Which was better and why?
never really played single player, but I vote Q1.
faster pace, better art style, and still the smoothest game engine ever made.
Since I only played singleplayer when both where released, I go with Q2.
My vote is for Q2. I dig the strogg over mish-mash of cuthulu and clive baker like freaks, weapons were great (first appearance of RailGun!), colour pallete in game was wider (Q1 had its pallete shifted towards brown, gray and black, 'cuz of technical limitations at the time), level design was much more vertical and varied, with bigger levels, there was some degree of back-tracking (with fresh enemy spawns, of course), soundtracks for both games were superb, but Q2 takes the cake for me. Also, Q2 engine was basis for first HL engine, so it had more untapped potential in it (you can se it used fully in some mods).
>>2714376
as for the why imho
Better monster design
Better weapon design
More different looking levels
>>2714362
>still the smoothest game engine ever made
Not with that framerate cap, bruv'nor.
I also vote for Quake 1, more for the atmosphere and level design than anything. Though Q2 trumps it in weapon balance and overall presentation (coloured lighting!)
>>2714381
>Q2 engine was basis for first HL engine
Nah, Half-Life is a decendant of the Quake 1 engine. A handful of Q2 features made it in but it's Q1/QW based right down to the movement.
Q1, for environment, sound design, and the best, THE BEST, rocket launcher that has ever existed.
>>2714387
Oh and the best multiplayer FPS has ever had, too. No gay ass Q2 BFGs, thanks.
>>2714384
what cap? i get like 1000 fps.
>>2714437
In quake.exe or glquake.exe?
>>2714387
And grenade launcher
>>2714381
I love both games
> but totally agree with this post.
>>2714312
SP 2 because of the pseudo-plot and conceptual structure
MP 1 all the way
>>2714312
Original Quake no contest.
Anybody who says otherwise is retarded and doesn't understand good combat in FPS.
>>2714312
You should do a Strawpoll for this kind of question, but Quake 1, obviously.
The atmosphere (also music, monsters, movement and THE FUCKING WEAPONS) is just so much better than 2's.
I only played single player, so Q2.
Q1 had far too repetitive sceneries, and the music wasn't particularly action oriented. I think Doom on PS1 did the job of making a cheesy FPS creepy with the choice of music better.
I'd say this wise anon >>2714381 is right.
Also, using the blaster (or hyper blaster!) in long dark corridors was my first "TECHNOLOGY" moment, because the computer I was using had the brand new 3DFX Voodoo2.
Shit was awesome...
>>2714708
To be fair, while I love Quake I'm sick and tired of ogres being everywhere.
>>2714708
>Quake III
>just a tech demo
oh I mad
>>2714578
>wise anon
>thinks Q2 engine was the basis of Half Life engine when in fact it was derived from Q1
top lel
>>2714381
I concur with that. Both are excellent but 2 is amazingly immersive.
>>2714708
What is that book?
Quake 2 had better levels, a more coherent art direction better soundtrack. The only thing that I like more about Quake 1 is the linear level design. Quake 2 had some cool levels but I just hated backtracking to find some stupid switch so that I could finally procede. Also I like the fact that Quake 2 atleast had SOME kind of story, obviously I didn't expect it to be very deep, nor did I want it to be but in Quake 1 you just get dropped in this mish-mash of borrowed horror elements without a clue of what's going on and that kindof ruined the atmosphere.
q2 gave us the action quake mod, one of the best and most fun mp mods ive ever played.
shame no one plays it anymore
>all these idiotic doom babies claiming 2 is the better game
This board actually gets worse every day. It's pathetic to see.
>>2714708
>implying that means fuck all
These are the faggots that went onto make Doom 3 and a bunch of other irrelevant shit which never hit anywhere near the heights of their previous games. Id Software died after Quake 3. Meanwhile Romero went onto make Daikatana after Quake, top kek.
You cannot compare Quake's gameplay to the second game's. The flow is better, the weapons feels better and the enemy types are more interesting. Quake 2 on the other hand is slower, the movement is sludgier and most of the gameplay devolves to peekaboo pop and shot crap with hitscanners, especially on nightmare where the enemies don't flinch. The gameplay dynamics of the different combinations of its enemy types aren't nearly as interesting as Quake's. While Quake 2 may look prettier and more impressive graphically, and may even have a better sense of progression since its level design was based on a more 'realistic' backdrop in contrast to Quake's abstract maps, the actual combat situations created were nowhere near as interesting as anything Quake had.
You kids don't understand this because you were raised on Halo and have shitty opinions about pretty much everything. Sadly over time this board is only gonna get worse and worse. You people need to fuck off back to your roots on XBL and stop pretending you know anything about video games. Fucking plebs, my god.
>>2714715
>wise anon
>thinks Q2 engine was the basis of Half Life engine when in fact it was derived from Q1
I checked my sources. Apparently both Q1 and Q2 are called id Tech 2. Also Q2 engine is still based on Q1 engine with all that fancy lighting, sudo-physics, trigger carryover from map to map and ability to store a state of a level to be loaded upon re-entry. All the features that were worked into GoldSrc, making it a quasi-Q2 engine frankensteined from original Q1 engine and pieces of Q2 code. So please forgive my confusion.
But... that does not change the fact that newer Q2 engine is simply superior to older Q1 version. And thus, my vote still goes to Q2.
>>2714312
Quake 1 for sure.
Not only for better atmosphere and monsters but the action is fast and explosive. Quake 2 felt slow and plodding in comparison. Q1 also has far more interesting level design.
>>2714904
>But... that does not change the fact that newer Q2 engine is simply superior to older Q1 version. And thus, my vote still goes to Q2.
By your reasoning COD MW2 is superior to all previous Quake games because it uses a more advanced Quake engine. GG.
>>2714887
Or you could be less of a spergy faglord about it.
So what if some of us like 2 better?
That makes no implications on age, that's preference.
The only reason this board is shit is because faggots like you "plebs! everyone who doesn't agree with me is a pleb and underage!" shitpost all over the place.
Christ.
Go to fuckin' /r9k/ and sperg out over there.
>>2714913
Me reasoning is limited in scope to deciding between Q1 and Q2. Your hyperbole of my argument is flawed. Like if we were having that ethernal discussion ak47 vs m16, and I would have said that lover production cost is a big plus for ak, and someone would accuse me preferring throwing rocks to shooting, since that is the cheapest.
Also, let me rephrase my engine argument for you:
Q2 allows bigger levels, higher enemy and object limits on each map, interconnectivity of said maps (with multiple entry, re-entry and exit points) and more complex enemy A.I. That alone makes it technically superior, with less limitations for creating more interesting and dynamic game.
>>2714312
Quake 1 is a classic and it would be the greatest game ever made if it had a little more enemy variety. The level design and use of vertical spaces are unmatched to this day.
Quake 2 is a piece of shit that killed classic FPS design.
Quake 2 is what a videogame would look like if it were designed by a cold, unfeeling AI.
>>2714708
iD software doesn't understand why their old games were fun. If they did, they would still be a relevant developer.
>>2714941
>Quake 1 is a classic and it would be the greatest game ever made if it had a little more enemy variety. The level design and use of vertical spaces are unmatched to this day.
This guy gets it.
>>2714941
I agree with the first part, but I think you're being a bit harsh with the second.
Just a bit.
I would prefer Quake because of gameplay, style and history. The only venue where Quake II reigns is in multiplayer coupled with "The Edge". Other than that part two feels no longer like a pristine id title because of the stupid space/robot theme.
>>2714941
And a map. Quake 1 could really use an auto map, why didn't anyone make a fan mod to add one to the base game?
>>2714980
how would that work? It seems obvious to me that they didn't add a map like doom or duke because those are 2D, and quake was full 3D. Some areas are too vertical for a map.
>>2714980
Look at these fucking casual COD babies that need a map to navigate Quake levels. I was literally smarter than you when I was 10 years old m8.
>>2714980
Because you're the only one who would need it.
>>2714941
>Quake 1 is a classic and it would be the greatest game ever made if it had a little more enemy variety. The level design and use of vertical spaces are unmatched to this day.
2 had objectively more usage of vertical space.
>>2714312
Quake 2, more coherent design
also because I say so
>>2714887
I played both Quake and Quake 2 when they came out and I like 2 better. How about that, peaches?
>>2715034
It's not particularly cryptic son. You just have shit taste.
