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Midway gets talent - A Black Falcon - 14th October 2003
http://pc.ign.com/articles/454/454807p1.html
Quote:John Romero & Tom Hall Off To Midway
A return to mainstream games for the duo.
October 14, 2003 - Recent internet reports indicated that John Romero (creator of the nefarious Daikatana) and Tom Hall (brains behind the excellent Anachronox) had accepted positions at Midway. Romero has stated on his forums that this true and also revealed what their positions will be.
Hall will become Creative Director of projects being developed internally and externally as well as contributing towards the games in a creative capacity. Romero will be Project Lead for an internally developed game (rumours indicate a new version of Gauntlet). Further rumours suggest that Romero will be tasked with restructuring the internal development teams although we have been unable to get confirmation on that as of yet.
Romero put special emphasis on his intention to turn the Midway developers into "hardcore developers," but also mentioned Monkeystone Games, where he had been working with Hall on mobile platform games, will continue to be operated by Lucas Davis.
We shall soon see how their new venture turns out.
Very interesting... John Romero and Tom Hall have gone to Midway Games. Strange choice... they've always been PC game developers and that's a console-centric company. Still, Midway's often been a decent developer... maybe they can make it better.
A new Tom Hall-led Gauntlet game? That'd be awesome!
Midway gets talent - The Former DMiller - 15th October 2003
Midway has been improving a lot since they first started. They certainly aren't in a league with Nintendo, Capcom, Sega, etc, but they are a better-than-average developer now.
Midway gets talent - OB1 - 15th October 2003
Yay, John Romero!
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Um.... he hasn't made a decent game since... Quake, I believe.
Midway gets talent - A Black Falcon - 15th October 2003
Midway used to be better than they are now, I'd say... their arcade team was the best (Rush, Gauntlet...) and they were fired. But they still make some pretty good games and definitely do seem to be improving... SpyHunter was very cool, for instance. A new Gauntlet game would be awesome... and Tom Hall? He's a great developer! Commander Keen is his. As is Anachronox.
As for John Romero, the only games he's made since Quake are Daikatana and that 2d adventure game he made with Tom Hall... not exactly a big sample. :)
Midway gets talent - Great Rumbler - 15th October 2003
Jonh Romero?! ALRIGHT!! That means we may yet get Daikatana 2 after all! The first game was awesome!! *sarcasm meter explodes*
Midway gets talent - OB1 - 15th October 2003
John Romero also worked on the crappy N-Gage version of Red Faction. Oh how he's fallen...
Midway gets talent - A Black Falcon - 15th October 2003
Hey, Hyperspace Delivery Boy was good... but yes, Tom Hall is definitely the better of the two.
Midway gets talent - OB1 - 15th October 2003
That game was definitely not worth $20.
Midway gets talent - A Black Falcon - 15th October 2003
I only played the demo, but it was fun.
Midway gets talent - OB1 - 15th October 2003
About as fun as Chip's Challenge.
Midway gets talent - A Black Falcon - 15th October 2003
Oh come on, its better than that...
Midway gets talent - OB1 - 15th October 2003
Not by much...
Midway gets talent - A Black Falcon - 15th October 2003
Well I liked it... sure, its simple, but its fun. That's really all you need...
Midway gets talent - OB1 - 15th October 2003
It suuuuuuuuuuuuucked. :shakeit:
Midway gets talent - A Black Falcon - 15th October 2003
Yes, if you dislike puzzle games.
Midway gets talent - OB1 - 15th October 2003
I like puzzle games more than you do!
Midway gets talent - A Black Falcon - 15th October 2003
Well then I'd think you'd like it!
Midway gets talent - OB1 - 15th October 2003
I've already played it...
Midway gets talent - A Black Falcon - 15th October 2003
Yes, so I gathered.
Midway gets talent - OB1 - 15th October 2003
Then why did you basically suggest that I play it?
Midway gets talent - A Black Falcon - 15th October 2003
I didn't.
Quote: Well then I'd think you'd like it!
As in, "I would have thought that you would have liked it...
Midway gets talent - OB1 - 15th October 2003
Use better grammar next time then.:p
Midway gets talent - A Black Falcon - 15th October 2003
It made sense to me... :)
Midway gets talent - OB1 - 16th October 2003
That's because you live in bizarro world where everything that doesn't make sense to everyone else makes perfect sense to you. :p
PIZARRRO! BIZARRRROO!!!
Midway gets talent - A Black Falcon - 16th October 2003
Bizarro is a good comic. :)
Midway gets talent - OB1 - 16th October 2003
I was making an Aqua Teen reference.
Midway gets talent - A Black Falcon - 16th October 2003
So you think... :)
Midway gets talent - OB1 - 16th October 2003
Midway gets talent - big guy - 16th October 2003
made sense to me too ABF
Midway gets talent - OB1 - 16th October 2003
That's because you also live in bizarro world.
Midway gets talent - Dark Jaguar - 16th October 2003
Why you always gotta run people down OB1?
Midway gets talent - Sacred Jellybean - 16th October 2003
Insecurity.
Midway gets talent - Great Rumbler - 16th October 2003
Quote:Originally posted by OB1
I was making an Aqua Teen reference.
It was a Sea Lab reference!!
Midway gets talent - A Black Falcon - 17th October 2003
You essentially said "I didn't like the game much".
So I replied "Really? I would think you would have"... why is that so confusing?
Midway gets talent - OB1 - 17th October 2003
GR: Yeah, one of my favorite Sealab episodes. But for some reason whenever I quote a Williams Street show I usually say Aqua Teen, since that's the most-quotable show of them all. So I said AT instead of Sealab. I feel so ashamed.
DJ: I was joking...
ABF: Your sentences often makes very little sense, so I misunderstood you.
Beanjo: What?
And that's supposed to be addressing each one of you, not me trying to pretend that I'm you...
yeah.
Midway gets talent - Great Rumbler - 17th October 2003
I'm confused...
Midway gets talent - OB1 - 17th October 2003
Let me simplify it for you:
Apple Pie.
Midway gets talent - Great Rumbler - 18th October 2003
...oh.
Midway gets talent - -_____- - 19th October 2003
I like apple pie.
Midway gets talent - A Black Falcon - 19th October 2003
Doesn't everyone?
Midway gets talent - Great Rumbler - 20th October 2003
What's that one thing called where they did it, but they're sorry?
Midway gets talent - OB1 - 20th October 2003
Corfinant?
Did you watch ATHF last night? Shake's voice seemed a bit off for some reason, like as if someone else did his voice.
Midway gets talent - Great Rumbler - 20th October 2003
I didn't really notice any difference.
Did you watch the Brak Show? That was hilarious!
Midway gets talent - OB1 - 20th October 2003
I only caught the last couple of minutes. :(
Midway gets talent - Dark Jaguar - 20th October 2003
*walks up stairs in a way that's physically impossible on a bridge* Nope, didn't see it *walks down other set of stairs in same manner*
Midway gets talent - A Black Falcon - 23rd October 2003
Midway looks like its serioiusly trying to come back from the major downturn they hit after canning their remaining arcade divisions in early '01... they've had a not very good couple of years, IMO, and its great to see them try to come back as they are.
Oh, its a nice new interview...
http://www.gamespot.com/all/news/news_6077179.html
Tom Hall making Gauntlet is just so cool. :D