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Carmack on New id Game, Game Theory

Posted by michael on from the space-marine dept.

An anonymous reader writes "CNN/Money interviewed id Software wizard John Carmack at the recently completed QuakeCon. Among the topics discussed is Nintendo's recent announcement that today's games are too complicated and hard for players. Carmack, surprisingly, agrees, saying 'I agree strongly with that point of view, but I'm in the minority in the PC space. I want a game you can sit down with, pick up and play. [Role playing games], for example, got to where they had to have a book ship with the game.'"

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  1. Hes right.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can't ever beat this new game I have, called 'pong'.

    1. Re:Hes right.... by vaylen · · Score: 3, Funny

      With every game company killing themselves to sell to the people who shop at Walmart, is it any shock that this has happened? A majority of them would find "minesweeper" to be mind boggingly complex.

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  2. Today's players are too simple for the games by heironymouscoward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It has to be said.

    After years of learning to use only four neurons, today's game players can't even pickup the basics of the current crop of games.

    There should be special remedial classes for game players, so that they can find their basic game-playing skills again. Perhaps we can get Federal funding for this programme, after all it is of vital national intere...

    Oh, games. Right.

    Next article, please.

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    1. Re:Today's players are too simple for the games by mcpkaaos · · Score: 2, Funny

      I bet if you told me your sex and hair color I could draw a perfect picture of what you look like. Heck, don't even tell me the gender. ;)

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  3. New Games Not Hard! by Dareth · · Score: 4, Funny

    But that may be because I refuse to get rid of my rocking Voodoo3 3500!!! I install new game, it crashes... I swear a bit, then go back to coding. These new games are really improving my coding skills.

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    1. Re:New Games Not Hard! by The+Revolutionary · · Score: 3, Funny

      right on man!!

      it will be a cold day in hell before I buy any of that NVidia shit

      3Dfx is a company that is committed to hard core gamerz and not those OEM mommy-buy-me-a-pc pussies at NVIDIA what pansies. screw their market share

      hey dude have you heard??? 3Dfx is coming out with the Voodoo4 line this fall.

      rumor at voodooextreme has it that it will include SLI support.
      wicked ass!!!

      studip nvid0t whores i'll take my 4-way Voodoo4 Dual-SLI aany day so SUCK IT

      sincerely,
      l33t mofo'n mast'a cira. summer '99

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  4. A New Game... by Joel+Carr · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is it called Duke Nukem For-Never?

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  5. Re:agree by tedrek · · Score: 4, Funny

    Point and kill is much better for teaching zombies to disassemble widgets...

  6. You don't need a book! by SharpFang · · Score: 3, Funny

    You don't need a book to play RPG games! It's lame to count lines and words on given page anyway! Just get a crack instead!

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  7. Wizard by Andy+Smith · · Score: 4, Funny
    CNN/Money interviewed id Software wizard John Carmack
    Coding wizard, games wizard, and now just plain-old wizard. Is that a promotion or demotion?
  8. Compare and Contrast! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Gandalf the Grey vs. John Carmack

    Gandalf:
    Came out of the West and dwelt in Middle Earth.

    Carmack:
    Born in the West and dwelt on Earth.

    Gandalf:
    Produced wonderful fireworks and exploding rockets.

    Carmack:
    Produces rockets which may or may not explode.

    Gandalf:
    Wields Glamdring quite handily.

    Carmack:
    Wields a C compiler quite handily.

    Gandalf:
    Fell in battle to a Balrog, Daemon of Morgoth.

    Carmack:
    Fragged a few cacodaemons in his time.

    Gandalf:
    Rides around on a speedy tricked out horse.

    Carmack:
    Rides around in a speedy tricked out ferrari.

    Oh, come on, I haven't slept in over twenty hours. :p

  9. Sure, Carmack is a smart game designer. by Nova+Express · · Score: 5, Funny

    But he's no rocket scienti--

    Oh, wait.

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  10. Not by SoLoatWork · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes just like in Doom, where there was no action button... oh... wait...

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  11. Game theory? by V.P. · · Score: 3, Funny

    You keep using that term. I do not think it means what you think it means.

  12. Re:I'm too smart to waste time. Gimme a simple gam by aled · · Score: 2, Funny

    What kind of slashdoter want a game that doesn't require distributed computing knowledge and can't be scriptable in perl?

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  13. I Agree by md81544 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah... I have this game called "Chess". It's just far too complicated. It will never catch on.