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Article #369Re: The Birth of Quake ??? (Was: The Fate of Quake)
From: pst... Patrick Steele
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 18:34
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 18:34
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In <uujSvAC...@softchoice.com> ca...@softchoice.com (Christian Antkow) writes: > >In <3i01p1$b...@mirc00.ncms.org> Jay Wilbur <ja...@idsoftware.com> writes: >>ja...@cornell.edu (Josh Lindenmuth) wrote: >>> >>> (text deleted) >>> Indeed ID has quite a task ahead... > >>Reminds me of the msgs being tossed about after we finished Wolf3D and >>got to work on DOOM. > > Well, as I understand it, Quake will be more of an RPG game. I was REALLY >looking forward when Heretic came out for more "Rocket-Launcher-Up-Your-Ass" >type of gameplay, but I think Heretic lends itself more to four player >co-operative play then deathmatch play. Deathmatch play in Heretic doesn't >get my adrenaline pumping as much as DOOM does... > > Don't get me wrong, I REALLY look forward to Quake, but I don't think we >should be expecting something along the lines of DOOM (in terms of raw >action). I think Quake will be more along the lines of "the best damned >Dungeons and Dragons game available for computers...", but then again, the >product is still under development and it may be a tad premature to >postulate. > If QUAKE is as modifiable as id says it will be, we could port graphics from DOOM into QUAKE, re-program the QUAKE weapons to be like the ones in DOOM, and start playing DOOM in real 3-D! What a concept..... We really need to wait and see with this.... pst...@ix.netcom.com
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: pst...@ix.netcom.com (Patrick Steele) Newsgroups: alt.games.quake,alt.games.doom Subject: Re: The Birth of Quake ??? (Was: The Fate of Quake) Date: 22 Feb 1995 18:34:13 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 41 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3ig035$2ft@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> References: <jal22.80.011DDD20@cornell.edu> <3i01p1$baf@mirc00.ncms.org> <uujSvACOBh107h@softchoice.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ix-det1-28.ix.netcom.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit