Quake II Returns with New Expansion, Online Multiplayer, Visual Upgrades, Quake 64 Port, and More

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Bethesda has announced that an enhanced version of Quake II is now available for Game Pass, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 5, and PlayStation 4. Developed by Nightdive Studios, this updated version of id Software's 1997 FPS aims to improve upon the original with a number of new features, including an all-new expansion from MachineGames, online multiplayer, visual upgrades, and more. Players will even find a copy of Quake 64, a port of Quake that Midway Games released for Nintendo 64 back in 1998. QuakeCon 2023 is live until Sunday, August 13.

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Will be some time before I get around to this, as I'm still slowly going through Quake 2 RTX (which is sorta kinda like a remaster in its own right). After Nightdive did an enhanced version of Quake 1 I was wondering if they would tackle 2, and indeed they did. Even threw in the N64 version, crazy. A bunch of other stuff too, like new levels from MachineGames. A friend showed me this: https://bethesda.net/en/article/6NIyBxapXOurTKtF4aPiF4/enhancing-quake-ii
Glad it's free for those who already own a digital version of Quake 2, as they did with the enhanced version of 1 for owners of the first game.

The Steam page for the game says 8P local split-screen. Uh, that's gotta be a typo, or maybe they mean 4P + 4P LAN, cuz 8P splitscreen on one screen, uuhh how the f*ck would that work out?
 
DrezKill said:
The Steam page for the game says 8P local split-screen. Uh, that's gotta be a typo, or maybe they mean 4P + 4P LAN, cuz 8P splitscreen on one screen, uuhh how the f*ck would that work out?
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That wouldn't be half bad on a Super Ultrawide!
 
DrezKill said:
Will be some time before I get around to this, as I'm still slowly going through Quake 2 RTX (which is sorta kinda like a remaster in its own right). After Nightdive did an enhanced version of Quake 1 I was wondering if they would tackle 2, and indeed they did. Even threw in the N64 version, crazy. A bunch of other stuff too, like new levels from MachineGames. A friend showed me this: https://bethesda.net/en/article/6NIyBxapXOurTKtF4aPiF4/enhancing-quake-ii
Glad it's free for those who already own a digital version of Quake 2, as they did with the enhanced version of 1 for owners of the first game.

The Steam page for the game says 8P local split-screen. Uh, that's gotta be a typo, or maybe they mean 4P + 4P LAN, cuz 8P splitscreen on one screen, uuhh how the f*ck would that work out?
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Have you never played super bomber man?
 
DrezKill said:
That's all players on one screen though. I'm talking about split-screen. I've never seen a screen divided up into more than 4 smaller screens for multiplayer.
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I haven't seen more than that as well. The last time I played 4 player split screen was Goldeneye on the N64. I fired up Quake 64 last night on PC and it was a nice blast from the past.
 
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If you think about it, at 4K - going 8 ways that's still 1080x960 -- nearly 720p and a lot better than the 640x480 or 800x600 a lot of us were playing on back in the day when the game first released (on high end rigs at that!).

But yeah, it would be tiny on most screens. 😣
 
I just don't get these types of releases.
 
My FPS life began with Quake 2. Lots of mods and online play. It's not the same game.
 
Riccochet said:
My FPS life began with Quake 2. Lots of mods and online play. It's not the same game.
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While I agree with you, the new "refreshed" game does bring back a little nostalgia. My first FPS was the original Unreal Tournament which to this day they haven't been able to recapture its glory.
 
Niner51 said:
While I agree with you, the new "refreshed" game does bring back a little nostalgia. My first FPS was the original Unreal Tournament which to this day they haven't been able to recapture its glory.
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I disagree. UT2004 was at least as good as the original Unreal Tournament. I played the crap out of both games. UT2003 and UT3 missed the mark, but the other two nailed it.
 
Dan_D said:
I disagree. UT2004 was at least as good as the original Unreal Tournament. I played the crap out of both games. UT2003 and UT3 missed the mark, but the other two nailed it.
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UT2004 was pretty good I agree, but nothing has come close since then unfortunately.
 
Only modern game I can think of that would match the intensity of Quake/UT, if they did a TDM and/or free-for-all mode, would be Apex Legends. Fast paced, twitch style gaming.
 
Dan_D said:
I disagree. UT2004 was at least as good as the original Unreal Tournament. I played the crap out of both games. UT2003 and UT3 missed the mark, but the other two nailed it.
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I agree, though I still got a lot of fun outta UT3. People look at me weird when I say I like UT3, but then again people look at me weird when I say I like UT2004 as much as UT1. I keep all 3 games installed on every main PC I've used since those games came out.

I messed around with the UT4 alpha for a time. Too bad the project didn't last long enough to develop into something that was actually fun to play, and which had its own unique feel like the previous games had. It still kinda rubs me the wrong way when an Unreal Engine doesn't have an Unreal game to go along with it. UE4 never got an Unreal game of any kind aside from that UT4 alpha. The same will probably happen with UE5. I didn't even like that UE3 debuted with what eventually became Gears of War (and debuted on console on top of that), rather than an Unreal game.

Riccochet said:
My FPS life began with Quake 2.
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The first FPS game I can remember playing was Wolfenstein 3-D (not 100% sure since that was sooooooo many years ago). I think it was either Doom 1 or Duke Nukem 3D that sold me on FPS games though.
 
DrezKill said:
The first FPS game I can remember playing was Wolfenstein 3-D (not 100% sure since that was sooooooo many years ago). I think it was either Doom 1 or Duke Nukem 3D that sold me on FPS games though.
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I think you mean... The Spear of Destiny sir. MEIN LAMEN!!
 
DrezKill said:
The first FPS game I can remember playing was Wolfenstein 3-D (not 100% sure since that was sooooooo many years ago). I think it was either Doom 1 or Duke Nukem 3D that sold me on FPS games though.
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I didn't count those since they weren't multiplayer. But, yeah, I played those as well.
 
Dan_D said:
I disagree. UT2004 was at least as good as the original Unreal Tournament. I played the crap out of both games. UT2003 and UT3 missed the mark, but the other two nailed it.
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UT2k4 did come pretty close, but it wasn't the original. The original, to this day, is still the best UT ever made.

That "new" alpha UT4 thing they were half *** working on a few years ago was very, very promising on the few times I played it, but it seemed to have went no where.
 
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