>>2714312
2 because it's better than 1 in every way except atmosphere. Also
>being a muh atmosphere faggot
>playing quake I and III while growing up
>love the fuck out of both equal parts and adore both for their own merits
>only now figure out I never realized how come I always played the first and third game, but for some reason never wondered if there was anything in between
>one day playing quake III, dad walks into the room with a black disc
>"holy shit what" -me
>asks me to put aside, places it into the disc tray
>setup screen comes up
>OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHITTTTTTT
>tl;dr cinematic intro, first level comes up
>explosions and some guy talking into your radio
>dad still playing, breaks down the crackled window before him, shoots the first guys, finds the shotgun, wrecks shit
>I think my jaw had literally fucking dropped to the floor by then
>MUH FUCKING 12 YR OLD DICK
I recall my brother and I going literally Nintendo 64 kid levels of apeshit. Hands down one of the best videogame experiences I ever had bar none. Fucking glorious.
on a very related note, I think it can be universally agreed that Quake I RL and GL >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Quake II's piece of shit RL and GL
>>2714887
lol troll harder
>all these quake 2 idiots
What the fuck happened to this board? What a plebeian shithole /vr/ has become.
>>2715102
Must be the influx of /v/ via the Doom babies. The same Doom babies that don't understand why Plutonia is easily the best out of the original iwads. /vr/ for the most part has the same credibility as 2015 /v/ does when it comes to retro shooters.
>>2715102
>>2715003
>>2714887
>>2715105
nice posts
>>2715108
I bet you don't play many multiplayer games (apart from COD and Halo) because you suck balls at them :)
>>2715112
I think at this point more people play Doom online than Halo tbh
>>2715126
Probably this, yeah. I don't play Multiplayer in general, personally because of how much I have to git gud...unless it's Smash.
>>2715126
The point
your dumbass head
>>2715137
>I don't play Multiplayer in general, personally because of how much I have to git gud
Yeah exactly. Faggots itt are pissants that suck at video games and that's why they think Q2 is the better game. From a gameplay standpoint Q2 is fucking vomit compared to the first one.
>>2715146
You certainly have strong opinions about Retro Video Games
>>2715146
If they think it's a better game then it's just like...their opinion man. If you think it's such a worse game then maybe back up your reasoning so you won't seem like a troll? Or at least try not to come off as aggressive.
>>2715154
>taste in video games is objective
>>2715154
>Grown adults
>Can't even participate in a discussion without insults
Yeah, okay. If you're over the age of 18, you definitely dropped out of high school.
>>2715165
I didn't say that. You happen to have the taste for dog shit however my dear :)
>>2715173
You certainly implied it.
This thread has quaked in on itself.
>>2715191
Thank the aggressive autist.
>come to /vr/ for comfy retro discussions
>have to endure /v/ tier sperging and two-bit muh elitism about games released two decades ago
>>2715185
>Using the term literally in that statement
Like hell you do. No educated (Or at the very least intelligent) man uses the term literally in a statement like that, because it serves no purpose. Enjoy making a slave wage and lying on the internet to bolster your confidence, I'm sure its working wonders for you.
>>2715185
>a britbong and a londoner to boot
there you have it
I think OG Quake has the more active, more talented custom map scene going on right now, but neither game's aged that poorly just based on launch content. Still need to play II, which should be easier now that I know half a thing about the game's source ports, but I have too many Quake PAKs to complete, and that's driving me nuts.
>>2715209
>Using literally incorrectly is a meme
So you're retarded, a liar, and a newfag all in one. /vr/ needs you like it needs gore threads.
>>2715213
>>Using literally incorrectly is a meme
It sure is :^)
>>2714312
>id games
Literally edgelord fedora shit. Anyone with taste plays Descent instead.
Don't mind me, I'm just going to ruin multiplayer shooters forever.
>>2715219
couldn't handle the thiefbot-induced ragequits
I just love Quake 1 aesthetic.
>>2715216
>>2715224
>Britbong calling someone else retarded
>maymay spewing newfag britbong
>Not being aborted from his mom's basement at 22
I asked for that McDouble like 20 minutes ago, don't make me get the manager, chav.
>>2715207
Skip the PAKs for now, get through Q2 first. Its not a hard game, shouldn't take you long at all. As others in the thread have said, its a fairly different game from the first, but good on its own merits, and on release had some nifty TECHNOLOGY moments with the right hardware.
>>2714312
Q1, best maps.
>>2715230
Quake 2 is trash don't listen to this poor faggot probably lives in a trailer somewhere ahahaha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY6yBTYxLko
based
>>2715236
I'm replying to this post tbh
>>2715241
Of course you are. You're a pathetic autist on the internet that sucks at both video games and life, probably a permavirgin in all probaility tbh :^)
>>2715246
>probaility
uh oh fam
>>2715250
omg a typo :^)
I bet you don't even touch type you fucking retard lmao
If there are any janitors around, this thread could use a good scrubbing.
This board is /v/ 2.0 now.>now
Lol, the anger. Neat to see that it's almost evenly split, but I gotta go with Q1
>>2715220
One of the things that made QuakeII special - look, feel and sound was awesome. Many a man exploded without ever knowing what hit them.
>>2715261
>railgun with input lag
>felt awesome
yeah nah
>>2715254
/v/ autists are like black mamba venom, just a minimal dose in anywhere and it's dead in 20 minutes
>>2715220
You serious anon-kun?
Q2 multi maps with no health, armor or powershield puckups, but filled to the brim with railguns were the ultimate kathartic turbo twitch shooting trance-like experiences. Miss your shot and die, aim to long and die, move to slow and die, show you back or side to the wrong direction and die. It is like a beautiful, bloody zen mantra.
>>2715272
>implying you were any good
>>2715275
I've read my post several times to make sure. I imply nothing.
But if it makes you happy I'll say it: I were plenty good.
>>2714945
Would? If?
It does and it was. Carmack doesn't concern himself with trivial human affairs like fun.
>>2715220
3 got it right
Quake 2 is garbage. Irritating level design, everything's either orange and brown or bathed in colored lighting, boring enemies and way less fun weapons than the first game... I can't think of a single reason I'd want to play it.
the only reason i dont like q2 as much as q1 is because i think the movement is more limited. that's it.
>>2714887
Great post.
>>2715370
why is it that everytime I hear someone complain about the guns in Q2 Im immediately reminded of Quake's axe
the only two weapons in quake I that felt even remotely satisfying to use were the GL and RL, and perhaps the super nailgun to an extent
everything else felt like shit, sorry m79
also you sound like you got lost in the levels a lot, are you sure you're not that same fag a few posts ago complaining about quake not having an automap
I don't like Quake 2.
Quake 1 is a good game. It's nothing special, there are plenty of better FPS games out today.
>>2715458
lol
>>2715253
>If there are any janitors around
Good joke.
>>2714887
You know, I agree with your opinion, but you type like a 13 year old fresh out of /b/.
>>2715489
>What was your reaction when Half-Life 1 came out?
I didn't get to experience half-life to its full extent until many years later sadly, but I can assure you that for both me and my brother it was Quake II all over again.
although if there's one thing I will always lash myself out for not doing back when it was due, then that would be not playing Unreal when it came out.
I've played so many games throughout my life, particularly FPS games and had had so many shit relentlessly thrown at me over the years, equal parts both good as well as fucking terrible, to the point where playing it just a few years ago didn't even fucking -phase- me.
I mean, I could easily tell it was most probably one of the best games ever made from the fucking get-go, but I just couldn't bring myself to enjoy it the way I should have.
>>2714887
Calm down, kid.
Some people sure are very salty over Quake 2, what gives?
What about the game is such an affront?
>>2716028
p sure its just the awkward middle child between 1 and 3 that does neither atmosphere or multiplayer/balance particularly well
at least it brought the railgun
>>2716042
I guess it didn't have quite the atmosphere that Doom or Quake 1 had, but I still think the gameplay was pretty damn fun.
Music was better too.
>>2715219
Ok but only playing in original engine. I don't like ports that change stuff just for the hell of it.
>>2716093
rebirth is pretty faithful to the original d2x-xl on the otherhand...
>>2715236
When I lived in a trailer, all I played was Doom, because that's all the computer I could afford.
But now I don't play these games anymore, I only like the old stuff from the 90's anyway. I mean the game engines, maps and mods.
Having tried to play Q2 a few times and then having finished Q1, gonna have to go with Q1. Yes my personal preference has to do with the superior aesthetic of Q1, but also Q1 plays better, where Q2 is slow and does shit like start the player off with projectile weapons and enemies have hitscan weapons.
