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The Essence Of Quake?

Posted by Shambler on 2012/01/15 22:37:33

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#59 posted by oh, that person on 2012/01/29 12:16:02

The Essence Of Quake

#60 posted by RickyT33 on 2012/01/29 12:28:12

Dadada-dadada.....

(Those screamy voices on CD track 1)

Ghd

#61 posted by ijed on 2012/01/29 12:50:54

Yeah, elsewhere :)

Post here?

http://icculus.org/remakequake/forum/index.php?board=1.0

Nah

#62 posted by Ghd Fladjern Tilbud on 2012/01/29 13:50:40

you will end up banning me in no time

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#63 posted by ijed on 2012/01/29 16:41:10

#64 posted by RickyT33 on 2012/01/30 01:37:51

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F7s3RjAgP4

#65 posted by Spirit on 2012/01/30 09:54:28

would you guys consider Quake cheesy or serious? I've been thinking and could not find much humour in it but I might be blind. it would be nowhere doom 3's stupid "red light and hahahohoho" crap.

Serious

#66 posted by nitin on 2012/01/30 11:05:08

Cheerious

#67 posted by negke on 2012/01/30 11:28:20

It's A Mash Up

#68 posted by ijed on 2012/01/30 12:01:56

Serious In SP

#69 posted by SleepwalkR on 2012/01/30 12:20:37

bit more cheesy in deathmatch.

#70 posted by Spirit on 2012/01/30 12:44:18

I am interested in sp only, dm is a completely different thing. examples of cheesyness (or likewise)?

Dunno About Cheesiness

#71 posted by oh, that person on 2012/01/30 12:53:40

But I always laugh when I lure a Fiend into jumping off a big cliff and watch it fall.

#72 posted by ZealousQuakeFan on 2012/01/30 15:27:32

Well Ogres basically being a rip off of Leatherface is pretty cheesy :E

#73 posted by oh, that person on 2012/01/30 15:46:54

Not for those who played Quake before seeing the film.

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#74 posted by Text_Fish on 2012/01/30 17:32:32

I don't see Quake as 'serious' but I think 'pulpy' would be a more apt term than 'cheesy'. Case-in-point; the overexaggerated messages at the end of each episode.

#75 posted by mh on 2012/01/30 17:58:12

I see Quake as straddling a line between the "we just put all this shit in because we thought it would be awesome" approach of Doom and the more serious/military stylings of Quake II onwards. Sometimes it goes more in one direction than the other, so hence the sterile base maps, the wacky quit messages, the "we are all expendable", tarbaby jumping, etc etc etc.

Probably explains why everyone seems to take something different from it, why everyone disagrees about exactly what it is, and why any attempt to please everyone is doomed to failure.

#76 posted by Ankh on 2012/01/30 22:15:48

I have always feared going into this hallway:
http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/files/screen_shots/e4m4.jpg

As Did I

#77 posted by oh, that person on 2012/01/30 22:28:19

#78 posted by JneeraZ on 2012/01/30 22:40:41

Is it the misaligned textures that give you a sense of foreboding?

#79 posted by oh, that person on 2012/01/30 23:00:23

The near pitch darkness, hearing Scrags but not seeing them, the Fiends in the cells making me jump whenever they notice me.

E4 is my favorite.

RADICALLY INCOHERENT

#80 posted by Drew on 2012/01/31 01:09:08

The Post?

#81 posted by ijed on 2012/01/31 14:45:19

Or the thread subject?

Quake Itself

#82 posted by Drew on 2012/02/01 02:23:03

Is radically incoherent, which is what makes it so re-interpretable and awesome.

Essence

#83 posted by Shambler on 2012/02/03 23:12:14

"Probably explains why everyone seems to take something different from it, why everyone disagrees about exactly what it is, and why any attempt to please everyone is doomed to failure. "

Translates to:

"RMQ developers can do whatever the hell they like and dismiss any criticism that their mod isn't true to Quake as they deny there is any true essence of Quake"

:O

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