Retro Review - Quake 1 PC Game Review
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- Опубліковано 25 жов 2013
- Quake is a first person shooter that was released by id Software in 1996 and the first game in the popular Quake series of video games. In the game, players must find their way out of various maze-like, medieval environments while battling a variety of monsters using a wide array of guns.
The successor to id's Doom series, Quake built upon the technology and gameplay of its predecessor in many ways. Unlike the Doom engine before it, the Quake engine offered full real-time 3D rendering and early support for 3D acceleration through OpenGL. After Doom helped popularize multiplayer deathmatches, Quake added various multiplayer options. Online multiplayer became increasingly common, with the QuakeWorld update and software such as QuakeSpy making the process of finding and playing against other competitors on the Internet far easier and more reliable. Various multiplayer mods were developed including Team Fortress and Capture the flag.
The game received much acclaim on release and its commercial success led to several sequels, starting with Quake II, which abandoned the gothic stylings of the original for a science fiction theme. Because of this, Quake has since been recognized as one of the greatest achievements of the video game industry, influencing games that came after it, as well as the artforms of user mods and machinima. - Ігри
"The term 'must-play' keeps getting thrown around like a fedora at a reddit meet-up."
10/10
The sound and atmosphere for this game is still one of the greatest to this day, I think.
ahh the first Quake still my favorite out of the whole series
Rather funny that Quake's two most basic enemies (grunts and rotwheilers) are virtually the only ones you face in modern military FPSs.
But Quake had many, many more.
Quake 1 is my favourite in the series. I'm still disappointed that the sequels did not follow the Lovecraftian aesthetics but instead became one DOOM clone after another. I sincerely hope Quake 5 will go back to its gothic sadistic roots.
Quake 5 is gonna be a reboot of Quake 3 tho :/
Mr. Doggy Meaty That's what I'm afraid. Sigh!
quake champions is going to be the new battleborn. Bethesda really do effortlessly and consistently fuck up
Devil's Advocate Thank god Id is the one making that game. Bethesda fucks up alot but Id software has done nothing but improve since the 90s. Quake Champions looks good, and if Tom Willitz is half as good as Hugo Martin when it comes to game direction, it will be.
uhh... rage... doom 4....
"makes modern day DLC look like garbage" So sad but so true
A Nine Inch Nails fan's wet dream, and Id Software's crowning achievement.
I agree completely. I was in middle school when these awesome FPS games came out like Doom and Quake. They are truly amazing.
Ben Bell I disagree. The music and game in general was very rushed. The only memeorable song was the title theme. The rest is just atomospheric stuff that drones on forever. If anything, I believe they're best game so far has been Doom 4. They've done nothing but improve since the 90s.
Okay, you're more of a 'rebirth era' ID Fan, but I couldn't disagree more.
Ben Bell I woudn't say that. Not one Id software game dissapointed me.
>The rest is just atomospheric stuff that drones on forever.
Umm. It was always the intent to have an ambient soundtrack and it turned out to be an excellent piece of dark ambient music, setting up just the right atmosphere.
I remember while playing Quake, I used to put in the CD of Sepultura "Chaos AD" and just want to fuck shit up on this game. Man... I miss the 90's.
CD? Cassette, my friend...
Happy 20th birthday Quake!
Happy 25th birthday Quake!
My favorite FPS of all time... a MASTERPIECE. I still remember the time when i finished it on nightmare dificulty and i felt... like Batman haha. And as you say in your review... THAT'S HOW YOU DO EXPANSION PACKS!!!
I would not call it "old school shooter". Actually it was the first non-pseudo-3D shooter with bouncing grenades physics. That was a revolution of gaming! Playing this game countless times online was just endless fun. Puzzles and traps, nice lighting effects and cool monsters to fight.
The first FPS I fell madly in love with! Everyone in my entire school was addicted to this game at lunchtime
My favourite shooter of all time.
I love half life and opposing force too, but I really got a soft spot for Quake, you know, like eviscerated by a fiend soft spot!..
Manic, but playable.
Thank you so much for what you do GGGman. I love how personal your reviews are. Not only is it obvious that you have a long time love affair for shooters, but that your opinions are based on personal experience, not quick wiki research and 10 minutes of game play. Keep up the amazing work and I'll be here every time to watch your latest!
