• Bri Guy
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    1011 months ago

    Is Quake II worth picking up? I have the first one but never played the others

    • @7StJcS7I3TMNM3i2qf1C@infosec.pub
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      11 months ago

      I wish I could go back and play it again for the first time. It was one of the first games I played after getting my first voodoo card. It felt like I was experiencing the bleeding edge of tech.

      Thinking about it, i can’t remeber a time in the last decade that a game made me feel that way. Crysis was probably the last time.

      More on topic, yes everyone should own it. I think I bought a steam or GOG bundle and got all the doom and quake games for like $5-$10 or something like that.

      • @Tatters@feddit.uk
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        211 months ago

        I remember getting a Voodoo card specifically to play Quake II as one of the first hardware 3D games. Isn’t it the one where at the beginning you get out of a crashed rocket or something like that?

      • @beefcat@beehaw.org
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        211 months ago

        Thinking about it, i can’t remeber a time in the last decade that a game made me feel that way. Crysis was probably the last time.

        Some games that did it for me recently:

        • Cyberpunk with its new RT Overdrive features.
        • Portal RTX
      • @cambriakilgannon@beehaw.org
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        111 months ago

        Messing around with VR gave me that sense of wonder again for a while. If you ever get the chance to play around with it i recommend it

    • @makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      II is epic. It’s a total must if that’s your thing. It literally set the standard. Ok, well Q1 did, but II, what a treat.

    • @ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee
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      211 months ago

      I don’t like it nearly as much as the first but it’s definitely worth a pickup. Still better than the vast majority of boomer shooters that have come out in the past 8 or so years. The remaster is well done.

  • Hot Saucerman
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    311 months ago

    I wonder if mods still work with the remastered version.

    Oh the days of deathmatch on Lithium II servers.

    • @beefcat@beehaw.org
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      611 months ago

      The move to 64-bit and some changes to the API broke many mods. This release is to make it possible for those mods to be updated.

    • Norah - She/TheyOP
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      511 months ago

      If they don’t work yet, than this release means anyone can go ahead and make them work.