Romero .plan Update

I know someone who spent time he should have been at church doing something else...

Daikatana still is a cancer on my testicle though.

b00la

DK is going to change this?:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=EIDSY&d=1y

Not even Lara Crotch and Supah-Fry Johnson can help this sorry 8-bit 486DX2 game

Okay, so I'm a Romero fan. No, really, I think his levels in Doom were the absolute best. His work in Quake was awesome too.

So, now he goes off to start a new company. His goal is to introduce more story telling in this genre. Admirable to say the list. I mean, if it weren't for multi-player, Quake would have been a disjointed failure. No coherent story, no character to identify with.

So, I get the Daikatana demo. It runs fine on my computer. It sounds good, it looks good. So far, so good.

I start to play. The first frigging bad guy is a huge dragonfly. Yes, I said that correctly, a fucking dragonfly. The second isn't any better, it's a frog that spits toxic loogies.

What the hell is this? This is better story telling? Couldn't he think of a better way to start this thing off? Immediately after fighting off the mutant swamp critters, my expectations go south. For crying out loud, the badguys are supposed to make you want to reach for a chaingun, not a frigging flyswatter.

Guess what? My expectations are correct. The demo sucks.

God help John Romero, I really hope this game does well despite this demo. I am hopeful that the story fleshes out, but if the demo is made as a teaser, kind of like the old shareware Doom, I'm not interested.

Right now, I'm not sure I'm going to buy this. After the Soldier of Fortune demo, I knew I was going to get the game. This one just makes me want to get out the bug repellant.

I've made the occasional joke about DK's lateness, but other than that, I've waited for it without bashing, and I've tried to have no preconceived notions about its quality, other than hoping that they'd used this time to make something really great, and I thought that maybe they could do it, and I hoped that I'd be able to experience the same kind of fascination as the first time I played Half-Life.

So, what happened?

I've played about 3/4 of the demo so far, and am I having fun? No. Will it be better at the very end? Maybe. Sure, why not, lets give it that much. Now, are you honestly telling me that if i've not had fun for at least 3/4 of the demo, that the little boost at the end is going to make me want to play the full version?

Let's look at the Half-Life demo for a second. I've played it roughly 20 or 30 times. I'd play certain little parts of it over and over developing strategies (remember that part where soldier's are killing scientists, just before you go into the comm tower area? i played that part over and over until i worked out a way to save the last scientist, and *that* was fun). Even when not presented with a backstory and just dropped into the game, I felt like I had a purpose and a goal.

Now, when I started the DK demo, I'm dropped into a swamp after a short paragraph of text for an introduction. Then... I guess I just wander and batter about some enemies that display no will to live. For some reason, there are weapons and ammo lying about, so I'll grab those. I kill some big flying thing that opens some door far out of sight that i'm then supposed to discover. Even though I'm sitting in front of what looks to be where I should be headed next. Ok. There is just nothing there that I can identify with or that logically "works".

Speaking of the enemies, if there were mechanical rats as well, I would have felt like I was back in Everquest. Am I odd? I just happen to like fighting enemies that display at least some tactical knowledge and will to live. I mean, this was on par or worse than the AI in Quake2. Run at you and attack until they're dead. The skeletons and spiders and stuff were no better.

I have waited for and anticipated this game for a long time. I have friends at Ion that I want to see succeed. I have not been an Ion basher, and I have not bought into all the hype. I am giving DK an honest and fair chance, and I will completely the last little bit of the demo, and if I am just blown away and change my opinion, I'll say so, but I think that's unlikely. I have been disappointed so far.

.tas

Whoa there.

Well I'm addicted.

Daikatana DM is amazingly fun once I got the hang of it. Its very laggy, a little gimmicky in certain maps, has a fair share of bugs, but the fun factor just blows away all annoyances. I just don't feel like stopping once I start beefing up my character and wrecking havoc =) I can't compare it to Q3A or UT because the style of game is totally different. But as far as FUN goes, I am having a LOT more than in UT for sure. I like all the DM maps except the big City one and playing on the SP maps specially gives you that nostaglic feeling of being back in Quake days. I'll end up buying it for sure if the guys (and gal) actually ACKNOWLEDGE the bugs and issues (specially netcode), unlike other companys which pretend that everything is perfect *cough*id*cough. I was very very skeptical and my first impression wasn't really very good. But disregarding the tech issues, it might not be for everyone, but there is a very good game here.

