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Quake II - Official Trailer (2023) (www.youtube.com)
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[–] whataboutshutup@discuss.online 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I loved Q1 and custom maps Machinehead (devs behind new Wolfenstein) added to it, but Q2 is fucking boring. Like, really, besides the cool engine, it was just a slow and unimpressive bullshit. Not a Doom 2 level of making a comeback. What I disliked the most, besides irritating enemies, is backtracking to previous maps. It could've been shown as creating a consistent world across maps, but in the end it's just bad design.

I suggest to those reading it to take Q1 instead. Surprisingly, the remastered version runs on Linux without problems. As do many engines created by fans' community. It's just better.

[–] jasondj@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I turned 10 in 1995, and had a decent (for the time) gaming PC. Quake, and Quake 2, were a huge part of my childhood.

I’d agree that Q1 is probably the better game all-in-all, especially for single-player. But for internet multiplayer, Q2 was genre-defining. It was the fast-paced arena FPS by which literally all games were compared until like UT2003.

[–] whataboutshutup@discuss.online 3 points 1 year ago

I'd say UT'99 got it earlier than UT2003-2004, with it's amazing OST and commentators alone.

But yep, Q2 was better in MP. That's why, maybe, they designed Q3 as a multiplayer-only game after that.

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