Several years would go by without any subsequent information being offered by id Software, leading to growing frustration by gamers and the gaming press when inquiries at the yearly QuakeCon convention were met with event cancellations statements such as, 'we can't talk about that ' or apologies by Todd Hollenshead for the continuing lack of information. This would see id Software internally split into two development teams for the first time. It was begun shortly after the abandoning of an early concept project called Darkness, which was to be a survival horror game based on the horror aspects of Doom 3, and while id Software's then-upcoming title Rage was still in development. This was followed with an official announcement by id Software on May 7, 2008.

Everyone knows the feeling of Doom, but it’s very hard to articulate.Įarly development began in August 2007, according to comments made at that time by John Carmack. It didn’t have the passion and soul of what an id game is. It had a bit of schizophrenia, a little bit of an identity crisis. And did not have the spirit, it did not have the soul, it didn’t have a personality. When you played Rage, you got the spirit. It wasn’t like the art was bad, or the programming was bad.