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** A ''Daikatana'' sequel was being developed by Human Head Studios on the Unreal Engine. When the project was cancelled, the developers began working on ''VideoGame/{{Rune}}''.
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** A ''Daikatana'' sequel was being developed by Human Head Studios on the Unreal Engine. When the project was cancelled, the developers began working on ''VideoGame/{{Rune}}''.
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* TroubledProduction: As chronicled in [[http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20000619155817/http://www.gamespot.com/features/btg-daikatana/index.html "Knee Deep in a Dream"]].
** Despite the success he'd enjoyed with ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' and its progeny at id Software, John Romero was unhappy with his job because he felt his vision as a designer took a back seat to the company's technological considerations. When his idea to split the company into separate divisions devoted to design and technology was nixed by the founders, he threatened to leave and [[StartMyOwn start his own company instead]], and was eventually let go.
** Carrying out his threat, he and id co-founder Tom Hall started what became Ion Storm at the end of 1996, where "Design is Law." On the strength of their names and accomplishments, the company was able to raise millions. Some of this was spent on high-cost real estate, renting office space in the top floors of a Dallas skyscraper, featuring the Ion Storm logo carved into terrazzo in the lobby because, Romero said, he had always wanted to work in flashier offices at id. But all did not go well from that auspicious start.
** Romero's dream game, ''Daikatana'', would be the sort of FirstPersonShooter he had pioneered, but with two sidekicks and multiple levels in four different time periods across a 4,000-year period. He told the media it would be available within a year, since the plan was to build it on the ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' engine. As you might expect, such an optimistic prospect was just asking for trouble.
** First, Ion Storm had some internal warring because the ''Daikatana'' team felt the development of ''Dominion: Storm Over Gift 3'' was stealing resources and staff, which ultimately hurt that game and forced the abandonment of the other early titles Ion Storm meant to bring out.
** Then, they tried to move from the old ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' engine to the ''VideoGame/QuakeII'' one, a process [[PortingDisaster much more complicated and time-consuming]] than they thought. In June of 1997, they made it official — ''Daikatana'' would not be shipping that year. That didn't stop the company from taking out ads that cheekily promised "[[PreAssKickingOneLiner John Romero's about to make you his bitch]]", alienating some gamers and ramping up expectations for others. Romero has since apologized for the campaign and tried to distance himself from it; others involved say he was much more enthusiastic at the time.
** Romero's prowess as a designer and programmer, despite his experience at well-managed id, did not transfer to management or leadership skills. His entire development team quit on him en masse to start their own company because they were so fed up with the lack of direction they were getting. To maintain goodwill with potential competitors, Romero avoided hiring away any of their programmers, instead hiring amateur programmers whose homebrewed levels for id's games had been the most downloaded — a fact which, another Ion Storm executive admitted later, told them nothing about what it was like to work with this person or what their work habits were. During the development of the game, the staff changed completely three times.
** This turnover had a chaotic impact on the game code, with fragments inserted here and there by totally different people who had never communicated. Demos made from this increasingly buggy mess failed to impress at industry events. Communications between all the people working on the game did not get any better: one artist submitted the infamous "1,300-pixel arrow", a texture file for a crossbow bolt that was inexplicably 1300 pixels by 960 pixels. For reference, that's about the size of your monitor, twice as large as the game's actual resolution, and a hell of a lot larger than the space a crossbow bolt actually takes up. When Romero hired his then-girlfriend, Stevie Case, to work on level design, he nearly triggered another full-staff walkout.
** The programmers who ''were'' working had some unexpected physical problems with the skyscraper office space. Some of them were under skylights where, around midday in the Texas sun, they would get too hot to work, and even if they didn't the light was too distracting. People were covering their cubicles in blankets to get their work done.
** Ion Storm missed ''Daikatana''[='=]s 1997 ship date, and its 1998 ship date, and its 1999 ship date. It became a punchline within the industry, as [[Webcomic/PennyArcade one webcomic]] memorably demonstrated. Eidos, Ion Storm's parent company, finally had to step in and straighten things out. And as things were finally turning out, id released the ''Quake III'' game engine. Recalling how much fun they had had three years earlier upgrading to its predecessor, Ion Storm understandably opted ''not'' to do it again, meaning the game they had poured so much design effort into would be [[TechnologyMarchesOn technologically behind]] from the moment it was released.
** The game ended up [[{{Vaporware}} delayed]] so much that, by the time it came out in 2000, it was seriously outclassed by competing games like ''VideoGame/HalfLife'', ''VideoGame/SystemShock2'', and the soon-to-be-released ''VideoGame/DeusEx''. The resulting product ended up being a complete bust and pretty much [[CreatorKiller ended the fame and career]] of Creator/JohnRomero, who, before ''Daikatana'', was a superstar developer on a par with Creator/SidMeier and Creator/TimSchafer thanks to his work on ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}''.
** Despite the success he'd enjoyed with ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' and its progeny at id Software, John Romero was unhappy with his job because he felt his vision as a designer took a back seat to the company's technological considerations. When his idea to split the company into separate divisions devoted to design and technology was nixed by the founders, he threatened to leave and [[StartMyOwn start his own company instead]], and was eventually let go.
