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[Draugoth]

Bluesky

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[clarky]

Be great if this turns out to be a banger.

 

[PauloRoberto]

Romero Games is alive... FOR NOW.

It's a matter of fact, they need money to finance its game. Let's see if they are lucky, fingers crossed.

 

[kiphalfton]

 

[damidu]

some good news! a romero fps should be no-brainer for any publisher honestly.
any way microshit can still fuck this up?

 

[Connificent]

 

[violence]

Good

 

[Revolutionary]

"I lived bitch" - Romero Games to 'mystery' publisher

 

[Rush2112]

Yeah theyre still alive. Theyre just gonna lay off 80% of their staff and have no ongoing project. That's all.

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

They'll probably end up under the Saber Games umbrella.

 

[funking giblet]

They'll probably end up under the Saber Games umbrella.

Not while Tim is around.

I was lucky enough to get to see Blackroom (The Kickstarter FPS before this). It was pretty damn clever and looked very good. I've not had the chance to see the new FPS, but I do hang around with some of the Romero Games guys, and they are all great guys, super chill, as is the man himself.

 

[SpokkX]

Not while Tim is around.

I was lucky enough to get to see Blackroom (The Kickstarter FPS before this). It was pretty damn clever and looked very good. I've not had the chance to see the new FPS, but I do hang around with some of the Romero Games guys, and they are all great guys, super chill, as is the man himself.

Interesting - is this game probably Blackroom? what type of setting was that game?

 

[Rien]

Maybe Microsoft can scoop them up! I think it's a perfect game pass game

 

[funking giblet]

Interesting - is this game probably Blackroom? what type of setting was that game?

I doubt it. He talks about it in the book, but without going into too much detail it was a cross between something like Westworld and Prey. You are in a VR theme park basically, but with automatons or projected NPC, I can't really remember, and as an Engineer you have deeper access to the experiences, so when things go wrong you try to fix them. You had abilities which related to altering the park in real time, or moving between different "themes". It seemed a little like System Shock til he "programmed" himself a new weapon to take out the ghostlike bad guys in a straight up action sequence before going into another theme. I saw it in his Galway office before Covid so its been a while, and I won't add much more than is in the book here, as I said I meet up with some of the guys regularly.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

Not while Tim is around.

I was lucky enough to get to see Blackroom (The Kickstarter FPS before this). It was pretty damn clever and looked very good. I've not had the chance to see the new FPS, but I do hang around with some of the Romero Games guys, and they are all great guys, super chill, as is the man himself.

Willits and Romero need to bury the hatchet. Saber is doing pretty well for themselves without Embracer.

 

[kevboard]

what if this is Daikatana 2? Nintendo has to step in and make it fully N64 controller compatible!

 

[violence]

what if this is Daikatana 2? Nintendo has to step in and make it fully N64 controller compatible!

I'd play a remagined Daikatana boomer shooter.

 

[AeonGaidenRaiden]

Dude is so stuck in the past, all he can do is make doom conversion levels 30+ years later. Lets be honest, after doom he didnt make even one good game.

 

[Brakum]

I want this to be great and be one of those games that jist goes viral just to imagine phils face.

Not saying this is likely to be good or anything, but i sure hope it is.

 

[VolticArchangel]

The father of a genre called "first person shooter"

 

[KenaiPhoenix]

Wasnt this guy going to make a game like a decade ago? i remember he even teamed up with Carmack for the "Remember Doom?!".

And look, the guy is cool, and he definitely shaped in a good way what video games are, but... he hasnt do anything worth it lately: Sigil 1 and 2 are just "ok". And Im being nice, Sigil 1 is trash, I couldnt wait to finish it.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Eh who cares. Considering how long games take to get developed, might as well talk about this shit in 10 years if not more assuming it ever sees the light of day(huge doubt here).

 

[SpokkX]

Dude is so stuck in the past, all he can do is make doom conversion levels 30+ years later. Lets be honest, after doom he didnt make even one good game.

Quake

 

[Jigsaah]

Not familiar...who are these guys and what were they making?

 

[violence]

One good game is more than most. As someone said though, quake is good as well.

 

[Buggy Loop]

Glad for them

I hope they find a way to continue.

 

[DR3AM]

Yayyy another 73 Meta Critic game

 

[Avid Reading Horse]

Microsoft ain't winning the game.

 

[SILKYSMOOTH30FPS]

I don't see the game being good, so they might as well cancel it and ask themselves why they even started developing the thing.

 

[AJUMP23]

I hope Carmack funded him.

 

[semiconscious]

Yeah theyre still alive. Theyre just gonna lay off 80% of their staff and have no ongoing project. That's all.

if romero games was a medical patient, they'd be described as being on life support...

 

[StreetsofBeige]

All I remember from Daikatana was two things.

The ad about making you his bitch, which I thought was a great ad. Not sure why gamers hated it. Back then ads were really in your face for sex, violence and laughs.

And second, I forget which gaming mag grilled it (maybe PC Gamer?) and the reviewer said it it was stupid it seemed like you were killing giant frogs.

 

[Griffon]

Good.

I liked Sigil, I'm willing to see what's next for Romero.

 

[Hero_Select]

is it a "claim" if they're saying they're still around? lol

 

[Topher]

Maybe Microsoft can scoop them up! I think it's a perfect game pass game

Microsoft is reportedly the publisher who yanked their funding

 

[MiguelItUp]

Good for them.

 

[Hero of Spielberg]

Microsoft is reportedly the publisher who yanked their funding

I think it may have been a jest

 

[Topher]

I think it may have been a jest

 

[damidu]

Dude is so stuck in the past, all he can do is make doom conversion levels 30+ years later. Lets be honest, after doom he didnt make even one good game.

lol thats still bigger legacy than all of xbox history

 

[Sgt.Asher]

I suppose he's in a better position than many 90s developer has-beens.

 

[Loomy]

Willits and Romero need to bury the hatchet. Saber is doing pretty well for themselves without Embracer.

Old men hold grudges for a long time lol. Also, Willits as refuted by Romero, Carmack, AND American McGee. Sounds like he might be the one who needs to apologize, and that will require a lot of pride swallowing lol

 

[Kataploom]

Dude is so stuck in the past, all he can do is make doom conversion levels 30+ years later. Lets be honest, after doom he didnt make even one good game.

Why in the past? He's literally trying to carry on and get a success instead of capitalizing in his past

 

[onQ123]

Bluesky

bsky.app

I'm hoping that everyone bounces back quickly, some teams should even self-publish their next projects.