Romero games shutting down - /v/ (#714491147) [Archived: 543 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/4/2025, 4:47:25 PM No.714491147
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Its over.
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Anonymous
7/4/2025, 4:49:16 PM No.714491274
>>714491147 (OP)
Has he done anything since Quake 30 years ago
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Anonymous
7/4/2025, 4:49:30 PM No.714491287
>>714491147 (OP)
>daikatana shit
>blackroom was a nothingburger
>empire of sin shit
>the best he can muster is a doom wad
only a retard would give him even a single cent
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Anonymous
7/4/2025, 4:51:31 PM No.714491425
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>>714491147 (OP)
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Anonymous
7/4/2025, 4:51:39 PM No.714491434
>>714491287
ice cream truck tacos was Kino
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 4:53:55 PM No.714491617
>>714491147 (OP)
Go woke go broke
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 4:54:14 PM No.714491646
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>One last ride?
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Anonymous
7/4/2025, 4:55:20 PM No.714491735
>>714491147 (OP)
He's a lifelong failure
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 4:55:30 PM No.714491749
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He has proven time and time again that he's still got that talent for creating great WADs as Sigil 1 was awesome and Sigil 2 was pretty alright.
However, as a gamemaker he sucks, I think that the fact that all his games absolutely sucked just prove that Carmack was necessary for id to work.
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Anonymous
7/4/2025, 4:55:51 PM No.714491779
>>714491646
Those are some broad ass shoulders
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 4:56:57 PM No.714491862
>>714491749
Carmack had his issues too, the more he took creative control of things the more soulless and bland the games got, culminating in Rage.
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Anonymous
7/4/2025, 4:57:03 PM No.714491871
>>714491646
He only cares about "general" AI now.
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Anonymous
7/4/2025, 4:57:37 PM No.714491903
>>714491749
Im surprised people gave him money after Ion Storm's crash.
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:00:12 PM No.714492078
>>714491862
Yeah iD was a team, don't forget about the other guys; whassisname and Amy McGee
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:00:13 PM No.714492081
so what does this mean for the future of Blackroom? After the Kickstarter failed back in 2016 Romero promised that the game wasn't a scam and he was going to relaunch it once he had some gameplay and not just 4 concept art images. It's been almost 10 years now so the game has to be nearing a complete enough state that they can at least launch the Kickstarter again with some gameplay footage right? I mean, Romero has spent this last decade working on the project he claimed he was passionate and serious about hasn't he?
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Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:01:32 PM No.714492176
>>714492081
His company spent the last decade making a 2d pixel game nobody remembers, and a prohibition era strategy game that nobody remembers.
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:01:35 PM No.714492178
>Seven years to not finish a game
good
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:02:17 PM No.714492236
>>714491147 (OP)
who?
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:04:55 PM No.714492436
just make sigil 3
this time with more super shotty please
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:06:41 PM No.714492550
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>>714491147 (OP)
What happened to that new FPS? oh it's another black room? yeah i called it. I told you all that he wouldn't deliver on anything. No talent hack could never evolve beyond doom and quake mapping. That's two times he created vaporware and tried to hype up non existent projects.
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Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:07:17 PM No.714492590
who is dumb enough to give romero money
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Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:07:44 PM No.714492617
>>714491147 (OP)
Who?
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:07:45 PM No.714492618
>>714491862
What about Tim Willits? The games that people blame Carmack for being bland were all directed by him.
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Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:12:32 PM No.714492948
>>714491871
>>714491646
Carmack is literally only interested in doing new things. He worked on Doom because he wanted to solve 3D graphics in games, he did and everything after that was just optimizations. Then he went to VR, where he also worked out everything he wanted and also all remained was optimization.

