While I appreciate the skill required to draw like that, I don't like the actual design. Cthon is cool because his face is a giant scar. This looks like some generic fire elemental that could be from anywhere. 

he also did a Fiend redesign and is claiming this could actually be from a new quake franchise -

http://cyl1981.deviantart.com/art/Creature-design-20120303-288310642 

that's my understanding... maybe the guy is just a really talented troll. 

has eyes. Enough said =) 

So this guy works at id and is doing concept work for Quake monsters.... and this board isn't blowing the fuck up? :D

I really do wonder what a Quake reboot from id would look like. The pessimist in me thinks they would sanitize the sitting too much, ie less demonic imagery, less cthulu type stuff, and less varied level designs with more linear routes.

The dimension hopping nature of Quake could make for some interesting interconnected levels though, and perhaps could be used to keep a fairly oldskool progression structure of deliberately separated maps (how's that for contradiction ;).

Fuck now I want to see what Ziggurat Vertigo 2014 looks like :) 

For Daz. Also: Chthon. 

Typical Blizzard treatment of throwing as many spikes on something as possible.

Daz:

Quake is already pretty sterile in imagery when compared to Doom. I actually hope they don't oversaturate the game with the stuff - the last thing a Quake reboot needs is to look like a metal album and have tons of pedestrian Lovecraft "references". 

source for him working at id please. 

whats your problem with a new chthon? he's pretty assome

QV yay!!!!! 

i've been wondering what the fuch with you id? 

Sorry guys, I haven't visited the func properly in months, so I haven't been actively ignoring posts; just inactively ignoring them, or something. Eh.

Anyway, in answer to people wondering whether I've abandoned my quake project I was pimping about 18 months ago (or whenever). Here's the current status:

The work has not been abandoned - but it will no longer be for "quake" - as it is being turned into a free, standalone game made in a modern engine, although the game will closely adhere to the aesthetics of quake (i.e. low poly chunky geometry, point-filtered textures etc.) It will look quakey, play quakey and have a quakey atmosphere etc. - it definitely won't look like a "HD remake" or any such bullshit.

Here's the thing though - it's not even close to being finished because it's currently sitting in third priority behind two commercial projects which are taking all my time up for now.

I'll let you know once things start really moving on it and/or I have stuff to show. 

whats your problem with a new chthon?

Did you even read the rest of my post, you useless, permanently drunk shite? 

lol

take it easy, dude 

I'm not trolling. I love the fact that whether you believe the mainstream science take on our history or not (which includes the conclusion that we have had very strong intelligence, speech and hearing for well over 100'000 years) it is given that the age of the Sphinx is almost impossible to truly determine because you cannot carbon-date stone.

Not they have found CITIES of ruins underneath 30 METERS of sediment in South Africa. I mean 6-10 thousand years is one guess, but it wouldn't shock me if in a few years, after some more excavations, they start unraveling more evidence for our origins that points to something different from 6000 years ago. More like 100'000 years+. And the missing link is still missing. 

is that I love the fact that people instantly dismiss this as BS. Like they KNOW that the know better. Yeah right. I like to keep an open mind. 

I watched the whole video, a friend mailed me this one too..

If those numbers are correct (20 million or more of these structures), then archaeologists have too explain that. I wonder what they will present as an explanation. 

Ricky, link us to some actually scientific sources. Then we a) have a base to talk about and b) found a link. An open mind can be easily misled. The video you linked is esoteric rubbish, I mean just look at the topics he goes into and how he cites zero sources (I only skipped through it because I found it a waste of time). Wake up, sheep! 

alternative archaeology is lots of fun in Lovecraft, but I'll wait until theories are accepted as mainstream science before strongly believing in them. 

Especially about the specifics of the Adams Calendar site being anything near to what he says it is. I'm just saying that I think it makes sense, actually. At makes sense to me that we might not have got to be here in the way that we are told in mainstream science.

Some what the guy said didn't convince me at all, especially when he starts talking about psychics and channeling and suchlike.


I mean how the FUCK do you explain, for example, how the Egyptians knew about the existence of the planets that we didn't even discover until 100-200 years ago, because they aren't even visible through any kind of conventional telescope?!?! It's undeniable that there are documented ancient carvings and paintings depicting them.

So, go on then, mainstream science - explain. 

http://thedivulgers.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Sitchin-with-Tablet.jpg 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Hieroglif_z_Abydos.jpg


Yeah - sorry - not the Egyptians, the other lot, but the Egyptians knew about HELICOPTERS dude... 

blah blah blah...

I highly doubt the ancient egyptians knew about 20th century technology. 

Seriously... 

An open mind is sheer laziness. An open mind is simply hedging one's bets whilst indulging in pseudo-intellectual claptrap. Either you believe or you don't.

Yeah, I've got an open mind about the non-existence of God. Let's discuss world religion. G'night.