I love these classic EP episodes. It was such a major avenue of game discovery for me back in the day. I'll never forget Vic & Tommy's review of GTA III in 2001. Bless you, Vic, for keeping the memories alive in 2023, and much love from Calgary!
@@gzuskreist1021 I cannot understand someone older than 16 looking at the worldwide apocalyptic corpocracy literally burning everything to the ground for short term profit growth and concluding the minorities and blue-haired women highlighted in their PR material are the problem
Carmack taking a question about what new stuff the game is doing in general to brag about the engine's very technical lighting capabilities is so awesome lol. Then he calls himself the final filter for anything, "obnoxious." Even the bit about the animation and interpolation goes back to John. ID and their game design was so wildly tech-driven. How they haven't gotten around to making that Masters of DOOM movie yet is beyond me!
This is such a good look at how everything was in 1997 hehehe. HD was just a glimmer in our eyes, and freaking Quake 2 was new! And EPN was making our lives happy via TV :). Also John Carmark...was and still is a massive freaking geek xD.
back when character and models were still animated vertex by vertex by hand (that means each individual point of a polygon) thats why the models in Quake 1/2 warbled so much
I love these old interviews. But I’m really glad you have these Victor and are releasing them because it’s very important to the preservation of the game. You need all this for the whole story and I’m so happy u have these. Thank you.!!!!!!
I love this, really big influence in my PC gaming. I got into PC gaming after moving over from Sega consoles in 1995 and my first FPS was Doom II. Then moved on to Duke Nukem 3D, Quake, Redneck Rampage, Outlaw, Dark Forces, Quake II, Kingpin and Half-Life. This was the golden age of PC gaming. Quake and Quake Ii are the games that I have instaleld the most since then and I have got back into them following the remaster. I am even making levels for them again.
Shoooot I wasn’t on the cutting edge of cable tv, I didn’t have access to stuff like this. I was a magazine kid, reading every line written two, three times over. Going over photos with a literal magnifying glass to glean something, anything, about my anticipated games coming out. That I can go back and look at this stuff some twenty years later is just a nice perk of current times isn’t it!?!
You can tell Carmack loves Quake 2 just from a technical standpoint. I don't know if Romero was responsible for Quake 1's atmosphere or if it was a happy accident. NIN really helped set the tone as well. Quake 1 to me is an intriguing masterpiece. 2 sorta feels like "hey check this out, it looks better!" and it did. But, looking back I feel like 1 really has heart. 2 just seems to be missing something.
Yes! Q1 was groundbreaking in many ways, just in multiplayer I think it did like 5 never before unimaginable things, Q2 didn't innovate as much but it got the "higher level" stuff like visuals, sound, enemies, weapons etc to a different level. Here is just one anecdote from way back: There was a big website called FilePlanet and it would host all files that you could download freely for games, back then you didnt have 20 other websites that did the same thing, so this was THE place to put your game stuff. So all user made content like skins, models, new maps, campaigns, mods was there, and we would constantly check it for new stuff. Q2 for many years had the largest amount of files by far, no other game came close. Going into a game for the first time and having to fight someone that's actually a Smurf with a railgun or a Teletubby or just a Llama or a bear, people made skins and models for Q2 for everything you could want. You wanted to be a giant peanut? go to fileplanet and download the model. Those two games brought me so much joy with friends, I am forever in debt to Carmack and co.
Yes these old episodes are amazing. Been watching since the mid 90s, had to catch the show on Much Music (I think?) after school before I jumped into gaming. Please do more of these; I’m sure you have the catalogue to release an episode a day!
Wow so he said interpolation creates a frame of animation between the animation like key frames. So it’s like DLSS 3 only it’s focus is on creating extra animation to look smoother rather than extra refresh rate frames on screen.
This is awesome. Thank you!. I still think the quake lore should have been tighter / more focused instead of spread across two totally different concepts. I just played through the whole Q2 campaign. It's a little clunky with all the backtracking but still super fun. So glad the rerelease had a compass added to it.
