Quake In 2024 Is Still A Blast

[@sabbathian]

Quake is still my number one game, I always have it installed on all my systems, just in case. I remember playing the shareware version million times, back on my Pentium 100MHz, waiting for my local pirate to burn me the whole version. And then came the 3DFX voodoo.... good times

[@SimplySaulz]

Still holds up with the updated version, felt extremely good to play!

[@sabbathian]

@@SimplySaulz I have that remake too, it is great!

[@Eirath]

Played these when they came and doing a playthrough of my own atm. Atm going through Hexen II which is built on the Quake engone, but more about solving puzzles to progress rather than just straight up action. Anyway, Quake was a big deal because it was the first true 3D game, unlike all Doom clones which were more... let us call it 2.5D. That is 3 dimensions on a flat surface only. You could not place 2 spaces above or below each other like in true 3D. Some Doom clones, like Duke Nukem, found ways to create the illusion that you did however, but were still just that 2.5D. The creepy and cool atmosphere in Quake is mostly due thanks to two individuals. Sandy Peterson, who was part of the dev team and a HUGE Lovecraft-fan. Since this he's been part of developing editions if the Call of Cthulhu ttrpg and other horror and Lovecraft stuff. The other guy is Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails who made the creepy soundtrack to the game (Hence the NIN logo on the nail crates). The weapon wheel is a remaster feature. Anyway, cool that new people can enjoy these old gems, and not just us older nostalgic nerds.

[@SimplySaulz]

Yea had a blast going back and learning a bit of the history of quake, didn't have a pc growing up so i never played a lot of old school games, its still amazing how well some of these game hold up today.

[@noahkirkpatrick8912]

VR buddy all old school feels new. Playing HL2 rn. Also look at Dr.Beef great modder play wolfenstein, HL1, tomb raider, doom 3, quake exc

[@SimplySaulz]

Yea i find myself going back and enjoying old school game more than newer game, there's a Wolfenstein mod for doom that looks really good as well

[@TsjuunTze]

I remeber i bought a GPU just for this game. I believe it was a Voodoo card

[@SimplySaulz]

I remember seeing old graphics cards at stores but wasn't into pc at the time so I was just confused on was it was lol

[@Jaddico]

HUH

[@SimplySaulz]

Game good, Go Play!