Eh... I'll meet in the middle and say there's different types of shamblers. I like the idea they look like a giant seasme street character that had a horrible wardrobe malfunction.
I love how the game is balanced to encourage using all your guns by interesting enemy behaviors. Like the rocket launcher would obviously be bad against the Fiend an enemy that jumps in your face but the Double barrel is perfect, zombies can only be permanently killed by gibbing which encourages explosives, The nail gun for evasive flying enemies etc. I know this isn’t anything unique to Quake but I think the weapon and enemy balance they have is why the gameplay is so addictive and pitch perfect to me
Most of the weapons in todays fps are Hitscans, you just pick the one that have a decent spray pattern. On Quake you swap guns all the time plus the damage is always consistent, if you hit you know how much you dealt.
Apart from the fact that enemies don’t get pushed back like in Doom or recoil in response to the impact (actually Bethesda Doom games don’t have that either). The double barrel shotgun’s model is too small and the sound effect is not bassy enough. But stupidest is the super nail gun. It’s just a more powerful and ammo hungry nail gun. Which is just a mini gun. Also the lightning rod is so awkward to use and ammo hungry. I hate it like the rail gun because you have to be aimed exactly at the model to hit it, oh and it eats all your ammo in seconds. Really the only good weapons are the Grenada launcher, nail gun and double barrelled shotgun.
@@iwanttocomplain the nail gun is more useful on weaker enemies and if you need DPS it’s really good for some of the tankier dudes. I don’t find the lightning gun awkward to use at all not sure what makes you feel that, also it’s a very powerful weapon so limited ammo is to be expected.
I feel old af. Quake1 is such an essential masterpiece of its time. People today cannot fathom how playing online even with a 1500 ping, felt like you were in the future
@@brandonwombacher2559 28.8kbit - 33.6kbit some people still used 14.4 kbit modems. It was really a matter of AOL having terrible peering. We quickly figured out you could get a local ISP and get your ping down to the 200ish range. It was always a fight to get the least amount of "hops" to a server.
As much as I love Caleb, only chumps reload with their shooting hand. Reloading with the support hand is the preferred technique. Ranger's double-barrel might be a semi-auto "tandem" gun with all of its significant parts duplicated. They could have expounded upon that by having it feed from dual box mags (clamped together) and having the casings eject in both directs at the same time.
Little known fact: The scream Ranger makes while in acid/lava was recorded from an Id employee seconds before John Carmack banished him from the mortal plane.
Its gotta be a kick in the teeth that only a month after your return review to quake a 25th official anniversary is released.....i look forward to an updated review lol
Idk if this floats your boat but if your looking for ABSTRACT fps check out a game called “cruelty squad”, you might very well hate it but it’s definitely what id describe as abstract fps
I’ll second the Amid Evil recommendation, it’s more abstract than a fever dream after binging The Lord of the Rings and Stargate SG-1 back to back while huffing paint.
@@cliftongardner4367 I just finished Amid Evil a few days ago and I literally could not find the words to adequately describe the final level to my fiancée. I ended up just being like, "I don't know, there were shapes and everything was all the colors."
My favorite id game. Unlike shotguns being a main workforce in doom, you use mostly projectile weapons like granades and rocket launcher, since they give you alot of ammo for them. They make the game way more fun and satisfying.
I mean, shotguns are more buffed in Quake. It just became a doom staple because of two reasons combined: it could one-shot a lot of enemies at meelee range, and doomguy was so fast that you could run up to an enemy, shoot, and retreat to safety. But in the old Doom it shoots so slow that you could be easily overrun, it was mainly for picking an enemy at a time. Shotgun in Quake is a little weaker, but it shoots 3-4 times as fast...
@@cybergun01 Good, someone said it. If they make QUAKE reboot ANYTHING like Eternal I will cry, that is the absolute LAST thing they should do. I really don’t like Eternal but I appreciate why other people do however I even like DOOM 3 more despite me having beat all these games on ultra violence equivalent and loving a challenge. I just CANNOT stand the art style and weird sort of half serious theme of DOOM Eternal where canonically you are just insanely powerful regardless whereas in older games it was you the player alone prevented such a fate and the atmosphere even reflected that sometimes, particularly in QUAKE and i don’t care what anyone says i think the story was just far too overbearing and took away from the ‘DOOM experience’ where really what makes these old school games special is the connection between main character and the player and that kind of dynamic influence you have on character and in Eternal that essence was absolutely pulverised. I was so disappointed when Eternal came out as I was expecting a little funkier DOOM 2016, not a complete 180 in almost every aspect of that game; I thought DOOM 2016 was near perfect… That’s just me though.
I feel they already kinda did, because Doom Eternal feels like a mix of both Doom & Quake gameplay. Maybe even more like Quake because of the verticality
The other thing is that the mapping/modding community is still alive and kicking. We had two major Q25 map jams for the anniversary and even some indie projects. We also have things like Copper from 2019 which upgrades the original Quake gameplay with fixes and concepts that amp up engagement in a good way.
I remember being a kid and reading the manual for quake, and it hyped up the Shambler as such a monster and terrifying advisory that they terrified me when I first came across one while playing it. They still give me a bit of a residual spook now as an adult.
Funny enough the soundtrack of Quake on the N64 had some tracks with a hip-hop esque rythm, and they were composed using the game sound effects. Don't think any of these tracks use the bouncing grenade sound, but still close.
When I was in Highschool, my English teacher used to host LANs of this AT the school on Saturdays. There were so many iterations and evolutions of control schemes too.
That would be great if it happened. I think the last time we saw a classic Quake game on consoles was Quake 2 releasing on a bonus disc alongside Quake 4 in 2005 for the 360. When Zenimax re-released Quake 4 in 2011, Quake 2 was absent.