Q2 multiplayer is godlike though.
Maybe I'm playing wrong, but Quake 2 had so much downtime. I'm always fighting something in 1, even when I pick up a key a wall will open with some monsters and a shortcut.
In 2 there are moments where I cleared out the room and I'm just searching for a key or walking down an empty hallway. People rag on Doom and Duke as being backtracking looking for an obscure key, Quake 2 was worse than those games will ever be.
>>2715478
Guess it was too much to expect the multiple posts I've reported over the course of the day to go noticed.
Like, jesus, I get it, it's a volunteer position, but anyone with half a brain could see all this stupid tbh fam shitposting and fling that crap out but instead I have to add that shit to my filter just to even READ this fucking board anymore.
>>2714708
Oh, that's where the "id makes tech demos" meme comes from. What a piece of shit book. Makes that same HL = Q2 engine mistake too, but because it's in print people will beleive it.
>>2714708
>id admits that quake 1 & 3 were tech demos
Oh wow. This is exactly how the games felt for me. Not saying they aren't great, but they also feel pretty minimal, or putting it less favorable; bare-bones,
>>2715263
>input lag
Not in my Quake 2. Are you perhaps talking about ping? It was still usable with 300+ ping.
Now using it with a ball mouse, that was a cunt.
>>2716138
I'm not interested in Disneyland rides when I play these games. I guess that's what people want these days though, so I don't play them anymore. I think it's great that you have to backtrack and explore sometimes. I don't like every map or game to use same formula. That's why I don't play modern games, and that's why I also don't play modern Doom maps and such. I'm not interested in a formula of game design that some kind of ephemeral consensus decided was the "right" way to make levels. So that's why I only ever play the 90's stuff, because those were made during the infancy of the genre, before people started having too many strong opinions about things. All that does is limit things and eventually result in something like modern FPS design.
Anyway, not my problem, as I said, I gave up on anything made after 90's. You can sort that stuff on your own now.
>all these favorable quake 2 posts
Not shitting on you all, but it's very telling of /vr/ as a single-player focused board.
I was involved in the Quake 1/Quakeworld competitive scene, wayyyy back in '03 so for me Quake 1 is pretty much a game i have so memorized and know all the ins and outs to, Quake 2 just seems like such a petty little thing in comparison.
Y'all should watch some old Quakeworld tournaments, even the slightest difference in skill becomes incredibly pronounced in the scoreboards by the end. It's a beautiful thing to watch.
i cut my teeth on Q2 with my first computer, a pentium 2 233mhz with a voodoo card. that shit blew me the fuck away.
sad i never got to experience Q1 at the time and had to play it almost 10 years later, but i'd say it definitely had the stronger single player.
but, man, online was where it was at in the Q2 days. gamespy was just getting started and wasn't shit. there were mods everywhere. it was impossible to play on 56k... well i guess that wasn't a plus but whatever, we didn't know any better back then. dsl wasn't available for a couple years where i lived so i put up with it.
it's all rose-colored glasses i know///
>>2716420
>it was impossible to play on 56k.
Oh, bollocks. Everyone else was using 56k as well, except for those 33k suckers, so it was fair play. I could never get the hang of high ping predicting with Quake 2's slow sausage launcher but leading with the railgun was like second nature.
>>2716138
It's not necessarily bad, though. Combat in 2 is completely different from 1. Whereas 1 is essentially non stop slaughterfest, in 2 you need to learn your environment, your enemies and your weapons, since by mid-game 1-2 successful hits could finish you off. It makes the game more strategic and interesting imo.
>>2715112
>I bet you don't play many multiplayer games (apart from COD and Halo) because you suck balls at them :)
Multiplayer games are for losers. Stay proud of your only "skill".
3 is better
fite me
>>2716443
yes but back then mp fps only tracked frags not deaths so k/d was not a thing. people just played to have fun and get a ton of kills so matches were more hectic.
k/d killed the fps imo
>>2716578
What's the fun in dying every 5 seconds?
>>2716581
If You kill 2-3 other dudes in this 5 seconds there is a lot of fun to be had that way.
They were both good in their own way. Quake 1 was more gothic and had trent reznor soundtrack. Quake 2 was ironically more industrial with cyborgs in space. Quake 1 seemed to be universally loved. I want to say Quake 2 wasn't as popular, but it had some of the greatest multilayer ever. Nothing could touch it until UT99 started building up steam.
>>2716581
It's not much fun for long periods of time, but only happened on crowded Q1 DM servers, if everyone is same skill. If you're better than average, you can last a lot longer though.
I eventually played lots of 3Wave CTF stuff, and there it wasn't so chaotic.
I also liked to play on plain DM servers (or using simple mods like the rune stuff, or grappling hook) with just a handful of people. I had a 28.8K modem, and often got 250-300 ping on reasonably close servers. Sometimes I could frag people on ISDN connections. Dudes on T1 were of course impossible to touch, except by playing very cunningly (no straight up fighting).
I dropped out of online scene after Q2 came out. Didn't like the slower pace of that game. Had fun in single player mode though Anyway with my machine (AMD K6/400 with just a plain 2D 1MB video card) I was limited to lowest possible screen resolution.
>>2716608
Ooops, I meant Pentium 120. That's what I had when Q2 came out. Didn't upgrade for a couple years, and by then didn't really play much FPS anymore, except older ones like Doom.
With the p120, Q1 had a very comfortable resolution, I can't remember the exact vid_mode, but it was about halfway between 320x200 and 640x480. The game lookedr really nice in software mode like that, and played very fluidly (almost never any frame drops or turtle icon).
>>2714312
Quake 2 had the better singleplayer part and setting IMHO, however I prefer Quake 1's multiplayer.>tfw Quake 4 wasn't what I wanted, and tfw Quake 1 will never be expanded upon
>>2716647
you must of liked CPMA correct? I liked midair on Quake 1 and the dm2-4-6 best maps for Duel. Also TDM on dm2 was good :D
>>2716660
>must of
Are you human?
>>2716647
just play Unreal tbh
>>2716682
I like Unreal too but it really fucking suffered from "that part" being the mines at the start. I usually ended up just skipping that level.
>>2716685
The level design is sub-par to say the least.
>>2716189
Well it's not entirely wrong, when they made a new game, that game was a salespitch for the engine they just made, Wolf3D was a game they thought would be really cool and fun to play, and they wanted to show off the engine to prospective buyers, and they did license that engine to others (Blake Stone, Corridor 7), same with Doom, they had Carmack's sexy new engine, so they thought, "Hey, let's make a really cool game to show people how cool the engine is!", and so they did, great sales, a contract to put out a sequel, two third party mission packs (Final Doom), and multiple licensings of the engine (Heretic, Hexen, Strife, Chex Quest, HacX).
>>2714312
>>2716750
>>2715456
I don't get lost in the levels, the levels are just irritating. They're bland, uncreative, require too much backtracking (sometimes with little to no added combat along the way) and in general lack the Doom sensibilities that the first game had. It's a step towards more modern FPS games which I dislike greatly.
The only fun guns in Quake 2 are the railgun and the chaingun. I'm happy using any weapon in Quake barring the normal shotgun, even the axe was better than the stupid laser pistol.
>>2716682
>just play Unreal Tournament tbh
ftfy fam
>>2714887
I swear you start these threads so you can keep trying to force your "doom baby" shit here.
>>2716197
>and that's why I also don't play modern Doom maps and such
You're seriously depriving yourself here, people still make mapsets for vanilla gameplay, with regular Doom style progression and exploration, for instance, Back To Saturn X.
People don't really do linear maps for Doom all that much.
Quake 1 is better than Quake 2 - and I'm being completely sincere about this - because your weapon is centered in the screen rather than being off to the side.
>>2716913
>he says things i don't like, better redirect him to /v/, that will show him
quake 1 isnt very good tbh. Quake 2 literally revolutionized fps gaming with its innovative gameplay and cutting edge graphics that still holds up today. Quake 1 like the doom games have aged like milk and the only people that really enjoys them are those with nostalgia googles
>>2717118
You are aware of the fact, that you can center your weapons in player menu in Q2, right?
>>2717125
If you don't go RIGHT THE FUCK BACK TO /v/ I will take matters into my own hands.
Quake 2 is great in its own way, but I think 1 and 3 have stood the test of time much better.
>>2714387
It's like being punched in the face by God. Quake 1's rocket launcher is just perfect.
>>2714708
>"q3 was just a technology demo"
>mfw
>>2716193
Sometimes, less is more.
