The Rise And Fall of Ion Storm

fakeamerican writes: "Here's a lengthy article in Salon about Ion Storm's rise and fall, written by a former employee and lifelong friend of John Romero." Shows what goofing off in class can getcha.

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The Katz-Notes™ version

[Unknown Bovine Group]

I know it's not a Katz article, but this story cries out for a Katz-Notes style summarization:

Romero rubbed elbows with the technical and creative mastery at iD software. He thought he learned all the tricks.
So he breaks off after 'creative differences' and wrenches the rudder of Ion Storm into a freefall, shitting out Daikatana on the way down.
Oh but he had SOO much fun and got to shtup Stevie Case. Whee.

Re:They should have called it "meiken."

[mosch]

What the fuck are you talking about? There was no ego dissolved, the article specifically notes that Romero didn't have the inflated ego that "whiny little bitches" such as yourself imagined.

"People" like you are the reason Ion Storm is gone, despite making Deus Ex, which is a fucking cool game, and Daikatana which isn't nearly so bad as everybody likes to pretend. If I heard somebody talking about "Meiken" I'd think they were talking about their boyfriend named Ken. Daikatana at least sounds like something where I kill shit with a sword.

Congratulations on proving that slashdroids would rather read useless nitpicking than engage in useful, interesting or constructive behavior.