I play quake because I like shooting cartoon monsters.
I once played halflife, untill after three days I got sick nightmares of shooting real people.

I'm not a ill-temperd guy, but I just can't make it to shoot a more than realistic object of a human. Sorry, maybe it's the pacifist in me that has overcome the patriot. 

Arguing about how much blood should be in another first person shooter is like arguing about how many people should get shot in the next Death Wish sequel. Same shit, different day. 

Think it is an interesting debate. By people on this forum, at least. 

...if you have already decided your game will involve shooting people, it is not childish to show blood when you shoot them. In fact it's rather stupid not to, and it breaks the consistency of the game world, like being able to blow up tanks or robots or whatever, but not some shitty wooden door that's locked because there isn't really a room there.

I do agree that id's art direction is pretty immature usually though. They still haven't grown out of having skeletons on fire in space suits in their games, I guess that's the scariest thing they could think of at the time they made doom 3.

I think the original Doom and Quake are exempt from this though, Doom because the style was consistent and fit the technology at the time, and Quake was genuinely pretty dark, it didn't seem like they were throwing in satanic references to be cool. Quake 3 didn't even have a coherent artistic style, and Doom 3 can be cut some slack because it's a remake of a much older game of course, but there's a lack of real creativity, hell is still the same old pentagram-y fleshy pillar place where lots of stuff is on fire, probably some blood too, maybe the blood will be on fire? Even Painkiller did something more interesting.

I am definitely not convinced by Todd and John C. on Rage so far... they are saying they're getting so creative and building it up, but what we've seen is pretty average, and the idea of combining buggy racing with a FPS and rpg elements sounds just really stupid. For an example of actual creativity, you could look at something like Bioshock, which is set in on a crazy art deco underwater colony in the future FFS, and looks like nothing before it, incorporates gameplay ideas that have never been seen before, with some awesome behavioural systems and A.I. It's not just Quake Wars with go karts and some half-baked fallout plagairism. 

there is a 50 minute long version on fileshack. Pretty high res too. Clocks in at 850mb.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/48300 

I am liking that I chose the 150k capped option that apparently doesn't support download programs, and am still getting it through DAP at 240k. 

Until something fucked up and crashed the download. Oh well, fuck fileshack and it all. 

I was listening to The Fragile and thought that The Very End of You would make a great title for a QW map, but couldn't shake the feeling someone had already used it.

turns out to have been q3tourney6, the worst map ever. >( At least "Starfuckers, Inc" isn't taken. 

I have a great name for a map...

"Coriolis Farce" 

the Van de Graaf Generator
the Van Allen Belt
the Van der Waals Force
the Van Oortmessen Thing 

Just thought of that one, its so silly, I love it... Probably work better with Q3A than Quake though, its rockets are all "goofy and spinny" 

Sounds pretty cool: http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6598&Itemid=51

Might at least breathe some fresh air into the world of first person games. 

Scariness: Well I find some of the Quoth monsters pretty scary. But I also found Q2 monsters scary, at least the concept behind them. I find cyborgs damn scary, especially if they want to make you like them (Trek Borg.)

Doom: Pentagrams are just silly, especially if you don't have a christian education. You're just like, WTF? Is that all? I'm very glad that Quake doesn't rely on them. The flaming skulls and skeletons and giant spiders were idiotic, but that was OK because Doom was just a cool game. The pinkies and Hellknights used to scare me at the time.

Hell, at least the christian version of it, is pure bullshit anyway. There are no sins. Fire crap is just to scare little children... now if we take Greek Hades, or Vikingtime Hel, or grave mounds, or Egyptian graves with mummies, then we're talking.

=) 

go make fitzquakeworld plz 

....sounds like headbob hell to me. 

zquake is pretty much a fitzquakeworld afaik. :) 

Yeah it could end up that way but on the other hand if they succeed in making something that feels good and is fun it make make all other first person games look silly. 

I've nothing against them going for more customers by making bloodless games; they are a company making a product at the end of the day.

But I prefer 'adult' games, even if they are more teenager in their implementation. And those effects only matter after gameplay anyway. 

I hereby decree that PantsQuake shall be created, with full support for bollocks mapping and spankular highlights. 

...and how is that different to modern custom Quake engines?? ;) 

All iD games are available on Steam now. At 5$ a piece, really no reason not to own both q1 mission packs if you don't already. 

if you buy the mission packs through steam, can you play them in the custom engine of your choice? 

Interesting question metl, I guess we'll have to wait till someone who has bought them can tell us the format the data comes in (if its the same old pak files and what have you, I guess its fine, but who knows how they will bundle it?) 

I bought the big pack with all the games. I've let them download and I've exited Steam.

I can now just go into Steam\steamApps\common\<...> and pick out the .wad, .pak, progs.dat, pk3 whatever from there and play it with whatever source port I like.

All the old games are wrapped up in DOSBox when launched from Steam.

There is supposedly a way to launch other engines from within Steam ( http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?postid=331760922#post331757193 ) but I haven't tried that. 

You are teh legend. I will now also have to go buy them all.

Hurrah!