Tim Sweeney, founder of Epic Games and creator of Unreal engine, is the same age! It's a weird but cool coincidence that two gaming legends were born in the same year and both founded their respective companies in 1991.
This is one of my favorite old PC games. It was awesome in every way. And this is really cool to see a bts from bitd. And some kid that looks like Vic!
Are you going to upload more seasons of The Electric Playground and also seasons of Judgement Day on your YT channel? Some of us are hoping for more classic EP content along with Judgement Day to watch and reminisce again.
Back when game devs were a small bunch of extremely talented, and creative individuals! Today, with AAA studios it's a huge crowd of unskilled, shallow, basic individuals that lack creativity, and intellect!
Carmacks a Bonified genius. This man and his OG teams IMO are in the top tier of gaming pioneers like myamoto and other giants. Just think of all the companies n games now driving down the road these guys built.
I am guessing you were aged 3-10 in the 1990's? I was 10-19 and compared to now it was better. Everything online, people are stupid, apparently more open minded but equally more narcissistic.@@simon_1987
![[DOOM] John Romero's Level Design Rules](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ptHurafdCoQ/mqdefault.jpg)
![How Quake's software renderer ELIMINATES overdraw [⚠️ flashing images]](/img/n.gif)
I love these classic EP episodes. It was such a major avenue of game discovery for me back in the day. I'll never forget Vic & Tommy's review of GTA III in 2001. Bless you, Vic, for keeping the memories alive in 2023, and much love from Calgary!
They were real amicos for sure!
Man, love the old feel of game studios when they were smaller making games for the fun of it. And they didn't have unrealistic ginormous expectations.
ID were definitely also making games for money, being successful as fuck.
@@DaveDexterMusic But they were not soulless when developing games unlike modern companies.
"diversity is our strength!" - Global Corporation
@@gzuskreist1021 I cannot understand someone older than 16 looking at the worldwide apocalyptic corpocracy literally burning everything to the ground for short term profit growth and concluding the minorities and blue-haired women highlighted in their PR material are the problem
LONG LIVE ELECTRIC PLAYGROUND
Play Forever My EPN Friends! 👾🤙🏼
What's awesome is that Kevin Cloud still works at id! The last remaining/longest-tenured guy from the original Wolf 3D/Doom/Quake team.
Is Donna Jackson still there?
@@AlphaEnt2 I'm pretty sure she is!
As per Romero's information, Cloud retired last December (2023)! Only Donna Jackson remains.
@@JoeSlap He is 59, has earned it. Most of the original team are mid 50's now, so may retire in the next 5-10 years.
@@Delabane ofcourse.
The nastolgic memories you must have Vic looking back at the classic EP stuff. Prolly brings a small tear to your eye as Johnny would say.
Man I love the dutch angles on everything. I forgot that was a really frequently done thing back in the 90's!
I miss the old id software
Carmack taking a question about what new stuff the game is doing in general to brag about the engine's very technical lighting capabilities is so awesome lol. Then he calls himself the final filter for anything, "obnoxious." Even the bit about the animation and interpolation goes back to John. ID and their game design was so wildly tech-driven.
How they haven't gotten around to making that Masters of DOOM movie yet is beyond me!
This is such a good look at how everything was in 1997 hehehe. HD was just a glimmer in our eyes, and freaking Quake 2 was new! And EPN was making our lives happy via TV :). Also John Carmark...was and still is a massive freaking geek xD.
I love the overlay text clarifying what AI is and this year it is the topic on everyone's mind.
back when character and models were still animated vertex by vertex by hand (that means each individual point of a polygon) thats why the models in Quake 1/2 warbled so much
I love these old interviews. But I’m really glad you have these Victor and are releasing them because it’s very important to the preservation of the game. You need all this for the whole story and I’m so happy u have these. Thank you.!!!!!!
just saw this guy at Quakecon 2 days ago, he's really nice
please keep posting these classic EP clips
I love this, really big influence in my PC gaming. I got into PC gaming after moving over from Sega consoles in 1995 and my first FPS was Doom II. Then moved on to Duke Nukem 3D, Quake, Redneck Rampage, Outlaw, Dark Forces, Quake II, Kingpin and Half-Life. This was the golden age of PC gaming. Quake and Quake Ii are the games that I have instaleld the most since then and I have got back into them following the remaster. I am even making levels for them again.
