He could probably code that on his phone while waiting for his appetizer in a restaurant.
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Digital Foundry: New Doom Patch Is Brilliant: Disappointing Ports Are Now Must-Buy Purchases
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He could probably code that on his phone while waiting for his appetizer in a restaurant.
Shame the Vita died before these ports came out :(
Switch nearly as good anyway.
Going to grab it on PS4 too
Switch nearly as good anyway.
Going to grab it on PS4 too
Pff.
He did it right after writing the tweet but before clicking on Send. Just to make sure it worked.
Yes. And the website password reminder option doesn't work, so good luck if you don't remember it.
The good thing is that those WADs are great.
Andrew Hulshult music, you absolute beauty.
Did I hear that right in the video, they have actually released these ports on PC?
Did I hear that right in the video, they have actually released these ports on PC?
Doom64 is not a combination of anything, it is its own entirely unique installment with near-completely unique assets (a couple of sound effects made it over, that's about it).
fuck ion fury
Anyone know if they ever make that donation to make up for the anti trans and homophobic shit in their game? The latter of which They reneged on patching out?
oh
for a short, carefree moment there I forgot that we all live in Hell World.
They're not available to purchase anymore, but they're still playable if you already have them. There was an "error" during the launch of the newer versions that had the BC compatible versions unable to be downloaded, but that was fixed shortly after.
Ah, ok. Thanks for clearing that up. I though it was just some shitty business practices there for a while.
So aside from the PC ports, are these best consoles ports thus far (specifically on PS4)? I have the one's on 360 but I wouldn't mind upgrading to the newer ones if they are better.
It's a good thing it's getting a second chance with the upcoming rerelease.
Ya'll, I'm a total newb at this stuff and GZDoom was crazy easy. Buy Doom on steam for $5, download GZDoom, unzip, drag and drop whatever you want to play. That's it. You don't even need to 'install' anything. I'm running buttery smooth WITH mods on freakin' integrated graphics on a years old PC. You want more levels? Just download whatever interests you from the Cacowards every year. I mean, I've been playing a Doom 64 total conversion and its great. Again, I just drag it onto the GZdoom exe file and it opens it right up, no fuss, no muss.
Except it also doesn't play like Doom64 particularly accurately. Though that comes with the port territory anyway. The timings are completely off, it's missing the three point filtering and the lighting isn't even accurate.
I still feel like the input lag on switch is kind of a deal breaker. Harder than hell to aim and shoot accurately
Considering I can play the game at something like 15360x8640 at 144Hz (4k res at 200% scaling and 8xSSAA -- and point sampled texture mapping & no texture LOD -- need all that super sampling to make the aliasing go away...) on my PC with a bunch of extra effects, it's pretty strange that the PS4 can only run it at 600p 60Hz, no matter what you say about it being a new port (after all I'm also using a port).
But on Switch at least it makes a quite decent portable version of Doom now.
But on Switch at least it makes a quite decent portable version of Doom now.
I totally trust you on that. For a causal fan like me, I'm content with it for the moment as I have no other way that I know of to play it. Is there a better option currently? That would be cool. I know I'll be picking up the official version when it happens, but until then....
What about the timings is off? I'm not sure what you mean by that. Sorry if this is derailing. We can stop if need be.
On topic:
Yeah, why is the PS4 (and even switch) not able to just bang this out? I mean, as stated I'm on an old-ish PC with integrated graphics and Doom runs crazy good with wads and effects and whatnot.
I find myself in a funny position. I frankly find it would be inappropriate for me to answer that question, and I find myself questioning if I would even like the actual answer. You'd need to provide your own ROM, and the port in question has fallen on the wayside given it was made for SDL1 and is quite old. Also as time went on we've found that it wasn't even fully accurate, having some inaccuracies in the sprite exporting and even the animation timings itself that made it not even close to demo playback compatible. March 20th can't come soon enough.
The PC version of Doom, and thus all ports run off a fixed 35Hz timer. The console versions of Doom, including 64, run at 15/30Hz, thus making the animation, action and physics timings quite incompatible.
You are probably playing a port using a hardware polygon renderer. The ports here use the original software renderer (because it's the only thing that can run all the effects and tricks authentically), which as the name indicates is CPU rendered, and single core at that because it's very old game engine.
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Ah! Sorry, I just noticed who you are. Whoops. Yeah, don't answer if its awkward. No biggie.
Oh, the 35hz thing with OG Doom. Right. Not familiar with the nomenclature. Totally makes sense trying to convert one to the other would muck it up a bit.
Thanks!
Honestly, I was more surprised by the frame rate issues on SIGIL when playing on Xbox One X. Kind of a bummer. Not sure what it's rendering at internally, but I wish they'd decrease the internal resolution if that'd smooth out performance.
Glad to hear it and it's finally time to double dip on the PS4. I'm really eager to try out some good level wads.
All three are currently super cheap on the eShop, at least in the UK. All three can be had for £4.80
www.hotukdeals.com
Doom 1+2 £1.20 Each / Doom 3 £2.40 [Nintendo Switch] @ Nintendo eShop - hotukdeals
Lowest ever price for all 3 games here:Doom nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch-download-software/DOOM-1993--1610001.html £1.20Doom 2 nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nint
All three are currently super cheap on the eShop, at least in the UK. All three can be had for £4.80
Doom 1+2 £1.20 Each / Doom 3 £2.40 [Nintendo Switch] @ Nintendo eShop - hotukdeals
Lowest ever price for all 3 games here:Doom nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch-download-software/DOOM-1993--1610001.html £1.20Doom 2 nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nint
The opportunity to own a fantastic portable version of one of the best and most important games of all time for £1.20 is something people should not be missing out on.
While I think all three are a no brainer at that price, if you don't want to stretch to the full £4.80, at least make sure you pick up the original Doom. It's as timeless as Super Mario World.
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NA too! :O Huge thanks for the heads up! :DAll three are currently super cheap on the eShop, at least in the UK. All three can be had for £4.80
Doom 1+2 £1.20 Each / Doom 3 £2.40 [Nintendo Switch] @ Nintendo eShop - hotukdeals
Lowest ever price for all 3 games here:Doom nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch-download-software/DOOM-1993--1610001.html £1.20Doom 2 nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nint