I tried this game and fell in love with it. There is nothing more satisfying than quickly dodging and enemy when they surprise behind a corner and then blowing his guts out. You will need some fast reflexes to play this thing
"You got projectiles coming at you from every single direction"
Just like Silver Surfer on NES. Thank you AVGN.
Lol literally bullet hell in 3D.
I would smoke weed and play this at night with headphones back in 1996... and literally end up sweaty and risking a hart attack :-D
looks like the weed stll hasn't worn off.
I played this when I was 5 so many memories of using multiplayer to play on levels I couldn,t get to
Great grand dad: Wolfenstein 3D
Grand dad: Doom
Dad: Quake
Son: Half life
Daughter: Unreal
Wierd Uncle: Duke nukem 3D
fizzie the shithead adopted child: cod
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Aunt: Blood
@@Slayer_The_Rogue The skater kid next door: Serious sam
Half life seems like a nephew and unreal and quake seemed to be like brothers that had a lot of rivalry
can't believe it's 20 years old this year. Geez. Playing Quake til ungodly hours of the morning , those were the days. Definitely one of the 100 games you must play before you die. I wish id would make a sequel to the original Quake. I just love this universe and art direction
Damn, the atmosphere and sound design was godlike in this unholy game! NIN soundtrack is awesome, too! Hope that the Quake 5 would just continue this gothic-styled Quake games. Quake II was an excellent game, but sadly Quake 4 was far from the original Quake experience and that's why a major disappointment.
it hqad amazing graphics for its time, look at the shadows and dynamic lighting
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Modern DLC is indeed for the most part garbage.
+M0rshu64 Your avatar fits.
+M0rshu64
Sad but true.
I only care when it's good DLC, like borderlands DLC. Or stuff like free high-res DLC.
I don't think so tbh day one dlc ya you have a point but for the most part I think that dlc is till pretty good now a days
+Judson Joist I'm only 20 years old and you could call me a hipster but just hearing that makes me wanna go back. Plus it sounds really cool saying "expansion pack".
+M0rshu64 I remember saying years ago that DLC is gonna take over gaming one day ;(
Seems like we are about the same age, you cover many games of my youth. Love to see decent reviews on long forgotten, yet beloved old games.
This Game was released the Year I was Born.
+CyborgParrot I wuz 16
Judson Joist OH HELL YEAH! YES SIR ME TOO! 98 to me was the best time for games as well, Resident Evil 2, Vigilante 8, parasite Eve, X-men vs Street Fighter, Metal Gear Solid??? Half-Life???anybody???
Judson Joist OH HELL YEA! Voodoo doll and aerosol flamethrower always equipped! That napalm launcher is still superior to any other weapon, EVEN THE BFG, did you play Unreal?
Judson Joist Yeah Blood was my favorite!, 8 player death match I mean for its time was smooth running, it was taxing at times, but addictive as hell lol
Judson Joist oh man you got me wanting to go play it now! I am watching a long play of it right now! haha
What I remember of Quake 1 is the screenshots I used to see before the game cam out in a magazine... Them 3D graphics looked so amazing back in the day.
(Leofair) The sound of every weapon was so well crafted! Every shot felt full of impact and you had the feeling that it really dealed a lot of damage. The OST of Trent Reznor is also outstanding and fits awesomely into the game. So much old-school fun!
You missed the most important part of what quake really did.
TeamFortress (TF), Capture the Flag (CTF) etc.
Quake is the definition of FPS by itself, much more than DOOM - but what it did for the gaming industry is something so far reaching, few even grasp the concept.
Not only did it spawn mods like the above, and multiplayer competition gaming as we know it (I ran the first official TF tournament and we had a prize pot of $10k! back in 1997! this was unheard of back then) -- but Quake brought gamers and enthusiasts into the fold of creating new content for the game with the blessing of the game developer (and we even got help from them via tools and modding support). This was completely unheard of before. People who tried to create new levels, mods, etc were often sued by the game developer before Quake.
Can you name me a game today that is successful that doesnt have player-modding and/or content available for it?
I know not one.
