Re: Quake 1 is 28 yrs. old! (Re: Counterstrike is 25 years old)

On Sat, 22 Jun 2024 20:11:51 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

H1MEM <wipnoah@gmail.com> wrote:
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I still play classic quake, though. I did buy CounterStrike: Source to
complete my collection of Valve games, but I have never played it. And
the less it's said about Global Ops or the new thing that came later,
the better.

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FYI. Quake 1 is 28 yrs. old according to https://x.com/daytechhistory/status/1804484489202000034. :O

But that's not a round number! We only celebrate round numbers in
these parts!

(Well unless you count in Base 7.* Or Base 4.** Or Base 14.*** Or Base
28.**** Then I guess it's a round number. ;-)


The fact that Quake is 28 is less shocking to me. I think that's
because a) it's not really a game people play frequently, and b) it
LOOKS old. The three years between "Quake" and "Half Life" allowed a
lot of changes that resulted in one game still looking like something
I might play, and the other looking potato. Original "Quake" had a 256
color palette... and so many of those colors were brown. It wasn't a
good looking game in 1996, and it hasn't aged well at all.

I mean, yeah, original "Counterstrike" looks really rough too... but
it's got nothin' on how poorly "Quake" compares.




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* due to a horrible accident with a threshing machine loppin' off
three fingers.
** due to a REALLY horrible accident with a threshing machine
*** due to... I dunno, your parents (and grandparents, and great
grandparents) being sister and brother?
**** due to... nope, I got nothin'