Quake Stories

[Parker Soudin]

Anyone have any old Quake 1-3 stories of when the community was large, and thriving?

Mine is when I was young (around 2000ish) I got into a game with Immortal, and scored a point! lol

What's yours?

 

[User names must be unique]

I played against bots because the internet was too expensive and AOL free trial disks were obviously a scam.

 

[XYZpdq]

Once upon a time Quake was an interesting single-player game.
Fuck 3d hardware and fuck pvp-only games.

The end.

 

[Zaragoza]

I'm more of an Unreal Tournament player myself but I won't deny that I had a lot of fun playing mods for Quake like Team Fortress.

 

[Pickle Pirate]

I played Unreal Tournament. :^)

 

[Lez]

I always got my dad to beat the shambler for me.

 

[jewelry investor]

I played Unreal Tournament. :^)

Played the original, never finished it, did quake 3 for a while.
Playing unreal tournament now, the maps I find are are way more memorable. Although the game play in Q3 is less bullet spongy.

 

[Black Waltz]

I played quake 3 with a couple of friends back in high school, I almost got suspended for it because it was on the school computers

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I beat one of the top ranked pro players once, in Quake 1 deathmatch. Felt pretty pleased about the win but how I did it is the thing that I feel proud of: I tried to avoid him, an unusual tactic in deathmatch. Map control, timing of items, routes, I couldn't compete there and I not only knew it I got to experience it firsthand. Chaos, coming from weird angles, unpredictable situations and tactics there can be no trained response to, that's where I was good and only under those conditions could I ever hope to beat him. So I actually managed to suck him into my world of bullshit and eeked out the win. Maybe he had a bad day, I don't know, but he was really good to the point that within the first minute I realized that oh, this is something completely different.

CTF was what I played most of the time because the grappling hook and runes was a natural fit for my play style, combined with the asymmetrical nature of the (sometimes huge) maps DOING WEIRD SHIT was a legitimate and often successful tactic.