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Quake was released 20 years ago today June 22, 1996
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blast processed
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This is awesome! Thanks for this.
MrCunningham
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I can agree with that, but I still think Quake had a big effect on the gaming landscape over the last 20 years. Mostly from the tech side of the game, but the influence is there.
Neat, you can see the Doom sprites in the early beta version.
Also, this one is interesting as well:
You can see a dragon creature which may have been an old unused enemy idea?
FlammableD
Banned
I can agree with that, but I still think Quake had a big effect on the gaming landscape over the last 20 years. Mostly from the tech side of the game, but the influence is there.
Neat, you can see the Doom sprites in the early beta version.
Also, this one is interesting as well:
You can see a dragon creature which may have been an old unused enemy idea?
IIRC it was supposed to be a lot heavier on traditional fantasy to start with.
A dragon eventually made it into Mission Pack 2
You can see a dragon creature which may have been an old unused enemy idea?
The level geometry seems slightly more advanced than what ended up in the final game as well. That arc seems to have actual modeled portruding bricks as opposed to just being a flat baked texture.
MrCunningham
Member
Oh yeah, I forgot about the Dragon boss in Mission Pack 2. But then again, I never really played Mission Pack 2 much back then. But yeah, the game was originally conceived to be a medieval FPS with melee weapons. But overtime things changed to it being another twitch shooter with a cyber- medieval theme with HP Lovecraft inspired monsters.
Oh yeah, maybe they were showing off what a full polygon engine could do? Because that type of geometry wasn't possible in the Doom engine. Everything from the bridge to the extruding bricks weren't possible.
Brerlappin
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HB Quake. First game i bought for my Pentium 2 PC was Quake, in 1998 i think. First multiplayer game i ever played too, back in 1997 we got it running over a LAN in my school. Such a great game. Great soundtrack, great graphics, great gameplay. Groundbreaking game.
Fun fact: The Quake manual says that the grunt enemies are wired to get sexual pleasure every time they kill
Fun fact: The Quake manual says that the grunt enemies are wired to get sexual pleasure every time they kill
Fallout-NL
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Yeah, by the time the internet actually hit the Netherlands in a somewhat usable (affordable) form, we were already at Quake 3. I did play some Quake 1 at a couple of lan parties, but that felt like playing against gods because my opponents were so much better at it. So while I respect the hell out of Quake for its multiplayer related innovations, I mostly like it personally for the weird singleplayer campaign.
vakarian32
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I regret not getting into Quake 3 back in the day, I was a UT99 guy back then though. I played just about every one of the games that spawned from the Q3 engine however, especially Jedi Knight and MOH:AA.
blast processed
Member
I always kept UT and Q3 on my hard drive, but Quake 3 RA3 is where I spent most of my time.
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JoJo UK
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Sounds like a Q2 mod I played to death, made by a guy called Glitter. Epic times.
Kaji AF16
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It pushed my then new (but already obsolete) 486 DX4-100, with 8 MB of RAM, to its limits. I remember its social and media impact: almost every magazine was presenting it as "the most important game in history".
I played Quake, Duke Nukem and Diablo almost simultaneously and, just coming from a NES and a Mega Drive, almost couldn´t believe the gap between my old games and that new generation.
In my opinion, the atmosphere of the original Quake was never surpassed by its sequels (even if I loved Quake 3 Arena and played it semi-competitively). Shooting rockets just to see how they affected the lightning as they flew through obscure castles was technologically and aesthetically impressive.
I played Quake, Duke Nukem and Diablo almost simultaneously and, just coming from a NES and a Mega Drive, almost couldn´t believe the gap between my old games and that new generation.
In my opinion, the atmosphere of the original Quake was never surpassed by its sequels (even if I loved Quake 3 Arena and played it semi-competitively). Shooting rockets just to see how they affected the lightning as they flew through obscure castles was technologically and aesthetically impressive.
Jup, it was a big step up from my 386. I was basically a console exclusive gamer up to that point, but P133 changed that
The one after was a P2 350 + Voodoo 2 12MB. I should still have that thing around somewhere ...
