Alex Walker
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Given how good the Doom reboots have been, I wasn’t really prepared for what it would be like to just play the original Quake again.
See Games Differently
See Games Differently
Quake
Alex Walker
Gaming has a lot of inflection points. Sometimes it’s new technology, like the advent of the CD-ROM or ultra-fast SSDs. Sometimes it’s because a studio or a team finds a solution to a problem so ingenious that becomes standard. And sometimes it’s just because a small team manages to capture lightning in a bottle, the way Quake did.
Bethesda’s due to announce something to coincide with the 25th anniversary of Quake — and it looks like owners of the original might get a nice surprise.
When your levels can be beaten in literally seconds, but your game doesn’t count fractions of a second, breaking world records becomes exponentially harder.
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