In fact - most of the top games of the last 10 years are only the top games because of player-made content and mods. Half-Life? Was just another fancy new FPS without a player-made mod called counterstrike. The entire TES series? Without mods, good - with mods, legendary.
Quake paved the way for player-built content, mods, and so on.
Quake paved the way for multiplayer gaming, and e-sports as we know it.
Quake is king, all hail the king.
Actually, I think making maps and all was already possible with DOOM. Also, Half-Life was not "just another fancy new FPS". It was highly praised way before Counter-Strike.
gordonkris Half life definitely was not another shooter when it came out, it was considered revolutionary for the genre. I don't think counterstrike would be what it is today if valve hadn't seen the potential in it and picked it up for an official release. There were a lot more memorable mods that came out for Quake than Doom though.
Mythal But still, Quake would be NOTHING without DooM
Mr. Mojo Risin' Call of Duty has a lot of mods for zombie maps, which are a big reason why I rebought World at War on PC. Outside the Treyarch games however, pretty sure there isn't much in terms of modding.
The original Quake Team Fortress was amazing and so far ahead of it's time. No game to this day has given me the same amount of joy and sheer amazement in regards to multiplayer. Go figure all these years later the most popular FPS is basically Team Fortress with Hero Elements (Overwatch).
Great review. Its refreshing to hear somebody actually analyse gameplay. There are so many reviewers who seem to have no idea what gameplay is anymore.
Oh my gosh i used to sneak it into school for lan games too. Good freaking times!
Nice review mate, never got around to playing Quake 1 played loads of Quake 2 when I was a kid. I gotta go back and check it out now.
Very underrated channel! Keep up the good work my man
Already wanting your Quake remastered review 🤘🏽
I cannot express enough how different the feel of this game is with and without the soundtrack. I never owned this game as a kid. I only had the shareware that my friend installed for me... and without the CD, I played it entirely without music. Cut today today, I'm playing the game on GLQuake having downloaded the CD audio and its just a completely different game.
So, so good...
So polished. You came a long way since your first videos, and I know that future reviews will be even better. I'm glad I found your channel early on. Not only your reviews are satisfying, but also is watching your improvement over time.
I would love to see a review of Duke Nukem 3D an Forever. The classic everyone loves and the sequel everyone hated (altough i liked it).
Fun and solid review! One thing you may have needed to mention is how Quake differentiates itself from other games by using the strategy where let enemies fight each-other. You mentioned the lack in ammo in nightmare, but at nightmare skill you often just need to run through a hall and let all hell break loose while you hide and avoid, and then just finish off the remaining, weakened enemies. I really love using that tactic and miss that in other games :-)
I recently found your reviews love them subbed and I love Quake more than Doom.
+BloodyDarkAnimeFan Thanks for subbing dude!
I grew up with Doom and Quake 2, born '91, but for some reason we missed Quake 1. I just recently started playing it on Quakespasm with a controller and MY GAHD I love this game, maybe even more than Doom.
Its got a lot of the same oldschool charm of Doom (to me anyways, gotta get the textures all pixel-ey.) but is so much more evolved. The verticality, that original id team finally getting to work with full 3d is something special. Not to mention the grittier, darker, grungier feel and all the lovecraftian elements. Trent kills it with the soundtrack. All in all, Quake (1) is truly something special.
This a really great review, thanks for sharing. QUAKE!
the first time i gibbed an enemy and saw his head rolling on the ground, i just lost my mind for a second, this was insane, this was new, i witnessed a birth of a new thing, the ability to play games , fps games , in polygon forms....the future was bright, sadly we now play fortnite and call of doody.....what a shame.
The nice thing is that the game not only holds its own to this day, but it's still playable on not only modern hardware, but on modern operating systems. With no need for compatibility settings. That's impressive. I remember playing Quake in middle school when it came out. Scared the living bejeezus out of me. Still love it, though :D
i have no idea why i keep watching all these old school reviews when i have played all of the games in question.... but i still do.
One thing I always found kinda funny with this game are that the flames from torches and even some of the muzzle flashes are actually models. Even today, I think most fire effects are just really fancy sprites (just doubled and tripled up a silly amount of times). It's like someone at iD said "we have all this 3d technolgoy AND WE'RE GOING TO USE EVERY BIT OF IT, DAMNIT."
great reviews keep it up bro
Happy 20th Anniversary Quake.
