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In article <343dc73...@nntp.netcomuk.co.uk>,
Felix Harris <fel...@netcomuk.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>In short: Quake -> great engine, lame game
>
>Only in single player.
>Quake & reasonable modem -> great engine, great patches, great game.

And, really, only in unmodified single player.  To call (for example)
Scourge of Armagon or Zerstvrer "lame" would be stretching things a little.

My 2 cents about this sort of thread:

Just about no one will argue with you if you say that plain vanilla non-GL
single player Quake is mediocre at best.  It's a non-issue.  When us Quake
players talk about Quake The Game, we're implicitly including net play and
the superb free (or cheap) modifications for single player or net play.

So when people say that Quake sucks etc., we don't think that they're
stating the obvious (if a little strongly) about the out-of-the-box Quake
single player game, because why would they do that?  It's like coming on to
Usenet and trying to start a flame war by saying "AOL blows chunks!".
Borrrring.  Instead, we think that they must mean the same thing we do by
"Quake", and, of course, they are stark raving insane to say that it sucks. :-)
"Stark raving insane" is much more interesting (and common, on Usenet) than
just "boring".

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