Man, it’s been almost ten years since Doom 3’s release on the PC. id Software’s title did not stay true to its roots, but that’s something that most of us already knew. Doom 3 was advertised as a horror title and not as a killing_spree_mayhem. And thanks to its modding community, Doom 3 looks great, even today.
Now I don’t know whether that’s a good thing about Doom 3 (the fact that it has aged well) or a bad thing about the gaming industry. Sure thing, games nowadays support tessellation, higher resolution textures, better lighting and physics effects. But still, Doom 3 was ahead of its time and we can’t overlook the fact that every light source was casting shadows.
So, today we present you images from Guru3D’s member “Marcel” and Steam members DragonCrestPC, Lu2, Meep, MindbendeR, Sarah Walker, SmiteMeister, The-Guardian, urfragmeat and Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallac.
In case you’re wondering, most of these users have been using the latest version of Sikkmod alongside Wulfen’s textures, as well as some other mods that can be found at Doom3’s FileFront page.
Enjoy!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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Thats pc gaming, console gamers jump from one console generation to another and they are like “OMGZ TEH GRAPHICS MY GODZ SO BETTER, when we already played with those graphics due to pcs having suprior hardware thus superior graphics.
if a console gamer wants to play an old game, he has to find his old console, get used to the framerate and jaggies due to unchangable low resolution, crappy innacurate controls, when the mouse controls are more or less the same wherever the game is from the 90s or from yesterday and finally play it with no saves.
Oh and you can buy the HD version of a game you already bought, isnt that great?
While we pc gamers, install the game with mods and play it.
Pc gaming, where games are still awesome 15-20 years after release and still have life in them thanks to mods….not to mention people playing online, while on consoles if you want to play say cod 2, you wont be able to find anyone.
I still have my “Best of” boxed Doom3 with all 3 CDs. :p
I found these in my attic a few days ago. I’m old, I guess.
*Sorry for the double image, Disqus is stupid.
LoL nice. I didn’t get into PC gaming until the late 90s anyway. I remember playing Doom on a PC at Tandy when I worked there.Te first game I properly played on the PC was half Life on a 1/2 MB card. :p
Looks awesome. Now if only the Phobos mod would get released…
Amazing work! “Did I ever tell you the definition of MODs?”
(Lame, I know, I’ll see myself out…)
Dude, that was a bad one….seriously! 🙂
Dem textures! I did use the silk mod and it’s awesome, has POM.
Next time use Sikk mod plus 2 other HD texture packs that are available and it will blow your mind.
The POM is such a resource hog though that in the HELL level even my GTX 680 was brought to its knees haha. But damn it looks good.
Doom 3 was good, can’t wait for Doom 4!
ZeniMax Media doesn’t need John. They have the rest of id Software to work on the next game.
which have nothing to do with the original team. No one from the original devs is left in id.
Yup! All the masters are gone!
The real iD Software that rocked the gaming world is dead!
pre-ordering Wolfenstein: The New Order, players will be invited to access the DOOM 4 beta.
Consoles. They severely stunt the growth of video games and the advancement of 3D graphics and computing in general.
Imagine if Toyota only made one type of car for ten years – What if Apple only made the first iPhone and the second iPhone wouldn’t come out until 2017. Think about that.
Well the “iPhone example” made me laugh really loud.
I like to play without any mods.
It still looks good for a game released almost 10 years ago
Compared to this, BFG edition is a joke. They even cut out some of the dynamic shadows.
Lol at those blur filters. Also too bad the game was never good and no amount of mods will make the level design any better.
I’m currently playing Prey with Sikkmod and it’s unbelievable how good it looks. It’s lighting is unique and the overall effect is really amazing.
Then I started to watch again that Prey 2 E3 gameplay and it also looks amazing. (modified idTech4)
Another game using modified idTech4 is Brink which, besides the critics, it also looks awesome.
wow. looks really good.
Amazing…and to think that I re-played this game for ages. IDDQD, IDKFA and NoClip gave me some extra fun sometimes. 😉
Man, I definitely got my money’s worth out of all the id games I’ve bought. Doom 3 I played through half a dozen times. Ah, they don’t make ’em like they used to.