DOOM 3

Doom 3 is one of my favorites, I play it at least once a year. Something that shocked me was when I first got internet and heard that this and Quake 4 were considered bad games. I couldn't believe it, the common complaint is that its more of a horror game than an fps and its too slow, and it is true Doom 3 is a slower paced more atmospheric fps, there will be no rocket jumping or tearing and ripping in this game but you will probably enjoy this if you like tense horror, but feel you need a minigun to reassure you. Now this is the bfg edition which claims to be the definitive collectors edition as it includes Doom 1 and 2 and 3 and expansions and several official bonus levels in one package. But what i didn't like was that doom 3 has the duct tape mod implemented permanently, what this does is allow you to have both a gun and a flashlight whereas in the original you had to choose. This feels like they changed it just because of the aforementioned doofusus who complained it isnt just doom2 with new levels. So id say rather grab the vanilla doom3 (the expansion isnt that great anyway) unless you are a massive wus

Confucius used to say: "In Dark Souls you know you're screwed if you got stuck in a room with demons. In Doom demons know they're screwed if they got stuck in a room with you." This is what games like Doom, Duke Nukem, Serious Sam etc should be about. SHOULD BE. Because Doom 3 is not.

The GOG release of Doom 3 is fantastic, including both versions of the game without DRM. Doom 3, itself, is a very silly game. The devil is constantly pulling practical jokes on you and making himself giggle. These frequently involve turning off the lights after you enter a room, but can be as silly as (literally) making a skeleton jiggle as you walk towards it (after which Satan chuckles to himself). In cutscenes, imps perform stealth takedowns of space marines a la Metal Gear Solid. Everyone is a dude on Mars, except a random female who lasts less than 10 seconds. There are hundreds of pointless emails to read on PDAs. Then, I die from falling damage, after jumping about 1 meter because I am too impatient for the lift to go down. The player character is not "Doom Guy," but is instead Bella Lugosi from the silent film era. The entire game is comic relief, but then, for comic relief, there's a farting zombie. The game itself has a reputation of being underrated and misunderstood. I disagree. Doom 3, at the time of its release, was overrated. It is even more overrated today, now that everyone thinks it's some kind of underappreciated masterpiece. It is reasonably enjoyable if you turn off your brain and sprint through it. I think this is how it is supposed to be played - every 5 seconds, the guy on your radio tells you to "hurry up, marine! Pick up the pace!" If you're reading the emails or trying to explore, you're doing it wrong; the emails are stupid, and there's nothing to see. Just run straight ahead and let Satan play his practical jokes on you. A couple of mods make it better than it was twenty years ago.

No Fun, No Horror, No Gain. It Just Painful.

It's a pity, as I played Doom III BFG on Playstation 3 before and I enjoyed the game. Fast forward to 2021, with a top-of-the-line gaming PC, and it does not even launch. It shows a black screen, then a white screen, then shows a terribly pixelated "main menu" which appears as three white blocks...all the while, the title music is playing as if it is working as it should. Multiple attempted fixes later, and the issue still persists. I am waiting for GOG support to get back to me on this, but what I would like to know is why game like this, which is clearly broken on modern systems, are still being sold, and the developers of the game itself not trying to make a fix? It is not our responsibility as consumers to look for some archaic fix to solve glaring issues. Very disappointed.