This was a great retrospective! Thanks for all the kind words!

@stephensalex

10 ай бұрын

We all thank you for Quake IV, Heretic and HeXen.

@gregoryberrycone

9 ай бұрын

are you guys still trapped in the call of duty mines? we need a new soldier of fortune!

@Sam1destroyer

8 ай бұрын

Youre games are awesome youre developers and artists have a good imagination

@stephensalex

8 ай бұрын

@@Sam1destroyer "Your'" shows posession, whereas "you're" is a contraction of "you are". Why do so many people write such poor english? It can't all be autocorrect.

@Sam1destroyer

8 ай бұрын

@@stephensalex think you’re thinking to deeply bro and yes my pronunciation is crap I’ve killed a lot of brain cells with weed bro, I’m not getting locked up by the grammar police am I?

The opening scene where the marine seems to be looking out into space only to reveal he's a mutilated corpse and part of a wreckage will stay with me forever - I loved playing this game

@HueyTheDoctor

10 ай бұрын

It works because even the NPCs who haven't been killed yet already look like utterly lifeless taxidermied mannequins lol. Sub surface scattering wasn't a feature of id tech 4.

Quake 4 is actually one of my favorite games of all time

@tommyfortress7515

11 ай бұрын

Same :-)

@urazoktay7940

10 ай бұрын

Same. :D

@TheRhalf

10 ай бұрын

Quake 4 is actual good or at least the last half of the game is

@Jack_War

3 ай бұрын

Yes 👌

I'd LOVE a remaster of this game.

@morgan-sk-4499

11 ай бұрын

I hope after Quake and Quake 2, they will continue with Quake 3 and Quake 4.

@Stefan-1978

11 ай бұрын

👍

@TurnerTurnip

11 ай бұрын

I'm hoping for this. And I want controller support. I hate playing FPS games with a mouse and keyboard. It's just too easy and feels like cheating. You don't really aim with a mouse. You simply point and click on the enemy. Lame.

@Stefan-1978

11 ай бұрын

@@TurnerTurnip It's the only Way to play Fps games. Mouse and keyboard.

@failadin1

11 ай бұрын

@@TurnerTurnip>You don't really aim with a mouse. >You simply point and click so one could say... you aim with a mouse... How is that any different than pointing the joystick in the general direction and pulling a trigger lol

I swear, I played this game in high school almost 20 years ago and remembering it is like a fever dream. I played it, was mesmerized, and then it faded into the background memories. Glad to see I wasn't the only one who appreciated and enjoyed it.

Q4 is fantastic all around. The transformation scene is so impactful

Quake 4 is amazing, always has been. It gets so much better after you're left to your own devices and you're deep in the heart of strogg factories. They look as imposing as they do in quake 2

@guysmiley4830

11 ай бұрын

Can we plz call this game quake 2 2?

@MonsterJuiced

11 ай бұрын

@@guysmiley4830 lol sure

@RegalRoyalWasTaken

3 ай бұрын

I'd argue even more so. The distant screams, the dark rooms, the blood caked everywhere... It was plenty fucked up in Q2, but Q4 was straight up horror.

Will forever be in my heart as the first FPS game i tried and finished till the end

I've been binging on Quake 1 and 2 for the past months, will now play Quake 4. What i absolutely love about them is that they all feel drastically different from each other, it's even hard to pick a favorite. Both Quake 1 and 2 felt insanely ahead of their time.

Quake 4, Doom 3, Pray (2006) and Riddick are probably some of my favorite games.

I remember when this first came out back in the day. I got it for PC and i couldn't stop playing it. I was totally hooked on it. Cheers for the video.

@MilosCsrb

11 ай бұрын

I was beast of a game, graphics was so advanced at time you needed good pc

quake 4 is a good experience every fps fan should... experience

@Fivefortyrightnow

11 ай бұрын

Unless you live in Germany where it’s BANNED

@huansohn

11 ай бұрын

​@@Fivefortyrightnowwhy Bro?

