2 things that confuse me for not being in Doom 3 – From /r/Doom

Being Halloween let’s talk about the literally darkest entry in the series.

The light amp visor

Classic Doom always had darkness in levels and even a power up that complemented it (and stuff like switches or line triggers that change lightning).

So i wonder why they didn’t think of having the Light Amp Visor as a power up, like an excuse for the player to have moments where they don’t need to use the flash light.

Maybe because even in classic Doom, people saw it as a useless power up since D64 only used it one time and i think either Plutonia or TNT had none of it.

I like to think it could’ve had some extra features like body heat vision to see demons behind walls or to even see secret hidden text (I know Duke 3D did this with the glasses and some text in that Beach expansion)

Spectre

The original “ghost” enemy besides maybe the Lost Soul

Somehow not in the most horror focused Doom title.

I did have some ideas on how a modern Spectre could be, specially as distinct from Pinkes in the same way Hellknights became distinct from Barons

• Have the Spectre’s design be like the D3 pinky but replace cyberlegs with a fleshy tail, so they’re more ghost-like

• Make them transparent and go through walls, projectiles and other stuff

• Maybe even a melee bite that attacks health directly and ignores armor

• Have a mechanic so that they can either charge or simply bite when they’re fully visible AND solid

• Basically, they’re real ghosts most of the time but when they’re about to attack, they drop the ghost nature (both visually and mechanically) to attack

• The solid/100% visible state is when you can attack them, so they’re vulnerable like that

• Also, they could have a green color as both a D64 Spectre homage (Who gets visible when hit) and because, you know, PINKIES are the Pink ones

• This mechanic also suits the “green light” stuff from modern Doom but it’s put in a horror context

I guess that’s it?

Legend has it those who say “Doom 3 is not a real Doom game yuck” will have something bad happen to them at night.

Happy Halloween.

PS: id, if you ever revisit D3, just give it to people that love it (like some modders and artists behind twisted/horror Doom fanart/redesigns) and let them give D3 a proper re-release or even an expansion.

Don’t make a D3 remake for people that already hate that game when they can just focus on other parts of the series like the Slayer saga or classic Doom.