Playing the beta makes May 15 arrive slower, so in the meantime I'm playing Skyrim, BF3, and Call of Duty. Seriously, I might had a nerdgasam on the 15th. I might not be seen for days. Ok, that statement is irrelevant since I'm not seen for days as it is lol.

Playing BF3 and MW3 myself, too.

I'll remember to slip some nourishment in under the door every now and then so you don't die.

As a long-time fan of the series I'm somewhat disappointed in D3 for reasons that I don't have the patience to articulate.

Is this your way of getting back at me for insulting you via a Katy Perry song? )=

Has anybody here checked Final Doom?

I admit I had an aversion to Doom for quite a long time. Honestly I don't know why, perhaps I found it a bit too boring although I'm still a big fan of Wolfenstein 3D and most of its clones. But I installed and ran The Plutonia Experiment the other day and I've been amazed ever since.

Although Plutonia dates back to 1996, it's still said to be one of the hardest Doom wads ever. It's next to impossible to beat on Ultra Violence. Of course I'm not so hardcore and I'm playing on Hurt Me Plenty. Still, it's about twenty times harder than the original Doom II. Well, I've managed to complete only two levels so far, but it's so brilliant! For example, there was a situation where five Barons of Hell pounced on me all of a sudden, while I realised I got five Spectres at the back. Whoa, that was a riot! The trap mechanisms used in the game seem quite ingenious too.

So far, I only can highly recommend this game to anybody who enjoys old first-person shooters and doesn't shy away from more challenging games.

I have all the Dooms. I even have those 2,000 fan made levels they put on a CD. It's lost in my pile of junk. From time to time, I open up DeepSea and make a level. Final Doom is/was crazy difficult. The game that really started it all seems to have no memory in the gamers of today. And Doom3, bleh. It is a good scare at first, but then it annoyed me. I can't explain why, but after a few hours I get nauseated playing the game as if there is some kind of sound or screen refresh that makes me sick.

1996 seems like ages ago, but in all reality it was just around the corner. Amazing how fast time flies. I was playing Call of Duty 1 just awhile ago, now we're on Black Ops II. Funny, most people can remember their lives by their girlfriends, dating, weddings, parties, and I remember them by game release dates.

And I know for a fact that Diablo III is not a good game now. I barely play it after getting stuck in Inferno. I have no interest in buying gear just so I can get 10 points toward an fully played achievement. It has no end game, and it has no spirit. It has a story of lameness that makes it just as bad as Mass Effect 3. WTF happened to games like Doom? Am I just too fucking old to play games now? And yet, I know for a fact that the developers are not all 15 year olds. Do they even play their own games or just say, oh we'll release this turd and they'll play it because it has our logo, copyrighted name, or a ton of hype.

Or perhaps like LN was talking about in another thread, consumers these days do not get quality products that last them more than a year at most. A game that keeps players hooked and playing, is a game that doesn't make the company any money. And PC gaming is about modding, tweaking, and all that. You're lucky if you can change anything about the games you play anymore. And all the people that could do something about it are too busy farming gold, making aimbots, and all that because they are money oriented as well.

I also mark my life by game release dates, movie dates, music releases, etc. I'm just a lame nerd. I could mark them by rejection dates, I suppose (ah yes, today is the 10 year anniversary I got rejected by that broad..)All I really do with my spare time anymore is sit in my room and game.

I also think they don't make games for quality anymore. You used to be able to play the same game over and over back in the day. Now, the player community barely lasts a year before they pump out another product. I kind of miss the days where you could only afford a few games a year, but you'd play the shit out of them. I may also be getting too old for today's games. I miss Doom.

WTF happened to modding? You can't change anything about your games anymore.

You and I are so similar, Xanatos.

I do play MW3 and BF3, but they aren' nearly as addictive as Doom

Gah, Modern Warfare 3 DLC is a piece of garbage! Just downloaded the new maps, and I can't even get some of them to work! Lazy developers, IW. Especially when they make PS3 users pay for the downloadable content. Activision is a greedy company who don't give a crap about consumer satisfaction or quality control. As long as we keep buying their games. I don't think I'll bother with any more COD DLC. I might not even buy Black Ops II.

I might move over permanently to BF3. At least their DLC actually works. And gives you more content. Even if their 'online pass' thing is absolute bullshit.

I'm not so eager to buy into BF3's DLC either. I've stayed away from CoD as I think I have aged out or my temper has run out of patience. My clan-mates say I complain more than anyone they know. Truth be told, I complain even if I'm the #1 guy on the team with a 30 k/d lead over everyone else. I'll bitch at the rock I ran into, the hacker that tossed a nade at "My corner" without possibly knowing I'm in it, or trying to tell me that bunnyhopping is a legitimate skill.

Argh. I've gone back to Skyrim and waiting on the DLC (Dawnguard) instead. D3 is broken until Jay Wilson gets off his fat ass to fix it. Or rather until he stops making 80 billion in profits from it, I doubt it.

After installing the latest patch, the DLC works. I still think Infinity Ward are lazy developers though. They don't care about quality control. Believe it or not, I actually prefer Treyarch. At least they actually fix problems with their games, and I think they make better maps.

So far I've been a supporter of BF3, but EA are probably just as bad as Activision for milking the cash cow.

That's the thing about games that pisses me off these days. You've hit the nail on the head, Xanatos. It's all about profit. They don't care about shipping games that actually function, without game breaking bugs.

To buy or not to buy? Hmm. It certainly looks good. However, looking at my ever-growing pile of military FPS's (Call of Duty's 3 through to MW3, Battlefield Bad Company 2, BF3, MOH 2010; and with Black Ops 2, Warfighter, and BF3 DLC on the horizon), do I really need another one?

I partly agree, but I think Steam Workshop has done a lot to keep modding alive in the PC gaming scene. I love my Civ V mods myself. My favorite mode is one that overhauls the interface and greatly improves the AI - it pretty much fills in everything that the retail game was missing.

As a gamer, I feel kinda bad that Firaxis charges us $60 for an "incomplete" game, even though it only takes a single amateur modder to polish it... But as a developer, I know polishing is a pain, and by the time you get to that stage you're all burned out from working on the more critical aspects of the game, so all things considered, I think it's legitimate to release an "incomplete" game, and hope people will love it enough to improve it. It's still sad that modders get no financial compensation for finishing the developer's job, but a lot of modders end up getting hired by game companies anyway, so it's not all for nothing.

What the hell happened to THIS kind of Call of Duty? No killstreaks, no perks, no quick knife. All skill

Xanatos, have you ever played Alien Vendetta? So far I haven't but it seems really impressive.