Seeing how the remaster added muzzle flash, and made the berzerkers a real threat, makes me think Nightdive watched this video.

Appreciate you mentioning my work. However Trent didn't decline because he didn't liked it. He was too busy. When I started talking to id they had no idea what or who they wanted at first. Only after submitting our demo, they wanted to go the metal route.

Civvie 11: "The Beserkers are like kittens, they're harmless."

Quake 2 Remaster: "Um yeah, about that..."

Wow. 17 years later and some of those lousy HD retextures I made as a kid are still floating around. Memory lane for sure. Not sure if I should be happy or horrified.

The idea that John Carmack knows even a little bit of jiu jitsu only makes him scarier

civvie said "why does it have recoil? cut that shit out." and they actually did for the remaster, incredible, simply incredible

Carmack almost killed the guy who made Blood.

That's really terrifying.

Humorously, for a while, the Quake II Chaingun was the fastest-firing weapon in an FPS at 1800 RPM (as fast as Doom 2016's Chaingun in turret mode). With the Dual Fire powerup from the first Mission Pack, you can get 3600 rounds per minute out of it, which has made it one of of the fastest firing weapons in an FPS game up to this day.

Trent Rezner: I can't compose this soundtrack without my buddy Superfly.

Speaking of the Quake 2 soundtrack here's some semi useless info for the day.

The guy on keyboards etc who played with Mick Gordon at the video game awards 2016 was Sonic Mayhem. That little jam in the middle of the Doom songs was Descent into Cerberon.

Interestingly enough, Donna Jackson is still at id. I remember seeing her at Quake-con last year. Didn't meet her, but looks like a great lady.

John Carmack, the alien supercomputer pretending to be human, knows jiujitsu.

That is really scary.

After the death of Shub Niggurath the hordes of the underworld slowly perish without her influence and without the sustaining magic of the runes.  The only survivors were the cybernetic drones who were once human.  They took refuge on a commandeered star cruiser and conquered a distant outpost planet after assimilating the fallen masses of the outpost they renamed themselves the strogg.

THERE.  Quake 2 is a direct sequel.

When I was a kid,  we owned two particular games on CDs. Quake 2 and Warcraft 2.

One day I booted up Quake 2 with the Warcraft 2 CD still in the drive, and the game played Warcraft's music in the background.
I gotta say, Warcraft 2's music REALLY changed Quake 2's overall experience. It felt more serious and urgent.

The next day I tried it again, not realizing that there was a country music CD in the drive.
Quake 2 and Alan Jackson do NOT mix.

“Oh, damn it. Trent Reznor left us.”

“Are we gonna keep his jump sound?”

“What are you, an idiot? Of course!”

Wait till Civvie learns that MachineGames turned those kittens into fucking jaguars.

Daikatana shows how much Romero needed the Carmacks.
Quake II shows how much John Carmack needed Romero and Hall.
One of these games is infamously terrible and often analysed for just how many things can go wrong even when a superstar developer is involved. The other game is mostly remembered for it's colored lighting, when it's remembered at all.

Honestly, those Carmack jokes just don't seem to get old, like every time Id gets brought up it's like a Pavlovian response triggers and I can't wait to hear your utterly insane string of descriptors for the man come out.

13:57  Glad to see CV-18's still working on that cooking show, hope it's doing well for him.

The fact that John Carmack has his ridiculous brain along with Jiu Jitsu skills has me convinced he's just graciously choosing to let all of us live freely. It wouldn't be fair otherwise.