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KaizerDan
05-03-2009, 08:30 PM
My bro just sent me a link to this site, It says its a beta, but Im on Windows 7 and have Mozilla firefox and it runs just fine! Just gotta go to www.quakelive.com

You download a small pluging and you are able to join in on the awesomeness that once was quake 3
Joe Average
05-03-2009, 08:39 PM
Whaddya mean "once was..." as Quake 3 will rule forever... ;)
topslop1
05-03-2009, 08:48 PM
add me up - topslop1
KaizerDan
05-03-2009, 08:52 PM
Whaddya mean "once was..." as Quake 3 will rule forever... ;)

True, it is a fantastic fast pace first person shooter(say that three times fast) but doesnt have as big of a player base as it used to : ( still you can always find a game type with players in it on that site! FFA madness!
LuminaryJanitor
05-03-2009, 09:50 PM
It's just not the same without the gore...
Prim3
05-03-2009, 10:31 PM
It's just not the same without the gore...

Same for most pros since most of them make it look like lego land. My config ends up the same way.
kuyaglen
05-03-2009, 11:06 PM
Well thanks for the tip. Here is another one...

SEARCH

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1396978&highlight=live
KaizerDan
05-03-2009, 11:41 PM
Hmm, I didnt see it under the new free games sticky and such so this is just a recent reminder or for anyone who missed it in that case : )
thread can be closed or deleted for less clutter
4saken
05-04-2009, 07:01 AM
Hmm, I didnt see it under the new free games sticky and such so this is just a recent reminder or for anyone who missed it in that case : )
thread can be closed or deleted for less clutter

or the 50 million other threads about quake live over the past year+. btw, just lock the thread if u dont want anymore replies.
YeOldeStonecat
05-04-2009, 08:15 AM
Been playing since it started....past several years been so much into the Battlefield series...'42/DC/Vietnam, not BF2 so much....but man, it's great to get back to some fast paced fraggin!

Amazing how they have this running through a browser plugin.
Bigbacon
05-04-2009, 08:21 AM
Been playing since it started....past several years been so much into the Battlefield series...'42/DC/Vietnam, not BF2 so much....but man, it's great to get back to some fast paced fraggin!

Amazing how they have this running through a browser plugin.

thats because Carmack is God....

Guy can make anything. Hell, Quake 1 still runs on any machine you throw it on, how many other games out there barely work anymore because of Vista/7??
spindoctor
05-04-2009, 08:33 AM
Whaddya mean "once was..." as Quake 3 will rule forever... ;)

QFT! Quake 3 is and will remain the pinnacle of deathmatching.
4saken
05-04-2009, 09:48 AM
Been playing since it started....past several years been so much into the Battlefield series...'42/DC/Vietnam, not BF2 so much....but man, it's great to get back to some fast paced fraggin!

Amazing how they have this running through a browser plugin.

Its not really. They are just using the plugin to download the actual game to your hard drive. So technically its installed and running like any other app you have.
Just the plugin is controlling it.
YeOldeStonecat
05-04-2009, 11:32 AM
Its not really. They are just using the plugin to download the actual game to your hard drive. So technically its installed and running like any other app you have.
Just the plugin is controlling it.

It's quite a bit smaller, if I'm really really really REALLY bored I'll install Q3 from the CD and compare directory sizes 'n .PAK files....but I'll bet a case of Guinness that the QL is much smaller.

I don't recall the original game playing it inside of my browser.
YeOldeStonecat
05-04-2009, 11:35 AM
thats because Carmack is God....

Guy can make anything. Hell, Quake 1 still runs on any machine you throw it on,

The game that got me hooked on FPS. Real 3D environment...which up until then the other popular games such as Duke Nukem 2 1/2 D, or Doom..didn't have.

Oh the endless nights playing on the internet via dial up modem until the sun came up.

And then....3Dfx had to go release that VooDoo card...make us spend 300 bucks on it (yeah baby..4 megs of video RAM)...and GLQuake came out. The first time I fired up GLQuake..and stared at the laval balls shooting up and down....my jaw dropped.
Khaos Kid
05-04-2009, 11:07 PM
Damn, and to think that about a year ago I re-bought Q3 through Steam. :o
inotocracy
05-04-2009, 11:17 PM
Where have you been? Quakelive is, like, well known.
Zellio2009
05-05-2009, 12:17 AM
Wow, this post is as new and revolutionary as the typewriter.
Killa_2327
05-05-2009, 12:29 AM
I do love Q3 but I wish QuakeLive would of been a Quakeworld remake instead, so much faster...:)