Quake 4

[Venmoch]

I believe I'm going to annoy a load of people with the next sentence below.


I think Quake 4 is better than F.E.A.R

There, I've said it. Can't be reversed. But Quake 4 has so much more in terms of action and memorable sequences than FEAR has. I mean, playing around in the spacecraft, getting launched in a drop pod and of course the absolutely awesome "Stroggification" scene (That is, not only incredibly well designed but also is one of the most disturbing things you can see. Talk about immersion, bleh.)

I mean I'm really finding it hard to enjoy Fear. I don't scare easily which doesn't help (System Shock 2, not scary. At all.) and also the action in FEAR always feels the same. Not to mention I began to miss the AI squadmates from Quake 4.

Basically, Quake 4 is Call Of Duty, in space, with cyborgs.

And I love it.

 

[Cole]

So Quake 4 is a heavily scripted WW2 shooter in space with cyborgs?
Thats cheap! The Cyborgs will pwn my M1 Garand!

 

[The Brick]

Strafe-jumping works, double-jumping (like what you do all over the place to get powerups on The Edge) doesn't seem to.

euh? doublejumping is something from UT :dozey:

 

[ComradeBadger]

Anyone tried trickjumping yet?

Rocket and grenade jumps work apparently

 

[Garfield_]

I believe I'm going to annoy a load of people with the next sentence below.


I think Quake 4 is better than F.E.A.R

There, I've said it. Can't be reversed. But Quake 4 has so much more in terms of action and memorable sequences than FEAR has. I mean, playing around in the spacecraft, getting launched in a drop pod and of course the absolutely awesome "Stroggification" scene (That is, not only incredibly well designed but also is one of the most disturbing things you can see. Talk about immersion, bleh.)

I mean I'm really finding it hard to enjoy Fear. I don't scare easily which doesn't help (System Shock 2, not scary. At all.) and also the action in FEAR always feels the same. Not to mention I began to miss the AI squadmates from Quake 4.

Basically, Quake 4 is Call Of Duty, in space, with cyborgs.

And I love it.

I love scary games, and most games doesnt even scare me at all even if they are supposed to. But when you had to crawl in the wall just before you saw the dog jumping around, that part was really scary

 

[The Brick]

Rocket and grenade jumps work apparently

I hope a demo will come out. That's the first thing I'd check out

<3 q3 trickjumping/defrag

 

[wilka91]

I believe I'm going to annoy a load of people with the next sentence below.


I think Quake 4 is better than F.E.A.R

There, I've said it. Can't be reversed. But Quake 4 has so much more in terms of action and memorable sequences than FEAR has. I mean, playing around in the spacecraft, getting launched in a drop pod and of course the absolutely awesome "Stroggification" scene (That is, not only incredibly well designed but also is one of the most disturbing things you can see. Talk about immersion, bleh.)

I gotta agree with the above. Thumbs up for the stroggification sequence ... it totally got under my skin, I could feel getting my legs cut!!!

 

[Smigit]

euh? doublejumping is something from UT :dozey:

Quake has double jumps. Maybe ppl call it a step jump or whatever, but in Quake 2 at least it u jumped into a small raised platform and jumped again ud execute a double jump and be propelled quite high. (it has to be quite low, say comming at the 2nd stair in a stair well)

It may not be the same jump the poster above meant, noine the less its another trick jump.

And yeah Quake 4 rules. I wish ID hadnt ruined that plot twist mid way into it, woulda been cooler if wed had to play it ourselves to find out. Unfortunatly I also saw that level in a trailer somewhere, its still bad arse but. That poor guy ahead of us, you feel sorry (although it shoulda been even louder more vicious, its like he stoped crying between machines)

 

[wilka91]

does vaseline's patch work for anyone?

 

[Gorgon]

Awsome game, I played for three hours. Cool game worth my the £34.99.

I was playing Online and this guy DOOZER he had 65 frags, and I had 56 frags.

that was the first cool match for quake4. :cheers:

does vaseline's patch work for anyone?

I tried it, before I buy the game. it works, but you have to wait 4-8 mins for authorization and sometimes it doesn't work at all

whereas If you buy a copy with a legit serial key, the time it takes for your the authorization is 2Seconds:E

 

[wilka91]

Awsome game, I played for three hours. Cool game worth my the £34.99.

