Aristos
Lightseeker
Dear Soren,
I never thought I would miss someone I really don't know in person so much... yes, maybe I don't know you face to face, but I learned to know you through your best piece of work ever. Through multiple, complex decisions in every turn of that "old" masterpiece, I learned to see you, your mind, your history... I learned to see how a dreamer boy lived his dream, and let us live ours. In the end, I learned to find that same boy that played Civ1 in 1991, in myself.
I still have the excellent manual of the masterpiece you created. I like to read the last pages, remember those? The pages were you share your dreams with us, and how you followed them until they became a reality. What reality? A better Civilization game, produced by your own mind. Sometimes I think that those pages should be not part of a manual of Civ, but a manual to new developers trying to make their first steps in the industry. Perhaps, reading those pages of yours before attempting to "revolutionize" a proven genre, they would learn something, not only from a succesful developer, but also from us: the players.
And yes, perhaps that was your secret: you knew exactly what us, Civilization players, wanted, and you delivered. And man, how you delivered!
I miss you so much, Soren... I hope one day you return to the place that made you grow, and that you made grow... I hope one day you create your own company, and convince good old Sid to join you, because not everything is only about money, not when it comes to the expense of killing what is wonderful... money, in the end, is a byproduct of dreams that become a succesful reality. Sid knows that, and judging by your masterpiece, you know it too...
I look forward to that day. Perhaps then, I will, once again, insert a disc in my computer, install a new masterpiece of yours, and perhaps, only perhaps, say goodbye to your old one...until then, my unknown friend, until then...
Ricardo
I never thought I would miss someone I really don't know in person so much... yes, maybe I don't know you face to face, but I learned to know you through your best piece of work ever. Through multiple, complex decisions in every turn of that "old" masterpiece, I learned to see you, your mind, your history... I learned to see how a dreamer boy lived his dream, and let us live ours. In the end, I learned to find that same boy that played Civ1 in 1991, in myself.
I still have the excellent manual of the masterpiece you created. I like to read the last pages, remember those? The pages were you share your dreams with us, and how you followed them until they became a reality. What reality? A better Civilization game, produced by your own mind. Sometimes I think that those pages should be not part of a manual of Civ, but a manual to new developers trying to make their first steps in the industry. Perhaps, reading those pages of yours before attempting to "revolutionize" a proven genre, they would learn something, not only from a succesful developer, but also from us: the players.
And yes, perhaps that was your secret: you knew exactly what us, Civilization players, wanted, and you delivered. And man, how you delivered!
I miss you so much, Soren... I hope one day you return to the place that made you grow, and that you made grow... I hope one day you create your own company, and convince good old Sid to join you, because not everything is only about money, not when it comes to the expense of killing what is wonderful... money, in the end, is a byproduct of dreams that become a succesful reality. Sid knows that, and judging by your masterpiece, you know it too...
I look forward to that day. Perhaps then, I will, once again, insert a disc in my computer, install a new masterpiece of yours, and perhaps, only perhaps, say goodbye to your old one...until then, my unknown friend, until then...
Ricardo
