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Quake IV Tidbits Revealed

Posted by simoniker on from the vehicular-demonslaughter dept.

Thanks to GameSpy for their interview with Rick Johnson of Raven Software, the lead programmer on Quake IV. Although the game isn't being shown at QuakeCon this year (Todd Hollenshead of id says "Quake 4 and QuakeCon 2K4 sound pretty nice together"), more details are revealed: "Quake IV is primarily a single-player focused game which will be continued on a near storyline from Quake II. That's not to say that we won't have multiplayer, but our primary focus is currently the single-player experience." It's also confirmed that the game is using the Doom 3 engine, and elsewhere at the show, "Tim Willits of id mentioned that work is being done on vehicles for the upcoming Quake IV."

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  1. Quake 2 had a story line? by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I am sorry, you crashed and eh, you shot up a lot of thingies because they were shooting at you. Same as in all the other games from ID. None of them has ever had a story, more a pretext.

    Oh well I guess they got to put something in those press releases. Wonder why they just don't say the truth.

    "Our story sucks, we have no plot nor developmonts, the characters are stereotypes, we have graphics that make youre jaw drop and will earn more on licensing the engine then you will ever earn in a live time. Message ends."

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    1. Re:Quake 2 had a story line? by AllUsernamesAreGone · · Score: 4, Insightful

      That's why Raven are doing the single player for Quake 4.

    2. Re:Quake 2 had a story line? by irc.goatse.cx+troll · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Ever play RTCW? alright then.
      doom and quake 1/2's stories were more in the readmes and the manual, as at that time it was too hard to actually have the story unfold in game. I really loved the story on doom1, specificly episode2->3 as it really shows what the game is all about. You die, go to hell, then have to fight your way out.

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  2. Re:How to make Quake 4 by mnemonic_ · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Except Quake 4 is a continuation of Quake 2, not Quake 3.

  3. Re:Is it just me or... by mnemonic_ · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's saying a lot considering not a single screenshot of Quake 4 has been released, the game is very early in development, only a tiny bit about the story is known, and it has yet to be shown publically at all except for a single piece of concept art and the bits of leaked artwork.

  4. vehicles? by bigbigbison · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why does every First-Person Shooter seem to have to have vehicles in it anymore? Amd I the only one who just hates it when you have to drive a vehicle in a FPS game?

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