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Romero Responds
by Steve Gibson, Jan 21, 2000 2:20am PSTJohn Romero being the good sport that he is took some time to respond to the criticism he went under for releasing a screenshot of his desktop of all things. It's pretty amazing how much time some people spent analyzing the thing. Oh btw, the IonStorm firewall prevents access to this page from their office, (I'm told due to the comments system, they dont want Ion employees posting stuff) so you won't really see any responses here. Here's what John had to say:
...I will accept the fact that all popular messageboards are negative. All of them. It's the reason they exist. But the fact that there's just so many highly negative posts about a game that i'm working on just boggles me. I'm just a game developer, like the thousands that are out there, working hard on making a game for you people. Sure, i'm also making it for myself to play and to support myself and my company, but i wouldn't be able to do that if it weren't for everyone out there in the world, thinking that the games that i make are fun. I'm just trying to make a fun game and it's been a pretty rough road with this one, but we're finally at the end. The next one will be an easier development cycle and i'll definitely be toning-down the PR machine on its development. I won't be giving out release dates next time.
Comments
This idea that everyone that does not work at id anymore after Quake sucks is stupid. IMHO all the good ones left and the only crap remains. EXCEPT John Carmack and Paul Steed. The rest are just living of what id used to be when the team was there during DOOM and Quake years.
I guess I feel I have to defend VE as I think it\'s pretty much the best damn Gaming News site on the web.
Leave Romero alone, most of you are so young you don\'t even know what it felt like to open up Doom when it was brand spanking new... nothing, I repeat nothing, has ever come close to that. (Maybe looking at GLQuake with my Voodoo1 was close... that blew me away when it was new technology). Anyway, Romero makes a couple of damn fine early games and takes too long with his third game. So fucking WHAT??? He\'ll hopefully get his ass into gear with the next game you\'ll all go \'ooh\', \'ahhh\', pretty graphics, etc... Man, so many good comments on here about SoF and no good one\'s about DK.... bunch of wankers...
Because it doesn\'t publish a challenging word about anything. It\'s a mouthpiece for developers. It substitutes style (and a pretty annoying style at that -- pretend porn talk) for content. In fact, it sucks more dick than a pornstar. ;)
i will stop at nothing
say the right things
when electioneering
i trust i can rely on your vote
when i go forwards, you go backwards
somewhere we will meet
riot shields
voodoo economics
it\'s just business
cattle prods and the imf
i trust i can rely on your vote
when i go forwards, you go backwards
somewhere we will meet
Also, Street Spirit 0wnZ me.
http://www.freespeech.org/on/desktop.jpg
yay!
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~pwilcock/desktop.gif
amazingly interesting!
ROFLMAO!!!!!
hehehe. they didn\'t make him look gay enough though.
http://www.gamecenter.com/News/Item/0%2C3%2C70%2C00.html
completely agree. maybe if he weren\'t such a little bitch, he wouldn\'t get picked on.
\"oh im gonna cry cuz you guys type mean stuff about me and my games i make\"
whatever...go get in your fancy ass car and go home you big bitch
Another thing, when Daikatana is released, and if it\'s fun- I will buy it. People who have already made their decision on this game without playing are just as bad as the people they call \'fanboys\'. Hell, most of them don\'t matter anyways because they never really buy games to begin with. They just crack them or get an iso off the net. Pathetic. If the game is not fun, I will return it. It\'s that simple. It\'s pretty shallow to not like something based on how long it\'s been delayed (Blizzard anyone?).
Are you ready?
QUIT ARRANGING YOUR DESKTOP TO LOOK ALL PRETTY SO YOU CAN TAKE SCREENSHOTS, AND FINISH THE FUCKING GAME!!!!
/me breaks a nail.
mofo.
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haha, I run a Heidi Klum site
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punx not dead!!!!!!!!
:)