I was playing Online and this guy DOOZER he had 65 frags, and I had 56 frags.

that was the first cool match for quake4. :cheers:



I tried it, before I buy the game. it works, but you have to wait 4-8 mins for authorization and sometimes it doesn't work at all

whereas If you buy a copy with a legit serial key, the time it takes for your the authorization is 2Seconds:E

I'm not gonna buy it unless it's good. I need to test it first

 

[IonizeMyAtoms]

Has anyone beaten it? How long is it? How's the ending?

 

[Loke]

How long is it?

For me it took around 7-8 hours.

How's the ending?

Don't expect anything amazing, because it was kind of disappointing imo. But it was good one way though, because it ended like a sequel was around the corner.

 

[wilka91]

It was the opposite of disappointing for me. Unexpectedly great SP experience.

The MP sucked a-s-s though

 

[Prince of China]

Quake 4 sounds like a game worth getting. The reviews aren't bad. They're just a little bit lower than most of id's games on average; the average is at 83 right now. I hear good things about it. They'll probably release a demo for it next month. I also wouldn't be surprised if they are planning an expansion pack.

 

[Ravioli]

The Stroggifination Process was the most disturbing thing a human can go through...omg that was so disgusting...i hope they make a movie out of it in FPS like doom3...GOD THAT WOULD BE AWESOME....

 

[Gorgon]

Quake 4 tooning tool: AWSOME

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=58542

 

[Angry Lawyer]

I have all intention of getting it in the near future. The Quake series are what really got me into modding.

-Angry Lawyer

 

[bam23]

I'm kinda disappointed that you don't have a squad with you more often, it feels a lot like Doom 3 sometimes.

 

[Gunner]

I believe I'm going to annoy a load of people with the next sentence below.


I think Quake 4 is better than F.E.A.R

I think they're both great games and I can't wait for CoD2 either, so many games so little time. My only problem with Fear is the lack of end level bosses, and there aren't that many weapons in the end.

 

[Somefool]

Does anyone else find the railgun a bit....iffy? The target has to be touching the dot of the crosshair for me and unlike Q2 where it only need to rouch a small part of the crosshair to hit.

 

[bam23]

The hit detection in Quake 4 is different, it uses per-polygon hit detection instead of hitboxes if I'm not mistaken.

 

[MuToiD_MaN]

It does seem like times where you'd expect to hit the guy it goes right past him. Happened to me alot in the singeplayer.

 

[Alan Freeman]

What settings would i be able to play at? i'm buying the game tomm. sunday 23rd

 

[bam23]

Go ahead and splurge.

 

[Smigit]

What settings would i be able to play at? i'm buying the game tomm. sunday 23rd

High, I would avoid maximum (512 texture memory ouchhh) but High will look great and you can have everything enabled (maybe cut back AA to x2, but try it at x4 and see how it runs)

I have an Athlon x64 3400+, X800 pro and 1G ram, runs flawlessly and looks great. So same card, same ran and fairly close to the same processors. should run close I'd say

 

[Iced_Eagle]

The hit detection in Quake 4 is different, it uses per-polygon hit detection instead of hitboxes if I'm not mistaken.

In single-player it uses per-poly but in multiplayer it uses hit boxes...

I was a tester and this was one of the first things I asked the devs... The main reason was that they wanted to have Quake4 get around the same performance net-code wise as Quake3 (and keep the same # of players in an average server) and so they switched to hitboxes for MP.

 

[Garfield_]

ya, if it were to use per-polygon in the MP part it would suck in a game like Quake, it fits better in games like Batttlefield

 

[DEATH eVADER]

The Stroggifination Process was the most disturbing thing a human can go through...omg that was so disgusting...i hope they make a movie out of it in FPS like doom3...GOD THAT WOULD BE AWESOME....

They should of made a trilogy of Quake titles instead of Doom.
Quake - Quake Wars on Earth
Quake II - The first counter attack on the strogg homeworld
Quake III- The second wave which ends up showing the stroggification

 

[Garfield_]

Just beat the game, Quake 2 is still much better and the 4th

 

[DESSTROYER]

They should of made a trilogy of Quake titles instead of Doom.
Quake - Quake Wars on Earth
Quake II - The first counter attack on the strogg homeworld
Quake IV- The second wave which ends up showing the stroggification

fixed :rolling:

 

[Alan Freeman]

High, I would avoid maximum (512 texture memory ouchhh) but High will look great and you can have everything enabled (maybe cut back AA to x2, but try it at x4 and see how it runs)

I have an Athlon x64 3400+, X800 pro and 1G ram, runs flawlessly and looks great. So same card, same ran and fairly close to the same processors. should run close I'd say

Yup , You were right on every detail looks great just got it

That leaves me with three unfinished games
1. FEAR
2.Suffering ties that bind
3.Quake 4

 

[Asuka]

Just beat quake for in one sitting. Played all night. Whats with id and their lame endings?

