Post by Dan @ 12:51pm 07/12/12 | 22 Comments
Celebrating the affair, id Software’s Tim Willits shared some fun facts about the game:Happy birthday old friend.Later today, Tim plans to celebrate by taking these QUAKE action figures out of the display case and reenacting his favorite moments from the game.
- Only three artists made all the 2D and 3D art for the entire game.
- One of the original suggested names for QUAKE II was WOR, but the game’s fast-paced, tactile feel felt closer to a QUAKE game than a new franchise.
- ‘The Edge’ (Tim’s favorite deathmatch level in QUAKE II or any other game), has over 50 trick jumps possible in the map. Tim only designed two of them, and the rest were discovered by the QUAKE II community.
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Posted 12:53pm 07/12/12
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Posted 02:02pm 07/12/12
Whilst being an Aussie, this made me High Ping Bait to no end but the game was at its best when played in a LAN party! ;)
Quake 2 had a rockin' Soundtrack by Sonic Mayhem & I was amazed the day I figured out I could play the Disc in my CD Player! \m/
The Singleplayer was just ridiculously indulgent; could never pull myself away from it & once I'd finally beaten the Jorg, I couldn't wait to get a hold of the Mission packs but I also wanted figures of the Strogg and the late 'Resaurus' company made that happen! XD
Quake 2 was also the game that aided me in my push to get my Father to purchase a 3D Accelerator Card, a 3Dfx Voodoo 2 no less & thus Quake 2 was my 1st experience as to what could be achieved with Hardware Rendering. :)
Happy Birthday Quake 2, you'll always be my favourite video game alongside Doom 2.
Posted 02:06pm 07/12/12
sure was.
when i started at the job im still at now, we would play q2 on the office network on nites after everyone went home.
was the most fun evar.
Posted 02:15pm 07/12/12
Posted 02:20pm 07/12/12
Your dad was a noob, why wasn't he aiming with the mouse!
Posted 04:05pm 07/12/12
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Posted 04:46pm 07/12/12
Hear hear, praise be unto Carmack, Amen.
Posted 04:57pm 07/12/12
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Posted 09:05pm 07/12/12
I recall playing Q2 as a teen :(
I think I may officially be old.
Posted 09:15pm 07/12/12
NFI. I assumed keyboard only was the default controls although i think this is incorrect. I think quake 3 and UT were the first games i played keyboard+mouse, cant remember playing any shooters before them.
Posted 09:45pm 07/12/12
I spent a lot of time playing this game.
Then I got a voodoo and it made the lot of time I'd spent playing this game before having one seem like nothing.
Many weekends spent lanning it.
Posted 10:28pm 07/12/12
+1 but for some reason everyone preferred that other one, ozemail or something? It was always crashing, always full of hackers, yet in the final days of CTF, powerup had no one on it and the crap server was always full.