Quake 1 is a game where people run around and shoot eachother. It's a game that only does one thing, but does it extremely well.
>>2715191
>>2715223
this is the most badass goddamn picture i've seen in months.
this could totally be the cover of an 80's blackened thrash metal album
>quake 1
>>2717246
Well, if Q2 older sibling is the first fully realized 3d fps and the younger defined multiplayer for years and set golden standard in game engines it's no wonder it is the one awkward middle child of the bunch - even if it is an excellent game in its own right. Still, it had its own identity separate from Q1 and brought some new cool things to the table, like aforementioned railgun and technological advances.
>>2715219
>Literally
STOP
>>2717260
That's why Quake is one of the best games ever made.
With so many games now it's like...people only care about the idea of what they're doing and not what they're actually doing. Like it doesn't matter if the movement is bad or if the enemies are boring or the level design is poor, so long as it's "immersive" or some shit then it's ok if your FPS is bad at being an FPS.
>>2717493
>it's bad that human kind uses abstract thinking
i rather pretend i'm a space marine killing zombie aliens than explicitly sit in a chair and rapidly press buttons and flick a plastic device
>>2716210
I was also into the competitive scene except this was from 96 to 99. I can't imagine that your prize pools were the least bit decent considering it basically died in 1999. 2003, seriously?
>>2717278
Shut up Beavis
>>2717514
If your game is about killing zombie aliens then the best thing about it should be the part where you kill zombie aliens.
>>2714312
Q2 had better music, that's all
Q1 > Q2
>>2717729
>a nine inch nails-inspired ripoff is better than actual nine inch nails
I bet you enjoy imitation crab meat, too.
>>2714708
That's like... Your opinion, man.
Quake was a remake of Doom but with eldritch monsters instead of Biblical demons.
Quake 2 had a cool premise, with frankensteinian cyborgs who harvest fallen foes to make more of themselves, but the engine wasn't really up to the task of delivering on the grisly details that would have made it great. That didn't happen until Quake 4, which imo remains the best Quake to date.
>>2717852
haha what
>>2717760
>Heavy guitar orientated tracks
>NiN ripoff
u fucken wot m80.
>>2717118
That shit throws me off too, but:
>open console
>hand 2
Fixed. Even if it hides the weapon model, aiming is no longer off centre.
>all these children saying Quake 2
admit it. Most of you enjoy the modern COD series and are looking forward to Black Ops 3. Don't lie.
>>2714362
>and still the smoothest game engine ever made.
Sourceports like fuh/ezquake definitely. Original engine, fuck no - caps at 72, no interp for objects so moving objects are stuttery. Mouse input is okay nothing special.
Q2 was smoother than Q1. Quake 1 is the better game though. Not a perfect game but better in basically every regard, (weapons actually balanced unlike Q2 and faster as well, enemy encounters in SP are better designed, enemy AI and design in general is better, level design is more abstract but better designed for gameplay) single and multi barring graphical capability - which sourceports fix much of.
>>2714713
It's more of a tech demo than any other id tech game before it. It's not just a glorified tech demo, it's a well balanced glorified tech demo with great multiplayer. Still, yeah it's a tech demo. It's a bit underwhelming in options but it's damn great for actually playing. There could have been, more.
>>2714708
No one cares what they have to say, also
>valve
>better
Kind of makes them all sorts of wrong in so many way.
>>2716420
>but, man, online was where it was at in the Q2 days. gamespy was just getting started and wasn't shit.
Eh, we all played it, but not really. Q2 netcode was dick. Worse than Q1.
>it was impossible to play on 56k...
No it wasn't. It wasn't a bandwidth issue. Q2 has a larger problem with the way it handles latency or rather doesn't. Those problems persist today even on broadband if the server has high latency. It was possible to net 80ms ping with 33.6/56K as well. Less common but possible.
Also, Gamespy was shit, but that's hardly an issue given that pretty much every single game browser in history had been shit barring Kali's game browser which somehow managed to be fucking gold - absurdly quick and making and modifying complex filters for literally everything the server listed in the easiest ways. No one has ever replicated or come close to replicating how great it was. It's likely no one ever will either since steam basically fucked everything up and the world will settle for stupidly less than mediocrity.
>>2718184
Err everyone used gamespy 3d. No one used Kali. Also, 80 ping on a 56k is a lie. 110 plus. And the term is HPB. You embarrass me.
The Reckoning > Scourge of Armageddon > Dissolution of Eternity > Ground Zero > Quake II > Quake
>>2718062
Quake plot: Slipgate experiments accidentally connect Earth to dimension of ancient unfathomable lovecraftian horrors. You, a mute soldier, must shoot monsters and collect keys, then find the exit.
Doom: Teleporter experiments accidentally connect Earth to Hell. You, a mute space marine, must shoot demons and collect keys, then find the exit.
Quake 4 had actual characters and some degree of plot beyond the most bare basics because ID focused on the engine and handed the actual game design off to Raven. Who has always done wonderful things with ID engines and should just handle any singleplayer campaign for any game ID ever makes tbh.
>>2718179
>weapons actually balanced unlike Q2
I would argue Q2 weapons are not only pretty balanced, but are kind of an improvement over Q1 arsenal.
Q1 axe vs Q2 blaster torch
If I recall correctly, main char in Q1 using melee weapon is a direct result of this game initially being about a guy with a hammer causing earthquakes or something along those lines. Axe makes sense in gothic-esque enviroment, and it is great for saving ammo when dealing with lone enemies or hitting switches. The attack animation looks silly, though. In Q2 sci-fi cyber aliens a blaster with infinite ammo makes more sense than any futuristic melee weapon would. It has terrible rate of fire and damage output, but it's accurate - and again, it is mostly used to trigger switches from distance, lure enemies, blow up barrels etc.
Q1 vs Q2 shotguns
They are, at fist glance, close analogues to each other. Upon closer inspection it turns out that Q2 versions are much slower, but they also do much more damage - damage rate per second remains roughly constant, but more pronounced periods between shots forces player to be more careful with aiming and timing. Also, Q2 super-shotgun is useful till the very end of the game (even if playing on hard, where enemies don't flinch from shots), just as Q1 double shotgun does.
1/2
>>2718264
Q1 nailguns vs Q2 machinegun & chaingun
I think that this is the biggest gripe for people used to Q1 weaponry. Both nailguns have perfect accuracy, no recoil and are using proper projectiles, while machine and chain have crazy spread, recoil (really noticeable on machinegun) and are hitscan based. At the same time super nailgun is just a direct upgrade from nailgun, doubling damage per nail without any drawbacks - once you have it there is no point in using previous version, so it sees very limited use. Q2 machinegun, on the other hand, consumes ammo much slower and is more accurate than chaingun, so they fit different roles - machinegun is good for run and gun exploration and for dealing with groups of weaker enemies, while chain mows down anything in seconds, but it takes a second to start and it fuck'n eats ammo like a pig.
Q1 vs Q2 explosive armaments
This is where Q1 really drops the ball. GL and RL both use the same ammo - this alone renders GL mostly useless after one gets RL. In rare situations where bouncing explosives behind the corner or a wall grant easy and safe kills player is forced to waste precious RL ammo. Q1 GL also has terrible range, that further limits it's already disputable potential. In Q2 GL and RL use their own dedicated ammo types, so trying to fling grenades into a hole or behind a wall does not strip player of ammo for RL. Also Q2 GL has better range with deeper trajectory, enabling it to be used mortar-style, over longer distances. But I'll honestly admit that Q1 RL feels better - it's like having an massive iron cock throwing exploding death in comparison with Q2 serviceable prick of fire ejaculation.
2/2
>>2718267
Rest of the weapons can't be directly compared - Q1 LG is just too different from Q2 arsenal of railgun, hyperblaster and BFG. Superweapons from both games have some cool features - LG can be used on enemies standing in water for some additional damage and can shoot from behind walls, cell ammo from Q2 has alternate use as power source for energy shield and railgun can go trough row of weaker enemies with one slug.
2/2 bonus
>>2718264
>Q1 axe vs Q2 blaster torch
Blaster torch sucks but so does Axe. I never even use the axe anyway and I only use the blaster at the very start before getting the shotgun and then never again.
>Q1 vs Q2 shotguns
Quake 2 shotguns feel like ass and come with ridiculous RNG around the reticule. The SSG is Quake 2's primary weapon. It pretty much dominates most of the game whereas in Quake you use all your weapons in equal doses (except Axe and normal NG once you get the SNG). This is why Quake 2's weapon balance is not as good as the first's in terms of the SP. Quake you use pretty much everything. hell if you have primaries in Quake it's pretty much the SNG and rocket launcher, which is much more interesting than running around using Q2's boring ass SSG on everything.