@@kaijucapuchin734 yes I had that copy of quake 4 on 360 however sadly I think I traded it in :( lol. Quake Quadrilogy HD would be nice, fingers crossed 😀👍🏻
Nintendo 64 had quake and quake 2, that console was really the beast doom clone console of the time, kiddy console that my 16 year old self loved for its shooters.
I'd like to mention that watching Gman's videos has made me play many old school shooters. In the past couple of months I've finished Doom 1, Doom 2, Doom 64, Duke Nukem 3D, and recently Shadow Warrior classic. I just bought Quake and so far I'd say its my second favorite after Duke Nukem. My question is, whenever you play these old school shooters, are you not supposed to save at all, save every level, or save anytime? I'd like to experience the "original difficulty" of them so I usually save right after each level but not mid through a level. What does everyone else do?
Awesome retrospective. I kind of missed out on Quake when I was younger, too young when it came out (6 or something), and when I got my first PC when I was 12, I was all about Half-Life, Max Payne, Aliens versus Predator 1 & 2, and then later when I upgraded for HL2 and Max Payne 2 I discovered Doom 3, Quake 4, Prey, Halo and then FEAR, and those became my favourites (I had other non FPS one, C&C Tiberian Sun, Red Alert 2 I remember being really big for me, and later SW Jedi Outcast & Academy, and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, and Dawn of War) So the OG Doom & Quake kind of went past me, I was happy with the sequels and saw little reason to go back being a kid. But now, with retro FPS games coming out in the last 3 years, I think the biggest thing that stands out about them for me over the flashier sequels is just the level design and architecture which were integral in creating an atmosphere, this subconscious sensation of running inside an infernal machine, being a rat inside a massive vertical maze. Stuff like regenerating health, reloading, cover, run speed, those are things that work in their own gameplay balances, and it's a shame that they've influenced game direction after 2002-> in an unbalanced way, but in my mind the loss that was the biggest was a sacrifice in level design, until the indies and modders now. So yeah, Quake has gone up there for me, as a newcomer. And Slayer's Testaments, man, that "mod" is more of a game now, tons of cool maps, a lot more systems, it's just so ambitious and works together better than most of those Doom 2016/Eternal mods which lack the whole package that ties it all together, they often lack the maps that utilize the gameplay and enemies. And Slayer's Testaments feels fresh because it isn't just a copy-paste of 2016/Eternal, but has it's own maps in the theme of that universe, within that old school level design philosophy. I almost wish it were a paid game at this point, put it on steam -- If nothing else, put it on steam as a free mod that requires players to own Quake & 2016 & Eternal to be able to play (like Enderal for Skyrim or RealRTCW needing you to own the games - requiring them to hopefully appease the publishers about it not feeling like it's money out from their pockets), and then whenever the modders/devs do make their own game, people can see that they already have right there on their developer page one of the guaranteed highest rated mods on steam. Hopefully Wrath: Aeon of Ruin turns out great despite the rocky development. Doesn't Doombringer also use Quake 1/Darkplaces engine?
The fact that it got an official remaster makes me happy to finally try Quake properly, since somehow all my ports on PC were... Lets just say "not functional"
Did you know that Trent Reznor actually did the voice work for Ranger in this game? That's right, he didn't just do the soundtrack! I only found out recently and love the game even more for it.
Quake 2 was the first videogame I was ever introduced to. I have so many fond memories of that game, playing it with my dad and my brothers, getting the Chaos mod and grapple-hooking everywhere with my spider skin on pissing off people on the "moo clan" servers. It probably made me the man I am today. Happy Birthday Quake.
Ah, Quake... my first ever FPS. This was the game that got me into the genre and I'll always have a soft spot for it. Its default control setup also stuck with me for so long: forward was the right mouse button, with sidesteps being period & comma. I never bothered to rebind anything so I just played it like that, and then used to also change the controls to that for every other FPS I played because that's what I was used to - it was YEARS before I finally switched to the WASD scheme. Oh and also, if a Jeremy Clarkson voice pack isn't already an actual mod, it really needs to be!
At the launch of the 2021 QuakeCon@Home on August 19, 2021, Bethesda released a remastered version of Quake for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S consoles, developed by Night Dive Studios.[122] In addition to support for modern systems and improved rendering techniques, the remastered version includes both mission packs, Scourge of Armagon and Dissolution of Eternity. It also includes two episodes created by MachineGames: the previously-released Dimension of the Past and a new one called Dimension of the Machine. A port of Quake 64 was also included in its entirety via the newly-implemented "Add-On" menu.
I was 9 years old when Quake came out but haven't played it until I was like 12 due to our family not having a PC. Even though 3 years was an eternity in world of FPS games back then and I've played many games that came after and prior to Quake, none of them mesmerized me to the same level. I fell even more in love after I've learned what Quakeworld is - to this day this is my benchmark of what online shooters should be about, even though I do not play anymore. When I've first got to play it with that amazing soundtrack (played pirated version without music first), it felt like being transferred to another dimension. Few games, or in broader sense, products of culture have made me falling in unconditional love for them. Quake, Fallout 2, Wipeout series (from third one up to Omega Collection titles), Doom Eternal are the games I could bring to desert island and never get bored by them. In movie space, I feel the same about Alien, which I have watched more than 20 times through my life now and each time I loved every minute of it. Yeah, Doom came first, DN3D set new benchmarks when it comes to interactivity, Unreal had huge levels with outdoor areas and good enemy AI, Half-Life turned the genre upside down, Soldier of Fortune excelled in gore and the list goes on and on. Thing is, all these games have not captured the same thing that Quake did - a feeling of being transported to a twisted, broken, corrupted and rotten world full of dread.
