So... Quake...

[Awor Szurkrarz]

I found a flash version and I fucking love the graphics and the atmosphere and the monster design. Too bad I can't play it with music. I heard it was made by Nine Inch Nails.

Anyway, I find the crude, barbaric sculptures of terrain and monsters and the rough textures fascinating. I miss stuff like this when playing later 3D games.
Generally, that period - Quake and Syndicate Wars were my favourite 3D art as they create something unique, have their won graphical style instead of trying to emulate reality and failing.

 

[sgc_meltdown]

haha, I wonder if retro-grittiness will ever be adopted by indies

there's a fine line between cartoonish and brutish there

 

[Excidium]

Quake was brown before it was cool.

 

[praetor]

I heard it was made by Nine Inch Nails.

it wasn't made by NIN but by Trent Reznor. some may argue that's the same thing, but they'd be wrong

 

[Forest Dweller]

Does the steam version of the Quakes have the original music?

 

[DraQ]

I found a flash version and I fucking love the graphics and the atmosphere and the monster design. Too bad I can't play it with music. I heard it was made by Nine Inch Nails.

Anyway, I find the crude, barbaric sculptures of terrain and monsters and the rough textures fascinating. I miss stuff like this when playing later 3D games.
Generally, that period - Quake and Syndicate Wars were my favourite 3D art as they create something unique, have their won graphical style instead of trying to emulate reality and failing.

Quake is all about atmosphere to me. Monster design factors into it, so do environments, lovecraftian inspirations (even if bastardized) and so does music - check YT for some tracks.



As for rough textures, I can imagine the monsters in non-rough versions crystal clear if I can view them up-close, so they do their job well enough for me - I like them despite being rough, not because of that.

 

[Sceptic]

I uploaded an image of my CD for DraQ at some point in the past, so if any of the Steamtards would like to experience the game the way it's meant to be played I'd be happy to share the link (PM only, as I don't want to get into trouble with DU for spreading piracy links. Let's keep the Codex clean of such horrible internet misuses)

Quake is all about atmosphere to me. Monster design factors into it, so do environments, lovecraftian inspirations (even if bastardized) and so does music

This though I also find the level design in many places (especially the Romero levels) strongly reinforces the atmosphere.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

I found a flash version and I fucking love the graphics and the atmosphere and the monster design. Too bad I can't play it with music. I heard it was made by Nine Inch Nails.

Anyway, I find the crude, barbaric sculptures of terrain and monsters and the rough textures fascinating. I miss stuff like this when playing later 3D games.
Generally, that period - Quake and Syndicate Wars were my favourite 3D art as they create something unique, have their won graphical style instead of trying to emulate reality and failing.

Quake is all about atmosphere to me. Monster design factors into it, so do environments, lovecraftian inspirations (even if bastardized) and so does music - check YT for some tracks.



As for rough textures, I can imagine the monsters in non-rough versions crystal clear if I can view them up-close, so they do their job well enough for me - I like them despite being rough, not because of that.

The thing is that I love the roughness of the textures. That they have visible pixels shown. It's like seeing these big ass traces of paintbrush on these barbaric paintings of Vincent Van Gogh. One of the things that I love about games like Quake or Syndicate wars is how they created interesting textures by using big ass pixels.

haha, I wonder if retro-grittiness will ever be adopted by indies

I doubt it. They'd still need the level of graphical skills that professional graphics guys from the 95+s had.

there's a fine line between cartoonish and brutish there

Ugh. Texture blur .

 

[Admiral jimbob]

I'd be happy to share the link

 

[nihil]

I found a flash version and I fucking love the graphics and the atmosphere and the monster design. Too bad I can't play it with music. I heard it was made by Nine Inch Nails.

Anyway, I find the crude, barbaric sculptures of terrain and monsters and the rough textures fascinating. I miss stuff like this when playing later 3D games.
Generally, that period - Quake and Syndicate Wars were my favourite 3D art as they create something unique, have their won graphical style instead of trying to emulate reality and failing.

Glad to see someone else appreciates this. Everyone talks about Quake multiplayer, but I always liked the single player a lot, for the reasons you mentioned, and the "Lovecraftian" theme, but also the level design. So many hidden places and interconnections. It really had a great sense of exploration to it. Nothing like new FPS games. Seriously, every FPS level designer should look at Quake.

haha, I wonder if retro-grittiness will ever be adopted by indies

there's a fine line between cartoonish and brutish there

That's GLQuake. Much uglier/less atmospheric than the original.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

I found a flash version and I fucking love the graphics and the atmosphere and the monster design. Too bad I can't play it with music. I heard it was made by Nine Inch Nails.