I love the feeling of these videos, they feel so 90s. Thanks for uploading this with respect to the Quake II Remaster.
The game has crossplay just like with the remastered version of the first game, which means that the PC veterans would crush the console noobies.
@@markdibuo3756That's true, but you can disable crossplay.
@vio2112 Why would I wanna do that.
@@markdibuo3756 To avoid being wrecked by PC players?
Nostalgia straight to my brains! Insta-gibbed with satisfaction! Telefragged with a content drop! GIBS!
i love your EP time capsules.
Mean while, JOHN ROMERO with his huge ego was in his palace in Ion Storm creating DAIKATANA 😂 the rest is history.
what a nostalgia trip, love it, thanks!
This is awesome, thanks for posting this for us to see it again!
Holy cow the memories this brought back....the clothes, those huge monitors, and interpolation....one of the biggest features in game engines today
Shoooot I wasn’t on the cutting edge of cable tv, I didn’t have access to stuff like this. I was a magazine kid, reading every line written two, three times over. Going over photos with a literal magnifying glass to glean something, anything, about my anticipated games coming out.
That I can go back and look at this stuff some twenty years later is just a nice perk of current times isn’t it!?!
Terrific. How wonderful!
0:50 In the 90s we used to film people at all sorts of funny angles... Which was the style at the time. 😂
Such an awesome video! I love those days and miss them dearly. Thank you Vic for keeping this incredible footage and sharing it with us!
quake 2 was my jam as a kid, a quake movie could work if done right
It would probably turn out like the Doom movie. Instead of The Rock, it would be some other Hollyweird specimen
It couldn’t. Because there’s 2 stories in quake. The quake 1 and 3 story.
And quake 2 and 4 story.
They’re completely seperate.
You can tell Carmack loves Quake 2 just from a technical standpoint. I don't know if Romero was responsible for Quake 1's atmosphere or if it was a happy accident. NIN really helped set the tone as well. Quake 1 to me is an intriguing masterpiece. 2 sorta feels like "hey check this out, it looks better!" and it did. But, looking back I feel like 1 really has heart. 2 just seems to be missing something.
Yes! Q1 was groundbreaking in many ways, just in multiplayer I think it did like 5 never before unimaginable things, Q2 didn't innovate as much but it got the "higher level" stuff like visuals, sound, enemies, weapons etc to a different level.
Here is just one anecdote from way back:
There was a big website called FilePlanet and it would host all files that you could download freely for games, back then you didnt have 20 other websites that did the same thing, so this was THE place to put your game stuff.
So all user made content like skins, models, new maps, campaigns, mods was there, and we would constantly check it for new stuff.
Q2 for many years had the largest amount of files by far, no other game came close.
Going into a game for the first time and having to fight someone that's actually a Smurf with a railgun or a Teletubby or just a Llama or a bear, people made skins and models for Q2 for everything you could want.
You wanted to be a giant peanut? go to fileplanet and download the model.
Those two games brought me so much joy with friends, I am forever in debt to Carmack and co.
The remaster is great!
Easter Eggs in this video:
Giant DOOM 64 mural
Spawn Clown figurine
Custom N64 Logo at the end
Yes these old episodes are amazing. Been watching since the mid 90s, had to catch the show on Much Music (I think?) after school before I jumped into gaming. Please do more of these; I’m sure you have the catalogue to release an episode a day!
Cool of you to dig this out for the Remaster, Vic. Maybe someday, you should get an interview with Stephen Kick from Nightdive?
Good time to show this video. Especially after Quake II gets a remaster on current consoles. Can’t wait to try it for the first time.
Wow so he said interpolation creates a frame of animation between the animation like key frames. So it’s like DLSS 3 only it’s focus is on creating extra animation to look smoother rather than extra refresh rate frames on screen.
