Carmack on NVidia

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  he's also one of three directors of the company, and as such, is responsible for the final content of th... : xvdl
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    Kevin Cloud and someone else account for the rest of Id's control. : the archvile
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      Adrian Carmack. : xvdl
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        And the funny thing is, Kevin and Adrian dont want to do Doom3. : ZeBFFd00d
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          but they were both on the original DOOM and DOOM2development team, so they're the ones for the job. : the archvile
          • Disgruntled workers doing a game they dont want to do. Oh yea, this will turn out well. : ZeBFFd00d
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            they need The Romero. : xvdl
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              that's the last thing they need, that lazy-ass programmer who only grooms his hair now. : the archvile
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                hate him as we all may, id making games without The Romero reminds me of Paul McCartney songs written wi... : xvdl
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                  John Romero may very well leave ION Storm and help out on the new DOOM. After all, ION Storm has all bu... : the archvile
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                    heh, no I doubt very much that will happen. Romero is the head honcho of ion, he won't just get up and... : Anti_dentite
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                      id/ION collabo perhaps? -Rev. : Rev. Trimble
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                        doubt it could happen. I think the "builders" at Id can't see that they lost something that made them w... : TargetBoy
                        • not a very popular sentiment, but one I agree with. : freshview
                • I agree. He's the "dreamer" of the group. Unfortunately, success gets to the heads of the others you m... : TargetBoy
          • from an art standpoint, yes. But id is missing three key players from the Doom era: John Romero, Tom H... : Megatron
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          that is one of the things that makes me the most nervous about the project. Two out of the three direct... : TargetBoy
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            Still, with Fred Nilsson and Seneca Menard on Id, they have excellent modelers again. I was wondering a... : the archvile
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              But who will be the official arrogant loudmouth of id software know that Steed is gone? Xian : ZeBFFd00d
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                probably Xian. After all, he's the one who admins the Q3 master, and that's probably driven him insane ... : the archvile
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                  Err, I don't think so. -Xian : xian
                  • Are you guys going to release any Doom screenshots? Do you have a ballpark release date for the doomtes... : SlimJim
                  • Do you guys ever check your http://www.shugashack.com/msgcenter/ ? Or do you just let it overflow and t... : SlimJim
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            this is the kind of thing that totally confuses me. If I were running one of these companies, I would tu... : xvdl
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              and you would've had 20 non-disclosure agreements broken due to bribes, and then the Daikatana syndrome ... : the archvile
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                For something like Q3, you don't have any of the issues at all of Daikatana. They're totally different t... : xvdl
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                  I agree with most of that, but otherwise, I have one word that refutes most of those points: KillCreek. : the archvile
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                    KillCreek was/is hardly a high-profile mapmaker. : prower
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                      my point exactly! She was elevated on a pedestal right before Daikatana shipped, but then, when all the... : the archvile
                      • Yea, no kidding. Those first three levels were your basic 'a bunch of square rooms connected by corrido... : ZeBFFd00d
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                        Eh? She was pretty much hyped as a gamer turned map-maker and girlfriend of The Romero. I can't ever r... : TargetBoy
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                          that's how most of them start. Like Neil Manke, the mapper responsible for the "They Hunger" series. H... : the archvile
                          • you miss the point, again. : TargetBoy
                      • Um... what's your point? xvdl was making the point that high-profile map-makers are artists and dedicat... : prower
                      • she was hired on to Ion Storm as a software tester. She didn't have any past record of building maps for... : xvdl
                      • she was hired on to Ion Storm as a software tester. She didn't have any past record of building maps for... : xvdl
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                      Shes a fat, large nosed, crappy map making, romero dick sucker : ReverendSE
                      • fat? You really have a fucked up concept of normal body image. : TargetBoy
              • yeah probably, that might not be soo bad though i meen everyone played the IHV test for q3 and its n... : ease one
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              Look at Alliance CTF, RA3, or Painkeep for example. Look at some of the maps that were put out by the... : TargetBoy
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                Maybe that was Id's intent after all. Maybe they just wanted to stir up some ingenuity with their engin... : the archvile
                • Bullshit, the quality and number of maps that ships with the game only effects the baseline that a playe... : TargetBoy
