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

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

  3. 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?
  4. 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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