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Originally Posted by Gnome Eater Fixed. I think it was pretty apparent when he got kicked out and had to actually make a game himself instead of relying on all the rest of the people at ID who the actual brains behind the games were. |
Actually, I think it was pretty apparent that Romero and Carmack made a great team. Neither alone has had anywhere near the success they had together. You certainly can't say id has done well without Romero, so it's pretty obvious that he was a key component in those early days when he was a co-founder and one of the only employees.
Remember, Romero was fired by Carmack. Carmack is semi-autistic and doesn't even enjoy video games that much (unlike Romero, who has a deep passion for them). He ends a lot of sentences with a mechanical hum. In my opinion, he's not quite right in the head.
But it's really stupid for some random forum surfer to put down one of the greatest game developers of all time simply because he was the figurehead of the Daikatana team. You probably know nothing about him and his involvement in creating games.
I think Mark Rein, vice president of Epic Games, said it best when talking about Doom3: "If they're going to do DOOM then they should bring back John Romero and Tom Hall. Those were the main guys behind the design of DOOM. They were the soul of DOOM. id needs to get back to making games with more soul."