Comments on: A Quake III Thing

By: panther

panther — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:13:28 +0000

Good tale, had this same thing happen to me a while back when I re-booted Quake 3. Ran into an old server I had frequented back in the day (Instagib Railonly) and upon my first death, realized that an old clan-mate from back in my actual Quake 1 CTF days had just splattered me.

Always fun to connect like that.

By: Lep

Lep — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:23:46 +0000

It doesn’t just happen online:

Last year I was watching a football match at Guy’s Bar (Guy’s Hospital student bar) with some of my mates. My housemate John turned up a bit late with a mate of his from his labs who he introduced as being quite the CS player, knowing I used to play a lot of CS back in the day. By coincidence it turned out he played on the same servers as I did and our clans played eachother. Didn’t watch so much of the football and ended up chatting about the good ol’ days of the UK CS community. A quality bit of chance.

By: Cunzy1 1

Cunzy1 1 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:03:56 +0000

This happened to me the other day! I fired up Timesplitters for some two player action and my brother was playing it too! He was on the sofa next to me! THE VERY SAME SOFA we used to play Timesplitters on. Then it turned out he was the same brother that I’d had for years! We went to the same schools, had the same parents. We EVEN had the same names for our pets when we were growing up!

What are the chances? I ask ya?

By: Al3xand3r

Al3xand3r — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:10:23 +0000

Kill Phil, I’m sure they’d still prefer it over UT3 or something truly new that was worse than that. Obviously making new stuff is always better IF they can build it up to par. If not (and they clearly couldn’t, what with warfare and crap) then they’d have been best to make an UT2004 remake and focus on making it prettier, shinier, scalable and more modable. They seem to have failed in all accounts with UT3, including how scalable it is compared to previous games in the series. The visuals options are laughably simplified (even “advanced”), ini tweaks don’t help anywhere near as much and a PC that runs COD4 flawlessly can have major issues with UT3 @ uber low res and settings… With UT3′s failure we’re left without a current gen contender for the mod community crown…

Sad really, things went downhill in regards to that after Half-Life and they keep going so… Not that amazing projects aren’t still made, it’s just they don’t get the recognition they deserve anymore so they’re bound to stop being made at some point… I guess it might be for our own good if the industry lacks something like a “mods’ choice” engine for a couple years so that when it’s back, people appreciate it more than they do now they’ve been so spoiled the last years… Anyway this is off topic…

By: Ben Hazell

Ben Hazell — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:57:01 +0000

No one piping for up for UT?

UT was a singleplayer game for me really.

By: x25killa

x25killa — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:56:51 +0000

It’s nice when that happens. Bumping into users you have meet before a long time ago, greeting them back with a insta-gib. Good times.

By: Kill Pill

Kill Pill — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:35:01 +0000

Yeah, I meant on a cheapo laptop with an intel graphics chipset, and with enough headroom to smoothly handle a 32 player game.

UT3 isn’t exactly a remake, sure, but it’s got the same weapons and movement style as 99 (hoverboards aside). My point of view is that a 2004 remake would not have been better for the players (although it would have been a better game), because 2004 is still just about current and there’s no reason not to play the original. Besides that, a lot of people who’ve played 2004 are probably finished with it, and wouldn’t be drawn back with a shinier version. Something truly new would have expanded our options further, attracted more attention and at least had the possibility to be better still.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:44:45 +0000

Thing is, we call these stories sad or lame or boring but are they really? Any more so than your average oh-my-gosh-what-a-small-world-we-live-in story? Just because it’s gaming-related?

By: cyrenic

cyrenic — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:36:27 +0000

Another “it’s a small world” story.

Couple years back we got a new intern at the office. We got to be friends and after a few weeks we started talking about games we used to play. We came to find out we both used to play tribes against each other, and even remembered each others handles.

Kind of a lame story when it’s down on paper, but it was cool at the time :P.

By: Spectere

Spectere — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:27:13 +0000

@Kill Pill: The first system I ran UT2004 on was a laptop from 2002 (Athlon XP 2200, ATI IGP 320M [which is quite possibly the worst chipset that ATI has ever released]) and it ran fairly well. My current laptop (purchased November 2005) has a fairly low-end graphics chip, even for that time (RADEON X300), and it has no problems handling it.

My 2005 laptop can even handle UT3 if I turn everything way down. Epic definitely knows how to make an engine.

By: The Hammer

The Hammer — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:09:44 +0000

UT2004 was excellently scaled, I always thought.

Oh, and I can’t can’t can’t wait for Quake Live.

By: Turin Turambar

Turin Turambar — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:01:27 +0000

Hey Manwe, good nick! :D