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can we talk about retro devs?

>> No.365295

>>365278
Oh my god that can't be true.

>> No.365306

>>365295

it's true, he likes to collect gas station memorabilia.

>> No.365312

>>365295
nah romero is a mobile games shitter now.

>> No.365320

>>365295
He collects retro gas pumps and oil cans. A lot of people like to do that kinda shit.

>> No.365327

>>365312

Mobile games can be pretty good. I was playing the DS port of Orcs and Elves the other day. It's pretty fun. Carmack can still do work.

>> No.365348

has romero done anything good since id other than get that guy who made anachronox to make ion storms only good game

>> No.365383

>>365348

his recent game was published by zynga.

>> No.365412
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365412

>> No.365501
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365501

>>365320
The guys on American Pickers always talk about their obsession with classic car related merch (gas cans, pumps, signs, etc.)

Personally, I've never really seen the appeal. But I've never really been opposed to collecting nostalgia purely for nostalgia's sake either

>> No.365512

>>365412
His wife is longer oh my god I'm about to flip.

>> No.365527

>>365512
>wife
he already dumped that hag, he's fuckin some young CoD gamer grrrl now

>> No.365561

>>365412
Some anon saw Tim Schafer riding home on MUNI. I was jelly as fuck.

>> No.365601

>>365412

i want to motorboat romeros ex-wifes rack

>> No.365650

>>365412
Holy shit Romero is a fucking midget

>> No.365661

>>365601
That's his current wife. His third, actually.

>> No.365669

>makes a shitton of money in the video game industry
>collects oil industry memorabilia

It's funny because my family made their money in the oil industry and I collect video game stuff

>> No.365684

>>365669

Mohammad from Qatar? is that you?

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365704

your favorite retro game dev hasn't gone to space.

mine has.

>> No.365708

>>365684

nope, midwestern oil from the US, not mideastern oil from durkastan.

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365721

i would fuck warren spector

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366658

>>365721

who wouldn't?

>> No.366689

I'm taking a class taught by Romero's wife right now. He's going to come in at some point to guest lecture. Also going to get to meet Warren Spector at an on campus conference.

She's actually quite knowledgeable and doesn't seem particularly casual or feminazi. She even made a Daikatana joke in lecture today. She picks on John a lot.

>> No.366709

>>366689
Shit, are you for real? That's pretty damn awesome if it's true.

>> No.366727

>>366709
Yeah. My uni has one of the top game design majors. That's not my major, i'm just taking it for fun and to be more well rounded. Specialization is for plebs. When she said Warren Spector was gonna be on campus I felt my dick twitch.

>> No.367037

>>365704
Garriot is clearly insane.

>> No.367292

>>366689

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t_0sTq1hIo

>> No.367436

>>367292
I really hate Anna Anthropy.

>> No.367490

>>365704
He's a space ace now.

Now he can get the time machine and prevent Origin from being bought out by EA.

>> No.367545

>>366689

All it needs is Tom Hall...

>> No.367579

>>365278
as far as game devs go I think Romero is shit and at no stage was good. Doom to him was a fluke, if he was good at making games Daikatana would have been amazing if he had any skill in game design daikatana would have been average, but it wasn't it was the blunder of the decade. then again Warren spector was good he made Deus ex but then he went on to make epic mickey 1 & 2 so maybe I am wrong.

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367586

>>367545
Tom Hall is the real Kane.

>> No.367596

>>365501

Much of it coincides with just historical american pieces or "Americana" if you will.

>> No.367605

>>366689
is it a class on how to make good games then follow with absolute cock ups

>> No.367638

>>367037
his daddy was an astronaut, thats why the first few ultima's had spaceships in them, and how he could afford to start up the comapny n the first place.

>> No.367736

>>367586

Tom Hall is my hero.

Anachronox is what got me back into enjoying games again. Also modding the crap out of them.

>> No.367787

Why is Romero so handsome /vr/?

>> No.368185

>>367579
wasn't epic mickey considered actually good for a kids game? I mean, it's not deus ex for kids or anything but judging from the badass concept art for it I'm sure disney held back on what he really wanted

>> No.369204

>>365650

I thought this was common knowledge.

>> No.369220

>>365721
man he looks like eric clapton

>> No.371220

>>367787

I have no idea. He's able to pull decent chicks with such little height.

>> No.371808

>>367579
>if he was good at making games Daikatana would have been amazing
Daikatana wouldn't have sucked so badly if he hadn't opted to switch to the Quake 2 engine with only months to go. That's what screwed the entire project over. Q2's engine was completely different from Q1 and effectively required them to redo everything in only a couple months. If he'd only stuck with the Q1 engine it might've been a decent game. Nothing revolutionary like Doom, but certainly not the blunder of the century.

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371995

It's one of my dreams in life to meet Koji Kondo.
Few people, if any, share this dream, but it is my dream and it would just complete my life. Kondo's a big reason why I decided I wanted to get into composing.