Just an outstanding, timeless game. Had fond memories of playing as a teenager and just recently - as a grizzled, jaded game veteran- I revisited it and was completely glued and captivated by it. Just great.
I remember the first time I saw Quake. .aah. .I was simply shocked and I felt in love with it instantly! ! ! first 3d game and everything. .I still play it to this day. I simply love this game
I received my copy of quake when I bought my voodoo rush video card. It was a great game and having a card that did both 3D and 2D was awesome back then. The intense 3D voodoo was awesome and I still remember 3DFX's advertising campaign.
Quake really was one of the best fps of all time.. really enjoyed the single player, multi-player deathmatch and capture the flag (loved the grappling hook!).. Wish iD would remake this game, same exact style, level design, etc
gave you a thumbs up because it's my all time favourite game, but you haven't covered the multiplayer that was really strategic especially in a 1on1 deathmatch, there were really a lot of tricks, weapon and item domination, each sound you've made mattered, and so on... epic!
Most modern FPS games don't have level design as we know it at all! It's completely on-rails ride full of context action shit. And those expansions, you really can call them expansions, unlike today's DLC content. There's vast selection of custom made level packs - some of them could be called expansions on their own - like Nehahra or Warp Spasm. This game awards exploration, especially on high difficulty modes finding a secret with lots of health and ammo in it, this really does help the player, and after playing it 10 times over, I have no problems completing this on nightmare in 1 day.
Quake's expansions were the first time I think it was really worth it to pick up an id Software expansion, as their previous ones were often sort of afterthoughts. I count Spear of Destiny and Final Doom in there even though they had standalone executables. They always just followed the mantra of, "more but harder and not as good." The Quake Mission packs were definitely harder than the base game but they actually did things with the level design, weapons and enemies to make them stand out (I suspect a lot of that had to do with the ease of modding) and were well made enough to be worth playing through. I'm glad Quake's campaign gets more love these days, back in the day it was all about the multiplayer because people were kind of tired of the Doom formula, even though Quake's single player is fast and brutal with an incredible atmosphere that its sequels failed to emulate.
I just want to say thank you for giving me the push I needed to finally play this. I'm a few years younger than you and my parents were really reluctant to buy games for me around the time that this came out. I owned Duke Nukem 3D Atomic edition but apart from that and occasional demo discs my FPS experience was very limited (didn't help that my brother and I were Blizzard nerds). I took it upon myself to really get in to Doom two years ago and have absolutely loved it but there was so much less to make me think of Quake. Brutal Doom prepared me for this gore-spraying masterpiece of a game and I'm already in love.
Just beat it on nightmare, goddamn awesome.
will forever love the super shotgun sound.
You have a good voice for reviews.
+Paul Simon Rough Him and Danny O'Dwyer.
When DOOM came out, it was ahead of it's time. Today if you look back on it, it seems very simplistic, but I remember first playing it and thinking "this is fucking awesome!"
It was challenging, required you to use strategic attacks, and by the time you beat the game it left you thinking "damn it's over??? I wish it wasn't".
I could say the same for Quake 1 and 2, it's one of those 'ahead of it's time' 90's games that is still a classic to date. Recently bought the PC version of Quake II, and it doesn't disappoint :)
This game was truly amazing. Scaling was new back then and Sega Genesis and SNES did not really have the capability (Jurassic Park SNES was the only game I think that had scaling). Doom, Doom 2, Duke Nukem 3d, Quake, and Quake 2 were amazing. Quake actually upstaged Doom. The nail gun with the NIN nails was so fucking cool. I was honored to grow up in the 90s.
I remember playing Quake 64 with my brother. It had a great surreal nightmarish feeling to it, and it was fun to just jump in an play random missions and discover secrets in the levels.
They don't make games like they used to. I've gotta find a copy of this that has the soundtrack included in it.
still holds up with a mod, a must play for anyone who has never played it, absolute classic
They've still got all the Quake games on Steam for around $10 each. Great review, hoping u follow with the other 3 in the series
I really liked the fact you could listen to your favorite music cd playing on the pc at the same time you were playing. I'm sure there was a thing in the menu system to do this. Quake + Slayer = Awesome fun back in the day.
