John Carmack resigns from id to focus on Oculus Rift

So, whatever happened to megatexutures? Did ID ever release the 100GB version on the PC? Does anyone know?

I would definitely like to use that and push my HD 6970. :P

No what?

Also like I said I'm sure it looked great but it's not practical at all.

Any game could look fantastic if there were no size limits but you need to be able to balance fidelity with size. What I'm getting is that the version that launched looked shit and the one he wanted to launch looked great. Where's the middle ground?

Also RAGE was far from "100% unique environments", so many areas in that game look th exact same as each other

No they didn't, they updated the game and the textures got a bit better but the game is still rough

He should have resigned years ago. He was wasting his time with the talentless hacks that are left over at id Software today. I mean, Quake Wars and then Rage? I don't think we'll see much more out of id Software again now that he has left them.

5 years down the line 100gb size games are going to be pretty standard.

Not yet. Once Blu-ray gets something better and when internet bandwidth increases world wide. Right now blu-ray is a limiting factor on the consoles and ISP bandwidth limitations and speed is a huge limiting factor of DD.

iD has fantastic artists.

While it's sad that the last founder of id left, it doesn't really matter anyways. id hasn't been good since the end of the 90's I mean they only made two games since Quake III and the last one that was Rage was a flop. And I have a feeling that Doom 4 (if it ever comes out) won't be as good ether. Now that he is gone I guess the question is will id manage to make any new graphics engine in the future without him since he was the one who did the work?