Carmack's QuakeCon Keynote Detailed

TheRaindog writes "In addition to announcing the Quake III source code's impending release, John Carmack's QuakeCon 2005 keynote also covered the programmer's thoughts on Microsoft and Sony's next-gen consoles, physics acceleration in games, and what he'd like to see from new graphics hardware."

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[Anonymous Coward]

Carmack is all hype and no substance. Ids last few games were poor imitations of each other - huge disappointments to the gullible sheep who buy into the propoaganda machine. What his Carmack or id done lately? What has he really contributed to the technology of gaming or done to further the scope of games? Here's a guy who gave up on DirectX because he couldn't understand it, only to sheepishly add it back in later when his colleagues embarrassed him buy pumping out tons of quality Direct 3D titles that put id's mindless shoot-fest to shame.

Carmack slates Apple

[Anonymous Coward]

Carmack was less pleased with the PowerPC processors for the new consoles, questioning the choice of an in-order CPU architecture. He estimated the console CPUs' performance at about 50% that of a modern x86 processor

Finally, proof that Apple is over priced, under powered hardware.

Why does Carmack hate Apple so much?

Looks pretty realistic to me

[Anonymous Coward]

Asshole

[Just some sample text to satisfy the lameness filter]

Here we go again....

[Conor Turton]

Carmack YET AGAIN giving us a list of things he wants to put in his next "tech demo" which will be foisted upon us under the guise of another Doom or Quake version whilst being nothing more than a "Look at me, aren't I clever?"

Carmack arselickers will say "Wow, look at the ultra realistic environment! Wow, those Strogg look dead real!" while the rest of us yet again go "What a stinking pile of unplayable shit that I'm expected to go and spend yet another £1000 on hardware just to get 30FPS in 800x600."

Personally I think Carmack is so far up his own arse that he can't see daylight anymore AND WE'RE PAYING FOR HIS INDULGENCE. He's living on a reputation built on the last decent games he wrote which are now OVER 5 years old. Doom3, whilst technically brilliant, was a crap game. I expect his next offering will be.

Re:Dual-core CPU not that easy to take advantage o

[Anonymous Coward]

what a load or tripe, the reason it runs at 100% CPU is because games are designed to consume as much power as they can so you can boast about framerates massivly above what your brain needs to see fluid motion. A game is effectively :

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Count how "affect" was used instead of "effect" !

[Anonymous Coward]

I think I'll start my GNU religion of trolls
on this bankruptcy, thereby the founding quote
shall be:

"There are no journalists, there are no editors."  -Guru Anonymous Nanak