Quake II Is the Best Quake Game - This is Why

[@sonicmayhemofficial]

its due to the music of course :) (just kidding) BTW: This wasn't a collaboration really. We did all the level music. The other artist did the cinematic stuff. The Remaster contains all music. And thank you for NOT butchering my last name hahaha

[@TheEveryDayC]

Quake 2 was a major game I played when I was like 4 years old for PSX, thanks for scoring a great deal of the soundtrack to my early life!

[@marsupialmestre9088]

Thank you for the amazing soundtrack! There are very feel gaming OSTs out there that actually, genuinely strike a strong sense of nostalgia in me, and tracks like "Kill Ratio", "Stealth Frag" and "Descent Into Cerberon" are definitely a few of those.

[@ced2011]

Not sure you'll read this, but just wanna tell you your music got me into metal when I was just a pre-teen. Those iconic tracks will forever live on in my heart. Still blast them full volume from time to time. Thank you !!!

[@woogha]

This soundtrack stays in my rotation. Thank you so much for this.

[@szeltovivarsydroxan9944]

Dude, Quad Machine is stuck in my head for over 20 years now.

[@davuvnik]

I really loved it back then. To me the lore, game, aesthetic, and it's soundtrack were a whole round experience

[@Narcan885]

If my memory doesn't trick me, the campaign is also suuuuuper long. Like, 20 hours or something like that but maybe i was just slow back then. Anyway yeah quake 2 is THE best quake game ever. At least single player wise. Terrific weapon design, aestethics, level design, enemy designs. Terrific soundtrack. And its not too hard, meaning the enemies aren't just unfairly lethal or mobile or tough. It was designed to be played with trackball mouses and tiny plasticky mousepads so its pretty forgiving by today standards. It's an evergreen game in my opinion, better than almost any single player fps of today gameplay wise. I don't care if the graphics are dated, they're charming and brutal and they add to the atmosphere. What matters is the gameplay, and today's games always fail to make anything similarly good. Btw if you like quake 2 i will suggest a very similar game for atmosphere and genre: the original Unreal single player campaign. It's very similar under the positive aspects and style to quake 2. Excellent music, weird weapon designs, variegated alien mobs and settings. And super long campaign. And another game that is also dated but unbeatable gameplay and atmosphere wise: the original Half Life. The sequels sucked in my humble opinion and completely failed to replicate the original's strong points. But the original is a timeless experience, always pleasurable to play. I wish they still made games like that today.

[@hammondOT]

I played soooo much DM in Quake 2.

[@AquaticMammalOnBicycle]

There is no “lore.” It’s a gameplay game. It’s cultish modern meme trend that many people keep claiming they love the “lore” in games that have no lore.

[@r.9158]

Sonic Mayhem is one guy and the other two are credited independtly. Sonic Mayhem still makes music to this day.

[@TheCrimsonElite666]

If there's one thing that this remaster does to significantly improve Ground Zero as an expansion, it's that it nerfed the turrets. They were easily the most cancerous part of Ground Zero and why I never had any interest in finishing the expansion, but they now have a laser that warns you of their presence and their health was significantly reduced. Seriously, whoever decided to nerf the turrets in Ground Zero is going to a very special place in Heaven when they die.

[@TheCrimsonElite666]

@type36hachimoto92 They also improved the expansions by reverting the Enforcers back to their base game animations. In the original expansions, the Enforcers were one of the reasons why I didn't like playing through Reckoning or especially Ground Zero. While I understood that they were not a threatening enemy in vanilla Quake 2, reversing their attack animation was way too much and it made encounters with them a chore. Although they were nerfed in the remastered expansions, they still got improved A.I. that makes them more challenging to encounter.

[@Storm_.]

You know he's not reviewing the remaster? I don't even think he mentions it in the whole video. He's playing the original using the YamagiQ2 source port.

[@ghfjfghjasdfasdf]

OP, your post made me lol. ❤️🤟

[@-Zakhiel-]

This video is not about the remaster...

[@masterjediarcade]

Eager to see how much it helps (if at all). Just finished Reckoning again (using the Remaster), next video on that

[@NipplesTheEnchilada2323]

It's nice that the remaster of this game includes a compass that tells you exactly where to go if you get lost.

[@michael3432]

It does help, but you cannot rely on it all the times. It can lead you to dead ends or on wrong paths, it doesn’t seem to take into account all keys and interruptors.

[@slaxxxer]

@michael3432 Yeah, I had an issue in the torture area being led to a locked door but it is generally a very handy tool.

