Well, it didn't take him long. Outspoken game designer and former id man John Romero has stuck his oar into the Zenimax/id buyout situation, sharing only one adjective on the idea of Bethesda's parent company owning the famous Doom studio: Disgusting.
Romero did what most people seem to be doing these days, and rushed to Twitter in order to vocalize his thoughts, stating simply: "ZENIMAX??????? Disgusting."
Of course, Romero isn't a man who leaves things at one statement, and continued voicing his disgust by claiming that "Fallout 3 bought Doom" in a later Tweet. I had no idea that game concepts could buy anything, but apparently they can.
I've never really heard of Zenimax doing anything particularly evil, so one has no idea what Romero's issue could be. Still, the design "legend" doesn't seem to like very many people at all in this industry, so it's likely that id could have been bought by any company and illicited the same reaction.
Do you think it's "disgusting" that Fallout 3 bought Doom, or are you still trying to wrap your mind around the idea of the videogames themselves staging corporate takeovers of each other?
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6:20 PM on 06.24.2009
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Romero got to bang Stevie Case. THAT, my friends, is disgusting.
Don't you remember the Horse Armor??!!
A fucking useless piece of clothing for a useless virtual animal!
Besides, Zenimax eat pussies.
Prove: http://images.uncyc.org/pt/6/67/Cheiramento_de_gatinhos.jpg
For one, it's better to have "Fallout 3 buy Doom" than letting EA do that; and second, to be honest, I'm quite curious to see what's going to happen or what projects are going to be developed.
Thats right John. Fallout 3, a game superior to Doom (and every iteration of Doom ever created) bought Doom.
When was the last time John was relevant?
Welcome to 2009, guys. Try to fucking catch up.
And Romero can suck it down, he's responsible for one of the most "disgusting" games ever created and has about as much room to talk on this subject as Dan Quayle does on spelling.
There a dozen other companies that could have bought them out and screwed them over royally. And most of those companies don't even make good games.
Count your blessings dumbass.
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/59278
Romero may have been invovled in something good but the decisions didn't come from him.
Anyway regarding the news of Zenimax getting id, I can only jump for joy. Because it should mean that Activision will NOT be publishing Rage! Hallelujah, thank you Jesus, Yaweh, and Mohammad, my prayers have been answered. I was afraid I'd have to give Activision some more money when that came out, but now I won't have to worry about that.
Can't wait for the news that Activision sells off Blizzard or Blizzard's talent leaves to make another company. That won't be for a couple of years though :(.
Also: I've heard Zenimax got Carmack with some Ferrari armor. True story!
Activision was never publishing Rage, EA signed on to do it, and is still publishing it.
Unfortunately for Weaver, it turned out everyone was right, Altman turned out to be a complete wanker. He got Weaver to sign his personal stock over to the company for 'financing' then stitched him up and took his company. ZeniMax are a pretty standard evil corporation I'd say, so I can see why Carmack would prefer iD not to be under their wing