If Quake was made now....... - Page 2

Sean_W · 11-04-11, 09:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Ninja Prime

Consoles existed when Quake came out, guess your arguement fails.

They didn 't port games to the PC like now, so you fail.

Video was funny as hell.

Logical · 11-04-11, 10:08 AM

Quake, wolfenstein 3D, Doom, UT damn i miss that era. Why dont i enjoy games as much these days, is it because im getting older or are they just not as appreciable as much ?

Sean_W · 11-04-11, 10:36 AM

It's because there is no variety in games now. There is no quake, UT, Doom type games out there because they're most military shooters. UT3 was a fail and as said, games are spoiled like that video shows. The Xbox is responsible for this because that's where ports to the PC come from.

**nekrosoft13** · 11-04-11, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Logical

Quake, wolfenstein 3D, Doom, UT damn i miss that era. Why dont i enjoy games as much these days, is it because im getting older or are they just not as appreciable as much ?

i'm in the same boat, 90% of "modern" games suck, there nothing good about them other then few "good lookers"

**crainger** · 11-04-11, 03:17 PM

LOL, that was good. Though one thing I noticed with the tutorial, Witcher 2 didn't really have a tutorial, and everyone complained, yet they were all PC gamers. Whatever i happening is happening to all platforms.

It's also funny, one of the most old school, Quake like, difficult games out there right now is console exclusive (Dark Souls)

**Destroy** · 11-04-11, 07:08 PM

Bit extreme but that video pretty much sums up my disgust with most current PC games.

GLQuake rocked so hard!!! So glad I was apart of that era.

JohnDio · 11-04-11, 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Destroy

Bit extreme but that video pretty much sums up my disgust with most current PC games.

GLQuake rocked so hard!!! So glad I was apart of that era.

+1

Still remember when I didn't have an internet connection and visited an Internet Cafe to 'write' the GLQuake setup on some floppy disks (long live WinZip). Ah, those were the days. Also, the moment I saw Tenebrae running with all those stencil shadows and lighting, similar to Doom3, I was amazed. Really wish we'll get that 'WOW' factor someday in the future

**Ninjaman09** · 11-06-11, 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Logical

Quake, wolfenstein 3D, Doom, UT damn i miss that era. Why dont i enjoy games as much these days, is it because im getting older or are they just not as appreciable as much ?

Been wondering the same thing myself. I'm thinking it's probably the getting older more than anything, but I think games have changed significantly in their design philosophy from being heavily gameplay-focused to being more like interactive movies. Still, there have been some pretty big exceptions this year. Most of them are indie games though.

Viral · 11-06-11, 04:32 PM

Yep, games are all about the cinematic moments these days. Because they put so much money into these (scripted) scenes, they have to make the games easy enough for everyone to see them. People wouldn't be happy if they couldn't watch the best part of a movie because they weren't good enough at following the plot earlier on.

**qube** · 11-06-11, 06:47 PM

i just say Quake Live no game can touch it.

Ninja Prime · 11-08-11, 03:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Sean_W

They didn 't port games to the PC like now, so you fail.

Video was funny as hell.

Turok was ported to PC as was Tomb Raider. These were before Q2 even. Fail again.

**crainger** · 11-08-11, 03:20 AM

Ports have been around forever, a lot of cheap games that appeared on those shareware discs were ports, like Body Blows (an Amiga game no?) Street Fighter 2 series, Primal Rage, even some of the early sierra and Lucasarts games were developed with a non PC platform primarily. These all had problems, requiring faster PCs than they really should have, bad midi music where the lead platform used a Tracker based system. PS1 ports were often the worst for that Time Commando and FFVII both had shocking midi music where the PS1 versions had decent soundtracks.

My first computer was an Amstrad in 1987, the majority of it's AAA title library were bad ports from other systems like NES, Commodore, Mastersystem.

Moral of the story. Ports have been around forever and kids these days should shut up.

11-04-11, 10:08 AM	#14
Logical Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: UK Posts: 2,510	Re: If Quake was made now....... Quake, wolfenstein 3D, Doom, UT damn i miss that era. Why dont i enjoy games as much these days, is it because im getting older or are they just not as appreciable as much ?

11-04-11, 10:36 AM	#15
Sean_W Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 2,438	Re: If Quake was made now....... It's because there is no variety in games now. There is no quake, UT, Doom type games out there because they're most military shooters. UT3 was a fail and as said, games are spoiled like that video shows. The Xbox is responsible for this because that's where ports to the PC come from.

11-04-11, 03:17 PM	#17
crainger Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia Posts: 29,535	Re: If Quake was made now....... LOL, that was good. Though one thing I noticed with the tutorial, Witcher 2 didn't really have a tutorial, and everyone complained, yet they were all PC gamers. Whatever i happening is happening to all platforms. It's also funny, one of the most old school, Quake like, difficult games out there right now is console exclusive (Dark Souls)

11-04-11, 07:08 PM	#18
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Viral Registered User of Women Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Australia Posts: 2,523	Re: If Quake was made now....... Yep, games are all about the cinematic moments these days. Because they put so much money into these (scripted) scenes, they have to make the games easy enough for everyone to see them. People wouldn't be happy if they couldn't watch the best part of a movie because they weren't good enough at following the plot earlier on. __________________ Q9550 w/ Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme \| 4GB Team Xtreme Dark 800MHz CL4 \| Gigabyte X48-DS5 ASUS Radeon 5870 \| 240GB OCZ Vertex 2 \| 1TB WD Green Power \| BenQ V2400W 24" LCD Corsair HX-1000w \| LG GGW-H20L 6x DL Blu-Ray Burner/HD-DVD Reader \| Coolermaster Cosmos S Acer TravelMate 4002WNLCi: Pentium M 725 @ 1.6GHz \| Mobility Radeon 9700/64MB \| 2GB DDR400 \| 15.4" WXGA

11-06-11, 06:47 PM	#22
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11-08-11, 03:20 AM	#24
crainger Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia Posts: 29,535	Re: If Quake was made now....... Ports have been around forever, a lot of cheap games that appeared on those shareware discs were ports, like Body Blows (an Amiga game no?) Street Fighter 2 series, Primal Rage, even some of the early sierra and Lucasarts games were developed with a non PC platform primarily. These all had problems, requiring faster PCs than they really should have, bad midi music where the lead platform used a Tracker based system. PS1 ports were often the worst for that Time Commando and FFVII both had shocking midi music where the PS1 versions had decent soundtracks. My first computer was an Amstrad in 1987, the majority of it's AAA title library were bad ports from other systems like NES, Commodore, Mastersystem. Moral of the story. Ports have been around forever and kids these days should shut up.