[@stuffthings1417]

The N64 version doesn't need one. Still love that version.

[@slaxxxer]

i did have an N64 back in the day but never played Quake 2 as I had played the pc version - I didn't realise it was a completely different game! Really looking forward to giving it a go after the main game!@@stuffthings1417

[@maratnugmanov]

When I was a kid I didn't understand English and it was a game of guess. And keeping in mind there's a lot of backtracking I could run a level for hours without doing any progress. I specifically remember that from time to time (in different playthroughs) I couldn't evevate the bridge in the very first part of the game.

[@goombah8771]

Nice timing man

[@masterjediarcade]

TY, this vid has been cooking for a while so happy to finally release

[@LemonMori]

Absolutely immaculate timing

[@BrandonBlume]

The remaster that just came out makes it even better than it already was. With the restored cut content, animations, enemy attacks/behaviour, etc. It just doesn't feel as bland anymore (though I always loved it).

[@damonke79]

Preordered a physical copy of it. Really liked the first Quake rerelease even though I haven't played it much. I love shooters from that era.

[@BrandonBlume]

@@damonke79 I don't support LRG anymore. But if I did I'd grab it too.

[@randir14]

They also made some pointless and bad changes, like lowering the railgun damage in single player.

[@masterjediarcade]

I agree, there are great changes and not-so-great changes but overall I'm happy people have better access to the game.

[@SenyiKimmo]

The recent patch buffed the railgun back up, and they also needed berserkers so their jump attack isn't as bullshit

[@Darkstar77_1]

I was part of the AQ2 team. That was a great time, so much fun. Went to some incredible LAN's in the late 90's, for team deathmatch AQ2 games that lasted hours. That era, 97~2000, was incredible for modding, and early online play. A couple of the guys breaking off to make Counterstrike, while we made Action Half Life was also an interesting time. I'm happy for those guys, though I don't feel like we backed the wrong horse. AHL was it's own thing, just sadly not a lasting footnote. Pretty sure I have most of the source files for AHL still. Even some of the .map's I did for AQ2.

[@TimSchraepen]

Thank you for your contribution to my teenage years’ most fun times

[@karlkarlsson9126]

Loved AQ2, and later started play competitive with CS. Amazing games. AHL will always have a special place in my heart, and to this day I always tell people that a new Action game would make millions if done right, it's a concept that is not being used at all in any game today.

[@AquaticMammalOnBicycle]

Finding AQ2 back in the day was incredible. Thank you for extremely fun crazy times.

[@Sethae]

Before listening the video: Quake 1 is the best. It was more raw and coherent. I liked the monochromatic colors and the mood of the game. And the action was more hilarious. And yeah, Lovecraft. And Nine inch nails. And the main character and his roided up physique and malevolent frown. Q1 was badass. Primitive, dark and cranked.

[@AquaticMammalOnBicycle]

Quake 1 was less coherent, not more coherent. Had more of a mish-mash of styles from troubled development (like abandoned RPG ideas). Quake 2 is coherent “military sci fi” scenario with consistent environments around that theme. Quake 1 even just the simple main character makes no sense: guy named “Ranger” who isn’t a real person but clearly a videogame avatar. Quake 2 on the other hand was like Doom: you’re a grunt, a random soldier grunt plain and simple.

[@humanharddrive1]

For real

[@cygnusghedepereu6885]

@@AquaticMammalOnBicycle my thoughts exactly

[@Bluehawk2008]

While I do prefer Quake 1 and its massive catalog of user-made maps, I have to admit Quake II does actually get good once you get a full arsenal of weapons and you start facing varied rosters of enemies... you just have to slog through 1-2 hours of crap to get there. When you have a rail gun, chain-gun and rocket launcher and can start aggressively circle-strafing tanks and gladiators with Sonic Mayhem playing, something magical happens...

[@garyoneil9791]

For me, the original was better. I like the fantasy setting more than the future cyborg stuff. The dark levels, orcs with chainsaws and grenade launchers. Rabid dogs. When Q1 came out it really left everything else behind. Bots on multilplayer that felt as good as playing a human. GL Quake introducing translucent water. Modern gaming was emerging and it was amazing. Then along came Half Life...