He said in interview that he had two choices of what to work on next, either fusion energy or AGI and he decided on the latter because former involved too much politics and engaging with lawmakers, goverments, permissions and shit while AI was still wild west.
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:12:39 PM No.714492957
>>714492590
microsoft
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:19:24 PM No.714493445
>>714492550
He burned his bridges in the gaming industry and can't secure funding and refuses to put him own money in his projects. He's doomed to stay in the mobile sphere.
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:19:55 PM No.714493479
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>tfw you will never be called his bitch
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Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:21:17 PM No.714493594
>>714493479
its over..
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:21:43 PM No.714493626
>>714492590
Microsoft for a while. The next sucker after them.
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:22:32 PM No.714493686
>>714492618
Willits directed Quake 3, which was the greatest FPS of all time.
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:24:35 PM No.714493845
>>714491274
None of the niggas who made Quake have done anything of note after Quake. They were all one-hit wonders.
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Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:27:45 PM No.714494091
>tfw Everquest was almost developed on the Quake engine
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:30:59 PM No.714494284
>>714493845
Alice was cool
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:32:09 PM No.714494363
>>714493845
they made doom which is miles better thank quake so they're two hit wonders
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Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:33:08 PM No.714494429
>>714491646
>Hey Alexa how do I destroy evidence without letting the law know when I have a court case tomorrow?
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:33:22 PM No.714494448
>>714491425
"I-I used to make video games you know..."
Shut the FUCK UP boomer and just fill the tank already. If my windows aren't sparkling after I get back from taking a fat road shit you can kiss that $4 tip goodbye.
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Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:35:54 PM No.714494631
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Big fat Stevie Case titties.
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Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:36:13 PM No.714494661
>>714494363
doom is kinda shit tho, quake is much better
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Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:38:39 PM No.714494852
>>714494661
In terms of raw mechanics quake is better but doom has better enemies, weapons and atmosphere, there's a reason why Doom 1&2 are still more popular than quake
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:39:34 PM No.714494919
>>714494631
Pre-September 11 truly was a magical place. If only we knew how good we had it.
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:40:57 PM No.714495036
Where is my Daikatana redux?
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Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:43:28 PM No.714495223
>>714491147 (OP)
the studio that gave us the mafia game with black and female mob bosses?
good riddance, I say
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:43:36 PM No.714495234
>>714495036
The community patch fixes a lot of the original's issues.
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:45:48 PM No.714495404
>>714491147 (OP)
being known as a great doom map maker and then coming back 30 years later to the gaming industry is like a peasant who build a shack in the Middle Ages coming back to modern times to build a skyscraper.
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Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:51:04 PM No.714495797
>>714495404
Difference is, he never left the industry. He and his wife have been trying to make a good game for a few decades now, failing every single time
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:53:56 PM No.714496012
>>714491147 (OP)
I want to brush his hair for hours.
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:55:55 PM No.714496182
>>714495404
It's like a brick layer from the 1960s trying to fight the HOA to make a Burger McMansion in 2025.
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:56:28 PM No.714496217
>>714491862
Rage was good though.
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 5:56:54 PM No.714496253
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>>714491147 (OP)
Make way for the youngsters.
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 6:00:26 PM No.714496554
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2025/0704/1521885-fears-for-100-jobs-at-galway-based-romero-games/

There are fears for the future of around 100 jobs at Galway-based video game company Romero Games.

The firm has issued a statement outlining that its publisher has cancelled funding for a game that was currently in development.

The publisher is reported to be Microsoft which this week announced plans to cut around 9,000 jobs globally.
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Anonymous
7/4/2025, 6:01:31 PM No.714496629
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>>714496554
>around 9,000
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 6:05:16 PM No.714496912
>>714492590
If he had an onlyfans I'd sub.
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 6:05:38 PM No.714496940
whomst've'd
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 6:06:38 PM No.714497021
>>714494631
I miss when girl gamers didn't have penises
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 6:06:53 PM No.714497040
>>714494448
Don't treat the workforce like that
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 6:08:10 PM No.714497135
>>714493845
Sandy is still doing fine
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 6:08:14 PM No.714497139
>>714491147 (OP)
I could break NDA but they might find a new publisher.
Anonymous
7/4/2025, 6:11:30 PM No.714497354
>>714491646
>He thinks Carmack will return to make games