John romeo launching new technology....

Post by **reefsurfer** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 3:17 am

"Co-founder of ID Software to launch revolutionary new online technology for gamers
Ideas From The Deep, a company founded in 1989 by John Romero and Lane Roathe, announced that a new technology which promises to revolutionize online game-matching titled Game Pioneer, will be shown at Games Developer's Conference from March 9 to 11 to select journalists by appointment. Word is "Game Pioneer is an affordable solution for modern game-matching and offers proven performance using new technologies. Game Pioneer boasts robust server support, an easy-to-use software development kit for licensees, proven performance and a thriving web-based community. Mac and Windows versions are to be released by mid 2005"."

I dont know... isent he the guy with Daikatana?
He is full of bullshit... :icon27:

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 3:19 am

He's a genius who's gotten a bad rap.

Post by **reefsurfer** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 3:29 am

Massive Quasars wrote:He's a genius who's gotten a bad rap.

Right... that and he married a russian/polish ugly red haired chick.

Mail order

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 3:41 am

reefsurfer wrote:
Massive Quasars wrote:He's a genius who's gotten a bad rap.
Right... that and he married a russian/polish ugly red haired chick.

Mail order

yea, see! skipped all of the trails and tribulations of dating and got right to the Honeymoon..

Post by **Freakaloin** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:15 am

wtf is game-matching? some kind of virtual bath house?

Post by **Hannibal** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:33 am

After making Dm3, John Romero could crawl over his dead mother to fuck his sister and he'd still be OK in my eyes.

Post by **SplishSplash** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 8:43 am

Freakaloin wrote:wtf is game-matching? some kind of virtual bath house?

lol

Post by **MKJ** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 8:49 am

Massive Quasars wrote:He's a genius who's gotten a bad rap.

i wouldnt say genius but he is good
just cause daikatana was 3 years late doesnt mean the guy dont know what he's doing
he just needs someone beside him to set some creative boundries

Post by **LXS** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 9:30 am

MKJ wrote:
Massive Quasars wrote:He's a genius who's gotten a bad rap.
i wouldnt say genius
just cause daikatana was 3 years late AND SHITmeans the guy dont know what he's doing,
he just needs someone beside him with a bat, hitting him every time he speaks or thinks about speaking

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:18 am

Sorry MKJ, I was simply speaking out of my ass. I'm indifferent about Romero and his checkered history.

Post by **Pext** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:19 am

diakatana would NOT have been shit if it was released 3 years before.

Post by **blood.angel** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:20 am

Chiq moderates the boards over at his site.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:21 am

Chiq is still fit at 35+ (or whatever her age is).

Post by **Pext** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:26 am

game matching is something that is done in battle.net: you hit the play button and get machted against an opponent of equal strenght.

this is something, 3d shooters are in need of btw!

the client/server architecture is just not up to date anymore.

Post by **MKJ** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:36 am

Massive Quasars wrote:Sorry MKJ, I was simply speaking out of my ass. I'm indifferent about Romero and his checkered history.

:icon19: thatll teach me
i still stand by my reply though

Post by **reefsurfer** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:40 am

Hannibal wrote:After making Dm3, John Romero could crawl over his dead mother to fuck his sister and he'd still be OK in my eyes.

Dm3?.. i hope you dont mean DOOM3 because he had NOTHING to do with it.

Post by **Myth** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:46 am

Q1DM3: The Abandoned Base maybe?

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:47 am

I thought it might be that map, but I'm not sure.

Post by **Eraser** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 12:09 pm

Those talking shit about John Romero, read the book "Masters of Doom" and you'll gain a lot of respect for the guy.

Post by **Dr_Watson** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 1:39 pm

damn.. he didn't invent a suicide machine and successfully test it on himself.

Post by **4days** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 1:53 pm

Eraser wrote:Those talking shit about John Romero, read the book "Masters of Doom" and you'll gain a lot of respect for the guy.

keep meaning to check that out.

Product Description:
“To my taste, the greatest American myth of cosmogenesis features the maladjusted, antisocial, genius teenage boy who, in the insular laboratory of his own bedroom, invents the universe from scratch. Masters of Doom is a particularly inspired rendition. Dave Kushner chronicles the saga of video game virtuosi Carmack and Romero with terrific brio. This is a page-turning, mythopoeic cyber-soap opera about two glamorous geek geniuses—and it should be read while scarfing down pepperoni pizza and swilling Diet Coke, with Queens of the Stone Age cranked up all the way.” —Mark Leyner, author of I Smell Esther Williams

Post by **TempSonicClang** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 2:03 pm

Eraser wrote:Those talking shit about John Romero, read the book "Masters of Doom" and you'll gain a lot of respect for the guy.

Thank you Eraser, I was just going to say the same thing. Don't talk smack about someone who was RESPONSIBLE for the first person shooter as we know it. If it were up to John Carmack, Wolf 3D wouldn't have had secret compartments, and not nearly as much fun. The overall feel of the original Doom was ALL Romero. Other mappers were trying ideas out and Romero told them to step aside. He threw together a level and that WAS the look and feel of Doom. John Romereo IS THE MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR DEATHMATCH!! He asked Carmack, "Would it be possible to connect two computers together and have two people play one another?" He even came up with the name "deathmatch". The man is a revolutionary genius, and yeah, he's cocky, so what. What have YOU done these days to revolutionize the world of gaming as we know it?

Post by **Freakaloin** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 2:21 pm

u guys are fags...romero is a huge fag...thus u guys r fags by proxy...

Post by **Eraser** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 2:41 pm

TempSonicClang wrote:The man is a revolutionary genius, and yeah, he's cocky, so what.

Heh, I realise the way things are described in the book are a bit over-romanticized but it's just very entertaining to read about how Carmack and Romero were each other's opposites but worked together so well.

Too bad their opposing personalities tore them away from each other. I wonder what kind of stuff id Software would be making if Romero was still in the team.

Post by **TempSonicClang** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 2:42 pm

Freakaloin wrote:u guys are fags...romero is a huge fag...thus u guys r fags by proxy...

Do you like Quake 3? Well then by your definition you'd be a fag because without Romero Quake 3 never would have been.

Why do you post here freakloin? You hate everything and everyone here. I just don't get you.