[@Wobbothe3rd]

Quake 1's SP actually kinda sucked, and many people who played it in 1996 said so at the time. It's too long and boring, and ultimately too derivative of Doom. Quake 1 was enjoyed despite the weak single player campaign because of 1) the wonder of a truly 3D engine and 2) the fun of the multiplayer especially online, but even over LAN. In my opinion we have a distorted view of the past, the vast majority of people who were hardcore Quake players of 1 or 2 had the most fun in multiplayer. There were single player mods and custom levels but the overwhelming majority of focus of most players after the initial sales of both games were playing competitively online. Quake was the OG esport.

[@ghfjfghjasdfasdf]

^ tha faaaaak, you’re out of your mind. Quake’s SP is pure bliss. You will burn for your opinion.

[@garyoneil9791]

@Wobbothe3rd I guess I totally agree on the multilayer, I really liked the single player. I thought the enemies were varied, the levels were fully 3d and interesting to explore. I spent a while on QTest before the main game released and it drove the imagination of what was coming, and when it did I wasn't disappointed. I wish they would make another campaign in this setting, Quake 2 seemed to merge in direction with Doom and away from fantasy

[@marsupialmestre9088]

@@Wobbothe3rd Funny you say that. I wasn't born at the time, but, despite coming from a background where I mostly played modern FPS games (even some of the classic ones, too - like Doom, Duke Nukem and Half-Life), Quake 1 was some of the most fun I've had in a while, and that was _all_ on single player. Just, something about the level design, the atmosphere, and especially the weapons, is so appealing to me. The interesting thing is: I'd already played through Quake 2 way before I even got my hands in a copy of the first game, and even considered it to be one of my favorite FPS games (still do). Now, Quake 1's SP campaign is my favorite in the entire franchise, and it didn't take long for me to realize that. Guess the expectations for a spiritual successor to Doom were different, back when it was first announced, which is fair. Historical context is always a very important factor to consider. Maybe I might've had the same reaction.

[@torgo_]

I remember with the original release of the game, you had to have the CD-ROM inserted to hear the soundtrack, as it would play the tracks directly off the CD. There would be a delay and you'd hear the thing spin up and make clicking noises before the next track loaded up.

[@masterjediarcade]

I was going to mention this but decided to cut it!

[@Koruvax]

Track one was data noise, track two and on was fire :)

[@cupofcustard]

I found out as a kid that if you inserted the quake 2 cd and loaded up a game that didn't require the cd to play then you'd get the quake 2 soundtrack playing over the game.

[@singleproppilot]

You could also play any music CD in place of the soundtrack that came with the game. I played a lot of Quake while listening to Metallica, Rob Zombie and Rage Against the Machine.

[@DeadPixel1105]

I assume your channel will grow fast. This video was gold. Your writing and humor are top notch, sir.

[@masterjediarcade]

Thanks! Appreciate the comment and more to come

[@matty19908]

I second this, I was surprised you're only at 250 subscribers, I was honestly expecting it to be in the thousands with how well made the video was, keep making stuff like this and you're sure to go very far! Thank you for the video!

[@Marc_Araujo]

I actually enjoyed the mission packs as a kid, especially the Reckoning. The Ion Ripper and Phalanx Particle Cannon are two of my favorite weapons in the whole series...and now Quake II Remastered finally puts the Disruptor back into Ground Zero.

[@masterjediarcade]

Your experience was very different than mine :P

[@Marc_Araujo]

@@micshazam842 I really dig the PPC's sound effect when it fires.

[@soundclock2939]

It really isn't. Quake 1 has far more of a unique identity and legacy to it that makes it more than just a game. It's a revolutionary era in gaming, technology, and entertainment. There quite literally will never be a game quite like it. But there's many like Quake 2

[@guysmiley4830]

in 1998 my dad bought me Baldur's gate for my birthday. I took it back to best buy and got quake 2 instead. I NEVER REGRETED IT FOR ONE MILISECOND. I played the eff out of this game until multiplayer servers were all abandoned. PlanetQuake had MILLIONS of mods and the game never got old for me. I was ELITE level at railz. I've never been so good at any other game.

[@tracybrown6004]

Which Quake is best Quake? The answer is laid bare here. I remember when i was better than you at this game. Of course, you were 10 at the time.

[@masterjediarcade]

Those matches were the beginning of my love of Quake. Thankful for having the chance to experience it back then!

[@MelTheHal]

In love with the quake series ever since I played a couple retro styled shooters. Decided to try the real stuff out and was blown away

[@anecro]

I've finished Quake 2 twice and often hop in just to pass the time. I wasn't there yet when it came out but I love it, it's so refined and fits me perfectly. The soundtrack, gameplay philosophy, it's fun. Definitely one of my favourite games.

