Carmack on New id Game, Game Theory

An anonymous reader writes "CNN/Money interviewed id Software wizard John Carmack at the recently completed QuakeCon. Among the topics discussed is Nintendo's recent announcement that today's games are too complicated and hard for players. Carmack, surprisingly, agrees, saying 'I agree strongly with that point of view, but I'm in the minority in the PC space. I want a game you can sit down with, pick up and play. [Role playing games], for example, got to where they had to have a book ship with the game.'"

Hes right....

[Anonymous Coward]

I can't ever beat this new game I have, called 'pong'.

Today's players are too simple for the games

[heironymouscoward]

It has to be said.

After years of learning to use only four neurons, today's game players can't even pickup the basics of the current crop of games.

There should be special remedial classes for game players, so that they can find their basic game-playing skills again. Perhaps we can get Federal funding for this programme, after all it is of vital national intere...

Oh, games. Right.

Next article, please.

New Games Not Hard!

[Dareth]

But that may be because I refuse to get rid of my rocking Voodoo3 3500!!! I install new game, it crashes... I swear a bit, then go back to coding. These new games are really improving my coding skills.

A New Game...

[Joel Carr]

Is it called Duke Nukem For-Never?

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Re:agree

[tedrek]

Point and kill is much better for teaching zombies to disassemble widgets...

You don't need a book!

[SharpFang]

You don't need a book to play RPG games! It's lame to count lines and words on given page anyway! Just get a crack instead!

Wizard

[Andy Smith]

CNN/Money interviewed id Software wizard John Carmack

Coding wizard, games wizard, and now just plain-old wizard. Is that a promotion or demotion?

Compare and Contrast!

[Anonymous Coward]

Gandalf the Grey vs. John Carmack

Gandalf:
Came out of the West and dwelt in Middle Earth.

Carmack:
Born in the West and dwelt on Earth.

Gandalf:
Produced wonderful fireworks and exploding rockets.

Carmack:
Produces rockets which may or may not explode.

Gandalf:
Wields Glamdring quite handily.

Carmack:
Wields a C compiler quite handily.

Gandalf:
Fell in battle to a Balrog, Daemon of Morgoth.

Carmack:
Fragged a few cacodaemons in his time.

Gandalf:
Rides around on a speedy tricked out horse.

Carmack:
Rides around in a speedy tricked out ferrari.

Oh, come on, I haven't slept in over twenty hours. :p

Sure, Carmack is a smart game designer.

[Nova Express]

But he's no rocket scienti--

Oh, wait.

Not

[SoLoatWork]

Yes just like in Doom, where there was no action button... oh... wait...

Game theory?

[V.P.]

You keep using that term. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Re:I'm too smart to waste time. Gimme a simple gam

[aled]

What kind of slashdoter want a game that doesn't require distributed computing knowledge and can't be scriptable in perl?

I Agree

[md81544]

Yeah... I have this game called "Chess". It's just far too complicated. It will never catch on.

Re:New Games Not Hard!

[The Revolutionary]

right on man!!

it will be a cold day in hell before I buy any of that NVidia shit

3Dfx is a company that is committed to hard core gamerz and not those OEM mommy-buy-me-a-pc pussies at NVIDIA what pansies. screw their market share

hey dude have you heard??? 3Dfx is coming out with the Voodoo4 line this fall.

rumor at voodooextreme has it that it will include SLI support.
wicked ass!!!

studip nvid0t whores i'll take my 4-way Voodoo4 Dual-SLI aany day so SUCK IT

sincerely,
l33t mofo'n mast'a cira. summer '99

Re:Hes right....

[vaylen]

With every game company killing themselves to sell to the people who shop at Walmart, is it any shock that this has happened? A majority of them would find "minesweeper" to be mind boggingly complex.

Re:Today's players are too simple for the games

[mcpkaaos]

I bet if you told me your sex and hair color I could draw a perfect picture of what you look like. Heck, don't even tell me the gender. ;)