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Are you going to play some Quake today to celebrate its 20th birthday?
http://www.nquake.com/ (play online for free)
Or maybe you'll be watching this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OipJYWhMi3k
>>342457925
Hells yeah I am. Then going to finish Quake 2 finally. Gotta keep myself busy until Quakecon in a Month or so.
God bless the anon from the last thread who made these zips. Quake 1 + 2 ready to go, just unzip and run the batch files you want to play.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/fyioqule8hbyo58/Quake.zip
http://www.mediafire.com/download/xctc12ya5uuhy0x/Quake+2.zip
soon
>>342457925
Just got out of a Quake Live match if that counts.
>>342457925
Yes, I started a playthrough a while back that I intend to finish. Loved all the Doom games but never managed to finish Quake.
>>342461470
Kill yourself
>>342457925
Im gonna kill me some shamblers and listen to bouncing grenades sounds.
>>342461438
No excuses.
See >>342458954
So many traps and surprises you never see in games today. Quake still holds up.
I'm surprised how good Scourge of Armagon is. I never played that back in the day.
>>342457925
I.... i downloaded the demo,
on 56k Dial up.
I remember it taking fucking ages.
I got disconnected twice and had to start over.
My parents yelled at me because we went over out data allowance and it charged something outrageous like $3 a meg.
I got no computer time for a month and had to pay them back with my paper round money.
I played the fuck out of that demo.
i'd ask you to hold me /v/ but you guys are probably all underage and i don't want to be arrested, but i think im going to go cry.
Has anyone managed to get Quake 2XP working on Windows 10?
>"Walk into the slipgate to play Quake"
>Walk into the gate
>Nothing happens
wow....
>>342468142
>>342467004
I was still using my Amiga when Quake came out so I didn't get to play it until they ported it around 1998. Took forever to download on 56k. I don't think I'd ever downloaded something so huge before. It was barely playable on my (50mhz accelerated) Amiga. Still played the shit out of it, in a tiny little thumbnail sized window.
>>342470310
In fact I didn't even have a 56k modem back then, I think I was on 28.8 or 33.6
>>342467004
You're not alone anon
Is someone hosting a quakegasm server?
>>342458954
Is this a sourceport, and if it is, which one? I played with darkplaces a while back and I want to try some of the others.
Which mission pack is better, dissolution of eternity or scourge of armagon?
>>342457925
I was excited about that link and then i realized it was Q3 and not the first one.
>>342472904
QuakeSpasm
More like vanilla Quake than Darkplaces which changes textures and lighting and sometimes physics depending on which version.
>>342473526
EZquake and Nquake are quake 1 online.
Quake 3 online still can be accessed with normal copy of Q3a
love the q1 engine, smooth as silk.
Check this it's alright
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLCHrTRjvdQ
>>342476156
looks like garbage desu senpai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODC5n5ngQKU
I'm playing Arcane Dimensions then I'll play the Quake 2 expansions, I never had those.
I think I'll replay Quake 4 too and then some mods for Quake 3 (like Bid for Power or Western Quake 3 against bots) A sort of nostalgia trip before Quakecon.
>>342476728
Got BYOC this year? So excited for a quakecon thats going to be focused on a new Quake.
>>342476156
Better check this shit out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC09stMpKSo
my birthday is the day after quake 1's birthday
fuck you mom you ruined everything, my dad shares half-life's birthday and i get nothing
Semi relevant
Quakecon BYOC shirt is badass this year
>>342477567
No idea, I just want to see a gameplay trailer and a full list of champions and not having to wait months for a public reveal.
Why is quake 1 so much more fun than quake 2
>>342458954
Why won't my computer run the batch files?
>>342478260
They really fucked up Quake 2.
It just is the most generic of shooters. I still don't get why quake 4 was based on quake 2.... they both suck.
>>342476156
That looks sweet, nearly as good as quake 4.
>>342478435
Really? People are going to start meming about Quake 2 being shit now? I played them both to death, they are almost the same game and both are really fun.