The Quake 1 soundtrack is only really outdone in terms of atmospheric creep at the time by Doom Playstation and 64. Aubrey Hodges, what a genius in creepy atmosphere.
The Quake manual on difficulty levels: "The start area has three short hallways. The one you go down selects the Skill you wish to play at. Easy: This is meant for little kids and grandmas. Medium: Most people should start Quake at Medium skill. Hard: Here at id, we play Hard skill, and we think you should too, once you're ready. (Nightmare): This is so bad that the entry is hidden, so people won't wander in by accident. If you find it, don't say we didn't warn you."
I have been playing the remastered version, it's a lot of fun , I am glad they kept Trent Reznors sound track. The remastered version even has the Nintendo 64 port
I sometime dream about a reboot that follows in the vein of what the original Quake had originally planned, maybe combined with what Romero reused for Daikatana. Thor and some guy with a katana on a time travelling adventure to fight Lovecraftian gods across realms and eras. Granted, I just basically described Samurai Jack, but I guess it can't be helped.
Qzone wasn't mentioned here smh! lol jk! Good video, hapi burfdai Quake, and the news of ID creating a Quake singleplayer reboot is lit. Quake 1's story lends itself to exploring varied environments and dimensions - visiting a Q2-like realm but not limiting themselves to just that is possible. Indeed, 'alien humans' appear as Sentinels in nuDoom and could explain knights and death knight as well (if not an evil offshoot from that society). Even Champions I've noticed was wise in incorporating more lovecraftian elements, and promoting Ranger - all BEFORE retro ranger and retro dm6 reared their awesomely polygonal heads. All in all, I hope this new reboot looks to Quake 1 and it's mission packs the most.
I really wish the Quake 1 story would get a spiritual remake like Doom did. I loved the theming and creature design in Quake, and it would be fucking sick to see it in a modernized visual package. The monsters would be fucking fantastic, and I bet the sound design could be pushed much further than the original too.
Quake is probably why I'm still a PC gamer in my 40s. As a kid, we got our 166mh PC and a shareware copy of Doom, and I thought it was the pinnacle of gaming, and that nothing would top it. Then my brother's friend brought over the demo of Quake. And I'll never forget how blown away by it I was.
25 years later and still the best FPS ever made, with a unique atmosphere. I'll never understand Willits' decision to scrap that uniqueness and slap the "Quake 2" name on their next generic sci-fi game. Fun fact: most OG fans will know this but Ranger is voiced by Trent Reznor himself.
I remember buying a giant ATX case, processor, memory, hard drive (could not tell you specs on any of those) and putting it together all impressed with myself, firing up Quake . . . and watching it freeze solid because I'd failed to install a fan and it had overheated.
I prefer quake 1 over quake 2. Both classics. But quake 1 has a unique atmosphere I haven't yet see in a first person shooter. I wish the developers followed the lore of quake 1
Quake, Duke3D, RAC Rally, Broken Sword, Monkey Island, System Shock, Tracer, Hunter Hunted, Interstate 76, Pod Racer, Need for Speed… what a golden age of gaming these times were.
I've barely played Quake and yet there are two sounds that I will likely take with me to the grave: The grenade Ping and the character's jumping "Hruh." However, that teleport sound is very intriguing.
I loved Sonic Mayhem's soundtrack, I still rock it in my car form time to time., but I think both soundtracks are perfect in their own right due to the fact quake 1 and 2 are completely different, Fun fact: Unfortunately as a kid my parents hated me playing games, so I had to find "alternative" ways to get this one, and unfortunately it came without the soundtrack, only to find out later on that NIN, my favourite bands for many, many years, had created it. However, I did find out that the cd you had in your cd drive was used while playing because I accidentally had left the Nirvana album BLEACH in there and just like that, my life changed forever. And as Gman says, music can change the game completely, and believe me, this cd made quake incredibly addicting for me, not in a scary, but in a blood-thirsty, and frenzied way; singing along these the harsh, unfiltered, hateful, and sometimes senseless lyrics of this album while massacring hordes of Lovecraftian fiends is just something out of this world, pun intended. I strongly recommend it.
I know this comment is 8 months old but I just wanted to say I'm glad I'm not the only one who played Quake for the first time without the soundtrack. I may have acquired my original copy through less-than-legal means so that meant I didn't get the audio files that the soundtrack were on. I was surprised to find out through TH-cam that the game has an amazing OST.
You’re right about Trent Reznor’s soundtrack being key to its success. Quake 2 is really just a game made in auto- pilot. No Romero meant Carmack took creative control and he made Quake 2 out of cardboard and Rivita’s to match his personality. The reason Quake is such a masterpiece is because of the cohesion of all its elements and it’s restraint, Romero drops mushrooms and creates a vivid and unique universe then Carmack crafts it into something practical. Quake 2 is just practice. Quake 3 Carmack admitting he has no ideas at all and just makes a death match game. Quake won’t be repeated any time soon. There is too much anxiety in game development. Everything has to be bigger, bolder and brighter (or muddier and gloomier this past generation). But art isn’t about adding things, it’s about leaving things out. Ok baroque art is about finding the most ostentatious and be bombastic end product but if it’s going to be art there has to be a strong and clear vision and meaning. Half Life 2 achieves this with the environmental design being so bleak and deserted, almost haunted, using muted tones and utilitarian urban design. The meaning is that society has completely devolved in tyranny and mankind is in a state of near collapse. So the elements all combine (no pun intended) to amplify the other. This is what is meant by “greater than the sum of its parts”. Quake achieves this with it’s tightly controlled blue-grey and brown natural textures of wood and stone. Everything is wood, stone, iron or water. The levels are all castles which are claustrophobic and damp and mossy. The sound design is echoing and clangy and scrapy. So the elements all cohere to one another. But above all, the ambient/industrial soundtrack ties it all together and draws you in, in stark contrast to the “wake up” power chords and riffs from all subsequent Quakes that simply follow and don’t add anything to the narrative. So the concept of a cohesive and holistic approach to narrative is what’s missing from modern game design. Everything has to be multiplayer which harms the ability to craft a narrative and personal journey. Nowadays you have to have the latest effects and devs can get carried away. I would like to see a considered and well realised world in a modern game but there are too many pressures to comply with such a game not being difficult, having online be the focus and an aversion to any theme which takes a unique and original direction.
