As a kid I preferred Quake II for I understood it. You're thrust smack dab in the military-industrial heart of the enemy, and now you have to bring ruin to them. Quake I had me stumped; one moment you fight a guy and his dog, next a floating snake. Not to mention Quake I being absolutely terrifying to an 8 year old.

i hated every second of this dlc

Wondering if anyone here played the unofficial expansion - Zaero?

i played this game when Gamespy was a thing. OMG the fragging and i had so much fun with this.

quake 1 better i dont care what the video essay says

I've played this game a lot and never heard the soundtrack, it was always turned off. I've never played the Multiplayer either, aside from a little bit at school, where we had the demo installed on every machine. As for the level design, I don't know why you find the Mines or the Reactor so difficult to remember.

As someone who never played Quake and just got into it, I love Quake 2 more. The AI is smart and relentless, I've never seen enemies duck your shots with such precision. I wish Quake 2 had more mod levels like Quake 1, because I'm having a blast with this one.

Yeah the multiplayer was so good that it ruined FPS games and turned them into mountain dew fueled screaming matches whenever someone didn't get the rocket launcher Otherwise a great game and its unfortunate that the players themselves were of such low quality

Wasn't this made by the guys who did Redneck Rampage? I guess that would make the "Redneck" name an easter egg.

Agreed. I just revisited the entirety of Quake 2 this year thanks to the remaster, and The Reckoning was annoying to heck and back. Not that the other content was exceptionally fun, but they really stole the cake (not a lie btw) with this one.

Loved it when it was new. Great additions to the original quake 2 and I wished it was more accessible for multiplayer deathmatch back then. I think with the rerelease it's more accessible?

Quake 2 music surpasses its predecessor? Man, can I have what you are smoking? Quake 2's music is sure groovy but it has far less atmosphere than Quake's soundtrack. You could plop Q2's soundtrack into any shooter from the late 90's/early 2000's era and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

Quake II is the best game ever but for it's multiplayer.. FFA & TDM is amazing in Q2. I've never since it came out played beyond the first level in single player but I've spent YEARS of my life playing online 😂

I prefer Q2. It was coming out as I was getting my first real PC. The soundtrack is also phenomenal.

Quake 1 is one of my all-time favourite games, and I've been playing it since the 90s. I have tried to play Quake 2 a few times, but can never get past the first couple levels. The enemies look like cutsey anime puffballs, the gibs look like you're rolling red dice, explosions are weird low-poly blobs that look nothing like explosions, the enemies look blurry, bloated, and indistinct.

Brings back memories. My brother and I played this game to death. Great levels, weapons, secret rooms, etc. Hands down, Quake is the best FPS in gaming history. I use the BFG for taking down big bosses.

It is realistic, the game use a brutalist design architecture.

7:36 splash damage.

Finally, someone with good taste

I’m still going through with it and I hate every second of it, but I wanna finish it lol

not trying to be rude but when you say quake 2 ground zero isnt a quake game, quake 2 is also not a quake game. i get what you mean tho

Quake had a much better single-player as well as modding scene, but Quake II had a better multiplayer and the tech it was built on gave us Half-Life.

I wanted to love this expansion but i couldnt enjoy it without an turret around the corner every 3 frickin seconds

😮no... no😅. bullshit. quake 1 is the best. no mateer how much u get paid for q2 promiting. no one can beat reality

Nah, Quake is better. Setting, movement, level design, enemies

A few surprising mistakes in this otherwise good correct video: It says you’d show Action Quake 2 footage but the servers were empty…well obviously you could and should show yourself running around a map yourself and shooting the guns (MP5 etc) and the level design (cars, offices, etc) It says rockets are too slow to be effective but in reality they were devastating in multiplayer, equal to chain gun or rail gun but requiring leading and level knowledge of where to shoot *in advance* It says if you played the game at the time you played a part of history, but that’s irrelevant: “part of history” is a made-up marketing claim, in reality a player was part of simply a excellent incredibly-well-crafted game. It says a person only likes “nostalgia” but again that’s false like the history thing: an observant appreciative person perceives and loves the quality, not the “nostalgia.”

