Yeah, "X" can go swim in a lake of lava. Thanks for the memories, Sandy. You've always been one of the good ones ;)

The mental image of John Carmack chopping a door down with an axe while John Romero screams like Shelly Duvall in "The Shining" makes me happy.

I love how much you dislike Tim Willits to the point where you won't even mention his name when just talking about people who designed the levels.

Hello Sandy, hope you're doing well. Great job on the video. There are some pieces of info you can correct. (1) Paul Steed was not at id while I worked there. Kevin Cloud did all Quake 1's models, and Adrian did the skins. (2) The zombie attacking you from pieces of its body was my idea – I talked to Kevin about putting a zombie in the game and pulling parts of itself to throw at you. (3) the slow Vore spikeballs didn't match the rest of the enemy projectiles (or the player's), so they needed to be sped up. (4) the Spawn belonged only in the 4th episode so there's an additional enemy later in the game (5) the reason why Quake is not in the game is because the entire design changed in Nov 95 and half the people wanted to make an FPS instead of spending time exploring design. This is how the medieval design disappeared, but not the name which had been heavily publicized by that time.

Just picturing John Carmack smashing the door into bits with his axe, poking his head in to see a cowering John Romero, and say "Heeeeeeeeeere's Johnny!"

3:00 John didn't buy a house with a garage. He bought a garage for his Ferrari Testarossa that was located nearby work. It just so happened to have a house attached to it.

I could listen to classic id software stories all day :D

This feels like to listening to the personal history of rockstars.

"He just doesn't... Seem normal." Holy shit I fuckin lol'd.

I love that the game started off with this "fantasy invading real-world" theme and then goes off into Lovecraft territory, then you have nailguns and rocket launchers and such. It's such a weird sounding mix of themes but it all fits into one theme in the end.

To be fair, I once opened a blocked door by kicking it untill it broke, the excuse was that a small kid had locked himself in a bathroom with no windows but as soon as I notice I could get away with opening the thing any way I saw fit I didn't hesitate and went for the most destructive method, I was 19 at the time and thought to myself "I'm probably never gonna have another chance to try this out without any consecuence" so I just went for it. So I get why someone would take the chance to open a door with an axe if an excuse presents itself.

Based on your "four quick John Carmack stories", John is is EXACTLY the kind of person I would expect him to be.

4 carmack stories that essentially tell us that civvie was, is and will always be right

So, the poison pill was Tim Willits?

I’m flattered you used my footage for the video! Hearing your perspective on the development of Quake and the atmosphere at id at the time and afterwards was quite enlightening too.
The fourth episode of Quake is my favorite, with all of its abstract architecture and peculiarities going quite well alongside the general Lovecraftian theme of the game.
Perhaps in the future I’d love to hear you delve into your designing process and mindset for the fourth episode levels. I’d also love to hear the same for your work on Doom 1 and 2 as well.

Sandy, would you ever consider making a doom episode similar to John Romero’s Sigil. I find it would be quite interesting to see your take on an extra doom 1 or a doom 2 episode

"I have no hard feelings towards anyone at ID...except maybe one person" = the snake

One thing I like about Sandy, is his geeking out about things, but holding no filters against it. It's very, very genuine.  I salute you, Sir.

Person "X" was such a piece of work... he almost killed idSoftware with bad projects. If you looked online at reviews of the studio from ex-employees at the time of X person's leadership, all you saw was people saying the company was completely broken and toxic.

I was glad to hear when he finally quit. idSoftware has become a great studio once more. Marty Stratton and Hugo (and everyone there) have brought it back to life.

Way to go Willits