A New 'Quake' Episode Appears 20 Years Later

An anonymous reader quotes this report from Motherboard: The months leading up to this year's phenomenal reboot of Doom were stuffed with all kinds of fun developments surrounding the original series, whether it was mods that let you play as Duke Nukem or whole new levels from famed designer John Romero. There's now a new Quake game in the works, and already it appears to be enjoying a similar renaissance. Yesterday MachineGames, the studio behind Wolfenstein: The New Order, released an entirely new episode for the original Quake in celebration of its 20-year anniversary, and you can play it entirely for free.

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[Type44Q]

and become a... French speaking country

Sorry; you'll never get the Quebecois to speak proper French...

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[RockDoctor]

Well, if you get them young enough ... but then, they're hardly Quebecois before they reach 10 years, are they?

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[Anonymous Coward]

Actually it came out before Brexit. Slashdot is just slow. But maybe the new Quake episode finally tipped the scales.

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[K. S. Kyosuke]

Who's the villain? Shub-Nigelrath?

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[Anonymous Coward]

No, Boris Johnson

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[Early Six Digit UID]

"the months leading up to this year's phenomenal reboot of Doom" By that they mean the new Doom game which just came out, which is what I was referring to.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Doom was a serious disappointment for me.

When, in 1993, or now? If 1993 I cannot see how it was disappointing unless all you play is solitaire. If now, well look it's a 23 year old game what did you expect?

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Thank Denuvo malware

[sethstorm]

In the quest to delay piracy, it's also killed modding.

Fix the link

[Anonymous Coward]

The one for the new episode is the same as for duke nukem

W00t eleventy!one!!

[Hognoxious]

Is there a Hurd port?

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[Hognoxious]

Are they using Gentoo as a build platform?

Wrong link?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is it just me, or is the 'new episode for the original Quake' link pointing to the same page as the 'play as Duke Nukem' link?

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[boondaburrah]

Yeah it's wrong. Click "this report from Motherboard" to get the actual link from the article. It took me a bit to figure it out.

Twitter link

[rcotran]

https://twitter.com/machinegam... [twitter.com]

Love for the community

[Anonymous Coward]

Classic DOOM and Quake have been kept alive all these years by fans through source ports, maps and other custom content. Playing classic DOOM has almost never been easier and certainly has never been easier to play in a Multiplayer setting.

It's very fortunate that early on, companies like iD had the foresight to encourage the mod community instead of hoarding their IP. Blizzard has been providing map editors since Warcraft 2 (I think Orcs and Humans had an even more basic one, I can't recall now) and certa

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[__aaclcg7560]

Every now and then I grab the latest Quake port and enable the frame rate counter while playing the game. Nothing like getting 500+ FPS while blowing up ass-throwing zombies.

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[Pedestrianwolf]

Depending on the angle and where the zombie was in the animation, it could look a little like they are tossing their asses... closest I could find: http://quake.wikia.com/wiki/Zo... [wikia.com]

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[__aaclcg7560]

I have never seen a zombie throw its ass

The animation sequence for the Quake zombies shows them grabbing their ass and tossing something at the player. It could be ass, might be shit. An inside joke from the gamer developers.

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[Some_Llama]

im playing it right now and they pull off parts of their brains and throw them at you.. gives a whole new meaning to "BRAAAAINS"

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[argStyopa]

"Phenomenal reboot"
Doesn't apparently mean
"Re release of what's basically the exact same game for the 1990s prettified with a lot more triangles and even louder sound"?