In my opinion Quake is sitting at sunset, a sunset that took a very long time but it's here. (One opinion, it may be wrong or even worse a set up (!), but that's a story for another day ...)
Will the sun rise tomorrow -- perhaps --- but let's enjoy and reflect on the very long day we have enjoyed thus far.
And before the end of this age comes and goes ...
Who is the best Quake (NetQuake) you have ever seen at each of the following games/pursuits:
1) CRMOD - Team Deathmatch
2) CRMOD - One on One Deathmatch
3) CTF
4) Clan Arena
5) Rocket Arena
6) RuneQuake
7) Generally rocket jumping and grenade jumping
8 ) Slide!
9) Single Player/Coop - not speed running
10) Single Player, speed running
11) Creative Engine coding. Yes, it's a game.
12) Conservative Engine coding. Yes it's a game.
13) QuakeC. Yes it's a game.
14) Mapping. Yes it's a game.
15) Tool development. It's a game.
16) Web portal. Yes it's a game.
My list ...
1) Team DM - not my fav. Can't assess.
2) 1 vs. 1 - not my thing. Can't assess.
3) CTF - Bosh? I never could get into CTF.
4) Clan Arena. --- It's fucking Omicron easily. I was on his team once in a 6 on 6, killed one dude and died. He slaughtered the other 5.
5) Rocket Arena. --- It's Monster and it isn't even close. What a fuck face! I'm glad he doesn't hang around any more!
6) Rune Quake. It's Slot Zero by a land slide.
7) Rocket Jumping. Either TurtleVan, Phenom or Frenzy. Hard to say.
8 ) Slide. It's fucking Mindzfield then Frenzy.
9) Probably Turtlevan.
10) A slightly ignorant vote for Joszef Slontai, the author of JoeQuake and holder of many SDA records, but I imagine the SDA guys would disagree the same way the guys in the NFL probably really know who is "the best".
11) Engine coding: LordHavoc followed closely by Spike. MH and metlslime
12) Conservative engine coding: MH. Then some Baker dude.
13) QuakeC -- It's R00k by a landslide.
14) Mapping. It's ijed followed by Necros, Tronyn and then Sock (and Sock is closing in hard on the World Championship. Honorable mention to distrans/scragbait for Travail.
15) Tool development. Hmmm. Ben Jardrup followed by Tyrann and then ericw and MH (MH wasn't really trying). If map editors count, Sleepwalker fits in there somewhere obv.
16) Web portal? Should Solecord win for QuakeOne.com or Spirit win for Quaddicted? QuakeOne.com gets more traffic than any Quake site by a mega landslide. But Spirit runs Quaddicted and manages to evolve it and I'm not sure he even knows HTML.
Solecord knew HTML when he was born and mastered PHP by 2nd grade.
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