@Harry64278

10 ай бұрын

​@@Fivefortyrightnowreally? Why?

Quake 4 is one of my favourite games. Yes Doom 3 was slower than Doom and Doom 2, but I’ve kill counted the entire campaign and only the first few levels have the horror vibe, later on you just get overwhelmed with enemies and it’s awesome with the tools the game gives you to deal with then all. Quake 4 off the back of Doom 3 was such a fresh insight into the Strogg War, and having also played them not too long ago for kill counts, can say it still hits all the right notes for me. Definitely needs another entry!!! Great video, and well presented, I’ve subscribed :) 👍

I like how weapons are upgraded throughout the game. It was indeed a great game

@DDD893

8 ай бұрын

I almost forgot about this. Yes, this was great too, another cool feature within this game

Quake 4 is a classic. A worthy sequel and an extremely underrated game as a whole.

@TheRhalf

10 ай бұрын

Nah, the game was well rated, the only cool thing that it had was the graphics, because the good gameplay came just when you get stroggified, and we all know why we play id software games

@ZoraAlven

10 ай бұрын

Q4 looks like a pure garbage from the gameplay angle. Yeah, “the graphics”, but Q1 and Q3 are the actual gameplayish games.

Honestly really enjoy this one. I love the way Raven expanded on the designs and gameplay roles of the already-established enemies from Quake 2 in order to make the combat "dance" even more intricate, and I really love what they did with the creature design. The evil monster Strogg look a lot more like they could be a version of *us,* from some warped alternate timeline. It's been a while but I also remember the level design getting very creative and interesting without falling into the same traps that Quake 2's did. Only negative point I have is it coulda used a few more guitars :D

Quake 4 is awesome

Dude, when i was a child, Quake 4 was a dream that came true. It had everything - spaceships jumping out of hyperspace, dropships landing under fire, high-tech weapons and enemies, friendly soldiers fighting with you, dark corridors with jumpscares just like in the movies. Every few years i return back and play the story again, that's how much i like it. The only disadvantage is the lack of cooperative multiplayer, which imho really should have been there, and some story non-senses like the survival of the Macron and the planetary gun defence. But i can't understand how would anyone hate this game.

@RegalRoyalWasTaken

3 ай бұрын

Fun fact, the Makron didn't survive! Another one took his place. That, plus the ground assault going to shit at every turn, has me convinced the Big Gun, and by extension Quake 2's mission, was a trap designed to lure us into launching a full scale assault we couldn't win. Like they were *ready* for us.

@Youda00008

3 ай бұрын

​@@RegalRoyalWasTaken Another Makron? What makes you think that? I thought it was supposed to be his name, not a class or rank or anything. Moreover i clearly remember Strauss screaming "It's *The* Makron", not "*a* Makron".

@RegalRoyalWasTaken

3 ай бұрын

@@Youda00008 From the manual for the Reckoning; "The Strogg civilisation is governed through a system of Warlords. Each is given strategic locations to command and control. A single leader, called the Makron, is chosen from the Warlords." This also explains why Q4's Makron looks so wildly different; he's a different Strogg entirely.

@Youda00008

3 ай бұрын

Interesting, thanks.

@RegalRoyalWasTaken

3 ай бұрын

@@Youda00008 youre welcome! Ive been studying quake lore a lot recently haha, Ive been conceptualizing a reboot for fun

I just played this within the last month or so. I have always loved this series. Good video!

Quake 4 is a great game. When I was kid I thought this is copy/paste DooM game, because of the graphics but I was wrong. I really hoped Quake 5 will come out and continue the story of corporal Kane. Maybe one day this will happen. After TES VI probably heh.

@Youda00008

10 ай бұрын

I would love some prequel from the invasion of Earth. We hear everyone talking about it, so we could finally see it on our own.

@calebzombie

10 ай бұрын

​@@Youda00008Enemy Territory: Quake Wars?

