Current Events > It's legit weird to go back and play Doom 3, Far Cry and Half-Life 2

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They all came out around the same time.

What surprises me:

Far Cry aged like absolute shit, but visually was pretty damn ambitious given the GPUs available. Looks bad, by today's standards.

Half-Life 2 still has the best presentation and game play by a country mile. It also helps that Valve kept it updated for two decades. Taken as a whole, it's the only one of the three that still holds up to modern standards.

Doom 3 looks ****ing incredible for a game from 2004, and the weird thing is I don't remember thinking it looked that much better than other games of the day. But it's blatantly obvious in retrospect that the graphics in Doom 3 were WAY ahead of their time - especially in regards to lighting and textures. Gameplay is even more mediocre than I remember.

No, why would it be?