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Knight37 <knight37m@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of
the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:

>Nick Vargish <nav+posts@bandersnatch.org> once tried to test me with:
>
>> His "game designer as rock star" motif rightly pissed off a lot of
>> hard-working people in the industry, and even those who weren't pissed
>> off were probably a little bitter about how badly he wasted the
>> opportunities he earned from his salad days at iD.
>> 
>> I'm sure he's a great guy, but if you can't pack the gig, don't put on
>> a  Mick Jagger persona.
>
>It's the marketers and gaming press that tried to give him a game designer 
>as rock star image. They do this shit all the time and not just with 
>Romero. Look at how they fawn over Miyamoto, Wright, Molyneaux, Meier, 
>Carmack, Taylor, etc. They're smart enough (now) to not try the "make you 
>his bitch" crap, but they try so very hard to create superstars out of 
>every day gaming geeks.
>
>BTW, Daikatana has its moments, but overall it's nowhere near up to the 
>hype it generated. Is it a bad game? For the time it came out, yeah, but 
>had it come out before Half Life, I imagine many would look on it with much 
>more fondness than they did. I'll give them credit for actually following 
>up with patches rather than just dump it after all the negative press.

Oh i'd have to disagree with that.

Even before half-life Daikatana's "leet deathmatcher" sidekicks would
have become intensely annoying to pretty much everyone.

Daikatana ranks lower than DOOM, much less Half-Life.

[I played DOOM dozens of times (if not hundreds), i've played half-life
probably a dozen times or more (plus blue shift and opposing force).

I played Daikatana _ONCE_, and i'll never play it again simply because
babysitting those moronic "leet speek" spewing sidekicks makes the game
intensely un-fun.

The sidekicks had good pathfinding, and the different weapons for each
timezones was a nice touch, but those are the only 2 good things about
the game.   

Xocyll
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