Quake

“I played a lot of Quake 1 and I remember playing online and seeing the water transparency”

“Contemporary boomer game franchises like Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein, etc just don't have "heart"”

“Contemporary boomer game franchises like Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein, etc just don't have "heart".”

“Cynical content from the 90s and 2000s that lack "heart" like Quake, Doom, and the like”

“Quake was huge when it was launched - there'd never been anything like it.”

“Quake was never optimized for data locality tho and loved cache, the more the better.”

“there's literally no game with such smooth movement as had Quakeworld or Q3A CPMA/Defrag”

“the gameplay is paced just perfectly, the puzzles are fun, and the levels are genuinely beautiful to look at”

“I got so much networking experience from hosting lan parties with quake and q3.”

“I love it and with the original music it's even better, especially the levels in the second chapters hub”

“the aforementioned games have had much more staying power than more recent multiplayer games”

“it was actually pretty cool how they designed the first room to demonstrate almost every new feature of the engine”

“hell yeah, my first real LAN game experience on Windows was the Quake test/alpha”

“with quake they gave you the game code, map compilers and later the source to the engine”

“Doom and Quake/2/3 all represented massive technological jumps over their predecessors”

“It was the first of its kind, perhaps not technically, but in capturing that zeitgeist.”

“Quake is one of my favourite games ever and I have replayed it countless times.”

“Technically, it's vastly superior - and an incredible achievement - but just not as good a game.”

“Quake 1 was an unbelievable tech breakthrough: full 3d, quakec vm, overall engine design held up really well.”

“This was far too ambitious and bottlenecked everything on Carmack's graphics work.”

“the game wanted a more soulslike design, but they stuck with the run and gun design but with spongier enemies”

“there's no comparison in terms of the way the game played competitively vs Quake”

“the whole promise of quake was that it was going to be a huge technological innovation”

“Quake 1 (QuakeWorld) was such a raw competitive arena shooter that is just pure action, no weird extra mechanics.”

“It's a testament to the engineering that went into the original Quake engine.”

“Thanks to the flexibility that Quake console provided, we were able to set up a three computer null-modem cable network”

“everything from Quake to Team Fortress to Minecraft shipped server binaries you can just run”

“I credit this game for my interest in understanding LAN topologies, networking, latency”

“It's a very elegant system that naturally flows out of the rather forward-looking decision to build the entire engine around a robust networking model.”

“People can and do build on top of Quake, so that could be a reasonable option if that's the feel you want for your game.”

“The system was deterministic enough that it could record your inputs/the game state”

“Quake was unfeasible till ~1998 at the earliest to be able to sell playable game.”

“as soon as the connection is further than inside your house, it’s utterly horrible.”

“Quake seemed okay enough to modify though it was rushed and getting close to what was possible with the hardware at the time.”

“by default it's 4 and it makes the movement feel slippery. It also has the instant airbrake when you hit the move backward button mid jump, which is useful but pretty strange.”

“Suddenly the possibilities of verticality hit me and I just sat there mesmerized”

“I certainly got into the normal races as I recall completing quite a few, and being really impressed.”

“Also allowing players to change the configuration of their game through the dev console was cool.”

“introduced latency compensation, allowing you to have an OK experience with up to 200ms ping”

“the normal Quake TCP/IP stack was basically unplayable with anything over 70-80ms”