F.E.A.R vs Doom 3

I have a hand full of games that I never beat that I am trying to get too now and Fear and Doom 3 are both choices.

If you had to pick, which game did you think was better and a better use of your time?

 

I went through F.E.A.R. like hot sauce through a baby. If you happen to play it alone and at night, prepare to freak out a few times. It's the best/creepiest as you near the end. Yeah, some parts can be repetitive, but at least you don't have to hunt around a stupid PDA menu for codes to the locked door you've been trying to get past for an hour (Doom 3 )

I've tried to get through Doom 3 on four or five separate occasions, and I can never will myself past about 1 or 2 hours in. Even when it came out, I just couldn't get into it. Maybe I just need to print out a game guide that has all of the key codes?

For me, simple choice, F.E.A.R.

 

doom3 was one of the most atmospheric survival-horror games that I have ever played. ROE, the expansion is just as good. I think I will go and reinstall it again!

Also there are some visual enhancement mods that make doom3 look amazing- if your card can handle it that is...

 

Doom 3 lost me toward the end, and wasn't all that creepy... it just made me just a few times.

F.E.A.R. on the other hand made my heart jump in a few places. It's a lot creepier than Doom 3 IMO. I'd advise playing it in a dark room with nobody around.

 

i've never played doom 3 but F.E.A.R. scared the **** out of me.i didn't even beat it cause i had to reformat, but after playing for an hour or so when some things jumped out at me,i was talking to someone and half paying antention, i decided to keep going.but then i stopped cause i started getting really paranoid and barely moving.

 

So guess I will save F.E.A.R. for home since it seems to be getting the better feedback for being creepy. My setup at home is a 37" monitor so you really get into the game since your entire perfifial vision is taken up, and the PC is hooked to my Klipsh home theater system so when a grenade goes off, it sounds and feels like it

Doom 3 I will just hack thru on my laptop with free time at work or something, I had trouble getting into it also I got pretty far and was so lost/stuck and it never creeped me out the way Doom 64 did. But it seems like a great game and I do want to beat it.

I'll look into those visual mods for Doom 3 its easily tossing 62fps at me on the G50 so it should handle more load fine. (funny how it said it did not recommend ultra high settings when I tried to set it)

I miss the feel of Doom 64 that was more like how I like Doom to be.

 

I actually don't find fear scary at all.
I don't know why, maybe cos I played it on medium difficulty. the little girl was pretty creepy though, but not scary.
I still recommend fear, blasting people in the face with a shotgun in slow motion is a real treat!

 

FEAR was just tons of fun....the add ons were disappointing, but the original title is one of my faves, i still have fun with it. Cant wait for PO, its coming mid october right?

You need the right settings/envirionment for the full impact of fear....IE, low volume bright lights, multiple distractions....make it just a slightly above average shooter, dark quiet room, with good speaker cranked up or high end phones and played at a time where you should get little to no inturruptions....and the little creep factors score major wins.

 

to be honest, i didn't find any of them to be that scary, doom 3 is very scary in the beginning but gets repetitive after the first 3 levels or so.. fear can be very scary if you're into japanese horror's movies, however i'm not but the game still managed to make me jumb twice with some very unpleasant surprises! . the shooting and AI in fear are much better than doom, but doom excels in terms of atmosphere and settings...both games get repetitive and maybe boring after some time since variety is almost nonexistent!. the ravenholm level in HL2 scared way more than both games combined together!, but if you're looking for a true horror survival game get resident evil 4, you won't be disappointed...

 

fear is not scary one bit. they just put forth much suspense in the game with the music and dim lighting. the game is also far too easy. in the game your character has like a radio and it tells you who is broadcasting on the station, but when the "abnormal" comes around, you see it broadcast the name "unknown" on your screen a few seconds before any scary stuff should happen, eliminating all suprises. i don't think it's up to the hype. it isn't scary. it's tries to work the scary elements, but i don't see it working that well. they try to play mind games with you, and have some really cool effects, but the game just isn't scary. i tried to creep myself out when playing it. i used headphones and i played it late at night when no one was there, and i turned all the lights off... nothing freaked me out. i don't recall jumping the entire game. my heartrate probably increased a few times, but i didn't jump at all.

i think elements in half-life 2 are much scarier, as fear was way too easy of an fps on the most difficult level and half-life had enemies that could get your health down pretty quick if they sat on your face.