Petition For Daikatana Sequel Started

Thanks to Blues News for pointing to this online petition demanding a sequel to Daikatana. Reasons for wanting a follow-up to John Romero's infamous PC FPS include the fact that "Daikatana's former notoriety has left many people with a feeling of nostalgia for the days leading to the game's completion." Some of comments attached to the 37 current signatures also add insight, including Attila Houtkooper's comment - "Daikatana has changed my life, I need Daikatana 2 to change it back the way it was!"

Comments

Anti-petition

[Nighttime]

So where's the on-line petition to prevent there from being a Daikatana 2? :)

Re:Anti-petition

[Shoggoth of Maul]

Indeed. There should never have been an Outpost 2, nor a Clock Tower 2, or Clock Tower 3, or an E.T., for that matter.

Where is the John Romero we knew? The Doom 2 John Romero whom you could grovel in front of (and then shoot with your rocket launcher)?

I think what motivates these nostalgic people mentioned in the article is that same college-years nostalgia that causes people to watch Xanadu and Dagon.

Or rather, "Face It, We Love Crap"

Re:Anti-petition

[Omestes]

Oh... the nonstop, nocongruent[sic] hours wasted playing Outpost 2. "Wow, I have some memories about Outpost 2!" An hour later, after install, "MORAL IS TERRIBLE"... 10 seconds later, "THIS GAME IS CRAP!"...

Now... Diakatana is the one game that I will NEVER install.... EVER... Damn Frog Wonderland.

Someone please remind them,

[Mostly Monkey]

That John Romero still wants to make them his b1tch.

Re:Someone please remind them,

[Mostly Monkey]

Flamebait? You must not have heard the ad campaign for the first game.

Re:Someone please remind them,

[Gloume]

What was the ad campaign for the first game?

Re:Someone please remind them,

[gmhowell]

At some point in time, there was an ad saying 'John Romero wants to make you his bitch!' Personally, I thought Stevie Case had already applied for that position.

It was just part of the massive amounts of trash talking that was slung in the overlong run up to the game. He was so full of himself, and then managed to sell a pile of dung only slightly less bad than Black and White.

Sad truth is..

[Baron_911]

They have been working on it since before Daikatana 1!!! Brought to you by 3dRealms!!! I hope I live long enough to see the release!!! MWAHHAHAHAHAHA LOL!!!! No really, bad idea :)

Wtf

[KDan]

Some people really have too much time on their hands...

Daniel

Only 43 signatures so far...

[fredrikj]

Looks like there's still hope.

No thanks.

[BoomerSooner]

This is the stupid ass game that caused the death of Looking Glass.

Oh nevermind. I found this article.

Long live Eidos!

They better get it right next time

[Anonymous Coward]

The original version didn't have enough frogs.

Add more frogs next time.

Here's a question:

[breon.halling]

Which is more likely?

a) Sequel to Daikatana

b) Duke Nukem Forver

I highly doubt either will happen in my lifetime. Although, I am pretty out-of-shape, and I smoke... ;)

Re:Here's a question:

[Hard_Code]

What about: Dukatana Forever?

Re:Here's a question:

[Anonymous Coward]

Arguably, Duke Nukem Forever is the true sequel to Daikatana...

It's from a respected developer with a great track record. It's full of hype. Like Daikatana, it's based on the Quake engine (and every single game engine released since then, to be fair). It's got lots of great ideas that they just don't seem able to realise. And about as many people have played the unreleased game as ever actually played Daikatana.

While it sucks for us as gamers, think of the poor developers who've been collecting a low salary and high advance royalties for the last half decade. If they try to jump ship, before launch, they have to pay back those royalties. Guessing at around $50k/year for five years, that's quarter of a million each for some of the senior people there. Explains why no one has the nerve to actually cancel it though.

Re:Here's a question:

[Anonymous Coward]

Which is more likely?

a) Sequel to Daikatana

b) Duke Nukem Forver

All I know is that they're gonna face some big competition from Team Fortress II.