@Youda00008

10 ай бұрын

@@calebzombie But that's only multiplayer.

@calebzombie

10 ай бұрын

@@Youda00008 True, gives us at least some lore though

Pre ordered this game along with my 360 and I had a blast playing it. Also came with a bonus disc that had Quake 2 on it .

@BLUEPELICAN234

11 ай бұрын

I’d argue the best port of quake 2 up until this recent remaster. Amazing port!

@joehjackman

11 ай бұрын

@@BLUEPELICAN234 Definitely

The game design and overall SP campaign are incredible. Love this game, perhaps my fav FPS campaign. But Q3 was a lovecraftian FPS that nailed the MP gameplay of arena shooters. It's still unmatched. No wonder this game wasn't going to cut it for the core fans of Q3. Q1 and Q3 are different to Q2 and Q4. They should be two different titles.

@urazsoktay5275

11 ай бұрын

Quake 3 was not lovecraftian if memory serves. It was space themed but not strogg themed. Lovecraftian one is Quake.

@urazsoktay5275

11 ай бұрын

@@user-ue1ji4du2q That can be said yes.

@m0deth

11 ай бұрын

Yeah most Q2 fans didn't like Q4 much either. Most of that was technical, and related to choices Raven made with regards to the "feel" of the game, the combat, etc. The story was predictable, but decent, level design was good too. The rest was a mixed bag at best. Even trying to mod the game was a chore compared to previous titles. And that's where all these games survived. While there was initial excitement, and some mods, the community as a whole took a hard pass on this.

@urazsoktay5275

11 ай бұрын

@@m0deth I think Quake 4 is a solid game overall.

@thevi0lat0r

11 ай бұрын

This is a bit late of course, but you actually touched on some history there. Originally, Quake II was intended to be a completely different franchise, but after trying several titles that turned out to already be trademarked, id gave up and just called the game "Quake II".

I remember playing this along with doom 3. Great times!

@rebelliouswitch1991

4 ай бұрын

Great Great times

Loved the campaign and variety of weapons. Weapon design is also top notch, hope they remaster this next

I absolutely LOVED this game back in the day!

Amazing video, i enjoyed watchin it, thank you. Quake 4 is an amazing game, and i'll play it again soon.

I remember setting up local matches of multiplayer because I didn't have Xbox live for a while. I actually really dug the class system and the aesthetics. It was pretty cool, obviously Cod Modern Warfare, Halo 3 and such are great but I think a Quake 5 could have been great

That opening scene is Hollywood grade cinematic!

I loved this game back then, I just finished again in the pandemic, and after watching this video I will play it again.

Great video! I didn't really understand the purpose with Quake 4, but I really appreciate that they went for single-player only, because I loved the strogg world, it's one of the few games that can actually scare me, and they did a really great job with it. I think it's a shame that we don't get to witness the strogg world more often, machines mixed with human parts is scary and cool as shit, I can only imagine a game like that today.

A good remix. Played Quake since the first entry of the series. Q4 had the large detriment to have a limited multiplayer mode in Germany, my home country. If you bought the German verison, you could play exclusively with other Germans - and with no one else. Was a real show stopper when me and my international gaming friends found out. Haven't touched it since finishing the single player for that reason. Played Q1 to 3 over and over again extensively, though

@yurkoflisk

11 ай бұрын

Why was such a ridiculous restriction applied though? Never seen anything like this.

@armorgeddon

10 ай бұрын

@@yurkoflisk Probably because the German version was cut in content for excessive violence reasons and therefor miss matched with the international versions which were put on the German BPjM index.

@yurkoflisk

10 ай бұрын

@@armorgeddon I would guess something like Stroggification scenes were removed/altered, but these are in campaign. Multiplayer maps shouldn't be affected by this. Maybe there was some checksum checking or other anticheat technique for checking the game files validity/sameness for all players, but it shouldn't be much more difficult to support two versions.