Yeah in both Quake and Quake 2 you just turned on the audio from CD option. The first Quake had a soundtrack by nine inch nails.
Hahaha...Hell yeah man! I remember I used to put in the CD of Sepultura "Chaos AD" and freak the hell out on playing this game. Never tried it with Slayer but I bet it would still be just as bad ass.
***** No for me some more Nine Inch Nails will suffice
Happy 25th birthday Quake!
for me nothing can beat this....still to this day I haven't seen a weapon that compares to the rocket gun
I just hope next Quake has this aesthetic and themes. Brilliant game
thanks to your review I just bought it for the first time (got bored of modern sneak/shooters like metro) and holy hell im having fun with it.
The Q1 grenade launcher is the best fucking FPS weapon ever made.
A TRUE classic,still manages to create a dark, claustrophobic atmosphere more successfully than it's later siblings.The perfect blend of puzzles, mindless slaughter and intelligent level design still make this game a challenge today.
top-tier level and gameplay design that has really not been rivaled in the genre ever since
This and its sequel have completely different atmospheres. This one has kind of a fantasy look. Interesting.
Quake is GrandDaddy of all FPS Games that we play nowadays.Without this game it was impossible to get 3d animation,models and textures I mean it changed the style of FPS gaming.That's why Quake will rock forever.
Masterpiece. Period
I'm so happy this game is on the game pass now...I've been waiting a while to play it..(unfortunately don't have a PC)
5:00 "...and early naughties" keep up the wonderful talk there bud
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got em coach
I was wondering if you could do a list of the games you would most want people to buy if they're getting into Retro/Old School fps/
After over twenty years of playing through the campaign on normal, I've replayed the game on Nightmare. I found it... surprisingly easy.
I am unsure if I just have godlike FPS skills due to growing up with them as my main genre in the 90s, but after breezing through my recent replay of Return to Castle Wolfenstein on the hardest difficulty, I'm now on a quest to play all the oldschool FPS games I can on their hardest modes, whether I've played the games before or not.
Give serious sam a try if you haven't already.
I've played them all, even the HD versions.
Though I'm intent now on playing all classic FPSes on their hardest difficulty. Will work my way through all the remaining Quakes (sans Champions) then hit up the Doom series. Serious Sam will probably be after that.
I remember Team Fortress on Quake as a mod when the sniper rifle was a single barrel shotgun! Good times!
Haha. We setup LAN matches at the school computers too. We would always head to the last level of the first episode, the one with the big lava pit in the middle, and play it like a huge arena.
our high school gave us PCs, so I am gonna get my friends to download quake (already have it on my gaming pc.) and try and have a lan match
Its a brilliant game from the 1990's
Since this year is Quake's 20(!) birthday would you consider doing a Mod Corner for Nehahra and/or Arcane Dimensions. Both are masterpieces, each one kind of bookending Quake modding up to present day.
What do you think? :)
I have a Quake sign tattoo on my leg. :) Unforgetable experience. Classic horror atmosphere. Stunning, scary soundtrack. One of the best games EVER. :) Thx for the review.
amazing review, i really wish they would revamp this game but keep true to all its glory just with upgraded graphics. Although keep true to its lighting and level design.
Mate I was 14 when I bought this game. It traumatized me but couldn't put it down. Quake was my very first PC game. Fucken best memories. I remember when I bought Need for Speed Road & Track 1994, fuck , I thought it was the most realistic thing ever. Look at us now, we have Witcher, Crysis Series, we've come along way.
I kind of expected more from Quake. But I remember being really dissapointed. It had zero interactivity (bullets did even leave marks on walls) and most of the levels were kind of the same without any objects in them. So I went back to playing Duke Nukem
Beyond multiplayer, Quake 1 also has a very active single player community which produces single player maps of very high quality - almost all of them better than the originals. Last year there were even some mapping "competitions" (well, sort of) around some themes where people created some fantastic maps. Check Quaddicted, which acts as a single player quake map database and also provides the "Quake Injector", a custom map manager and downloader that takes data directly from Quaddicted's database. If you do that, make sure you use a modern source port like Quakespasm... or well, just use Quakespasm since that one seems to be the most compatible with all mods (Dark Places is also popular because of the effects, but several mods break on that because they rely on bugs that were fixed on DP).
