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Cool #9
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PostPosted: 12-07-2012 03:17 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Today marks Quake II's 15th birthday!

Tim Willits shares a few facts about the game on Bethesda's Blog. I've listed all three of them here:

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- Only three artists made all the 2D and 3D art for the entire game.
- One of the original suggested names for QUAKE II was WOR, but the game’s fast-paced, tactile feel felt closer to a QUAKE game than a new franchise.
- ‘The Edge’ (Tim’s favorite deathmatch level in QUAKE II or any other game), has over 50 trick jumps possible in the map. Tim only designed two of them, and the rest were discovered by the QUAKE II community.




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Digital Nausea
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PostPosted: 12-07-2012 05:19 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


If you want this thread to thrive, you're gonna have to add a DIY project...




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PostPosted: 12-07-2012 06:21 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Trick jumping is something you just don't see in most new games. What a shame.




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Aneurysm
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PostPosted: 12-07-2012 06:32 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I still remember how awesome it was the first time I saw the Quake 2 intro. That shit looked soooo real.....rofl.




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god xor reason
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PostPosted: 12-07-2012 06:33 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Well the naming thing sure explains a lot.




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PostPosted: 12-07-2012 06:39 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Deathshroud wrote:
Trick jumping is something you just don't see in most new games. What a shame.



I swear I was looking for an upvote button to push.




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Cool #9
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PostPosted: 12-07-2012 06:43 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Yes, it was a great intro IMO. Really atmospheric.




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PostPosted: 12-07-2012 07:15 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


ey congrats Quake ur the best xoxoxoxo:nang:



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PostPosted: 12-07-2012 07:52 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Κracus wrote:
Deathshroud wrote:
Trick jumping is something you just don't see in most new games. What a shame.


I swear I was looking for an upvote button to push.

Same here.

hbd Q2 :)




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Just another Earthling
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PostPosted: 12-07-2012 01:26 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Eraser wrote:
Yes, it was a great intro IMO. Really atmospheric.


Yes it was memorable for that for sure, great in its day :up:



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PostPosted: 12-07-2012 02:29 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


the makron = easiest end game boss ever (if you saved up your BFG ammo, quads and invulnerability powerups)




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Glayven?
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PostPosted: 12-07-2012 02:30 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


No bump-mapping. No specular. That game probably sucked.




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Unquantifiable Abstract
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PostPosted: 12-07-2012 04:28 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Epic thread is epic YO




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FragaGeddon
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PostPosted: 12-07-2012 06:44 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Fuck Yeah!
Quake II was awesome.




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Just another Earthling
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PostPosted: 12-07-2012 06:59 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


FragaGeddon wrote:
Fuck Yeah!
Quake II was awesome.


FragaGeddon :eek:

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:smirk: missed the 6666 post



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PostPosted: 12-07-2012 08:40 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


man, I think The Edge alone is responsible for about -.5 on my college GPA.




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Whiskey 7 wrote:
FragaGeddon wrote:
Fuck Yeah!
Quake II was awesome.


FragaGeddon :eek:

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:smirk: missed the 6666 post

HTF could I have missed that!!! :(

Actually while playing Quake II is how I came up with my current name.




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PostPosted: 12-07-2012 10:01 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


How I came up with my current name.

One day while I was playing Quake II, I believe I had some gay name like Soul Repear.
Then another person of the same name joined the same server. That wasn't so bad, but then a third person of the same name joined the server.
Now I knew it was time to come up with a new name.
I knew that in Quake II my favorite thing to do was throw frag grenades. So I knew that I wanted to have frag in my name somewhere.
I spent a good amount of time trying to come up with a name that had frag in it. I was almost at my wits end trying to think of a name.
Then while thinking about it, I started to flip through all my games that I had at the time. That's when I flipped to the game Carmageddon that the evil gods shined down on me.
That's the day that FragaGeddon was born.




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PostPosted: 12-08-2012 12:42 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Cool story bro.



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PostPosted: 12-08-2012 01:32 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Dat Quake 2 intro was sick



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PostPosted: 12-08-2012 08:39 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


FragaGeddon wrote:
How I came up with my current name.

One day while I was playing Quake II, I believe I had some gay name like Soul Repear.
Then another person of the same name joined the same server. That wasn't so bad, but then a third person of the same name joined the server.
Now I knew it was time to come up with a new name.
I knew that in Quake II my favorite thing to do was throw frag grenades. So I knew that I wanted to have frag in my name somewhere.
I spent a good amount of time trying to come up with a name that had frag in it. I was almost at my wits end trying to think of a name.
Then while thinking about it, I started to flip through all my games that I had at the time. That's when I flipped to the game Carmageddon that the evil gods shined down on me.
That's the day that FragaGeddon was born.


thx i love origin stories



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PostPosted: 12-08-2012 10:10 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


FragaGeddon wrote:
How I came up with my current name.

One day while I was playing Quake II, I believe I had some gay name like Soul Repear.
Then another person of the same name joined the same server. That wasn't so bad, but then a third person of the same name joined the server.
Now I knew it was time to come up with a new name.
I knew that in Quake II my favorite thing to do was throw frag grenades. So I knew that I wanted to have frag in my name somewhere.
I spent a good amount of time trying to come up with a name that had frag in it. I was almost at my wits end trying to think of a name.
Then while thinking about it, I started to flip through all my games that I had at the time. That's when I flipped to the game Carmageddon that the evil gods shined down on me.
That's the day that FragaGeddon was born.


wouldn't Armafraggon have been better?




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Cool #9
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PostPosted: 12-08-2012 10:40 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Better than MKJ, rite?




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PostPosted: 12-08-2012 10:46 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Not sure about that, but certainly better than Eraser.



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PostPosted: 12-08-2012 02:10 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Eraser wrote:
Better than MKJ, rite?

Well yeah, cause 'MKJ' wouldn't make sense after that story




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PostPosted: 12-08-2012 02:11 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Wtf does MKJ mean anyway? Is that Japanese?




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Messatsu Ko Jy-ouu
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PostPosted: 12-08-2012 02:19 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I promised GameSpy I'd never use the long form again, they got in some legal trouble.




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PostPosted: 12-08-2012 02:25 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


It's a play on one of Akuma's quotes.

amirite?




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I'm the dude!
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PostPosted: 12-08-2012 09:04 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


We aren't affiliated with GameSpy anymore.



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Cool #9
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PostPosted: 12-09-2012 08:54 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Transient wrote:
Not sure about that, but certainly better than Eraser.

That goes without saying.




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Cool #9
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PostPosted: 12-09-2012 08:54 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


mrd wrote:
Wtf does MKJ mean anyway? Is that Japanese?

See his rank title




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Doesn't help much. I was hoping more for a translation into English for what Messatsu Ko Jy-ouu means. Google search just nets this place and another forum that he appears to post on.




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Messatsu Ko Jy-ouu
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PostPosted: 12-09-2012 11:59 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


a forum i helped set up, after all was running I made like raw.
last post 2006 or so?

coincidentally I tried to delete that account earlier but it doesnt allow it. goodie.




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