/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9906710
He gets most of it wrong, but the book Masters Of Doom is a pretty good telling of all that history up to the early 2000s.

>>5001254
It's really good, it goes from Carmack's and Romero's very early forays into games, long before they met, and then goes through the days of SoftDisk and their transition into becoming iD Software, with Dangerous Dave, Commander Keen, then Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, and the split between the two, following with Quake 2, Quake 3, the early preliminary stage before Doom 3, and then the mess that was Dai-Katana, on Romero's side.
So it kind of stops in the early 2000's. It tells it all quite well, however, going into their personal lives, their developments and accomplishments, tells a bit about all the different people, tells of the interesting anecdotes, the drama, etc.

I imagine that one could probably have a book written to be like a followup to Masters Of Doom, telling more of iD Software in the 2000's, and the heated divide between Romero and Carmack cooling down, but I have no idea if there's anything quite as interesting on the historical end.
Doom 4 was kind of a mess, where development was rebooted a few times, going through a Call Of Duty phase, etc. Going through a very dysfunctional development, and then being just hacked up and retooled (again) into a game that, in spite of some notable flaws, is still pretty fun and worth playing, and that's impressive, because most games with such rocky developments turn out as complete garbage (see Duke Nukem Forever).
So the story of Doom 4's making I think could probably be interesting, but likely not as dramatic.
The original iD crew were a small group of very colorful characters, and I have no idea if any of the newer iD people are as interesting.

>>2458584

Guy's, I'm sad.

What's going to happen with Doom 4 now that Carmack has left id?