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Easy there, Randy. Q3A obviously has a gory, dingy style courtesy of Carmack, Cloud, Steed, and co., but it's also got cheese to it. The usual id over-the-top explosions and gibs to where it crosses the line into silliness, all the bot chatter and smack-talk and taunt clips (plus some of the designs themselves, really- Stroggo the Clown anyone?), Anarki's goofy-ass rainbow name, the traditional arena shooter kill feed messages (Wiggles rode Shazbot's rocket, Joops does a back flip into the lava), and so on. It's cheesy, but not in a constantly up-front way; more like Heavy Metal or 2000 AD or similar where it's bits and bobs presented alongside completely straight-faced gratuitous violence and Amazon titties. On the topic of Q:C, the #1 problem is being outsourced to a bunch of fucking drunk Russians with a half-broken (more than half, honestly) engine cobbled together from the remains of an also half-broken Halo port. Everything else is secondary, really- no sense arguing over what subjectively makes a game good or bad if the objective stuff is buttfucked anyway. If the engine was solid and Tim Spill-its and Adam "Gomer" Pyle weren't constantly dicking around with things they don't need to, then there would be room for topics like what exactly defines a lack of creativity when it's been demonstrated by various games already that arena shooters just aren't popular anymore and probably won't be again, regardless of how heavily a dev decides to either straight-rehash Q3A or branch off and add some of their own stuff (minor movement wise like Reflex or Diabotical "SOON", or semi-major gameplay wise like Q:C). Man, Q3A was filled with cheese. From the characters to the neo-goth textures to everything else Spud mentioned. It was Quake Au Gratin. (Which was fine BTW.)
Ranger having a wife named Annie and two kids?
A I consider shitting all over that, I'm reminded Doomguy had a pet rabbit named Daisy. Ranger is suspiciously close to Reznor, and Reznor's wife gets pregnant every time he so much as sneezes. Deepest lore???!?
Oh boy, I knew the Strogg fella was gonna be annoying from the released voice files way back, but that's just awful. They were supposed to go for the waifu audience with Athena and/or Hunter, not the Borderlands audience with this.
Lol. I don't even have the energy to pretend I give a monkey's about how awful this game looks.
Someone else from here once said that this shouldn't have been called Quake Champions but id Champions instead and I couldn't agree more. Just like everyone else, I'm bummed that we aren't getting a true sequel to Quake 1 (and we probably never will) but after interacting with the community outside of Quake 1, it seems that for many, multiplayer represents the true legacy of this franchise.
The game is fun albeit really frustrating after reaching a certain level of experience. I think that it's way more accessible than Quake Live, which I couldn't enjoy because I would get absolutely demolished every single time that I played. The game has many glaring issues, a few of which stem from a fundamental level, but the bottom line is that it's really fun. I'm guessing that there would have been less backlash against it if Quake wasn't in the title but then people would be complaining that it should have been called Quake given the game play and weapon selection. I ended up buying the full version after having a ton of fun with it and I sincerely hope that it helps to send a message that people are still interested in Quake. Whatever your opinion on Doom 4, it pretty much caused an FPS revival (especially a renewed interest in retro style shooters) so the time is ripe for a new single player Quake game - possibly even a proper sequel to Quake 1. Thanks to Spy sharing the link to the QC trailer in general abuse, I actually downloaded the game and tried out a couple of matches. I was very pleasantly surprised, considering the only shooter I've ever really played online up until this point is Counter-Strike Source, and that was like 10 years ago. @~@
Quite a clever idea from Bethesda: You can download the game for free until June 17th, and if you've played at least one match, you can keep the game even after the 17th. That strategy forced me to actually play the game, which was quite a hurdle for me to overcome, because I was afraid I'd be good for nothing but being red paint. But based on the couple of matches I played, seems the matchmaking system worked well enough to make me feel like an MLG 360 no-scope pro! xD But what I'm trying to say here is that if you guys haven't tried out the game yet, then I'd recommend you to do so, while you have the chance to get the game for free. I think you could keep the game even without playing a match, as long as you just logged in. Well, good thing I was in the misconception that you had to play at least one game, so that encouraged me enough to try it! xD
Have played this game now in the free week.
Same Engine like H&G and PuG, PfP system and a Leveldesign that's offending to a primate too. News! If you download this game now from steam, you have to agree three different bills and instaslling the new bethesda plattform too. ...that they'd have to pay me to even trying one cocking match of that shite. It's not a small amount. Slightly larger than the amount I'd happily pay to get all trace of Quake Chumpions erased from existence.
Shambler isn't okay with people liking things he doesn't like, but at least his unrelenting hate of everything Q:C related is somewhat more sensible to read than
Same Engine like H&G and PuG, PfP system and a Leveldesign that's offending to a primate too. Or you have to agree three different bills and instaslling the new bethesda plattform too. which is blatantly wrong as there's no ToS agreement playing it through Steam other than the usual first-run checkbox and the primary reason to play through Steam is so you don't have to use the awful fucking Bethesda launcher. Ok? So the agreements have no influence on the game? Hear this the first time.
The funny thing is that I bought it on steam and had three agreements poping up and the Bethesda launcher automaticly installed. Maybe this si new since E3 or missed something. Will test what you wrote on the next bethesda game I buy. :) I'm not sure why it installed the Beth launcher, it's possible something bugged somewhere; I got a key for Steam a couple months ago after playing on the Bethesda launcher for a year and it didn't give any extra warnings or dialogues or anything on Steam, it just let me install it, had me enter my Beth account details ingame, and that was that. Uninstalled the Bethesda launcher directly afterwards and have had zero issues, so try uninstalling it anyway, it's just bloatware you don't need at this point and is unbelievably shitty in and of itself.
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