FriedConsole
Banned
I loved it at the time mostly because of what it added to the FPS but I never got the love for this art style. It was the original all dark brown game.
sixteen-bit
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happy anniversary
3D graphics.
Technical marvel.
First person shooter.
Dark and gritty.
Iconic advertisting.
Engaging users through mods, add ons, and community.
Engine licensing.
Developer hero worship.
Sold outside of stores (I bought my copy over the phone. Gave the lady a credit card number, she gave me a key, and the demo became the full game!)
20 years ago today the modern game industry was born. We are just wrapping up the Quake era. I don't know what the next era will be defined by, maybe Minecraft, maybe Clash of Clans, but the last two decades have belonged to QUAKE.
A seminal release in the history of gaming. Bravo, id.
Technical marvel.
First person shooter.
Dark and gritty.
Iconic advertisting.
Engaging users through mods, add ons, and community.
Engine licensing.
Developer hero worship.
Sold outside of stores (I bought my copy over the phone. Gave the lady a credit card number, she gave me a key, and the demo became the full game!)
20 years ago today the modern game industry was born. We are just wrapping up the Quake era. I don't know what the next era will be defined by, maybe Minecraft, maybe Clash of Clans, but the last two decades have belonged to QUAKE.
A seminal release in the history of gaming. Bravo, id.
hooijdonk17
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I remember it running like SHIT on my 486 DX4-100 with Cirrus Logic VESA Local Bus VGA and 8MB RAM as well.. 320x200 software mode on a 14" monitor at I guess around 20fps? Anyway, Quake was THE reason I ended up upgrading to a Pentium 120 (or was it a 133? I can't remember..) an S3 TRIO PCI VGA and 16MB RAM.
Eventually I moved on to a a Pentium II-333 with 32MB RAM and a Voodoo 2, and ran glquake for the first time.
EYES. POPPED. OUT.
I remember launching glquake out of curiosity with nothing but my shitty Matrox 2D card. The framerate was literally below 1FPS and even trying to quit the game was a challenge.
Quake 1, I only played it single player since we didn't have Internet and I was the only kid with a PC in the entire building.
Quake 2 is another story though. Wouldn't mind paying 25 cents each recess in school just for do some crazy LAN parties. Good memories.
Shame Quake 3 wasn't installed on those PCs.
Quake 2 is another story though. Wouldn't mind paying 25 cents each recess in school just for do some crazy LAN parties. Good memories.
Shame Quake 3 wasn't installed on those PCs.
http://www.dosgamers.com/dos/dos-games/quake
Great way to run Quake on Windows 7/8/10.
Has a link to download the soundtrack so that it plays in game. Is that piracy? I don't think so. The soundtrack isn't in the digital releases because it was literally tracks on the CD. Did id/Trent Reznor have a falling out that means the soundtrack can't be sold with the game? Insane if true.
IMO not piracy.
Great way to run Quake on Windows 7/8/10.
Has a link to download the soundtrack so that it plays in game. Is that piracy? I don't think so. The soundtrack isn't in the digital releases because it was literally tracks on the CD. Did id/Trent Reznor have a falling out that means the soundtrack can't be sold with the game? Insane if true.
IMO not piracy.
Whiteblade999
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The best Quake game, glad to see people giving it the respect is deserves.
Interfectum
Member
Crazy.... I remember tweaking and installing that 3DFX patch for the game.
Wasn't Quake the game where you could troll your team by going 'chameleon?' Meaning you can hotkey a color change which puts you on another team instantly. Shit was funny.
Wasn't Quake the game where you could troll your team by going 'chameleon?' Meaning you can hotkey a color change which puts you on another team instantly. Shit was funny.
I'm fucking nostalgic right now. I'm digging up that Pentium 2 tonight.
hooijdonk17
Member
I'll definitely be trying the DarkPlaces engine when I get home!
If I remember right, it was supposed to be based on Carmack (and by proxy, Romero?)'s Dungeons and Dragon's campaign. Something they scrapped later (though you can still see the influence of that/fantasy) to do what we got.
Though Carmack did go back to that with that mobile/DS Rogue first-person-dungeon-crawler-game-name-escapes-me.
