In all fairness to Romero, and many other heroes/legends of the ‘birth of fps’ era…
These dudes are getting old.
Getting old sucks.
Everything hurts, you’re always more tired than you used to be, you can’t pull 7 all nighters in a row anymore, it might actually kill you.
While the present circumstances are not … exactly awesome, dignified, ideal in any way…
… there would always one day need to be a changing of the guard.
All our favorite studios from the 90s/00s… they’re all mostly gone, they just have the same name sometimes, like the ship of Theseus. People leave, teams get shuffled… and the captains that are still there, are growing gray.
Don’t mourn this.
Be inspired by it.
Do what they did, but with that extra/other thing that you always thought they should have done, but never actually did.
It doesn’t have to be any graphically fancier than what they did decades ago… graphics age, gameplay is timeless.
You can do it, if you are curious, persistent… and humble.
In all fairness to Romero, and many other heroes/legends of the ‘birth of fps’ era…
These dudes are getting old.
Getting old sucks.
Everything hurts, you’re always more tired than you used to be, you can’t pull 7 all nighters in a row anymore, it might actually kill you.
While the present circumstances are not … exactly awesome, dignified, ideal in any way…
… there would always one day need to be a changing of the guard.
All our favorite studios from the 90s/00s… they’re all mostly gone, they just have the same name sometimes, like the ship of Theseus. People leave, teams get shuffled… and the captains that are still there, are growing gray.
Don’t mourn this.
Be inspired by it.
Do what they did, but with that extra/other thing that you always thought they should have done, but never actually did.
It doesn’t have to be any graphically fancier than what they did decades ago… graphics age, gameplay is timeless.
You can do it, if you are curious, persistent… and humble.