John Romero Interview

by Maarten Goldstein, Mar 17, 2006 7:33am PST

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The second part of Computer & Video Games' John Romero interview is now available. This time questions are about ION Storm and its games, Monkeystone Games, leaving Midway, and his current job.

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By: Rich McNinch x Show Full Post

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John Romero: No way. As soon as that changeover happened, and they got rid of myself and the studio manager, the team was extremely upset. The new guys who came in were good guys, but they just had a mission to get the game done. They basically cut it to ribbons, eviscerated it, and within two weeks of my leaving the lead designer quit because he couldn't handle what was happening to the game. Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows is not anything like what we were almost done building - it would have taken one extra month for the game to be pretty much done. We were so far down the road but all that mattered was that the game came out in Q4.

They threw away probably millions of dollars worth of work just to make Q4. All the cinematics and story were gone, even two thirds of the levels were gone - there were 45 levels in the game but it shipped with 15. They destroyed that game, but they got it out, and the world's got another typical Gauntlet game instead of the redefining property type-of-thing that I was doing. It was fun to work on, I got experience inside a big company - it was a good break from the company running stuff that I had been doing since 1991.

This makes me mad and want to smash!

Mar 17, 2006 8:06am PST

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John Romero: No way. As soon as that changeover happened, and they got rid of myself and the studio manag : Rich McNinch
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  But it's also true that John Romero is usually full of shit. : FlatlineDixay
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    Nah, he's a good guy. After he left ID, the company got a lot worse. They haven't released anything groun... : Zawath
  - He does seem like a good guy, but also someone who chronically underestimates the time and effort needed : Johnny Law

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Thoroughly enjoyed both of these articles.

Very interesting reads. It's also apparent to me that Romero is a fickle basta'd with ADD ;D

I dunno if you can fault a man for pursuing his interests though.

Mar 17, 2006 9:25am PST

Thoroughly enjoyed both of these articles. Very interesting reads. It's also apparent to me that Romer... : Nullzero

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