Is the Quake series worth playing?

[inpurpleshadows]

I've recently regained my interest in retro (style) shooters. Because of that, I've started replaying a bunch of my favorite FPS games such as DOOM and Half-Life and even delved into a few titles I've never played before like Goldeneye 007. There are also a bunch of other old-school first-person shooters I plan to experience, but Quake is a series that's caught my attention. Now that I'm in the forums, there's one question I want to ask. Is Quake or the series as a whole worth playing?

[=RaggA=]

I'd say yes, 100%. Worth bearing in mind that the Quake series is weird, all 4 of the main line games all play very differently to each other and everybody has their particular favourite (more often than not the one they started with).

-You will never get consensus on whether Quake 1 or Quake 2 is better, the respective fans will die on their hill over that argument. (Psst, its Quake 1 :-p lol).

-Quake 3 is it's own beast, being solely a deathmatch focused game with the single player campaign having you fighting your way through different ranks of AI controlled opponents until you face the champion in a final show down.

-Quake 4... Uhhh... well everyone will tell you Q4 is the weakest in the series and I would agree to a certain extent. But for all folks say it's a bad game, it's really not. It's just of it's time, a mid 2000s shooter... You'll understand when you play it. Great atmosphere though, it uses the Doom 3 engine so the lighting is exquisite for the time.

[brightfreak]

Yes. =RaggA='s first post is a fine answer. So... I agree, and Yes.
And, yes, it is Quake 1 ;)

[Outlander]

It's Quake. Literally one of the best games ever made!

[アウトコールド]

Overwhelmingly postitive, what do you think?

[Dreamakuma]

RaggA is just about 100% on the nose. Quake is a franchise worth looking at both from a gameplay perspective and a historical one.

I'll argue a very unpopular opinion that the weakest game currently is probably quake 3. A multiplayer arena shooter almost 25 years old is going to have two major issues for new players. Bots are weak and diving into multiplayer has such a skill ramp it may as well be a wall when you find players.

Quake 1 is amazing albeit with it's quirks. It's tone is incredibly unique. The easy to access content with the remaster is nice, although a sourceport will get you the best of the best and most content. my biggest complaint is the "Bosses". Then again, Id's idea of a boss fight is a mixed bag in retrospect.

Quake 2 holds up and feels more connected to Doom in many ways. Gone is the mashup of genres for a proper vision of a setting with little compromise for it's time. The enemy design is more coherent than the first game which can be good or bad depending on outlook.

Both of these games are classics.

Now onto a tangent and a more unpopular opinion.

Doom 3, Quake 4 and Wolfenstein 2009 which all ran on id tech 4 are underrated and i'd say great FPS games in an era of call of duty and the "Halo Killer". Sure they aren't Half Life 2, halo 3, or CoD but they are worth the time and I'd say are overlooked gems of that decade.

[=RaggA=]

Originally posted by Dreamakuma:

Doom 3, Quake 4 and Wolfenstein 2009 which all ran on id tech 4 are underrated and i'd say great FPS games in an era of call of duty and the "Halo Killer". Sure they aren't Half Life 2, halo 3, or CoD but they are worth the time and I'd say are overlooked gems of that decade.

May I also add the original Prey (the 2006 one) to that list of underrated classics. Totally worth a play if you are able to track a copy down. Possibly a spicy take: Prey is the best Id Tech 4 game. Or at the very least the most creative Id Tech 4 game.

[Dreamakuma]

Originally posted by =RaggA=:

May I also add the original Prey (the 2006 one) to that list of underrated classics. Totally worth a play if you are able to track a copy down. Possibly a spicy take: Prey is the best Id Tech 4 game. Or at the very least the most creative Id Tech 4 game.

Again, I can't disagree with a word you wrote. Only reason I didn't include prey was it wasn't an id IP. Brink is really the only Bad id tech 4 game.

[Electric Cupcake]

Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy, as well.

But buy the original disks off ebay or something. Don't give the damn mouse a cent.

I hope the Yuuzhan Vong drop a moon on Anaheim for what those bastards did to Star Wars.

[ULTRA]

Originally posted by =RaggA=:

Originally posted by Dreamakuma:

Doom 3, Quake 4 and Wolfenstein 2009 which all ran on id tech 4 are underrated and i'd say great FPS games in an era of call of duty and the "Halo Killer". Sure they aren't Half Life 2, halo 3, or CoD but they are worth the time and I'd say are overlooked gems of that decade.

May I also add the original Prey (the 2006 one) to that list of underrated classics. Totally worth a play if you are able to track a copy down. Possibly a spicy take: Prey is the best Id Tech 4 game. Or at the very least the most creative Id Tech 4 game.

I agree, Prey is the best of that generation and the last good game that Human Head will have ever made

[Seamus]

It's a shame that Prey 2017 is still a good game, but in no way should have been given that name. Should have just released it as Typhon.

Means no matter what we'll never get that Prey 2 we got a trailer for.

[Ikagura]

Quake and Unreal yeah.

[ULTRA]

Originally posted by Seamus:

It's a shame that Prey 2017 is still a good game, but in no way should have been given that name. Should have just released it as Typhon.

Means no matter what we'll never get that Prey 2 we got a trailer for.

Especially since both the Prey 2006 and Prey 2017 teams were assigned "pick up that can, citizen" duty with Redfall and then promptly beanbagged afterward

[Seamus]

Just for anyone who hasn't seen it. The announce trailer for the sequel to Prey 2006 was amazing.

https://youtu.be/5h2TkpFEsn8

[Dreamakuma]

I gotta make a wonderful comment here.
All you blokes are good people. It's refreshing to see such positive discourse about the things we enjoy.

[Delabane]

I got my first PC for Christmas 1995, Doom II had come out recently then got Rise of the Triad. Following the next Christmas Duke Nukem 3D, Quake and Tomb Raider. Quake was just amazing and for the last 28 years, Quake, Quake II are the games that have been constantly installed/uninstalled over the last 28 years. There are games I got 10 years ago that I never did this for. There is something about Quake/Quake II that modern games don't do.