You didn't need the voodoo card, GLquake came out a bit after Quake's initial release. It also ran ok on a 486DX66, but the framer ate bar was a lot lower back then. 15fps was pretty good.
I started watching ur channel about 2 years ago ,the best game reviewer around , wits , comedy and intelligence, and you have valid point start to finish ,never did a reviewer make me want to buy a game so much , keep it the fuck up mate!!!
I can imagine that the reason Doom Eternal ended with the Slayer being sealed away again is to bring him into the world of Quake 1 where he will have to face an all new demonic enemy force
Shamblers are covered in skin, not fur. I'll die on that hill.
And they smell like ammonia and ozone.
Ah still remember the shambler debate back then till the dev have to confirm its not fur
Eh... I'll meet in the middle and say there's different types of shamblers. I like the idea they look like a giant seasme street character that had a horrible wardrobe malfunction.
Civvie 11 would like to know your location.
Shamblers have a buttcrack. Change my mind.
I love how the game is balanced to encourage using all your guns by interesting enemy behaviors. Like the rocket launcher would obviously be bad against the Fiend an enemy that jumps in your face but the Double barrel is perfect, zombies can only be permanently killed by gibbing which encourages explosives, The nail gun for evasive flying enemies etc. I know this isn’t anything unique to Quake but I think the weapon and enemy balance they have is why the gameplay is so addictive and pitch perfect to me
Most of the weapons in todays fps are Hitscans, you just pick the one that have a decent spray pattern. On Quake you swap guns all the time plus the damage is always consistent, if you hit you know how much you dealt.
Huh, I actually never thought of it that way. Thanks, stranger for pointing this out.
@@themercenary4472 :) 👍
Apart from the fact that enemies don’t get pushed back like in Doom or recoil in response to the impact (actually Bethesda Doom games don’t have that either). The double barrel shotgun’s model is too small and the sound effect is not bassy enough.
But stupidest is the super nail gun. It’s just a more powerful and ammo hungry nail gun. Which is just a mini gun. Also the lightning rod is so awkward to use and ammo hungry. I hate it like the rail gun because you have to be aimed exactly at the model to hit it, oh and it eats all your ammo in seconds.
Really the only good weapons are the Grenada launcher, nail gun and double barrelled shotgun.
@@iwanttocomplain the nail gun is more useful on weaker enemies and if you need DPS it’s really good for some of the tankier dudes. I don’t find the lightning gun awkward to use at all not sure what makes you feel that, also it’s a very powerful weapon so limited ammo is to be expected.
I feel old af. Quake1 is such an essential masterpiece of its time. People today cannot fathom how playing online even with a 1500 ping, felt like you were in the future
What was your internet speeds up and down?
@@brandonwombacher2559 28.8kbit - 33.6kbit some people still used 14.4 kbit modems. It was really a matter of AOL having terrible peering. We quickly figured out you could get a local ISP and get your ping down to the 200ish range. It was always a fight to get the least amount of "hops" to a server.
I remember QTest on my Pentium60 - beyond fascinating... such mesmerizing allure.
28.8k Dialup on Well6 and 2Fort4
There isn't much that's more satisfying than absolutely clearing a whole fucking room with the Quad + SSG
>2 days ago
lol what?
Id argue Quad Damage and the Super nail gun, what an evil sound
@@amirhb7531 oh well that make sense now
This guy fucking knows.
The quad damage has the most badass sound effect of any game ever.
I enjoyed the special effects of the computer burning
Finally, production budget worthy of 500k subscribers.
The Spice Girls poster in the background was a nice touch though.
Likewise
"I love the way the smoke seems to be coming off from the top"
"Nice screensaver"
That was actually real.
"Thou canst not kill that which doth not live. But you can blast it into chunky kibbles."
Hands down the best H. P. Lovecraft quote
I heard Ahoy's voice in my head when reading this.
I am so happy I'm not the only one that took this line to heart.
I miss quake. The music, the atmosphere, and the art. I can't believe its been 25 years. I got this in a magazine as a shareware demo.
Steam has a nice remaster with both expansions and two more community mods, a real treat!
Caleb learned how to reload a double barrel from Ranger. It's confirmed.
based wolfman poster
God I love darkwood wolf man is provable my second favorite character, 1st is the merchant.
If you look at the quake champions double barrel it seems to reloads really fast due to advanced feeding mechanism looks cool
As much as I love Caleb, only chumps reload with their shooting hand. Reloading with the support hand is the preferred technique. Ranger's double-barrel might be a semi-auto "tandem" gun with all of its significant parts duplicated. They could have expounded upon that by having it feed from dual box mags (clamped together) and having the casings eject in both directs at the same time.
Pump action Double barrel shotgun
Little known fact: The scream Ranger makes while in acid/lava was recorded from an Id employee seconds before John Carmack banished him from the mortal plane.
really?
