[Saty]

Romero was asked: 'Have you guys given up on making a good old school FPS ?' and responded with 'Definitely not! I have plans...'.

https://twitter.com/#!/romero/status/178715490523426816

And no, not Daikatana II: 'There will be no DK2!'.
https://twitter.com/#!/romero/status/178723002538663936

Kickstarter incoming?

[JoeTheBlow]

Who?

(yes i know who)

[Mr Swine]

Go back to Idsoftware and make a sequel to DOOM64!

[Odrion]

Who? (yes i know who)

some guy who made a shitload of money off of a facebook game

[Phonomezer]

"I Have Plans for games I know how to make"

[Darklord]

Romero? Old-school FPS? Ooooh boy.

[snoopeasystreet]

It better have some sweet demons in it.

[Odrion]

Apparently the last game he designed, Ravenwood Fair, had 25 Million players.

So he's still around, not entirely irrelevant.

[Smiles and Cries]

some old guy living in the past?

[Raide]

Hrmmm...Romero with a new FPS. Old School FPS at that. Could be amazing.

[maquiladora]

[John Dunbar]

what exactly would make a FPS "old school"?

[Krilekk]

Apparently the last game he designed, Ravenwood Fair, had 25 Million players. So he's still around, not entirely irrelevant.

However as with all Facebook games he only made money off 3 % of those players. A Facebook game with 25 million players is not a success story.

I don't need an oldschool FPS by Romero. He never was a good designer. He was a great level designer at a time where you didn't need a degree in architecture to make an impact, that's it. And it would probably be an iOS game anyway.

[HP_Wuvcraft]

Go back to Id

The only way I see this working.

[snoopeasystreet]

what exactly would make a FPS "old school"?

no aiming on the y axis.

[Slightly Live]

Will it make me his bitch?

[alexandros]

Do it John! Do it now!

[daviyoung]

what exactly would make a FPS "old school"?

No mouselook.

[Aaron]

He should name is Scrollz.

[Krilekk]

what exactly would make a FPS "old school"?

2.5D, health pickups, no gun reloads, more than two weapons, no checkpoints, no autoaim. Actually Rage was pretty oldschool when it comes to the shooting mechanics.

[Dipswitch]

Call me a cynic, but I've never seen a Romero designed game that doesn't blow chunks. And no Doom doesn't count - that was an iD production and I've never been able to tell whether he was responsible for game design there. Or just level design.

[Animation-Imp]

Old School fps on facebook?

I thought he said in an interview a while back that he was done with the whole hardcore gaming scene...

[Phife Dawg]

Stevie Case (Killcreek) as level designer or bust. They could even rekindle that long lost love affair of theirs for maximum marketing effect ;).

[Ruud_Luiten]

Make it for the Atari Jaguar please!!

[HyperBitHero]

Dude's got killer hair.

[Panajev2001a]

Go back to Idsoftware and make a sequel to DOOM64!

:D.

[TheSeks]

John Romero's about to make a game that no one will care about.

SUCK IT DOWN.

[Liamario]

I wouldn't have thought there would be much demand for an "old school" FPS.
Didn't duke nukem forever prove how undesirable they are?

[WhyMe6]

Wow, this could be amazing.

No mouselook, open, exploration-focused level design, 3D environment but 2D enemies, health & armour pickups, no reloads, more than two weapons allowed, manual saves during levels, optional Doom/Duke style autoaim and secrets, secrets, secrets!

I wouldn't have thought there would be much demand for an "old school" FPS. Didn't duke nukem forever prove how undesirable they are?

There was nothing truly "oldschool" about DNF. It resembled a dated attempt at a Half-Life style scripted shooter that was "dated" insomuch that it was primitively designed. Closed, linear levels, no exploration, no multiple weapons.

[TucoBenedictoPacifico]

Thank God! I spent countless nights craving for an old school FPS!
No wait, I didn't.

[Mistouze]

I never was your bitch mister Romero. If he's not working with Carmack, I don't see the point of giving him money. MEEEEH

[Odrion]

However as with all Facebook games he only made money off 3 % of those players. A Facebook game with 25 million players is not a success story.

He "only" made money off of 750,000 players. If we go by that blanket statistic.

edit: Farmville was seen as a very successful cash cow, even if 3% paid, at 31 million players. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/ente...farmville.html

[Drencrom]

I wouldn't have thought there would be much demand for an "old school" FPS. Didn't duke nukem forever prove how undesirable they are?

DNF wasn't really a full on old school fps. It had health regen, two wpn slots (two more slots were added on pc), mostly linear levels and so on. It sold pretty well also.

[neorej]

Old School fps on facebook? I thought he said in an interview a while back that he was done with the whole hardcore gaming scene...

Yeah, but now he's done with being broke.

[Disorientator]

(OLD SCHOOL FPS - he probably means it literally)

[spcd]

Wow, this makes me happy!

Romero has talent. He was great at creating interesting levels.

[frankie_baby]

Done right a real old school fps could be really good, i knew plenty of people that loved wolfenstein and doom that really couldnt give a shit about call of duty and other modern shooters, hell even my dad liked doom

[xbhaskarx]

I will be Romero's bitch if I can play as


"You're my boy, Blue!"

[Anasui Kishibe]

[MoGamesXNA]

I have a renewed obsession with Doom 1 due to the amazing Brutal Doom mod, so this news makes me happy.

Check out Brutal Doom if you're a fan of Doom and haven't seen it already:

http://youtu.be/UzhvJc6S24Y

I'm not a fan of the FPS genre in the modern era, so it's surprised me how much fun I'm having playing back through Doom 1, 2 and Hexen with modern mods. Perhaps I just like the maze-like levels more than the point-to-point corridor wack-a-mole level designs we get now.

[.la1n]

I think he had enough time to make come back to the FPS scene. This could backfire but consider me interested. He's probably the last person left that remembers what it's like to create an old school FPS (sorry Carmack.)

[shuri]

Twitter journalism (tm)

[TucoBenedictoPacifico]

I think he had enough time to make come back to the FPS scene. This could backfire but consider me interested. He's probably the last person left that remembers what it's like to create an old school FPS (sorry Carmack.)

Someone didn't play Serious Sam 3.

[injurai]

Awesome, So this will be the lube that he forgot to include when making us his bitch in his last game.

[Krilekk]

Someone didn't play Serious Sam 3.

I did. It's boring. It's like playing a weird mix of Serious Sam and Call of Duty. Games like Painkiller or Bulletstorm show much better how to create modern versions of oldschool games.

[CountAntonius]

Is he going to finish making the ultimate competitive fps Severity?

[Barberetti]

I'm interested at least. Will wait for more info and go from there.

[Bomber Bob]

Daikatana reboot confirmed

[Acquiescence]

I read that that guy would never shave his moustache, so they had to cake the makeup over it, lol. What a pro.

[vocab]

Is he going to finish making the ultimate competitive fps Severity?

I wish. Even if it was terrible, it would still be more competitive than any of these laughable military shooters.