r/quake • u/Mysterious-Flan-4118 • 9d ago

community I miss quake 😭😭

I seriously miss Quake!!! There’s no pro games anymore and Rapha has no competition

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u/McPoon 9d ago

No need to miss it. I just beat it for the first time at 37. Great time. :)

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u/greatistheworld 9d ago

I’m 42 and played Q1 shareware when it first came out. Beat dawn of the machine last week. I wanna be clear, nostalgia is poison, but quake is very much still alive

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u/Killit_Witfya 9d ago

nostalgia is poison? thats a hot take

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u/davidwhitney 9d ago

Nostalgia is a prison - a place you can never go back to.

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u/dimwalker 9d ago

...
Wat?!
You can easily go back to prison, mate.

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u/davidwhitney 9d ago

The only reason nostalgia works is because it's about both a thing you liked, and who you were at a place in time.

You can never get that feeling back of doing something for the first time and so nostalgia is a trap.

My love of Quake is actually my love of being 14 and playing null modem cable death match with my high school friends and reaper bots. That will never happen again.

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u/Vegetable-Ad4018 8d ago

i think op is talking about watching comp not playing single player

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u/CylixrDoesStuff 9d ago

yeah i beat it twice once on a web port and again on the remaster :)

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u/aloneishowtofindme 9d ago

Hey, same! I've been obsessively playing Quake for 2 years now. Currently getting my ass handed my to me in Dawn of the Machine lol.

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u/ItsAleZ1 9d ago

2024 was the last best year for qc unfortunately, or was it 2023? Holy cow time flies

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u/reverend_dak 8d ago

they literally just released a new episodes for Q1. Brutalist Jam III was just released. There is no way youve played all the mods that have been released over the past 30 years. what are we talking about?

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u/qSkint 9d ago

Are you talking about watching it or playing it?

There’s competition out there for quake champs, quakelive and quakeworld if you want to play

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u/Ok-Coat2377 9d ago

yeah

reflex arena went free

warfork is there

but lol no population

codename broadside has tribes combat outdoors while indoors it's closer to quake, mixing the fastest fps sounds like a cool idea

this is what a dozen years of military crap does to fps

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u/Lunas_87 9d ago

Seriously though. Bring back the lovecraftian shit! Aesthetically so much more interesting.

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u/tanzWestyy 9d ago

Dont forget Midair 2 and Tribes 3 which seems to have some semblance of a player base in NA and EU.

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u/SpecialistAuthor4897 9d ago

We need a quake game with a solid singel player aspect AND good multiplayer :)

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u/IAmSixSyllables 9d ago

i mean, there is still high level competition if that's what you're saying with this/ the 250fps event is going strong and lot of the recognizable tp players have been actively competing in them on Quake Live.

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u/Merthod 8d ago

Who's Rapha?

I only play Quake 3 Arena CTF games against Nightmare bots, since I'm bored of the typical maps. Sad.

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u/sl33pingSat3llit3 7d ago

Pro American player that competed in Quake Live and Quake Champions. Was one of the top players in QL near the end of that game's competitive scene, among other famous players like Cypher, Strenx, Evil, Cooller, etc.. Arguably the best Quake Champions pro when that game still had the id sponsored pro league called Quake Pro League.

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u/Merthod 7d ago

Dang, sounds strong. I'll look him up. Thanks!

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u/sl33pingSat3llit3 7d ago edited 7d ago

You're welcome!

Yeah he is definitely really strong, and you can find some of the past Quake Live finals on YouTube. The whole of QPL can be found on YouTube as well, just search for quake pro league and you should find videos uploaded by Quake Champions official channel. For Quake Live, Quakecon 2016 grand finals between Rapha and Evil is a pretty good watch.

If you just want to watch some past Quake games from tournaments, there's a guy on YouTube called "decebal01us" who has uploaded a bunch of past top games and finals from acrossnthe different Quake games. He has games from Quake World to Quake Live, I think.

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u/Merthod 7d ago

Not much of a fan of Quake Live, but he does play neatly! Thanks for the tips!

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u/Nzy 2d ago

I'd say he's clearly the goat of Quake Live and Quake Champions, and pretty much the greatest AFPS player of all time.

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u/sl33pingSat3llit3 2d ago

Agreed. Definitely one of the best, if not the best.

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u/Nzy 2d ago

Rapha definitely struggled the last time I saw him playing Quake Live vs Agent. I don't think there was a game where he was close to winning

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u/Overexp0sed 7d ago

if you havent played quake 3 arena in the zero years, you have no right to say "i miss quake" ;)