Anyway, I find the crude, barbaric sculptures of terrain and monsters and the rough textures fascinating. I miss stuff like this when playing later 3D games.
Generally, that period - Quake and Syndicate Wars were my favourite 3D art as they create something unique, have their won graphical style instead of trying to emulate reality and failing.

Glad to see someone else appreciates this. Everyone talks about Quake multiplayer, but I always liked the single player a lot, for the reasons you mentioned, and the "Lovecraftian" theme, but also the level design. So many hidden places and interconnections. It really had a great sense of exploration to it. Nothing like new FPS games. Seriously, every FPS level designer should look at Quake.

Yeah. Levels are quite fun to explore too.

I remember sculpting lots of Quake-style monsters when I was a twelve.

One thing that I don't like is how un-armoured guys can take a shotgun blast to the chest and survive, though.

 

[Satori (original)]

I heard it was made by Nine Inch Nails.

it wasn't made by NIN but by Trent Reznor. some may argue that's the same thing, but they'd be wrong

True, however the nailgun ammo box had NIN on it so it's a common mistake.

 

[Renegen]

Does the steam version of the Quakes have the original music?

What is it with always wishing to give Steam money? Quake's source code has been released for free, and while I'm not sure if it means you can download the game, they have the excellent Quake Live available for free.

 

[Destroid]

haha, I wonder if retro-grittiness will ever be adopted by indies

It already has, see the huge 8-bit/retro/pixel style of many current indie games.

 

[Forest Dweller]

Does the steam version of the Quakes have the original music?

What is it with always wishing to give Steam money? Quake's source code has been released for free, and while I'm not sure if it means you can download the game, they have the excellent Quake Live available for free.

Lol. It wasn't me wishing to give Steam money, it was me wishing to get the games in a convenient manner. And they were on discount.

 

[Forest Dweller]

Ooh, looks like somebody got DICK-SLAMMED!

 

[Occasionally Fatal]

Anyway, interesting timing. I always thought it was lame how the original Quake never got its own series, instead of id being lazy and using it for their totally unrelated game.

 

[sea]

Quake is still fun to this day, especially when you get a source port to improve the controls and visuals a bit. It's challenging, the weapons are great to use, the level design is fairly open and has some good secrets and puzzles, etc. It's even got one of the scariest levels I've ever played in a shooter near the end of its campaign, this one with hallways that move around, traps, and a fucking freaky ambiance to it. I'd rather play it than almost any other shooter these days, that's for sure.

 

[Peter]

The thing is that I love the roughness of the textures. That they have visible pixels shown. It's like seeing these big ass traces of paintbrush on these barbaric paintings of Vincent Van Gogh. One of the things that I love about games like Quake or Syndicate wars is how they created interesting textures by using big ass pixels.

Low-poly with chunky textures is awesome as fuck when done right. As was said in this thread, I wish some hipster indies would opt for that visual style.

Check these out:

http://www.tomtallian.com/

Sorry for going off-topic

 

[sea]

The funny thing is that all you'd need to do to make that model look nice and "current gen" is to add some tessellation in there. From a modeling perspective, simple is almost always best and will get you great results if you're smart about it.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

The thing is that I love the roughness of the textures. That they have visible pixels shown. It's like seeing these big ass traces of paintbrush on these barbaric paintings of Vincent Van Gogh. One of the things that I love about games like Quake or Syndicate wars is how they created interesting textures by using big ass pixels.

Low-poly with chunky textures is awesome as fuck when done right. As was said in this thread, I wish some hipster indies would opt for that visual style.

Check these out:

http://www.tomtallian.com/

Sorry for going off-topic

Aww^^

Too bad that it has that it gives that non-serious hipster indie vibe. Both Quake and Syndicate were dead serious.

EDIT:
Aww, it's so cute

 

[nihil]

I'd rather play it than almost any other shooter these days, that's for sure.

Yeah. Quake (1) and Doom (1/2) are what I go back and play when I feel for FPS. I'm considering Rage, though. It looks pretty satisfying. After I'm done with Dark Souls. Holy shit, that game is great, by the way.

 

[BLOBERT]

BROS I RECENTLY FOUND QUAKE AND SOUNDTRACK AROUND THE NET IN VARIOUS PLACES BUT IT TOOK A LITTLE WORK

 

[AlaCarcuss]

I'd rather play it than almost any other shooter these days, that's for sure.

Yeah. Quake (1) and Doom (1/2) are what I go back and play when I feel for FPS. I'm considering Rage, though. It looks pretty satisfying. After I'm done with Dark Souls. Holy shit, that game is great, by the way.

Serious Sam FE/SE and hopefully 3, are pretty good "oldskool" style FPS's. Not as good level design as Quake's 1/2 though.

 

[Destroid]

That article is yet more evidence that great games are created by luck and coincidence rather than genius.