[Godzilla]

Yea, but ~500 megabytes? I've seen some that creep close to 300, but I haven't seen any in the 500 range. I guess 'where have I been' is accurate :-)

[Godzilla]

damn lack of edit :-)

 

I been playing atari 2600 of course. and most of those are ~5kb not 500,000 kb :-)

[Raijin Z]

Feh! Where the hell have you all been? I've seen 1GB+ demos!

[Jasoco]

I hope this means eventually there will be an Xbox demo. And I don't mean after the game is released, because I'll already be PLAYING it by then.

[Max-T]

461MB does seem to be a bit much for what you get in the Doom 3 demo. I can only assume that much of space is used for high-res textures, but those of us who don't own $4000 brand-new computers won't be able to see the benefits of those.

 

But I'm glad there is finally a demo out -- I now know that even though my PC can run it OK at lower quality settings, the game seems too boring and unoriginal to warrant buying the full version. I'll go back to playing my old copy of Doom II now...

[Jasoco]

I still think that the greatest thing id could do is put 100% perfect console ports of the first two DOOM games on the Xbox disc. I would just die to get my hands on a console playable version of the originals that doesn't suck. Play console DOOM and DOOM II the way it was meant to be played.

[PuddWakkr]

I still think that the greatest thing id could do is put 100% perfect console ports of the first two DOOM games on the Xbox disc. I would just die to get my hands on a console playable version of the originals that doesn't suck. Play console DOOM and DOOM II the way it was meant to be played.

 

Run a DOS emulator on your xbox. Should be able to run DOOM and DOOM2 without much problem.

[Invader_dag]

to 500 mb, i say HA. Not that it isn't big, but come on, on a standard cable connection, you can get that in a couple hours. i wouldn`t say thats to big of deal really.

I downloaded the full version of Planetside when they had that trial, can`t remember for how long. but it was around 3 or 4 gigs... AND the first download was corrupt when it finished. it took me about 5 days to finally get it downloaded and installed. and even worse, it sucked, in my opinion at least

[Jasoco]

I still think that the greatest thing id could do is put 100% perfect console ports of the first two DOOM games on the Xbox disc. I would just die to get my hands on a console playable version of the originals that doesn't suck. Play console DOOM and DOOM II the way it was meant to be played.

 

Run a DOS emulator on your xbox. Should be able to run DOOM and DOOM2 without much problem.

I'd love to. But someone ELSE would have to burn the disc as well as Mod the Box. And I don't like spending too much just for this. Also, I need LIVE so it can't be Modded.

 

Either way, I can not burn the disc myself or else I'd have all my NES ROM's and such on there as well.

[xenomorpher]

I have an AMD 64 with 512 MB RAM it didnt cost me 4000 and very happy with it.

[Goochman]

461MB does seem to be a bit much for what you get in the Doom 3 demo. I can only assume that much of space is used for high-res textures, but those of us who don't own $4000 brand-new computers won't be able to see the benefits of those.

 

But I'm glad there is finally a demo out -- I now know that even though my PC can run it OK at lower quality settings, the game seems too boring and unoriginal to warrant buying the full version.  I'll go back to playing my old copy of Doom II now...

 

Not to give away too much but D3 is worth it - The beginning, hell and final stages are worth it.

 

Without giving up too much, I started getting bored with some of the repetitiveness, but then I went to hell

 

Big issue I have is the complexity of the game means any additional packs will prob take a long time to produce

[Raijin Z]

My $575 system needs $300 more to run Doom 3 in PERFECTION mode. Still less than the price of an emac. OMG.

[Fretwobbler]

PERFECTION mode.

 

Thats not possilbe yet Wont be until 512MB video cards hit the shelves, and because of some stupid technicality meaning they are cost-prohibitive, we aint likely to see them for over a year.

 

But yes, so close to perfection you cant tell the differance

 

Get an Aquamark score like this silicon melting effort and your as close to perfection as current kit will allow

[Raijin Z]

9_9 The newest game I can run with my current ram and vidcard in maximum detail, maximum resolution (for my monitor) and still get a decent framerate is Quake 2. Perfection mode = maxxing your shit right the fuck out.

[AtariDude]

Holy Wait state, Batman! Half a Gig just for a demo? I know that everyone would like to play DOOM3 but I don't think I am getting this demo anytime soon unless I find it as a $3 or less disk at Babbages / Gamestop or EB. I rather get movie previews to watch from time to time then have to imitate what my days were like when I had a 56K modem or back when I had a 300 baud modem on my Atari 800XL.

[xenomorpher]

It played ok I think in High Res but Ultra it was a bit slow.

[keilbaca]

I'm pretty sure the Far Cry demo was almost a gig big...

[xenomorpher]

Wouldnt be suprised.