FrontalMonk
Banned
I remember playing Quake on my family's 486 and yeah...it was a mess. I played through the whole shareware ep at around 10fps, and even though I ended up buying quake, I never did *really* play the other eps. I ended up being more of a Duke3d guy because it ran a fair bit better on my system. I really want to get through all of Q1 though.
The moment I'll always remember was connecting into a game of Quake...and I don't remember the mod, all I remember is there was a grappling hook involved. I used the grappling hook and ran around and died a lot because I couldn't see shit on my crap connection on my crap computer, so after a little while I just resorted to chatting with the people who were playing. They were amazed that Quake even *ran* on my computer, much less that I could get online.
Bloodporne
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Wait, isn't the 'real'/original whatever soundtrack the Trent Reznor soundtrack on the original CD?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVOHTGYoM6E
Loved Quake. We use to have LAN parties at a friends house in the late 90s and even played it in our Graphics Art class in High School after we finished our work. We'd have a freezer full of Vodka and beer...ummm...ignore that part...and have a blast at the LANs!
I did the whole lugging my PC, Mouse, keyboard, and massive 50lb Monitor around thing...haha.
I did the whole lugging my PC, Mouse, keyboard, and massive 50lb Monitor around thing...haha.
Fallout-NL
Member
Man, 1996 was a good year to be playing PC games.
Kaji AF16
Member
I agree with everything you mention. Regarding its advertising, I clearly remember this one:
(In Spanish)
"Quake is forever".
"The most important PC game that has ever existed".
hooijdonk17
Member
I agree with everything you mention. Regarding its advertising, I clearly remember this one:
(In Spanish)
"Quake is forever".
"The most important PC game that has ever existed".
Is this Bryan Cranston?
Also, LOL:
Bloodporne
Member
And yes, Quake 1 was an absolute revelation to me and my friends back in the day.
We worshipped the Doom games and Quake 1 was the logical next plateau in every conceivable way. The level design was brutal and fantastic and played on every strength Doom had. The sound and music design, fuck...I mean listen to it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVOHTGYoM6E
This was absolutely mindblowing to me then. Quake 1 in general amped up the Horror aspects of Doom to claustrophobic insanity. Quake 1, PSX Doom and Doom 64 all made it abundantly clear to me that it was part of id's intent all along.
We worshipped the Doom games and Quake 1 was the logical next plateau in every conceivable way. The level design was brutal and fantastic and played on every strength Doom had. The sound and music design, fuck...I mean listen to it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVOHTGYoM6E
This was absolutely mindblowing to me then. Quake 1 in general amped up the Horror aspects of Doom to claustrophobic insanity. Quake 1, PSX Doom and Doom 64 all made it abundantly clear to me that it was part of id's intent all along.
Bloodporne
Member
Is this Bryan Cranston?
The translation makes it much better. It essentially reads:
"The exciting party game for the whole family!"
Joseph Merrick
Member
wow, nice. happy bday quake. best game ever made.
played through the first episode just last week. what a great single player campaign this game has, it really feels kind of underappreciated at this point, you always hear people in the games media when they talk about quake. it's always multiplayer only and the single player campaign is downplayed to the extreme. been recently annoyed by this since we got a lot of it at e3 with the announcement of quake champions. you're wrong media morons, single player is fucken sublime.
pretty nice how both mission packs had some elements from the original quake ideas. the quake thor hammer was in mission pack 1, kind of, maybe it was originally supposed to be more like daikatana blade upgradable or having several power modes you upgrade to over the course of the game. I forget, still nice.
:salute quake :salute
love you shambler, love you software rendering
played through the first episode just last week. what a great single player campaign this game has, it really feels kind of underappreciated at this point, you always hear people in the games media when they talk about quake. it's always multiplayer only and the single player campaign is downplayed to the extreme. been recently annoyed by this since we got a lot of it at e3 with the announcement of quake champions. you're wrong media morons, single player is fucken sublime.
pretty nice how both mission packs had some elements from the original quake ideas. the quake thor hammer was in mission pack 1, kind of, maybe it was originally supposed to be more like daikatana blade upgradable or having several power modes you upgrade to over the course of the game. I forget, still nice.
:salute quake :salute
love you shambler, love you software rendering
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