/vr/ - Retro Games

im still surprised seeing how good the old Quake 2 maps are.
Azure mines is short with 2 maps but is good, the enemies doesn't fuck around, the map are simple in modern terms, like speedmaps but they feel good.

Also, playing with these old maps using the hd pack kinda confirms what carmack said once during an early quakecon tech talk, that Quake 2 idtech 2 was made with Higher resolution textures in mind, but hardware by the time when the game was released was still limited.
which he wasn't wrong, UT99 GOTY had 1k textures out of the box with S3TC but still compressed due to VGA limitations that died out in late 2000 once everyone finally got rid of 3dfx and moved on to Nvidia and ATI