>>342478435
>It just is the most generic of shooters
It was the one that started the tendency so i don't think that counts. The lore is amazing and justifies half the game.
Also the level design is imaginative as hell
At lest Quake 2 had some fun guns
>>342478435
Quake 2 was amazing, shut up faggot. If you think it's generic then you played it after 2005. Fuck off.
>>342478968
>>342478810
>>342478731
>>342478703
can't we all agree that Quake>Quake 2
Quake holds up a lot better today than Quake 2
>>342478260
>>342478435
May be because Romero wasn't involved?
>>342479296
Well, yeah, of course, but Quake 2 is still an amazing shooter
>>342479296
i agree with this because of a few things
Q2's very smooth textures compared to how incredible the Q1 textures look in high fidelity on a modern system. the sharpness of the textures in Q1 under the right settings naturally looks more appealing than the muddied Q2 textures.
Q2 has comparatively very slow projectiles (obviously excepting hitscan like machineguns and railgun) to Q1 (from memory), i'm very sure Q1 was much faster in movement and gunplay.
Q1 also has very satisfying fantasy environments which are overall more pleasing to play than the brown-red warscape of Q2. not to say that stroggos is a bad setting, because it's really quite incredible moving through these alien military installations, but it achieves what it sets out to do in making you feel like you're traversing a desolate alien landscape where, much like with the strogg, it would be utterly devoid of life without humans, which makes you feel very uncomfortable to be there. Q1's technomagic/gothic/lovecraft scenarios are incredible to explore because they inspire rather than demotivate.
Q1 also had far better enemy design than Q2 even if most enemies are zombies in one form or another, but enemies like the gladiator in Q2 are pretty inexcusably bad. Q4 stepped up enemy design from Q2 by a huge leap, and i can really, really appreciate that.
dare i say Q2 has worse sound design than Q1? hard to say, i played a lot of both on mute through childhood, school, uni, holidays, plane trips. Q1 has really satisfying sound design, like some of the original doom sounds, but Q2 does also.
yea
>>342479296
No I will happily say they both have their own strengths and weaknesses and are as good as each other.
Though personally Quake 2 was more fun for me and I played it more often.
>>342478382
No clue, run it the hard way by clicking on "quakespasm".
If you want to play expansions you need to add -hypnotic or something to the end of the .exe. Easy info to find online.
>>342478382
or here watch this video on how to use quakespasm n shit
tells you everything you need in the first min or two
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF4GSsffbSE
I also really liked Quake 4....
I just might.
Sometimes I feel like I don't enjoy video games anymore and feel like it's not because the games have become bad, but it's because I've become old and jaded.
And then I fire up Quake, put some high energy music in the background and I'm crying tears of joy because I'm having so much fun.
>>342479296
>>342481360
While I agree Quake 2 is not AS good as Q1, let's not start shitting on it just to try and suck up to Q1 even more, shall we? They can both be good games at the same time.
Does anyone have the "So you wanna play quake" guide?
>>342481798
that's because quake 4 was a very fun game
i can say for a fact after playing a little doom 3 -> all of quake 4 -> the rest of doom 3 that it does everything doom 3 did far, far better. props to raven for fixing the formula i guess
>>342482609
hey now i thought i was being very fair to Q2
it's absolutely one of my first vidya memories even if at the time i was literally incapable of understanding that there was a button in the elevator to go to level 2
>>342481360
Can agree with this, however there's an nQuake2 package for q2pro that does the same thing for Quake 2 that nQuake does for Quakeworld and it's fucking amazing. Hi res (ish, still faithful and not like darkplaces garbage) textures, colored lighting (faithful ish, not like darkplaces), cel shading, etc. Check it out and rethink Quake 2
http://nquake2.com/
>>342460976
That game was practically dead last time I checked, is there a difference between the steam and standalone versions?
>>342483059
Just as an aside, this pack makes Quake 2 literally tied with Quake 1 in my opinion. Most people's problem with Quake 2 is that the color palette is way too drab, this eliminates that problem and not in any sort of wacky way either.
