Playing Quake for the Story (A Franchise Retrospective)

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• CodexArcanum@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A new NCG video! 😁

  And it’s about Quake!! 🤯

  And it’s Christmas!!! 🎅

  What a delightful present for all of us!

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Quake 2 and Quake 4 are the only two Quake games that even had a story afaik.

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  • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m super old

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

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  • c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨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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• discostjohn@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Noah is the shit.

  This is a great video.

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