My buddy Mike and I just played the entire Doom3 co-op game today. We both gave it an “eh” accompanied by a shoulder shrug. It took, I don’t know, four hours or so. Something like that. The game was kind of a let down. Dark. All closed in corridors, caves, rooms, and hidey holes. That kind of 3d world is so five years ago. After today’s wide open levels in Halo and other games it’s just a disappointment. The whole thing is kill monsters. More monsters. Big monster. Repeat. And it was annoyingly dark. So dark we’d end up shooting each other and not being able to see anything at all, much less the monsters spitting fireballs at us. I think at best, this game was a retro trip down memory lane for those that played the original Doom (which for it’s time was a ground breaking game).

But the best part was playing co-op with Mike. We go way back on the first person co-op gaming thing. One of the funniest memories we have together is playing duke nukem all night and our neighbors banging on the wall at 3am – “Turn that shit down!!” Whoopsi. This is back when we were roommates. Both of us were mega hungover the next day. Geek hungover that is. Duke Nukem was the best.

As Duke would say, “It hurts to be you!”