[@casedistorted]

dang, I am old enough to remember my dad having to buy a graphics card in order to play Quake 2, and it was the first game that made a huge difference getting a GPU instead of playing in Software mode. Then Quake 3 Arena came out and we were so happy to have that graphics card.

[@Moonstalker]

Quake 2 wasn't the first game to have a proto hub system, system shock 1 did it first. However, most people remebered more quake 2 to do it than system shock. As for the weapons, I think they retained and perfected the formula for some, but for me the shotguns and machineguns were redundant at some point. The best weapon regarding is redfaction's shotgun which is twin shot and full auto alt. Actually the BFG from quake 2 was the one who made all the later BFGs including DooM 3 but excluding Quake sequels, so later dooms benefitted from it, and also rage games, and even mods uses quake 2 as a blueprint much more than Doom 1&2 Quake 2 is more the game that created the blueprint for modern FPS, it have perfect controls, you do have an item system for all your tools, the game is really smooth, and they avoided the melee because it was shit in quake 1. Despite the original q2 being a cakewalk was probably a thing in its favor for sure, I mean people bad at FPS could enjoy it. Also the game felt more like a proper campaign than previous ID games ever were. As for modding I think yeah this game contributed to it much more than older games because there was a strong modding scene, but this one have better tech to work with and we could have detailed meshes that weren't in quake 1. I believe Quake games should have been separate titles, despite doom and quake games being more or less of the same soup when it comes to the gameplay, the games retain the same fast paced formula with speed, good control and very similar physics and feel. This is too bad that the HP lovecraft Quake went nowhere after the first game and expansions, because they could have made something with it. I think they should have clarified the themes of their games, that could have been better, but even doom had its weird approach as DooM 3 came out. I think the game wanted to be system shock at some point...

[@doomslayer9077]

The remaster is amazing and i had so much fun with it the compass is very useful and every weapon was extremely satisfying to shoot with

[@canontheory]

Every time I play Quake 1 I want more industrial grunge levels while when I play Quake 2 I want more gothic type levels, the fact both games have separate core settings really gives the series a best of both worlds feeling.

[@NeilAC78]

Quake 2 was all about the Multiplayer. Everyone knew each other, knew who the top players were, what servers and times people played (Quakenet IRC and Gamespy). It was a huge community of thousands of people and Q2 was the only game in town (1998-99). Clan and CTF tournaments were well organized, the mod scene was amazing. Deathmatch, 4v4, Duels, CTF, Lithium, Rocket Arena, Action Quake2. I don't think any new game can ever recreate anything like that again.

[@singleproppilot]

All of that sounds cool, but I missed it because we had a dial-up modem and I wasn’t allowed to use it for online games. So single player it was. Even to this day, I still prefer single player.

[@ohotis]

One thing I feel like everybody leaves out about the joy of Q2 was the physicality- the sense of motion and speed of jumping all over the place like a sprightly ballerina in bigger open environments~ best quake~

[@masterjediarcade]

Good point! Another physicality factor was hearing your character's footsteps, a new thing for Q2

[@stefankoopmans2200]

Yeah the frantic strafe jumping and the double taps to jump higher over ledges and boxes was something really special, we literally flew though 'the Edge', it was amazing to see and experience at the time. Flying though the air while shooting multiple players in line at once with a penetrating railgun was just different from how Quake1 felt. The grappling hook made it even more insane. I wish I still had some recorded gameplay of myself, I think it must look insane. We killed 40+ ppl in just a couple of minutes it was brutal. It's probably not much different from current multiplayer games, but I'm completely out of the loop now so I don't know... It was a great experience to live though that time when multiplayer really took off. And oh yes let's not forget the SLI Voodoo2 setup that went with it :)

[@AquaticMammalOnBicycle]

Yeah the physical feel combined with the chunky sharp level geometry. It’s very weird playing Quake 1 because it feels so goofy and random hodge-podge compared to Quake 2 polish. And yes I felt the same way in 1997 too: loved Quake 2 right away, never really cared about Quake 1.

[@danielbedrossian5986]

I am a 90s kid yet my first multiplayer expirience was HL DM, and Q III arena. Interestingly Q II only wrote it print on my hearth as a singleplayer expirience (and Doom I have never ever played somehow yet, nor it continues). Oh the Railgun is a love ensured! Both Q II, III and the Gauss gun in HL!

