Doom 4 Announced!

[Doom_Dude]

Haven't you lot noticed! :p id Software has announced that Doom 4 is being developed...

Production has begun on DOOM 4™, the next journey into the legendary DOOM universe. We are expanding our internal team and are currently hiring to work on this highly anticipated title.

"DOOM is part of the id Software DNA and demands the greatest talent and brightest minds in the industry to bring the next installment of our flagship franchise to Earth," said Todd Hollenshead, CEO, id Software.  "It's critical for id Software to have the best creative minds in-house to develop games that meet the standards synonymous with our titles."

The DOOM franchise is one of the most recognizable and important in gaming history, having been named "one of the ten most influential games of the decade" by PC Gamer and "the #1 game of all time" by GameSpy.  DOOM 4 will join the award-winning series which has consistently topped sales charts throughout the world.

We are looking for talented, ambitious and passionate individuals eager to join our accomplished team of developers working on the industry’s most innovative and anticipated games.  For a complete listing of available positions, visit our id Careers page.  Resumes can be submitted via email to jobs@idsoftware.com.  All applicants must be authorized to work in the United States. 

[Unconscious]

You beat me to it - I was about to post up a thread.

[Bad Sector]

Quake Live, Rage and now DOOM 4. How many games is id Software making these days? (not counting the mobile games)

[Unconscious]

"DOOM is part of the id Software DNA and demands the greatest talent and brightest minds in the industry to bring the next installment of our flagship franchise to Earth"

I wonder if that phrase was a gentle hint as to the location of Doom 4? =P It seems a rather strange way to express bringing a new game to the market, does it not?

[Rizimar]

"DOOM is part of the id Software DNA and demands the greatest talent and brightest minds in the industry to bring the next installment of our flagship franchise to Earth"

I wonder if that phrase was a gentle hint as to the location of Doom 4? =P It seems a rather strange way to express bringing a new game to the market, does it not?

Seeing as how Doom 3 was a remake of Doom, maybe Doom 4 will be like when the teleport opened up on earth. Who knows? I just hope it's better than Doom 3...

[Unconscious]

"DOOM is part of the id Software DNA and demands the greatest talent and brightest minds in the industry to bring the next installment of our flagship franchise to Earth"

I wonder if that phrase was a gentle hint as to the location of Doom 4? =P It seems a rather strange way to express bringing a new game to the market, does it not?

Seeing as how Doom 3 was a remake of Doom, maybe Doom 4 will be like when the teleport opened up on earth. Who knows? I just hope it's better than Doom 3...

As do I, I really hated Doom 3.

[Saeedoo]

So another item has been added to my list!
Games I'm waiting to be released:
-DooM 4
-Quake LIVE

-Tom Hall's MMO
-Romero's MMO
and... DUKE NUKEM FOREVER!!!!!!

[DoomGater]

Hmm, would be nice to have a new DOOM, but I doubt that they can recreate the original DOOM intensity and mood.
It' s probably just one more wayto get John Carmack more money to build rockets.

[Boone]

I would say I'm game for it, but is it going to be released for the consoles? The bullshit behind PC games has taken its toll...

[Rizimar]

Hmm, would be nice to have a new DOOM, but I doubt that they can recreate the original DOOM intensity and mood.
It' s probably just one more wayto get John Carmack more money to build rockets.

As long as they don't have Tim Willits designing again, it should be a decent game.

[Saeedoo]

Hmm, would be nice to have a new DOOM, but I doubt that they can recreate the original DOOM intensity and mood.
It' s probably just one more wayto get John Carmack more money to build rockets.

As long as they don't have Tim Willits designing again, it should be a decent game.

Hehe! Good point!

[Leo(T.C.K.)]

Hmm let's hope doom4 will be a better game, although i never played whole doom3, only a demo and bit of full ver at friend.

What about making a game, simmilar to Daikatana, but Mishima would be replaced with John Carmack who changed the timeline and used to steal some game pieces from others and making it his own (this would replace the virus storyline, like when mishima said it was his own cure), so that the world and surroundings are not what it should be.
McCarmack!

Maybe I should make game like that someday if I get in making some actual games.

[Malchik]

They're doing the same shit they did for Doom 3. They better have a good chunk of the game done before they start releasing trailer and screen shots. The four year waiting and media ejaculation is what killed Doom 3. By the time the game came out it was a hollow shell of what id promised.

[Rizimar]

The four year waiting and media ejaculation is what killed Doom 3.

That's part of what killed it. The other part was being the poor gameplay and zero replay value

[jleeto]

   I'm expecting the gameplay to be a whole lot like Half-Life 2 . Just replace the aliens with imps and pinky demons and cacodemons and the Combine with posessed soldiers. Replace the man-hacks with lost souls and the Striders will be replaced with Cyber Demons. I would say that the Striders would be replaced with Spider Masterminds,.. but they were left out of Doom 3 because they were more sci-fi than horror and didn't seem like a creature that would come from hell. There will probebly be some scenes where you drive or man the gun on the back of a futuristic humvee. The part at the end where you go in the combine headquarters and blow it up will be replaced with some kind of hellish temple that has probebly been converted from an existing building like the Empire State building.

It will be linear and scripted with lots of "holy crap!" scenes with the forces of hell assaulting Earth and blowing stuff up. You'll have some AI teammates for at least 60% of the game as they will slowly be killed or turned into posessed soldiers. You'll most likely have a female soldier who will probebly be a medic eventually get kidnapped by the forces of hell to be sacrificed or something. She will sort of be your "romantic interest".

It will mostly be outdoors except for a sewer level and maybe some running around in some apartments or skyscrapers.

It will be reviewed as a good game with atmosphere and amazing graphics,.. but it won't be considered "innovative" or ground breaking, thus everyone will automatically hate it.

 
Because when it comes to games,.. good isn't good enough. We latch onto the feeling we had when we first played the older games back in the pioneering days of game design and unless every new game gives us that same feeling, we hate it.