J.E Sawyer resigns, last day Nov. 21

[Astromarine]

Romero seems to be doing fine with his company, and I for one am glad he managed to kill his pride and go back to his roots. Frankly, I'm surprised THIS crowd would be the one to deride him for doing simple, small games which are fun instead of Triple-A Megabux games with 7 years dev time and more cinematics time than gameplay. Guess some people here are not so adamant in their "gameplay before graphics" cries of righteous fury...

As for Warren Spector, true, Doom > Deus Ex, but OTOH Ultima Underworld > Doom. So there.

 

[Constipated Craprunner]

which may have had a bad single-player, I don't know.

Some say it was a rehash of the first, who's single player I did not play. But I enjoyed it alot.

As for Warren Spector, true, Doom > Deus Ex, but OTOH Ultima Underworld > Doom. So there.

Doom created a genre and the modern modding community.
UU is the better game, but Doom is more important. Hence more of an emphasis on Doom's creators.

 

[Araanor]

Guess some people here are not so adamant in their "gameplay before graphics" cries of righteous fury...

It's easy to mock him, it's as simple as that.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

What is he doing now anyways? As well as that other chick who helped work on one of the worst games of all time.

 

[Psilon]

Read page 3, Major.

John Romero and Tom Hall are working for Midway now.

http://forum.pcvsconsole.com/viewthread.php?tid=7168

Before that, he and Hall were running Monkeystone Games.

 

[Spazmo]

I bet John Romero, JE Sawyer and Eric Dallaire are gonna start a new company and make dating sims. Meanwhile, Tom Hall could maybe finish Anachronox, please?

 

[Seven]

Romero seems to be doing fine with his company, and I for one am glad he managed to kill his pride and go back to his roots. Frankly, I'm surprised THIS crowd would be the one to deride him for doing simple, small games which are fun instead of Triple-A Megabux games with 7 years dev time and more cinematics time than gameplay. Guess some people here are not so adamant in their "gameplay before graphics" cries of righteous fury...

As for Warren Spector, true, Doom > Deus Ex, but OTOH Ultima Underworld > Doom. So there.

I never said anything about about putting gameplay before graphics. In fact, since forever I've been in support of having "pretty" graphics because I feel that gameplay alone doesn't cut it any more. That being said, I enjoy many games (Avernum series being most prominent) with shit graphics. It's an honest mistake to make of the RPG codex crowd, but BTW no one actually chastised Romero for making shit graphics games. HE'S MAKING PDA GAMES, that's a step down from the PC IMO. Also often times these games are simplified a-la minesweep rehashed. :wink:

 

[ecliptic]

Poor Tom Hall, Anachronox really was a great game that got shafted on so many fronts.

 

[aleph]

You're right, he's got a real shitty record with IWD and IWD 2. Im sure though it's possible that people might look past that and realize that there may have been extenuating circumstances as he keeps telling us (higher up interference). He obviously has some creative ideas, as we saw through his posts on the IPLY forums regarding FO3.

Nothing more to add to this I guess...

 

[MilesBeyond]

Out of curiosity, how does one even find a thirteen year old thread, let alone decide to necro it?

 

[Grimlorn]

This is a good necro. Look at all the Fallout franchise is doomed posts. Thank goodness Bethesda saved it.

 

[aleph]

Out of curiosity, how does one even find a thirteen year old thread, let alone decide to necro it?

A volatile mixture of Black Forum Magic and sheer insanity. How else would you do it?

 

[taxalot]

13 years from now, people will necro the David Gaider quitting bioware thread, and will say that it's at this moment in history that things went to shit.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Of all the things to necro, an old quote from the Blackhart?
Nice.

 

[mindx2]

13 years from now, people will necro the David Gaider quitting bioware thread, and will say that it's at this moment in history that things went to shit.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

I guess you could say famous last words on my part, right?

 

[Suicidal Meat Slapper]

 

[Eirikur]

I bet Roguey's heart skips a beat every time this thread is necroed. We need to keep doing so.

 

[Azrael the cat]

Wow. For a moment there I thought MCA, Gaider and Sawyer were all free agents at the same time. They could form their own company and piss off the Codex by calling it Troika

Actually wouldn't be a bad combination, apart from the potential from serious clashing over who is in charge on a project. Sawyer doing systems and project management, MCA writing and quest design, Gaider on design, quest design, area design and a clause in the company constitution preventing him from contributing to any writing whatsoever.