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who ?

lots of crosspost but not to 'game industry' ng...


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<Highlander> wrote in message news:H6KdnXLwobjRHUjfRVn-gQ@comcast.com...
> http://www.ga-forum.com/showthread.php?t=55122
>
> What does the future hold for Romero? He's not saying...yet. "I'm 
> currently looking at lots of exciting developments right now and it'll be 
> a couple months before I can announce my next destination," he wrote on 
> his site. "I've been gone for about 3 weeks and [my wife] Rhaluka and I 
> have been traveling around and having fun together (a sort of honeymoon 
> without going to tropical destinations)."
>


I hope that all works out for Romero. 

<Highlander> once tried to test me with:

> http://www.ga-forum.com/showthread.php?t=55122
> A post on John Romero's message boards by Romero himself reveals that
> the former id Software designer and founder of the now defunct Ion
> Storm has departed Midway Games. Romero, along with Ion Storm
> co-founder Tom Hall, was hired by Midway less than two years ago and
> Romero worked on the design of the upcoming action-RPG Gauntlet: Seven
> Sorrorws. There is no word on why Romero left Midway although this
> post at Computer Games Magazine speculates that Romero was fired by
> Midway thanks to a quick mention near the end of a lengthy blog entry
> by game designer David Jaffe. Romero states that cannot comment on
> Gauntlet's current status following his departure and adds, "I'm 
> currently looking at lots of exciting developments right now and it'll
> be a couple months before I can announce my next destination." Thanks
> to Blue's News for the tip

Hopefully Romero's latest game Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows is pretty good, 
because looking at the previews of it it really did look kick ass, I hope 
the gameplay is as cool. I'm curious as to what Romero's next project will 
be, since he really seems to have a lot of bad luck. What I don't 
understand is why the press still hounds him after all these years. I mean, 
yeah, the "make you his bitch" ads were an extremly bad idea, but come on, 
that's so 1990's. 

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Knight37 - http://knightgames.blogspot.com

Once a Gamer, Always a Gamer.

Paul Heslop wrote:
> oh my god! Where's me razor blades? I must top meself.

No, not a razor.  It's better, at a serious time like this to immolate 
oneself on the burning pyre of the Xbox and its games.

Q 

John Romero is very nice bloke. i emailed to him peronally few year back 
about Doom and Daikatania. He reply to me same day.

Wes

What ever to John best of luck finding other job :)

<Highlander> wrote in message news:H6KdnXLwobjRHUjfRVn-gQ@comcast.com...
> http://www.ga-forum.com/showthread.php?t=55122
> A post on John Romero's message boards by Romero himself reveals that the 
> former id Software designer and founder of the now defunct Ion Storm has 
> departed Midway Games. Romero, along with Ion Storm co-founder Tom Hall, 
> was hired by Midway less than two years ago and Romero worked on the 
> design of the upcoming action-RPG Gauntlet: Seven Sorrorws. There is no 
> word on why Romero left Midway although this post at Computer Games 
> Magazine speculates that Romero was fired by Midway thanks to a quick 
> mention near the end of a lengthy blog entry by game designer David Jaffe. 
> Romero states that cannot comment on Gauntlet's current status following 
> his departure and adds, "I'm currently looking at lots of exciting 
> developments right now and it'll be a couple months before I can announce 
> my next destination." Thanks to Blue's News for the tip
> .....................................................................................................................................


It is a sad day for all people who believe there are actually people who 
think this news is of any value to such people.  A sad day indeed.

"Knight37" <knight37m@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:Xns9692C449788F9knight37m@130.133.1.4...
>
> Hopefully Romero's latest game Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows is pretty good,
> because looking at the previews of it it really did look kick ass, I hope
> the gameplay is as cool. I'm curious as to what Romero's next project will
> be, since he really seems to have a lot of bad luck. What I don't
> understand is why the press still hounds him after all these years. I 
> mean,
> yeah, the "make you his bitch" ads were an extremly bad idea, but come on,
> that's so 1990's.
>


Yeah, I agree, he does deserve better. 

"Grackle" wrote

> It is a sad day for all people who believe there are actually people who 
> think this news is of any value to such people.  A sad day indeed.

http://thesaurus.reference.com 

"Vince" <vmelia@nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:PBqBe.37489$O22.31836@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> "Grackle" wrote
>
>> It is a sad day for all people who believe there are actually people who 
>> think this news is of any value to such people.  A sad day indeed.
>
> http://thesaurus.reference.com

I applaud your magnanimous attempt to ameliorate my conversational 
proficiency. 