Hey, at least the EQ monsters know to kill the healer first. =)

Heck, Jackie Chan could wipe the floor with Chuck's hairy butt. ;)

For bonus points, name the Bruce Lee movie that Chuck Norris was in.

For Extra bonus points, name the Bruce Lee movie that Jackie Chan was in.

I wonder how much its gonna cost when it comes out...
If its around 50 bucks i will laf.
This game isnt even worth downloading, not even on a fast connection.

Regarding that Quake 3 expansion pack screenshot..

New bonuses/runes
- Kamikaze: when used it will kill you but do a 100/100 to every body in the shock wave.]b

You are all fucktards. Thank you.

*hawkeye*
(won't buy the add-on, but thinks the shot is cool.)

Okay, I just played about two hours of Daikatana Multiplayer on a few different levels and servers.

My opinion is unbiased, I entered with an open mind, not expecting Q3A or Quake 1 style deathmatch. I was merely looking for some fun.

DAIKATANA MULTIPLAYER DEATHMATCH SUCKS RANCID FORESKIN.

Holy shit, the weapons suck. Holy shit the net code sucks. Holy shit, it all feels wrong and completely unfun.

This says nothing about co-op play or other multiplayer modes. This says nothing about single player. It simply means that Daikatana Deathmatch is a complete waste of time and totally devoid of any fun in my opinion. Yuck.

*hawkeye*
(the frisbee? omg...what a POS...)

What an incredible screenshot...
http://www.planetquake.com/images/image.asp?/quake3/missionpack/images/shot2.jpg

Boob Job: $10000
Nose Job: $4000
Hydrogen Peroxide: $4.50
Expression on gamers' collective faces when they saw Daikatana and it's levels: Priceless.

Boogieman

Amazing how some of you people just bash the hell out of people when we all know you would wuss out if you met these ppl in RL and wouldnt say anything close to the shit you guys say here...

hmm.
killcreek/john romero:
will daikatana have a cd key protection similar to that of quake 3's?

In case anyone is real bored the movie I was refering to 4 pages ago was Ishtar, with Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman. (not DeNiro, oops!) It cost a lot of money, especially for the time, and was awful. It's one of the few infamously bad big Hollywood films. (the 80's had a few of these, the other big one was Heaven's Gate. Which is why Waterworld was called "Keven's Gate". I guess Daikatana can be "Romero's Gate" then?)

Jaysus. Never seen so much petty jealousy...well, wait, yes I have. I remember when Killcreek updated her .plan way back when Blue had a comments thingy set up for them. So many people jumped on her, saying retarded shit like this, that Blue shut the .plan comments down permanently. Christ, get over it. She's a girl, she plays games, she designs levels, the end. Have their been shitty levels in games before? Sure. Have you guys gone on a crusade to rip down the designers so brutally and so publically? No. Who here has even seen Killcreek's levels, or know which ones she designed?

Christ. I'm sure she's reading this thread and laughing her ass off at the pasty white kids. She gets more sex than anyone here does, of that much I'm positive. Good for her. Why you guys care at all is beyond me.

You lame posters need to understand how much of an embarrasment you are to Steve and the rest of the gang that run this site. I mean, this board has gotten such a bad reputation because of people like you, and it's a shame because Steve works his ass off to make this place fun, and I"m sure whenever he goes to events as a representative of the press this board's immaturity follows him. How would you feel if you busted your ass making one of the most popular gaming websites on the Net, one that attracted comments from Xian, Killcreek, and Rick Johnson even, only to have people like Slappy spew derogatory, sexist comments about things that they have no fucking clue about. You people also drive people away from this site too you know. I've told friends about this site, and told them to check out the comments, becuase they can be pretty damn funny sometiems, but most of the people that have come here to check it out have said "this is a bunch of foul-mouth kids" You aren't being funny, you're just an embarrasment to the rest of us, and to steve.

"Who gives a fuck about names? Idiot."

Apparently, I do. For some strange reason, I prefer to destinguish people by their names, instead of their ip adresses. Call me old fashioned.

449- you know you wanna see her naked boobs too

"Wow, how far society has come, you fucking retard."
Hmmmm. Look how far society has come. Despite your surprise regarding the shock of a devolving society, you follow it up with "fucking retard." Of course in doing so, you completely destroy any credibility that you thought you had.

On another, slightly more amature note. You like steaming hot gay sex dont you, Mr.Idontwannapostmynamecuzimafuckinpussy.