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  Anonymous Coward, 5 May 2003 @ 11:20am

  
  

  Interesting...

  I just finished my copy of the book over the weekend, and while I agree with most of the things the author of the article says, he is very obviously biased. He has taken some of the quotes from the book out of context, i.e. when Romero didn't want the ability to move the dead bodies of nazis, the author conveniently forgot to mention that he was the one who had come up with the idea in the first place.
  
  Although there wasn't much innovation within Id concerning gameplay, that doesn't mean everyone in Id didn't want innovation. Most everyone was getting very tired of doing the same old games over and over, but Carmack liked the FPS genre because it was the most testing on hardware, therefore the most fun for him to create engines with.
  
  I would say more, but I've got to go...

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    PhreqE, 1 Jul 2003 @ 7:56pm

    
    

    Re:Awsome

    The two johns are da mother@#$*ing bomb yo! Wish they could be like that when doom first came out. I agree on the book is one person view on a gamming industry, that tries to make a soap out of the event from rise to fall of the two johns.
    
    

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