>>2718267
>Q1 nailguns vs Q2 machinegun & chaingun
>I think that this is the biggest gripe for people used to Q1 weaponry. Both nailguns have perfect accuracy, no recoil and are using proper projectiles, while machine and chain have crazy spread, recoil (really noticeable on machinegun) and are hitscan based. At the same time super nailgun is just a direct upgrade from nailgun, doubling damage per nail without any drawbacks - once you have it there is no point in using previous version, so it sees very limited use.
The reason for having normal NG and SNG is simply a way to scale difficulty differently in different levels.
Quake 2 combat is fucking boring in comparison. It is completely devoid of the first game's dynamics. Everything is merely pop and shot gameplay or circle strafing. That's pretty much it. Everything is so fucking slow and the enemies hardly fucking move. There are no dynamics with the enemy types. The later enemies are merely bullet sponges and nothing more and stand perfectly still, easy to take apart. I don't know how anybody can say Q2 gameplay is better than the first. It's an absolutely ridiculous assertion to make.
>>2717760
>implying NiN is good
>>2718293
Now this is actual weapon balance and functionality.
Another thing Quake 2 fucks up is making weapon switching slow again. Why the fuck wold they do that? Christ.
>>2718302
>Another thing Quake 2 fucks up is making weapon switching slow again. Why the fuck wold they do that? Christ.
It's part of the challenge. Like in 3
>>2718309
it's not challenging, its just tedious and slows it down
and 3 is fast switching you moron. not as fast as q1, but still fast as fuck for you to get the weapon you want in a flash.
compare the speed of the weapon switching in this
https://yadi.sk/d/d5LGrRONXJfQ4
to fucking quake 2
if you think q2 is remotely hard you're an idiot. zero dynamics, boring game in comparison to the first
>>2718302
sure it's convenient to have guns switch immediately, but it makes picking the correct gun for the battle matter less
3 does better literally everything 1 does except for muh gothic atmosphere. No reason to play 1, it's redundant.
>>2718313
your webm just shows how pathetic those faggots are. they're supposed to be q2's rusher enemies. compare those faggots to fiends. they're so fucking useless.
>but it makes picking the correct gun for the battle matter less
top fucking kek. like you even need to strategise that much for quake battles. even if you did have to switch, it takes one moment in cover (oh wow so much fun) and switching to the wanky gun you need to take care of q2's shitty enemies.
people on /vr/ are really fucking pathetic at video games
>>2718321
It's all a matter of enemy placement.
In the webm they are terrible because they are used in an open space.
In Ground Zero and The Reckoning they are actual threat and are often surpringsing, they even fucked me up a couple of times; because enemy placement is actually, you know, good.
Fiends in Quake 1 are terrible because they are used in way too unfair ways; like behind a corner in a tight corridor with hardly any way to maneuveur (even back...).
I'd rather have a Q2 Berserker like in the webm than a Q1 Fiend with "fuck you" placement.
>>2718343
You sound like you're really fucking bad at Quake nesfriend. Fiends are great and are some of the best enemies in that game.
>In the webm they are terrible because they are used in an open space.
They are literally terrible in the entirety of Quake 2. They never pose a threat, fucking ever, in that whole game unless you're a total retard. I can't speak for GZ and I don't remember the Reckoning, but fuck me they're a useless enemy in Q2 (like all of the enemies in Q2 actually).
>>2718302
Wow, I thought that WEBM had sound then I just realised I knew every fucking sound effect by heart and just imagined them in my head while it played.
I have played that game a bit too much.
>>2718350
Did you play Q2 on easy or perhaps with cheats on?
>>2718350
>They are literally terrible in the entirety of Quake 2
Yeah I know, and actually that's what I wanted to say. They're great in the add-ons though. The problem isn't the enemies themselves, it's how they are used.
As for Q1 I could write an entire essay on terrible enemy placement in that game, it's not just the fiends. I believe Q1 fans overlook it because as they know enemy placement, as well as all the game mechanics, by heart by now, it's obviously never a problem. Just like I can dodge through hitscan bullets in DN3D and know exactly how many bullet of each weapon it takes to kill each enemy in that game. At this point you can't have an objective view on enemy placement unless you have a VERY VERY open mind and have great ability to put yourself in a new player's shoe, which by the look of the vast majority of user made content for FPS games, is a skill very few people have.
tim willits is captain boring
>>2718356
I play on Nightmare you retard. See >>2718293. Pic related. You want me to make more webms from the 2 hour playthrough I did yesterday just to see how boring the game is (please say yes because I love making webms and sharing gameplay)? Hint: an enemy didn't kill me at the end, I finally died because I fell in lava.In all honesty Q2 isn't boring at all. It's a solid shooter but it does NOT hold a candle to first. At all.
>>2718370
sure let's see the webms
>>2718357
>The problem isn't the enemies themselves, it's how they are used.
But that's yet another flaw of Q2's brain dead level design and enemy placement with boring enemies resulting in boring combat situations.
First time I played Quake I was a kid. All I can say is it definitely didn't feel any cheaper than any of the other games I played at that age. Also fiends make a sound before they attack so you always have a chance to react.
Replaying Quake is always fucking fun and engaging and that's what counts in the end. Replaying Quake 2 is okay but it will never have the flow of the first game's combat and is ultimately not as FUN.
Also I like how you imply you're an FPS guru that knows everything about level design and can see this things objectively while I couldn't possibly do so. It's also ironic coming from a Blood fan tbh. I love Blood just as much as Quake but come on, that game is undoubtedly cheaper than Quake but you don't give it shit like you give Quake shit.
>>2718381
ok thanks I'll upload a bunch later m80 have to go for now
>>2718293
>hiding from that single Tank
>>2718390
Blood has the best enemies and weapons at the time. Enemies have great AI (especially cultists, who are able to go around the level to get you from behind), and enemies complete each others. Weapons are all different and all have their use depending on the enemy or situation; including alt fire.
Enemy use and placement is just challenging in the right way, never too obvious and never too frustrating.
Half of Quake's weapons are the same with different firing rate. Tons of the enemies are pretty much the same, too; I mean how many rusher type is there, like 4 ? The dogs, the fiends, the 2 knights... and again enemy placement is a festival of "fuck the player in the ass" using every enemy in their worst, must unfair possible ways. It'd be like the equivalent of putting chaingun guys from Doom in the distance in a giant room or putting a Commander in DN3D just behind a corner in a tight corridor with no way to backtrack.
dat taunt
>>2718423
lol holy shit
I love Quake, but it's ultimately very unfullfilling, it was originally meant to be a completely different game until the deadline grew closer, and they realized "Fuck, this will never work, let's take what we already have and build another Doom", the final product is great fun, but with the general lack of bosses and fairly short length, and lack of variaton, it feels like a tease, the game really has my attention, but there isn't enough of the game to be satisfying.
>Oh, hey, there was gonna be a big bossfight here, a skeleton dragon, was gonna be cool, but we ran out of time, s-sorry, here's two vores
>I know the first boss was cool, but you weren't really expecting more stuff like that, were you?
>Shub Niggurath, the big bad, pretty cool, huh? We can't really put up a big battle though, so here's some monster spawns, and you have to time stepping into that slipgate.
The bossfights in Doom could be slight letdowns, but at least they were battles, the monsters would engage you in battle.
In ep1, the barons were new, in ep2, the Cyber was new, in ep3 the Spider was new, that made them special.
Imagine if there was 3-4 barons in KDITD, and then the boss of that episode is another pair of barons, there's no novelty, and that's why two vores as a boss was such an incredible letdown, at least Shub Niggurath was unique and stood out, even though it ultimately felt like they tried to do Icon Of Sin but different.
I love the world and setting of Q1, and really wish they would have revisited that, with a clearer plan and with time to do it, Q2 was made with a concept in mind and was a finished game, and feels much more varied and complete, like they did what they set out to do, unlike Q1.
Also, Quake 2 was going to have a different name and no relation to Quake 1, but they couldn't get the rights to the name they wanted, so they said fuck it and just called it Quake 2 as release drew closer.
Kind of wish they would have gotten the name they actually wanted, so that the games were differentiated and the idea of doing a sequel to Quake wouldn't have been superceeded by the rest of the series.
