We haven't seen a first party game from them since what, Doom3? Prey was someone else, Q4 was someone else. Of course, I'm waiting for Rage to see what iD has been up to. I found HL2 to be the much better looking game. The HL2 engine was technically inferior, but the art direction choices made by iD didn't show the engines capability. Just look at screen shots of HL2 compared to Doom3. I've always found iD games to have a bit of a meh look to them, while having engines with amazing capabilities for their time. It's just that there were very few people who played around with drawing lines at the time, so innovation came easily.Īnyone watch the Graphics vs Aesthetics Extra Credits video over at ?
#John carmack gamebryo engine Pc#
Then 10 years later a "genius" figured out a way to add a fourth line, making a square! What innovation! Sure it's innovative, but sooner rather than later (especially when it's so early in PC gaming), someone else would have figured out that adding a fourth line makes a square. First someone discovered you could draw a triangle with 3 lines. The way I think of it, was back in the early 80s to late 80s, and very early in the early 90s, engines were like drawings. Probably going to get flamed, but just wanted to express my opinion on the matter and hear some other peoples opinions. his career after id is just a big lol) =/ He stopped being innovative after Quake, at which point first person shooters pretty much reached a stalemate in terms of impressive tech that is still in affect today. I mean look at his recent games (and Romero. If you could draw a smiley as a texture on a wall instead of just one solid color, you were famous. Today there's so much competition, but back then there was very little. PC gaming was nowhere near as big and popular as it is today). He was just the first to do so (and understandably. There was so much potential and it would have just taken time for others to eventually come up with the same tech Carmack came up with. I'm not good at explaining things so I'll keep this brief and hope others will chime in, but thinking about it logically, PC gaming was just an infant. I realized this during my reading of Masters of Doom. I think he was simply in the right place at the right time. Did he gain so much fame simply because it was such an early time for PC games?