"For me, the purity of the game is that you could either have the flashlight, or have the gun, it was just a choice you had to make in the game. "The rationale behind that really is that, it's like for people who wanted it, you can turn it on," said id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead to Polygon. (They were simpler times.) id Software was mostly mum about it, though it later enshrined the Duct Tape mod into the game as part of the 2012 re-release, Doom 3: BFG Edition.Īll Doom 3 images courtesy of id Software The flashlight controversy was a real kerfuffle at the time, in as much as the 2004-era Internet would get up in arms about a design decision. In order to preserve the atmosphere, these new lights are much narrower (and a little brighter) than the standard flashlight, and are only available on the basic weapons." "Under the crazy presumption that a roll of duct tape has to exist somewhere on the Mars facility," he wrote at the time, "the Duct Tape mod sticks flashlights to your machinegun and shotgun. (Even if that means flipping the toilet paper direction in Fallout 4.) Though a number of modders developed solutions, the Duct Tape mod by Glen "FrenZon" Murphy was the most popular. Whatever id Software's intentions were, if there's a demand, inevitably a modder will fill it. "I love how you need to use your flashlight to move around and then when you turn in a room it highlights a monster all of a sudden and then you gotta run and switch to your weapon, it adds to the atmosphere."
"The flashlight's separate use was designed for gameplay purpose," wrote one Doom 3 player on the gaming message board NeoGAF, way back in 2004.
Other players saw it as a deliberate design decision to introduce risk/reward. Some folks thought it was annoying, irked by the burden of swapping between them.
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