Can you picture a game like Quake but with more maps, more enemies per level (though I realize the low monster count was because computers at the time could only handle so much), better bossfights, and just... more?
I mean, it IS a result of not being able to do what you were gonna do, but I think the final concept was really kickass and it should have been explored further.
If you don't think that 3 brought the series to perfection you're a hipster fedora faggot.
>>2718070
He quite literally got the job as Quake 2's music guy by sending a CD full of Quake 1-derived tracks and mentioning he would work cheap. He sold himself as NIN's non-union Mexican equivalent, and he even put this story on his website if you think I'm lying.
And if you think NIN doesn't have heavy guitar tracks you aren't familiar with his work at all.
>>2714312
Hey /vr/, I'm trying to catch up on some games I missed when I was younger, mostly because my PC's always lagged behind and couldn't handle much.
I started playing Quake 2, expecting some sort of a thrilling masterpiece, but was really disappointed to find mostly brown and bland industrial-themed levels, unsatisfying weapons, fairly simple enemies and straightforward combat. It has great sound design (I listen to the OST when I drive now), the super shotgun feels fantastic and quad + SS against a room of enemies is a power trip, but there's not much else. After ~2-3 hours it really didn't grab me anymore, I got bored and stopped and didn't resume yet.
I'm constantly playing SOME fast-paced FPS (currently Quake Live, Reflex, Ziggurat), and I don't care a lot about graphics, so it's hard for me to blame my age or standards. Am I doing something wrong here? What's the major appeal of the game for you?
Now I'm not sure I want to try the original Quake, for fear that I'll spoil myself another classic, although I've been told they're not quite similar.
>>2718538
>I started playing Quake 2, expecting some sort of a thrilling masterpiece, but was really disappointed to find mostly brown and bland industrial-themed levels, unsatisfying weapons, fairly simple enemies and straightforward combat.
There you go. Quake 2 in a nutshell, well done. By the way, make sure you're playing with Quake 2's CD soundtrack enabled because it does make the game better.
>Now I'm not sure I want to try the original Quake, for fear that I'll spoil myself another classic, although I've been told they're not quite similar.
It's much, much better. This board is fucking gay. I don't even know what happened, /vr/ always shat on Quake 2 before, especially in those brief Quake general thread experiments we had. Maybe the demographic changed, Idk.
>>2718421
>never too frustrating
Not him but remember the cultists that could one shot you with a stick of dynamite? You can't say that wasn't frustrating.
Also the rats and hands are some of the most frustrating enemies I've fought in FPS games.
>>2718538
Personally I went in Quake expecting a masterpiece and was a bit disappointed, but maybe that's because I was fresh off of DOOM and expected more crazy battles and awesome enemies.
Quake felt a lot slower and simpler for me, and the enemies didn't really feel as satisfying to fight. Weapons also felt a bit lackluster.
But that's just my opinion, I know some people love it more than DOOM, so.
>>2718546
>/vr/ always shat on Quake 2 before
Maybe people are looking at Q2 for it's own merits?
Personally, I think theyveach do things the orther just isn't quite good at.
The design of Q1s monsters was fantastic, but Q2 had a way bigger and more varied enemy roster.
>>2718421
No, you shut the fuck up NESfag. You've had your ass handed to you MULTIPLE times in Quake threads with your "enemy placement is unfair" bullshit, especially when your counter-argument is some variant of "well they didn't do that in Doom!" as if Doom isn't the poster child of the "enemies teleport into a narrow corridor and you take guaranteed damage" aesthetic.
Gimme three examples of Quake's supposed enemy placement bullshit. You never have in all the times I've asked you to actually PROVE your dumb shit. Prove it now or get the fuck out of all the FPS threads forever because I know I'm not the only one who's absolutely sick of your shitposting you fat french dickhead.
>>2718195
>Err everyone used gamespy 3d. No one used Kali.
Well, mostly correct. Some people used Kali. Irrelevant. Gamespy was shit. If you think that line of arguing is worth continuing go back to /v/.
>Also, 80 ping on a 56k is a lie.
Nope. Commentary dismissed because you're wrong and also can't read.
>And the term is HPB.
I never used a term to reference an individuals ping as a class of player. There's no term that needs to be considered here. Fuck off with your pretend ecreds you read about.
>You embarrass me.
Let me play the worlds smallest violin for you. Link to /v/ is at the top and bottom don't let us hold you back.
>>2719056
Lol how was gamespy shit. You found a server and joined in. Do you want msn zone style chat rooms? You could configure gamespy to run nitro proxy etc. What's the gap it's not filling?
56k 80 ping is hilarious. Many had winmodems too. I pinged around 70 with ISDN.
Pretend ecreds rather sounds like you projecting. It was a glorious time, you missed out.
>>2718264
> but are kind of an improvement over Q1 arsenal.
>Q1 axe vs Q2 blaster torch
>blah blah blah blah... Q2's gun has shit rof and damage output - but it's accurate (and slow as fuck so that doesn't matter at all)
>never bring up actual balance issues.
>Q1 vs Q2 shotguns
Let me also not examine the balance of the weapons but instead compare them between two games instead. Congrats on recognizing the games are different. When you want to discuss balance, feel free to start until them you might want to understand that how a game is balanced is across it's own game in it's own weapon, world and mechanics not against other games. We can compare whether games are balanced in comparison in eachother but we can't directly compare distinct things like shotgun or starting weapons because you're comparing completely different contexts and roles.
So I guess... whatever, there's nothing I can add to your post which basically had no point other than suggesting you like Q2 weapons. So have fun with your Q2 weapons with shitty balance.
>>2719042
>shut the fuck up
>Gimme three examples
How about you first decide what you want the guy to do and only then you post?
>get the fuck out of all the FPS threads forever because I know I'm not the only one who's absolutely sick
Sure you are not. But there are also people here who would like to hear what the guy has to say. Preferably in somewhat civil manner, while having a discussion instead of your favorite name calling and caps-lock shouting. You want a place you can yell at people for having different opinion from yours, go ahead and start your own forum/boardchan. But I think you'll find yourself alone there in just few weeks.
Some people like Q2 over Q1. Deal with it.
>>2718313
>sure it's convenient to have guns switch immediately, but it makes picking the correct gun for the battle matter less
That's the opposite of what it does. The only time that's an issue is speedrunning. Because you don't pick the battles typically, you would stumble into them. Thus faster weapon switching allows you to decide which weapon is appropriate for a situation rather than which weapon you're already fucked into having and will potentially cause a situation to be worse.
For example If I instantly drop two shamblers in front and in back of you with say a limited divided cover and you have a rocket launcher selected and the switching is slow - you're pretty much guaranteed to take a hit. If you have faster weapon switching, realizing what they are and the position, you could block your backside from one while switching to a shaft or lightning and take down the second with stunlock before taking the first. You didn't get a choice in which weapon to bring to the battle, you only get a choice of which weapon to always carry in front of you. Likewise you could say, just bring the lightning gun then, and then I spawn thirty little guys in two squads where the rocket launcher could take out whole groups instead of the prior example and you have the same problem. With fast weapon switching you don't. You get to actually react with the proper weapon for a proper situation. Slower weapon switching forces you to either tough shit out or often take unnecessary damage for holding a potentially reasonable weapon in an otherwise unknown situation.
>>2719078
I get your argument, but instantly spawning enemies just don't exist in Q2 and most of the time you know what you will be going against - if not from seeing enemies trough cracks in walls, windows etc. then from hearing them (there is a reason why flying enemies produce proper engine humming and lazorhounds, that lurk in shadow most often, tap their metal paws nervously). Also, you choose what weapon to carry in hand not only according to enemy type, but environment too. Given all that information you can choose your approach style and tools, not only react to what pops from shadows when you turn the corner.
>>2719063
>It was a glorious time, you missed out.
Sounds like someone else is projecting, because I sure as fuck didn't miss shit.
Like I said, 80 ping - I'm not asking you if it was possible, I'm not comparing against yours, I'm stating a fucking fact. Latency isn't fucking bandwidth, though there is a correlation of effect with usage/CPU as well. It depends on various factors as well as ISP. Not every had 80 ping as it was uncommon for modems but still you know, you still can't fucking read so good job there guy.
>What's the gap it's not filling?
Illiteracy apparently. If you're not interesting in reading what I posted then don't bother fucking responding to what I post, no one is forcing you to be here and reply to everything.
