Quake 4 to Launch at Christmas 63
An anonymous reader writes "bit-tech.net has the news that the eagerly awaited next installment to the Quake series, Quake 4, is on course to be released in time for Christmas. PCGamer grabbed the chance to have an exclusive play through of the upcoming title in the June issue of the magazine." Trailer also downloadable from 3D Gamers. (Scroll down for the non-reg links.)
what the hell is a "stonker"? (Score:2, Funny)
Is that like a stinker with an "o" it? like it stinks but the graphicss make you go "oh" i.e. "stonker"?
*shrug*
e.
Re:what the hell is a "stonker"? (Score:3, Informative)
Could be. However, the word "stonker" is certainly attested as both a noun and a verb, in a few different somewhat related meanings. Discussion of it is to be found here [worldwidewords.org].
Defintion (Score:3, Informative)
I guess you could say its the British equivelant to "da bomb".
Comedy Relief had whole theme about it years ago, including a song by two British comedians. http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-sto3.htm [worldwidewords.org] has even more.
Damien
Actuall launch? (Score:3, Funny)
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Yet Another First Person Shooter... (Score:4, Interesting)
Light! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Light! (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Light! (Score:1)
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Re:Yet Another First Person Shooter... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Yet Another First Person Shooter... (Score:2, Troll)
Nope.
Q4 will be more like Q2 with better graphics.
It will be a single-player (or cooperative) centered game.
Q3 is still the best for multi-player.
Maybe Q5 will return the focus to multi-player.
Re:Yet Another First Person Shooter... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Yet Another First Person Shooter... (Score:2)
Anyways, we just need a game with lots of guns. Not 10, not 15. We need about 200. Rainbow 6 Ravenshield still have the largest selection around.
Re:Yet Another First Person Shooter... (Score:2)
And yeah, other than Rainbow 6, the only fps with as much flexibility for armaments would be Counter-strike (mostly because there's so many loadout combos it's sick).
Re:Yet Another First Person Shooter... (Score:2)
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The fact that HL2 and Doom3 sold so well, regardless of the high system requirements and bugs, tells me that consumers will do anything to play these games.
I completely upgraded my system to play HL2 so the gaming companies are not the only ones benefiting from this.
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you must be refering to what was top of the line about 3-5 years ago, as a lot of people seem to not grasp the fact that technolagy time goes a lot faster than real time. HL2 runs pretty good on my compy (2 ghz P4, OCed to 2.66, 512 DDR, GF4 ti4200 video). the load times are forever, but they have been on every system i've seen running it.
Re:Yet Another First Person Shooter... (Score:2)
Yes, things have slowed down, they have in the past. They will periodicly in the future.
That's the nature of the game. Someone comes up with a cool ide
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Unprofessional Teaser (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Unprofessional Teaser (Score:2)
Still, interesting. I can't wait for Christmas.
Re:Unprofessional Teaser (Score:1)
No titties? Fuck this, th- oh... titles.
Ahh , yes so original (Score:1, Insightful)
Wood Rocket launcher? (Score:2, Funny)
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It's Great for Some (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:It's Great for Some (Score:1, Flamebait)
Re:It's Great for Some (Score:1)
However, there's one facet of FPS games that has been sorely neglected recently. Co-op multiplayer.
Duke 3d, Unreal, and more recently Serious Sam all did well with this, and for me it was the most enjoyable aspect of those games.
I certainly hope Q4 bucks the trend and includes this kind of multiplay.
Re:It's Great for Some (Score:2)
Re:It's Great for Some (Score:1)
we used to play that and serious sam in my corridor at uni, CAT5 running all over the walls, until the early hours. its such a tense game, you used to have to stop playing because you simply couldnt cope anymore. good days.
Otherwise known as... (Score:1)
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Quake 3 Source (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Grammar Genie (Score:2)
Quake3 was right on (Score:4, Informative)
After they got through with all the patches and updates, Quake3 along with OSP came pretty close to being the perfect deathmatch FPS. It didn't make it easy on the newbies, it didn't have a ton of eye candy, it had its share of bugs and glitches. But when it came to measuring skill vs skill, few games compare.
I was hoping that we'd see Quake4 integrate OSP and its competition oriented features, but it doesn't look like that'll happen.
MOD PARENT UP (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Quake3 was right on (Score:1)
It just depends on what you grow up with.
Ehm, deathmatch Pong rulez
Re:Quake3 was right on (Score:1)
SOF3 (Score:1)
Quake (Score:1)
Re:Quake (Score:1)
I loved it, and still wish I could play Quake TF again. -I would give my left testicle.
Quake TF (Score:1)
Q4, huh? (Score:1)
Please no buggies (Score:2)
It's okay to do a 2 minute drive to get somewhere quickly, but please don't make it last half the game.