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Doom 4 Story Author Revealed
Post by Steve Farrelly @ 01:12pm 16/01/09 | 23 Comments
CVG has revealed British fantasy author, Graham Joyce, is going to be the man behind Doom 4's story when the game is eventually released whenever id deems it done.

No other details other than Joyce's involvement were revealed and I can honestly say I've never actually heard of the author or any of his works, but a quick Wiki check up does reveal he's been the recipient of a handful of Fantasy Awards for works such as The Tooth Fairy, Dark Sister, Requiem, Indigo and The Facts of Life (not based on the 80s sitcom), among others.

If anyone has actually read any of Joyce's work, feel free to let us know what we might be in for.


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$ack
Posted 01:30pm 16/1/09


last edited by $ack at 13:30:35 16/Jan/09
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infi
Posted 01:19pm 16/1/09
It would be interesting to actually have a half decent plot to one of those martian planet fps games. That's why I was so sucked in by Fallout 3. A good storyline makes it so much more fun.

last edited by infi at 13:19:59 16/Jan/09
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fpot
Posted 01:22pm 16/1/09
I've played ids games and they suck so that is what you are in for.
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DM
Posted 01:38pm 16/1/09
Everyone always screams for more plot. Why? FPS Games were more fun when there was only a bare minimum storyline and you had to slaughter your way through levels rather than "go here and power up generator, then go uplink your satcom to the satilite and call for reinforcements" style gay objectives. But then again I still think the best FPSs to ever come out were Doom, Blood, and Hexen 2 (ok so that one is slightly more complex but still)
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maxe
Posted 01:39pm 16/1/09
meanwhile, heres a guy playing all the way through Doom 2 in 17minutes

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trog
Posted 01:43pm 16/1/09
Here's a dude doing it in 29 minutes in nightmare (200mb)
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fpot
Posted 01:45pm 16/1/09
Deus Ex = best FPS ever by a country mile
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d[o_0]b
Posted 01:48pm 16/1/09
false

the new deus ex looks pretty tight tho
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thermite
Posted 02:02pm 16/1/09
I've always thought that Id games like Quake and Doom were really just a demo of what could be done with the engine. A f*****g fun demo, but doesn't really require a story to be written around it.
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demon
Posted 02:02pm 16/1/09
i hope it's really dark n the only light source is muzzleflash. BEWM! :D
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fpot
Posted 02:05pm 16/1/09
I've always thought that Id games like Quake and Doom were really just a demo of what could be done with the engine. A f*****g fun demo, but doesn't really require a story to be written around it.
I've always though that was just an excuse id used for their bland and uninspired games.
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sLaps_Forehead
Posted 11:43pm 16/1/09
What was that Carmack quote about game storylines and porn films?
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nF
Posted 12:05am 17/1/09
i just hope they get the same guys who did quake 4 to make it.
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parabol
Posted 12:14am 17/1/09
Here's a dude doing it in 29 minutes in nightmare (200mb)

While that's fairly impressive, it's still a modified engine :( The best I saw back in the day was 49m49s, you had to play back the demo in-game on an unmodified v1.9 engine. Actually I think I found it:
In 1997, Thomas 'Panter' Pilger spread throughout the Compet-N tables like a plague. By August, he was the first to do the third DOOM2 episode(Map21-30) on nightmare skill and was primed for the ultimate DOOM2 honor, DOOM2 Schwarzenegger. Almost a year in the making, Thomas 'Panter' Pilger finally achieved the impossible by recording all 32 maps of DOOM2 on 'Nightmare!' skill in one demo in 49:49

http://www.doomworld.com/10years/demos/demos07.php
http://competn.doom2.net/pub/compet-n/doom2/movie/30nm4949.zip (actual demo file)
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Lynx
Posted 03:34am 17/1/09

Supposed to be one of the new enemies for Doom 4

last edited by Lynx at 03:34:04 17/Jan/09
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fpot
Posted 03:35am 17/1/09
Looks s***
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Lynx
Posted 03:43am 17/1/09
What did you expect?
Hopefully that is a boss and not a common mob.
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Khel
Posted 03:53am 17/1/09
If those demons or whatever can make robot legs, and robot lower body, and robot arms holding guns, why not just make a whole robot instead of having this weak, vulnerable fleshy upper body and head.
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Lynx
Posted 04:22am 17/1/09
Cause then you'd be playing mech warriors
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Tollaz0r!
Posted 11:25am 17/1/09
Like a Cyberdemon? Except more Cyber?

Also they are Demons, they gota be all evil and stuff, and what is more evil then deformities?
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Creepy
Posted 11:36am 17/1/09
Why can't the demons just look like demons? Worked out pretty well in the first installment?
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dais
Posted 12:01pm 17/1/09
Because Khel, they have to have a SOUL.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA



I would say that is just some dude's render.
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DM
Posted 12:14pm 17/1/09
Yeah me too. Quake 5 i'd say yeah looks about right, but at least ID are somewhat consistant with their monster designs for doom
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