The title would be delayed several more times, and many staff would publically leave Ion Storm during the years that followed. RELATED: What's Included in Every Quake Physical Release From Limited Run Games? The title would focus heavily on the story that most id Software shooters opted to minimize entirely, and the plot would send protagonist Hiro Miyamoto to different time periods each with their own architecture, enemies and weapon sets. The combination of the sheer amount of work that would be required to achieve Romero's lofty ambitions and the struggle of wrangling a brand new engine that the team was unfamiliar with would ultimately take a toll on the project. Romero and his team started from scratch using the Quake II engine, which proved to be far more difficult to use than the original Quake engine that Romero was proficient in.ĭaikatana was incredibly ambitious. id Software released Quake II in 1997, the year of Daikatana's initial release date, and the game ran on a brand new id Tech engine. Romero decided that progress on the game would need to be scrapped, and a new, more modern engine would be needed.

Problems quickly arose, however - this new title needed to impress to prove that Romero could thrive outside of id, and the original Quake engine was fast becoming outdated. As Romero knew this engine well it seemed to be a natural choice for this new release. Romero was always more interested in game design than working on technology and he felt it better to license other studio's game engines rather than create his own, so it was decided that Ion Storm would license the Quake engine from id. Initial development on Daikatana began somewhat smoothly.

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