10 Years Later, Romero Apologizes for Daikatana

[exfileme]

John Romero's FPS had major design issues, however the infamous ad promoting the game was the proverbial cement block handcuffed to his ankle.

10 Years Later, Romero Apologizes for Daikatana : Read more

 

[RipperjackAU]

Looks who's sucking it down now... B!atch... Ha! Ha! Haaa!

 

[Dirtman73]

I forgive him.

 

[insider3]

Hate to break it to ya. It wasn't the ads that turned fans away, it was just a shitty game.

 

[djtronika]

its so bad its good.

 

[rooket]

Don't worry Romero I never saw the ad.

Also I played the game a little bit and I think the general gaming community is a bunch of whiners. Sure it wasn't the best game of all time but it was far from the worst.

 

[stratplaya]

What ever happened to that guy?

Oh right. Married a cute girl from Transylvania.

 

[Darkerson]

Everyone makes mistakes. At least he's admitting it.

 

[hellwig]

The bad reviews turned me off the game. I don't even recall the ad he talks about, I just remember PC Gamer pretty much telling me to stay away. I think the demo crashed my PC, but then a lot of things crashed my PC back then.

 

[killerclick]

I never played Daikatana. Once the first Rainbow Six came out, every other FPS kinda faded away for me.

 

[FUtomNOreg]

After all this time, did he really need to remind us?

 

[bildo123]

I think I saw an ad for this on the back of another game I had, maybe Blood 2 : The Chosen or Shogo. Shogo was awesome...and Blood 2.

 

[warezme]

what's Daikatana?

 

[megamanx00]

A little late

 

[sliem]

"To win the game, kill John Romero" (if reversed)

Anyone remembers?

 

[Guest]

[citation][nom]sliem[/nom]"To win the game, kill John Romero" (if reversed)Anyone remembers?[/citation]

Indeed. John Romero was the final 'boss' in Doom II - the icon of sin

I don't think this guy need apologise. By founding Ion Storm he indirectly gave us Deus-Ex, which makes up for any amount of bad games IMHO.

 

[Pei-chen]

Most marketing department is 900% over staffed. Just look at all the terrible ads on TV and mags. (Internet ads don’t count just like bloggers aren’t journalist)

 

[kanaric]

has he apologize for being an asshat?

 

[beergoggles]

@warezme - It's a video game with the most vicious killer frogs you have ever seen!

 

[demonhorde665]

[citation][nom]rooket[/nom]Don't worry Romero I never saw the ad.Also I played the game a little bit and I think the general gaming community is a bunch of whiners. Sure it wasn't the best game of all time but it was far from the worst.[/citation]

i agree i ahve played much worse games that that one but for soem screw-my-mind reason , so amny peioepl stick it int eh worse game of times list i didn't really think it deserverd sucha dishonor as that.

 

[DjEaZy]

... then give the idea to activision or ea... the idea waz good... so maybe there is a team change needed...

 

[JonathanDeane]

LOL I played this game back when it was new... and it did suck. Even back in the day it was not as good as Shadow Warrior or Duke 3D... (sure it was more 3D then they where but the game itself sucked more then 99% of the games I have ever played)

Sure it was not as bad as E.T but it wasn't much better either...

 

[zybch]

So hes NOT apologizing for one of the crappiest games ever, but for the ad for the crappiest game ever.

God, THG must be hiring the same idiots that write headlines over at wired.com

 

[michaelahess]

I loved that game, get past it's quirks and it was really quite good. Better than Halo by miles!

 

[zybch]

[citation][nom]michaelahess[/nom]I loved that game, get past it's quirks and it was really quite good. Better than Halo by miles![/citation]
Not really anything to get excited about; Halo was utterly dreadful.