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Posted: **Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:31 pm**

Carmack introduced the technology, saying, "So the last couple of years at id we've been working in secrecy on next-gen tech and a game for it ... this is the first time we're showing anything we've done on it publicly." He describes the demo happening on screen: "What we've got here is the entire world with unique textures, 20GB of textures covering this track. They can go in and look at the world and, say, change the color of the mountaintop, or carve their name into the rock. They can change as much as they want on surfaces with no impact on the game."

Carmack finished off the tease saying, "We're going to be showing on a Mac, PC, PS3, and Xbox at E3, we'll have another Mac announcement at E3." Wow, talk about multiplatform. Check out some pics of the id Tech 5 demo from Engadget after the break.

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Screens:

Looks like Oblivion

needs more bloom!

Teh ultimate game predictions:
Doom 4: Oblivion
Quake 5: Oblivion

Posted: **Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:37 pm**

*sigh* when i see these sorts of pics, it just makes me realize i need to buy a new computer, upgrading isnt an option anymore

Posted: **Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:41 pm**

they don`t want your money, they want your soul and your money.

Posted: **Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:56 pm**

Why is it that the word 'next gen' makes me want to spontaneously vomit? Is this normal?

Posted: **Wed Jun 13, 2007 9:36 pm**

yes, that's normal

I like how id stays true to their multi-platform stuff though, extra kudos for that

Posted: **Thu Jun 14, 2007 2:03 am**

I respect the companies that release their games on both Mac and PC simultaneously

Posted: **Thu Jun 14, 2007 3:39 am**

Platinum-plated shit is still shit.

Making shitty action games photorealistic isn't going to make them better. I hope some of these devs figure this out before we're all knee-deep in "next-gen" 3D engines that can't support dialogue options with more than 3 words.

Posted: **Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:16 am**

"next-gen tech and a game for it"

I actually like that he admits they're just into making the engines, that the game is secondary. It seems to be what they do best, but at the same time, that philosophy has lead to some really decent games. I enjoyed doom 3, for all its shortcomings, it was still actually fun for me to play.

Posted: **Thu Jun 14, 2007 8:13 am**

There is a lot of steampunk about those screens. I like it. The engine looks good, of course...

First Force wrote:*sigh* when i see these sorts of pics, it just makes me realize i need to buy a new computer, upgrading isnt an option anymore

My sentiments exactly. It does, indeed, remind us of how it is time to get a next-gen comp. to play those next-gen games.

Sooner or later, every gamer of the old-gen. realizes that just playing Starcraft and Fallout/Arcanum, etc is not enough.

Posted: **Thu Jun 14, 2007 8:31 am**

I can live without seeing the myriads of details that choke a super-computer anyway, if they improved the storyline..

Posted: **Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:55 pm**

Mucho

Posted: **Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:45 pm**

looks like shit

out of

Posted: **Sun Jul 01, 2007 3:53 am**

DaC-Sniper wrote:they don`t want your money, they want your soul and your money.

Hey wouldn't that also include your anal virginity as well?

Posted: **Sun Jul 01, 2007 4:39 am**

What an awesome hat.

Posted: **Sun Jul 01, 2007 4:59 am**

Graphically it looks like they took a step back, Doom 3 on my pc looks better than those pictures.

Posted: **Sun Jul 01, 2007 5:59 am**

I don't agree, the fact they seem to have gotten in-game atmospheric perspective down is pretty interesting.

I'm not a fan of the face but meh, it's got far to go?

Posted: **Sun Jul 01, 2007 6:52 am**

Janus Matchell wrote:
DaC-Sniper wrote:they don`t want your money, they want your soul and your money.
Hey wouldn't that also include your anal virginity as well?

lol OH SHIT I HEAR THE ICE CREAM TRUCK!!!!!111!1111oneone. k.

Posted: **Sun Jul 01, 2007 7:10 am**

whoa now cowboy it's you whose upgrading to a new system, not me.

Posted: **Sun Jul 01, 2007 7:45 am**

i don`t upgrade it. i`m buying a new one and after that again a new one, i am rich, i have money, fuck that. actually i am not, but i refuse to go for a console. Its a stupid situation anyway, Windows Vista sucks and if you want to play good games you need to go for Xbox360, Windows owns now the westside and eastside, nowhere to hide for a nigga.

Posted: **Sun Jul 01, 2007 8:15 pm**

JANUS

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