Quake Is Good For You.™
‘2 days ago’
lol what?
He's texted from the past into the present lol
And an earthquake?
Its gotta be a kick in the teeth that only a month after your return review to quake a 25th official anniversary is released.....i look forward to an updated review lol
This game looks like a whole heap of fun, like gmans mum.
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@@dr.chungusphd108 weird but i like it
They're both explosive, mean and bloody too
Heyoooo!!!
One thing underappreciated about quake was the original logo; a crescent moon pierced by a nail. Just brilliant simplicity.
Only now, first from 1998, i look on that logo with your POV, thanks!
@@westerntune nothing beats a fresh pair of eyes.
Was it a Nine Inch Nail? *wink* *wink*
The instruction books graphic design is also great.
@@beatlemania8945really good point! 😄
Quake was one of the last abstract fps of that era. Miss the abstraction these days..
Idk if this floats your boat but if your looking for ABSTRACT fps check out a game called “cruelty squad”, you might very well hate it but it’s definitely what id describe as abstract fps
Check out DUSK my man
Played Amid Evil?
I’ll second the Amid Evil recommendation, it’s more abstract than a fever dream after binging The Lord of the Rings and Stargate SG-1 back to back while huffing paint.
@@cliftongardner4367 I just finished Amid Evil a few days ago and I literally could not find the words to adequately describe the final level to my fiancée. I ended up just being like, "I don't know, there were shapes and everything was all the colors."
I miss that time period of Spice Girls.
...I mean quake
My favorite id game. Unlike shotguns being a main workforce in doom, you use mostly projectile weapons like granades and rocket launcher, since they give you alot of ammo for them. They make the game way more fun and satisfying.
I mean, shotguns are more buffed in Quake. It just became a doom staple because of two reasons combined: it could one-shot a lot of enemies at meelee range, and doomguy was so fast that you could run up to an enemy, shoot, and retreat to safety. But in the old Doom it shoots so slow that you could be easily overrun, it was mainly for picking an enemy at a time. Shotgun in Quake is a little weaker, but it shoots 3-4 times as fast...
Here’s hoping ID software gives quake the doom eternal reboot treatment
But darker and without all the colorful ammo explosions, etc
@@cybergun01 Good, someone said it. If they make QUAKE reboot ANYTHING like Eternal I will cry, that is the absolute LAST thing they should do. I really don’t like Eternal but I appreciate why other people do however I even like DOOM 3 more despite me having beat all these games on ultra violence equivalent and loving a challenge. I just CANNOT stand the art style and weird sort of half serious theme of DOOM Eternal where canonically you are just insanely powerful regardless whereas in older games it was you the player alone prevented such a fate and the atmosphere even reflected that sometimes, particularly in QUAKE and i don’t care what anyone says i think the story was just far too overbearing and took away from the ‘DOOM experience’ where really what makes these old school games special is the connection between main character and the player and that kind of dynamic influence you have on character and in Eternal that essence was absolutely pulverised. I was so disappointed when Eternal came out as I was expecting a little funkier DOOM 2016, not a complete 180 in almost every aspect of that game; I thought DOOM 2016 was near perfect… That’s just me though.
I feel they already kinda did, because Doom Eternal feels like a mix of both Doom & Quake gameplay. Maybe even more like Quake because of the verticality
@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan nothing like quake in terms of atmosphere and darker tone
the quakest: eternal
My first Quake game was Quake 2 on the Playstation.
Ahh the memories...
There's a patch for the PS1 version that adds modern twin stick support.
@@Mickey2099 want to know more, as in you patch the original iso to be playable on a modded console with modern stick support or just an emulator?
I played the N64 version of Quake 2 back in the day.
My first quake was champions 😂
My condolences.
The other thing is that the mapping/modding community is still alive and kicking. We had two major Q25 map jams for the anniversary and even some indie projects. We also have things like Copper from 2019 which upgrades the original Quake gameplay with fixes and concepts that amp up engagement in a good way.
"I kinda like Quake II and Quake IV". Gained my sub, you are a man of culture.
Im a younger millenial with NO nostalgia for quake. I played it my first time at 25. Its my favorite FPS of all time easily
But you may develop some nostaglia for your 25 self playing Quake sooner thsn expected
@@gildajohn7086 because life's pretty hard?
I mean doom is cool and all, but quake is just as good.
That's great to hear. 90s shooters are the best!
That Intro PC alone gets me nostalgic
I remember being a kid and reading the manual for quake, and it hyped up the Shambler as such a monster and terrifying advisory that they terrified me when I first came across one while playing it. They still give me a bit of a residual spook now as an adult.
"And it makes wanna cry, I draw my hands up to the sky!" Perfect lirics to describe my condition.
Up the irons!
The sounds of the grenades bouncing of the walls is so pleasing to the ear
I’m surprised no one has created a dance track with em
Funny enough the soundtrack of Quake on the N64 had some tracks with a hip-hop esque rythm, and they were composed using the game sound effects.
Don't think any of these tracks use the bouncing grenade sound, but still close.
When I was in Highschool, my English teacher used to host LANs of this AT the school on Saturdays. There were so many iterations and evolutions of control schemes too.
Quake, it's for everyone. Happy Birthday, you son of a game.
This game terrified me as a kid. I still remember the NIN sound track
It still does, to me at least. The atmosphere is absolutely incredible.
Miss the time i keep trying to skip arena with the rocket launcher. Edit: " HUH HUH HUH"
Love to see reviews of Dimension of the Past and Dimension of the Machine campaigns
This video had me smiling the entire time. Wonderfully crafted.
Enjoying the remaster right now and it holds up shooting is just solid
Hell yeah. Remaster just released.
