John Romero on Daikatana

Although there is no excuse for delays for Daikatana.. I respect JR for finishing the game HE wants to release.. and not releasing it because fans say IT SHOULD be out by now.

Ever notice how people will forgive a late game as long as it\'s amazing (like Halflife, and even Unreal (well according to sales hehe)). Yet, a game that sucks, sucks forever.

We\'ll see soon enough. I\'m sorry.. I won\'t jump on the \"Daikatana sucks\" bandwagon. I look forward to the release and hope JR and the crew can step up.

cheers,
Embrionic Pete

\"Who wants to bet that Final Fantasy XXVII is released before Daikatana?\"

I\'ll take that bet... Of course, I plan to have moved on, changed my name twice, gotten married, had 3 kids, before that happens.

umm, People still give 2 shits about Daikatana? now that\'s just sad and wrong.

People, come to your senses. You\'ll get laid before that game comes out.

Oh, Daikatana! I remember hearing something about that game... 2 years ago or something? Wasn\'t that a Quake1 killer? Oh yea.. that\'s right, that\'s when John Carmack made a public comment about John Romero failing, sooner or later? I think it all started sliding down hill, right around when Mike Wilson left. Biggest mistake made by ION Storm.

The fact that the plug hasn\'t been stil pulled, is just so pathetic. But then again.. how many millions did Eidos invest? Ouch.. I guess any income at all, will return some of that investment. Hell, who knows -- maybe if the game sells by Christmas 2001, it will be sold as an antique; and maybe as a gesture of sympathy, some people will actually buy it -- then maybe.. just maybe, they will break even.

I would hate to be JR right now -- the pressure coming from all sides must be quite overwhelming. But no sweat J, another publisher will eventually buy the \"hair\" bait, and with a brand new team, fresh start and a good-decision-making CEO, who knows.. it may even work.

As far as Daikatana goes -- I doubt I will even bother to download the pirated version; too much efforts. And needless to say, I woud never consider buying it.

Die - Already - Katana. . . . someone pull the fucking plug already..

wow.

Zapaan (#10) - unfortunately, Ion Storm is really pummelled with requests for interviews and previews. They can\'t ignore them, or they will be accused of mistreating the community. I think the Mechwarrior team is sort of lucky for being in a position of little publicity...

Hehe, yeah, and Prey is coming out in 1997! What\'s the release date on Doppleganger, though? And will Storm over Gift have a sequil?

Okay, that was really mean... couldn\'t help it though. I hope DK rocks.

Hahahahahaha

Who wants to bet that Final Fantasy XXVII is released before Daikatana?

Who wants to bet Q3A gets released before Daikatana?

ph34r daikatana

Hey Wupass, how\'s that Brittany Spears website going? ;)

Why are so many of you people writ\'ing Anonymous\'ly? Atleast put a name
to go along with your smack. The like\'ly hood a Diakatana sucky\'ing total a$$ is high but atleast wait till its out,then judge it all you like

The companies and the media raise these unmeetable expectations and as such should take responsibility for it. THEY (Ionstorm) have been the ones flapping their gums (I certainly didn\'t start the ad that I was going to be Romero\'s bitch ;) ). Enough already. I agree: Put up, or just shut up. Whoever doesn\'t know what you keep repeating with each \"update\" is either a vegatable or dead.

Excellent points zapaan. I agree. I\'ve played both games. One was very much hyped (HG2) and the other (MW3) not at all. As such, I had high expectations for HG2 and felt a bit disappointed in the end product and had absolutely no expectations for MW3 and was quite pleasantly surprised. I\'ve said it before and I\'ll say it again. Enough of the hype shit. Production talks, bullshit walks, a penny saved...blah blah blah.

I don\'t think people are making judgements about the game so much as getting tired of hearing, \"coming along really good...\" or something. We know it\'s \"coming\", we\'re just tired of hearing about it and seeing nothing.

Perfect example, I was hyped about 9-10 months ago about HG2 (Heavy Gear 2 for those of you who don\'t play mecha games). Now for some reason it got pushed back some ridiculous amount of time and only last week was released. In the interim, I bought Mech3 which I heard very little about until two weeks before release. At which point I was blown away. Not by all the stupid-assed .plans, not by all the useless interviews with programmers, level designers, et. nauseum, but by the game itself.

I don\'t think anyone who\'s tired of hearing about Dyke-atana would disagree with me when I say, \"Stop doing the useless interviews and finish the damn game already. Put up or shut up.\" :P

No offence JR, but going almost 2 years past your predicted release date is FUBAR man. There\'s just no excuse for something like that to happen. I know what everyone\'s thinking, that I have no idea what\'s invovled in software dev cycles and just how convoluted the release of software is from inception to gold. Hardly.

Anyway, done ranting, please return to your incessant, pointless flaming ;)

- Z

Is it just me or is that interview old news?

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Sirex

John Romero owns you

First of all, why must people who post dumb shit have to contain \'rez\' in their name? g/d. Again, im going to say, you havent played the full release, so you can not judge it. Basically you are saying you dont like your Christmas present, in the middle of July. You wreak like a spoiled little child.

Every game has potential, and every game is great in its own way. Differents strokes of your w00drow, for different folks.

Personally Im glad to see Daikanata coming along. John has worked so hard on this game, and you can tell, with every update he makes, es ecstatic about it.

//rez

Here we go again with the \"Daikatana sucks\" with no arguments why.....I\'m getting tired of this......maybe I\'m too old for this...

Larz

Daikatana Level Heaven
http://dlh.dknation.com

Is that Christmas 1999?.....Yeah, right.

daikatana = bull + shit
Aye. lose this crap.

aye or some shit

why in the hell does scary even talk about daikatana more? does anyone here give a shit? have a vote or something

if you dont give a shit and would like scary to stop posting daikatana stuff say \"aye\"
if you like daikatana and wanna see more, say \"nay\"

thats it.

***REZNEZ***

im sorry, did someone say flop?

at least anachronox wont suck.