Quake 1
>extra dimensional beings n shit
Quake 2 & 4
>space cyborgs n shit
But why though?
They got tired of ripping off Half Life so they ripped off Halo instead.
>>318085161
this. why were devs so uninspired to copy bungie at the time?
From the little I know about the quake "story", quake 1 was basically the initial invasion, and then by 2-4 they had captured enough humans to convert into shock troops/fodder. Note how most of the bosses are still non-human.
>>318085161
top quality joke right there anon.
>>318085439
cool story, but you just pulled it out of your ass and its wrong.
>>318085161
>quake 2 ripping off halo
do you know how time works?
>>318085439
No not the slightest.
Quake 1 was supposed to be an action RPG about a hammer wielding guy named QUAKE. That's why castles and ogres and monsters and shit.
Thing is they made an awesome engine and when they were done, they realized they haven't done THE FUCKING GAME. So, with the assets at hand, they remade a DOOM clone for themselves.
Still, the contrast of the Ranger fighting interdimensional Old Ones is fucking awesome and Romero pulled it off well.
>>318085650
A major plot point of quake 4 is the player getting captured and cyborg-ized by the strogg, and the only reason you retain control is you get broken out right before the brain chip gets put in.
>>318085650
He's right actually.
The Strogg needed biomass to continue expanding but had no way to get any. They found Shub-Niggurath and contracted her to open portals to earth. In Quake 1 you've been sent through the portals to find and destroy Shub and close the portals.
Quake 2 is many years later, earth has built a fleet and army to invade Stroggos and fuck them in in retaliation for the initial attack.
>>318086097
Do you have any proof of this though?
>>318085716
This be the truth
>>318084998
star wars fags ruin everything
>>318085161
Halo invented FPS
>>318085439
Nope.
Quake 2 was going to be a different series entirely, but they slapped the Quake name on it and decided to make a series out of it.
>>318084998
romero getting his ass fired
>>318086097
>Strogg needed biomass
why didn't they try farming?
>>318089168
Because that would make for a very boring video game.
>>318084998
I really liked Q1's atmosphere and world. It felt pretty incomplete sometimes, but was otherwise great.
I wonder how things would've been like had instead of making Doom 3, id made Quake 4 as a remake/sequel to Quake 1 and added in all the stuff that didn't make it.
>>318089432
>Strogg Farming Simulator
I'd play that.
>>318089432
I disagree.
>>318085650
the strogg, much like the combine, are a capture and conquer species. they actively convert new species they conquer to their side by adding bio implants and shit. if you played quake 4 you got to sit there while your character was slowly and methodically converted to strogg in first person (pretty brutal cutscene actually).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJwyjWpP4XA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qEVNJKw7dU
Soundtrack to 2 is great though
>>318090591
That was pretty neat.
Is that the Doom 3 engine?
Also, is it worth buying Quake 4 in the steam sale now?
>>318091438
Quad Machine and Descent into Cerberon gets me pumped so hard
This game is the tits
>>318084998
They wanted to start a franchise yet at the same time ride on the success of the first Quake. There you go.
Honestly, Quake IV runied everything. It would have been great to have all the titles have no connection to one another whatsoever
>>318084998
quake 1 was pretty much a fucked up mix of lovecraftian and sci-fi because id didn't know what the fuck they wanted to make and they kind of lucked out in the end.
quake 2 wasn't supposed to be called that, it was a brand new franchise, but they renamed it for $$$
QUAKE 5 WHERE
>this thread
I spent like a thousand fucking hours of my life playing Q3 and I never knew the series had any sort of plot. Like I just thought they made all of the shit look the way it looks because it looks cool. I mean, THEY DID, you can't seriously tell me they didn't FIRST invent all the cyborgs and robots and monsters and all that shit and make the levels a ridiculous mix of space platforms, industrial looking areas, temples, spartan looking battle arenas, satanic ritualism all over the place, and THEN tried to hapharzardly come up with a story that fits. Still, I didn't even know they tried.
>yfw you saw the stroggification scene for the first time
>>318091657
multiplayer is dead. But i enjoyed the campaign back in the day when it was released. It's the same engine as doom 3 so you'll notice the graphics are dated somewhat but it's not an eyesore.
playing Quake 2 on my phone has made me realize how fucking much it was designed with consoles in mind
>>318091438
>>318092963
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfUzGy1KWSo
>>318084998
Strogg are one of the most interesting scifi antagonists in a game.
>Composed of cyborgs
>Convert some fallen opponents to assimilate
>Grind up the others into food
That processing facility in Q2 was pretty fucked.
