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Funny, I grew up playing the original DOOM and Quake, and when the Nintendo 64 came out with texture filtering I wanted to get that look into those games more t
by tomc1985 5y ago
Funny, I grew up playing the original DOOM and Quake, and when the Nintendo 64 came out with texture filtering I wanted to get that look into those games more than anything in the world (at least in Quake it did eventually get official support via GLQuake). My last playthroughs were at my screen's native rez with texture filtering, a remixed music pack, remastered audio, and with Brutal Doom installed, and the experience was like everything I dreamed Doom was back in the day. A retro-accurate version of the game just feels bland.
(On another note, Quake II RTX revitalizes an already great game, definitely check it out if you can run it)
- doubled112 5y agoI find it really hard to play Doom, Quake and Quake II with any sort of filtering or texture packs. There's always something that ruins the immersion for me. Round pixels, for example? Can't do it.
- tomc1985 5y agoTexture packs I can agree with. Maybe I just like the filtered textures look. Ironically I like to play emulated 8/16bit games upscaled with no smoothing, when CRTs of the day actually did some smoothing
- SirHound 5y agoYou can turn texture filtering off in the modern Doom 64 port and its night and day
- tomc1985 5y agoBut Doom 64 on the 64 had filtered textures! It's the one place where that was default!
- SirHound 5y agoOh I know that's how it originally was. I think the N64 required it but I'm not sure. Either way I didn't play it at the time so I don't have any nostalgia for the look. But IMO it looks leagues better without.
- boomlinde 5y agoI feel like you're my exact opposite. Quake 2 is a boring game and the RTX version is like spraying a fine mist of water all over Quake 2 and shining at it with a flashlight. Doom is best enjoyed largely untouched mechanically because its design is still unique and unrivaled. Brutal Doom completely throws everything off and turns it into an obnoxious gorefest. We should meet and fight in a schoolyard some time.
- anthk 5y agoI think the first Quake it's more fun than Quake 2. And a total conversion called Malice totally owns Quake2.
- tomc1985 5y agoQ2 is pretty boring compared to modern shooters, but it is one of the last games from it's particular vintage style of corridor-shooter FPS, and it does it better than it's priors mechanically. Full 3D, autorun, mouselook, none of this click-to-aim, walk-by-default crap Soon thereafter Call of Duty hit the scene and everything goes downhill from there (save Half-Life) edit- I remember seeing the fake screenshots on the back of the box of D-ZONE and getting pissed my game didn't look like that. It only took 20 years or so!