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Monday, August 18, 2008

Future Perfect Tense (k3nshi)

...or games I am looking forward to, but which will probably be massively flawed in one way or another.



  • Mirrors Edge


  • Mortal Kombat vs DC


  • Star Wars: The Force Unleashed


  • Batman: Arkham Asylum


  • Wip3out (PS3)


  • Demigod (on PC of all things)


  • Quake Live (free!)


  • Little Big Planet


  • Tomb Raider Underworld


There are probably more, but these are the ones I can remember for now (listed in the order I remembered them).




Sunday, August 10, 2008

Quake Revival (k3nshi)

The chain of events that led to the Quake Revival were:

  1. Read interview with John Romero in a recent issue of Edge
  2. General hype about Quakecon, specifically Quake Live
  3. Bought and read "Masters of Doom"

I had Quake 2 and Quake 3 cd-roms for the PC from back in the day. Knowing that ports/forks of the open source code base of these games were available on OSX I did a bit of hunting around on the internet. Before you know it I had Quake 3 and Quake 2 installed and running in super smooth hires on the iMac. One quick purchase of Quake 1 on the id software online store meant I was able to catch the one that had gotten away.

Quake still plays awesomely well. There is a real fiendishness to the level designs and the general atmosphere which makes this a damned good and fairly unique game. I haven't played Quake 4 or Doom 3, neither really holding much interest. It will be interesting to see how Quake Live and Rage turn out though.