This version is so much better than the re-mastered intro... can't put my finger on it but the dirtier audio and the unpolished rendering, somehow there's much more of a sense of scale in this.
Quake 2 Multi player is alive and well, there is still alot of regular and custom maps out there that are still up. On DM 8, one of my signature camps was at the BFG area and 200 rounds of hyper ammo 😊 over the years, people would find out where the BFG is and attempt to grab it , only to be melted by hyper blaster fire, it was so so funny camping there until some smart people started tossing grenades up there!! Memories ❤ -- EDM Dude (Coffee Dude)
The fact that the strogg doesn’t have a face but wears distorted human ones makes them a unique threat, they are more likely the be the computers that run the place rather than the enemies in game
The scariest enemies in any game/movie/story of any kind to me are the ones that are intelligent and nefarious. The mindless zombies have their place, but an enemy than has outsmarted humanity is sooo much more terrifying to me. Hence the enemies of AI and super advanced aliens are worse to me than any grotesque yet dumb monster. The Strogg from Quake are scarier to me than the demons of Doom.
My firt quake 2 was on ps1 version and it was great game. Then I played pc version on my cousin's computer and was surprised how much bigger pc version is.
I just now noticed that first ship in the intro (the smaller one with the nose-art) is called "The Adrianator, I presume after Adrian Carmack, Id Software's lead artist. Actually, based on its design, I think that's one of the same human fighter craft that you see like in that one mission where they bomb a fuel pod.
I got my Voodoo 2 12b 3Dfx card the same day I got Quake 2. I was obsessed with Quake and even introduced me to my face artist Trent Reznor. (recently the Quake soundtrack was released on quality vinyl. Absolutely amazing.)anyway I got this and downloaded GLQuake too... I spent months enjoying this, playing CTF with CR Not when my latency was too high, loving Quake and the mission packs all over again because of the graphical upgrade the Voodoo card gave me. This intro really set you up for the game and I was initially disappointed that Quake 2 was essentially a different IP but soon I got over that! Memories of the joy you felt when you gibbed an enemy with that awesome rail gun with its unique sound... Flying around with the grapple hook in CTF, a feckin UNREAL Transformers Total Conversion, the ubiquitous download manager needed to safely get MASSIVE files of 30mb! 😂 Years later I would spend weeks recovering from a broken leg with the Quake Army Knife, (Quark) loaded with loads of games assets but I mainly enjoyed making levels with dead marines, flickering lights, lots of gloom, winding corridors all leading to vast open battlegrounds. Each side would have 3,4 even 5 levels of corridors, above aand under the arena, stairs and intersections and hidden passages... Man there are few games that have ever given me that much
Intro is still my favorite of all time - so I attempted to rebuild the whole thing from scratch in Blender. Just posted today, and would be stoked if anyone wants to check it out!
Ok so, this song is called "Quake 2 ntro or AKA Quake 2 theme song by Rob Zombie". The first half of the intro song is by Bill Brown and can be listened/downloaded with out an issue but the second half well yeh. Now I was looking around the deep web even on the forums that dated way back to 1998-2006 and found out that one person contacted John Carmack (back then he was part of ID Software) and John referred him to Paul Steed which referred him to Rob Zombie. At this point I do not know if the person contacted the Rob Zombie but they claim he does not have the original master piece anymore. Seems like he just randomly slapped something together and sent it to the ID Software just for funs and it worked too well. (Forum is in German but you can google translate the page www.idgames.de/threads/suche-quake-ii-intro-soundtrack.10079/) Maybe use shazam or something to find similar song and we might pin point it down eventually. Got me interested so much that I tried to open ntro.cin in Quake 2 (that is where the intro is played in game from) and hoped i could open it up and remove audio and sounds effect and clip the Audio track for the song only but I did not have any luck (spent 1 hour to look around and play with the file) Hopefully we find the song one day and wooooho
My family never had the cash to keep up with the consoles. But we did have a new PC, and I knew I could jam a 💿 into a drive click next a bunch of times Looking back, it’s obvious to see why I’ve remained dedicated to PC gaming. Especially now that you can just plug a controller in. Thumbs up if you remember DeerAvenger! It’s been on my to-do list to find a copy of the game, build a vm and then play a runt though of the series. Shits so stupid but the nostalgia!!!!!!
