Quake 3 - Arena

quarryman

Booted this up for a dose of nostalgia.

And wow. How good is this game still?

Pure. Simple. FPS.

no f**kin experience points to worry about. no grades to reach. no complications. brilliant.

Better than UT99 for me. Then and now. There I said it.

Discuss.

Duggy747

While I like both I always veered more on the UT99 side. Just liked the overall feel to the game more-so than Quake 3.

Plus this might interest ya:
http://www.quakelive.com/

quarryman

Duggy747 wrote: »

While I like both I always veered more on the UT99 side. Just liked the overall feel to the game more-so than Quake 3.

Plus this might interest ya:
http://www.quakelive.com/

Thanks for that.

Don't get me wrong. I played equal amounts of both but for exactly the same reason as you, i just preferred Quake. Something about the twitch-happy gameplay appealed to me more.*

Strange, considering now, I hate fast paced FPS and have settled in a comfortable preference for grinding away in Fallout and Oblivion.

*the one exception being the Escher level in UT99 (i think it was only downloadable) combined with the redeemer. brilliant.

Sabre0001

Quake 3 \o/

Quake Live \o/ (when it works for me - I have a lot of bad luck with it)

Upcoming release of Quake Arena Arcade -o- - Will be buying...Should be interesting to see how it ports across.

Sisko

I always like UT99 much more.

Then again I was always more into CTF then pure deathmatch.

Facing worlds ftw

Creamy Goodness

q3dm17, enough said. the game is brilliant, as the OP said; no achievements no p2p hosted servers.

quake 3 was the pinnacle of online fps multiplayer gaming until it was bastardised by consoles.

RolandIRL

UT99 for me. so many mods. strangelove and matrixmoves, just brilliant. First PC game i ever bought for £20 back in virgin megastores.

quake 3 i liked but i found the bot system for UT much better and more of a challenge (only had dial-up at home so no online multiplayer for me)

TinCool

Quake 2 FTW

cherryghost

Playing some Q3 Vanilla and UT2004 at the LAN tonight

Monotype

quarryman wrote: »

*the one exception being the Escher level in UT99 (i think it was only downloadable) combined with the redeemer. brilliant.

Escher level? Images of Escher staircases spring to mind. Any link?

Is this it?
http://www.evilut.com/CTF-Escher.html

or the last one on this page?
http://www.islandalien.com/unreal/

quarryman

Monotype wrote: »

Escher level? Images of Escher staircases spring to mind. Any link?

Is this it?
http://www.evilut.com/CTF-Escher.html

or the last one on this page?
http://www.islandalien.com/unreal/

right i've searched high and low and can't find it.

I'm pretty sure it's not the ones you've linked. I think it might be this one, [URL="http://www.fileplanet.com/35289/30000/fileinfo/DM-Escherland]["]Escherland[/URL].

It was brilliant though. The doorways and stairs looped back on each other. It was completely seamless. You could guide a Redeemer endlessly through the never ending entrances.

Can't even find a video of it.

Monotype

quarryman wrote: »

right i've searched high and low and can't find it.

I'm pretty sure it's not the ones you've linked. I think it might be this one, [URL="http://www.fileplanet.com/35289/30000/fileinfo/DM-Escherland]["]Escherland[/URL].

It was brilliant though. The doorways and stairs looped back on each other. It was completely seamless. You could guide a Redeemer endlessly through the never ending entrances.

Can't even find a video of it.

Nice. I tried making a few similar types of maps myself, but they always ended up confusing.


As for the topic. I never played Q3A. Plenty of Q1 & Q2 and spin off mods not needing Q3 (Urban terror). UT99 however, probably got... thousands of hours by this stage? Quakelive had really bad lag. Tutorial was barely playable!

Grayditch

Either this or Rainbow Six was the first game I ever played online. I thought I was deadly.

Jazzy

yes.

challengemaster

cherryghost wrote: »

Playing some Q3 Vanilla and UT2004 at the LAN tonight

bastard :pac:

Chairman Meow

quarryman wrote: »

Booted this up for a dose of nostalgia.

And wow. How good is this game still?

Pure. Simple. FPS.

no f**kin experience points to worry about. no grades to reach. no complications. brilliant.

Better than UT99 for me. Then and now. There I said it.

Discuss.

If you ask me, the decline in quality of online FPS'es started with BF2 when it introduced unlocks, stats, and ranking bull****. I hate all that crap. Give me a pure fps like dod:s, uncluttered with stupid ranks and numbers designed to keep the attention span of ADHD kids any day of the week

Mr E

Quake Arena out on XBLA tomorrow.

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/12/10/quake-arena-arcade-finally-arrives-on-xbla-dec-15/

Bruthal

Anyone from boards playing the quake 3 arena online? We run a server here now and then for online games between 3 or 4 of us.

There are still no shortage of players running servers online anyway.

cherryghost

Very rarely hop on. Usually play for a while at the montly LANs in Athlone, but thats about it

Bruthal

Good crack it is, i usually run it on a notebook here as a pure server then give one or 2 the ip address, and join it myself from another pc in the house. Sometimes play on the online servors that are always up, hard goin on them.

Hank Scorpio

At least q3 and ut99 need some proper skill , unlike all those cod and bf games

Bruthal

Yes they have a huge skill level potential alright.