@armorgeddon

10 ай бұрын

@@yurkoflisk Sure, it wouldn't have been impossible to still make it work between versions, but I guess the German publisher thought it wasn't worth the cost since the indexing of Quake 4 meant that it would sell next to no copies in Germany. In fact barely anyone in my circles knows of Quake 4's existence much like other indexed games which is no wonder since once indexed the press and media wasn't even allowed to name those titles or at least the didn't fearing legal consequences. So when a gaming magazine couldn't avoid mentioning such a game for example to provide context for an article they'd use replacement names such as "Beben", which is the German word for Quake. When indexed games were played in Germany in 99,9% it was a pirated copy.

I remember getting hyped for this game back in the day, man. I got it as a present from my mom and dad because I was doing pretty well in school. Also remember getting pc gamer magazine back at that time and staring at the screenshots and being blown away by the lighting and visuals of the time.

I have no idea how many times I have replayed Doom3 and Quake 4 !!!

Always loved the intro. So brutal!

I have this for the Xbox 360, and it comes with a bonus disc of Quake 2. It's a great port but does suffer with a bit of stick drift. I turn the sensitivity down a bit which means I have a bit of a slower turning circle. However, i adapt. Looking forward to getting stuck in to Quake 4 over the Bank Holiday. Wicked video mate, thank you for sharing.

@coltthemac962

10 ай бұрын

I was in the middle of quake 4 before getting the red ring of death back in the day, but i do remember having that port of quake 2 as well that came with

This was awesome, still thinking about from time to time

Happy you like it. I couldn’t ever get into it. Might try again one day. But I runs all weird on my pc for some reason

Thank you for posting this man ive been itching to do vids on older games and this game came out during the MP heavy period so its singleplayer and story just got over looked it was very fun replayed it during coivd while smerrrking a few bowls, and some whiskeyyy cheers mate!

q4 with the pro mod that the competitive scene used was where q4 really shined. It took out most of the slowness and then added in better weapon balance.

My mom took this game away from me as a kid because of how violent it was lol

Outstanding video I subbed

I played that one on christmas eve 2005, so fcking high, that was a great christmas i fondly remember! cheers from bavaria!

*STROGG!!!*

Quake V is heavily needed. But without this team + vehicles component. It's about soul survivor behind enemy lines.

As a guy who grew up in W.A and QLD and still calls Australia home, finding a good video analysis on an underrated game and discovering the vid creator is a fellow Aussie is like getting the cool guy nod from across a crowded room. Hello, fellow bogan.

Thanks for this man, loved it! also loved the game so finally someone who also doesn't keep it to himself!

I loved this game. I still play it through regularly to this day.

Quake 4 was a heckin blast. The stroggification sequence was fantastic.

@Curt_Randall

11 ай бұрын

yeah that is one of the best cut-scene/sequences I have experienced in any shooter game.

i don't think there will ever be a sequel or a remake of quake 4, considering how forgotten it really is, it feels weird knowing that doom 3, despite its change from previous doom titles, still recieves more attention and even mods, yet quake 4 is just a memory hole

@brokenportals

Жыл бұрын

It's definitely a franchise with an identity crisis. Doom has always been doom, even with the drastic changes with Doom 3. Quake needs a reboot.

Over the course of a year and a half, i had around 1200 hours in the quake 4 multiplayer (the server i ran and the others i played on used a mod called Q4Max). It was the first online multiplayer game i got into. The engine quake 4 used is the predecessor to the Source engine, the amazing (if somewhat dated) engine running Team Fortress 2 (my all time favorite multiplayer game).

Loved it back then. Played it shortly after Doom 3 and Prey. Love it still. Would love to see it back on steam with achievements .

Nice work

Completely forgot i played this game, but good memories came!

I really like Quake 4, and my only wish is they'd feature more biomes than just the desert. if the laboratory section was set in swamps, and the final act was set in the polar regions of the planet, that would help break up the monotony imo

I still play Q3A to this day. Yes, it's entirely with bots, but there are hundreds of add-on maps for Q3A that look gorgeous and are really diverse and some of them really atmospheric.