Hey Gman guess what Bethesda release some new maps and content in quake 1.
The 3 sounds that I can't unhear from Quake
1. The sound of shooting with quad damage
2. The ogres grenades pinging
3. The spawn slapping the walls
Why the hell isn’t there a quake collection available for consoles!?
I’m writing while watching so I accept this might be addressed later on lol
That would be great if it happened. I think the last time we saw a classic Quake game on consoles was Quake 2 releasing on a bonus disc alongside Quake 4 in 2005 for the 360. When Zenimax re-released Quake 4 in 2011, Quake 2 was absent.
Would be sweet if they did a PS3 Unreal 3, and even had mouse support.
@@kaijucapuchin734 yes I had that copy of quake 4 on 360 however sadly I think I traded it in :( lol.
Quake Quadrilogy HD would be nice, fingers crossed 😀👍🏻
Nintendo 64 had quake and quake 2, that console was really the beast doom clone console of the time, kiddy console that my 16 year old self loved for its shooters.
gl strafe jumping with a controller
I'd like to mention that watching Gman's videos has made me play many old school shooters. In the past couple of months I've finished Doom 1, Doom 2, Doom 64, Duke Nukem 3D, and recently Shadow Warrior classic. I just bought Quake and so far I'd say its my second favorite after Duke Nukem. My question is, whenever you play these old school shooters, are you not supposed to save at all, save every level, or save anytime? I'd like to experience the "original difficulty" of them so I usually save right after each level but not mid through a level. What does everyone else do?
Mate you can save whenever you want. I usually save after I beat a couple rooms.
You could put a Quake video out every single year and I'd be happy
Where do I fit in amongst Quake fans if I saw that I love 1, 2, 3, and 4? They were all a hell of a lot of fun.
This was a great video, I can really see the passion put into it. Bravo!
LMFAO READY TO DO ANOTHER QUAKE REVIEW
IT GIVES U AN EXCUSE TO PLAY IT ALL OVER AGAIN
Awesome retrospective.
I kind of missed out on Quake when I was younger, too young when it came out (6 or something), and when I got my first PC when I was 12, I was all about Half-Life, Max Payne, Aliens versus Predator 1 & 2, and then later when I upgraded for HL2 and Max Payne 2 I discovered Doom 3, Quake 4, Prey, Halo and then FEAR, and those became my favourites (I had other non FPS one, C&C Tiberian Sun, Red Alert 2 I remember being really big for me, and later SW Jedi Outcast & Academy, and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, and Dawn of War)
So the OG Doom & Quake kind of went past me, I was happy with the sequels and saw little reason to go back being a kid.
But now, with retro FPS games coming out in the last 3 years, I think the biggest thing that stands out about them for me over the flashier sequels is just the level design and architecture which were integral in creating an atmosphere, this subconscious sensation of running inside an infernal machine, being a rat inside a massive vertical maze.
Stuff like regenerating health, reloading, cover, run speed, those are things that work in their own gameplay balances, and it's a shame that they've influenced game direction after 2002-> in an unbalanced way, but in my mind the loss that was the biggest was a sacrifice in level design, until the indies and modders now.
So yeah, Quake has gone up there for me, as a newcomer.
And Slayer's Testaments, man, that "mod" is more of a game now, tons of cool maps, a lot more systems, it's just so ambitious and works together better than most of those Doom 2016/Eternal mods which lack the whole package that ties it all together, they often lack the maps that utilize the gameplay and enemies.
And Slayer's Testaments feels fresh because it isn't just a copy-paste of 2016/Eternal, but has it's own maps in the theme of that universe, within that old school level design philosophy.
I almost wish it were a paid game at this point, put it on steam -- If nothing else, put it on steam as a free mod that requires players to own Quake & 2016 & Eternal to be able to play (like Enderal for Skyrim or RealRTCW needing you to own the games - requiring them to hopefully appease the publishers about it not feeling like it's money out from their pockets), and then whenever the modders/devs do make their own game, people can see that they already have right there on their developer page one of the guaranteed highest rated mods on steam.
Hopefully Wrath: Aeon of Ruin turns out great despite the rocky development.
Doesn't Doombringer also use Quake 1/Darkplaces engine?
Can’t wait to play this on my Switch; hope we get the sequels on the console as well.
well once wise man said, "If Quake 2 is your worst game...you did a hell of a good job"
The fact that it got an official remaster makes me happy to finally try Quake properly, since somehow all my ports on PC were... Lets just say "not functional"
Did you know that Trent Reznor actually did the voice work for Ranger in this game? That's right, he didn't just do the soundtrack! I only found out recently and love the game even more for it.
Quake 2 was the first videogame I was ever introduced to. I have so many fond memories of that game, playing it with my dad and my brothers, getting the Chaos mod and grapple-hooking everywhere with my spider skin on pissing off people on the "moo clan" servers. It probably made me the man I am today. Happy Birthday Quake.
Moms: exist.
Gman: It's a free real estate.
Wow....the amount of try hard here.....
@@Skellotronix try hard or die hard
shwacked
Drink everytiem Gman says "also... as well" in one sentence.
Oh damn, the first sound effect of the weapon pickup just gave me chills.
Ah, Quake... my first ever FPS. This was the game that got me into the genre and I'll always have a soft spot for it. Its default control setup also stuck with me for so long: forward was the right mouse button, with sidesteps being period & comma. I never bothered to rebind anything so I just played it like that, and then used to also change the controls to that for every other FPS I played because that's what I was used to - it was YEARS before I finally switched to the WASD scheme.
Oh and also, if a Jeremy Clarkson voice pack isn't already an actual mod, it really needs to be!