Knight37 <knight37m@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm curious as to what Romero's next project will 
> be, since he really seems to have a lot of bad luck.

Blaming "Daikatana" on bad luck seems like a stretch. He pissed away a
lot of money, generated more hype than I've seen for just about any
other game, and released a steaming pile of crap.

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.

Nick

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Quaoar wrote:
> 
> Paul Heslop wrote:
> > oh my god! Where's me razor blades? I must top meself.
> 
> No, not a razor.  It's better, at a serious time like this to immolate
> oneself on the burning pyre of the Xbox and its games.
> 
> Q

oh no, not forza!
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"Grackle" <nobody@lalaland.ca> wrote in message 
news:C%jBe.9975$qg1.803092@news20.bellglobal.com...
> <Highlander> wrote in message news:H6KdnXLwobjRHUjfRVn-gQ@comcast.com...
>> http://www.ga-forum.com/showthread.php?t=55122
>> A post on John Romero's message boards by Romero himself reveals that the 
>> former id Software designer and founder of the now defunct Ion Storm has 
>> departed Midway Games. Romero, along with Ion Storm co-founder Tom Hall, 
>> was hired by Midway less than two years ago and Romero worked on the 
>> design of the upcoming action-RPG Gauntlet: Seven Sorrorws. There is no 
>> word on why Romero left Midway although this post at Computer Games 
>> Magazine speculates that Romero was fired by Midway thanks to a quick 
>> mention near the end of a lengthy blog entry by game designer David 
>> Jaffe. Romero states that cannot comment on Gauntlet's current status 
>> following his departure and adds, "I'm currently looking at lots of 
>> exciting developments right now and it'll be a couple months before I can 
>> announce my next destination." Thanks to Blue's News for the tip
>> .....................................................................................................................................
>
>
> It is a sad day for all people who believe there are actually people who 
> think this news is of any value to such people.  A sad day indeed.
>
>

QUICK slither back under your rock before the sun comes out ! 

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.

-- 

Knight37 - http://knightgames.blogspot.com

Once a Gamer, Always a Gamer.

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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a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
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On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 02:57:25 -0700, Xocyll <Xocyll@kingston.net>
wrote:

>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:

[snip]

>>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 don't think that Daikatana is as good as HL either, but it does show
a lot of imagination and detailed environments.  It's on a par with
Unreal in that sense.


>[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.

I found I enjoyed the game more the second time I'd played it, once I
got used to the sidekicks.  Occasionaly however they would get stuck,
meaning a major step back.  This wasn't help by the pointlessly
limited number of save games.


>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.   

What got me is that in the final boss battle, when the 2 sidekicks are
really needed, they just get killed off.  This leaves the player to
face the bearded one all alone.



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"Grackle" wrote
> "Vince" wrote
>> "Grackle" wrote

>>> It is a sad day for all people who believe there are actually people who 
>>> think this news is of any value to such people.  A sad day indeed.

>> http://thesaurus.reference.com

> I applaud your magnanimous attempt to ameliorate my conversational 
> proficiency.

LOL. 

Quoth The Raven "Xocyll"<Xocyll@kingston.net> in
bq1fd1tdhrbtnkk8ah9onf2tqdf8a4ag6u@4ax.com
> 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

I never got past the frogs and mosquitos I had to fight, I couldn't stand 
it, the graphics were way too square. it maddened me that the bugs were 
killing me so I uninstalled it and never looked back

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Take out the _CURSEING to reply to me 

"Highlandish" <ckreskay_CURSEING@dodo.com.au> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

>Quoth The Raven "Xocyll"<Xocyll@kingston.net> in
>bq1fd1tdhrbtnkk8ah9onf2tqdf8a4ag6u@4ax.com
>> 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
>
>I never got past the frogs and mosquitos I had to fight, I couldn't stand 
>it, the graphics were way too square. it maddened me that the bugs were 
>killing me so I uninstalled it and never looked back

You saved yourself so much aggravation.
Of course you also missed the few good things about the game, but on the
whole, i'd say you definitely came out ahead.

Xocyll
-- 
I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr