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Hardcore: Romero's Not Done With You

[Mar 03, 2011, 7:11 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Reacting to Eurogamer's interpretation of his comments on VentureBeat from earlier today, John Romero tweets a clarification that he is not leaving the world of hardcore gaming behind for good:

I am not done making hardcore games, Eurogamer.

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Re: Hardcore: Romero's Not Done With You

Mar 4, 2011, 13:24

Beamer

im still waiting for romero to redeem himself. he has not done anything as successful and influential as quake.

Oh yeah, I mean, I don't think he's a bad guy, I think he's earned some reprieve from the hell he gets, and I think he's capable of doing something very fun again, but I wouldn't stake my job on it and I wouldn't be very quick to give him money.

If he was willing to be co-designer and work somewhere that kept some tight reign on him I'd be pretty excited, but after the whole Gauntlet situation (where I'm assuming the reign was too tight) I doubt that'll ever happen. Maybe Tom Hall is the right guy for this, then. Maybe having Tom Hall be the guy that does the less glamorous stuff and keeps the project focused while John goes nuts with some ideas (hopefully in the multiplayer area) good things would come.

But considering it looks like they're going casual, yeah.




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Comment [quote="Beamer"Mar 4, 2011, 13:24]q[ im still waiting for romero to redeem himself. he has not done anything as successful and influential as quake.]q Oh yeah, I mean, I don't think he's a bad guy, I think he's earned some reprieve from the hell he gets, and I think he's capable of doing something very fun again, but I wouldn't stake my job on it and I wouldn't be very quick to give him money. If he was willing to be co-designer and work somewhere that kept some tight reign on him I'd be pretty excited, but after the whole Gauntlet situation (where I'm assuming the reign was too tight) I doubt that'll ever happen. Maybe Tom Hall is the right guy for this, then. Maybe having Tom Hall be the guy that does the less glamorous stuff and keeps the project focused while John goes nuts with some ideas (hopefully in the multiplayer area) good things would come. But considering it looks like they're going casual, yeah. [/quote]

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