Daniel Keast

Stuff about Quake

Quake

It is the 30th anniversary of the release of Quake. To celebrate this MachineGames released a new set of levels for free as an update to the NightDive remaster. I thought I’d give them a go and found them excellent but extremely hard. That seemed like a good reason to go back to the original levels and play a few to practice. Instead I ended up completing the entire game for the first time in probably decades.

Quake II

I bought this at release, but never finished it. This time I played the remastered version that was released recently. In the original version I think I got kept getting lost, and the new version adds a feature that draws markers in the world to show you were you need to go next. I think that’s a great feature that should get added into lots of old shooters.