John Romero Apologizes for Trying to Make You His *****
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I did play a bit of it way back in the day. It is the only game that I can recall where twice I got stuck in the scenery in one level (like between the back of a cliff and the skybox outside the level). That was probably a blessing in disguise as it made me quit the game out of frustration.boholikeu said:
Yeah unlike the folks at 3d realms.oppp7 said:
I bet they will never apologise for not releasing Duke nukem forever.
I think that ad is fucking awesome. It certainly prevailed the ages, even though it might be arrogant. Still brings a smile to my face from time to time. Fuck, I like that it's arrogant. Anyone that's offended by this has to buy some new self esteem at Wal Mart for 9.99$.
As for the people that bad mouth Daikatana: How many of you have actually played it? Stop pretending like it's important to you, or that you know how much it sucked. I haven't played it, don't pretend I have and don't have any connection to it whatsoever.
As for the people that bad mouth Daikatana: How many of you have actually played it? Stop pretending like it's important to you, or that you know how much it sucked. I haven't played it, don't pretend I have and don't have any connection to it whatsoever.
Amen.Woodsey said:
Yeah. It's. . .it's interesting. I watched through the whole thing and while that's no subsitute for playing it, I think I understand the whole "the example of industry waste, arrogance, and incompetence" thing. Combined with the marketing statagy (which I think would be perfectly fine today if they made a GOOD game) and it paints a picture.boholikeu said:
The game wasn't as bad as I was led to believe (but it WAS far from good). That said, I purchased ten copies (at $2.99 each) and handed them out one christmas as the geek equivalent of Fruitcake. The reactions I got alone was worth the thirty bucks.The Gentleman said:
The game wasn't great, but it was passable from what I've heard. It wasn't ET for the Atari, it was just another mindless shooter (albeit with a very long development time and an insufferably arrogant marketing campaign.)
Let's just say that I appreciate Romero more than Molyneux now. The former at least learned to not spout baseless hype any longer.
Let's just say that I appreciate Romero more than Molyneux now. The former at least learned to not spout baseless hype any longer.
Well at least he didn't wave a gun in peoples' faces to promote the game. I think that should take the torch of the new "worst marketing ever."
It's not so much that people were offended, it's more that he was so damn sure his game was going to kick ass that he thought he could put that as an ad. Ah well, at least he finally decided it was better to own up to it.
Hey, at least he did something genuinely interesting and out of the ordinary. An incident like this will be remembered by virtue of it being so unusual. So he shouldn't feel pride about it, but he can know that he's forever secured his place in gaming folklore.
I remember seeing that ad in PC Gamer and thinking that it was writing a pretty big check. Granted, at that time everyone thought the game was going to be mind-blowing.... oh how wrong we were.
Anyhow, Daikatana was god awful, but I can't hate the creator of Doom and Quake for that. John Romero's okay in my book.
Anyhow, Daikatana was god awful, but I can't hate the creator of Doom and Quake for that. John Romero's okay in my book.