Thursday Night Throwdown 08/26: Quake!

From beginning to end I'd say that was the best TNT yet. The first half of the Bad Company 2 TNT (before they switched to PC) is still tops, though.

I missed the live feed, and can't watch the archived stuff. Is this happening for anyone else? 
 
What's the deal?

For everybody who was wondering,
Wikipedia said:

" 
The original music from id Software's video game Quake is credited to "Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails"; Reznor helped record sound effects and ambient audio, and the NIN logo appears on ammunition boxes in the game. Reznor's association with id Software began with Reznor being a fan of the original Doom.  "

aaaaaaaaa yeah

Playing in this TNT was awesome!

Why won't the archived versions work for me? I wanna see

I can watch the old TNTs, but not this new one. I... guess I'll watch Monday Night Comat again...?

I recorded a LOT of footage from my perspective with the GB crew talking in the background, and I won a few rounds, so I will be uploading a few to Youtube soon (technically 1 is up already)
 

unreal tournament next week ON THE REALZ

Definitely agree with Brad over Jeff.
 
Quake 2 is an inferior product. While Daikatana showed that John Romero needed someone to curb his insanity and actually make a working game out of his mad ideas, Quake 2 showed that Carmack needed some people with ideas and life to keep the game from being a lifeless brown and gray tech demo.

Watching this I kept having to resist the urge to hit tab to check the scores.

Amazing.

Watching the TNT is like having your brain scrubbed, it is completely insane

man intern steve, thanks for not sounding like kessler. this was definitely one of my favorite TNTs and loved the new show page

This was rad, love the Cosby. Keep the good work, nice chat/steam format. 

" man intern steve, thanks for not sounding like kessler. this was definitely one of my favorite TNTs and loved the new show page "

Whoa the guy whose videos I loved on the question of the week is the new intern? When did this happen?

" man intern steve, thanks for not sounding like kessler. this was definitely one of my favorite TNTs and loved the new show page "

yes THE

Oh yeah.

we need a perma giantbomb community server for quake.

Pretty much.

I can't believe how good this game looks considering it's over 14 years old...

It really doesn't look that good.. what you saw is due to open source code and engine mods with enhanced textures/models.

GUYS! GUYS! SERIOUSLY, THE NEXT TNT... should be Tribes 2.

It should! Another man recruited :P

saw it too late, wish I could,ve been there. :)

" I can't believe how good this game looks considering it's over 14 years old... "

tribes...2....
 
 http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion/30/tribes-2/441744/

" @Ygg said:

" I can't believe how good this game looks considering it's over 14 years old... "

I remember this game fully blowing my effing mind when I first saw it at a neighbor's house all those years ago! "

Awesome

just to let you guys know, the server seems to be still up. just played a match with norm! (and got my ass kicked)

This was beautiful.  Reminds me of a time where FPS's were down to raw human processing speed :P

This TNT gave me a splitting headache.

Only got to watch the second half live; it was great. Made me want to go find my Quake disc and start the fraggin'. Gonna go watch the rest of it now.

That was AWESOME!  Especially the end when they upped the server count to 256 or whatever. 

I miss the old arena action games. Quake 5 Arena, PLEASE!

It was an awesome watch. Thanks to the crew!

" That was AWESOME!  Especially the end when they upped the server count to 256 or whatever.  "

I watched the last hour of the stream, even though it was in the middle of the night in the CET region, and I only had 4 hours until I had to get up for work.

Anyway, that was awesome in just about every way - I was slightly disappointed by the lack of trivia knowledge though - no mention of Team Fortress for Quake, which was the first TF, and arguably the best Quake 1 mod out there, and also that you couldn't name the Quake Deathmatch remake for the GoldSrc engine (Half-life 1, in itself just a slightly modified Quake 1 engine) whose name was Deathmatch Classic.

Anyway, this was awesome, but you missed a great opportunity to screw the game up by running it as a coop game on nightmare difficulty and 64 players, that would probably cause enough chaos to collapse the universe.

Also, you talked about Nexuiz on this weeks podcast, which is also a rather fun game, especially considering it's cost. Would be fun if you would set up a TNT for that.

@Goblix said:

" It really doesn't look that good.. what you saw is due to open source code and engine mods with enhanced textures/models. "

The source port they used didn't change much of the original graphics, it didn't even used smoothened textures, and the player models were not changed at all (many ports add the feature that you can see on the player model which weapon he is using, and the port they used did not show that).

It's possible it did add a slight bit of dynamic lightning, but not much, and not even coloured lightning (which most source ports add, with varying results).

@atomic_dumpling

" @DOUBLESHOCK said:

" That was AWESOME!  Especially the end when they upped the server count to 256 or whatever.  "

… which is missing in the archived version, it cuts out right before it. Dang, I really wanted to see that. "

" GUYS! GUYS! SERIOUSLY, THE NEXT TNT... should be Tribes 2.

"

The sights, the sounds... it's beautiful.  It's like listening to my favourite song.  I wish I'd have been home to play along.
 
Quake Live is okay, but it's not this.

Sigh... had everything ready, was just waiting for it to begin to get the effin server address, then right when Ryan was saying the magic numbers my damn stream gagged, he repeated but spoke to damn fast and I was unable to get it all, 2 seconds later Brad says "yeah we're full"...
 
I got so pissed that I just quit, uninstalled everything quake related that I'd gotten for the tnt, closed the browser and went straight to bed.
 
They should find a better way to handle this PC TNTs, I don't know, have a system that users who want to participate can sign up, then it will randomly choose between them and send the server details via PM to the chosen, I'm sure that would be very easy for Dave or any other engineer to do, it can even have it's own timer so someone would keep  a look at it and it would tell when enough time had passed, everyone gets kicked(manually of course) and another batch gets randomly selected and so on.

Here is the BIll Cosby part:
 

Enjoyed this weeks TNT. Never did come across Quake so it was nice to see what this game had to offer.

They should find a better way to handle this PC TNTs, I don't know, have a system that users who want to participate can sign up, then it will randomly choose between them and send the server details via PM to the chosen, I'm sure that would be very easy for Dave or any other engineer to do, it can even have it's own timer so someone would keep  a look at it and it would tell when enough time had passed, everyone gets kicked(manually of course) and another batch gets randomly selected and so on. "

Simply amazing.
I had a 486/33SX and Quake was unloadable without a DX processor. 
So my first painful gaming upgrade was an INTEL 486/33DX x3Overdrive, and a 33.6 modem. Even then I still had to run software quake in a very small screen size. But I loved it anyway. 
If you put Master of Puppets in and start episode one, the game kicks off with Leper Messiah. No better way to play Quake.

Had alot of fun last night. Won a couple of rounds. Looking foward to Quake 2 next week... one can dream. :)

The next TNT, should be Elite Force end of.