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I just realized that I've never played the original Quake. What I was thinking was Quake was actually Quake II. Hmm. Might be time to correct that.
I keep a super-modded Darkplaces install on my rig at all times
I bought the whole Quake series on Steam a few years ago. I was surprised Quake 1 did not come with the soundtrack. Does anyone know how to get ahold of it? I paid for the game doesn't that technically mean I own that music?
I play Quakeworld dm4 duels almost every day, though it's only against the bots because you can't find people to play against. The game is still unmatched and nothing has come close to the experience it delivers.
I've been considering playing the new Doom when it comes out, so recently I've been playing a bit of Quake 3 to get used to the slow pace. What's instantly noticeable when you switch from Quakeworld to Quake 3 is how utterly shit Quake 3 is. While Quakeworld has ultra responsive control, Quake 3 feels like you're in control of a sack of potatoes. You have to drag yourself around the map instead of moving with speed and precision.
The problem with Quake is that very few people actually get it. Even at its peak there were probably only 200 people in Europe who played duels, and most of them weren't very good. Day after day you'd play against the same set of people. Sometimes a CTF or FFA player would come on to the duel server, get slaughtered 50 to -5 and then never come back. This meant that the duel community remained very small.
Despite being heavily dumbed down Quake 3 had the same problem, and there were very few regular duelists so you'd play against the same people every day. The fact that nobody has tried to make a modern version of Quake's 1on1 duel mode is a testament to what a niche game it is (well 2GD has been trying but not making much progress).
Quake duels are the ultimate in competitive gaming, but sadly most people don't want highly competitive games and instead play CouterStrike, Call of Duty, Halo and other no-skill trash. There's simply no market for a high-skill shooter and it looks like there'll never be a replacement for Quake.
I bought the whole Quake series on Steam a few years ago. I was surprised Quake 1 did not come with the soundtrack. Does anyone know how to get ahold of it? I paid for the game doesn't that technically mean I own that music?
I bought the whole Quake series on Steam a few years ago. I was surprised Quake 1 did not come with the soundtrack. Does anyone know how to get ahold of it? I paid for the game doesn't that technically mean I own that music?
Quake 3 CPMA is the closest you can get to QW, it's a lot faster pace than vanilla Q3. There's also Quake Live, which has PQL (similar to CPMA).
I think you're pretty off base calling CS a no-skill trash game. Have you ever actually played competitive CS? It takes a tremendous amount of skill to be a high tier player, it's just a completely different type of challenge compared to QW.
Here you go. I've downloaded the files, but haven't tried them yet. Quake HD says it includes the soundtrack though.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=119489135
For simplicity sake, I converted the soundtrack into a pk3 file you just toss in your ID1 directory.
I'd share it, but I'm not certain of the legalities involved
After listening to the sound files downloaded from the links above, I discovered that those sound are already in this mod. I didn't realize that the background atmospheric noises were really the soundtrack.
Quake Live is subscription now though. :\
I play Quakeworld dm4 duels almost every day, though it's only against the bots because you can't find people to play against. The game is still unmatched and nothing has come close to the experience it delivers.
I've been considering playing the new Doom when it comes out, so recently I've been playing a bit of Quake 3 to get used to the slow pace. What's instantly noticeable when you switch from Quakeworld to Quake 3 is how utterly shit Quake 3 is. While Quakeworld has ultra responsive control, Quake 3 feels like you're in control of a sack of potatoes. You have to drag yourself around the map instead of moving with speed and precision.
The problem with Quake is that very few people actually get it. Even at its peak there were probably only 200 people in Europe who played duels, and most of them weren't very good. Day after day you'd play against the same set of people. Sometimes a CTF or FFA player would come on to the duel server, get slaughtered 50 to -5 and then never come back. This meant that the duel community remained very small.
Despite being heavily dumbed down Quake 3 had the same problem, and there were very few regular duelists so you'd play against the same people every day. The fact that nobody has tried to make a modern version of Quake's 1on1 duel mode is a testament to what a niche game it is (well 2GD has been trying but not making much progress).
Quake duels are the ultimate in competitive gaming, but sadly most people don't want highly competitive games and instead play CouterStrike, Call of Duty, Halo and other no-skill trash. There's simply no market for a high-skill shooter and it looks like there'll never be a replacement for Quake.
I've been generally more on the Wolfenstein side of things though. I really enjoyed playing RTCW on my Xbox, and I played it on PC as well, before playing Wolfenstein ET for years and years (off and on). I wish Wolfenstein ET would get an infusion of new players, because it really was a great MP experience. With the flexible modding system, it also had almost unlimited amounts of levels and objectives. I'm just sad the community died out like it did.
I remember buying the Quake demo on CD at Computer Boutique at Southcenter Mall in Tacoma, WA so that I could play it. Yes, you had to buy some demos way back then as dial up based downloads from your local BBS or ISP were slower than hell.
I bought that same disc back in '96.
If you called the 800 number to buy the full version, they'd give you a serial key over the phone and it would unlock the full game (which was already on the demo disc).
Least that's how it was for my copy....
I originally played Quake on a Micron Pentium 90, 16MB of RAM, some Diamond Stealth card, 17 inch CRT, on Windows 95. And yes, it was a ridiculous machine back in 7th grade. My fam's first rig since the old IBM PS/2.... I think it cost something stupid like five grand lol
Tried as I might, I couldn't convince my parents to snag me an OG Voodoo card.
Tore that rig apart 3ish years later, threw in an AMD K6-2 300, 32MB of RAM, and an STB Velocity 128. It wasn't top of the line but still, pretty damn sweet.
Finally built my first rig from scratch with my own money at 17 and never looked back. (Duron 700, 256 SDRAM, Geforce 2 GTS 32MB, SB Live)
What? No comments on Kyle's setup? Two Titan's? 6TB of spinny drives and nearly 2TB of SSD? 32GB of mem?
Geez!
Very nice! Does Q3 count?