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I think the sound of the grenades bouncing around and the zombie moans are some of the best fps sounds ever recorded.

I don't know if somebody already mentioned it, I'm sure they did, but Trent Reznor was responsible for the sound design itself, not just the music but the sound effects and ambience too.

Replayed quake recently. Still as good as when it was released

Dimension of the Past was designed to run in the original dos quake and is constrained by the original release's limits. The Kex Engine remaster from 2021 allowed MachineGames to make Dimension of the Machine so great because of the expanded limits of the remaster.

There's no hiding the Lovecraftian influence in Quake and honestly we need more of that in gaming. I feel like the best games in that general tone are indie games so it would be nice to see a massive studio tackle it.

My issue with the Quake franchise is that it's three separate franchises. Quake 1 being the gothic horror with Lovecraftian influences, Quake 2 and 4 being pure sci-fi with strong body horror elements, and Quake 3 being an arena shooter. What's wild is, Quake 3's general archetype was taken for the Doom reboots of arena style combat and movement.

I personally want the monsters and setting from Quake 1, with the atmosphere of Doom 3, and typical ID game play where it's a faster power fantasy. I think you actually look to Wolfenstein a bit to get the squishier player character for a Quake remake. Instead of a purely action FPS, I would want a lot more puzzle solving broken up by frenetic combat and unpredictable enemy spawns. The game needs to be more about surviving the game than killing everything in your path although killing everything is going to be a primary means of enjoyment. I guess I really want a combo of Doom, Quake, and Dead Space all in a nightmare mode of unpredictably spawning enemies. I want to survive the game rather than win the game.

I remember when i got my first pc it was pre-loaded with Quake, Hexen and Heretic... I still remember being jumpscared by Chathon after picking up the rune 😂

Campaign is amazing

To me Quake 2 feels more like Doom, more tech base, more military themed. As a kid I was disappointed to learn that Quake 3 had no singleplayer campaign and that all Quake titles had mainly only the name in common.

These days I like tinkering around with Quake and Quake 2. I recently started rewriting the game logic in JavaScript and learned so much about it and I got a feeling on how the game might have been developed. So many quirks here and hacks there. It’s fun to explore and play.

I love Quake as much as you, bro) thanks for the video, tears in my eyes

Based on Romero's book, him leaving id wasn't exactly mutual

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Didnt know much about Quake prior to this video but really enjoyed how you put it all together Tera, top notch work

I love quake so much. Nothing I could say about it that you haven't. The discovery of the mapping scene was a particular delight, and got added to the big list of hobbies that jockey for my attention. I made a recreation of the first few areas of half life 2 as a quake map back in 2020, and I still have a genuine singleplayer map that I need to get back to work on.

I played hundreds of hours of custom maps, from Zerstörer, Soul of Evil or Travail to Arcane Dimensions, throughout the years, which turned Quake into the Dark Souls of FPS games in a way, with crazy situations to overcome - I think I played everything the Quake engine could throw at a player, thanks to the amazing work from the community. The incredible environments and rich gameplay really felt like an odyssey, so I feel this is a good place to give my thanks once again for turning this great game into an incredible, endless adventure. I was so amazed to see map packs come out regularly, things like Rubicon, Honey, and so much more, the crazy themed map jams like egyptian or hellscapes, it kept the game fresh for all these years, because the gameplay itself is timeless. I love that the game is also a lot about exploration, and this new content kept it that way, I never knew what I was going to face and was always amazed - I only replayed the OG game with the remaster, and didn't bother with the mission packs since the fan-created content is lightyears ahead of it, understandably. So thanks everyone. I honored your work doing my best to find all secrets and playing only in nightmare. Your work is seriously inredible, your map design and enemy placement is impressive, and I mean not two or three authors, it is pretty much universally great, and the custom enemies and weapons are also insane, making the base game almost boring by comparison - the robots, various ogres and new monsters, plasma weapon, automatic shotgun, triple barrel... Indeed if I had to include all the custom content in the equation then Quake is absolutely my favorite video game of all time - just above Doom with which I had a similar experience thanks to the fans and mods really pushing the boundaries of the original game, but the custom work achieved marvels through the superior graphics of Quake. Together, Doom and Quake, through fan creations, were for me the ultimate FPS experience, nothing modern surpasses it, it is all boring once you faced two cyberdemons in a pit with a super shotgun and duelled shamblers with walls closing on you while jumping across pits of molten lava, spawning with no ammo and using balls from vores to defeat your enemies, only in them I could face literally hundreds of monsters at the same time, they are so well crafted that the possibilities for memorable encounters are endless, and thanks to them I pushed beyond what felt doable or imaginable in a video game, period. So that was my experience with this game. If you're really fascinated with FPS games and the purity of the gameplay of Quake in particular... consider attempting the odyssey through the parallel worlds... it is a true pilgrimage for FPS purists... you shall find mysteries and sagas undreamed of and will be forever changed as an FPS player, your soul now scarred by the ambers of Quake and the echoing laughter of devilish designers !

38:56 just gonna leave this here

Remember: no DLC for Quake, only "Expansion Packs"!

I share the same opinion about Quake as you do and I wish id made a reboot of the first Quake. I wonder if you can make a video about some influential community content for quake like Arcane Dimensions or some older stuff.

brother this video is fan-fucking-tastic. i love your assessment of my favorite game as well

Quality content my dude, subbed.

Your analysis is honestly nearly as good as Quake, nearly!!! Well done man, a fine piece of work. Probably the best retrospective I’ve ever seen