/vr/ - Retro Games

>maybe I can come up with a setting to justify this travesty of a concept
>write a detailed document with plot, characters and everything
>special focus on narrative to give an actual purpose to the extreme amounts of violence they want in the game
>give them the document
>"Fuck you and your gay plot Tom, all we want is mindless carnage with deadly weapons, nobody likes you anyways"

>alright, that's enough
>tell everybody to eat my ass, I'm leaving
>guy that published the nazi game instantly offers me a job, apparently he started making games as well
>"your friends told us to make a sequel to Wolfenstein, please lead us master"
>fucking hell
>alright, at least I can work without those other retards for once
>spend more than a year leading a team and building my passion project, I can finally use my actual ideas now
>game is almost complete

>boss receives a call
>it's fucking Romero
>"Yeah we're happy and all with your work but we thought about it"
>oh no
>"we realized we don't want your game to steal our spotlight, with the imminent Doom release and all... consider Wolfenstein 2 cancelled"
>"Also we're self-publishing it because our new artist talked shit about you, so you guys won't take the usual cut"
>"Ps: tell Tom to suck my dick"

>fucking
>ROMERO

>dumbest guy I ever met literally found a way to fuck me over from another company
>alright, fuck him
>overhaul Wolfensten 2 with new textures and shit, call it "Rise of the Triad"
>help make Duke Nukem 2
>and Duke Nukem 3D
>work on the Prey engine

>get called on the phone one day
>"if it isn't Tom Hall, my good friend!"
>it's Mr Dickhead himself, Romero
>"listen I spontaneously decided to left the company we founded... how about we make a new one? Think about it, it will be just like the old days!"
>is this asshole serious