Comment on Playing Quake for the Story (A Franchise Retrospective)

Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• echo64@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m super old and so can for a moment be a little bit helpful. Quake 2 wasn’t all that special when it was new, and it was mostly glossed over because games like Unreal and Half-Life were well on the horizon, Duke 3D had shown what we can do with environmental level design a year earlier and it was sharing the shooter stage with games like Blood, Dark Forces II and Goldeneye 64

  Quake was special because it was a technological showcase, but Quake 2 was just another game in a sea of great experiences, that struggled to find its own voice.

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  • GraniteM@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    games like Blood

    Hot damn, but I loved Blood. Duke Nukem for H. P. Lovecraft dorks!

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m super old

    Same here; I just never had Quake 2 as a kid lol

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Quake 2 had that stupid recoil for the automatic riffle. Duke 3D was the first FPS with reloading I’m aware of (the basic handgun).

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      • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Recoil

        Thaaat was it. Yeah.

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    • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nope, no reloading in Quake 2. Goldeneye had it though

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• c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s correct, 1 was just a bunch of random levels with no actual plotline. Merely an extension of arcade games at the time, where the challenge of the level was the draw and there need not be a deeper connection.

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