inode,

Probably the best quake game with a story. I would argue Quake 3 Arena was the best in terms of popularity but as far as the Quake games with an actual campaign, this is probably the best of them. Quake 4 felt like a remake of Quake 2 but it wasn’t as fun. Quake 2 had a RTX version made as well which could be seen as a remaster. I wonder if its really just a remaster or an actual remake.

Jeze3D,

The opening cinematic to Quake II is a banger. I love it.

RedditExodus,
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The soundtrack was amazing too. I ripped it to MP3 from the CD years ago when CDs and MP3s were still a thing. I listen to the soundtrack regularly to this day.

Thalestr,
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Very curious to see how this turns out. Q2 was a childhood game of mine.

marco,
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Because of this post I just did a little round of Quake 1 (with glQuake) - it's amazing how much the brain retains ... from 1996?!? Shoot this, push this, sink into this to find the secrets ;)

Thalestr,
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Heck yeah! Always fun to revisit the classics every so often. 😁

briongloid,
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I’d be interested in a modern graphical remake.

Mugmoor,

There are texture packs you can get that do this.

marco,
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I'm wondering how different this will be from Quake II RTX.

MeowKittyWow,
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That's exciting :) I definitely have a lot of nostalgia for Quake 2. The Quake 1 remaster from a little while back was really well done, and remained true to the original, so I hope this keeps that up.

23EBnbaem,

Would be awesome if they finished the Zaero mission pack. Despite the bad reviews, I really liked all the badass sci-fi. Quake 2 is the peak of FPS to me

Mugmoor,

If it's anything like their other releases for Doom/Quake, then you're better off using a Source Port instead.

Poopfeast420,

I played through those releases recently and thought they were fine. They looked great and played great as well.

I'm not interested in mods or custom wads, just want a fairly vanilla experience to play through the games, so I'm excited for this remaster.

Mugmoor,

I didn't mean to imply that they're bad ports, just not as fleshed out/mature as the ones the Open Source community has built.

That and that the Bethesda ports have too much bloat. Nobody cares about signing into Bethesda.net.

ampersandrew,
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Do any of the other source ports have controller support and split-screen?

Mugmoor,

Most have controller support, but not split screen. If you want those features you're actually are better off with a console port.

ampersandrew,
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Everything I do is on PC, often times even Steam Deck, so I think the remaster is the perfect opportunity to finally get those features if the source ports don't have them.

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