{"id":57074,"date":"2013-08-07T11:59:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T09:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=57074"},"modified":"2013-08-07T12:01:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T10:01:50","slug":"doom-4-identity-crisis-id-pushing-boundaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/57074-doom-4-identity-crisis-id-pushing-boundaries","title":{"rendered":"Doom 4 “identity crisis”: id pushing boundaries"},"content":{"rendered":"

After John Carmack was being really tight-lipped about Doom 4<\/a>,\u00a0another id Software dev has opened up about the development of the upcoming Doom iteration from id Software.<\/p>\n

Speaking at QuakeCom, id Software\u2019s studio director, Tim Willits, said that the studio has placed its entire focus on Doom, even putting other projects aside in order to make it happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe focused everybody. All hands on deck,\u201d said Willits, who added that the team \u201ccut distractions out,\u201d and are focusing hard on Doom 4. \u201cIf you have everyone marching to the same drummer, you can get places,\u201d added Willits.<\/p>\n

Willits explained that the development of Doom 4 has had its ups and downs, it just lacked \u201csoul\u201d rather than having anything inherently wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t one thing,\u201d said Willits. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t like the art was bad, or the programming was bad. Every game has a soul. Every game has a spirit. When you played Rage, you got the spirit. And [Doom] did not have the spirit, it did not have the soul, it didn\u2019t have a personality. It had a bit of schizophrenia, a little bit of an identity crisis. It didn\u2019t have the passion and soul of what an id game is. Everyone knows the feeling of Doom, but it\u2019s very hard to articulate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Doom<\/a>

Doom 4 leaked artwork before the change – now said to have no relation to the Doom project in the works.<\/p><\/div>\n

This \u201cidentity crisis\u201d of Doom 4 led to the team reworking the entire game to deliver something that hopefully lives up to the hype.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it was like the quintessential, \u2018yup, that\u2019s Doom 4,\u2019 then we wouldn\u2019t be having this conversation,\u201d said Bethesda VP of marketing Pete Hines.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut, it was something that we looked at and the id guys looked at and said, look, it\u2019s not even that something is necessarily bad. But is it good enough? You can make a game and say, \u2018that\u2019s not a bad game, but it\u2019s not as good as an Elder Scrolls game should be,\u2019 and there\u2019s a difference… it\u2019s not great. It\u2019s not amazing. It\u2019s not what people have waited all this time for.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt needs to be like \u2018this was totally worth the wait.\u2019 And I think what the guys at id are working on is…they\u2019re pushing the boundaries and challenging themselves. I don\u2019t want anybody to look at id\u2019s next project and have this reaction that it\u2019s still stuck in the 90s.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: IGN<\/a><\/h6>\n

More id Software news<\/h3>\n

Carmack tight-lipped on Doom 4<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Carmack would be stunned by mainstream Linux gaming support<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Quake II celebrates 15th anniversary with little-known facts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Rage review (PC)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Doom 3: BFG Edition review<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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