babark: I can see how they were TRYING to be a horror game, but honestly, it was so badly implemented, that it just didn't work for me. I mean, I search an entire room, make sure to check all the cupboards and nooks and crannies, and then just as I step over the trigger point to leave the room, instantly (without the "summoning animation") there are 3 baddies just behind me. OH THE HORROR! In the end, I just left rooms backwards, aiming my gun at the very obvious point a monster would pop up and try getting at me.
As someone who has literally played the game close to a dozen times (probably more) over the course of the original release, the XBOX original versions AND BFG Edition I have no idea what you are talking about. The game certainly overdid the monster closets but enemies constantly spawning behind you to the point you back out of rooms? Yeah... I don't remember that at all.
Reminds me a bit of complaints of how Halo had repetitive level design. Complaints I agree with, but disagree on how negatively it effected the experience. Yeah I'm going down another copy paste hallway, but so what if blasting these aliens is incredibly fun? Yeah Doom 3 is loaded with monster closets... it doesn't make blasting an imp in the face with a shotgun any less fun.
Anyway... if people really disliked Doom 3 and it comes to GOG you certainly don't have to buy it. Daikatana is on here after all and has people who enjoy and defend it. I don't get it either. One man's trash is another man's treasure.
Lifthrasil: Well, this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8D-dJrS1t4 is basically a video of Doom3 (without the sound). I found it completely unplayable without mods. And a game that has to be fixed by the community before being playable, is a bad game. And why make a game with cutting edge graphics and lots of hardware hunger (for that time) if you then make sure no one gets to see that graphics?
But in a way you are right. A lot of the disappointment in Doom3 comes from the fact that people expected a Doom game. Which might have something to do with the 'Doom' in the title. So Doom3 wasn't as bad as some people make it out to be. It just had the wrong name. They should have called it 'Black screen of death' instead.
In the sense that the game was too dark? I guess it didn't bother me nearly as much because while I'm a huge id Software fan I'm also a big fan of survival horror... though it took me many years to finally 'get' that genre. So Doom 3, even though it isn't close to being a survival horror game, was really enjoyable as it embraced a lot of horror elements. Absolutely loved the atmosphere, sound and music. I loved how the thumping of machinery, literal machinery in a room was actually the action music for some rooms. The creepy whispers and noises.