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09-08-2002, 02:41 PM

Achaea, Dreams of Divine Lands
"I don't think there's another game in existence with this much depth." -- John Romero, co-founder of id Software. Two full-time coders. Completely custom world and code. Over 800 spells and abilities. 250+ players during the day.

This is the best joke on TMS ever! Kudos to whoever thought of that one! ^_^ And for those of you who don't get it, John Romero spent ages working on a game, summoning powerful marketing forces to hype his game into god-like status even before it was released. This was also his best time because when the game was released, it turned out to be using an outdated rendering engine, unoriginal concepts and storylines and buggy at best, exactly the opposite of what John Romero's marketroids had made it out to be. Ever since then, John Romero and his game, "Daikatana" have been used as homonyms to the words "failure" and "catastrophe". Compare it to Black & White with Peter Molyneux, but on a bigger scale back then. Or Doom 3 with John Carmack, whic I believe is going to end like a disaster as well.

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Another funny tidbit would be that John Romero feels that graphics are better then gameplay. Then why does he rate MUDs? And out of all things, rate them positively?

09-08-2002, 02:41 PM	#1
Ingham Posts: n/a	Achaea, Dreams of Divine Lands "I don't think there's another game in existence with this much depth." -- John Romero, co-founder of id Software. Two full-time coders. Completely custom world and code. Over 800 spells and abilities. 250+ players during the day. This is the best joke on TMS ever! Kudos to whoever thought of that one! ^_^ And for those of you who don't get it, John Romero spent ages working on a game, summoning powerful marketing forces to hype his game into god-like status even before it was released. This was also his best time because when the game was released, it turned out to be using an outdated rendering engine, unoriginal concepts and storylines and buggy at best, exactly the opposite of what John Romero's marketroids had made it out to be. Ever since then, John Romero and his game, "Daikatana" have been used as homonyms to the words "failure" and "catastrophe". Compare it to Black & White with Peter Molyneux, but on a bigger scale back then. Or Doom 3 with John Carmack, whic I believe is going to end like a disaster as well. Note: Another funny tidbit would be that John Romero feels that graphics are better then gameplay. Then why does he rate MUDs? And out of all things, rate them positively?