Quake 2 Remaster will be announced and released next week during QuakeCon 2023

lowdownfool, 9 months ago

This is wild. I was at the first QuakeCon, when it was called #quakecon and we were playing the Quake 1 test (aka Qtest).

NotTheOnlyGamer, 9 months ago

Huh. If it's running on a new engine, do you think John Romero could remaster Daikatana on the new engine?

snownyte, 9 months ago

There's a lot more that went wrong with Daikatana than just a new engine.

The entire game was overhyped blandness. Just Romero throwing his name out there to get attention than letting the game speak for itself.

twistedtxb, 9 months ago

That would be a massive undertaking. Daikatana is almost “broken by design”. Quake II simply needs new textures and RT

shiveyarbles, 9 months ago

Awesome robot frogs in HD

pinwurm, 9 months ago

I don’t think there’s a single piece of media that impacted more as a kid. The visuals, the gameplay, the music. Good god, the music.

A quarter century later, I work part time in music production (ghost writing, gaming OSTs, ads, etc). It feels like everything I do is trying to recreate the magic of that Quake 2 soundtrack.

Funny enough, I haven’t actually played Quake 2 since my teens. I’m not even sure if I ever beat it. So I’ll be looking forward to this.

mack123, 9 months ago

I bought the old quake II on steam, but it lacked the music. Just did not feel right without it. I am in if the music is there.

snownyte, 9 months ago

I'm probably some of the few that really didn't see what was so special about Quake II. I guess on a technological level, it's an improvement. But I didn't care for the change of environment and everything was leading towards another redundant aliens (if the Scrogg can even be called that) vs human army game.

I was hoping Quake 1 had gotten the RTX treatment and remaster.

JowlesMcGee, 9 months ago

I started playing Quake 1 for the first time a few weeks ago, and was surprised how much I enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to this remaster so I can give the second one a try

firebat, 9 months ago

Can’t wait!