/vr/ - Retro Games

Glass roof on the top floor of their office was a stupid idea

>>9795505
Bitch-maker proved himself a mere bitch.

Daikatana

>>9795505
no-one wanted to be John Romero's bitch

>>9795505
The Japanese made Carmack his bitch?

It was simply too ambitious. Making it so that every episode has completely different enemies, level design, and weapons is cool in theory, but it doesn't work well in execution. There are good elements of each episode that if put together would have probably resulted in a great game, but as a whole it's a very messy experience.

>>9795505
Misplaced trust in a bad worker who was never that great even when he had taskmaster.

Nothing for John, that's for sure. He rode that grift to the moon. Absolutely lavished like a king with riches and 10/10 pussy for being such middling talent.

>>9795505
Didn't have anyone to check him on his unrealistic ideas, didn't have one of the most proficient software developers of all time to tackle his cutting edge ideas, naturally confident but had a boosted ego from Doom's success, copied his own tactic of challenging the player base before the game even came out(but didn't hold up to the hype like Doom E1), a bunch of other tricky tacky things. At id he was part of a team, at Ion Storm he was the boss. Early Id was lightening in a bottle, most of those guys never saw that level of praise again but it seemed like Romero was more intent on recreating the success than recreating the situation that made him successful. I don't know, Inverness worked with them but
>>9795905 is right, he shot past fame and became infamous.

It would have been cool if they could have just cancelled this whole project and shunted all funds for it to Anachronox, so that that game could actually be polished properly and given a real ending.

>>9795505
NEVER MAKE A SWAMP/SEWER LEVEL THE FIRST AREA YOUR PLAYERS WILL VISIT

>>9796805
lol this. Most developers frontload the best levels, but in Daikatana the first two levels are the worst in the entire game.

>>9795505
>Quake II engine was already showing its age by 2000
>partner AI was too ambitious for the time and often made the game more frustrating
>first few missions are poorly-paced and dull, leaving a bad first impression to most players
>save system made the game more frustrating, plus bugs would frequently corrupt saves
>hyped-up to be the second coming of Christ due to John Romero's pedigree, stuck in development Hell for years might've been considered "okay" if it came out in early 1998 before Unreal 1 and Half-Life evolved the genre significantly

>>9795505
Romero was a hack and only good at making maps, can't make a real game let alone coordinate people to.

He also made the fatal mistake of letting his then at the time, cum dumpster make levels for the game.

The voice acting.

It wasn't so much acting, but imitating stereotypes.

>>9795505
Japanese is a retarded language.

>>9796812
It honestly wouldn't be even that much terrible if the first enemies you meet weren't robotic dragonflies / frogs / crocodiles - and a random unkillable remote turret that can pretty much instakill you if you don't find and destroy its power-pack in time (that is in those few times the level design requires you to do it to get past them - otherwise they're just "border partol" that kills you for going the wrong way)

>>9796849

>He also made the fatal mistake of letting his then at the time, cum dumpster make levels for the game.
IIRC she mostly contributed to Episode 2, which ironically enough is one of the better parts of the game.

No Carmack, Daikatana was shit.
No Romero, Quake 2 was shit.

>>9796945
she did the swamp map, lmao

>>9796947
Quake 2 was great though.