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I suspect his excuse was that he was rubbish. So yeah, plenty of great memories of father-son bonding. I’m sure my mum would’ve preferred us to go for a kick-about at the park, but whatever. We had a fantastic time. The game was stunning, rendered for the first time in full 3D, even the enemies. It was tightly designed, fierce and brutal. But I admit that, when I played through again recently, the game surprised me. Because I was eight years old at the time, and my adult self didn’t really believe it was quite so good. For starters, a lot changes in the best part of 15 years. Game design has certainly evolved a spectacular amount since then, and what was once acceptable is no longer so. And secondly, well, I was eight. At eight, someone might as well have shoved Daikatana in front of me, and I’d have thought it was the most amazing thing ever crafted by humanity. But no: Quake still absolutely stands up today. Its visuals might be pixellated, the environments often rather monochrome, as became the running gag. Yet the design of the world is tremendous, the levels balanced, structured and elegantly paced. The variety on display, despite the vast swathes of brown, dwarfs that of most modern games as well. Quake wrote into its story a great way of swinging between science fiction and grim Medieval fantasy: set the game in the future, and have it be about a dude travelling through flashy.

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A whole sea of them, each one weighty and tactile. id’s trademark shotgun makes for your starting weapon, alongside an axe which you’ll never use unless you’ve got the Quad Damage power-up, in which case it’s hilarious. Next comes one with two barrels, before a nailgun, a super nailgun, grenade and rocket launchers, and even a gun which shoots pure electricity join your roster. The nailgun ammo has the Nine Inch Nails logo plastered all over it, in one of the loveliest pieces of in-game advertising I’ve seen. Trent Reznor created the blistering soundtrack, which still raises hairs today. Quake also features an endgame boss that’s memorable for the most bizarre reason: it’s an extraordinary anticlimax. She’s called Shub-Niggurath, and for the majority of the game, you’re not really aware of her existence, or of the existence of a final boss at all. The game is spilt into four episodes, each accessible from what is essentially an explorable 3D menu screen. It’s not until you’ve completed all four that the floor begins to descend, a set of stairs appears, and you can wander down into her lair. It’s filled with wave upon wave of bad guys, probably the most challenging sequence of battles in the game. Yet old Shubbie just sits there, in the middle of a pool of lava, a big tentacled beast posing no threat whatsoever. She’s behind this whole infestation of nastiness, apparently, but she appears completely placid, all on her own, passive-aggressively dumping a whole load of minions in your path. She might as well be looking the other way and whistling.

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You empty a bucketload of bullets into her torso, but nothing happens. And then you realise that the floating spike ball hovering around the room is the location in which that big teleporter ahead dumps you when you jump into it. And the spike ball occasionally passes through the monster in the pit of lava. And oh. In a seconds-long cutscene, it’s all over. You hack your way out of her belly, destroying her in an inexplicable shower of guts, and that’s Quake done with. You’ve won. You’re the hero. It’s bizarre. id Software are masters of their craft and their goal has always been to develop top of the line first person shooters since the 90s. Now with the help of Nightdive Studios, MachineGames and Bethesda, the original Quake with previous expansions and new content makes its way to consoles in celebration of its 25th anniversary. Surprisingly, Quake holds up today, and this updated release might kindle a flame of possibility for a new title in the series (well, if you can ignore whatever Quake Champions was). What it comes down to is how authentic it still is underneath the graphical uplift. Quake looks clean and crisp on Sony’s last-gen consoles, both at 1080p 60 frames per second on the base machine, and 4K 60 frames on the Pro model.Hello Neighbor

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With the bump in resolution, textures and models were also updated to compliment the sharper image. The Options menu offers customizable graphics options like turning various enhancements on or off. Just being able to turn off motion blur from the outset was a very good thing for me and if you’d rather have the game look even closer to what it was like before, features like Antialiasing and Ambient Occlusion can be toggled off as well. Lighting is better too as it is more drawn out and smoother than before. But it is still distinctly Quake, and that is what will matter most to series fans. As someone with fresh eyes, I appreciate the approach taken with this relaunch. There was a lot of care and consideration put into what changed and how by id Software and Nightdive Studios that will ultimately please fans. Bethesda and Co. state that there will be an update coming for free with the PlayStation 5 version enabling 4K at 120 hertz for capable displays. However, this release is not just about the visual uplift, but it’s content rich too. Aside from the original’s two map packs and Dimension of the Past that was released for the title’s 20th anniversary, this version for the 25th anniversary adds Dimension of the Machine; a new set of maps designed by MachineGames. This expansion looks the part, but goes beyond what came before in terms of visuals.

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It was the last game of the classic id Software lineup before folks like Sandy Petersen and John Romero left. Its engine was an impressive effort to get smooth 3D visuals on PC at a time before 3D accelerators were widespread. It’s not one to overlook if you want to understand the evolution of PC shooters. I just never took the time to get Quake working on my modern hardware. I would need to shove it into a source port, and there doesn’t seem to be one that is clearly the best. It makes me tired just thinking about it. It was hard for the id Software guys to do wrong, and they were doing what they did best: pushing technology and using it to let you blast horrors. It’s dead simple, with most of the technique being in staying mobile. A speedrunning community would later flourish around the game and the unorthodox skill of rocket jumping, but if you’re just looking to see the credits, it rarely gets more complicated than just blasting whatever is in your way. The remaster does a number of things. It has moved Quake to the Kex Engine, adding graphical effects like real-time lighting and ambient occlusion. Moreover, some of the models have been given a slight upgrade, and while it usually gives me pause when updated models are jammed into an old game, they fit so well that I never got the impulse to turn them off. The option is there, however. If you want to turn off all the fancy effects and play the game like it was in 1996, that’s absolutely an option.

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