John Romero's About to Make You His Bitch Again
 

John Romero is planning to develop a new FPS. Eurogamer has the details:

Daikatana. He used up all the credit he had with me with that one title.

Yeah, same here. I have no faith in his ability to produce a game. He overspent at his last development shop and ran it into the ground.

The fact that people keep bringing up Doom and Quake as his credentials is pretty sad, too. He's got nothing of value in the last 15 years.

Perhaps it is some sort of katana, only enhanced* with more dai

*may not contain actual enhancement

What if Daikatana was a colossal aberration and this one really is good?

Nah.

Scooby Doo themed MMORPG FPS? Facebook/ Rubik's Cube (the tv show, not the cube) themed hybrid RTS FPS? It has to be something uber cool.

I will wait and give him a chance. I want to see this "concept" before I make judgement. Everyone has had failures in career... its not the end. Even Steve Jobs ran NEXT into the ground...believe me.. I was there. I also worked with him when he founded Pixar. I am not saying he is Steve Jobs but everyone has ups and downs. Romero MAY pull something out of his hat.

Great headline! I remember that ad in PC Gamer and wondering who the hell he was.

Unless he can replicate the awesomeness of Doom or the original Quake, I'm not interested.
http://contentm.mkt3703.com/ra/2012/...es_awesome.gif

He still makes games?

Not in the last 15 years or so. Anyone stupid enough to give this fool money gets the failure they deserve.

The "Stormy Weather" article the Texas Observer ran back in 1999 about Ion Storm is still must reading for stuff related to Romero. If you don't know anything about the background, or want to know more, this is highly recommended:

http://www.dallasobserver.com/1999-0...tormy-weather/

Any skills he did have are now out of date anyway, so... yea...

What I don't get is why massive fuckup leaders get to go lead something else after they fail. You see it all the time with CEOs running companies into the ground and then going and getting another 10 million a year gig at a competitor. If we as a society are going to have this super wealthy class then when they fail they need to get kicked the fuck out and someone new needs a shot.

If he tries to do a Kickstarter I'm going to demand the $5 I paid for Daikatana back.

Orphiuchus: The reason is most people are sheep. They don't have the ability or the balls to start a company or take risk.

Oh come on Daikatana is not that.....


Nevermind :(


I dunno, maybe he can pull something out of his ass this time.

the best news is news about nothing. "i'm not making a game, but i've been thinking about making a game". wooah, wow.

Can we get bitchx and flamethrower back too? I'm all in! I miss the vicious gamer rumor mill and the grist Ramero and ion storm gave it.

We need to set up a Kickstopper for this game!

Also, a significant portion of the time (there are exceptions, like Trump) when someone like that screws up, its a mistake they learn from, and are significantly less likely to make again.

Romero only fell so far because he had risen so far. It's logical to assume he can rise that far again, or at least part-way.

Also, someone already made what Daikatana should have been, and they called it Demon's Souls. If any game out there made you it's bitch, it was that one.