The first game I installed to test my geforce fanless 6200. So good memories.

i can't wait to play this in vr soon

dr,Beef is turning this game in VR, can't wait for it.

I wish more games would've used id Tech 4. Doom 3, Quake 4, Wolfenstein 2009, and my favorite one, Prey 2006, all used it and I loved all of them.

I had played this game and really enjoyed it back in the day.

one of my favorite games all time, played repeatedly many times :D

because of the engine this game just always LOOKED like an alternate reality doom 3

Quake 4 the type of game I keep coming back to every year or so. I just love the moment you get turned into a Strogg.

Never finished q4 but I played it alot years ago. Fantastic game.

Played it many years ago, don't remember much from it other than the cyber spider boss and the nail gun. My favorite gun lol

Just recently delved into this again for the first time in about 10 years. Great! I'd forgotten about 80% of it, making like a new game experience with deja-vu! Lol! I agree with most of this narrative also. So why the lack of Quake 5!?? Maybe that phone call at the end was from a result of a search through Cain's record collection!?

Stroggified. It is a great game. Speaking of Doom 3 I loved the horror elements. Especially the audio tapes that you found, it was a great creepy build up.

Quake 2 is my all time favourite of all ID Software games. I very like the idea of Stroggs and futuristic space shooting so I was looking forward to play Quake 4 back in the day. I liked the game but for me it lacked that feel of Quake 2. It's hard to explain but I love that 90s feel of Quake 2 and the way people imagine future back then. I loved that Guards looked like Judge Dredd, I loved that bulky blaster, cosmic looking shotgun and so on. That what I was missing in the Quake 2 - the enemies were too clean, "rounded", futuristic in the way we see it today, not in the 90s and so with the weapons. I would love to see Stroggs, Bitterman, Joker, Stepchild and Kane beeing remake whit that 90s look :)

I've been playing for a few weeks now. I even had an unpleasant situation when an update appeared on GoG, and my saves stopped loading. I ended up reinstalling and rolling back a few saves. It had its good sides, until now I played with unofficial Polish translation, now I found full dubbing, because in the past, when I had it on CD, it was in Polish distribution. I managed to get it and install it. Game on! 💪

My second favorite game, love it!

I love quake 4, one of my favourite early 360 surprises

Just hope we get more games in this setting of devastated earth fighting the strogg. Cool setting to me at least. Enemy territory was good too.

From all Quake games I liked Quake IV the most. And yes, I played all of them back in the days when they were new and popular releases. I wish they continued in this direction and gave us Quake V.

I need a Quake 4 remake soo bad🔥

Let me tell you something, Q2 and Q4 are my favorite Quake games, and Doom 3 my favorite Doom game, 3 of some of the best FPS ever made, don't let anybody make you think otherwise.

@ahmedhamza8370

10 ай бұрын

100%

@rebelliouswitch1991

4 ай бұрын

Quake 4 and DOOM 3 are mine in both series

This game was amazing and I never hear anyone talk about it!

Best and most competitive quake multiplayer though.

Your voice comes in so abruptly that it made me giggle @00:49

Hello, i've got this GOG serial for Quake 4 with prime. Already have the game so I thought it would be a good place to leave it for someone to pick it.

Quake 2 is remastered,time for Quake 4 to get the same treatment someday

@brokenportals

11 ай бұрын

I'm sure it will. It'll most likely be like what Doom 3 BFG edition is.

i liked it at the time, but i have never even installed it again, ever, and i forget it ever exists for long stretches of time, just to be reminded here and there that "ah, there was such a game".

Played Q4 and I was glad when it was over :D

An amazing title everyone should experience!