[@purebaldness]

It's not often I feel compelled to subscribe to a channel solely based on a 2 minute intro but here we are. The fact that this seems to be your first video is also surprising! As a kid who loved Contra 3 and action games in general, I used to think that FPS games weren't for me, even though I couldn't fully understand why at the time. I watched my friend play Doom II with only the arrow keys and I myself played Goldeneye but without using the C buttons. It wasn't until trying a pirated copy of Quake 2 on PS1 when I realised that strafing, as in the ability to dodge attacks and line up shots, is what I was missing. After that it all clicked. Q2demo was also my introduction to PC gaming. It was Q3 that cemented my love for the genre, as I played it online for 10 years straight (first year offline on Dreamcast). Favourite game of all time. The remaster has been a great introduction to the multiplayer, and I'd always been curious about the expansion packs. Anyway, if you read all that, thanks for induldging in my nostalgia.

[@rjg02005]

Quake 2 rocks! Gameplay is solid! Music is epic! Sonic Mayhem's soundtrack is still on my gym playlist to this day.

[@MetaITurtle]

Quake 2 is more than just a game, its an experience. I remember when it was deemed the best game in the world in 1998. Its the reason i started playing more video games. I was 7 or 8 years old when this came out. So you can imagine the look on my face when playing this ->😮

[@masterjediarcade]

I wasn't much older! Definitely a formative experience for me.

[@kkarx]

I think it was already released in 97.

[@mattyork7625]

Man. I was 15 when this game came out. Play this, Quake 1, Unreal Tournament and Quake 3 I consider the best gaming times of my life. Even the people I met. I still talk to people online from the Quake 1 days (my first online game ever) . One of them recently passed away from Cancer but it was crazy, kinda grew up together but just online. He got me into Unreal Tournament and showed me the ropes. The best times man

[@Keldor314]

The best game in the world at the *beginning* of 1998, maybe. By the end of the year, it was pretty heavily overshadowed. 1998 was the year of Thief, Half-Life, Unreal, Starcraft, and Baldur's Gate, just to name a few.

[@maxpavlovsky]

@@Keldor314 1998 and 2004 were the years where gaming truly made a leap. Sadly there was nothing like this afterwards.

[@QuakeGamerROTMG]

Quake 2 is my most played one, somehow blowing away Strogg to the tune of some raw industrial metal never gets old Never quite got the negativity around the game

[@cillianennis9921]

The main use of the Blaster I found was locating secrets that needed you to shot a wall or something. Its not going to waste ammo shooting at every wall & you'll go like this weapon is perfect for finding stuff more than quake 1's shotgun which well has ammo so its not as easy to shot every thing to find what hides about.

[@RavenMobile]

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.

[@bondapovon]

Finally, a youtuber covering boomer shooters with the CORRECT opinion on Quake 2.

[@masterjediarcade]

Lol, it's an underrepresented market, opportunity knocked and I answered

[@HellzReverend]

Can we stop calling them Boomer Shooters? Not a single Boomer played any of these games, it's more like Gen X/Millennial Shooters.

[@BasedDoomSlayer]

QUAKE 2 is still absolutely amazing to play and still one of the best FPS games of all time. In fact, my entire top 10 best games of all time list is made up of nothing but DOOM and QUAKE games. 1. DOOM ETERNAL 2. DOOM (2016) 3. DOOM 1 PLUS DOOM II ENHANCED 4. DOOM 64 5. QUAKE 1 ENHANCED 6. QUAKE 2 ENHANCED 7. QUAKE 3 ARENA 8. QUAKE CHAMPIONS 9. DOOM 3 10. QUAKE 4

[@Mr.Coffee576]

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.

[@TheFacelessStoryMaker]

What I really like is the military chatter over your comms. It helps it sell a full scale military operation and not just one man going against the horde.

[@ridass.7137]

I remember it being HUGE in multiplayer via LAN or online, nobody cared about single player that much.

[@Wobbothe3rd]

exactly what I've been trying to say.

[@AquaticMammalOnBicycle]

True but the real multiplayer fiends know that it felt awesome to run around base2 or level 1 or whatever when either you had a network outage or waiting for a server to restart and so on.

[@szeltovivarsydroxan9944]

I love that you start with the music. Funny enough, the first time I played Quake II, was by a pirated copy a classmate burned on CD for me, where the CD music tracks were missing. So, I didn't hear any music throughout the entire game. I didn't even know there was supposed to be music. So, all I heard was the enemies, the ambient sound (like the big gun firing in the distance), and my character's grunts. It was a very atmospheric experience. Only years later, when I bought the Quake 4 Special Edition, which came with Quake 2 on disc as a bonus I got to listen to the amazing masterpiece of a soundtrack from Sonic Mayhem, which to this day I have ready to play either on my phone or laptop.