Re:Here's a question:

[Anonymous Coward]

c) Sex with a mare.

When I read stories like this

[TerryAtWork]

I check the date to see if it's April 1...

looking in all the wrong places?

[TomSawyer]

Daikatana has changed my life, I need Daikatana 2 to change it back the way it was!

Is he openly asking for disappointing sequal so he can lose hope in video games and go back to a normal productive life?

And while we're at it...

[Mensa Babe]

...I think that the original Daikatana should be released as free software. Just imagine the possibilities, when we all could develop the sequel the way we want it. Because, I'm afraid, that in the proprietary sequel, the original spirit could be lost forever.

Tentative title

[lightspawn]

Daikatana: Redemption.

Brought to you by

[Kelz]

The people who swear there was no bugs in Anachronox.

Looking Glass

[Anonymous Coward]

If we are going to talk about Looking Glass, I would MUCH rather see System Shock 3..

Re:Looking Glass

[slug359]

Terra Nova was another of their excellent games, I'd love a sequel to it, first FPS game I played with a decent, involved storyline (had just about everything, pirates, turncoats, Earth coming to destroy us), it was also pretty graphically excellent at the time, you could go from medoicre 320x240 to breathtaking 320x400!

What was that petition for, again?

[www.whitehouse.org]

I would understand if this was a petition to have John Romero dipped in alcohol and dragged naked over broken glass until he agreed to personally apologize to everyone who purchased this game and send a sympathy card to people who played the demo. But a petition to do a sequel? Are these people masochists?

There are plenty of other things these guys can do with their time:

• Buy some other $5 game in EB's bargain bin.
  
• Play Daikatana to remember what it was really like.
  
• Join an order of self-flagellating monks.
  

hm

[Anonymous Coward]

So, this is a petition to prevent the making of Daikatana 2, yeah?

Obligatory Penny Arcade reference

[Virus1984]

just here

With that many icons you couldn't spare...

[gmhowell]

With that many topic icons, you couldn't add a 'It's Funny, Laugh' icon?

Crappy Crap crap

[Anonymous Coward]

Unoptomized peice of crap. Buggy as hell. It has forever tarnished John Romero's name in gaming. Does he want more people to hate him? Oh well, Im sure Carmack will get another chuckle.

oh sure

[chill182]

Oh sure, this gets mentioned on Slashdot, but my petition for a sequel to the Atari 2600 game E.T. gets no recognition.

E.T. 2: Judgement Day
He's back, and this time they'll all pay.

Re:oh sure

[Roto-Rooter Man]

Or the sequel to Custer's Revenge... CR2: Little Big Horny.

You know what this reminds me of?

[Have Blue]

The cult of Cthulhu.

When is....

[Devir]

When is Duke Nuken Forever 2 coming out?

Daikatana 2?

[Crockerboy]

As long as it is optimized for 3dfx cards.

Huh?

[neostorm]

Was this petition started by John Romero?

Hey,

[mahdi13]

John got his wife to sign the petition =)

107.Stevie Case

LOLOLOLOLOLLOLOLOLOLOL

[Skynet]

LOLOLOLOLOL

I don't think so

[aufecht]

C'mon, can't gamers put there energy into something more worthwile? I mean, who the hell played the first one? How about StarCraft II :)

I AM OF COURSE JOKING, so please don't mod me as flamebait.

Re:I don't think so

[aufecht]

The above comment is falmebait nonsense. And the spelling is terrible.

Wrong category

[wrexsoul]

... Shouldn't this be under "Humor?"

Hey!! When did they release Daikatana?

[Anonymous Coward]

Hmmmm. Didn't I pre-order that? Oh no, wait, that was just a nightmare when I had a high temp. Phew!

This isn't completely serious

[Anonymous Coward]

A great example of how sarcasm doesn't work on the internet

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