Carmack at GDC Follow-up [Mar 26, 2004, 09:59 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
To follow-up on the discrepancy between the two accounts of John Carmack's
address at the GDC yesterday, a reader named Rene Patnode who attended the talk
offers his perspective saying the HomeLAN Fed account is the more accurate of
the two: "I can tell you that HomeLan Fed is a LOT closer to the truth. He
mentioned Quake II as a former possible idea, but it was only that. What he did
say was that the likely next id game will be a slight variation of Doom 3.... I
personally would expect a mission pack or something on the order of Team Arena.
Pretty close is also better than really close." Likewise,
GameSpy's Carmack Address
Recap likewise confirms that it was Computer and Video Games that came away
with the wrong take on the facts here:
One interesting idea that Carmack said was discussed early on in DOOM 3's development was a product specifically meant to be a rendering showcase. In this case, the idea was to do a "Quake 2 remix" - to rebuild the game using all-new assets and technology. "But even the idea of just reskinning an old game brings with it the problems that as we have newer graphics technology, media creation demands get worse and worse..."
There has only been a few games where game development teams have used John Carmacks engines.
Yeah, only a few:
Heretic, Hexen, Hexen II, Heretic II, Soldier Of Fortune 1 & 2, Kingpin, Half-Life, Half-Life: Opposing Force, Half-Life: Counter-Strike, Daikatana, Sin, Heavy Metal: Fakk 2, Star Trek: Elite Force & EF2, Anachronox, American McGee’s Alice, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Medal of Honor, Jedi Knight 2 & Jedi Outcast.
Just to name a few. Basically any game from Raven, and most games from Ritual have been strictly Id only engines. So while I agree that most of Id's revenue comes from their games (just think of how many platforms Quake 3 has been ported to), to say that there's only "a few games" that use ID engines isn't fair.
PZ
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