This is awesome. Thank you!. I still think the quake lore should have been tighter / more focused instead of spread across two totally different concepts. I just played through the whole Q2 campaign. It's a little clunky with all the backtracking but still super fun. So glad the rerelease had a compass added to it.
The shade he threw at Romero when he said "NOW we have a good design"
:O
This is awesome!!
This is an amazing time capsule! 🙌🏽🎮🥳
Gosh, John Carmack was 21 years old when he co-founded id software, and 27 when Quake 2 was released - what a GOAT.
Tim Sweeney, founder of Epic Games and creator of Unreal engine, is the same age! It's a weird but cool coincidence that two gaming legends were born in the same year and both founded their respective companies in 1991.
@@shuboy05 Thanks for sharing that!
Oh the feels! ❤ from Victoria!
That big carton ad for Doom 64 is golden. Wonder if they still have it.
A great trip down memory lane. Going to get my hands on the new version of Quake 2.
Glorious 4:3 video
This is one of my favorite old PC games. It was awesome in every way. And this is really cool to see a bts from bitd. And some kid that looks like Vic!
whoa, could Vic even drink back then? lolz.
Wow. You all look so young. I wonder of MS could ever get John to come back.
Thanks Victor🤜🤛
Paul Steed RIP!
noice piece of history
That's so GD 90s with the 'dutch angles' 🤪
Marty we got to go back to the future!
These camera angles go so hard
Love these old episodes, it’s like a historical document in a way! Now that you’re past 70k subscribers does that mean season 7 is coming to UA-cam?
Very Cool Victor!
Rip Paul Steed
Respect to the OG
Hell yeah! Play Forever!
Back then, Victor was considered to be an old guy in the gaming world 😂
Love those game boxes. I had mine on bookshelves. No books for me and I turned out good. 😋
turned out WELL 🤓
Bad ass! And it is honestly great to be able to replay this masterpiece on PS5!!
Thanks for uploading this gem of nostalgia, Vic 😊
ahhh everyones so young .
Mine most favorite ID game.
Just in time for the remaster
Are you going to upload more seasons of The Electric Playground and also seasons of Judgement Day on your YT channel? Some of us are hoping for more classic EP content along with Judgement Day to watch and reminisce again.
1:40 I love how the animation is clearly not complete yet 😂
Play Forever!
Those are some giant game boxes 😂
Pretty fate-ish to see what is like an Oculus logo on John's shirt.
Dare I say that Quake II > Quake III
Brilliant!
0:45 Quake-con 98; did they get at least 150 in the map?
The days when i was searching levels and models on planetquake and lvl whole day with a 56k modem omggg 3 decades already 😝🤪😜
Same! and reading Blues News. People still making Quake Levels, in fact I have started doing it again (for the 10th time).
RIP Paul Steed
Mistrzostwo swiata
Hello Archvile!
Anyone get the Quake 2 Remaster? Good stuff. I still always preferred the original Quake though.
Yes it's brilliant, started making levels for Quake II again.
I miss the almost guerilla style video game journalism of the late 90s and early 2000s.
The 1990's/2000's was better.
Did they ever try 150 people in a quake 2 server ?
Dutch angles were so in.
Classic times
Look at you “the young man”.
Wow I'm old
Which 3D program was that? Maya?
Lol baby Victor
Yeah, Carmack, Quake 2 has everything except John Romero, and it shows.
R-r-r-etro !
😳😳
Back when game devs were a small bunch of extremely talented, and creative individuals!
Today, with AAA studios it's a huge crowd of unskilled, shallow, basic individuals that lack creativity, and intellect!
Back then you used to get shit for being a nerd. Now its cool and trendy and even hot girls want to be game developers.
Quake 1 is better
Carmacks a Bonified genius. This man and his OG teams IMO are in the top tier of gaming pioneers like myamoto and other giants. Just think of all the companies n games now driving down the road these guys built.
This brings back memories! Thank you for uploading this.
God the 90s sucked
Not compared to now.
@@benfletcher9659 especially compared to now
I am guessing you were aged 3-10 in the 1990's? I was 10-19 and compared to now it was better. Everything online, people are stupid, apparently more open minded but equally more narcissistic.@@simon_1987