[@galaxycamerata]

The railgun showcase felt chillingly well-scripted. Both in your delivery of the voice-over, and the fact that the Makron visibly tried to duel you with its head-mounted railgun, got outpaced by the damage, panic-fired its blaster, then was annihilated in one final blast.

[@SpaghettiKozak]

Comment for the algorithm. This game was a major milestone for me. It was the first game I played multiplayer online, and up to that point I had always played FPSes with the keyboard only. It forced me to adopt the now standard keyboard+mouse setup. I really hope this remaster brings back the multiplayer and especially CTF. Good video, subscribed.

[@ramonchaparro1383]

I remember playing the Q2 test,this remaster gives me the same feelies

[@masterjediarcade]

I actually missed the Q2Test but would be curious about going back and trying it.

[@Hellgie1]

God, I miss lan parties. The biggest I've been to was 32 guys playing Battlefield 1942. We also played Red Alert 2, Quake 2 and a few others. Great days!

[@dotcomgamingd5564]

anyways this was a great video. I really dig your editing and sense of humor.

[@markwilson832]

I played this online in the late 90s on my pentium 2 pc, voodoo 2 vid card. One thing I want to mention about the rocket launcher is that you typically want to hit the ground at your enemies feet. I always jump shot to get the best angle. You can also rocket jump with it. Thanks for the video, quake 2 is my favorite as well.

[@mattyork7625]

Yep! I had similar setup. PII 350 with 64MB RAM. Had a Voodoo 3 2000 graphics card

[@masterjediarcade]

Had a similar setup, gonna have to find my old specs

[@thepunisherxxx6804]

The recent remaster adds a compass you can use anytime to get a dynamic waypoint to the next objective. Its an amazing quality of life tool that addresses the bad level design and poor navigation these early 3d games had. I really hope it sets a new standard for remasters, I feel most early 3d games could benefit from it. Its not fun to get lost and backtrack no matter how fun certain parts of a game are. I'd love to see you review the recent remaster right after this. They actually did a very good job with it. Lots of cool new content and quality of life stuff.

[@scottbruckner4653]

7:36 splash damage.

[@bryansays]

The Quake series is where I cut my teeth with FPS games. I have fond memories of playing long CTF sessions with friends till the wee hours of the morning! Your video is perfect timing since the remaster came out a few days ago. Can't wait to hear your thoughts.

[@masterjediarcade]

Thanks! I have many thoughts, eager to share...

[@TimelessFoodTravels]

Thank you for taking me down the memory lane. I still remember how frustrating it was to be forced to use a mouse for vertical aiming. .. oh how the times have changed

[@ProTobigen]

Within the first 1,000 views of this vid, and within your first 50 subs. I enjoy seeing where you go from here.

[@masterjediarcade]

Appreciate the sub! Definitely more to come

[@derpydashdjblazekin]

me and my wife played this split screen on xbox 360 and we were playing on the edge map about a football field length from eachother and she killed me with the super shotgun in 3 shots while i was trying to aim my rail gun btw it was her first time playing quake ii

[@bareq99]

That's adorable

[@relieved860]

Wow, this is amazing, i might actually play Quake 2 now, good job mate 👍

[@masterjediarcade]

Thanks for watching! There's no better time to play than right now

[@sealboy1211]

Quake 2 underrated yea. First game I saw colored lighting in, and it ran with the multiplayer hard. Looking forwards to potentially playing a remastered version soon. Have a sub, great video.

[@masterjediarcade]

Thanks for the sub! Been waiting for a long time for a Quake 2 revival.

[@sealboy1211]

@@masterjediarcade I guess last night was the night lol. I jumped on multiplayer and we were all Low Ping Bastards(LPB, if you know, you know.)

[@AdamWoodhouse]

Great memories of attending and hosting Quake LAN parties back in the late 90's and early 2000's.

[@BlondeMcGuinn]

I bought the Q2 Remaster a few weeks ago. I haven’t played it yet but this video gets me pumped. My only prior experience with Q2 was on the N64. The deathmatches on that game were fantastic. Big Ups, dig the video man, thank you!

[@MistressMary...22-u9j]

we been playin it and i love it

[@thechamberofchillz9705]

Quake 1 is my personal fave, but quake 2 is also amazing, they’re both very special to me.

[@Hawbitten]

Good video. Good stuff!

