What was id Software doing between Doom 3 and Rage?

[Ixion]

id software churned out Doom and Quake games in the 90s, but then they released Doom 3 in 2004 and Rage in 2011, and nothing in between. Were they using all that time to build id tech 5?

Just curious.

[*goo]

They were working on Quake Live, some mobile (iOS) games and the id Tech 5 engine. I believe Doom 4 was also in the early stages of development whilst Rage was being worked on, too.

Fairly certain they were involved on some level with Wolfenstein (2009) and Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars.

[Cyn]

Carmack was probably doing a hundred interesting things including that rocket project of his.

As for the rest of em, fuck knows.

[Vulgotha]

From what I've gathered idTech5 isn't that fantastic imo. ID themselves made a game with... Well, "controversial" results (to put it politely) for its first outing.

Given the huge waves idTech4 made in the industry back in the day, I'd call it a flop by comparison.

Doom 4 is really their saving grace at this point imo.

[Ixion]

From what I've gathered idTech5 isn't that fantastic imo. ID themselves made a game with... Well, "controversial" results (to put it politely) for its first outing.

Given the huge waves idTech4 made in the industry back in the day, I'd call it a flop by comparison.

Doom 4 is really their saving grace at this point imo.

Since Doom 4 will run at 30 FPS instead of 60 FPS, we should see more impressive stuff, such as much higher enemy counts. I believe Carmack said he wants 30 demons to be "crawling all over you" at once.

I also hope they resolve the pop-in, or at least make it so the textures load based on proximity instead of view.

[Silver_Knight]

They were sitting in the 90's. That was the problem

[Blacksite]

Speaking of Rage, the skybox in that game looks amazing.

[keefy]

Carmack was re-writing idtech4 throwing away most of its code and creating idtech5 if he had not have done that then maybe Rage would have been ready sooner.

[Varsh]

Quake 4 was also released after Doom 3 so that's another game to add to the "whats?".

Rage is still a really good game and the engine definitely showed how well it can perform, it ran REALLY smoothly for me at max details on a crazy resolution. If they can iron out the texture pop-ins from the sides as well as stop adding millions of invisible walls then Doom 4 would be a spectacle to play. The engine is so much better than what IdTech4 was, that engine was far too heavy on the GPU, it was worse than a Total War game.

[Ixion]

Quake 4 was also released after Doom 3 so that's another game to add to the "whats?".

Quake 4 was developed by Raven Software though. id just supervised it.

[Vulgotha]

Correct.

[keefy]

Quake 4wasnt too bad to be honest, I liked it until they released 1.4 and above. That patch proper fucked the movement up, it made it well too fast at first I thought it was me being noob but soon realised it was a flaw in the movement physics.