Comments on: “I Can’t Bring Up This Server Without My Buddy Superfly”

By: Pentagany

Pentagany — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:49:12 +0000

So when are Derek Smart and Romero hooking up to do a megasuperhardcore game?

By: Zubon

Zubon — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 04:05:02 +0000

Double points for Gawain.

By: Gawain The Blind

Gawain The Blind — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 07:57:06 +0000

When I think about “John Romero’s Team” I picture an eclectic mix of larger than life characters all standing there like the cover of a street fighter game. With Romero in the background sort of with his arms outstretched over all of them. And like.. one of them is in a mexican luchadore mask, and hes like “El Coder GRANDE!” and theres another guy in camo pants with a huge sword who does the artwork or something.

my take: The design documents will kick ASS, but the game will be released half finished if at all, and eventually die a flaming death. Despite the best efforts of “El Coder GRANDE!”

By: imweasel

imweasel — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 03:14:50 +0000

This is vaporware.

As for the folks defending MJ, the guy is an idiot.

As for the folks discussing Romero, he's yesterday's news. Who really gives a fuck.

As for the comments by the lum detractors, they are more right than wrong.

Shadowbane died because it was not worthy enough to survive. Bad launch, bad coding, slow fixes and bad implementation doomed it. Neither the open pvp environment or the 'carebears' did.

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 07:26:11 +0000

Did I read it wrong or do you have to be stuck up to join Romero’s team? I kind of wonder how many new employee’s he ends up dropping when it turns out they think better of themselves than they can perform.

As far as missing Shadowbane.. no, I don’t miss any game, only the friends I made there. I tend to look forward hoping that one of the ones in development will be THE game I want to play.. so far they tend to end up as the lowest common denominator for that time (when their development cycle started). I worry that I will grow up and realize all computer games suck and always will.

By: Jurrasic

Jurrasic — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:52:27 +0000

Daym Bruce, I guess I did. My eyes started to glaze around #30....

I loved SB until one crash, rollback and 'sploit too many made me cancel as well, nonetheless that's not to say a GOOD hardcore PVP MMOG couldn't find a decent sized market in this brave new MMOG world, but the key word is GOOD in execution, not just theory.

Can John do it? Can there be quality bitch-making on a massively multiplayer scale? Is this even part of his plan? Check back in 2012 or so and see!

By: Kithias

Kithias — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:25:34 +0000

I tried to think of something hilarious to post, something that mocked all that Romero is, and that I hate.

I was stuck. So I Google Imaged him. That was all I needed for a good laugh/cry…

By: Evangolis

Evangolis — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:23:57 +0000

I'm curious. How many folks fondly remembering SB still have an active account?

I remember having great fun in SB. It really showed the potential of a PvP game. I also remember why I quit, and it was all about bugs and design flaws.

If you think not wanting to play bug infested games is carebear, I have some swampland you're gonna love.

By: SirBruce

SirBruce — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 23:42:51 +0000

You missed post #35…

By: Jurrasic

Jurrasic — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 23:42:00 +0000

38 posts and no one posted anything humorous about John Romero making you his bitch. Wow, gotta be a record.

Don’t expect me to start, either.