John Romero (better known as the guy that made Doom) apparently thinks Gamecock are a bunch of twats. Or more specifically, he thinks so of Gamecock's CEO, Mike Wilson. Directly quoted from Romero's blog:
So, over on Kotaku they have a news item about Gamecock's release schedule. Once again, just like with Godgames, Wilson is taking all the credit away from the indie devs and pasting his asinine logo everywhere.
I got a chuckle out of reading the reader's comments on the article. People are now starting to get a clue about how Mr. Wilson operates. Hey everyone, he hasn't changed in over 10 years - these are the kinds of jackass stunts he pulled at Ion Storm with Daikatana.
For those of you that don't know what Romero means by the last bit, Romero and Wilson worked together at id Software and later at Ion Storm, before Wilson moved on to establish Godgames. Romero further comments in his blog that after Take Two absorbed Godgame, Wilson was just waiting for "his next victim/investor so he could go hogwild all over again." Harsh!
While I can't comment much on the obvious dislike there, it does get me wondering what Mr. Romero would think of a guy parading around in a robot helmet wailing about cocks.
[Via Games Industry BIZ, thanks Jonathan]
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That Box game looks interesting, but I haven't heard anything super special about it yet.
SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT I THINK!
@Jim Sterling
Hahaha, "all cock and no game" is my new favorite phrase, I'm going to have to figure out a way to use that in social situations.
ROFLMAO @ "all cock, no game". Share the same sentiments about these guys. They spend too much time trying to be different rather than focusing on the games.
Twats.
: )
After about a year, we finally recorded six hits on the mic on my computer into Microsoft Sound recorder. Since we didn't have a singer (Did I forget to mention that?), our songs were simply titled one through six. Song Number Four was our single. We were going places. Anyhow, a few months afterwards, we finally had our huge debut show at BT’s Coffee House. We spent a good hour before the show walking around town and convincing people to pay the two-dollar-cover to come see us play because it would be totally worth it. We managed to round-up a pretty sizeable crowd, but they look really disappointed when we finally started playing. Must've been the acoustics in the coffee house...
Anyway, we eventually broke up after our drummer broke into a pixie-stix-and-soda-induced rage and let us know how he really felt. Bastard didn't have any faith in the band at all... what a dick.
What were we talking about again? Hmm... Oh right! I don't know what it is, but every time I hear something about Gamecock, I get the strangest feeling of déjà vu.
What Kyousuke Nanbu said; it's pretty, but it's frustrating. All the areas look the same and the battles suck. I got bored right after chapter five and haven't looked back...
He would think that is awesome?