Sunday, August 08, 2004
Doom 3 Mod Ideas!
Skip this post if you have no idea what that means.
Now that it's been out for a few days and all the hardcore geeks have played through single player, it seems they are already trying to figure out what mods to make for multiplayer. Here are a couple ideas I thought of while playing:
Flashlight tag?
Instead of mods that turn Doom 3 into Quake 3.5 (which are inevitable) I think it would more fun to embrace the Doom 3 style in multiplayer and have guns with flashlights attached (see "Duct Tape mod") as an option. Think about playing custom levels that are made for it... very dark, you have to use your lights to find others, but they can find you cuz your light is shining too.
Multiplayer Monsters
Another idea that I think could be very fun is having monsters in the levels. I remember in Doom 1 & 2 it was fun to play with monsters on because for the first 5 mins you would run around the levels killing the monsters off. It would be fun to have a couple monsters that respawn every minute or so. This might make it a little more fun with fewer (4 or less) players in the game because you'd have to kill them off from time to time while fighting other players.
Current Progress: 70% scared as hell
Tonight while playing Doom I started getting really scared. I'm sitting in my room in the dark with my headphones on. Jen is sleeping, so I'm basically alone. At first I thought Doom wasn't that scary to me because I've played lots of first-person shooters before. Nope. It just keeps getting scarier. Tonight I actually had to stop playing because I was too scared to keep going. I need some sleep before I attempt to fry those demons again.
Current Music: Mars Volta - Televators
Link of the Day: PlanetDoom and Doomworld
Random Picture:
Now that it's been out for a few days and all the hardcore geeks have played through single player, it seems they are already trying to figure out what mods to make for multiplayer. Here are a couple ideas I thought of while playing:
Flashlight tag?
Instead of mods that turn Doom 3 into Quake 3.5 (which are inevitable) I think it would more fun to embrace the Doom 3 style in multiplayer and have guns with flashlights attached (see "Duct Tape mod") as an option. Think about playing custom levels that are made for it... very dark, you have to use your lights to find others, but they can find you cuz your light is shining too.
Multiplayer Monsters
Another idea that I think could be very fun is having monsters in the levels. I remember in Doom 1 & 2 it was fun to play with monsters on because for the first 5 mins you would run around the levels killing the monsters off. It would be fun to have a couple monsters that respawn every minute or so. This might make it a little more fun with fewer (4 or less) players in the game because you'd have to kill them off from time to time while fighting other players.
Current Progress: 70% scared as hell
Tonight while playing Doom I started getting really scared. I'm sitting in my room in the dark with my headphones on. Jen is sleeping, so I'm basically alone. At first I thought Doom wasn't that scary to me because I've played lots of first-person shooters before. Nope. It just keeps getting scarier. Tonight I actually had to stop playing because I was too scared to keep going. I need some sleep before I attempt to fry those demons again.
Current Music: Mars Volta - Televators
Link of the Day: PlanetDoom and Doomworld
Random Picture:
# posted by CK @ 3:21 AM 