** Carrying out his threat, he and id co-founder Tom Hall started what became Ion Storm at the end of 1996, where "Design is Law." On the strength of their names and accomplishments, the company was able to raise millions. Some of this was spent on high-cost real estate, renting office space in the top floors of a Dallas skyscraper, featuring the Ion Storm logo carved into terrazzo in the lobby because, Romero said, he had always wanted to work in flashier offices at id. But all did not go well from that auspicious start.
** Romero's dream game, ''Daikatana'', would be the sort of FirstPersonShooter he had pioneered, but with two sidekicks and multiple levels in four different time periods across a 4,000-year period. He told the media it would be available within a year, since the plan was to build it on the ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' engine. As you might expect, such an optimistic prospect was just asking for trouble.
** First, Ion Storm had some internal warring because the ''Daikatana'' team felt the development of ''Dominion: Storm Over Gift 3'' was stealing resources and staff, which ultimately hurt that game and forced the abandonment of the other early titles Ion Storm meant to bring out.
** Then, they tried to move from the old ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' engine to the ''VideoGame/QuakeII'' one, a process [[PortingDisaster much more complicated and time-consuming]] than they thought. In June of 1997, they made it official — ''Daikatana'' would not be shipping that year. That didn't stop the company from taking out ads that cheekily promised "[[PreAssKickingOneLiner John Romero's about to make you his bitch]]", alienating some gamers and ramping up expectations for others. Romero has since apologized for the campaign and tried to distance himself from it; others involved say he was much more enthusiastic at the time.
** Romero's prowess as a designer and programmer, despite his experience at well-managed id, did not transfer to management or leadership skills. His entire development team quit on him en masse to start their own company because they were so fed up with the lack of direction they were getting. To maintain goodwill with potential competitors, Romero avoided hiring away any of their programmers, instead hiring amateur programmers whose homebrewed levels for id's games had been the most downloaded — a fact which, another Ion Storm executive admitted later, told them nothing about what it was like to work with this person or what their work habits were. During the development of the game, the staff changed completely three times.
** This turnover had a chaotic impact on the game code, with fragments inserted here and there by totally different people who had never communicated. Demos made from this increasingly buggy mess failed to impress at industry events. Communications between all the people working on the game did not get any better: one artist submitted the infamous "1,300-pixel arrow", a texture file for a crossbow bolt that was inexplicably 1300 pixels by 960 pixels. For reference, that's about the size of your monitor, twice as large as the game's actual resolution, and a hell of a lot larger than the space a crossbow bolt actually takes up. When Romero hired his then-girlfriend, Stevie Case, to work on level design, he nearly triggered another full-staff walkout.
** The programmers who ''were'' working had some unexpected physical problems with the skyscraper office space. Some of them were under skylights where, around midday in the Texas sun, they would get too hot to work, and even if they didn't the light was too distracting. People were covering their cubicles in blankets to get their work done.
** Ion Storm missed ''Daikatana''[='=]s 1997 ship date, and its 1998 ship date, and its 1999 ship date. It became a punchline within the industry, as [[Webcomic/PennyArcade one webcomic]] memorably demonstrated. Eidos, Ion Storm's parent company, finally had to step in and straighten things out. And as things were finally turning out, id released the ''Quake III'' game engine. Recalling how much fun they had had three years earlier upgrading to its predecessor, Ion Storm understandably opted ''not'' to do it again, meaning the game they had poured so much design effort into would be [[TechnologyMarchesOn technologically behind]] from the moment it was released.
** The game ended up [[{{Vaporware}} delayed]] so much that, by the time it came out in 2000, it was seriously outclassed by competing games like ''VideoGame/HalfLife'', ''VideoGame/SystemShock2'', and the soon-to-be-released ''VideoGame/DeusEx''. The resulting product ended up being a complete bust and pretty much [[CreatorKiller ended the fame and career]] of Creator/JohnRomero, who, before ''Daikatana'', was a superstar developer on a par with Creator/SidMeier and Creator/TimSchafer thanks to his work on ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}''.
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* CreatorKiller: Creator/JohnRomero went from industry golden boy to everyone's bitch thanks to this game, which also cut down his studio, Ion Storm. Good thing the Austin branch [[VideoGame/DeusEx had a saving grace that same year...]]
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Used to be hosted on Google Video, and didn't make the jump to Website/YouTube. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc65E2Zb7AU&list=PL8WmeOtpejoTb19Wkpvjh1FAOCV50nOEu&index=1 Luckily, somebody decided to upload the whole thing]] (sans the Deathmatches, which are still up on Dailymotion) onto Youtube. The videos are also still hosted on Archive.org.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Used to be hosted on Google Video, and didn't make the jump to Website/YouTube. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc65E2Zb7AU&list=PL8WmeOtpejoTb19Wkpvjh1FAOCV50nOEu&index=1 Luckily, somebody decided to upload the whole thing]] (sans the Deathmatches, which are still up on Dailymotion) onto Youtube. The videos are also still hosted on Archive.org.
