Comments on: Id Software Announces 'Doom Resurrection' for iPhone

By: Ville Helin

Ville Helin — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:59:40 +0000

If the phone has a feature, like accelerometer, you don't have to use it in your game if it doesn't work there. And on rails? Going to skip and forget this game so fast...

By: sufy

sufy — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:00:18 +0000

Wow this is just some great news Doom 3 on an iphone! Have to say judging by the trailer I have just seen the graphics are not on par with a PSP or a DS and the framerate is bad.

By: reinhart_menken

reinhart_menken — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:59:37 +0000

@spiffyone:

Accelerator movement AND touch-based firing, spiffyone. Wrong pause/connect at the wording

By: ataru

ataru — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:17:19 +0000

With Carmack involved, we'll be guaranteed a technical tour de force. The man is a master. I am a little concerned over the controls though.

By: Fokion

Fokion — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:40:43 +0000

As soon as I saw the pics and read about accelerometer controls, I thought this would most probably be on rails. Not that it's a bad thing, I love gallery shooters, provided they are challenging and well designed. I suspect that id will offer an increased degree of control compared to other tap to shoot games. Oh, and "as it stands", the iDevice is more of a casual platform. Just like Apple wants it to be. After all, it's the DS that's making the big bucks.

By: Rocco

Rocco — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:17:12 +0000

The STP article says ON RAILS!
That's sounds not fun.

By: Mike Smith

Mike Smith — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:36:09 +0000

Great news!

I just hope that since Carmack is involved, he'll make sure the frame rate is decent. Too many games on iPhone (especially shooters) suffer from really poor frame rate.

By: Sureshot

Sureshot — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:43:41 +0000

i am worried with the controls... my experience with accelerometer fps controls so far had been a horrible experience.

i am also worried about the gameplay. this might not have enough hours of gameplay unlike the classics.

it still looks pretty badass though

By: spiffyone

spiffyone — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:38:28 +0000

Accelerometer controlled movement AND aiming?

How does that even work out?

I mean...accelerometer movement and touch aiming I can see, but how can you move AND aim at the same time using JUST the motion sensor?

By: arn

arn — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:08:50 +0000

the game will be demoed tongiht at the launch party:
http://toucharcade.com/2009/06/10/wwdc-iphone-launch-party-tonight-live-stream/

arn

By: Eric5h5

Eric5h5 — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:58:40 +0000

"Akira01, I don't get where you get that the iPhone is for casuals from that statement."

I do believe you missed the entire point of Akira01's post. Read it again.

By: TKO

TKO — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:55:22 +0000

Akira01, I don't get where you get that the iPhone is for casuals from that statement. And Carmack did go back to Wolf3D primarily as an easy way to prototype the control method for FPS games for the iPhone ..then found it so much fun he became enthusiastic about porting all the classic titles. From what I've read it sounds very much like he's porting the back catalogue because he's enthusiastic about giving them a new life on the iPhone. (There might be something of not wanting to leave it to the third parties who so often do a half-assed job of porting them too.) I don't think there's any reflection on the iPhone audience to be taken from this. Further, I would say that mobile gaming itself is inherently more casual ..because it's often (though not always) done when someone has bits of spare time. So to consider these titles as casual games probably has more to do with the situations the devices is used in, rather than the users themselves. It makes sense to make allowances for casual use in the way you design for the iPhone: like the way all levels in Wolf3D are unlocked from the very first use.

By: Zandog

Zandog — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:54:04 +0000

Lots of updates, a release date and screenshots in the TA forum right here:
http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=15433

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:48:58 +0000

it would be cool to have destructive or object that you can use...

By: apan_bajs

apan_bajs — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:34:03 +0000

I knew it, now I have to get an 3G S!!!!! Good to have DooM I next month til DooM Resurrection is released.