[@masterjediarcade]

Thanks! More to come

[@ghfjfghjasdfasdf]

Helluve review! Good luck with the channel.

[@Nomadnetic]

Love your writing, fantastic video!

[@mrbrew5417]

My brother had his own house on our family property and when this game came out I bought cable lan cards and linked our houses for 4 ping server destruction. Everyone else was playing at dial up speed. Best 1st person shooter ever. This is due to the lack of player run speed (q3 was too fast to keep the rail gun a super lethal weapon). Rocket jumping was created/perfected on this game.

[@masterjediarcade]

Sounds like a hell of a setup for the time!

[@stefankoopmans2200]

I also remember opening up the street laying down 10mbit coax network cable accross the street to my neighbours. Man, what a hassle just to keep that network up and running. But when it actually worked, it worked very well and we could play with six pc's together, fun times :) With ISDN I had pretty good online ping too, don't remember exactly but is was close to 5 often.

[@IceManTX69]

With my Diamond Voodoo card this game was the coolest thing I had ever played. The only downside was the LPBs and either the rail gun or the hyper blaster while I was on a 26k modem and and watching a slide show. But packing up my 17" CRT and PC and driving half way across Dallas every weekend to meet up for a Q2 LAN party was the absolute best times ever.

[@Skibbi198]

Good vid. Feels like a video from a much larger channel

[@masterjediarcade]

Thanks for watching! I try to put in a lot of time in editing so I appreciate the comparison.

[@NicOz42]

Great video!

[@masterjediarcade]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@ughmas]

Incredible video thank you for the nostalgia trip. Quake 2 was the first PC game I bought with my own money when I was 11, we also were one of the first houses in the area to have broadband since my father worked for the cable company... getting into a good multiplayer server for the first time was life changing.

[@jldp24]

Quake 1 was a classic..this was an event when it came out.. this was 1997/98 childhood.

[@fernweh8709]

You got it spot on. Great video. I've rambled to myself for hours about this game and I'm surprised you've managed to condense all those thoughts with such elegance.

[@RobertBattenJr]

I got the Quake 2 edition for the Switch and it had the music in it. It instantly transported me back to being in middle school and jamming to the music of this game and fragging some strogg. Good times!!!!!!!!

[@coreygunz645]

Awesome video dude I subscribed!!!!

[@SwampusMcGarniglus]

fun fact, nightmare was with the game, you could open the console and type skil and a number and then open the mission window and it will say hard+

[@larasynthwave5052]

What a nice video, i love it! I LOVEEE QUAAAAKE 2 SO MUCH!!!!!! THE SOUNDTRACK BEATS ALL OF THE DOOM'S SOUNDTRACKS AND ALL OF QUAKE'S SOUNDTRACKS COMBINED!!

[@robwebnoid5763]

Quake 2 was also my favorite, from debut in 1997 to my final multiplayer romps in 2012, with the first 10 years playing multi on 56k dialup & the last 5 years on fiberoptic. That's 15 years total for me. Favorite multiplayer mods included Awakening, Lithium & WoD. I pretty much stopped playing when the deathmatch servers were starting to dry up by 2012. The good old days.

[@shadowscone4690]

I had the psx version of Quake 2.. played it still love it all these years later, Sonic Mayhem's OST was straight fire, March of the Strogg slaps so hard

[@MushroomCloudGaming]

The remaster's subtle changes really made Quake 2 pop. I love its evocative 'Payback' atmosphere, something I didn't appreciate as much before for whatever reason.

[@alessandroarsuffi9227]

Quake 2 is one of my favourite games of all time. Loved it back then, still love it today.

[@masterjediarcade]

Same here!

[@AbcDefg-zt8xy]

Dude this is not the remaster review, what a legend!

[@Adefesio94]

Quake 2 is back

[@masterjediarcade]

We have long waited for this day...

[@doclouis4236]

Bro is trying real hard to defend this game while begrudgingly acknowledging it's flaws. Yet the ratio of people that praise the merits of the first game outnumber those that strangely like Quake 2😂

[@ryan3030]

Really can't decide between Q1 and Q2. Love the lovecraftian horror vibe of Q1. But Q2, really love the gunplay and the pacing.

[@hornsteinhof7592]

Very nuanced video. I love the industrial feeling of the second part. In Q2 you're here to kick ass and the game really delivers on feeling like a one man army. The first Quake is you cought in a feverish nightmare. Both are amazing games. But fans gotta acknowledge that part 1 was born out of chaos, a development rollercoaster. AFAIK several rpg elements were cut and the result was condensed into losely connected worlds, which has turned out amazing. I imagine ID wanted to realize their vision of a well-planned and executed game from A to Z with Quake 2 - and it worked! I feel right at home in both quake universes.

