Playing Quake for the Story (A Franchise Retrospective)

Yo washub niggurath?

Fascinating! I was the other way - playing for the game play mechanics and multiplayer, I've never thought about the story. And I had forgotten that there are new levels in the remastered versions - I need to play these! This was a great video, thank you!

Save you an over two hour video: There isn't much and never has been really. Outside of the Strogg stuff that appears mostly during the even entries? There's even less going on there than original Doom! Quake 1 makes an even lamer attempt at justifying why everyone else is already dead in the maps than Doom 1 did. And doesn't populate the word with existing dead bodies either, so... It's hard to say exactly what the Slipgates do, why 4 runes are necessary to challenge "Shub-Demonitized" and so on.

Filthy, disgusting Santa denier. Stop breathing my air.

Bruh, git good...

I love all Noah's funny little names for their characters like Doofus McToofus in Quake Champions

"This game is... deliberately and epithetically subsumed by a theoretical hyperbolic shooter"
f.u. and your words man

Without Quake there wouldn't have been a small game called Half-life.

"There is no justice, and there is no Santa Clause, so I critique as a I please. I'm going to tackle the Quale series from a narrative perspective, and there's nothing you f*ckers can do to stop me." I loved this 😂 Both silly and kinda badass.

Quake 1 is still my favorite and if they ever decide to reboot the series again I hope they navigate those waters and do it with Quake 1. To me the Strogg are basically diet demons from Doom and I don't find them particularly interesting because of that so I hope the Strogg stay in 2 and 4.

I'd love to see you do series retrospectives on Doom and Wolfenstein if you haven't already.

Finally someone with my skill level

Quake 1 has unmatched atmosphere. If you love this game and haven't installed Arcane Dimensions you are cheating yourself.

This was really excellent. Thank you for making it.

hey, love your videos, especially this one. I'm sure you get tonnes of comments like this so apologies for clogging your inbox further but I'd really like to see your take on the video game The Binding of Isaac because it's so... meaningful? I guess? It's just got a lot to unpack and I'm annoyed there aren't many videos discussing how strangely beautiful it all is. Its also probably one of the most aesthetically unique things ever created.

This video is so cozy. Out of all of Noah's videos, so far this is the one I keep coming back to.

You are able to explore games at a break neck pace while still feeling like a Sunday drive. Honestly, it's like if vertigo was a positive experience. This is a compliment. Please know this is a compliment.

I got Quake right after it came out......I had no idea there was a story in the manual. I bought it because it was Id and they were rock stars. Everyone knew the story was irrelevant, John Carmack was very vocal that stories in games were irrelevant. I never actually finished the single player of Quake back in the day. I was all about the multiplayer. I also loved Quake 2 especially Rocket Arena 2......after this I was Quaked out. I got into Team Fortress Classic then Counter-Strike.

What's the song playing at the start?

Great game franchise... great video

No mention of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars? It's a prequel to Quake II. While it is a multiplayer game akin to Quake III, it's set in the Q2/Q4 setting and does have a story it tells through the human and strogg campaigns that fleshes out the Strogg assault on Earth. Instead of deathmatch it's more like the assault mode from UT so there's objectives and it's not just about killing other players.

Oh no, he reviews Id games for the story, he's going to awaken the interdimensional anomaly, Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner and an actual rocket scientist John Carmack

Shamblers take half damage from rockets and grenades. I am begging you to stop shooting shamblers with the rocket launcher. 😿

This guy did not just say inscrutability

i found my new asmr sleeping vid

Romero was always a hack. His level design was never good.

Is this Mr Mobile?

your commentary is telling by the contrast between your prosaic and insightfull commentary in sharp contrast to your naive gameplay

quake was, well, you had to be there. it was the first game we were all playing against each other. it was competitive and fierce, like a sport. sure some people were doing that with warcraft 2 but... 3d, join a server, pick up a game. and then CTF and custom maps! then quakeworld and faster connections. it was just shocking.

This guy would LOVE Arcane Dimensions

Quake 2 is industrial feast and very more imaginative than Half Life that started the realistic games. What was said by Carmack - he prefer to make fun games than something else because they iD was company of gamers.

They must've also cut the new Cortana's attractiveness and likeability from the game.

I liked Quake 1 and I especially loved playing death match with the rune quake mod. I never got in to quake 2 all that much as i found it a little generic and booring. I did play quake 2 with rune quake death match. I mostly remember quake1 for the amazing full 3d graphics. I remember quake 2 for all the games that used that engine.

Jerk Gustafsson, pronounced completely diferently as you prononced it. It is pronounced as Jens for example, he is an incredibly talented game developer, that level pack for quake 1 is fucking fantastic. Wasnt a fan of quake 2, but again the pack from machine games they released for quake 2 made me a fan of it, not the base game, but the expansion. Machine games have incredible talent in spades.
Cant wait for the new indiana Jones game.

Sup my shub-niggurath 😎👍

2.5 hours of gameplay and nary a strife jump to be found.

“But there is no justice, and there is no Santa Claus.” You got an actual spit take out of me with that. I’ll subscribe after i dry my screen off.

btw, don’t use rockets or grenades against shamblers

liked and belled for the algorithm

I’ve been playing the Quake Remaster for the first time. I’ve beaten all the official packs so far except for DotM. Quake is truly a great time from start to finish. It’s had its…moments of BS but I have thoroughly been enjoying this game package. Can’t wait to do the fan made packs.

Yes that Dragon boss really did suck. It wasn’t even fair. I tried so many times to legitimately destroy him but eventually just shot him with rockets and ducking from the entrance.

i thinkkk the reason id don't wanna ust make a more modern quake is due to doom 2016 allready takeing elements from it.

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As someone who never played quake it now makes sense why I never knew what Quake was all about. I heard about the strogification scene and that’s basically all I knew other than the rocket launcher

Niche is a French loanword, so exactly like you do with filet and zucchini, you don't apply English pronunciation to it, obviously. It's not "sometimes we do, sometimes don't" with pronunciation and grammar in languages. You say it like neesh, not "nitch", that's a different word.

I clicked on this video because it got recommended to me and I found the title so absurd. I spent this sunday watching after my girlfriend's dog and fighting boredom and this video was such a nice and relaxing watch! Thanks for this!

The Quake comic in the Saturn version of Quake is a better story. 😉