Quake 4 Announced

Warrior-GS writes: "This just in from QuakeCon in Texas: Id Software and Raven Software will be joing forces on Quake 4. Id and Nerve Software are also going to working on some unspecified game. Carmack is giving his talk right now. GameSpyDaily has all the details."

Comments

Re:Yay... more id Junk.

[Jester998]

"the quake 3 mod scene is far superior to the half life mods"
Really? Are you including Counter-Strike? Last I checked, CS players outnumbered the players of any other mod for Half-Life OR Quake by at least 5:1 (that number comes from a poll I saw somewhere... I forget where it was though.)
Also, I play both CS and TFC and I've NEVER had a problem finding a lag-free server to play on that had a full room for either mod. Maybe you're just too picky with your filter settings. ;)
As you say though, it *does* come down to personal preference. I guess some people just like the kind of mindless shooting associated with Quake and its mods, while more thoughtful, strategy-type people like HL and its mods.

Re:Who DIDN'T see Q4 coming?

[Fat Casper]

Well, we didn't have a presidential election the last time we were supposed to. We did have Quake 3.

Where to look for details...

[Anomymous Coward]

If you want details, the best thing to do is look to John's finger data. For instance, it's pretty clear by this that Q4 will suck on anything less than a GeForce3:

Here is a dump on the GeForce 3 that I have been seriously working with for a few weeks now: The short answer is that the GeForce 3 is fantastic. I haven't had such an impression of raising the performance bar since the Voodoo 2 came out, and there are a ton of new features for programmers to play with. Graphics programmers should run out and get one at the earliest possible time. For consumers, it will be a tougher call. There aren't any applications our right now that take proper advantage of it, but you should still be quite a bit faster at everything than GF2, especially with anti-aliasing. Balance that against whatever the price turns out to be. While the Radeon is a good effort in many ways, it has enough shortfalls that I still generally call the GeForce 2 ultra the best card you can buy right now, so Nvidia is basically dethroning their own product. It is somewhat unfortunate that it is labeled GeForce 3, because GeForce 2 was just a speed bump of GeForce, while GF3 is a major architectural change. I wish they had called the GF2 something else.

So, if you REALLY want to know what's going on,

finger johnc@idsoftware.com

f1rst p0st?

[Anonymous Coward]

fuck Quake. HL 0wnz j00.

Yay... more id Junk.

[Jester998]

Oh boy! I can't wait to see all the useless benchmarks that this game will generate!
Seriously, though... id Software makes great game ENGINES... they do NOT, however, make great games. I'm sorry, but I had to say it. I always hated Quake, from the first time I played it. Love Half-Life though. I STILL go through the single-player game sometimes because it's FUN! Quake has something lacking in gameplay, always has, and likely always will. Just my thoughts.
*/me gets into fire resistant clothing* Quake addicts, feel free to light up the flamethrowers now.


- Jester

This is a surprise?

[nougatmachine]

In other news:

Israel and Palestine continue to have disagreements.
Bill Gates has officially gone on record saying that open-source "promotes ulcers".
The stock market had a disappointing week.
Eric S. Raymond has published his newest essay, "The surprising connections between closed-source software and ingrown toenails".
Richard Stallman has published the definitive list distinguishing between "free", "inexpensive", "costly-but compatible with free", and "immoral" software licenses.
...and finally, a heated argument took place at a college between two students debating the merits of vi and emacs.