I thought I'd start a poll, specifically relating to something I was thinking about the other day. Which Quake had the best single player experience? I'm talking from the perspective of a whole game, not campaign specific. So 'Scourge of Armagon' would be Quake 1, unless you specifically loved a mission pack for one game, but preferred the flow of another. But that's where you may end up going into more detail.
For me I'd say I enjoy Quake 1's single player the most. It still feels more like Doom to me than the rest of the series, which is probably why. Being a huge fan of Doom and all.
But with it's atmospheric environments to cool monster designs, I found myself enjoying Quake 1 the most. Because as much as I liked how Quake 2 was played out, it felt plastic and hollow. Like a mod, more than a full game to me. Quake 3 was just Deathmatch. So I can't really compliment the single player experience of Q3 over something like Quake, which actually had a story driven single player (even if I found myself making the story up for half of it.)
Quake 4 was okay, but it didn't really blow my mind, just felt like a shooter in space. At least Quake 2 seemed cool. But in retrospect, I could just be wearing rose tinted glasses when looking at Quake 2.
So, what is your favourite single player Quake experience? Although I am asking as a game, less on the specifics, maps and such. I encourage detail, since I'm actually quite interested on people's views.
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The other reason I started this, is because I saw several people mention that there should be more quake polls, instead of "There's a poll feature, I don't know what to write so I'll just put in the first thing that comes to my mind!"
Also, since I'm getting into Quake modding, I'll want to tailor the mods to the community for a while as I get into the swing of things. So this gives me an idea of what kind of single player maps you enjoy.
For me I'd say I enjoy Quake 1's single player the most. It still feels more like Doom to me than the rest of the series, which is probably why. Being a huge fan of Doom and all.
But with it's atmospheric environments to cool monster designs, I found myself enjoying Quake 1 the most. Because as much as I liked how Quake 2 was played out, it felt plastic and hollow. Like a mod, more than a full game to me. Quake 3 was just Deathmatch. So I can't really compliment the single player experience of Q3 over something like Quake, which actually had a story driven single player (even if I found myself making the story up for half of it.)
Quake 4 was okay, but it didn't really blow my mind, just felt like a shooter in space. At least Quake 2 seemed cool. But in retrospect, I could just be wearing rose tinted glasses when looking at Quake 2.
So, what is your favourite single player Quake experience? Although I am asking as a game, less on the specifics, maps and such. I encourage detail, since I'm actually quite interested on people's views.
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The other reason I started this, is because I saw several people mention that there should be more quake polls, instead of "There's a poll feature, I don't know what to write so I'll just put in the first thing that comes to my mind!"
Also, since I'm getting into Quake modding, I'll want to tailor the mods to the community for a while as I get into the swing of things. So this gives me an idea of what kind of single player maps you enjoy.
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