Newb Looking for a shooter

[Monk]

Doom 3 is a brilliant game if you take it for what it is: the closest you'll get to a haunted house experience in your PC. It's got many flaws as a shooter and has not much worthwhile in terms of plotline, but turn off the lights and pump up the sound and it will scare the crap out of you over and over and over and over. That's a fun experience you don't often get in a game, and it earns my praise for that reason alone.

Something we can agree on! Yay! I also very much liked Doom 3 and Quake 4 as well. Simple, unpretentious, very pretty straightforward shooters on rails. They're essentially tech demos for id's game engines.

I very much enjoyed Doom3, it kept me engaged from start to finish. Though I've never had the inclination to play through it again I do remember it fondly. As for Quake 4, I never played it. I did hear good things when it was released, though. Maybe I'll check it out in a week or two when I got a little more cash, right now eating comes first.

Sorry though, you are dead wrong on HL2.

We'll just have to agree to disagree on what is better, clementines or tangerines.