Quake Reboot in works ?
Re: Quake Reboot in works ?
lol...the only ppl that have ever said I'm fat are the morons here at q3w...hmmmmmm
Re: Quake Reboot in works ?
cuz we are the only ones who are actually honest with u...
Re: Quake Reboot in works ?
yeah...I'm a fat 6' tall 195 pounds grease ball 
Re: Quake Reboot in works ?
why is ur neck so swollen fat boy?
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nbohr1more
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Re: Quake Reboot in works ?
I was thinking of the following analogy:
1) Kid plays a game of Checkers
2) Milton Bradley sees this and says "We're gonna make a sequel to that game!!!"
3) Kid imagines things like "new moves" , "new board layout", "more roles like Chess (lite)" "spinner"
4) Milton Bradley tries to think of a "story" for the Checker
5) Milton Bradley decides that since Checkers is a kinda metaphor for two armies that the Checker must be a soldier
6) They go on to develop an elaborate war saga in which Checker is low level grunt
7) The resultant game is a mix of the game "Life", "Clue" and "Stratego" and a little DnD
8) Kid goes "WTF!!! Milton effin' Bradley!!!"
So adding story to an abstract game type like Pac Man certainly is a poor idea.
Now, Quake is a bit more plausibly about "something" other than the activity of blasting stuff but not much more. Laden that property with too much story and you see my example in action. A science fiction setting necessarily requires some tangible explanation for any player predicament but a "fantasy demon infested realm" does not need any convoluted "realistic" back-story. There is no expectation about how plausible something is when the backdrop is a pure fantasy archetype. It works, and you can rock-out to heavy techno or metal and be totally in the spirit of it. It's the right thing to do.
1) Kid plays a game of Checkers
2) Milton Bradley sees this and says "We're gonna make a sequel to that game!!!"
3) Kid imagines things like "new moves" , "new board layout", "more roles like Chess (lite)" "spinner"
4) Milton Bradley tries to think of a "story" for the Checker
5) Milton Bradley decides that since Checkers is a kinda metaphor for two armies that the Checker must be a soldier
6) They go on to develop an elaborate war saga in which Checker is low level grunt
7) The resultant game is a mix of the game "Life", "Clue" and "Stratego" and a little DnD
8) Kid goes "WTF!!! Milton effin' Bradley!!!"
So adding story to an abstract game type like Pac Man certainly is a poor idea.
Now, Quake is a bit more plausibly about "something" other than the activity of blasting stuff but not much more. Laden that property with too much story and you see my example in action. A science fiction setting necessarily requires some tangible explanation for any player predicament but a "fantasy demon infested realm" does not need any convoluted "realistic" back-story. There is no expectation about how plausible something is when the backdrop is a pure fantasy archetype. It works, and you can rock-out to heavy techno or metal and be totally in the spirit of it. It's the right thing to do.
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nbohr1more
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Re: Quake Reboot in works ?
My apologies, I don't have relevant topic matter to contribute to the cross-topic Retro-Quake slash old Q3W feuds ruckus ITT.