/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1926496
>a notable problem with the office was that the sun shone through the glass rooftop directly into the monitors of the employees, forcing them to cover their cubicles with black fabric
All of the other choices I can understand and respect, but that one, that's a fucking killer right there. Blunder of the millennium.

Their facilities were poorfag-tier compared to what big-time tech companies do these days, and maybe even some game developers.

>you will never have john romero's hair

>>1926682
yeah compared to a lot of places in silicon valley, this isn't really that outlandish

I swear Warren Spector is one of the big George Lucases of gaming. He's responsible for the glorious Thief and Deus Ex, but then he's also responsible for Invisible War and Deadly Shadows. At least he has the original System Shock under his belt to tip the scales.

>>1929414
Hair like his, or physically have it in my hand? I've come close either way.

John Romero is a college professor now.

I want to believe at least one of his students has asked if he's going to make them his bitch with the next test.

>>1930946
That would be extremely hilarious and witty.

>>1930946
I doubt any of John Romero's students even think of John Romero the way we think of John Romero

>>1931048

He's bound to have had at least 1 student that's into retro games, though I have to admit that I would probably never make the connection easily. "No, no, it can't be. Must be another John Romero. It can't be THE John Romero!"

>>1930937
hair like his

you sure you've come close?

I mean, how old is that dude now? In his 40's, maybe close to 50?

If you have hair like that at that age you're winning in life.

>>1931256
You're winning in genetics, I'm sure you mean.

>>1930928
Deadly Shadows and Invisible War aren't bad games, stop saying this.
They're just not as good as the games that preceeded them.

>>1931291

No, they're not /bad/, they're disappointments in the face of the originals.

>They're just not as good as the games that preceeded them.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlatantLies

>>1931291

Still disappointments, though, which is the big problem.

>>1931661

Oops, I misread. Disregard that second comment. Didn't see the "not."

>>1931065
If I had a class with Jon Romero, I'd constantly pester him about good game design tips. When it comes to levels and such he's top-notch.

>>1930946

I needed to read this. This had improved my quality of life.

>>1931065
Romero's games aren't retro. They are timeless...bitch.

>>1934027

>>>/v/

>>1935476
he's a typical doom baby
yes he does need to go back to /v/ but unfortunately he will continue to plague this board like the rest of his faggot buddies in the doom general

>>1936086
are doom generals the cancer of /vr/?

>>1936105
Absolutely.

>>1936105
Absolutely.

Actually it would be okay if Doom babies just stayed in their generals. I mean it still sucks that we have to constantly see that thread shitting up the front page but w/e. What's more annoying is when they enter other FPS threads and start calling them shit because they're not Doom and they're literally too pleb to get used to the game's mechanics (since Doom is slow as balls in every way apart from Doomguy's movement. Enemies react slow, move slow, projectiles are slow and they hardly do any damage. Mechanically Doom is ridiculously simple). I can't tell you how many times I've seen Doom babies complaining about games like Duke, Shadow Warrior, Blood and Quake because they're too shitty to play them, being used to Doom's slow ass mechanics and all.

The worst thing is that these kids think that they're the saviors of video games or some shit, when they've only jumped on this /vr/ Doom bandwagon since the board's creation and they don't actually know shit about FPS. The rest of us having actually been playing Doom since 1994 and it's hardly a big deal, yet these stupid /vr/onies try to educate us on a game we were playing when they were still in diapers or perhaps not even born.

Fuck Doom babies. I would have never in my life thought Doom would ever have a community like this (it's probably just the /vr/ Doom community though, I'm sure the older faggots on other boards are good people). They are actually the equivalent of Call of Duty fans for 'retro gaming'.

>>1929597

See, a lot of those Silicon Valley locations are established and proven successes. Google has some absurd level of opulence because Google is swimming in cash and has decades of successful products both behind and ahead of them. IS was riding on pure Hype and had nothing to show for it.

I remember some iD people commenting on their excess at the time, while that yes they occasionally would rent out an air strip to tool around in their Ferraris, iD's office was still an unassuming place with no special furnishings. Shit, Carmack's money let him fund an Aerospace corp for years.

>>1936105
Pretty much.

The sad part is they think they have some kind of awesome, super-helpful community (they don't) and bristle at the notion of going to /vg/ when /vg/ are the nicest, most helpful motherfuckers on the whole site.

>>1936149
And they're all jealous of Brutal Doom which is pretty hilarious.

>>1936105
Doom generals are /vr/'s closest link to /v/. It's pretty much the floodgate which brings those faggots onto this board.

>>1936152

Nobody's jealous of Brutal Doom. The creator's a thief and the fanbase is atrocious, cut and dry.

Donald pls go

So instead of shitposting in the general, you guys are going to make your own thread and shitpost there instead? I gotta say, that's more efficient for the rest of us.