Quake II is back - and it’s cross-platform and cross-play too!

  • coyotino [he/him]@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I have zero nostalgia for Quake (i was 5 when it came out lol), but i wonder how this will do! Quake Champions didn’t seem to light the world on fire, but i wonder if the multiplayer scene here will blow up.

    • cassetti@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Quake itself was ok. The multiplayer version was fun. But the real fun started when people began modding the game. The original Team Fortress was actually a free mod for Quake which I’m pretty sure quickly became the most popular instance of the game for online play.

      Funny random tidbit, I actually remember playing the game with one dude who specifically had to brag about having a high powered 1ghz processor as his username in the game (something like 1gigahertz or something cheesy like that). Pretty sure back then I was still rocking a 700mhz AMD Athlon Thunderbird processor.

      • UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk
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        1 year ago

        The mods were fantastic. One that always sticks in my mind was Quake Rally. I think you controlled a car and drove it through the standard levels or some new maps, I can’t remember, it’s been so long.

    • roguetrick@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I never got into quake 2 multiplayer and I was old enough for it. Quake then half life team fortress for me.

      • MattBoySlim@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        I was basically in the same boat. I didn’t have a PC powerful enough to run Quake 2 well at the time. I could do Quake 1, and played the hell out of it, but Q2 was a complete slideshow. By the time I was able to upgrade it was Half-Life days, so Q2 multiplayer will always be a missing chunk of PC FPS history for me.