Was Daikatana actually bad or was it just misunderstood at the time?

Was Daikatana actually bad or was it just misunderstood at the time?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Of course it was bad. How else would've Romero ended up working at a gas station?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      lmao that's what happens when you devote your life to video games
      embarrassing

      hes just obsessed with old gas station stuff for some reason

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        because he is based

        I heard it's good after all the fan patches

        it's decent

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Sure, John. Whatever you say, fricking wagecuck

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        That's even worse, what a depressing hobby

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          browsing Ganker for 12 hours every day is no better

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    FPS as a genre was solved by then, I didn't play it.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Daikatana
    >It's not a greatsword

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    lmao that's what happens when you devote your life to video games
    embarrassing

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I didn't even hear about it at the time, other than seeing that "Romero is gonna make you his b***h" ad once in a gaming magazine and not dwelling on it at all since it didn't mention any gameplay shit.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I heard it's good after all the fan patches

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >got fired because he spent too much time deathmatching on the clock
    based or cringe?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I blame Carmack, he's one of those moron autists who literally just work 12 hours of the day, 7 days a week and don't understand when others don't want to devote their whole life to their job. This is also why iD's games got completely soulless once Romero left, he was the soul of the company, Carmack was the brain.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        This
        Carmack also fired McGee for not meeting deadlines or some shit, and look at what he went on to make
        He had some seriously creatively talented people and he did them wrong

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Despite the lore that Carmack was an unstoppable technical genius, he actually started having repeated issues working through Quake. He bit off more than he could chew.
          He was regularly making mistakes and doing engine rewrites that forced the rest of the team to rewrite their tools and rework levels.
          Romero was happy to chill and give Carmack the time he needed, but Carmack became obsessed with sticking to a fixed delivery date. Which is ironic because Carmack was the one struggling.
          Also, quake was the first time that Carmack wasn't the smartest person in the room, as he had hired Michael Abrash from Microsoft to work on quake, who was a legendary low level programmer. Carmack probably wasn't super comfortable with this.

          Basically Carmack had a minor mental breakdown because he had to face the fact that he wasn't actually an unstoppable programming wizard and projected his insecurity onto the rest of the team.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Some people have such a weird conception of intelligence. Being smart doesn't stop you from being a moron.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              mostly morons think being smart makes you an ultra wise demigod who can predict the future.
              plenty of geniuses make major frickups or mistakes that could be considered moronic

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah. Ticks me off.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Nope, I have no problems at all. Imagine being not perfect and still calling yourself a genius. Yikes

                t. genius

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                t. self proclaimed pseud

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You're still a human at the end of the day anon

                nothing is perfect
                that means you're nothing

                posting on Ganker is a problem

                All I'm sensing her is cope.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                does attending clown college increase your IQ by 200 points?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >her

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                perfect beings don't make spelling mistakes

                It was autocorrect. From all those Bridget threads.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                perfect beings don't make spelling mistakes

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You're still a human at the end of the day anon

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                nothing is perfect
                that means you're nothing

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                posting on Ganker is a problem

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          McGee is an actual moron and got fired for making bad levels.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            That was Tim Willits fault though

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            his doom 2 levels were one of the few good ones

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Why were a grand majority of the levels in Doom 2 hot garbage anyway?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                too experimental and lack of direction
                they just made a huge bundle of maps without any connection and just organized them from easiest to hardest

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Despite the lore that Carmack was an unstoppable technical genius, he actually started having repeated issues working through Quake. He bit off more than he could chew.
        He was regularly making mistakes and doing engine rewrites that forced the rest of the team to rewrite their tools and rework levels.
        Romero was happy to chill and give Carmack the time he needed, but Carmack became obsessed with sticking to a fixed delivery date. Which is ironic because Carmack was the one struggling.
        Also, quake was the first time that Carmack wasn't the smartest person in the room, as he had hired Michael Abrash from Microsoft to work on quake, who was a legendary low level programmer. Carmack probably wasn't super comfortable with this.

        Basically Carmack had a minor mental breakdown because he had to face the fact that he wasn't actually an unstoppable programming wizard and projected his insecurity onto the rest of the team.

        t. gas station worker

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        This. While he does have very good advice you can tell that he probably has burgers in his ass. (I have a friend who has asperger's and holy shit does some of the shit he says in this podcast remind me of him.)

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Frick you. If you're not dedicated completely to video games, don't become a fricking developer.

        The industry is full of irresponsible non-committants, and video games are shit on account of it. You can lambast Carmack for being an autistic frick but he contributed more to the development of remarkable video game tech than you or your ilk ever will in a hundred lifetimes.

        Fricking uncreatives.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          He literally did nothing of value and his whole life has been worthless.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Rage was complete ass. No dynamic lighting and you couldn't even pick up guns. Literal children have made better engines.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >bro I swear I'll work good when I feel like it
        >next week I'm totally meeting the monthly goals
        >oh ahah don't worry everything is under control, tomorrow I'll be more free

        Had the misfortune of having to work with a bunch of people like this

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Carmack kind of touched on this with his recent podcast with Lex Fridman.

        Tldr, Carmack with his age more or less said "I wish I could go back in time and not be such a prude", but also still alluded to the fact that he was justified in feeling annoyed by the fact he was doing a lot more work than Romero.

        I do agree that Carmack was the brain and Romero was the soul. It's just unfortunate circumstance. I hope these two autists can work together again one day.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        They were both at fault. Carmack is a genius with the personality of a hallway monitor, and Romero is a creative visionary that let celebrity get to his head and thought he was unstoppable, which made him unfocused and uncaring.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    do you need a different launcher like doom to play this or does it work fine on modern pcs?

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >back in the 90's
    >i was in a very famous video game
    >i'm John the Doom I'm John the Doom
    >don't act like you don't know

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Daikatana with some fan patches is pretty fun actually but those little flying bastards suck

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    This game should get a remaster. Quality of life improvements.

    What's the point in porting already legendary games. Shouldn't a remaster improve games that didn't quite nail it? Daikatana is prime material for a remaster.

    Tidy up the ai, tidy up this and that.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Theres a huge mod that finishes the game.

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    is the gas price still going up

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >started off as friends in a lakehouse eating pizza, playing vidya and making vidya
    >turned into people grouping up and firing other people from the company

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Remember Ganker, it doesn't matter how high you climb, you are always one mistake away from working at the gas station.

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Where does Tim Willits fit into all of this?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      He's a grifter who never did anything of any worth but claims to have invented sliced bread and been responsible for everything good about Doom

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Think Romero is pissed that he didn't think of Gas Station Simulator?

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I heard he was making a FPS, who is publishing it?

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Made most of the E1 maps (best episode in Doom 1)
    >Made perfect hatred (best map in thy flesh consumed)
    soul

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    both

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