/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4112503
>>4112487

Unfortunately im going to have to go with Quake and the answer is because of the much more gritty "horror movie" like presentation of it. For various reasons people have explained (feels like direct encounters, moody music, the map architecture and more dynamic environment).

However I wish we could've had more music with it. I also wish there was a better superweapon in the game... Quad+Thunder is devastating but it was also quite situational. I would've been okay with a Cluster Mine that popped a bunch of fucking grenades everywhere when it was tripped off, but you only had one of them.

Taking Silent Hill's approach would've been better in terms of music composition... in sum total the music from that game only took up like 30Mb even though it was CD quality. The trick being that it was composed much like MIDI except instead of midi instrumentation each instrument was a short 3-10 second long audio clip. Since the same kinds of tones and trail-offs were often used repeatedly.

Consider that without the cd music Quake 1 is a paltry sum (30mb?) and they could have included many more levels for the game and more music.

For example outside the normal campaign they could have had a Survival Mode that also would've been perfect for co-op or deathmatch play. Some string of like 30 maps that the designers could have poured all of their unrequited creative and devious urges into that didn't make sense for the normal campaign maps.

> just imagine if it had this... in the 4E start room you drop onto the rafters and go in the alcove, but instead of the nightmare difficulty leading back to the start room... it leads to the Survival Mode levels.

Overall as much as I like Quake (despite the goofy way the rocket launcher looks)...

I feel like it was kinda Rushed, like they just did it good enough to get it out the door.

>>3953934
>link 404'ed

jumped the gun again, now i really need the link