First Screenshot of Quake Arena Arcade

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• Well get your converter and we'll see you on Live with a mouse! 8) : Endymion_
• Getting something tested and certified can take 1/4 of a year. So you don't know much! : ease one
• crappy games? : Goblin au

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  These games just dont work well on a gamepad.. : Pneum0
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    of all the FPS games out there, none of them are less suited to a gamepad than Quake3. On the plus sid... : Finchypoo
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      This is a cockle-warming thought. : CasbahBoy
      • The cockles of my heart, of course. : CasbahBoy
    • I guess if you don't know any better, it's still awesome. The options in combat are still there. : Pneum0
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    Quake III was fun on Dreamcast. >.< : Cihte
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      I loved pwning the dreamcast noobs on my PC. If you had the 1.16n patch and the dreamcast map pack and c... : Turd Ferguson
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        I had a separate Q3 install for this purpose. : Turd Ferguson
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          That's pretty low. : Pneum0
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            I liked to try to teach them all the trick jumps that required 125fps to do. Of course the DC only did 30... : Old_Fart
            • yeah. that CTF map with round table and stairs on either side custom for the DC you could hop up over l... : ease one
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          i did too, back in the days, but i also had a mouse and keyboard for the dreamcast and made pc gamers eat... : X-GOUKI
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            Must've been a blast at 30 fps. : Meadows.TR
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              it was actually, 10x better than that pos ps2 version : X-GOUKI
              • It had way better graphics, I'll give you that, the things that were good about the PS2 version was that ... : Endymion_
      • I have this pack on my 1.16n patch for OSX I wonder if I can pwn you while you pwn dreamcast noobs! :) : excessus
      • Every Dreamcast player I knew was kicking ass with their mouse, they got pretty cutthroat. You could tell... : Endymion_
      • Yup, I had a second install of q3 with the patch and the map pack just so I could pwn noobs : ease one

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  there's been other shooters on xbox believe it or not : dantastic
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    But nothing that comes close to the speed of Quake 3, afaik anyways. : PointlesS76
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      Doom 3, Quake IV, Unreal? : jake
      • Doom 3 is like running through molasses compared to Q3 : rubicant
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        Unreal was never as fast as Quake - not as Quake 3 Arena, at least. An old UT2004 player once saw me p... : Meadows.TR
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          And 2k4 was the fastest of the Unreal games. : jet-poop
          • Yes, so that pretty much proves something. Q3 is so fast sometimes, that even duelists can get staggered... : Meadows.TR
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  g'dammit they should bring it to Wii. It would rule on Wii : Cihte
  • I totally agree with you, but they would really have to get internet play working better. : heartsauce
• I owned the Dreamcast version of Quake 3 way back when. Played fine on the controller so long as you were... : RAY16
• can you even strafe jump properly with a gamepad? : jjastor
• This man has a point, and I'll open myself up for the flames... Q3 with no mouselook? STOP. FAI... : m0rb
• It'll play fine. Everyone will be equally terrible due to the inferior controller. ;) Meanwhile, we re... : crazypsycho
• q4 mp plays just fine on a controller. no auto aiming and all : X-GOUKI
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  yeah i agree, i also don't really see a market for this on the consoles. : Silent1
  • I am the market for this game! I played the shit out of Q3A on the DC but I kind of resented having to us... : Endymion_

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  .......so all you gamepad donkeys can get your ass handed to you, by the noobiest of all noobs even ? : vHazardous
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    Then why not give them autoaim and a few other field levelers? : steauengeglase
    • they would still get reamed : synapse19
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      What the hell is the point then. If dual analog is superior to mouse/kb then like some people spout abou... : silverback1138
      • I don't think any serious FPS gamer really thinks dual analog is superior to mouse and keyboard. That's t... : AgentDan
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        wait who's saying controller is better than m+kb for aiming? you are just making this shit up now : X-GOUKI
        • ^ I'm with this guy and I think I'm also a little confused. : steauengeglase
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          You mean to tell me you havn't seen that argument here? It usually turns into someone getting called a P... : Pneum0
          • case in point http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=20316606#itemanchor_20316606 : MamiyaOtaru
        • plenty of people, for example people how play COD4 or Halo competitively on console and have never played... : kodt
    • ...by having autoaim, they are freely admitting that conventional console control schemes for FPS's suck ... : leadgold
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  Yeah at least a few servers. Give people the option to pick PC/console only or mixed. Would be nice. : Marrbe
  • that's like choosing to be kicked repeatedly in the nuts : Finchypoo

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  they are making rage and doom4, no? quake3 with a controller almost qualifies as a new game, too. : razorblade79
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    All they need is some Windows players on Xbox Live to kick their controller asses. : Meadows.TR
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      now that's original, a pc vs console fight. WHICH SIDE WILL YOU CHOOSE : razorblade79
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        Actually, the shipping version of the Dreamcast version of Q3A featured Dreamcast vs. PC multiplayer. ... : Schnapple
        • I won't argue that m/k is the superior control scheme for q3, I'm just a little annoyed/amused by the eli... : razorblade79
      • I'll have ColecoVision for a thousand. : steauengeglase
  • Quake 3 came out on PS2. : kodt
• Yes. : Meadows.TR
• But they aren't porting this, Pi is... : zeke
• Anyone else here old enough to remember that id Software's always (by which I mean post-Commander Keen) h... : gabrobot

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• That was a DS version they were talking about. I think id dumped any ideas about making games for the DS... : jet-poop