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* The titular Daikatana takes its name from the fabled InfinityPlusOneSword from a DungeonsAndDragons campaign John Carmack ran around the same time that Creator/IdSoftware was developing ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}''. As detailed in the novel ''Masters of Doom'', John Romero's character traded a plot-vital MacGuffin, a [[TomeOfEldritchLore demon-summoning tome]], for the sword in question, which eventually led to a TotalPartyKill as the tome was used to summon an army of demons (literally, every demon in the books, several times over) to infest the realm, leading to the destruction of humanity.
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* The titular Daikatana takes its name from the fabled InfinityPlusOneSword from a DungeonsAndDragons ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' campaign John Carmack ran around the same time that Creator/IdSoftware was developing ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}''. As detailed in the novel ''Masters of Doom'', John Romero's character traded a plot-vital MacGuffin, a [[TomeOfEldritchLore demon-summoning tome]], for the sword in question, which eventually led to a TotalPartyKill as the tome was used to summon an army of demons (literally, every demon in the books, several times over) to infest the realm, leading to the destruction of humanity.
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* DevelopmentHell[=/=]TroubledProduction: Creator/JohnRomero wanted to make you his bitch for [[ChristmasRushed Christmas 1997]]. Due to infighting and a mid-development engine switch, ''Daikatana'' didn't come out until April May 2000. By that time, it had ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'' to compete with. And not to mention it was released on very dated software anyways.
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** Kage Mishima shares the same last name as Heihachi Mishima from {{Tekken}}, not to mention they both own {{MegaCorp}}s.
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** The titular Daikatana takes its name from the fabled InfinityPlusOneSword from a DungeonsAndDragons campaign John Carmack ran around the same time that Creator/IdSoftware was developing ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}''. As detailed in the novel ''Masters of Doom'', John Romero's character traded a plot-vital MacGuffin, a [[TomeOfEldritchLore demon-summoning tome]], for the sword in question, which eventually led to a TotalPartyKill as the tome was used to summon an army of demons (literally, every demon in the books, several times over) to infest the realm, leading to the destruction ofhumanity.humanity.
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** The titular Daikatana takes its name from the fabled InfinityPlusOneSword from a DungeonsAndDragons campaign John Carmack ran around the same time that Creator/IdSoftware was developing ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}''. As detailed in the novel ''Masters of Doom'', John Romero's character traded a plot-vital MacGuffin, a [[TomeOfEldritchLore demon-summoning tome]], for the sword in question, which eventually led to a TotalPartyKill as the tome was used to summon an army of demons (literally, every demon in the books, several times over) to infest the realm, leading to the destruction of
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* CreatorKiller: John Romero went from industry golden boy to everyone's bitch thanks to this game.
* DevelopmentHell / TroubledProduction: JohnRomero wanted to make you his bitch for [[ChristmasRushed Christmas 1997]]. Due to infighting and a mid-development engine switch, ''Daikatana'' didn't come out until April 2000. By that time, it had ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'' to compete with.
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* The titular Daikatana takes its name from the fabled InfinityPlusOneSword from a DungeonsAndDragons campaign John Carmack ran around the same time that IdSoftware Creator/IdSoftware was developing ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}''. As detailed in the novel ''Masters of Doom'', John Romero's character traded a plot-vital MacGuffin, a [[TomeOfEldritchLore demon-summoning tome]], for the sword in question, which eventually led to a TotalPartyKill as the tome was used to summon an army of demons (literally, every demon in the books, several times over) to infest the realm, leading to the destruction of humanity.
* CreatorKiller:John Romero Creator/JohnRomero went from industry golden boy to everyone's bitch thanks to this game.
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* DevelopmentHell / TroubledProduction: JohnRomero wanted to make you his bitch for [[ChristmasRushed Christmas 1997]]. Due to infighting and a mid-development engine switch, ''Daikatana'' didn't come out until April 2000. By that time, it had ''HalfLife'' to compete with.
** And not to mention it was released on very dated software anyways.
** And not to mention it was released on very dated software anyways.
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* The titular Daikatana takes its name from a DungeonsAndDragons campaign John Carmack ran around the same time that IdSoftware was developing ''{{Doom}}'', where the Daikatana was a fabled InfinityPlusOneSword that John Romero's character traded a plot-vital MacGuffin for, eventually leading into a TotalPartyKill, as detailed in the novel ''Masters of Doom''.
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* The titular Daikatana takes its name from a DungeonsAndDragons campaign John Carmack ran around the same time that IdSoftware was developing ''{{Doom}}'', where the Daikatana was a fabled InfinityPlusOneSword that John Romero's character traded a plot-vital MacGuffin for, eventually leading into a TotalPartyKill, as detailed in the novel ''Masters of Doom''.Doom''.
* CreatorKiller: John Romero went from industry golden boy to everyone's bitch thanks to this game.
* CreatorKiller: John Romero went from industry golden boy to everyone's bitch thanks to this game.
