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Re: Top Ten Games which take eternity to make

#290681
From: rgrace
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 00:00
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He comes across as all style and no substance........

Shane <sha...@wantree.com.au> wrote in message
news:7uvhsb$gr7$1@centipede.wantree.com.au...
> I actually went and looked at the Daikatana ( I dont care if its spelt
wrong
> btw) Web Site when I read this top ten.  (Wanted to get some clues on how
> long it was till release)
>
> Well the Ego on the man is HUGE!  I almost though it was a joke site!
>
> I went to the news page, and it has a bunch of questions to John on it.
> (Probably thrown up to convince Eidos he is actually doing something..)
>
> But instead of TEXT answers it has a little picture of John with some sort
> of smug look on his face. (Looking very much like a shampoo ad too, or
maybe
> he just has a small rodent in the vicinity of his nether regions..). You
> have to click on the little Johnny head and endure a download of some
> streaming audio files, so you can hear the GLORY that is John's voice and
> the answer to the question.
>
> Its not just Daikatana either, its JOHN ROMERO's Daikatana.  You know,
like
> Tolstoy's War & Peace or Shakespeare's Hamlet.  Must be to distinguish it
> from all those other Daikatanas...
>
> Of course I just said f*** this us soon as it started downloading the
audio,
> and surfed on.  Great advertising guys, real great.
>
> The belgian pie gang REALLY needs to pay a visit to Mr Romero, I mean
> REALLY.  If only for our health.  Self - Important Blow Hard is very apt.
>
> Shane
>
> PS If it was a joke site, well done!
>
> Mils wrote in message <7uvcb2$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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From: "rgrace" <robert...@capgemini.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Top Ten Games which take eternity to make
Date: 1999/10/26
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