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

pinwurm, 10 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, 10 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.

lowdownfool, 10 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).

firebat, 10 months ago

Can’t wait!

JowlesMcGee, 10 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

NotTheOnlyGamer, 10 months ago

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

snownyte, 10 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, 10 months ago

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

shiveyarbles, 10 months ago

Awesome robot frogs in HD

snownyte, 10 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.