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Re: Top Ten Games which take eternity to make

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From: Shane
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 00:00
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I actually went and looked at the Daikatana ( I dont care if its spelt wrong
btw) Web Site when I read this top ten.  (Wanted to get some clues on how
long it was till release)

Well the Ego on the man is HUGE!  I almost though it was a joke site!

I went to the news page, and it has a bunch of questions to John on it.
(Probably thrown up to convince Eidos he is actually doing something..)

But instead of TEXT answers it has a little picture of John with some sort
of smug look on his face. (Looking very much like a shampoo ad too, or maybe
he just has a small rodent in the vicinity of his nether regions..). You
have to click on the little Johnny head and endure a download of some
streaming audio files, so you can hear the GLORY that is John's voice and
the answer to the question.

Its not just Daikatana either, its JOHN ROMERO's Daikatana.  You know, like
Tolstoy's War & Peace or Shakespeare's Hamlet.  Must be to distinguish it
from all those other Daikatanas...

Of course I just said f*** this us soon as it started downloading the audio,
and surfed on.  Great advertising guys, real great.

The belgian pie gang REALLY needs to pay a visit to Mr Romero, I mean
REALLY.  If only for our health.  Self - Important Blow Hard is very apt.

Shane

PS If it was a joke site, well done!

Mils wrote in message <7uvcb2$ma3$2...@front5.grolier.fr>...
>
>Dave <no...@none.net> a ๏ฟฝcrit dans le message :
>F79B7DE8742EDF19.2B8569B02CF74A00.0E61EC2DA3D55673@lp.airnews.net...
>> On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 00:02:40 -0700, Grimfarrow <rpha...@calpoly.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >I like doing these, dunno why ;)
>> >
>> >1.  Daikatana
>> >Yawn.  This game was supposed to be out 2 years ago, but
>> >where is it?
>>
>>       Who cares?  Daikatana is supposed to suck, by most accounts.
>>
>> Besides, I'd rather support Bill Gates than John Romero -- what a
>> self-important blowhard.  It's hard to take a geek seriously when he
>> start having delusions that he's Fabio...
>>
>> And why Fabio, fer chrissakes??
>
>Each time I see a picture of Johh Romero, I have the impression that its
>an ad for a shampoo.
>
>Moa Dragon
>
>
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Date: 1999/10/25
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