Quakecon , what do you mean Quake con? Carmack who?

In today's xbox live themed game market many a young gamesfan will be scratching their heads as to who this Carmack bloke is , for today it is not iDs awesome ,for their time ,fps engines that drive the games we play , buy mostly , mostly the Unreal Engine that you will find powering your major games releases , from Gears Of War to Batman Arkham Asylum to practically every bad and good cross platform release over the last decade, the dominant force has been an Unreal Engine , and the boys and girls at Epic ,not our heroes at iD


Epic focused on consoles and crossed platforms with each new version of their engine . They have the power , whereas the legends at iD Carmack and co , are not going to spring to the mind of the average xboxlett slave boi/girl. 


 This is a shame , as without iD , there would be no modern Western games scene , and we would all be happily lost in the latest cute Nihon platform dating rpg survival horror arcade racing beatemup. Imagine your life without Doom , Quake II,   Duke Nukem , Half Life , Counter Strike [errh and there it stops] , there's a great big hole you would have to go back in time and prod Romero to give up on Daikatna and Carmack into creating the genre  , or the horror of bright coloured platform dating rpgs would end our civilization. 


So people bow your head to one of the greatest games creators and developers of our time , and forgive iD for Doom 3 already , it would help if iD stopped optimizing code for gimped phone os mini games , and got back to pushing back the boundaries of the latest technology .. As iD moves ever closer to developing the 60 fps electron microscopic first person shooter iDespair. At least they are making games for the little people! iD used to be about pushing boundaries , it needs to get back there or pretty soon Epic will be running the Unreal Engine all over them on the slates , and phones they have made their pet project. I mean what sounds more impressive ...1. oooh lookie the sprites moving at 60 fps on a 4 inch screen or 2. 3d photo realistic gameplay across 3 30 inch lcds running 7800 by 1600 res ,at over 100 fps . And you know if iD aren't going there then the next iteration and the present iteration of the Epic Unreal Engine already is . 


If as I fear  you are indifferent to Quakeconn , iD and their legacy ,checkout Steam and grab some of gaming history/evolution . They have EVERY id game [well not every] + some Bethesda tidbits[ Oblivion , Fallout] going for a song , 27 games for £49.99 , not much to pay for a playable lesson in gaming history.


You know just like you spend 1000s running the latest phone to play a $1 game , we used to spend 1000s building pcs just to play the next iD classic , so £49.99 is a bargain for their entire [almost] back catalogue. Plus the Behesda titles  which are some of the best games ever created don`t hurt the package much ....


 check the Quake Con Steam  Sale  here   you have till the 15th to  swot up on Carmack and iD