I remember being on work experience in 1998 and they had nothing for me to do, so they just give me Quake to play. Great days.
At the launch of the 2021 QuakeCon@Home on August 19, 2021, Bethesda released a remastered version of Quake for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S consoles, developed by Night Dive Studios.[122] In addition to support for modern systems and improved rendering techniques, the remastered version includes both mission packs, Scourge of Armagon and Dissolution of Eternity. It also includes two episodes created by MachineGames: the previously-released Dimension of the Past and a new one called Dimension of the Machine. A port of Quake 64 was also included in its entirety via the newly-implemented "Add-On" menu.
AWESOME VIDEO as usual! good job! I need a Quake remake, but don't want modern Doom gameplay.
the fucking "mnugmn" sound when you gib something with explosives is engraved in my mind like a name on a tombstone
You gotta admit;
The NIN music really made the atmosphere.
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🐍 no step on snek! 🇭🇰🇺🇸
It really blows that you can't hear the soundtrack in the digital version.
I was 9 years old when Quake came out but haven't played it until I was like 12 due to our family not having a PC. Even though 3 years was an eternity in world of FPS games back then and I've played many games that came after and prior to Quake, none of them mesmerized me to the same level. I fell even more in love after I've learned what Quakeworld is - to this day this is my benchmark of what online shooters should be about, even though I do not play anymore. When I've first got to play it with that amazing soundtrack (played pirated version without music first), it felt like being transferred to another dimension.
Few games, or in broader sense, products of culture have made me falling in unconditional love for them. Quake, Fallout 2, Wipeout series (from third one up to Omega Collection titles), Doom Eternal are the games I could bring to desert island and never get bored by them. In movie space, I feel the same about Alien, which I have watched more than 20 times through my life now and each time I loved every minute of it.
Yeah, Doom came first, DN3D set new benchmarks when it comes to interactivity, Unreal had huge levels with outdoor areas and good enemy AI, Half-Life turned the genre upside down, Soldier of Fortune excelled in gore and the list goes on and on.
Thing is, all these games have not captured the same thing that Quake did - a feeling of being transported to a twisted, broken, corrupted and rotten world full of dread.
The Quake 1 soundtrack is only really outdone in terms of atmospheric creep at the time by Doom Playstation and 64.
Aubrey Hodges, what a genius in creepy atmosphere.
Yep that was pretty great too, agreed!
Love descent into cerberon
The Quake manual on difficulty levels: "The start area has three short hallways. The one you go down selects the Skill you wish to play at.
Easy: This is meant for little kids and grandmas.
Medium: Most people should start Quake at Medium skill.
Hard: Here at id, we play Hard skill, and we think you should too, once you're ready.
(Nightmare): This is so bad that the entry is hidden, so people won't wander in by accident. If you find it, don't say we didn't warn you."
Goddammit, the beginning of this video gave me nostalgia!
I have been playing the remastered version, it's a lot of fun , I am glad they kept Trent Reznors sound track. The remastered version even has the Nintendo 64 port
I want Quake V to be made like DOOM Eternal and to keep going with the II and IV storyline.
I sometime dream about a reboot that follows in the vein of what the original Quake had originally planned, maybe combined with what Romero reused for Daikatana. Thor and some guy with a katana on a time travelling adventure to fight Lovecraftian gods across realms and eras.
Granted, I just basically described Samurai Jack, but I guess it can't be helped.
*Doom, Wolfenstein, Quake* and *Turok* are just so atmospheric that I can't get enough of. Also helps they are cream of the crop in terms of FPS.
Quake is Forever
But Doom is Eternal
*Exits stage left*
That Multi-Rocket Launcher screaming was great. Good work this review once again, GMan.
Shamblers are just shaved Vortigaunts.
Change my mind.
and Minecraft Wardens are just Green Shamblers
@@majamystic256 they are more blue/black but the point stands
If they reboot Quake, I hope they go with the theme(s) in the first, as opposed to Sci Fi like the rest
Qzone wasn't mentioned here smh!
lol jk! Good video, hapi burfdai Quake, and the news of ID creating a Quake singleplayer reboot is lit. Quake 1's story lends itself to exploring varied environments and dimensions - visiting a Q2-like realm but not limiting themselves to just that is possible. Indeed, 'alien humans' appear as Sentinels in nuDoom and could explain knights and death knight as well (if not an evil offshoot from that society).
Even Champions I've noticed was wise in incorporating more lovecraftian elements, and promoting Ranger - all BEFORE retro ranger and retro dm6 reared their awesomely polygonal heads. All in all, I hope this new reboot looks to Quake 1 and it's mission packs the most.
The first Quake deserved the same than the Doom saga. They say there is a reboot coming running in idTech 7...
8:58 Sorry for what? Our daddy taught us not to be ashamed of our grenades.
Especially since they're such good size and all.
I’ve been waiting for a new video on Quake and lemme tell ya, this made my day 🙌🏻
Quake 3 arena is one of the first pc games I played.
You are a young lad then :)
I really wish the Quake 1 story would get a spiritual remake like Doom did. I loved the theming and creature design in Quake, and it would be fucking sick to see it in a modernized visual package. The monsters would be fucking fantastic, and I bet the sound design could be pushed much further than the original too.
Quake is probably why I'm still a PC gamer in my 40s. As a kid, we got our 166mh PC and a shareware copy of Doom, and I thought it was the pinnacle of gaming, and that nothing would top it. Then my brother's friend brought over the demo of Quake. And I'll never forget how blown away by it I was.
25 years later and still the best FPS ever made, with a unique atmosphere. I'll never understand Willits' decision to scrap that uniqueness and slap the "Quake 2" name on their next generic sci-fi game.
