John Romero Quotes

I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.

I'm a big gamer. I know the lead time and how long it takes to develop a game and how hard it is to get it right.

The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being enjoyed, but if they weren't sending us a picture of their screens most of those writers would have spent their time playing the game rather than writing letters.

I'm a huge gamer.

You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.

We wanted to create an environment where if a game player enjoyed the 'writing style' of a particular game designer, he or she could look for the next game by that same author and not be disappointed.

I talk periodically with the producers at EA and I try to be as honest as possible because as great as EA does, you just don't want to hear good things. These people are really passionate about making games and making them as realistic as possible.

I was the lead designer on 'Portal,' and I really enjoyed making that type of game.

To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games - nothing like saving the world.

I have a couple of games I've wanted to make in the 'Tobuscus Adventures' universe.

I do a lot of gaming.

I'm a big gamer.

Inside the world of 'Devil May Cry,' we're not changing gameplay very much. We're making it more beautiful, more action-packed, and giving you a few more features, but the gameplay itself is the pretty much the same.

I'm a game designer, so I care about the whole experience.

I've been playing video games since I was 10 years old, and I think it's important to play games if you want to design them yourself.

I love games, and I feel they've been sold short shrift in films so far.

The Uncharted' series really pushed me as a developer. They managed to raise the bar with every single release and produce an action- packed thrill ride starring characters I wanted to hang out with, and mechanics I can easily pick up and play.

I'm a pretty big gamer.

I'm fascinated with video games, though I can't really play them. It's definitely an art form that intrigues me to no end, though.

I'm not the expert on the great gameplay. I come in for the character design, monsters, atmosphere. I'm not the technician.

All video games are games, obviously. They're designed. They're digital. They have rules; they give an audience some type of vicarious experience.

It is true that the gameplay for 'Orcs&Elves' was designed around the limitations of mobile phones, and that if we were starting completely from scratch for the DS, we would probably do things a bit differently, but the bottom line is that when we sit a random DS player down with the game, they have a lot of fun.

You don't really want to talk about 'Duke' in terms of, how many levels are there, how many guns does it have, how many monsters… It's got everything it needs in terms of that, but it's always been about the experience.

A very important part of game development is testing - something that a lot of developers don't do.

I'm in the business to make games - I love entertaining people.