/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4006328
It's kind of funny to think that even the "hi-tech" stuff in Quake 1 is nowhere near the tech level you usually see in sci-fi, even in id's other games. The teleporters (or rather, slipgates, which is the best fucking name ever) are gigantic, humming behemoths that don't even work right all the time or none of this shit would have happened to begin with, computers are similarly room-filling, beeping and buzzing and "KSHH KSHH KSHH blibeep KSHH KSSH KSSH you can hear that ambient sound in your head, i know i can" monstrosities with static screens and endless meters and miles of exposed wiring and tubing, ceiling and wall panels are falling off everywhere spitting sparks and lights flicker more than they stay steady. Soldiers wear basic plate armor and cargo pants, even the Enforcers only get a gas mask and a very basic- and less effective than a shotgun- laser gun (possibly experimental), and the most powerful weapon you find is a cobbled-together hulk from the depths of some forgotten otherrealm that shoots not lasers or plasma or photons or whatever, but lightning, one of the oldest of nature's own forces of destruction and the same thing hurled at you by twenty foot faceless abominations who can draw sparks from nothingness. A fucking axe is standard equipment for a Marine.

It's an interesting style for sure- like someone took a 1950's Popular Science "This is what the future will look like!" article, and then let everything stagnate, rot and rust for about forty years or so. The UAC was advanced enough to use Hell to transport goods and build their own bases across the stars before shit hit the fan- whatever unnamed military-industrial complex Ranger was a part of barely got a few packing crates through (see: E1M2) before the Old Ones decided that shit wasn't gonna fly and started sticking their many limbs through the gates.

20 years since Quake

How are ye celebrating?