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Game » consists of 17 releases. First released on Jul 23, 1996

The much-anticipated follow-up to Doom, Quake was one of the first games to make use of fully polygonal graphics and hardware acceleration, and is often credited as the point of origin for many lasting trends in the FPS genre, such as standardized mouse look and the WADS control scheme.

Steam sale question

#1 Posted by Thoseposers (610 posts) - 1 year, 10 months ago

Hey guys i saw that Quake had a franchise sale going on today and since i was somewhat young at the time they came out i never got to play any of them. So i wanted to ask you guys if it is worth it buying Quake one, two, or three instead of just playing that free online version? And if i were to buy any of these on Steam which ones should i get?

#2 Edited by emem (1923 posts) - 1 year, 10 months ago

@thoseposers: Probably not, if you actually want to play them. But as a fan I'd want everyone to own at least Quake 1 and Quake 3. ;)

There are still people playing QW (Quake 1) every night in Europe and it's still a great game, but you would die all the time and most likely not enjoy playing it.

No idea about Q2.

Quake Live is basically Q3, except that the best maps are missing. But at least you've got people playing Quake Live.. Quake 3 is dead as far as I know.

Edit: Oh right, Quake 1 and 2 do have singleplayer campaigns, maybe those would be interesting to see for you. And Quake 3 does have a singleplayer mode too, but it's called Quake 3 "Arena" for a reason.. there's no real story, just single maps against bots. You can get that with Quake Live for free though.

#3 Edited by iDarktread (1206 posts) - 1 year, 10 months ago
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