John Carmack Gets Lifetime Achievement Award

[Marcus Yam]

The daddy of 3D engines that powered Doom and Quake games gets recognized.

John Carmack Gets Lifetime Achievement Award : Read more

 

[JohnnyLucky]

A very bright and talented individual.

Looking at the list of previous recipients I noticed Sid Meier of "Civilization" fame. That brings back a lot of memories from a long long time ago.

 

[brendano257]

Gratz! Idk what I would do without my FPS games

 

[blarger]

So ... afterwards they shoot him?

Carmack has life left in him. If he gets a hair cut he might even get laid before the end.

 

[overclockingrocks]

well deserved imho. The man created some of the most popular computer games ever written. Wolf 3D, the Doom series and Quake are all under this man's belt. Hats off to you Mr Carmack you are a pioneer in this industry and produced the greatest FPS games known to date. Here's to more success

 

[Shadow703793]

[citation][nom]JohnnyLucky[/nom]A very bright and talented individual.Looking at the list of previous recipients I noticed Sid Meier of "Civilization" fame. That brings back a lot of memories from a long long time ago.[/citation]
+1. Too bad they don't make games like games like Wolfenstien, Quake,etc any more. All we have now are cr@ppy console ports.

 

[Shadow703793]

[citation][nom]blarger[/nom]f he gets a hair cut he might even get laid before the end.[/citation]
Fail. He already has a wife and a kid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Carmack

 

[gsacks]

[citation][nom]brendano257[/nom]Gratz! Idk what I would do without my FPS games[/citation]
It is called the outdoors. I kid.

 

[matt87_50]

we miss you man.

all those years ago when you showed Nintendo what gaming could really look like, on the family PC no less.

wish you would do it again now...

 

[tacoslave]

[citation][nom]gsacks[/nom]It is called the outdoors. I kid.[/citation]
buy a console lol

 

[anamaniac]

This guy deserves a freaking Emmy, Oscar, Nobel Peace Prize (really Obama, you kidding me?), and a moat of sharks with fricking lasers on their heads!

Even then, we wouldn't be doing the man justice.

 

[back_by_demand]

The Doom Ri-Res pack is the way to go guys.
Download it
Play it
It is the way, the truth and the light.
I still haven't made it as far as the end level of Doom 2 where you see John Romero's head on a spike, it will be interesting to see if they have got a more up to date skin for John's face.

 

[Parsian]

IDDQD IDKFA anybody good old days i still remember

 

[Guest]

this guy has no boundaries

 

[kikireeki]

he absolutely deserves it but isn't that too late?

 

[Regulas]

I still have fond memories of playing Doom 1&2 on a Pentium 1 running at 60MHz. Doom 3 is still probably the scariest game I ever played. Now stop making iPhone games and finish Doom 4.

 

[stratplaya]

Congrats to Carmack. Somewhere John Romero is kicking himself again, for leaving id.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]stratplaya[/nom]Congrats to Carmack. Somewhere John Romero is kicking himself again, for leaving id.[/citation]
At least he is immortalised as a head on a spike

 

[Guest]

Glad he got the award he deserves it.

Not only for making breakthrough games but for also supporting Linux !

I should mention I had 3D fps games on the Amiga pre Carmack...

 

[rantoc]

Congratulations! How many games have tried to live up to the quakes gamestyle, quick, fast, skillbased FPS.

Not like todays wannabe console games with auto-aim and other crap needed to even control it, then when the word skill or elite gamer is amonth the words i can only laugh my ass off!

 

[Guest]

Hey... don't forget Carmack's involvement in Commander Keen, either! Why the heck does "real" gaming all have to be FPSs?
Does anyone remember the blurb in Commander Keen 1 where they "previewed" Quake... at the time they bragged about the 256 color graphics and how you would start out as the most powerful person on earth!

 

[greeve]

I don't think Carmack has taken a picture of himself since that last one was taken back in 1985. Congrats to him tho, the engines he makes are ground breaking.

 

[Guest]

A renowned game programmer with an asian wife - an idol to every single basement-dwelling atheist.

 

[10tacle]

[citation][nom]Shadow703793[/nom]+1. Too bad they don't make games like games like Wolfenstien, Quake,etc any more. All we have now are cr@ppy console ports.[/citation]

Huh? Did you just happen to miss the Half Life franchise? The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. franchise? Crysis franchise? Mass Effect franchise? All of those are ongoing and PC-first if memory serves me correctly.

 

[False_Dmitry_II]

Nope, Mass Effect was 360 first. Dragon Age was one of the most recent to be on PC at the same time, stuff like KotOR was xbox first.

Also the next Crysis will be for consoles too.