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A New 'Quake' Episode Appears 20 Years Later (vice.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the BFG dept.

An anonymous reader quotes this report from Motherboard: The months leading up to this year's phenomenal reboot of Doom were stuffed with all kinds of fun developments surrounding the original series, whether it was mods that let you play as Duke Nukem or whole new levels from famed designer John Romero. There's now a new Quake game in the works, and already it appears to be enjoying a similar renaissance. Yesterday MachineGames, the studio behind Wolfenstein: The New Order, released an entirely new episode for the original Quake in celebration of its 20-year anniversary, and you can play it entirely for free.

36 comments

  1. hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Isn't it convenient that a new Quake episode appears after the Brexit leave vote? I can't be the only one who noticed this.

    1. Re: hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes hey want Québec to slay the oppressors and become a sovereign French speaking country. Vive le Québec libre!

    2. Re:hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Actually it came out before Brexit. Slashdot is just slow. But maybe the new Quake episode finally tipped the scales.

    3. Re: hmm by Type44Q · · Score: 2

      and become a... French speaking country

      Sorry; you'll never get the Quebecois to speak proper French...

    4. Re:hmm by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 2

      Who's the villain? Shub-Nigelrath?

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    5. Re: hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      No, Boris Johnson

    6. Re: hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      In Quacbec the French are the oppressors, they are xenophobic

    7. Re: hmm by RockDoctor · · Score: 1

      Well, if you get them young enough ... but then, they're hardly Quebecois before they reach 10 years, are they?

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  2. New maps and episodes are released often by Eluan · · Score: 4, Informative

    While I praise their effort and the episode is fun to play and polished, this isn't news, because new maps and episodes are released every year. Check Quaddicted for examples. Quake is still very much alive.

  3. Phenomenal? by Early+Six+Digit+UID · · Score: 0

    More like Halo with demons and a terrible map editor. Doom was a serious disappointment for me. I used to love using stuff like DoomCAD to make levels and this new release was honestly kind of an insult. Fortunately Steam let me return it. Maybe they won't screw up the new Quake?

    1. Re: Phenomenal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What did you pay for? The new episode is free.

    2. Re:Phenomenal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Doom was a serious disappointment for me.

      When, in 1993, or now? If 1993 I cannot see how it was disappointing unless all you play is solitaire. If now, well look it's a 23 year old game what did you expect?

    3. Re: Phenomenal? by Early+Six+Digit+UID · · Score: 1

      "the months leading up to this year's phenomenal reboot of Doom" By that they mean the new Doom game which just came out, which is what I was referring to.

    4. Re:Phenomenal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I've you played Halo, and then you saw Doom for the first time and it was a disappointment, you don't get to comment.

    5. Re:Phenomenal? by ArylAkamov · · Score: 0

      I thought it was pretty good, after turning off the crosshairs, playing on nightmare and turning off the I'M GLOWING! PLEASE CURBSTOMP MY FACE feature.

      It died pretty quickly because there is no modding, which was my biggest disappointment. A doom game without modding? What were they thinking?

      Snapmap is an absolute shit level editor, along with the terrible multiplayer.

  4. Fix the link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The one for the new episode is the same as for duke nukem

    1. Re: Fix the link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      EditorDavid is at it again on a lazy weekend.

  5. W00t eleventy!one!! by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

    Is there a Hurd port?

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    1. Re:W00t eleventy!one!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Not yet, it's still compiling.

    2. Re:W00t eleventy!one!! by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

      Are they using Gentoo as a build platform?

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  6. the link leads to the duke nukem article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    not the quake one. Which is confusing.

  7. Wrong link? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Is it just me, or is the 'new episode for the original Quake' link pointing to the same page as the 'play as Duke Nukem' link?

    1. Re: Wrong link? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's not just you

    2. Re:Wrong link? by boondaburrah · · Score: 1

      Yeah it's wrong. Click "this report from Motherboard" to get the actual link from the article. It took me a bit to figure it out.

  8. Twitter link by rcotran · · Score: 2

    https://twitter.com/machinegam...

  9. Love for the community by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Classic DOOM and Quake have been kept alive all these years by fans through source ports, maps and other custom content. Playing classic DOOM has almost never been easier and certainly has never been easier to play in a Multiplayer setting.

    It's very fortunate that early on, companies like iD had the foresight to encourage the mod community instead of hoarding their IP. Blizzard has been providing map editors since Warcraft 2 (I think Orcs and Humans had an even more basic one, I can't recall now) and certainly the power of the Warcraft 3 map editor enabled the creation of DOTA and extended the life of all their RTS games.

    1. Re: Love for the community by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes! OpenArena bitches! Time to rail some newbs.

    2. Re:Love for the community by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

      Every now and then I grab the latest Quake port and enable the frame rate counter while playing the game. Nothing like getting 500+ FPS while blowing up ass-throwing zombies.

    3. Re: Love for the community by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I have never seen a zombie throw its ass

      The Robbie Williams videoclip Rock DJ does not count

    4. Re: Love for the community by Pedestrianwolf · · Score: 2

      Depending on the angle and where the zombie was in the animation, it could look a little like they are tossing their asses... closest I could find: http://quake.wikia.com/wiki/Zo...

    5. Re: Love for the community by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 2

      I have never seen a zombie throw its ass

      The animation sequence for the Quake zombies shows them grabbing their ass and tossing something at the player. It could be ass, might be shit. An inside joke from the gamer developers.

    6. Re: Love for the community by Some_Llama · · Score: 1

      im playing it right now and they pull off parts of their brains and throw them at you.. gives a whole new meaning to "BRAAAAINS"

  10. Code words by argStyopa · · Score: 0

    "Phenomenal reboot"
    Doesn't apparently mean
    "Re release of what's basically the exact same game for the 1990s prettified with a lot more triangles and even louder sound"?

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  11. FIX THE DAMN LINK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    FIX THE DAMN LINK ALREADY!

  12. A very direct link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    dopa.rar

    Extract to Quake folder, run whateversourceportbinaryyoulikethatisnotbaseduponquakeworldsources -game dopa

  13. Thank Denuvo malware by sethstorm · · Score: 1

    In the quest to delay piracy, it's also killed modding.

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