>>2719107
>I get your argument, but instantly spawning enemies just don't exist in Q2 and most of the time you know what you will be going against
Well, actually they do, but less common. Also, the speed of an enemy moves and reacts matters as well. While Q2 plays slower and most enemies you come across are slower as well so it's less of an issue. The point still stands on it's own. Slower weapon switching speed is largely worse - though less impactful the slower the entire game is - but it's way more impactful if it's only the player that's slow or limited in movement against faster enemies.
>>2719078
you're applying Q2 mechanics into Q1, that's silly
Q2 doesn't have an ambush on every corner that is also somehow always unfavorable to the currently drawn weapon
>>2719125
>you're applying Q2 mechanics into Q1, that's silly
No.
I'm applying weapon switching speed to FPS games with weapon switching - which is essentially all of them. I'm explaining how they effect gameplay.
Though I could also note that slow weapon speed as well is just boring as fuck anyway and makes games unfun for those of us already accustomed to playing FPS games where we're already three steps ahead of what's going on just waiting for the game to catch up in a tedious fashion.
how do you even play quake with quakespasm?
I'm waiting for some Heretic mods to release and in the meantime I'd like to try Quake, does it work like Doom where you need .wads or something similar or do I need an actual copy of the game?
>>2719042
>"enemies teleport into a narrow corridor and you take guaranteed damage"
I don't think Doom 1 does this.
Well maybe somewhere in E4, as that episode is stacked against the player pretty hard and gives way less breathing room, but that episode was added after the fact when Doom 2 came out.
I don't think Doom 2 does it.
Final Doom probably does it.
>>2719732
I hate Atari.
>>2714312
Quake 1 because its straight forward for co-op and DM sessions. Funny this thread is up because I play Q4A multiplayer frequently with some friends on our Shields and we just got off.
>>2714712
i can handle ogres.
remember those bouncy blobs of exploding death that are nigh impossible to hit?
Both are completely different games. iD themselves have said it was supposed to be called something else, but the name they wanted was trademarked. Then they were told to whack it under the quake name to get more name recognition
>>2718268
>Q1 LG is just too different from Q2 arsenal
That's because you're comparing the wrong weapons. Lightning gun = chaingun, super nailgun = hyperblaster.
>>2719725
>does it work like Doom where you need .wads
Those wads are almost all of what makes Doom 'Doom'. You have Doom, and without it you could not play Doom with any source port.
So logically for Quake:
>do I need an actual copy of the game?
Yes. You need id1/pak0.pak and id1/pak1.pak which means you need Quake to play Quake with anything.
>>2720182
>remember those bouncy blobs of exploding death that are nigh impossible to hit?
no you just fucking suck.
keep your aim straight and shot steady, run back in the line they're coming at you from and shoot. even without auto aim (i always play with sv_aim 2) they'll just jump into your line of fire.
quake hitboxes are also fucking gigantic ffs
>>2720302
It's not like they're impossible to deal with, anon is greatly exaggerating, but they're pretty damn annoying.
Personally, I don't play with auto aim in any game if I can.
>>2719727
>I don't think Doom 2 does it.
Tricks and Traps opens an entire wall of chaingunners at you. It would be fine on a first time playthrough if you could change weapons quickly (like Quake 1/3) but it takes an hour to change weapons on top of it. In that case the best would be BFG, which also takes a while to finally shoot.
>Final Doom probably does it.
Final Doom has quite a few cheap traps. M3 Aztec for instance spawns archviles and other shit right in your face and even closes the path behind you so you can't escape. It does this twice on that map alone. Again it would be fine if you could switch weapons faster but you can't. This still doesn't however change the fact that Plutonia is easily the best original iwads. Just because it has rare cheap moments doesn't mean the rest of the game doesn't make the best use of monsters and level design by far out of the original wads. Best gameplay dynamics and it's always engaging to replay. Most people on /vr/ don't get this because they're plebs.
I hate that Doom weapon switching is slow as balls. It doesn't really matter for Doom 1 or 2 (apart from the fact that it unneededly slows down gameplay), but in fan made megawads like Scythe 2 where the game spawns a metric fucktonne of enemies at you without warning it 100% requires prior map knowledge. The optimum strategy in these maps on first playthrough is to have the plasma rifle equipped most of the time. BFG will use too much ammo and takes a while to shoot. Plasma rifle is the second most powerful and will dominate formidable trap situations but you still don't have to be too wasteful if it turns out to be only a few fags. It still however won't be appropriate in circumstances where a ridiculous amount of enemies are immediately spawned everywhere and you wish you had the BFG out instead (as it will take too long to switch to it and finally shoot before you're dead and fucked).
>>2720319 continued
Quake is made for you to switch weapons to more powerful ones instantly. People that then complain that it's cheap are dumb. You're supposed to immediately switch to weapons you need to dominate the situations efficiently (and the first shot you hit will also make the enemies flinch) - that's why the game is so fucking good and dynamic, encouraging you to go more and more aggro every time - while Quake 2 is just constant (SLOW AS FUCK) cover based combat vs hitscanners and boring, larger, slow bullet sponge enemies that hardly move. Also all Quake enemies will at least make a noise before attacking you, giving you a chance to escape/react. Somehow NESfag gives Quake shit for 'right angled enemies' that give you a warning before attacking (and aren't even hitscan) but Blood gets a pass for constantly pitting you against right angled, high damage cultists that shoot nearly instantly and without warning if you're head onto them. His reasoning isn't logical.
>>2720324 continued
Quake does have one or two moments I'd call cheap on first run where it spawns a shambler right in front of your face e.g. E1M6. 3 or so cheap moments tops in an entire campaign of three episodes is hardly a big deal. It's not like the other old school shooters didn't also pull crap comparable to this. Besides, if you can't handle the heat, turn down the fucking difficulty. Quake encourages fast movement and reflexes and using the right weapon for the right job, often switching multiple times for a single room encounter. Quake 2 encourages zzz. Boring, slow as fuck cover based combat or circle strafing with its sludgy slow movement speed, the same fucking thing the entire way through. There's not a single moment in Quake 2 that makes me go "Wow. What an awesome little fight that was" because it literally doesn't have any. Hell it gets even more boring as the levels go on and get larger (and emptier) with just one or two easy bullet sponges in wide open spaces, while Quake never loses its sense of intense, high-action, claustrophobic encounters.
>>2719042
>You never have in all the times I've asked you to actually PROVE your dumb shit.
Maybe because I don't feel like responding to mindless insults?
But okay
>Gimme three examples of Quake's supposed enemy placement bullshit.
I'll do that. I have a few specific examples in mind, I don't remember the name of the levels but using level warp cheats I should be able to find them easily. I just got back from working 4 hours under heavy downpour and I've got to go shop groceries now, so I'll do that, but later today, in a few hours.
>muh jump and shoot
>muh platform in FPS form
>muh aggro n speed
>muh non-story
Q1 fags are literally children who like loud and shiny things
>>2720474
>using "muh"
>not a literal child from /v/
>>2720479
I'll take /v/-core any day over the Japanese arcade-tier rocketjumpfest that is Q1. Not sure you can even call it a game tbh, it's more like an exercise in gameplay mechanics.
>>2720487
>Japanese arcade-tier
That sounds far better than any FPS I've ever played.
For some reasons the level warp command is kinda of glitchy, it doesn't work more often than it does, so this is a pain in the ass.
Maybe someone knows what's up with that? I'm using Darkplaces. Steam version.
I have a feeling that no matter what I say you're just going to say "lol you suck", but here is an example in E2M6 anyway. You take this elevator and arrive in a tight corridor with in your face a Ogre on your right and a fiend on your left. There is no way there is any space to maneuver for either of them and you're going to get fucked hard unless you know the enemies are there. You can't even use the elevator to go back down in hope to buy some time as the thing is too slow - and most likely you'd get hit by a grenade anyway.
Just around the corner there are FOUR death knights in a tight room. This place is so tight, four death knights is just insane and you have nowhere to go.
Now if we had to translate this to another game, it would be as in DN3D you'd put a commander behind a door between 2 tight corridors; followed by 4 newbeasts in a small room with hardly any way to maneuver.
This is an example that I consider heavy bullshit there - but just looking around each map in fly mode, it strikes obvious to me how enemies are almost always used in ways where they have the biggest advantages possible on the player. Like you know, Ogres always high up, where they can easily throw grenades at you but it's hard for the player to get a shot; Shamblers in tight rooms (sometimes with not even a single pillar or corner to cover!), etc. I know a game has to be challenge the player, but then there is bullshit.
Only the grunts seem to be free from "fuck you" placements.
