VG247: John Carmack's admitted that his favourite id Software game is Quake III Arena. You know what, John? Same with us.
The code legend gave up his personal shooter preference in a PCGamer interview about the upcoming free-to-play Quake Live, and also took the opportunity to stick a knife into completist "movie" gaming.
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Devs stopped innovating on them.
Overwatch is the last innovation that has some of that vibe.
The Outerhaven writes: First-person shooters (or FPS for you grandchildren of boomers) is one of my favorite genres in gaming. I grew up playing games such as Doom, Quake III Arena, Unreal Tournament 2004, and others. But then something happened.
I just wish they'd do more with the actual perspective and movement. First person view in games are so unrealistic and the lack of movement is what keeps me away from most fps.
I love FPS games, I'll take more.
If you actually count, there's wayyyy more 3rd person games. Possibly 3x or more
Also this should be in a new section called 'Rant'
Modder ‘Zanieon’ has released a brand new version of his Quake III On Doom mod, Hunter’s Moon. Hunter’s Moon is a mod for Zandronum and GZDoom that consists in bringing the single-player/cooperative campaign that Quake III Arena never had.
Maybe it's his favorite because, unlike recent id releases, QIII Arena is the only id game that has been worth a damn.
Few gamers will ever realise the depth that competitive Quake 3 has to it.
When someone says that Quake 3 is their favourite fps, they aren't talking about the vanilla version with ffa on q3dm17. The game that everyone else is picturing is a very different one than what people like Carmac are talking about when they mention Quake 3.
They are talking about proper competition level Quake 3, with the latest version of cpma vq3 (formally osp) in 1vs1, tdm + ctf.
If you don't know who Cooller, Z4muz, Zero4, Fox, Cha0ticz, czm, jibo,
uNkind, leXer, keep3r, evil, Toxic or Fazz are, or if you haven't seen them play, then I recommend you look into it if you want to see what all the fuss is about.
If anyone is interested here are a few links to some memorable match demos (1v1):
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Quake 3 and 4 are my least fave id games.
Doom 2 and Quake 2 FTW!
If anyone is wondering why Fatal1ty isn't on that list, it is because he wasn't actually one of the top Quake 3 players, at least by todays standards.
The game hadn't been out for very long when Fatality was considered a top level player. I would say that Quake 3 reached it's peak competitively around 2003 - 2007. This was a while after Fat had moved on from the game and the newer standard of dual maps were introduced.
I wanted to point this out because many people automatically think of Fatal1ty as being one of the Quake greats, but he probably shouldn't be considered a top tier player when it comes to Quake 3.
can't watch the demos, then check out one of my all time favourite Quake 3 videos.
The file is a bit big but it should definately help to make a believer out of you, or at the very least give you some insight as to why some people (like myself) still talk so highly of the game.
http://www.own-age.com/vids...