Carmack Doom-ed to Lifetime Achievement Award

Hey, with Quake and Doom, he truly deserves it. Gratz to Carmack :)

awesome!!! he deserves this!

It does look a lot like Fallout 3 and Borderlands... and Doom.. and Bioshock. oh..

@Hanzoadam Doom meets Bioshock,Fallout 3 and Borderlands.

Bioshock meets fallout 3 and borderlands ?

Considering the trend, I suppose Brett Sperry would be up next - if he hasn't won this award already.

To RyuRanVII: Nope, I would not say ALL id staffers - current and former - should get this award. Remember John Romero (do see my comment below)? The guy who tried to insult our intelligence with bad games and equally bad statements (which he then tries to retract or write off as 'misquoted')? He made Doom together with John Carmack, but he made so many people angry that he got the dubious honor of being the final boss in Doom. And John Carmack would probably not want to ever remember him. He's likely a patient dude (he's probably the only person still around at id since its founding), but no barrier of tolerance is immune to John Romero.

Ah, about time. John Carmack certainly has a strong, solid career - all in one single company (id Software) in fact - and is especially exceptional when you compare him to his once erstwhile comrade, John Romero. "John Romero's About to Make You His B**ch - Suck it Down." *Groan* At least we know who's NOT going to get this award, especially considering that this dude jumped from one failing company to another.

finally, game designers are getting the kind of praise the folks in movies do

Congrats. about time

Congrats to Carmack! Well deserved indeed! is definitely the game that really influenced me back in the day, and certainly defined my love of the FPS.

Definitely deserves it.

@theKSMM-Yeah, i agree, the guy is a real genius.

Doom seems like a life time ago! Good on him With out doom we may not have seen classics like Fallout3/Call of Duty ect because he was the master mind behind the FPS.

Not only him, but all id Software deserves this award.

How many Achievement points come with that?

More and more the gaming industry is starting to resemble the movie industry...wich I guess explains why it's so incredibly hard to find a game that doesn't utterly sucks now a days.

He deserves it.

This man is a genius. I mean that literally...scary smart.

DOOM WILL NEVER DIE!!!!!!!!!

Can't say much for the games themselves but definitely for the technology.

@ninjaroach81 I can't I already killed my liver with the hatred :P When I first posted I forgot one very important thing,he made 3D gaming practical. Its not just FPS's either. Now the reason I "hate" him is because he is a industry drone, I loath industry drones because they make arbitrary and bland games.

hes such a nice guy totally deserved that. i remember when i was 5 years old we played Doom and blasted the s*it out of everything with my brother in my grandmas house :> it was so violent and bloody haha i owe a beer to Carmack!!

@ZippyDSMLee You seem to be focusing on his later work (yes Doom 3 wasn't much more than a clone of the shooters on the market at the time, but it was still entertaining). This award has more to do with the early work (Wolf3D, Doom, Quake, et al) which popularized and defined the FPS genre; without him, there would be no COD, MOH, Halo, GOW etc. Put down the Haterade and just let the guy get his just rewards!

@ acer_062:I dunno there are to many yes men and lulzers these days, no one really cares about balance or qaulity of the qaulity of balance. D3 was a horrible game engine and about as bad as a game. It was a poor attempt at cinergy IMO mixing film elements into a game is going to turn out bad 90% of the time because the majority of film is static in nature its meant to be watched and not interacted with. Doom 3 was the worst thing to happen to ID. And whats really sad DOOM 1(quake,quake 2) has better level layouts than most new first person games.....

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I remember playing the first Doom game for the first time, which was my first FPS, and I thought " This is the coolest game I've ever played, It's like seeing as I would through my own eyes !!! I've been hooked on the FPS ever since. Well desevered and congrats !!!

nice.

well done John Carmack, a well deserved win!

He deserves it, but Tom Hall does too!

@ZippyDSMLee I think that was a bit harsh. If I had a time machine I would probably just travel back and give him a haircut!!

I feel old

I wish I can go back in time to kill the FPS genre right there. Now working on the time machine, hopefully one day I can do it.

@DaGamingDude O'rly I bet he weighs less than 250LB :P I be the bigger man just much less well received and achived'd :P LOL Not that much of a legend since the D3 engine was so shtty but the doom engine did set in motion 3D gaming, so ya I guess he dose deserve it for that alone.. @ jadefury27 Ya Carmack is a douche was a douche like Romero is/was and for the record Daikatana was better than D3 only because it had non corridor shooter levels in it was. But anyway both have gotten to big for themselves.... tho Carmack is in a better position to redeem himself engine creation wise but frankly looking at Id's staff these days.... I can't be hopeful Rage or anything attached to ID will not be a simplified and dumbed down game for the times. I mean D3 barely was a success,Q4 floundered,Wolfensiten is a joke there is no soul nor rime nor reason to game dev anymore its just make it sell it and on to the next project...

looks like a mix between Fallout 3 and Borderlands, really it does which is kinda interesting but i hope it doesn't take away from the game

Without John Carmack and the rest of id, there would be no FPS genre or it certainly wouldn't exist as it does today. Nearly every single FPS game you play today has traces of their old engines in it. Next time you fire up MW2 or Left 4 Dead 2, you're playing games that were, at their core, built on id's old games.

Carmack is the man! although id games lately sucked .. I think that Rage will turn the table

I've got two words to say about John Carmack... EPIC WIN!!!!

@nini200, Thanks for completely missing my point, i simply stated that the IP Port '666' was 'APT' (appropriate) and made no association whatsoever with "Dark or Evil". I laugh at people that make ASSumptions..

Well deserved. He arguably should have won this award the first year. While his game engines are certainly his greatest contributions, he was also visionary in adopting shareware (what became demos) and early online gaming.

A God! IDDQD anyone?

Way to go Carmack. Without you I don't know what games us FPS players would be playing now. Your influence is undeniable.

The original ID team need to reform. Anyway, Well done John!

@nini200 And I laugh at people who think that the number 666 is "evil" or "dark".

@Thenepharious No that's not cool at all. It's actually very lame. I laugh at people that think because they have Dark or Evil crap, that they are cool. Anyway, I like ID software, especially the Doom series so I congratulate him for his award as it is well deserved.

/CLAP CLAP well done about time he got the award!!

I was not a huge fan of the Id phenomenon - the FPS genre came to completely dominate the PC gaming industry at the expense of adventure and classic strategy titles - but there is no denying Carmack's influence and impact. Kudos. Doom itself was enough of a landmark to make this a no-brainer. He's in some seriously elite company. Miyamoto, Meier, Wright... the giants.

Did you know: That iD software has a dedicated Internet Port just for their products, aptly numbered '666' Now thats cool. ...and yes, he absoloutely deserves this award and recognition.

Nice. Definitely deserves the honour, as ID is practically the pioneer of FPS shooter games.