Quake1 Beta Shots

It's 2002 and I still love this game :)

The weapon balancing issue in Quake 1 was probably one of the things that made it so much fun, especially in team games. It made it more of a defence and offence game, not the FFA crap we see in Q3 team games today.

i remember the quake 1 beta leaked on irc, the beta of the full
game before it shipped, and that nightmarish last level that
they later completely replaced. it was the scariest level i've
ever played.

i've been looking for that map/someone with the beta for years...would kill to have it. if anyone has it, please mail swhalen@nfinity.com
and we'll work something out ;)

Oh, and as far as DOOM vs. Quake goes...

Compare the current Quake 1 community to the current DOOM community. Which one is more active? Even though Quake is newer, DOOM has a more dedicated community. DOOM has kept more people loyal to it for longer, because it is a better game in a lot of people's eyes.

I remember back when thes pics first came out... everyone thought they were amazing (even though today there's a lot you can pick out which makes you wonder why people liked it, like the textures).

Oh and Daggah:

- Quake had lots of atmosphere (I do remember panicking several times when some monster jumped out of the dark).

- Quake might have been unbalanced in multiplayer (i.e. RL or nothing), but offline it was just fine.

- The actual level design for Quake was good; it's just that the texture palette they used was ugly. Still pretty creepy though.

Daggah... there's nothing people hate more than someone who 1) absolutely worships the ground a game walks on and 2) insists that everyone accept his "enlightenment." Doom was certainly really cool at the time and for a couple of years after - but at a certain point you have to acknowledge that better games have come out and that Doom doesn't appeal to everyone on the same level you think it should.

I have Doom 2 installed (with GL acceleration) as well as Half-Life. These days I'd rather play Half-Life.
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man, i remember when quaketest came out, i was all pissed off cause it wouldnt run on my 486dx2/66.....it kept giving me that damn turtle icon in the corner of the screen...that sux0red...

Ah, those were the days. Quake was my first experience with online gaming (NetQuake and QuakeWorld, @350 ms ping!).

Quake was also a great single player game for it's time. I remember drooling over the screenshots when they came out.

Ah... the memories.

IIRC, a few of those shots were Doom2 levels rendered with Quake, I remember a few side-by-side comparisons. I had forgotten all about the dragon. I also remember all the hype about location-based damage, and the big deal being you could hack some guy's head off, then pick it up and use the severed head as a weapon.

Riiiiight.....

Anyway, my 33MHz 486 was way to slow to play qtest or the demo or anything. Much less my crappy modem that would've spent two hours downloading it.

Anybody know how to get monsters in the qtest, like what that Ermac fellow is saying? My Quake knowledge only goes back to the registered version. :)

does anyone remember the crack for qtest that would put a bunch of the pre-alpha monsters in there? i remember there was tarbaby, the dragon who didn't do anything, the knight, and i can't remeber what else. crazy shiznit!

Here is how the Quake series has progressed.

Benchmarks ran on a P3 683, GeForce2 @ 800x600

Quake1 - 300 fps
Quake2 - 200 fps
Quake3 - 100 fps

I think they scale pretty well don't you?

http://www.nvnews.net/articles/benchmarking.shtml

Click the screenshots for the numbers.

Totally OT, I was just wodering about Graeme Devine. What was he actually doing before going to idsoftware. I know he did 7th guest at trilobyte and its sequel, but what exactly was he doing right before he went to id.

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mortal kombat for the sega genesis is the best game ever....

alcueso
....YOU SUCK!!!!!

ANyone have the Into The Shadows demo that people are talking about?

I think I will reinstall quake and crank up the rez to 1600x1200 and play some quakeworld.

I recall reading somewhere (before quake came out) that the main character was supposed to be a norse-god type, with a thor-like hammer as the main weapon.

All I have to say is thank god for hardware accelerated rendering... those pictures look positively primitive.

Still, I cant help but shudder with joy remembering my first encounter with a fiend...

(did the Quake1 enemies not kick the living crap out of the Quake2 enemies or what?)

word up!

you guys gotta remember that we saw those shots when were still drooling over Doom (Doom2 was crap).

and for those that want the pixelated look back, go play q3a in 320x240, turn off bilinear filtering, and leave the rest to your imagination :)

Ah, I had almost forgotten how *ugly* Quake is. Thanks for reminding me, Steve...grumble...

It would've been a fine game if it hadn't been so poorly balanced in the gameplay department.

Ok Steve, where are the Doom beta screenies?

What the hell type of format are *.lbm files?

Ah yes, these shots must have been taken back when they originally wanted a medieval fantasy type setting, before it turned into the pseudo techno medieval clusterfuck in the final game.

Whatever happened to Lifebane? ;-)

into the shadows was a engine technology demo that came out about 6 months or so before quake1 was released.

the company that was working on it dissolved, and it never came out. looked amazing though.

When the fuck will Quake be released? All this fucking hype always and I never see it on store shelves or any real info as to what is actually in this game?!

i still have the qtest somewhere on one of my backups. it was really fun, i think maybe because it ran really smooth or something like that, a lot smoother than quake SW/registered did. it's hard to remember, though. it also makes me think of that rad map with all the traps. where you could go into the two rooms to open up the floor and make everyone fall in the lava, but there were also buttons to crush those rooms. so it was gimmicky, that was still damned fun :)

http://www.ggc.u-net.com/i2.htm

Into the Shadows info.