Quake Done Quick - With A Vengance

Nolan Pflug writes "The QdQ team has released their newest speed run through the classic original Quake. The new demo is over four minutes faster than their previous popular release, Quake done Quicker, which was done in a time of 16:35 and released exactly three years ago. The 'with a Vengeance' run completes Quake on Nightmare skill in an amazing 12:23, by taking advantage of all known Quake 'Quirks' such as ways to increase player velocity (bunny-hopping) and damage boosts from grenades and rockets, but there is no cheating involved."

Comments

Game design today

[Caine]

Here I am, having payed a ton of money for my brand new game. And what do I discover? It only takes 12 minutes to finish! On the hardest difficulty. *Sigh*. Game design today sucks.

Re:why?

[FascDot Killed My Pr]

I'd rather read about Quake done Quick than see Yet Another RIAA/MPAA Napster/DeCSS Article.
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Re:why?

[LucVdB]

You need to ask?
To quote from the Textmode Quake page, another seminal Quake achievement:

BUT WHY, DAMMIT? WHY?
If you have to ask why, you're not a member of the intended audience. Please go on about your business and accept my apologies for this distraction.

Bad links for RM files, here are the real ones

[jbridges]

For those who don't have Quake installed, here are the RealMovie files:

QdQr1.rm
QdQr2.rm
QdQr3.rm
QdQr4.rm

Re:Cheating?

[tc]

It's not cheating as in hacking the game, or typing in cheat codes. In fact, cheating is probably the wrong word. It's just the use of some very nifty and sometimes highly inventive techniques.

For example, a "rocket jump" involves firing a rocket into the ground and jumping simultaneously to give yourself an extra high jump as the blast sends you higher. You sustain damage in the process, but it enables you to reach otherwise inaccessible spots. It's not considered cheating, indeed, it's a skill that any seasoned Quake player will have.

These guys have taken it even further, and regularly pull off grenade jumps (same principle as rocket jumps but your timing needs to be better), and even the fiendishly tricky grenade and rocket jump combo.

I still find the 100% Runs even more impressive...

[oblisk]

Ive always enjoyed these runs through the original and the best, Quake1. The Quick runs that imo were by far the best were the ones where they got 100% kills and 100% secrets in nightmare under an hour. 59:31 to be exact, Hell on nightmare it took me about a month to finish the game (about total in game time was probably 8+ hours).

Something we used to do at lans after we all got bored:

load quake
fov 180
load QdQ
Get Drunk
and Watch ;)

Oblisk

Simply Incredible

[erasmus_]

Although I've stopped gaming altogether, I remember being incredible impressed by this team's results years ago, as they kept topping themselves. Laugh if you want, but I think it's things like these that allow gaming to be compared to some sort of a sport. After all, what is this but people continuing to beat their record, when everyone is sure there is simply no possible way to do it any faster. Someone has made the remark that it's not possible to play through the whole game on nightmare. If you haven't seen the demos, you might not know that levels are done by different people, so the demo is not really one continuos game, but rather an ideal game that's a result of hundreds, if not thousands of invididual tries at levels. Yet every person starts each level only with items it would've been possible to pick from the last's level quick runthrough. Even though I don't have Quake installed anymore, I think I'll install it just to check this out, and you guys should too :)

More time for work!!!

[Hates]

I'm sure my boss will be glad to hear that with this speed increase and subsequent left over time I will be able to get more work done :)