ID Tech 5 - Rage / Doom 4

[Plague]

I detect something fishy is going on here....

He has pioneered or popularised the use of many techniques in computer graphics, including "adaptive tile refresh" for Commander Keen, raycasting for Hovertank 3-D, Catacomb 3-D, and Wolfenstein 3-D, binary space partitioning which Doom became the first game to use, surface caching which he invented for Quake, Carmack's Reverse (formally known as z-fail stencil shadows) which he devised for Doom 3, and MegaTexture, used in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. While he was not the first to discover Carmack's Reverse, he developed it independently without knowing of the prior research done on the subject.

[Bronto]

Unless Valve announces a killer revamp of their tools I think I'm going to make the switch to ID Tech 5.

Well that is as long as ID Tech 5 is as mod friendly as ID is saying it will be. I guess time will tell.

I think valve has decided to only update the engine when they want new features for a project they are working on. It makes sense, but it kind of leaves their mod community in the dust.

[Plague]

Well that has been their ethic since HL1,
"Add technology for a purpose, Not for sake of having it."

Edit:
Here is the exact quote,

There were a few important things, the most important, in my opinion, came down to building the right team. Other significant decisions included knowing what we wanted the products (HL2, CS:S, DoD, etc.) to be rather than just building up technology for the sake of technology. Other than that, allowing sufficient time for the good ideas to percolate throughout the game and the bad/unimportant ideas to fall away.

[Unstoppable Florence]

I like Carmack. He invents BSPs and doesn't afraid of anything. Seriously though, I have faith in that man sticking to his word.

What you said, except that Carmack didn't invent the BSP. Let me wikipedia that for you, and point you to to a document from 1980 (13 years before Doom, id's first game using BSP).

Dammit. I'd take the time to read this, but programming has never gelled with me, so I'll just take your word for it. It's strange actually, I have a frankly brilliant capacity to learn about physical models of our universe, but when it comes to making an artificial universe, the head just pops.

[Saxon]

Well that has been their ethic since HL1,
"Add technology for a purpose, Not for sake of having it."

Edit:
Here is the exact quote,

There were a few important things, the most important, in my opinion, came down to building the right team. Other significant decisions included knowing what we wanted the products (HL2, CS:S, DoD, etc.) to be rather than just building up technology for the sake of technology. Other than that, allowing sufficient time for the good ideas to percolate throughout the game and the bad/unimportant ideas to fall away.

That sounds too organized for Valve

Or does it...? As far as I'm concerned Valves approach to making new games has been to remake all their old stuff but with prettier effects. Such an unimaginative approach probably limited the potential of the Source engine during the formative days.