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Did anyone here play Quake 1 competitively?
I personally had the best multiplayer online experience during the period I played Quake 1. Quake1 was the single largest contributor to FPS/Clans/Mods/Tournaments-for-prizes. The competitive scene of Quake 1 was launched when John Romero, programmer for iD, offered his Ferrari if any player could win the tournament they had and beat him 1v1 (Romero was probably top5 at the time, and Thresh crushed him.) For those who don\'t know, Quake 1 was being played competitively from appx. 1995 - 2001. Much of the Quake 1 community didn\'t stop to play Quake 2 and only after a year or two of Quake 3 did much of the community finally fizzle. For those CS players who didn\'t know; Quake also set the standard for strategic team based clan matches. On the map DM3 you had a perfectly balanced map for 3v3 and 4v4 that played host to some of the hottest FPS team vs team action you will ever see. As some Starcraft afficianados might like to know, map/weapon control was a huge aspect of this game's strategy.
Tell me what you think/remember.
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it was awesome
i remember the first few series of CTF maps were fucking awesome, and Q1 had such godly custom DM maps, it's a waste none of these maps get play in modern games.. a huge waste. the rocket launcher to this day is just the best play, period... the game had good feel everywhere. it was the biggest multiplayer game ever at the time, i think it set the stage for everything else in terms of competition and whatnot. before it, u had diablo, which was really just hack using kiddies, and u could play games on kali, but the commities were relatively small. starcraft was the next big game i moved to from Q1. everything else is just background games that don't really stick in a multiplayer sense. or a contuation of the quake1 community (moved to Q2, moved to HL a little. whatever)
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i started playing QuakeWorld a month ago, it's coo.
reminds me of Doom, but i like it better. i also like how you can control Winamp from inside the game, from choosing your songs and the volume, so you dont have to alt + tab.
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On December 17 2005 12:52 PuertoRican wrote:
i started playing QuakeWorld a month ago, it's coo.
reminds me of Doom, but i like it better. i also like how you can control Winamp from inside the game, from choosing your songs and the volume, so you dont have to alt + tab.
Umm, you can control winamp in every game by setting global hotkeys, right?
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would be cool if some blizzard guys offered their cars to fans who could beat them...
guess gaming has evolved a lot since then, while the relationship between manufacturers and hardcore fans died off. i think outside of korea, none of the gaming programmers could name the top3 players of any game he made.
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United States12235 Posts
It was actually John Carmack who put up his Ferrari, but it wasn't for a personal competition. It was a friendly launch tournament. Anyway, Quake 1 was great. I played DM a lot against bots and some friends, and I really enjoyed speedrunning in co-op mode too. I lost the game, unfortunately. If anyone still knows, tell me where I can pick it up =)
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I played it until one year ago. Now I just follow it, watching important games and demos. Still chatting some on quakenet too.
ps. QW isnt dead, atleast if you live in Europe. There is a large Qw-only-lan in Stockholm 2-5 January and there are duel leauges and team leagues going right now.
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On December 17 2005 13:24 Excalibur_Z wrote:
It was actually John Carmack who put up his Ferrari, but it wasn't for a personal competition. It was a friendly launch tournament. Anyway, Quake 1 was great. I played DM a lot against bots and some friends, and I really enjoyed speedrunning in co-op mode too. I lost the game, unfortunately. If anyone still knows, tell me where I can pick it up =)
http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/
I dont know if single player is included.
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Quake with more recent graphical updates like fuhQuake is awesome. I'm way to new to have played Q1 during it's glory days, and a major obstacle for me was that I could barely see what was going on because of the putrid graphics. Too bad it's dead in the US, I wouldn't mind playing it. It's straightforward and simple, but effective IMO.
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I dont play it competitively, since I'm just learning it, but i have to say that it is surprisingly strategic :o The weapons also have a great feel to them, unlike some fps where you cant tell how much damage you did to the guy.
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the best of q1/qw is the movement and the speed.
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On December 17 2005 14:02 Jim wrote:Show nested quote +On December 17 2005 13:24 Excalibur_Z wrote:
It was actually John Carmack who put up his Ferrari, but it wasn't for a personal competition. It was a friendly launch tournament. Anyway, Quake 1 was great. I played DM a lot against bots and some friends, and I really enjoyed speedrunning in co-op mode too. I lost the game, unfortunately. If anyone still knows, tell me where I can pick it up =) http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/I dont know if single player is included.
thx for the link.
singleplayer is included as far as i can see.
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is any1 else getting this message??
when i try and start the game it says :
W_LoadWadfile: couldn't loadgfx.wad
anyone know what it is?
i googled it but i can't find it.
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The quake client that has the best graphics is JoeQuake. It's frequently updated. Combine that with Fuh's textures and you basically have about equal graphics as quake 3 (that is, if you like Quake I) 
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Norway28606 Posts
I've played a lot of quakeworld. honestly I put more effort into becoming good at qw than I have ever put into becoming good at bw. 
I once beat some guy at norway's national team but I really wasn't ever at a nation team level myself and most of the time I got raped.
but the maps were awesome.. dm3 for teamplay and dm4 for 1v1.. dm4 in particular rocked so much.
even the previous time I played quakeworld (like 2-3 years ago) I was more concentrated during that than I am during 95% of my bw games. and I really don't understand how cs caught on, qw is soo much better. =[
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I prefer DM6 and DM2 (armor galore) to DM4. DM2 would be perfect if it had a LG somewhere.
Imho, DM4 lends itself to too much spam.
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Also, I prefered Quake in software mode though I had the original Voodoo card.
Classic and retro style :-)
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Norway28606 Posts
dm2 was a lot of fun but it was too large for 1v1 imo.. it didnt have the constant action that I loved about qw.. dm6 was fun but just.. totally being in the zone on dm4 and controlling near the shaft and then just throwing grenades into every spawn location you heard him spawn at.. so much fun. dm6 was my #2 preferred map tho.
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Braavos36374 Posts
i wish i was more into the fps scene and could watch vids of thresh, i heard he was unmatched
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