There are a few memorable set pieces and monster encounters from the original that are completely removed. Take them with a grain of salt because it's just my point of view.īFG Edition changes a few sounds, and generally has a more balanced sound mix than the original, but if any sound had more than five variations (most do), all but the first five are removed from the game. Below are only a few of the most obvious differences, comparisons and opinions I can think of. And to make matters worse for CstDoom3BFG, it seems like its developer has gone AWOL for over a year or two now and the source port has been left collecting dust (even though its source code is also included).īFG has a few things going against it for me but ultimately they're both equally playable. CstDoom3BFG has helped fixed some of the problems that BFG Edition botched moreso than other source ports I've used in my opinion, but sadly it doesn't fix everything from what was still butchered in its version of Resurrection of Evil, it doesn't fix the gimped Nightmare! difficulty of the embedded classic Doom games, and it doesn't support the 2019 version of Doom 3. It's also a shame there's no real "definitive" solution to fixing BFG Edition on PC unlike Sonic Adventure DX which was fortunate to have the blessings of SADX Mod Installer to restore the game much of it to its former Dreamcast glory thanks to its modding community while keeping the few genuine improvements DX has over the original Dreamcast version. I heard that it was because GOG don't offer CD keys yet they're perfectly fine with providing CD keys of Quake III Arena for its multiplayer features. It's even more baffling that's only Steam that gets to have both the original Doom 3 + Resurrection of Evil and BFG Edition available in one package as of August 2022 meanwhile not even GOG gets to have the option of the original.
Oddly enough I mentioned that it's sad that the "worst" version of Sonic Adventure is the one that's the most easily accessible nowadays instead of the original like BFG Edition is to Doom 3 in my own Steam review of the former.
In my eyes, both of these games are better in their original forms. Doom 3 is definitely a game where the two versions are highly divisive though, like Sonic Adventure and SADX, where people will argue for hours on whether or not the changes make the game worse or better. BFG has a lot of "improvements" (downgrades) that make the game significantly worse in my opinion, though I guess it's neat for a quick pick up and play replay option.