two heads are better than one

Carmack is a programming genius, fact. I like Bioware games but what exactly do they do now?

Well one is the master of Space, and the others are the master of science... 
I vote Wil Wright.

Carmack is the nerdy autistic savant akin to what Mark Zuckerberg is now.  
The doctors have a damn good philosophy in making games.  
It's about equal i would say.

Book smart - Carmack
Business smart - Bioware Doctors

Seriously? It's Carmack. It's not even close. He builds rockets, and makes games for phones on the fly while on vacation.

"Seriously? It's Carmack. It's not even close. He builds rockets, and makes games for phones on the fly while on vacation. "

Carmack builds Rockets for a hobby... fucking ROCKETS.  The man is a genius.  I'd kill for that guy's brain.

I find most of the games that John Carmack has made to be technologically impressive, but also kind of boring. I'm a dyed in the wool Bioware zealot. Now guess which one I picked...

" Carmack builds Rockets for a hobby... fucking ROCKETS.  The man is a genius.  I'd kill for that guy's brain. "

Motherfucking Rockets.

Who is smarter? Carmack. Who is better in my opinion? The doctors. 

The rocket thing is my argument, too.  
 
"I went out and I started my aerospace company that I run on the side.  The word is once I conquer space I am going after nuclear fusion."
 - John Carmack, GDC 2010

Carmack no question.

" Who is smarter? Carmack. Who is better in my opinion? The doctors.  "

" Carmack is a programming genius, fact. I like Bioware games but what exactly do they do now? "

And I should also mention that Carmack had very little formal schooling.  Dude just figures stuff out.

John Carmack is destined to save the human race from annihilation at some point.

" Who is smarter? Carmack. Who is better in my opinion? The doctors.  "

Now THIS is much more like apples and oranges. Carmack is a technical prodigy. The Doctors are more on the artistic side and are more interested in content than capabilities.

" And I should also mention that Carmack had very little formal schooling.  Dude just figures stuff out. "

Possible band name: John Carmack and the Bioware Doctors.

i want john carmack to design the engines for bioware's games.  now that would be a sight to see and probably the best game of all time.

" i want john carmack to design the engines for bioware's games.  now that would be a sight to see and probably the best game of all time. "

" Carmack builds Rockets for a hobby... fucking ROCKETS.  The man is a genius.  I'd kill for that guy's brain. "

Just more a fan of Carmack here.

Carmack is smarter but probably makes less money than the bioware guys.

John Carmack stole the computers from his middle school 's computer lab, because he thought he needed them more.
 
And he was right.

" Possible band name: John Carmack and the Bioware Doctors. "

The doctors are working with EA nowadays.
 
That's anything but smart.

" The doctors are working with EA nowadays.  That's anything but smart. "

Carmack. The doctors started up a company, they haven't actually done anything technical in the video game realm worth mentioning. IIRC they didn't stay in the medical profession long enough to get very published either. 

" @JJWeatherman:  Yeah, DLC all over the place. I don't like EA, never did, never will. "

It's not even a comparison worth making. Carmack is just pure raw genius. There's nothing else to it.
He's just insanely smart, one of those 1 in a million type guys who will just come along once in a few decades. 

We should just consider ourselves lucky he chose game development.

The Bioware doctors are smart, but John Carmack is just on a different scale of evil genius.

Carmack for sure.
 
John Carmack is like Reed Richards and the Bioware doctors are like Beast and Peter Parker.

" Possible band name: John Carmack and the Bioware Doctors. "

Gonna have to give it up to the 'Mack Attack!

Carmack, most def. God, I hope Rage turns out good.

Depends on what you mean by smarter, as in just raw like brainpower as in if you sat them down to do like a math test then yes Carmack would probably win.
 
the doctors are probably better at finding creative solutions to limitations etc.

I voted Carmack because I know the man is incredibly clever and I see most people agree. 
 
But what's the arguement for the Bioware guys other than that they are doctors or that they run a company and a lot of people go nutty for their games? I don't know how much involvement they even have with the creative side of things or if they have any technical knowledge etc at all. Are people just voting for them because they like Mass Effect?
 
Carmack's engines changed gaming dramatically and he's brilliant in other fields, too.

" @TaliciaDragonsong said:

" @JJWeatherman:  Yeah, DLC all over the place. I don't like EA, never did, never will. "

I don't think that a distaste for DLC is any reason to dislike EA. DLC is very quickly becoming the norm in the industry; almost everyone does it. 
 
EA is partially responsible for both Mass Effect 2 as well as Dragon Age: Origins. They're alright in my book. "

My man JC! (Not Jesus)