Watch Out for Fireballs! 444: Quake (Premium)
Added 2024-07-18 21:24:18 +0000 UTCThis week we talk about Quake, the immediate and possibly ill-advised attempt to make a 3D DOOM. How does it play in comparison to it's sprite-based older brother? The only way to find out is to listen in. Maybe we'll still get to rip and tear... at least a little.
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Hey I don’t know if anyone will see this but I think this episode is missing from the podcast feed? I don’t see it in either the free or premium feeds on Overcast.
David Giza
2025-09-25 16:25:36 +0000 UTCIt was a grand experience being in the same LAN as one of the more popular early quake servers, using my totally unfair killing of people with pings 100ms worse than mine to sell people pentium pro 200s
Typhoon Jim
2024-07-23 23:40:53 +0000 UTCAs a kid growing up in the 90s, I played the holy trifecta (doom, Duke nukem 3d, quake) through many of my formative years. And quake actually influenced my life in an unexpected way. As an impressionable 12 year old who loved quake, obviously the coolest thing I could do was have my sister shave the quake symbol into my hair on the back of my head. Surely this was going to get me that popularity that had managed to elude me all these years. Imagine my confusion when my dad took this as a personal affront, claiming that (and I quote) "this was the first step to me joining a motorcycle gang and getting tattoos". He then refused to speak to me and my sister for the rest of the day. While the popularity I so desperately sought never found its way to me, I am now covered in tattoos. So my dad was kind of right, although I've still not been accepted into any motorcycle gangs yet. That might be because I can't drive a motorbike...no, more likely that I've not had the quake symbol reshaved.
Morgan Smith
2024-07-22 16:23:26 +0000 UTCQuake was the first PC game I ever owned, it took up so much space on the hard drive i had to uninstall it after every session or at least my 12 year old brain thought that I did, Always, always have a soft spot
Ronald MacDonald
2024-07-22 09:03:41 +0000 UTCShootthedog.com. So that’s why this is a premium 😂
Oceanland
2024-07-21 02:56:01 +0000 UTCYeah, I'm head over heels in love with it -GB
Duckfeed.tv
2024-07-20 17:13:09 +0000 UTCI remember playing the first dimension a hundred times as a kid as I had a shareware version. Then in college I went back and got the full thing and since then I’ll go back and play through every year or so. Doom is always the game people talk about from this generation but for me it’s always been Quake.
Joshua Hamilton
2024-07-20 12:03:15 +0000 UTCHearing “hoes mad” on this podcast filled me with such joy
Lizard
2024-07-20 05:35:06 +0000 UTCId love for you both to play Duke Nukem 3D. It's rarely talked about as a game beyond the novelty of adapting adventure game interactivity and talky protagonist to an FPS. It's mostly discussed as a cultural object due to kids/teens playing the shareware release (PC magazines aimed at adults were way cooler on it and other Build Engine games). I just played it for the first time and found it kinda baffling. People say its a satire, but it's not - at all. It might be a parody but of what? How can you parody action/comedies it references? When the novel gimmicks go away, its kinda just a middling to bad shooter. It's occasionally funny but often just shallow and devoid of creative jokes. Nice shotgun, though.
JC
2024-07-19 22:34:15 +0000 UTCCoincidentally I have been playing a lot of XCOM 2 amsince the Summer Sale and it is already an all timer game so I look forward to y’all’s talk about it.
Christopher Grunert Pedersen
2024-07-19 16:16:40 +0000 UTCIt's crazy that I never put together before that the Hellgate Cube eventually became the Soul Cube in Doom 3 in a more limited sense
Stephen Veilleux
2024-07-19 06:35:11 +0000 UTC
