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

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 :)