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Doom was great for LAN parties; Q1 let you log onto Quake World and blow up complete strangers any time of the day or night. I never really got into Quake II,

Doom was great for LAN parties; Q1 let you log onto Quake World and blow up complete strangers any time of the day or night. I never really got into Quake II, as it didn't seem to offer anything fundamentally new compared to Quake, which had full 3D physics and internet deathmatch. I still have fond memories of wasted hours rampaging around with a quad damage rocket launcher, hacking away at noobs with the axe, watching people (sometimes myself) electrocute themselves with the lightning gun by mistake, and trying to retrieve good backpacks from the lava in House of Chthon...

qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Owning all of them, I can say that Q1 and Q3 are more fun than Q2. Q1/Q3 were great, Q2 was... meh at best. However, of the three, Quake 2 has the most active online community (although Quake has a larger pro scene - yes, it's still going. Q3 is dead, with most of the players having moved to QL, no matter how much they complain about its inferiority).
- alkonaut 10y ago
  I fondly remember Q2 as being "much less brown and with a railgun" which was enough for me to consider it worth playing over Q2. Q3 was better, but 1999 also saw Unreal Tournament and Counter Strike, so I never looked back at Quake.
  - qwertyuiop924 10y ago
    I don't have UT99, so I can't compare. I've heard it's like UT4, which I didn't really enjoy all that much. So put me on the Quake side of the Quake/UT fight, I guess. And I could never get into CS.
  - nailer 10y ago
    UT was better than Q3 - wider variety of weapons, more fun game types, better maps. But Q3:TeamArena was massively overlooked. It added megatexture to Q3, had massive maps, cooler weapons, and a better aesthetic.
    - cableshaft 10y ago
      I still go back and play Quake 3 Team Arena with bots from time to time. Still one of my favorite bot experiences.
    - qwertyuiop924 10y ago
      But Q3 had advanced movement, a stronger modding scene, and a grappling hook (sort of).
- edem 10y ago
  My favorite was Q2 because of its campaing. I never played them online though.

qwertyuiop924 10y ago

Owning all of them, I can say that Q1 and Q3 are more fun than Q2. Q1/Q3 were great, Q2 was... meh at best. However, of the three, Quake 2 has the most active online community (although Quake has a larger pro scene - yes, it's still going. Q3 is dead, with most of the players having moved to QL, no matter how much they complain about its inferiority).

alkonaut 10y ago
I fondly remember Q2 as being "much less brown and with a railgun" which was enough for me to consider it worth playing over Q2. Q3 was better, but 1999 also saw Unreal Tournament and Counter Strike, so I never looked back at Quake.
- qwertyuiop924 10y ago
  I don't have UT99, so I can't compare. I've heard it's like UT4, which I didn't really enjoy all that much. So put me on the Quake side of the Quake/UT fight, I guess. And I could never get into CS.
- nailer 10y ago
  UT was better than Q3 - wider variety of weapons, more fun game types, better maps. But Q3:TeamArena was massively overlooked. It added megatexture to Q3, had massive maps, cooler weapons, and a better aesthetic.
  - cableshaft 10y ago
    I still go back and play Quake 3 Team Arena with bots from time to time. Still one of my favorite bot experiences.
  - qwertyuiop924 10y ago
    But Q3 had advanced movement, a stronger modding scene, and a grappling hook (sort of).
edem 10y ago
My favorite was Q2 because of its campaing. I never played them online though.