Just noticed this over at Blue's (damn, that dude keeps good track of time), but today, or yesterday, or whenever after you've done the time conversion is the fifth birthday of Qtest. I remember being out at good ol' UQ and then driving over to b2's LAN house (surely one of the first LAN houses in the country!@#) with our PCs this time five years ago with b2 and plok and a few other guys and being blown away by how cool it was. I never would have thought it would have grown this far in such a short time.

I dug up a couple of pictures that I've had on my HDD since they were released (probably about 5.5 years ago, I guess). These were, from memory, the second series of pictures that were released - the first ones were a bunch of 320x200 ones that demonstrated the lightmaps and the architecture. These were the first 640x480 ones - check them out: 1, 2 and 3.

Its come a pretty long way since the first pregenerated lightmaps, as seen in the recent Doom 3 movie, where we're now seeing fully dynamic lighting amongst all the other new things that they're cramming into games. I read somewhere recently where someone was questioning what the big deal about Doom 3 was, but when I think of all the huge advances that have been made with each id game, and the impact that they've had on me, I get pretty excited. I'm sure (at least I really hope) that id are going to be using the Doom name to make something Earth-shattering, and from the glimpse we've had so far - I'd say they're on the right track. This is their first entry into the single player game since Half-Life basically set the new standards - can id match it?

Sif Duke4ever wont rock ya world.

sif Duke4ever will ever come out.

sif it wouldn't be old even if it did.

sif Doom 3 doesn't r0x0r j00.

sif life isn't like a box of chocolates.

sif I shouldn't go to bed right about now :)

how about some pocket quake action :)

Damn trog, that game looks like ass!

nG!

nG!

indeed.

I hope they don't make a doom3test