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Quake: Enhanced (PC)

Probably my last major game of the year, we'll see. Quake was something of a mystery to me. My childhood was based on Quake 2 and so I didn't really know anything about this game. I wouldn't call it amazing, just "important" I guess. I play this and all I can think about is Quake 2 honestly.

This version of Quake includes every single expansion and DLC and I have to say while they were all decent I really hate fighting the monsters in this game. They're all annoying AF and I had to retrain my brain to realize that this game is just not easy at all never holding your hand. But I can appreciate "where it all began" and what these other retro shooter revivalists have been influenced by. And I can also see how the Serious Sam games took the shallowest elements of these games and turned them into an arcadey fuckfest.

While I appreciate the imagery and the level design, I probably shouldn't have played all these levels straight as with every succeeding expansion I felt more and more frustrated. And then the final expansion came which was the only one made fairly recently and of any seriously official note. This bastard of an expansion might as well have been its own game; it showcased quite a bit of what this old engine can do and the setpieces were a perfect blend of gothic horror and violent bloodshed. If I didn't know anything about Quake, I probably would have just wanted this final episode as it easily trumps the rest.

I don't think I'm coming back to this game in a long long time but I will keep it on for when I will have to eventually play tons of its mods. I hear they're completely different; it seems the community made maps in Quake are more akin to DOOM's own with over 200 enemies being very common and probably if released back then machines wouldn't have been able to handle so many polygons moving at once.