Boses were really cool tho and the game wasnt all to easy. (played on hard)

Compared to F.E.A.R 7.5
Compared to mose fps games 8.0

 

[Sparta]

iD didn't make the game, Raven did.

 

[destrukt]

iD didn't make the game, Raven did.

/me high-five's captain obvious.

 

[stemot]

I believe I'm going to annoy a load of people with the next sentence below.


I think Quake 4 is better than F.E.A.R

There, I've said it. Can't be reversed. But Quake 4 has so much more in terms of action and memorable sequences than FEAR has. I mean, playing around in the spacecraft, getting launched in a drop pod and of course the absolutely awesome "Stroggification" scene (That is, not only incredibly well designed but also is one of the most disturbing things you can see. Talk about immersion, bleh.)

I mean I'm really finding it hard to enjoy Fear. I don't scare easily which doesn't help (System Shock 2, not scary. At all.) and also the action in FEAR always feels the same. Not to mention I began to miss the AI squadmates from Quake 4.

Basically, Quake 4 is Call Of Duty, in space, with cyborgs.

And I love it.

Doesn`t annoy me, I 100% agree with you, Loving Q4 much more than F.E.A.R., I`m gonna have to install Q2 now as well, never did play past the first few levels of that.

 

[Gunner]

/me high-five's captain obvious.

Sparta was talking to Raziel who thought that iD dev'ed Q4.

 

[Kiva128]

I find if funny that the mods say "Keep discussion about quake 4 to 1 topic" yet they allow 4 seperate topics about F.E.A.R? Yeah...you guys might wanna think about that one.

Threads:

F.E.A.R. Reviews thread
Scared to play a game... (F.E.A.R.)
Your experiences with F.E.A.R's AI!
FEAR2? : Best read after completion of FEAR

Hmm...yeah. That seems fair.

I think you guys can tell I liked Quake IV over that F.E.A.R. game. At least Quake IV had some variety in what you did instead of every mission in fear being "kill paxton!...now! Oh no...he disappeared agian...well, we'll get him next time!" "There he is again...no wait, wait, he's gone now...d'oh"

And whats the deal with the weapons...having only 3 at a time is stupid. Especially considering that 3 of the guns are the basically the same (SMG, Assualt Rifle, ASP Rifle) WOW, one of them has a scope...weeeee. And when they give you some cool guns later on, they don't give you nearly enough ammo so you can use them for a good minute if you're lucky. Yep.

Whatever, you guys like fear, more power to you. Game wasn't even as scary as I thought it would be...when Alma appears out of nowhere I was just like "Hi again...try something new next time, will you...ya dumb bitch!"

 

[Gunner]

I think you guys can tell I liked Quake IV over that F.E.A.R. game. At least Quake IV had some variety in what you did instead of every mission in fear being "kill paxton!...now! Oh no...he disappeared agian...well, we'll get him next time!" "There he is again...no wait, wait, he's gone now...d'oh"

I have to agree with you, the mission objective is to kill Paxton but he vanishes everytime you get close. It reminds me of Monolith's last game: blood 2, it was the exact same crap if anyone remembers, you had to kill this one guy who kept disappearing at the end of the levels. Some weapons were cool but others were pointless, I just used the shotgun throughout the entire game. Overall it was still a great game, just like Q4: both are great imo. Bit too short, even on 3/4 difficulty. The Nexus is really easy too

 

[Gray Fox]

I have a
2.4 Ghz
9800 pro 128mb
512mb Ram
Now doom 3 didn't run all that fine on my PC. I mean it had between 40 and 60 fps when nothing was happening, but whne 1 or 2 enemies appeared it went down to 20, and witn more then to sometimes up to 11.
Now Quake 4 uses the same engine, but has larger battels and better graphics. Am I safe to say that I won't be able to play it properly, or is the engine really optimezed.
I'm just asking, cause I though FEAR would run like shit, but it turned out to run really well an looks pretty good to.