Quake I, II, III, or IV?

[wicked_lord]

Quake 1 is the ultimate. QuakeWorld does not count since it came along after the Original quake was released and the game physics suck compared to NetQuake/Standard Quake. Quake 2 was ok, i played it for a short while even joined a clan then quit altogether. Quake 3 was ok as well. Never liked the player models just like quake 2. Quake 4, never played it.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

hands down Quake1. Clan competitions set the stage back in 98. The prospect of online deathmatch? Killing a lesser skilled human being? It was all the lure it needed for me.

[talisa]

whaaa..... there's other quake-games?
i thought ID only made base-themed alien-cyborg shooters after quake1?

jk, lol

quake2 and quake4 are both ok imo... still good games,but i much prefer the medieval and lovecraftian theme of quake1
over the generic base-base-base-andevenmorebase theme of quake2 and quake4,

the cyborg-enemies of quake2 and quake4 feel much more generic, especially the ones of quake4 which look way to human.
in quake2 some of the enemies at least looked like weird wtf frankenstein experiments, in quake4 all of them were just zombie-humans with a gun

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Q3A:
an ok techdemo... but thats really the only good thing i got to say about that game
its a stretch to even call it its own game, its just Q2 with all code ripped except the multiplayer code,
and the models and maps just look ugly as fuck imo...
especially the weapon-models just look pukerificly ugly and unappealing to the eyes imo

and sadly enough its the one game which everybody everywhere seems to know most

[Krymzon 45]

That's what I mean hdagon...

When Quake II emerged it shifted from a horror styled dark set to a full on space Marine assault on the twisted mangled body mixed with machine race called the Strogg. I have always wondered why id made such a drastic change in the game and never even tried to go back to it's roots. Now don't get me wrong I really enjoyed Quake II and Quake IV as a fast paced shooter but it just didn't feel like Quake to me at all even if it bared the logo. Now Quake III like Spike said hit the scene at the right time when the death match scene was really starting to hit big and I played the ever living hell out of it. I have the entire series sitting there on my shelf and installed on my computer but Quake I is always the one I seemingly enjoy to play the most as it was really the very first shooter game I actually played and has left a long lasting impression. It just amazes me how id software won't even try to make another Quake game that goes back to it's dark roots since that's what started the series and is what most of us enjoyed the most.

[hgdagon]

What kind of a question is that? They're so majorly different games. You might as well ask Silent Hill 2 or SMB 3?

[Polarite]

Quake1 ....Netquake .....QuakeOne .....

[Seven]

[...] Quake3 had terrible single player [...]

Quake3 had a single player mode ? I must have overlooked that.

[Krymzon 45]

Just wondering,

Lol Spike I figured Quakeone would be the top dog answer here, I was just curious if any other members actually played any of the other Quakes more than Quakeone these days. I haven't really played Quakeworld, I mostly played Quake 3 as far as online goes or Quake live which is basically the same thing with statistics. I really didn't even play it's single player mode that is the first game I just hopped straight online with after buying.

[Spike]

you're asking this on a site with the words 'Quake One' on its banner. I suspect the answer you get will be horribly horribly biased.

But yeah, none of the above. QuakeWorld beats all, if only because of lack of competition.

Quake2 just feels laggy.
Quake3 had terrible single player, but it came out at the right sort of time for a healthy deathmatch scene.