I bought this in 05 06 for PC and forgot about it, about a year ago I found it in the garage still in the box

The first game i played and finished (twice) back in the day for the Xbox 360.

kane still awaiting orders was an stimulation for modders to make custom levels and mission packs

I'm playing through the game right now. It starts a little slow, but I've enjoyed it way more than I thought I would. I don't know why I never finished this game, but I intend to this time. I miss this era of FPS's when developers like Raven Software were pumping out games like Soldier of Fortune, Star Trek: Elite Force, & Quake 4

Damn, that's 2000s... Look those graphics... Q4 and D3 are masterpieces. They aged very well.

Good game! I rly hope that we weill see a sequel

Probably not too long before we get a remastered version of this game. I bought Quake 2 for my Playstation 5 yesterday in it's actually really cool.

Managed to fix graphic on my pc and I'm loving it!!

the way they appear from darkness. 🍷😈

Totally underrated especially in its own time. I have always thought of the Strogg as an enemy worthy of a well written and fleshed out ( pun not intended! ) enemy and I think this game is worthy not just of a remaster, but a full redux and start the story from there! Not really interested in MP even though I know alot of people went for older Quake games for that. My first Quake was Q2 and until Q4 came I think Q3 arena was my thing.

@joel6376

11 ай бұрын

>Totally underrated especially in its own time Not really when you consider its predecessors. Quakers are like COD players who bemoan that MW2 was the best ever - except they are still playing their fav quake 20 years later.

@marcusclarkson2657

11 ай бұрын

@@joel6376 like yeah it really was. Maybe because I am older, but IDC about " Quakers " or " CODers " or any of the other made up sociological groups or sets that's the cool- speak. Game was dope for it's time, period.

@joel6376

11 ай бұрын

​@@marcusclarkson2657 It wasn't underrated because its predecessors did everything it did (that was important to the players at the time), only better. The COD analogy was to show that the people who liked quake, kept playing the earlier titles that were superior in whatever way those players wanted, rather than proclaiming they liked the old version but still ditching it when the next COD came along. This was probably a detriment to the genre but it is what it is.

What mods would you recommend for another playthrough? For better graphics and quality of life improvements, no total conversions or anything too fancy...

@brokenportals

11 ай бұрын

Sikkmod.

5:07 bro? XD you are not convincing anyone with that lmao

@TheRhalf

10 ай бұрын

I dont think you know what underrated means chief

Quake 4 and Wolfenstein 2009 are both very underrated games made by Raven games.

I playedso many shooters from the DOS era on but somehow never the older Quake and when I switched to Xbox in 2000 I missed out on 3 and 4 as well. Looking back it's just weird for a fan of shooter games to never even have touched it

Sick game, massove guns, huge bosses, non stop action

Wouldn't you absolutely LOVE a remake or a remaster of this legendary game? I always see people throwing nothing but shit at it. Bro this game was one hell of a ride. It even gets better after Operation Last Hope where you get to *experience* the sheer scale of the attack, the execution of a massive plan against an alien race on their own freaking planet. It was so good, I think I lost count of all the times I beat Quake 4. It'll forever hold the most special place in my heart, maybe even my all time most favorite game.

For me, having played and speedrun the game, my favorite aspect of the game is the OpenAL surround sound. On my first playthrough, I looked into enabling surround sound. Once I went through the (lengthy and annoying) process, the game took a direction I've never experienced. I could literally hear enemies in full 3D space with just stereo headphones. Above me, below me, behind me, it didn't matter. I felt like I could close my eyes and still fight enemies. That's something that needs to be brought back to gaming. Graphics are great, but sound unfortunately has been left to the scrapyard.

@armorgeddon

10 ай бұрын

According to MobyGames it also supports EAX Advanced HD which may sound even better though demands a compatible soundcard and ideally Windows XP (Vista to 7 need ALchemy wrapper in addition to the soundcard). You're absolutely right btw regarding the sound systems in modern games.

@honorablejay

10 ай бұрын

@@armorgeddon Ya know, I used to play games with EAX enabled, and the surround was never as believable as the OpenAL wrapper I installed for Quake 4.