Is Quake II worth picking up? I have the first one but never played the others
I wish I could go back and play it again for the first time. It was one of the first games I played after getting my first voodoo card. It felt like I was experiencing the bleeding edge of tech.
Thinking about it, i can't remeber a time in the last decade that a game made me feel that way. Crysis was probably the last time.
More on topic, yes everyone should own it. I think I bought a steam or GOG bundle and got all the doom and quake games for like $5-$10 or something like that.
I remember getting a Voodoo card specifically to play Quake II as one of the first hardware 3D games. Isn’t it the one where at the beginning you get out of a crashed rocket or something like that?
Thinking about it, i can't remeber a time in the last decade that a game made me feel that way. Crysis was probably the last time.
Some games that did it for me recently:
Messing around with VR gave me that sense of wonder again for a while. If you ever get the chance to play around with it i recommend it
II is epic. It's a total must if that's your thing. It literally set the standard. Ok, well Q1 did, but II, what a treat.
I started playing yesterday and couldn't let go.
I don’t like it nearly as much as the first but it’s definitely worth a pickup. Still better than the vast majority of boomer shooters that have come out in the past 8 or so years. The remaster is well done.
I never quite liked it as much as 1 or even 3, but it was genre defining back when it was new. People give a lot of praise for what Half-Life did for FPS, but Quake 2 did a lot of what Half-Life made popular, before Half-Life (by a year). It was also the first game, IIRC, to introduce reloading as a mechanic.
I don't know if the whole game is worth playing but the intro alone was pretty groundbreaking for its time. Or well, one can just watch on youtube I suppose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJoOViakt3I
Absolutely blew me away back when it came out.
I wonder if mods still work with the remastered version.
Oh the days of deathmatch on Lithium II servers.
The move to 64-bit and some changes to the API broke many mods. This release is to make it possible for those mods to be updated.
If they don’t work yet, than this release means anyone can go ahead and make them work.
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