{"id":21,"date":"2020-02-14T19:42:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T00:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/onethumb\/?p=21"},"modified":"2020-09-25T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T21:25:00","slug":"i-played-doom-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/onethumb\/2020\/02\/14\/i-played-doom-3\/","title":{"rendered":"I played Doom 3<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

In August of 2004, I eagerly played the game Doom 3<\/em>, but unfortunately, my system at the time was under-powered and could barely run it, so I had to run it at 640\u00d7480 with everything down to the lowest possible settings. I ended up playing it with no effects at all and everything was bland, pale, washed-out, and barely textured at all (I still picture it as a bunch of grayish-white, low-polygon, un-textured models in my mind).<\/p>\n

In November of 2012, I re-played through all of the Doom games and their mission-packs, and got to Doom 3<\/em> in April of 2013. This time, my system was a little better, so I was able to play it with all the settings set to the best and maximum settings at my laptop’s native resolution of 1366\u00d7768.<\/p>\n

Oddly, looking at the screenshots, the difference is not nearly as stark as I recall. \ud83e\udd14 I’ve always said that graphics are the least important part of a game. \u00ac_\u00ac<\/p>\n

That is all.
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\u200bWhat? I have nothing more to say about it other than that I played it. \ud83e\udd37<\/p>\n


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Doom 3 played in 2004 with low settings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Doom 3 played in 2013 with high settings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In August of 2004, I eagerly played the game Doom 3, but unfortunately, my system at the time was under-powered and could barely run it, so I had to run it at 640\u00d7480 with everything down to the lowest possible settings. I ended up playing it with no effects at all and everything was bland, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/onethumb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/onethumb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/onethumb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/onethumb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/onethumb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/onethumb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/onethumb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/onethumb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/onethumb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}