Fun fact: most OG fans will know this but Ranger is voiced by Trent Reznor himself.
Ah Quake a game i love to death because it keeps kicking my ass the good ol Id Software way. Thanks for the revisiting of a classic Gman!
Looks like this video is already outdated.
Loved Quake.. man those were the days back then playing Capture the Flag and using that grappling hook.. fun times
Was happy to see you upload another video. Always fun to watch
I remember buying a giant ATX case, processor, memory, hard drive (could not tell you specs on any of those) and putting it together all impressed with myself, firing up Quake . . . and watching it freeze solid because I'd failed to install a fan and it had overheated.
I prefer quake 1 over quake 2. Both classics. But quake 1 has a unique atmosphere I haven't yet see in a first person shooter. I wish the developers followed the lore of quake 1
Quake, Duke3D, RAC Rally, Broken Sword, Monkey Island, System Shock, Tracer, Hunter Hunted, Interstate 76, Pod Racer, Need for Speed… what a golden age of gaming these times were.
I've barely played Quake and yet there are two sounds that I will likely take with me to the grave: The grenade Ping and the character's jumping "Hruh." However, that teleport sound is very intriguing.
I loved Sonic Mayhem's soundtrack, I still rock it in my car form time to time., but I think both soundtracks are perfect in their own right due to the fact quake 1 and 2 are completely different,
Fun fact: Unfortunately as a kid my parents hated me playing games, so I had to find "alternative" ways to get this one, and unfortunately it came without the soundtrack, only to find out later on that NIN, my favourite bands for many, many years, had created it.
However, I did find out that the cd you had in your cd drive was used while playing because I accidentally had left the Nirvana album BLEACH in there and just like that, my life changed forever.
And as Gman says, music can change the game completely, and believe me, this cd made quake incredibly addicting for me, not in a scary, but in a blood-thirsty, and frenzied way; singing along these the harsh, unfiltered, hateful, and sometimes senseless lyrics of this album while massacring hordes of Lovecraftian fiends is just something out of this world, pun intended.
I strongly recommend it.
I know this comment is 8 months old but I just wanted to say I'm glad I'm not the only one who played Quake for the first time without the soundtrack.
I may have acquired my original copy through less-than-legal means so that meant I didn't get the audio files that the soundtrack were on. I was surprised to find out through TH-cam that the game has an amazing OST.
You’re right about Trent Reznor’s soundtrack being key to its success. Quake 2 is really just a game made in auto- pilot. No Romero meant Carmack took creative control and he made Quake 2 out of cardboard and Rivita’s to match his personality.
The reason Quake is such a masterpiece is because of the cohesion of all its elements and it’s restraint, Romero drops mushrooms and creates a vivid and unique universe then Carmack crafts it into something practical. Quake 2 is just practice. Quake 3 Carmack admitting he has no ideas at all and just makes a death match game.
Quake won’t be repeated any time soon. There is too much anxiety in game development. Everything has to be bigger, bolder and brighter (or muddier and gloomier this past generation). But art isn’t about adding things, it’s about leaving things out. Ok baroque art is about finding the most ostentatious and be bombastic end product but if it’s going to be art there has to be a strong and clear vision and meaning.
Half Life 2 achieves this with the environmental design being so bleak and deserted, almost haunted, using muted tones and utilitarian urban design. The meaning is that society has completely devolved in tyranny and mankind is in a state of near collapse. So the elements all combine (no pun intended) to amplify the other. This is what is meant by “greater than the sum of its parts”.
Quake achieves this with it’s tightly controlled blue-grey and brown natural textures of wood and stone. Everything is wood, stone, iron or water. The levels are all castles which are claustrophobic and damp and mossy. The sound design is echoing and clangy and scrapy. So the elements all cohere to one another. But above all, the ambient/industrial soundtrack ties it all together and draws you in, in stark contrast to the “wake up” power chords and riffs from all subsequent Quakes that simply follow and don’t add anything to the narrative.
So the concept of a cohesive and holistic approach to narrative is what’s missing from modern game design. Everything has to be multiplayer which harms the ability to craft a narrative and personal journey. Nowadays you have to have the latest effects and devs can get carried away.
I would like to see a considered and well realised world in a modern game but there are too many pressures to comply with such a game not being difficult, having online be the focus and an aversion to any theme which takes a unique and original direction.
Good comment
Bought the Quake collection after watching this video
You didn't need the voodoo card, GLquake came out a bit after Quake's initial release. It also ran ok on a 486DX66, but the framer ate bar was a lot lower back then. 15fps was pretty good.
Happy Birthday Quake! Let's hope those Eternal guys don't go re-booting & messing up your formula!
Love to see you do an update review of Hexen II alongwith Portal of Praevus anytime soon.
Quake 4 was more scarier than Doom 3
I started watching ur channel about 2 years ago ,the best game reviewer around , wits , comedy and intelligence, and you have valid point start to finish ,never did a reviewer make me want to buy a game so much , keep it the fuck up mate!!!
I can imagine that the reason Doom Eternal ended with the Slayer being sealed away again is to bring him into the world of Quake 1 where he will have to face an all new demonic enemy force
19:24 This weapon is kind of a reference to the Thor-like god character you were supposed to play as in an earlier version of Quake.
I have so many questions I would like to ask to Jeremy Clarkson
the axe is very important for running along the wall whacking at the wall to check for secrets without losing ammo.
It's nearly as old as me.
EDIT : I never hated Quake 4.
Have you reviewed Dimension of the Machine that came out last October?
I love Quake so much that half my back is covered with a tattoo of it.
Still got my original quake CD . With the awesome Trent Reznor soundtrack