John Romero, the Man Behind the Hype

rockstarenvy writes "In a recent interview with the Escapist, Russ Pitts reveals a lot about who John Romero really is. As Romero puts it: 'After 10-plus years of reading about yourself, all the good and bad, it all just becomes irrelevant after awhile. I know what I'm capable of doing and the people I work with are united in our mission, and they treat me just like they treat each other. The whole fame thing doesn't come into play when we're in development, because we're all a team. I know some of my guys read a lot of forums and sometimes they'll see some remark that someone clueless made and show it to me, chuckling because they know the truth of who I am and how I work. The media personification of John Romero is not who John Romero is.'"

Comments

Re:Who the hell....

[Sv-Manowar]

Co-Founder of id Software and lead designer on Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake. He left and then made Daikatana and didn't do that much until he joined Midway in 2003, left again in 2005 and is currently making his own MMOG. He's pretty legendary for having the domain name rome.ro along with having a Ferrari that you could tune via USB while driving.

Re:Forget him... Killcreek

[DarkHelmet]

Only on slashdot would gawking at a woman's breasts be considered "informative".

Besides, it kind of takes away from her being a level designer, game designer, and overall nice person.

But since Slashdot revolves around Self Indulging (tm), I might as well Karma whore and get noticed:

http://steviekillcreekcase.tripod.com/

Look everybody! I can be "informative" too!