WAIT A SECOND...
you're telling me it's not "scourge of Armageddon", but "armagon"?
My life
Oh god
I lived a lie all these years
Luca Ristea Reading is fun once you get the hang of it.
in some places like the regularly made walls (man made) look a lot like Quake 2 that it'd be hard to tell the difference between the two in a screen shot especially if the weapons weren't shown. The orge guy also seems to have a quake 2 counter part in the mini chainsaw gunner whom also has a great weapon and will strike with melee attacks when up close to the player.
edit: I remember that you could look up and down but you had to put mouse look on one of the buttons or else you'd be stuck in a doom style look.
(for perspective, I graduated from high school in 95) I played and enjoyed Doom before it, and had my first multiplayer FPS experience there, but Quake blew my mind. These were my personal FPS glory days, not because I was good or anything, but just because it was such a novel experience. Blasting some fast music and playing big DMs was gamer bliss. A bit later on, I also played the shit out of a mod called Future vs Fantasy. Class based team FPS... hmm, was it 20 years ahead of it's time or is Overwatch 20 behind?
How did you get an colored ligthning in q? I mean thunderbolt makes blue one, and nailgun makes orange? I have opengl version but still i only have one type of light.
best soundtrack from Trent Reznor too
Quake I: too much to say. This was not only the first FPS i ever played, but could replay it every few years and not get bored. The soundtrack for starters, well i still havent heard one so good. Trent Reznor in his prime, the many other-wordly small sounds echoing here and there....the different a nd unique sounds even each level had all to its own.
What A GAME!
Then the game play is still one of the best, most interesting and coolest experiences. Only Half Life for me or Q2 is equal.
Why companys cannot make games like this, i dont know. But im just glad Carmack and company did. Playing this game with my best friend in ‘97 was just so fun, as the game and its levels and enemies were so captivating that over the years we and i would play it again, and again.
Best played btw with a joystick if you can hook that up, lol...then it really feels like your there shooting.
Ahhhh Quake. Still good after all these years.
Finished it on *Nightmare difficulty* a few days ago ... Now - I feel complete \../
Also, one of the first FPS games I ever played as a kid :D (aside with Quake 3 and UnrealTournament) - on goddamn Sega Dreamcast xD
Quake 1 has such a cool atmosphere regardless of the backend running it.
I only played the shareware version when I was kid and so I decided to beat it now. I just did so last night and my only real complaint was the boss fights were too easy. Like the final boss basically consisted of just running down a hallway and walking through a teleporter. Other than that, the game was wayy better than I was expecting. The hype is definitely deserved with this game.
If you're using one of the ports you have to turn off texture filtering (gl_texturemode GL_NEAREST_MIPMAP_LINEAR in the console), to get the beautiful pixelated look of the original release. Its graphics have a certain old-school charm, especially coupled with the atmospheric soundtrack and artwork. The game kind of feels like a fast-paced, action-oriented Thief: The Dark Project (my favourite game), thanks to the atmosphere and level design, but maybe that's just me. So glad I finally got around the playing this masterpiece.
Quake is great fun game for bhoping and shooting, but with the original music on... it's freaking scary. The soundtrack makes it a whole new experience for me, especially with darker gamma and nightmare difficulty.
I'd love a shooter like this to come out now, with an emphasis on more loot and & even more levels. None of this cut scene cobblers...:D
Every now and then they do, but are totally overshadowed by the fact that you may as well be playing Quake instead XD.
seeing this old comment… did the new doom satisfy you? :D
"Quake is hard... Fucking hard..." My first reaction to playing lmao this is a big boy FPS
I play this remastered at times, and it is the best. You have to play it on 2nd highest difficulty at least for the experience.
It is fucking hard, and it is a very good game to test your wits. One time I was against a horde of shambler, fiends, ogres, vore and a few others with onyl shotgun ammo, got them to monster in fight each other.
I wish there were more games like this out there. Some variation in levels, new enemies, and ka boom, instant success.
About one of the two most important aspects, i.e. its amazingly fast & playable multiplayer mode, there's one single sentence in the review...
And about the other, i.e. being the first truly playable 6-degrees-of-freedom action shooter: none.