Quake 2's Remastered intro from the 2023 Re-Release

Quake 2 got it's much anticipated re-release today. I was blown away by this firing it up for the first time. They've completely remade the intro sequence, with it's original audio, in full HD

[@sebastiangomez6804]

My favorite game intro since I was 5 years old, always gives me a starship troopers vibe.

[@SergeantSarge]

“Holy sh-! Bitterman! Bitterman! What in the hell’s going on?! We just lost a..a third of the platoon just as they cleared Sector Niner-Xray! You got a visual on any AA discharge?!” Possibly my favourite intro of all time

[@vicentecontecouto8286]

This and Mechwarrior 3 intro are childhood classics :)

[@yourpalsammy9773]

I love how as the camera fades as the platoon is dropping, Bitterman's thrusters are the last to fade from view. This was art, back in the day.

[@RamrodAI]

I miss the "after the recon from what was once known as Europe." in the voice chatter in the beginning. In fact they removed a few other lines too for some reason. Was a little disappointed with that.

[@firebert123]

this ws my favorite game intro EVER growing up.

[@T4nkcommander]

Still is for me I reckon.

[@jozefu8726]

"Christ! This thing is a brick!" What I say when im on the toilet after eating cheese.

[@homelandenvironmentalriskc2787]

"Command! I've Got No Flight Control! I repeat! I've got NO Flight control! Going in for a Crash Landing!" Also a good choice for post-cheese Toilet words.

[@DeadGothicRed]

Honestly this needs to be on a Helldivers 2 Malevion Creek Edit

[@dorjesempanamkhache]

LGBT devs do not have enough testosterone for creating something this kind of

[@yoshi314]

i love how faithful it is to the original fmv. not sure if they re-rendered it from source material or somehow remade it from scratch

[@colondnb]

Yeh it's hard to tell huh? Looks like maybe a bit of both. When down on the planet it seems like it's just an upres. The space stuff looks like it may have been remade (I feel like the logo exploding is a lot different to the original but would have to go check)

[@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009]

Pretty sure is from scratch, the original FMV was lost

[@elroma7712]

It was made by some fan in blender, then Bethesda contacted the dude and asked him to lent them the render

[@DukeBluedevil70]

Some of the assets are original, others are recreations. It’s a mostly new iteration with some of the old assets from the original like the ship and the sky. Source: Quakecon Livestream

[@RedSaint83]

​@@elroma7712 Thanks for the LoH Bros tip. Definitely appears from the comments on this video that it was indeed them that did the intro: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4XUqYOagbiDY9k

[@JimCarr]

I've so got to get this game!

[@colondnb]

It's cool!! Just like quake 1 remaster I was quite lucky, because I already owned them on steam I was just issued with the new versions. Pretty cool of them to do that

[@JimCarr]

@@colondnb Yeah that is pretty sweet - can you confirm whether the Q2 remaster has co-op support? The original had none unfortunately, otherwise I would've bought it by now...

[@colondnb]

@@JimCarr I really don't know tbh. Heading to a festival for the weekend so can't look rn but I will investigate when I return

[@JimCarr]

@@colondnb Have an epic time at the festival man!

[@colondnb]

@@JimCarr cheers buddy! Farmer Phil's! We dropping beats tomorrow night can't wait ☺️🙏

[@razorstargazer]

For those of y'all wondering, this was actually a fan remake that got included in the remaster. this is the original video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4XUqYOagbiDY9k

[@DukeBluedevil70]

Cripes this thing is a BRICK!

[@colondnb]

I have NO FLIGHT CONTROL 😱😱😱

[@TheDoomer666]

I just remembered that road brick video, ah nvm...

[@Youda00008]

I wonder if that thing was brick by design, or because he got clipped and lost hydraulic pressure.

[@T4nkcommander]

Still one of the best intros of all time.

[@GlazeonthewickeR]

Stoked to play this. I know it’s only $13 but I’m still going to wait til next week to grab this because if I get it now, I’ll be putting even more games on the back burner lol

[@JacoBecker]

Love this intro !

[@jeradpaulson771]

DAMN IT! 2:46

[@jklam00]

👍 very nice! Brings back memories!

[@prim4147]

its kinda scary to hear the gladiator voice already in the intro from those reporters

[@Rroff2]

You don't have them on but I think they made several mistakes with the captions for example the text says "little freaky EMP" but pretty sure they actually say "lower freq. EMP".

[@DrrZed]

I think it's "A lot of freaky EMP"

[@Swatmat]

@@DrrZednah, it’s lower freq emp down there

[@FarseerAnimation]

@@Swatmat "They've got a low freq. EMP down there"- Is what was in the script

[@Swatmat]

@@FarseerAnimationi know, thats what i said

[@therandomytchannel4318]

Been playing this since 97 and Major thumbs up to the player named Deadeye 0.0 for inventing the speed jump humping sound effect to piss off other playing "Huhuhuhuhu" LMAO, at one point in 2006 we got all 26 players doing that and building player towers lol , great times for sure!! Huhuhuhuhuhu LoL 😆

[@DrrZed]

2:04 Where's the Yeeee-haw? There's supposed to be stereotypical cowboy jock Yeeee-haw!

[@prim4147]

its still there but very quiet

[@homelandenvironmentalriskc2787]

yep, still there, buried under the music and thruster sound effects.

[@szeltovivarsydroxan9944]

Wow, they just remade the entire opening? Built it from scratch?

[@elroma7712]

Ask LoHBros he made that a year ago.

[@crimcrusader8459]

@@elroma7712 You mean this? kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4XUqYOagbiDY9k

[@ericmullen14]

@@elroma7712 you can thank him for the rest of the remade cut scenes too, NightDive hired him

[@roguespartan2854]

I should've bought this game before it got the remaster. It would go on sale for $0.99

[@RedSaint83]

Talk a patient gamer moment right there lol.

[@stevefury90]

That is why I just bought Quake 4 in GOG, just in case.

[@phantom5902]

I bought it from GOG a couple years ago, they gave me the RTX version and this one for free, same for Quake 1

[@Makron5]

It will come back down probably.

[@mjolnir112]

It's like $10. Just buy it you tightarse

[@RamrodAI]

Anybody ever been able to get the music only?

[@colondnb]

It is out there somewhere if you go to Google and look at some old forum posts

[@arcanjil1926]

This thing is a brick!

[@jeradpaulson771]

Bloodquake 2 0:42

[@djam7484]

wish there was a patch to get it to work with quake 2 RTX

[@galenit9927]

But... Intro made by NOT them. It was fan work what now official on remastered.

[@omg_wtf_not_now]

Its a great attempt, but the animation is abit too smooth.

[@Minority119]

looks good but ngl sometimes it's like too clean, so to say, like it's missing some effects and fuzz

[@Dirty_Dumb_NAFO_Scum]

It lost all of its cinematic value being rendered in 60fps with no artifacts.

[@DONG-50284]

L take

[@Void879-xx2ol]

L take

[@Dirty_Dumb_NAFO_Scum]

@@Void879-xx2ol Sorry boys, it looks too clean, Quake is supposed to be gritty, and now it looks like a final project of some kids at a CG college.

[@Void879-xx2ol]

L take

[@Dirty_Dumb_NAFO_Scum]

@@Void879-xx2ol I'm right and you're wrong. 😁