Well, his favorite id game is Quake 3, and that is why he is making Quake Live. He likes the pure insane fast action. No other game has that. All the Counter Strike and CoD and MoH "realistic war sims" are too slow. The characters move a lot slower and die a lot easier. Before you re-equip, deploy and walk to the combat zone, it's 5 minutes later. For him it's all about going in there and killing as many mofos as fast as possible. That's why Quake 4 never really caught on, it was slower than Quake 3. That's why Quake Wars didn't work, it was too complicated. Pure and fast killing simulator, that is what he is all about. Complaining that it doesn't have much story really IS like complaining about the story in a :banana::banana::banana::banana: movie. You are there to get the action and when you are done you are done and you feel good. Who cares how the sheep got there : ) It's just a different kind of a game. Killing simulator. It's like complaining that Bioware games are too complicated and have too much talking. They are about the story, action comes second. Or complaining that "there is no way he would have survived that" in an action comedy movie. His vision of a perfect game is a pure killing skill test. That's why he likes Quake 3 the most. Besides, these days he makes the engine, and that's it. Why bash him when it's the other parts of id responsible for the story and other stuff. I remember long time ago he was so sad that he didn't study "the inner architecture of the 486 coprocessors more" because it would make Doom 2 run a little faster. That's dedication. Show some respect to the man for what he is and don't slam him for what he isn't. It's like telling Ali he's BS because even tho he can box, he might not really know how to solve e=mc2..
heh, did i just write all that? : )
and someone said he didnt post this because he thought people wouldn't think it's anything interesting.. wot? His interviews / keynotes are the definition of interesting!
(the only other game that i can think of as anything close to his style is Serious Sam.. again.. pure. fast. action. kill A LOT. big gun... and a lots of people had fun with that one too)
EDIT: and haha saaya, "hw mfgs" = hard ware mother fuggers?
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