There is another example I have in mind if the game will let me warp to the right map...
>>2720373
>spout utter inanity like you wrote the gospel of FPS
>getting asked to prove your argument multiple times is "mindless insults"
Could you be any more conceited?
This one right here, E1M6. You fall down in the middle of this room - surrounded by lava - nowhere to go, and you have 3 Ogres shooting grenades at you instantly before you even have time to realize how many there are and where they are. A path opens up, yeah right : stairs leading DOWN, where the grenades also go...
There is no way you'd get through this without getting hit in an unfair way unless of course you already know the level and where the enemies are.
You know, in the room above, just before this one, there is a +100HP powerup. This is no excuse for bullshit and it's typical of Quake's gameplay policy : the game thinks it can put as much shit as it wants as long as it "makes up" for it by giving you powerups or strong weapons.
This is not how I believe good gameplay works. I've been used to have a very strict sort of "arcade" policy with a co-op friend and I; in some of the games we'd play a lot and learn to master, we'd quit the current play if we'd ever lose a single life.
If you get hit, it means the player played badly.
Now though - if the games forces you to get hit one way or another, or if it has bullshit gameplay situations in which there is no way you have time to react, situations where twitch and skill doesn't matter and the only thing that matters is prior knowledge of the game, then it's the game which sucks.
This is why I'd rather play Q2 and some of its boring stuff >>2718313
>>2720516
I've never said I'm all-knowledge FPS guru. I'm voicing my opinion, which is you know the point of this thread; and I'm taking the time and effort to back it up with examples, too.
You're trying to put words in my mouth and make me seem 'bad' just because you disagree.
And here is a third because I was asked 3 examples.
This one isn't as BS as the other two and falls down more into the category of 'traps' (as in level, architecture base traps); but traps are also part of what makes me dislike Q1's gameplay.
So you get to the bottom of this room, a dead end with a switch. It's not a very big room and you're at the end of it, there is lava in the middle too so the only way you can go is where you came from.
Press the switch and you'll have several Ogres starting to bomb you while a Death Knight is already almost next to you.
With no way to maneuver but in direction of the shots - no matter how skilled you are, it's almost impossible to get through this without get hit, unless again, you already know the level and the enemy placement.
>>2720539
>You know, in the room above, just before this one, there is a +100HP powerup. This is no excuse for bullshit and it's typical of Quake's gameplay policy : the game thinks it can put as much shit as it wants as long as it "makes up" for it by giving you powerups or strong weapons.
>This is not how I believe good gameplay works. I've been used to have a very strict sort of "arcade" policy with a co-op friend and I; in some of the games we'd play a lot and learn to master, we'd quit the current play if we'd ever lose a single life.
>If you get hit, it means the player played badly.
>Now though - if the games forces you to get hit one way or another, or if it has bullshit gameplay situations in which there is no way you have time to react, situations where twitch and skill doesn't matter and the only thing that matters is prior knowledge of the game, then it's the game which sucks.
I'm quoting this because this is important to understand how I see video games, and therefore why I think Q1 has bad gameplay.
Tons of players think that "it's fine" when a game forces you to get hit as long as it "makes up" for it one way or another. For instance, Duke Nukem 3D, my favourite FPS game. First thing you do is fall down that vent and take dmg - the game makes up for it by putting a health pack just where the player lands. Now I consider this bad.
If you don't have a problem with that, if you can take bullshit as long as it's "made up for", then half of the problems I have with Quake aren't problems for you.
>>2720539
calm down it's just a game qt ;)
OK, you actually posted what you consider proof. I'm going to lead off by chiding you for considering ogres to be difficult enemies to outmaneuver since the strafe function completely negates their grenade attack and remind you that they pre-alert players to their presence with sound cues you can hear for quite some distance away.
As for your specific examples, I'll tackle them head on.
>>2720494
Stop attacking both enemies head on right away. You're already aware that you're in a tight corridor (which still gives enough room to sidestep both the grenades AND the fiend) and you only trigger the fiend by advancing into his line of sight - this wouldn't happen if you just deal with the ogre first.
Yeah, there are 4 death knights. And when the ogre and the fiend are dead, you can fight them one at a time with all the extra room to backpedal with. Also the quantity isn't an issue because they're behind 3 different corners and it's nearly impossible to fight all four at once because at least one of them is standing in the hallway that leads to the rest.
>>2720539
You can see and hear all of those ogres ahead of time by looking down through the floor above's grates. You can also see the area you'll land on ahead of time through the gaping pit you eventually jump through. And you subverted the example entirely when you correctly managed to remember that you can just run down the stairs that open and bypass having to fight the ogres from that location entirely. I see no problem with how this is laid out and cannot come around to whatever point you're trying to make here.
>>2720541
OK, so you really when ogres arrive, clearly. Now I really AM starting to think I can use the "you just suck" argument here because this is ANOTHER example where there's plenty of room that you can't seem to use properly. That death knight is not "nearly next" to you, he spawns behind the grate, and is vulnerable to being shot as soon as you push that button.
>>2720563
Alternatively, you can hop the gap over the lava, run back up the stairs and deal with things one a time. You also aren't in range of the ogres when you push that button, you failed to mention. Well, I know that, and I suspect you knew that too because they have a limited range and spawn well outside of it. Your range as a player is anywhere you can look, theirs is limited by how far they shoot their grenades, which is frequently either way outside of range, or so close when they ARE in range that sidestepping causes the grenades to bounce harmlessly behind the player.
>>2720548
I can read just fine, thanks. You hate that there's a powerup before a spot that punishes inattentiveness. That's great, believe me, those luxuries disappear after episode 2, where there isn't any hand-holding. There's exactly, EXACTLY, ONE instance of guaranteed damage in all of Quake 1, which we all know what it is because you hate environmental interactivity and never fail to bring it up whenever it suits your purpose. But as you've said, Duke does the exact same thing, so it's not fine that Quake does it, but you're willing to call it a misstep when Duke does it. Well tough shit, it's a misstep when Quake did it too, then and therefore, excusable.
You're not a very good Quake player, this is the impression I'm getting here. But you don't get to act like the game is the problem when I don't have any of these maneuverability problems like you do. You're inattentive and don't pay attention to sound cues, every monster in Quake except for the peeny little death knights that go down in two shotgun blasts give away their positions via sound. Are you just trying to set speedrun records your first time out and YOLOing your way through everything because this is the same fucking argument we've had three times before.
>>2720563
>Now I really AM starting to think I can use the "you just suck" argument
Yeah well, that is pretty much the idea of your entire post.
I can play just fine thank you, I know this is not a very good "skill calculator" but, just to give an idea, I beat every "single player" level of Q3A on "Nightmare" difficulty. When I was 12. So I can aim and move just fine, and it's not like Quake's enemy patterns are any hard to learn.
I still believe you wouldn't get out of any of these situations without getting hit on your first play(s); and I still believe it's not a problem only because you know the game really well now. Even some of your explanations on how to go through these 3 examples pretty much sound like you have to know each precise step to take to go out of the situations safely, and which one might even only have time to perform when he already knows the game. Quake is a fast game. Having such situations in which the player is expected to perform several split-second and perfectly stepped movements in a row in small rooms is asking too much of him (and can also shorten gameplay possibilities)
>But as you've said, Duke does the exact same thing, so it's not fine that Quake does it, but you're willing to call it a misstep when Duke does it
I said I thought it was bad in Duke. Now the thing is, Duke doesn't do it often. On top of my head I can't even think of a second example. While I feel like most of Q1's gameplay is based on the principle that throwing as much shit as possible at the player is fine as long as it's "made up for" one way or another.
>>2714887
I love your anger, and can't disagree with your point. Quake 1 blows the follow-ups out of the water in terms of tension, design, replayability and atmoshpere - if not only the vanilla game but the two brilliant addons as well.
Personaly, i've always thought that Quake weapons are really handicapped, especially after Doom ones, and deliberately made that way to make the game harder.
>Axe
Well, that's pretty much your standard #1 which is just here to remember that if you ran out of ammo in a game like that then probably you need to play something else
>Shotgun
Way too underpowered even for the standard mid-90s #2.
>SSG
Only effective at point blank range, anything else = easily 10 shells to kill an ogre.
>Nailgun
The combination of rate of fire, projecticle speed, damage and ammo quantity make it an ultimate ammo waster
>Launcher
Sees a very limited use due to design
>Thunderbolt
Overpowered end-game thing that needs to be balanced with small ammo amount on levels
>SNG, RL
These two are actually work as intended