[@mabreymachine]

I remember playing Quake 2 back on HEAT and MPlayer. It was my introduction to online gaming and it was marvelous.

[@masterjediarcade]

Likely one of my earliest experiences as well, can't quite remember the server host as we played mostly LAN

[@Cooper3312000]

Quake 1 had a sound track from Trent Reznor and NiN band it was my favorite Quake game by far. It was so much of a darker themed game.

[@vikerwrath]

My first FPS game, I played it when I was 10 or 9, my dad recommended to me as he played it when he was little. The enemy designs introduced me to the concept of cyborgs. An awesome experience, couldn't recommend it enough.

[@MaxSchmerz1986]

Great first video, keep doing your thing. Would like to see more reviews of classic shooters :)

[@Imae08I]

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

[@jlcCustom45]

Nice video man like the content, looking forward to more.

[@dignusdingus3709]

The spliced in clips of Hudson made this video 300% better.

[@masterjediarcade]

I'll find a way to work Aliens into anything :)

[@trunderwood]

Great video. I'll go to my grave defending Q2 Team DM as the pinnacle of the genre. The weapon timings + weapon drop made it a tactical masterpiece.

[@evillecaston]

Quake 2 is my favorite game ever, and I'm surprised that its reception has become so mixed recently. Now apparently it's a "generic military shooter" that's not colorful enough, or something like that. I really don't get it, especially when compared to Quake 1. I do think Quake 2 is a very easy game, and a couple of the units (namely the palace and mines) are a bit rough, but that's about all I can criticize.

[@Goldenhordemilo]

I feel like crying when remembering the servers i used to join are gone.

[@CPalanysamy]

I ride with Quake's 2 soundtrack full blast in the helmet. I also have the Doom Sigil soundtrack which is also tremendous. I appreciate that you made the analysis around the music as focal point. Subscribed!

[@ScampiTheSighted]

This is both a well-made and well-timed video! And another reminder for me to replay the game

[@divacroft1034]

As ex-Quake arena baltic champion I would disagree from multiplayer stance...as story game yes its the best

[@CripplingDuality]

lmao the story is generic military sci-fi trash.

[@yugen0o]

Q2 CTF was my thing... so much fun, especially since I had just moved somewhere that I could get a cable modem. Being an LPB was glorious!

[@JAGtheTrekkieGEMINI1701]

As a consolero, I just played Q2 26 years after release for the first time... only knew Q3 in 1999 from the mighty Sega Dreamcast. Apart from slow Weapon switching and puzzling levels, I was intruiged by the Strogg Conflict but *stayed* for the amazing Music and THAT Railgun.... *OMG*

[@snakebite6x6x6]

Quake II, along with the purchase of my first PC (I had played PC games prior...just not on my own PC).... were the reasons I failed out of my first semester of the university I was attending.... and changed my major. The multiplayer mods for this game are legendary....and while I loved quite a bit of them (LM CTF and Jailbreak being among them), Action Q2 was by far my favorite.

[@circldoomer]

good first video can't wait to see the next one

[@dontcallmechris8677]

The fact this video released right before the remaster released

[@moonrocket124]

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.

[@judsongaiden9878]

8:18 I've never understood why they had yer character hold it like that. See also Serious Sam holding the minigun wrongly. A right-hander would have their left hand grasping the foregrip. Right hand on foregrip is how a left-hander would hold something like that, but it would be offset to the left. 12:17 There were limits to how much destruction Red Faction's Geo-Mod engine could depict. I remember testing it by blowing up everything I could. Eventually, it stopped depicting enviro-damage. Same for Crysis. You could mow down the jungle up to a certain point, then the damage just stops. 18:48 Totally did, but 'Blood' was our top fave.

[@artyboy1377]

Brings back memories..this is how i started my PC gaming hobby.. GL Quake.

[@SimonBorg]

Nice timing....soundtrack is now included btw

[@darkentity1000]

The sound track is awesome, but you're HIGH if you think it's OBJECTIVELY better than the first. Quake 1 has an INCREDIBLE ambient industrial soundtrack, it's chilling stuff

[@Hero_Of_Old]

My first ever game. Must have been about 4 or 5 when I played it lol. Also just realised this is your first vid. Great work man!!