blacbraun on 18/8/2010 at 01:21
Imagine an alternate universe where ID software never was. No Wolfenstein , no Doom. Looking Glass would have been hailed as Gods but due to some very unfortunate timing with the release of Wolf and Doom, they stole all the thunder. Underworld and System Shock were so much deeper than the ID games after all.
Kolya on 18/8/2010 at 03:13
It's not like ID made everyone dumb by releasing games. The fact that more people played Doom than System Shock is down to a bunch of reasons from accessibility to marketing.
However Looking Glass were and are hailed as Gods, in fact you're standing right in the main cathedral...
Hallelujah
Nameless Voice on 18/8/2010 at 03:31
id Software. No capitals.
Kolya on 18/8/2010 at 12:14
You're suspiciously well informed on the matter. You haven't been playing DOOM, have you?
ZylonBane on 18/8/2010 at 17:56
Quote Posted by blacbraun
Imagine an alternate universe where ID software never was. No Wolfenstein , no Doom. Looking Glass would have been hailed as Gods but due to some very unfortunate timing with the release of Wolf and Doom, they stole all the thunder.
Aww you're cute, completely forgetting about 3DRealms, Epic, and Bethesda.
LGS never achieved huge mass-market success because they don't make games with mass-market appeal.
blacbraun on 21/8/2010 at 06:42
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
Aww you're cute, completely forgetting about 3DRealms, Epic, and Bethesda.
LGS never achieved huge mass-market success because they don't make games with mass-market appeal.
I'm cute?? 3DRealms and Epic etc copied id (yes I put it in lower case for you nit pickers) System Shock was not that user friendly but Underworld was very mainstream and easy to play. Anyway, I think LG would have been very happy if they had the mass market appeal they were denied.
rachel on 21/8/2010 at 11:02
They weren't denied anything. :tsktsk:
JediKorenchkin on 21/8/2010 at 13:23
Quote Posted by blacbraun
Anyway, I think LG would have been very happy if they had the mass market appeal they were denied.
lol, what?
Melan on 21/8/2010 at 13:35
Quote Posted by blacbraun
Imagine an alternate universe where ID software never was.
I imagined this alternate universe where immensely cool games like Wolf3d, DooM and Quake didn't exist. It was a grey, lightless place, devoid of human joy. :o
Bluegrime on 21/8/2010 at 16:47
If they had never existed we may have actually seen Duke Nukem Forever get released, rather then dying off when the Quake II engine went obsolete. In all seriousness, Epic and 3D Realms would have filled the void Apogee/ID left behind back in the 90s. And since then iD has just been another game company in the FPS market rather then the industry movers and shakers they used to be, no real loss at all.
Or we'd just have a different marketplace where FPS' never became king and we still played SmashTV. Either way LGS wouldn't have done much better. Especially since SS2 competed with Half Life rather then Doom/Quake when it was released.