  • indeed. He's the one who pushed for a new Doom game against the wishes of The Cloud and The Other Carma... : Megatron

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• nope...and this makes me sad...all we get from id is this http://www.shugashack.com/funk.y?id=448287 : OverBurN
• you sir, are correct. : xvdl
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  e is not worthy! : The Romero
  • oh shut up. : the archvile
  • yes, we're lucky to have The Romero and CliffyB instead! Woot! : xvdl
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  Simple. Slashdot people worship the ground he walks on. He is the programming god to them, and he ca... : prower
  • I think you mean Richard M. Stallman. : the archvile
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    oh, and Carmack was responsible for developing both source engines that Counter-Strike and TFC run on (H... : the archvile
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      ...which is the reason they're both incredibly fun and wildly popular? : -Panther-
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        no, Valve and the CS team get credit for that. But they would be NOTHING if it wasn't for Carmack codin... : the archvile
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          Uh....no? They would have used another engine : ZeBFFd00d
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            like what? BUILD? Then HL would've sucked! : the archvile
            • They could have waited a few years and used the Unreal engine. Here's where the id fanboys really com... : ZeBFFd00d
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              I'm guessing you're a Slashdot reader/poster. The engine does not make the game. And HL would have b... : prower
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                Back when Valve was just starting to think about making HL, Epic MegaGames was still doing shareware, an... : the archvile
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                  Unreal was released in May 1997. : Megatron
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                    and the hardware to play it properly wasn't released until mid-1998. : the archvile
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                      that irrelevant. you're still talking out your ass with what you originally said. : TargetBoy
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                        irrelevant? Hardly. The hardware I'm talking about was the Voodoo2, and with two of them running SLI i... : the archvile
                        • Screamed? Why dont you just say that Quake2 was fresh and in your face? : ZeBFFd00d
                        • you can change the topic, but it doesn't change the fact that the foundation of your argument is wrong. ... : TargetBoy
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                          Q2 was indeed faster than Unreal. But, I don't see that there was a need for 40fps in a single player ga... : xvdl
                          • if you've ever played the Japan levels of Soldier of Fortune, where entire throngs of Yakuza henchmen ar... : the archvile
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                            I'm not sure I agree. Games like Unreal were designed to be immersive, you want to feel like you could a... : |nEo|Blackhawk
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                              if your argument is that 60fps is better than 40, I don't think I can disagree with that. My message ... : xvdl
                              • no shit man. I had Quake2 before I got a Monster3D so I had been playing it in software. And when I di... : Megatron
                              • I used to play Q1 at 320x200 software, and I still kicked my friends' butts around the levels. They'd a... : the archvile
                              • My argument was more that smoothness is just important to the believability of a game-world as realistic... : |nEo|Blackhawk
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                      I ran unreal pretty well in 1997. : ZeBFFd00d
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                        on what? A banshee? At 640x480? Half-Life still would've run faster, and it would've been a whole lot... : the archvile
                        • on a 6MB Pure3d Voodoo1. Pardon me if you're one of those rich-kid powergamers who has to run his gam... : ZeBFFd00d
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                          Do you remember 1997? 640x480 was perfectly fine back then. I ran unreal on a Diamond Monster 3D and i... : Stormrider
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                            not to mention that unless you had SLI, you pretty much had the choice of 640x480 or 800x600. : TargetBoy
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                              it's all about the frame buffer. The V2 had a 2MB frame buffer, and by going SLI, that doubled to 4. O... : the archvile
                              • You're avoiding the point that 640x480 or 800x600 were perfectly fine for Unreal back then and ran it we... : ZeBFFd00d
                • actually there was an unreal technical demo leaked onto the web back in like may '96 and it ran v : SuperStarSoldier
        • so, you think Valve couldn't have written an engine for Half-life or licensed another engine to use? Ha... : TargetBoy
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          When you consider that Valve is developing their next generation game engine entirely in-house, what doe... : xvdl
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            It tells me that valve has the resources and time to create their own engine. Nearly all comapnies wou... : Anti_dentite
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              it means that they've looked at the cost/benefits relationship of using an external engine, and believe ... : xvdl
              • I doubt the new valve engine will look better. Not that they couldn't equal if not best the carmack, bu... : Anti_dentite
    • Half Life is about 25% of Quake1's engine, and non of Quake2s. : ZeBFFd00d
    • Valve built way more of the Half-life engine than Carmack did. Generally, licensees of Q1 and Q2 had to ... : xvdl