/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8053380
I disagree but it was simply a joke but you know we cant really have small jokes or memes in this general anymore. We just got to get excited and consume new Boomer Shooters™ as well as watch Youtubers™ and regurgitate their opinions without critique.

RIP this post when it gets deleted.

>>5211760
>they were probably afraid of mimicking Hexen
No, they moved away from Romero's ambitious concept because while he was supposed to lead the project and make it a reality, he was regularly absent from work and very little got done over a long period of time.

He wanted a fantasy RPG, and they were all onboard for it, but he didn't actually put in the necessary effort to make it happen, instead courting press and DM'ing with fans, slacking for months. He was very vain and full of hubris in this time of his life.
The deadline reached closer, and in spite of lots of textures, models and maps having been put together, very little of actual substance had been worked out, so a roughly a half dozen months before deadline, Carmack held a meeting and they discussed the future of the game they were doing, because it wasn't going very well.
It was suggested to just take what they have now and retool it all as a shooter sort of like Doom, just to finish the game, the idea being they would then try something more new and ambitious again afterwards. Everyone was on board with this change of direction, except for Romero, of course.

Romero absolutely fucking hated this, and this was when he decided he would leave after the game was done (Carmack would also have been wanting to get rid off him by now too).
The entirety of the first Quake was a huge compromise to reach a deadline, but in spite of this, it comes out as a rock solid game, and Romero wouldn't deny this at any point, because Quake is a good game, but it wasn't at all what he wanted to do. That's why Dai-Katana was so insanely ambitious, he wanted to break out of that mold and do something new and different.

>>3734469
I went to the other chan's /v/
That place sure went to shit.

HOLOGRAPHIC GAS STATIONS CONFIRMED

>>3119604

Should I make a full gif ?