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L and R are for cycling weapons, and Quickload/Quicksave. The game features a L+R prompt when you start it, I don't know if there's a way around that.
Question for you, then: do you like Half-Life? Because that’s what Doom 3 basically is. Granted the former was inspired by Doom 1 & 2, and that game would in turn inspire the latter, but I’m just saying how I feel it is.
I've only played a bit of Half-Life 2 (not episode 1 or 2; just the original HL2), and that was a while ago. From what I remember of it, I liked it, though I found the vehicle section (I remember it being a hovercraft) to be a pain, and I only remember bits and pieces.
Doom 3 takes more Inspiration from Half-Life 1. Doom 3's expansion however, features the Grabber, which is essentially the Gravity Gun from Half-Life 2.
Doom 3 is a very slow burn type of game, it's not the high octane rip and tear of 2016 or arcade-y BANG of the originals. It still has shoot of course, and the gun play is good. It's a fun game overall if you put it in the more chill mindset and want some spookies. Also I hope it's the BFG edition, it made Doom 3 playable, and comes with the DLC and a whole new side story so, you certainly get your money's worth with it.
Civvie is so right. Doom 3 is pretty good but that shotgun is a travesty.
'Ere you goe:
I'd say that that interview can be taken just as positively as it can negatively. As we have speculated before, Nintendo probably wouldn't ask iD Software themselves, but rather their parent companies, Bethesda and ZeniMax. Considering Nintendo and Bethesda's relationship, and the latter's support for the Switch, this probably makes more sense. Another thing that's still standing is Cacomallow. That one's still not disproven yet, even after 4 months, and even after that interview, meaning we still got hope here.
That guy is literally the lead developer for DOOM. How would he have zero clue of such a deal happening?
In the sense that he'd certainly had been clued in, just that the deal would've primarily been made between Bethesda/Zenimax and Nintendo, not Id Software directly. This gives him the freedom to say that he wasn't directly approached by Nintendo about adding the Doom Slayer into Smash without the statement being an outright lie (which certain other devs don't seem to have problems about, but I digress).
I...can't really argue against that kind of optimism (regarding cacomallow).In the sense that he'd certainly had been clued in, just that the deal would've primarily been made between Bethesda/Zenimax and Nintendo, not Id Software directly. This gives him the freedom to say that he wasn't directly approached by Nintendo about adding the Doom Slayer into Smash without the statement being an outright lie (which certain other devs don't seem to have problems about, but I digress).
True, though Pete Hines (Bethesda's VP of PR and Marketing) wasn't the one who was being interviewed (at least regarding this recent supposed deconfirmation); it was Marty Stratton, one of Doom's directors and the executive producer at Id Software - hence where the separation between Id and Bethesda/Zenimax is key.
You wouldn't mind elaborating on the who and the how they weren't in a position to know? Keep in mind that outright lies are still on the table (even if I, especially as a Halo fan, feel that Chief's chances are still bleak overall).
I mean, it doesn't matter whether it was Pete or Marty - either would be in a position to know given how high-up and involved they are in the franchise. Plus the stringalongs are just recognition of a separate thing compared to the straight up deconfirmation.
Master Chief is not is Smash DLC. Although I did just download Smash. Now I’m going to do what I always do, button mash, do Street Fighter circle moves and jabs till one works, and then try to keep pushing to the right no matter what is happening or what characters are fighting.
— Frank (@franklez) December 23, 2018
I mean, it does. There's a reason why I highlighted the roles that Hines and Stratton fulfil (VP of PR/Marketing at Bethesda and Doom Eternal Game Director + Executive Producer at Id Software, respectively); while it would be reasonable to assume that both would be made aware of the deal, would it not make sense that Nintendo would elect to interact with Hines and some other Bethesda/Zenimax staffers (the former who, as the game's publishers, are explicitly responsible for handling elements of Doom Eternal beyond the scope of game development, such as marketing and cross-promotional affairs) before going straight for the heads at Id Software (who, at that time, would have had their noses down developing Doom Eternal).
Yeah, I remember seeing that one.
Ok i just want to specify - you think that the game director/executive producer of the game in question is completely out of the loop during negotiations, even through we've seen devs of other companies discuss and share materials with Nintendo? Did Id Software keep him in the dark until everything was finalized, even through he is a top-level executive and not some mid-level person? Why would they do that? That's the equivalent of Sakurai not being aware of any talks before the character is presented to him.
Of course not. I just reason that such a meeting probably wouldn't rank high on Marty's priorities, especially given how, at that point in time, Doom Eternal was deep into its development cycle. Thus, it'd be perfectly reasonable for such decisions to be handled by the individuals whose express job is to discuss and make these deals while Stratton dedicates himself fully to Doom Eternal. Also, negotiations != resource sharing, as the former has to reach an agreement in order for the latter to occur. And what if Bethesda themselves wanted to put forth their own character for Smash? Would Stratton have a say in such matters when it comes to the likes of Shouty McViking and Corporate Stoogeboy?
I'm going to assume you meant Bethesda when you mentioned Id Software keeping Stratton in the dark (which is a nonsensical deliberation which I never intended to make). Why would Stratton necessarily need to have been informed about such a decision if it wasn't going to be followed through? At most, he'd hear about it in a meeting with some Beth execs, the notion would be laughed off and they'd move onto more pressing matters (like Doom Eternal's development). No need to incur an additional level of stress until they're absolutely sure that they're working with Nintendo.
If he were going for the straight deconfirmation, he wouldn't make a statement so open to interpretation. He would've just said "Doom Slayer is not coming to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - not now, not ever" much like what Frank O'Connor did and be done with it, none of this mincing together of specific terminologies and technicalities which fall short of a hardline deliberation. No honest person goes through that much effort to simply say "No".[/QUOTE]
So you keep saying that Pete Hinnes/Bethesda are the ones making the decisions (which is a fair assumption) but keep missing the point that Stratton would be in a position to know about any such development. And if the smash "talks" didn't follow through where he didn't need to be concerned with (which i presume happened based on what he said), then DOOM isn't in smash. It's the simplest way to interpret what he said.
So you're saying that Stratton is
And here's the quote, as clear as it can be (after sakurai said the pass has already been decided).
And before you jump to "he said i don't know", he explicitly clarifies later by saying that they've never gone further with talks.
but was instead Microsoft as it shows on the copyright info of the title screen.
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Well it depends on what you mean by "calling the shots". In terms of actually getting Doomguy in Smash it'd most likely be down to Zenimax/Bethesda, but in terms of who Nintendo/Sakurai would contact back and forth with on Doomguy's design and moveset, then that would most likely be id Software. As for what copyright would appear in Smash? I honestly couldn't tell you, it'd probably be Zenimax but I can just as easily see them using id Software. We unfortunately just don't know anything right now so we'll have to wait and see.So, after not being on this thread and seeing people saying that Bethesda it's the one that could be calling the shots as I was saying instead of ID Software like a couple of people said before so adamantly.
Woof. I don't want to say: "I told you so" but, woof.
I mean. It's like saying that Rare would be the one contacted for
The turns of life~
The BFG, for all of the reasons that you said.
Same as what Megadoomer said, though I wouldn't mind seeing the Unmakyr as a unique stage item.
Exactly. That's what I meant. The actual creators and who should be the owners are ID, of course. But the owners of the property as of right now is Bethesda/Zenismax. It should be Bethesda.
. situation, that while Sega is the distributor, Atlus is the creator and the one that decides things. And shows up on the title screen for that matter..
We got Altair and Cuphead costumes out of nowhere... even if that leak is true, it doesn't confirm anything else.
That is true. At this stage it's a Schrodinger's Demon.