Played Quake 2 Lately?

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LOL! The original game is only 220MB. Yea for textures!
 
It is scary almost how much of those levels I can fully remember when you see the video above.
 
I remember getting Quake 2 in the mail from Chips & Bits a week after it came out. 5 minutes in my dad and I looked at each other and said "we need a Voodoo card". 2 weeks later we both had Diamond Monster 3D cards and were rocking out to some team death match together. Lots of good memories of Quake 2 with my dad.
 
MotionBlur said:
I remember getting Quake 2 in the mail from Chips & Bits a week after it came out. 5 minutes in my dad and I looked at each other and said "we need a Voodoo card". 2 weeks later we both had Diamond Monster 3D cards and were rocking out to some team death match together. Lots of good memories of Quake 2 with my dad.
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Colored lighting!!!
 
Hehe, just played the stock version on hard till I died. Great stuff. Can't wait to see the pack.
 
I played Wolfenstein and it was OK, then Doom 1 was awesome. Doom 2 was great and Quake 1 was good, but then I got tired of what seemed like lackluster fps releases until Unreal and Unreal Tournament came along.

With UT99 you can get an updated Direct3D renderer here: Unreal engine Direct3D 10 renderer - kentie.net

And use the special textures once restricted to cards with S3TC support (yes I had the Savage 2000 powered Diamond Stealth II).
 
My God, Beserker is flashy to the point where it hurts my eyes....

Turning the bloom setting down to "middle" helped quit a bit though.

Also, the FOV is set to 120 by default, which is insane. I turned it down to 100, much better.

Anyways, meh. I'll give it another go tonight after I run some errands.
 
horrorshow said:
My God, Beserker is flashy to the point where it hurts my eyes....

Turning the bloom setting down to "middle" helped quit a bit though.

Also, the FOV is set to 120 by default, which is insane. I turned it down to 100, much better.

Anyways, meh. I'll give it another go tonight after I run some errands.
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I found that you need to turn the brightness up and turn the bloom down or off. It requires tweaking for sure.
 
So many good memories. Q2 is still one of my all time favourites. I remember we managed to hide a copy in a common folder at my high school. We had some pretty awesome lunch time tournaments :)
 
I soooooooooooooo miss the Quake 2 days, everything was so awesome back then.
 
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Funny this comes up now. I just played through the entire game a few weeks go, right after Quake on Nightmare. It has always been my favoruite Quake game. Working on some older Serious Sam these days.
 
Quake 2 multiplayer on the office network with my voodoo card smuggled into my corporate Dell... good times. What's the mod with the grappling hook, my coworkers were nuts for that.

Honestly though, Quake 3 came out like 2 years after Quake 2 and it was a whole different experience. Graphics x10
 
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Burticus said:
Quake 2 multiplayer on the office network with my voodoo card smuggled into my corporate Dell... good times. What's the mod with the grappling hook, my coworkers were nuts for that.

Honestly though, Quake 3 came out like 2 years after Quake 2 and it was a whole different experience. Graphics x10
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Single-player -100, though.
 
horrorshow said:
I never was a fan of Quake 2.

The atmosphere was all wrong IMO.
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I liked both Q1 and Q2 at the time, but I feel like FPS have come so far, that I didn't play a dumb run and gun game any more. I'd lose interest in about 15 seconds.

I revisited Deus Ex recently and HL1 a few years back, and those were both worth it, but I have absolutely no interest in ever seeing a Doom/Quake/DukeNukem3D type game ever again. Run&Gun single player and death match multiplayer simply have no appeal what so ever to me.
 
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Zarathustra[H] said:
I liked both Q1 and Q2 at the time, but I feel like FPS have cone so far, that I didn't play a dumb run and gun game any more. I'd lose interest in about 15 seconds.
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It really depends, these old 'dumb' shooters were awesome because they keep the engagement going and pace the encounters correctly. People look back on these old titles and think that they won't be as engaging as new cinematic titles, but there is a reason the classics stand out: remember Quake was not the only FPS on shelves. There was a SEA of mediocre games on the market, Quake and Quake 2 stood out and lasted the test of time because they are genuinely good games. Give them a re-tread: you won't regret it.
 
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CrimsonKnight13 said:
Funny part is last night I got done compiling & installing the DarkPlaces Engine ( LordHavoc's DarkPlaces Quake Modification ) for Quake 1 on my Manjaro Linux netbook. Now I'm trying to figure out what engines I'd like to compile for Quake 2 & 3.

