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    I love how it still looks chunky and low-poly. They could have made it super high res and fancy, but nah, they’re preserving the retro aesthetic.

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    These games were how I got into 3D modeling.
    Making custom maps and assets and playing them for Doom 1&2, Quake 1&2, Quake 3 Arena, UT2014.

    These games had such great longevity because you could make your own new content or get it from others.

    The game you bought was just the beginning.

    Also the base games were wicked fun to begin with.

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      They had long longevity cause you didn’t need a fucking client/gatekeeper (win only) to be allowed to use it, no DRM, was cross-platform from the beginning, was light, still light and the gameplay is simply awesome.

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      I still play quake and doom and hexen and heretic and a whole bunch of others. Gog.com is my favourite place to buy games if I can get them there.

      I also dabbled in 3d modelling back then in 3d studio max or something. I used to love it, now I just don’t have the time 🤣.

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    AND! They’re giving us crossplay co-op and deathmatch all for the ridiculous total price of 10$

    Edit: wording

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    I love seeing this stuff! I really started PC gaming around 1995, but by the time Quake 2 came out, my old 75mhz Pentium Acer couldn’t keep up, so I didn’t get to play Quake 2. But it does my heart good to see these classics get loving remasters.

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    I’m sad it doesn’t work with Quake 2 RTX, I still find that to be prettier.

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      RTX looks incredible, but I can’t forgive them swapping out the railgun and BFG models. Played through it several times and every time I hit ‘9’ I feel a little sad.

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    I used to love Quake II, I’m definitely installing since I own it on Steam.

    Lost count of the amount of time I spent playing Q3 Arena though… Damn that was sweet.

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      Same here. Quake 3 railgun only on TDM17. Still play it sometimes for fun. I used to be crazy good at it, not so much anymore unfortunately 😞

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    Quake 2 is so back. Hopefully we get some awesome user made MP maps!!! Can’t wait to jump into the new expansion too!

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    As someone who hasn’t played games for more than 15 years now, this makes me want to play again for the nostalgia; but I dont know where to start. I only have a macbook and an old laptop running linux. Will the remaster work on any of those? Is Steam the best way to install it?

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      If you happen to own the original game on steam you get the remaster for free as an update for what that’s worth

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        Thanks. It’s a pretty old laptop, but the specs are:

        • i7-3630QM 2.4-GHz x 4
        • 16 gb RAM
        • Nvidia GK107M [GeForce GT 645M]

        I was running Arch but recently switched to Mint because it was getting more unstable as the hardware got older and older. Do you think it will work? I did check out the required specs but I’m quite behind on the latest stuff about CPUs and graphics cards since I mostly run old hardware except for the macbook that I use for work.

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          I’m running Quake 2 on pop os linux using steam, which is based on Ubuntu just like Mint. My desktop is a i7 3770 from that era. I think you will be fine on the CPU and RAM front.

          The GPU I’m less certain about. It’s an old mobile GPU that was low end when it was new. But this is essentially a 25 year old game we are talking about. My advice is to just give it a try. It’s $10, and Steam will refund purchases no questions asked as long as you play for less than 2 hours.

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            Didn’t know about the refund policy. Thanks for the info! I might go ahead and try it then.

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          Well… I can play other games of that era on the Integrated graphics of business laptops, so I can’t imagine it wouldn’t crush the base game. Unless they did a full remaster with modern graphics anything with discrete graphics shouldn’t take issue. If your laptop is post 2010 there isn’t much to worry about.

          That being said I’d hate to steer you wrong and I’m not familiar enough with the older Nvidia chipsets to know for sure. Is the display 720 or 1080p? If it’s 720 I say go for it, as the minimum specs are reasonably comparable and based on 1920x1080.

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            Thanks! I think it should be at least 720p. I might just go ahead and try it via Steam.

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              No problem! If you can afford to lose the 10 bucks, full send! haha I love arena shooters, really liking Quake recently.

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    Anybody remember the mods for this where you had a gun that would dispense bricks so you could build stuff? There was also a mini-nuke mod that you could use to blow up said constructions. It was one of my favorite things to do in Quake II and would often result in my computer crashing because it couldn’t handle all the collision physics.