New Interviews About Doom... 3

I liked the part where Tim and Todd disproved that Carmack leaving rumor and stated their tech is better than HL2's and FC's. :)

Yeah.

And man, the most awesome thing about it is that it's 100 percent true. id is a company that you seriously can trust to be at the forefront when they release something new. That's just all there is to it (and all there ever has been to it).

Linguica said:
As opposed to learning it from, say, Doom or Doom 2

I don't know about Quake II, but in DOOM II the BFG is fine on most 1 on 1 maps... it tends to get dominant with more players, naturally.

I'm also assuming they mean the DM maps included with the game don't have the BFG; I doubt that will stop people from placing it in theirs... if it's okay as a DM weapon.

And besides, there weren't thousands and thousands and even more thousands of people playing it online and giving very vocal feedback about what they thought -- and -- there wasn't a community of pro gamers back then they could consult about what works best, like they had in Quake III.

By the time Quake II rolled around, a seriously active internet community had sprung up, and there was a nice base of pro players that could indicate what worked and what didn't.