Any recommendations?
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ioquake3 (GitHub - ioquake/ioq3: The ioquake3 community effort to continue supporting/developing id's Quake III Arena) is a nice straight forward port with SDL. Plays nicely even on my SGI Onyx 2.
 
I've seen that there's the iortcw which merges ioquake3 & rtcw code. Have you tried that one out at all? I'm wondering if I can get RTCW working on it as well. I think I'll be compiling a few engines by the weekend.
 
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I've see that there's the iortcw which merges ioquake3 & rtcw code. Have you tried that one out at all? I'm wondering if I can get RTCW working on it as well. I think I'll be compiling a few engines by the weekend.
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I have not tried that one - but now I'll be trying to get it to compile and run on my SGI stuff over the weekend.
 
MotionBlur said:
I have not tried that one - but now I'll be trying to get it to compile and run on my SGI stuff over the weekend.
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Cool. Let me know how it goes. It's nice to be able to compile to my hardware & get good performance out of a low end netbook.
 
CrimsonKnight13 said:
Cool. Let me know how it goes. It's nice to be able to compile to my hardware & get good performance out of a low end netbook.
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Will do - for me it's fun to see how my SGI Onyx 2 (~$236k in 1999) play games that my PC handled fairly well (though RTCW did a number on my GeForce 2 MX when it came out).
 
I have a netbook with the AMD A6-1450, which is a low power tablet APU. Compiling to such hardware to get extra performance is quite pleasant. I'm going to see how many id games I can get to play on it from compiled source.
 
Zarathustra[H] said:
I liked both Q1 and Q2 at the time, but I feel like FPS have come so far, that I didn't play a dumb run and gun game any more. I'd lose interest in about 15 seconds.

I revisited Deus Ex recently and HL1 a few years back, and those were both worth it, but I have absolutely no interest in ever seeing a Doom/Quake/DukeNukem3D type game ever again. Run&Gun single player and death match multiplayer simply have no appeal what so ever to me.
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I lose interest every 15 seconds too, at the 16th my brain resets and I keep playing. It's called ADHD.
 
JohnnyGatt said:
I was wondering why I saw you log into Quake on steam! Im playing X-wing Alliance with a modpack and it looks sweet!
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WHAT mod pack!? Anyone play Rebellion anymore? That was a really good RTS. I am a SW nut (my kid is named after Mara Jade, before it was coo) and have played well, pretty much every game. And read every book. And read some of the comics, although they are bad. Not too much Rebels, although it isn't horrible. God, I know more SW lore than most people do about how their car works. sad panda
 
I'm pretty happy that I still have my Quake 1 shareware CD with the NIN soundtrack. That being said VQuake did look really good. Although I think by the time 2 came out I was rocking a pair of Voodoo2s. Ah the memories! Loved running around as Cartman in Q2 multiplayer.
 
Condorman19 said:
I'm pretty happy that I still have my Quake 1 shareware CD with the NIN soundtrack. That being said VQuake did look really good. Although I think by the time 2 came out I was rocking a pair of Voodoo2s. Ah the memories! Loved running around as Cartman in Q2 multiplayer.
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My schtic was Sonic The Hedgehog or Han Solo. Someone made a really detailed Han Solo model available on the old 'Polycount' website.
 
I thought Q2 went Open Source, any idea where I can acquire. I miss those days :(
 
That does look awesome, I liked 1 a bit more myself as well. Map E1M8 was my fav for vs stuff.

Getting the itch to go through these again myself now O_O
 
Ripskin said:
That does look awesome, I liked 1 a bit more myself as well. Map E1M8 was my fav for vs stuff.

Getting the itch to go through these again myself now O_O
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I'm not sure if you have tried it yet, but download the DOOM demo off of Steam, its awesome old-school fun with new-school technology.
 
Quake 2 had probably the best impact on me. If it wasn't for Quake 2 I probably wouldn't be into PC gaming as much. I played Quake 2 alot on the software renderer at 800x600. Then ZDTV hit the air and I gotten into building my first PC. I had an Abit BP6 with a Celeron 300, 128MB RAM, and a 3D Blaster Annihilator Pro video card. I replayed that game on OpenGL at 1600x1200 and about shit myself.
 
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