Aditionally, there are also more paks that you can get that are demonstrated in this video that do a variety of things such as change the skybox and some weapon details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFen-s7Btqo
Personally, with that new skybox, walking through Stroggos took on a whole new dimension and seemed somehow way more nostalgic, especially in the outdoor areas. It felt a lot like Half Life this way. You put this skybox in Quake 1 forget it, it looks insane.
>>342457925
Which version of quake should I buy for multiplayer?
Also waitng for quake to go on sale on steam.
>>342484084
Theyre all different, take a look at top matches in all of them and decide which one is most appealing to you:
QuakeWorld: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_ozFOtDntQ
Quake 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTmTvgrYFro
Quake 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-pIrOfVktw
>>342483876
Wow more people playing Q3A than Quake Live now days?
>>342484920
forgot pic
I don't want to play old shooters.
It just reminds me there's nothing as fun as them these days. Now every FPS is cutscenes every 2 minutes, forced pathing, only 2 weapons, press button to instakill.
>>342486197
Quake Champions... soon
Have you tried the new Doom?
What's the best way to play quake 1&2?
I have them on steam but vanilla has no music etc.
bump for GOAT game series
>>342484084
TDM. Quake
CTF: Quake 2
Duel: Quake 3 / Live
>>342484721
>Quake 3
That's Promode though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhwuFBufoFw
Q3/QL is much slower.
>>342488932
adding to this:
>>342490381
download the Ultimate Quake Patch(es) for them. Adds the music etc. back in and keeps them in steam.
Is there a mod that adds muzzle flashes to Quake 2? That's pretty much my biggest problem with it
We really need to get Future vs. Fantasy servers running
quest mode has character saving, level ups etc, you can fight coop through quake at like 16x difficulty.
>>342491204
you dont need no fuckin "ultimate quake patch" quake soundtrack in ogg is on quaddicted and has been for 12 years
>>342476728
>have to interview with someone who worked at Xatrix
>play The Reckoning to prepare questions
holy shit was it bad. I was expecting something like opposing force.
>>342476156
Only thing I like about that is the higher quality sound effects that seem relatively faithful. I like my trebble. Other than that its dogshit.
Quakespasm VR works with the Arcane Dimensions mod now.
>>342491963
It adds gl support etc. etc. in one easy to install package for lazy fucks like me.
>>342491204
>Ultimate Quake Patch(es) for them
Ew, that installs DarkPlaces sourceport and it also changes physics to be more like Quake 3. Its fine if youve played quake so many times you need to mod it, but a terrible recommendation for a first time experience.
If you want a more vanilla QuakeGL experience, use QuakeSpasm source port, which is ready to go with music files and expansion packs (with 7 addons) here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/fyioqule8hbyo58/Quake.zip
>>342492165
you don't need to "add gl support" you just download quakespasm or directquake.
this isnt complicated to set up. you download zips and extract them into the quake folder
just saying, avoid any "ultimate" packs etc because of changing textures and trash like that. Quake is meant to be played as Quake not overwritten. For years everyone thought they were "improving" it until they stepped back and realized they made an xbox 360 game.
>>342491204
UQP uses darkplaces which isn't really faithful, you can make it look like vanilla, but the physics are also changed. Quakespasm is alot better.
Only issue then is that quakespasm still has the 72 fps physics limit, Direct q fixes that.
Anyone know how to replicate the Quakespasm weapon position is direct q? I can't see that much of the weapon viewmodel, and its disorienting.
Direct q is pretty vanilla and it has the physics and rendering decoupled so you can run it at 144 hz
What mods to use? someone explain that shit.
>>342492343
>>342492412
>>342492434
Well shit, I didn't know it fucked with the physics. That's not cool at all.
>>342491204
ignore my advice. It was shit.
I sure can't wait for Quakewatch
>>342457925
maybe some quake 3 arena later tonight. this game was my introduction to arena shooters.
>>342493003
what if.... what ifits good
>>342493683
Doesn't matter, /v/ will find a way to shitpost about it
>le quake 2 is bad meme
