Quake

Hmmm, PS5 or Switch fro gyro controls? I do love the single player on this, that era of FPS has never been beaten for me. Devs can't be arsed to design levels anymore. I kept hearing Doom 2016 touted as a return to the original design - I was gutted when I played it.

Turns out my recollection only goes as far as E1M4 as it's starting to get hazy. I must have just caned these initial levels so many times. I've definitely completed the whole thing a few times but it's only the first half of E1 that's really glued in my brain. I also ended up in the secret level and I can't honestly remember ever finding it before. Met a shambler who scared the shit out of me.

The ambient soundtrack is the greatest thing ever though. It's still genuinely uncomfortable at points.

This quite a package really, all the expansion packs, new episodes and mod support.

Very tempted for 8 quid, probably try and clear a backlog game first and get it next weekend for the bank holiday.

In the very early days of reconfigurable keys, when WASD became the default, I decided I was going to use the numeric keypad instead. I did this for at least a couple of years, until the need for about 2 metres of desk space to scoot the keyboard along became too much of an inconvenience

Had a quick look at the PC Game Pass version of this and while quite nice it definitely has a few glitches. Wall clipping in tight corners (and a few ceilings) has appeared numerous times and a weird glitch which I didn't have the first time I ran it but was there the next few times where the keyboard worked but would beep intermittently while playing and stopped working on the 'console' (again this did work the first time for a few timedemo tests).

It has potential though. Quake64 seems an odd choice of mod but it is there to download, not sure if that port had anything exclusive (like the Saturn version did).

From what I saw there were some slight alterations to level geometry at points and flashier coloured lighting but don't think there's anything else.

Finished the game on Nightmare. Twenty-five years later, I still got it (ok so it helps that I have played it many times in the past years). Also this version's Nightmare is not as bad as the original. Having less HP sucks, sure, but damage seems more like hard mode.

To the expansions next. I have only played these once, centuries ago... I seem to remember they weren't very good. We'll see.

I'm holding out hope for a Q2 remaster that allows mods (ok, just Lithium) or even better a Q3 remaster that allows Rocket Arena.

It's a sure fire hit in the current climate. Quake Live was a disaster and far too early.

Quake 2 was on 360 already so it's not out of the realms of possibility.

That's what I thought (hoped). I do have it somewhere for the 360 but would be great to have it for the ps4/5.

Back in the day it took all morning to download the multi file QTEST demo from Compuserve.

All 12MB of it.

I still use that as a speed guide to this day. What took all morning to download on dial-up now takes a second or two.

Jesus. What a LAN party we had that weekend though. I ruined my hands using cursor keys, but what a grant time we had.

PC only. At the moment...

Been subbed to that guy for a long time, he does some interesting stuff and talks about all the weird console hardware modding that happened. But when he talks about games, he always includes some gameplay footage that he recorded himself and my god, he stinks at games. It's funny how the people with the deepest knowledge are terrible at the things they preach. 

Doesn't matter the game, he's bad at playing everything.