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ZeRo4 Wins; Quake: The Movie Released
okotauri writes: "ZeRo4 took home his second consecutive Quakecon championship today, beating the rest of the world's top Quake 3 players in the process, and cementing his reputation as the best Q3 dueller in the world today. more info: Quakecon scoreboard." And Escape from the Bastille was also released at the Con - better have high-speed access if you want to download it.
Oops, I found them. The whole listing is here: ftp://161.184.117.156/. I think the championship match is ftp://161.184.117.156/fatal1ty-vs-ZeRo4-ztn3tourne y1-fatal1ty-w1_1.dm_66.zip or ftp://161.184.117.156/fatal1ty-vs-ZeRo4-pro-q3tour ney4-(ZeRo4)-g1v2_1.dm_66.zip.
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Now the aliens who actually created the game will take him back to thier home planet to destroy all the evil types invading it...
--T
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Anyone who has played Q3 (or any comparable game) knows that it isn't just "running around shooting people", but rather the game becomes incredibly finely tuned with extreme muscle control and mental reflexes needed to excel : Some of the best Quake 3 players are absolutely amazing when they're at the pinnacle of their game, and just as seeing a high jumper set a new record (pushing the human body further than ever before) is amazing, it's amazing seeing the reflexes/mind combination push these super-players.
For anyone to brush off this as being just a "game" whereas throwing a pole or moving your legs is "sport" is silly. As long as all competitors are using equal hardware, etc., this is absolutely sport and it is enthralling to watch the best of the best playing.
Sidenote -> The way, IMHO, that you can usually determine if something is truly a competitive sport or not is consistency: Do the same people generally come out near the top, with natural ascents up the ranks and down the ranks, or is it more of a hodge-podge random ordering at each event? In the former it is competitive sport, whereas in the latter it's just odds, yet it's amazing how many such "sports" exist as sanctioned.
Thresh, the guy who started Firingsquad (actually, it used to be Thresh's Firingsquad), quit about a year ago... IIRC he just wanted a change of pace, and wanted out of the hardware review business.
BBK
Oh yeah? He thinks he's so good? Well, I got the highscore in Ms. Pacman (a true crusader for womens' rights!) at the local arcade about 15 years ago!
So there, Mr. Big-Shot Quake 3 player!
There's a group of Quake speed runners who created a set of recorded movies called Quake Done Quick. They blaze through the entire game at Nightmare difficulty in less than 17 minutes. They also produced Quake Done 100% Quick, where they kill every monster and find every secret.
This same group of people then did a speed run through Ritual's Quake add-on pack, Scourge of Armagon. But unlike its predecessor, they added actual production values, including fully scripted and vocalized sequences at the beginning and end. The player also makes wisecracks throughout the movie; the actor voicing him is especially good. The result is called Scourge Done Slick, and it's a very nice piece of work.
You need to own a copy of the Scourge of Armagon add-on pack to view the movie.
Schwab
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http://www.gamespy.com/stats/
If people aren't very excited by this tournament, it's largely because Quake 3's day is done.
Online its popularity is dwarfed by Counter Strike, which, for better or worse, has replaced Quake as the game of choice of the vast majority of online players. (A fact not lost on developers, who are falling over themselves to bring out CS-like games.)
Of course, no one knows how many people are even playing Q3, thanks to the servers failing to distinguish between bots and humans. In fact, looking at the numbers, it's entirely possible that there are more humans playing Quake 2. Q3 tournaments are in sharp decline, too; Quakecon was an exception, with Q3 even having been dropped (in lieu of CS) in the most widely followed "pro gaming" tourneys.
Q3 never really managed to make the impact that its predecessors did. The leading theory, which you can find on almost any gaming message board: id makes good engines, but has become progressively worse at making a fun game. There's something to that, but there's also Q3 itself to blame -- an arcade-y version of deathmatch without the depth of the original.
Am I the only one who would like to see some of the gaming tourney's televised? I know one of the biggest lures for attending the actual events happens to be the socializing and all around geek fest sorta stuff, but in this day and age where MTV is the "Shiny Things Network" and "Fear Factor" scores high amounts of viewers, wouldn't something like televising the games be something that could succeed? I can see the downside being that it brings attention to the "violence" in the games without being able to fully convey the sense of kinsmenship those games bring, but I'm sure airing it on something like Showtime or HBO with appropriate "TV ratings" would do well. Have something like celebrity commentaries by Carmack or Thresh (He was the original Q1 God, correct?), possibly have military advisors looking for the strategy within the killing (because lets face it, if you don't have a strategy and just go around to frag, you're not going to make it to the upper echelons of the match)
Or even potentially a DVD version. Like take advantage of the multiple angle views and use various 'cameras' posisitioned in the demo files and what not. Maybe a DVD can contain the final 3 matches, or the highlights of the top 10.
Does anyone else think this would be nice?
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I can't seriously see this kind of thing as the newest type of sporting event. I think that baseball and football are really boring (too much waiting, unlike hockey or motorsports), but I'd still go to a game with my buddies simply to socialize and cheer on my city. This kind of event is so out of touch and inacessable in the 'real world'. There are one or two annual tournaments that are always held far away. Maybe I'm just a little conservative, but I think that the geographical and club style is good for sports. Something for a local to be proud of and it gets the spectator more involved, "That's MY team that just won!" etc. These tourneys are fun, but it's just a really good bunch of players battling it out amongst themselves. When I watch the olympics, I cheer for team Canada, when I watch quake matches I can't really make a decision who I'd root for, only that one person's skill is madder than the others. Anyway, just a thought.
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Ok, so he may have won... but does he have his own hardware review site? Kidding aside, it is quite an achievement.
Alex Bischoff
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http://www.orangesmoothie.org/downloads/beta/osp-q uake3-0.99v3.zip
by unzipping it in your Q3 directory, with file paths preserved. Then, install
ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake3/win32/q3po intrelease_129h_beta.exe
by running the executable and telling it where your Q3 directory is. Then, if you want to view the demos really easily, install
http://www.geekboys.org/geekplay-29/index.pl?downl oad=http://www.geekboys.org/geekplay-29/download/g eekplay-29-1.0b1.zip
by running the installer from any directory and telling it where your Q3 directory is.
Then, all you have to do is download the "demo" files from
http://stats1.zone.com/tournaments/QuakeCon-2001/s coreboard_0_0.html
By clicking on the "stats:1" link, and then scroll down, and download one of the demo files, like the file
http://stats1.zone.com/tournaments/QuakeCon-2001/d emos/fatal1ty-vs-ZeRo4-pro-q3tourney4-(ZeRo4)-g1v2 _1.dm_66.zip
for instance. Be sure to note that there are two files for every match - one from each person's point of view. Getting the file from the winner is more fun! Then, all you have to do is unzip the dm_66 file, and then double-click the dm_66 file in order to view it.
Note that these instructions worked for me, and are not necessarily going to work for you! All of this of course on a Win box.
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