Funny, stood with this video right after finishing Ground Zero on the Remaster... I love this video, tedious is the word I would use to describe this expansion. On a side note, having grown up with the PS1 port you cannot imagine my surprise and confussion on finding that the cutscenes from the port are actually the ones from GZ. Making the PS1 port: a mash of levels from the 64 and PC version plus the cutscenes from GZ but not being GZ at all.. I find this amusing to my inner child haha

defrag ❤

Also, I think it is the first fps campagne playable in coop...

Im sorry but the theme in quake 1 is just unbeatable by generic sci fi weirdness, quake 3 also perfected the multiplayer. Single player: 1 > 2 > 3 Multiplayer: 3 > 2 > 1

Awesome video dude I subscribed!!!!

I enjoyed Q2 and all it's mission packs. I didn't know ppl hate on it cause it's too difficult. Btw you can just map the items to any key you want. The update to Quake 2 makes pretty much everything easier, other than maybe the jumping Berserkers. I finished it all on hard, and enjoyed it. No shame in playing on an easier difficulty. We are pretty spoiled nowadays. In 98' you had a while to reload. With modern PCs it's instant. Was a fun watch and I like the editing.

i played this game a lot too. and yeah they explain the bfg technology in doom 2016. i really wasn't "cool" with the projectiles coming out of a "plasma ball" (the whole effect seems like an accident) :D

Quake 2 is a blast.

Quake 1 and 2 are not the same game. Each Quake game are unique, by the way

THE MUSIC THE MUSIC

Quake 2 was nothing more than a massive insult to the original game in every possible way. Boring AF single player that was far too linear and featured some of the most unispired monster designs in all of ID's games. Multiplayer that was clunky AF feeling and gave noobs an easy gun to hide and camp with (yes, railgun ruined Quake). It's just an ugly game that felt like a step backwards in terms of atmosphere and design compared to ID's previous work. It lacked the Romero polish. Oh and the fact that you even attempt to make the claim that Q2's OST is superior to what also happens to be NIN's best studio album is just asinine.

Oh... God... The headache... The-the... Nightmares!

No, first Quake is much-much better

Uhhh no, Quake 1 is the best Quake. Thumbs down.

i played quake 2 with my twin brother... without a mouse. we shared the keyboard. I sat to the left doing the shooting and aim up & down using A and Z. He sat in the right side using up, down, left, right. He map the wole game, it was like the palm of his hand lol

Y’all seriously underestimated the Tesla mines, they provide a great area of effect, throw a few down and get wailing, no enemies will fight back

I fully expect to get roasted for this but. Quake 4 is my favorite.

21:29 you can actually jump into one of the boxes early with simple rocket jump and skip some parts of the level

Best thing it improved over Quake? The weapons. Looking back, the weapons in quake weren't good at all. You had an axe that had no use. A shotgun that was rendered obsolete by the other shotgun almost immediately, a nailgun machinegun thing, a super nailgun that obsoleted the former, a grenade launcher that again got largely obsoleted by the rocket launcher and then the thunderbolt that was just a better nailgun that used different ammo. That's it. Quake II's arsenal does a much better job of being both varied and had less of "This is literally a direct upgrade", Even the normal shotgun had enough kick to oneshot guards.

I really enjoyed the space ship mission of The Reckoning.

A reason not to play expansions or player made content on hard for the first playthrough.

The Phalanx Particle Cannon works well on beta class gladiators in the remake because it counts as a energy weapon.

Ground Zero is entirely antithetical to Quake 2, as its design veers into outright hostility. Even with Nightdive's fixes (which the base game and even The Reckoning hardly needed), it's below mid at best. I can't believe this was from the same studio as Strife and Quake 1's expansion, Dissolution of Eternity.

If you think this is the worst expansion, I take it you've never played the unofficial expansion, Juggernaut.