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Don't you want to know why fighting imps in the dark is like fighting destroyers by in a submarine? 04/16/2014, 12:47pm PDT
Your flashlight is your periscope; you use it when entering an engagement to create a mental map of the situation on the surface. But you can't fight with your periscope up, which is why it's so fortunate that your enemy's primary method of attack - fireballs/depth charges - are both slow moving enough to evade, and bright/loud enough to keep you abreast of his position. Your shotgun is not only your torpedo tube but also your active sonar, each muzzle flash/sonar ping gifting you with a momentary snapshot of the combat zone.

Except in this new high-performance console version, your muzzle flash no longer creates any illumination, which isn't EVEN a problem because you can just leave your flashlight on while you're fighting anyway. So good work, id, on managing to stamp out everything that made Doom 3's combat even slightly unique. Now it really is just Quake II with narrower corridors and fewer enemies :(

(Also the new button layout works fine as long as you don't like to do a lot of running or switching weapons.)
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In praise of: DOOM 3 by Jerry Whorebach 04/06/2014, 5:55am PDT NEW
    suck a dick, son NT by the truth 04/16/2014, 10:01am PDT NEW
        is this Jhoh or Jsoh? NT by just kidding, nobody cares 04/16/2014, 11:02am PDT NEW
            I love this reply NT by WITTGENSTEIN 04/16/2014, 2:51pm PDT NEW
        Don't you want to know why fighting imps in the dark is like fighting destroyers by in a submarine? 04/16/2014, 12:47pm PDT NEW
            Just like subs vs destroyers, only HITLER didnt realiz how dumb and pointless NT by Doom 3 was -fabio 04/16/2014, 8:13pm PDT NEW
    Excellent (and perplexing) analysis. by Gutsby 04/16/2014, 12:51pm PDT NEW
        These are pretty much my thoughts exactly. by Jerry Whorebach 04/16/2014, 8:36pm PDT NEW
            PS: I think Doom 3 would've been much better received had it been sold as... by Jerry Whorebach 04/16/2014, 8:50pm PDT NEW
                Urban Chaos: Riot Response was great. NT by Gutsby 04/17/2014, 11:17am PDT NEW
                    NOW you tell me! by Jerry Whorebach 04/17/2014, 12:12pm PDT NEW
                Re: PS: I think Doom 3 would've been much better received had it been sold as... by laudablepuss 04/17/2014, 1:32pm PDT NEW
                    What is so difficult to understand about this? by Jerry Whorebach 04/17/2014, 6:41pm PDT NEW
                        OK, I'll bite. by blackwater 04/17/2014, 9:29pm PDT NEW
                            I wish we could get this blackwater back. NT by Miss this guy 10/27/2020, 8:37pm PDT NEW
                    The only part of Doom 3 that made me jump by fabio 04/17/2014, 9:26pm PDT NEW
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