[ConnorG]

Another thing is how pretty the game is. It's hard to get that out of a video, but when you're actually playing the game you realize just how beautiful it is. Part of the reason is they use a lot of colors. It's not just another dark color palette shooter.

Plus the frame rate is amazing.

[corysama]

Digital Foundry did a great technical analysis of Doom.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=la0O0SyM3gg

[ConnorG]

Watching it now. Thanks for the link. I love a good tech analysis

[corysama]

Shameless plug: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMakingOfGames/

[Asooka]

Note: that is for Doom 4, not Doom 1

[whatever_dude]

Good point. In a world of 30-fps-locked games, a game that is engineered to run with your framerate just feels right, even if you're "only" playing at 60Hz.

[meroje]

But that means the voices get out of sync during cinematics if your fps is too low

[whatever_dude]

No, the game uses frame delta times rather than a set tick rate per second.

(In general it's how most games already work; it's just that it's normally convenient to set it at a fixed rate to make some things like physics more deterministic, and it gives a nice target performance/budget).

[Kristine1975]

Not if the cinematics are synced to a global timer instead of the frame rate. Then when the frame rate is too low the game skips some frames to keep up.

[lookupmobile]

What's your computer's spec?

[ConnorG]

I've actually been playing on Xbone lately.