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Interview With John Romero

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the get-your-chain-gun dept.

spensdawg writes "Here is an interesting interview with John Romero on Games.net. He gets into the original design philosophy for the first Doom games, what he would have done differently, and his plans for the future. Worth watching if you want to know a little more about the mad scientist behind Doom." A warning: this is a video interview

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  1. John Romero ? by aepervius · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Is it the John romero , lead of the wonderfuly made, and not-too-much hyped Dai Katana game ? Isn't his "authorithy" on gaming completly used up ?

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  2. Too Much Hype by dshaw858 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Maybe I'm just an unbeliever, but I don't think that John Romero is all that great. I mean, he's had a few good games-- great games, even, sure-- but is he the savior of all games? No. There are other great game developers that deserve just as much credit as Romero, but unfortunately simply don't receive it.

    Oh well, I guess we don't live in a perfect world. John Romero is still an extremely intelligent guy, and although the design intricacies of the Doom series are a little bit on the cobweb side of things, it's interesting nonetheless.

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  3. Re:Requires flash 8 by stunt_penguin · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's a video. If it didn't require Flash 8, it'd require streaming windows media (horrible), realplayer (oh, the humanity!) or quicktime (actually i wouldn't mind that).

    Quit complaining, luddite.

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