Hank Scorpio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO2YOQQs1KA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVI1gnwMvJw

Just thought i`d post this here re UT. A good players are featured from my clan, finality

Naikon

Quake Live is good.

F1ngers

Quake thread here ffs...

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=1...:p

Jazzy

so much better then any other fps game online.

depth people - thats the important thing

ShadowHearth

Quake 2 map edge = profit....

Newer got into quake 3, but quake 2 was legendary.


I really hope duke nuken will have same old fps system like old on and quake etc. Health packs, armors, you shoot what you pick up. Secret spots in map etc... Goldem age...

Shiminay

You guys do know we have a Quake Forum right...?

partyatmygaff

Chairman Meow wrote: »

If you ask me, the decline in quality of online FPS'es started with BF2 when it introduced unlocks, stats, and ranking bull****. I hate all that crap. Give me a pure fps like dod:s, uncluttered with stupid ranks and numbers designed to keep the attention span of ADHD kids any day of the week

BF2 was still a legendary game though. They got the ranking system right, it was just a small section of the online portion of the game. The actual online play was immense (Still is as a matter of fact). COD4 is what ruined it all by introducing prestige levels and perks and the like.

partyatmygaff

Quake Live is pretty good too.

It's quite an amazing technical achievement too.

Bruthal

RopeDrink wrote: »

I have Quake 3 & UT99 both on my shelf to the left of me - This thread makes me want to chuck Quake 3 on the computer and give it a bash now that I actually have 20meg connection, try to shake off my "Ive not played a competative FPS in years" dust and then actually try to experience it properly... Not sure how many people still play those two games but in all honesty I wouldn't be suprised if there were still longterm diehard community members of each game trucking away merrily or the odd chap just 'trying it out'.

May try that some bored evening - I miss the irritating wailing you get when playing as Klesk (Blue Alien, was always my favourite model for some reason).

Quake 3 still has loads playing it, we run a server on notebook here every time we want to play and just get 3 or 4 of us onto it usin ip address to it. My son and my da and myself usually play over net against each other. Good crack it is.

There is a patch needed to update it for modern online playing. Easy to get it.

quarryman

robbie7730 wrote: »

My son and my da and myself usually play over net against each other.

3 generations? Legendary.

Bruthal

quarryman wrote: »

3 generations? Legendary.

Yes its actually funny as well, my lad just destroys us without much effort, he is always on the online servers of which there are no shortage, my da finds places to hide if its the bigger maps and snipes with the rail gun, its a laugh. I just run a server for when we are playing.

Duggy747

Was always more of a UT99 guy myself, had the game rigged to the bollox with mods which made offline play fantastic. Was pretty good online too though sometimes the 56k would let me down when against ISDN players :pac: I was such a trolling bastard in the chat room where you'd select a game to join.

Quake 3 I liked but compared to UT I found it far too fast-paced. Still, went back to Quake Live and was fun re-living old Pentium II memories.

Wouldn't mind cracking open UT99 again for old times sake, apparently plenty of folk still play it.

Morag

http://unreal.ie/

Jazzy

Sharrow wrote: »

http://unreal.ie/

best damn site on the planet!

Hank Scorpio

Duggy747 wrote: »

Wouldn't mind cracking open UT99 again for old times sake, apparently plenty of folk still play it.

If you need some help setting it up again throw me a pm, iv got a few dedicated servers too we could mess about on, or anyone who wants to for that matter. Would be nice to shoot with some fellow irish dudes for a change, not many left in the scene anymore

landsleaving

Sisko wrote: »

I always like UT99 much more.

Then again I was always more into CTF then pure deathmatch.

Facing worlds ftw

One of my all time favourite levels. Thanks for reminding me, I went back to play it again, still brilliant.

VenomIreland

I'll be playing Quake 3 with my brother later today

Absolutely brilliant game, wish more FPS's were like this nowadays.

Bruthal

VenomIreland wrote: »

I'll be playing Quake 3 with my brother later today

Absolutely brilliant game, wish more FPS's were like this nowadays.

Are you playing it later on a local network or over the net? Im not too great at it but would be a laugh to have a game

VenomIreland

robbie7730 wrote: »

Are you playing it later on a local network or over the net?

Local, sorry.

Bruthal

You could throw in the ip address here and fire away:D

VenomIreland

robbie7730 wrote: »

You could throw in the ip address here and fire away:D

Maybe I will

Nerdkiller1991

I missed the days when FPS's like this didn't take themselves seriously and at times, actually required skill. But then someone had the bright idea of incorporating regenerating health and that alone ruined everything, along with all the other dumbed down crap, just for profit. Hopefully, Serious Sam 3 will change all that when it releases this year.

Still, I would love to see what it would be like if we took a 12 year old CoD player and see how he reacts when playing Quake 3 online.

Bruthal

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

I missed the days when FPS's like this didn't take themselves seriously and at times, actually required skill. But then someone had the bright idea of incorporating regenerating health and that alone ruined everything. Hopefully, Serious Sam 3 will change all that when it releases this year.

Still, I would love to see what it would be like if we took a 12 year old CoD player and see how he reacts when playing Quake 3 online.

Just run one of the mods on quake, you can setup the server with no pickups, life does not regenerate, its just frag or be fragged. We run our one faster than the default, just have 4 weapons, or just the rail gun depending which server we run.