22nd June 2024, 7:44 PM
"But Quake 1 is right there!" Indeed! Total agreement on that count! So many of us speculated, after the stunning remasters of Quake 1 and 2, that we'd be getting a new Quake game announced. I mean, it's the name of Id's own CONVENTION!
Of course, Quake 2 has absolutely no connection to Quake 1 (going for bargain basement borg instead of eldritch horrors), and Quake 3 even less connection (going for all those old Star Trek episodes where some higher power forces lesser beings to fight to the death for their amusement). Every Quake game after those visted either Quake 2 or Quake 3's setting, but we all wanted them to revisit the more imaginative setting of Quake 1.
And we are kind of getting that, only with the Doom space marine instead of the Quake ranger. Heck, as I mentioned above, I'd have loved if they made some brand new property, or even resurrected Catacombs 3D or borrowed the Heretic license from MS now that MS owns it too. I think they must be... ahem... "gunshy" after the failure of their most recent attempt to invent a new franchise with Rage. It's just a sad truth that modern massive game companies spend SO much money to make games that the people in charge refuse to take ANY risks on unknowns and want SOME assurance of success. So, while the developers are being allowed to create new game mechanics and switch up the formula, they had to exhume Doomguy from his coffin even after Eternal more or less ended his whole story, brush him off, and toss him out into the fray once again. Sheesh even his collectible toy can't get a break, running around in Smash Bros now.
Of course, Quake 2 has absolutely no connection to Quake 1 (going for bargain basement borg instead of eldritch horrors), and Quake 3 even less connection (going for all those old Star Trek episodes where some higher power forces lesser beings to fight to the death for their amusement). Every Quake game after those visted either Quake 2 or Quake 3's setting, but we all wanted them to revisit the more imaginative setting of Quake 1.
And we are kind of getting that, only with the Doom space marine instead of the Quake ranger. Heck, as I mentioned above, I'd have loved if they made some brand new property, or even resurrected Catacombs 3D or borrowed the Heretic license from MS now that MS owns it too. I think they must be... ahem... "gunshy" after the failure of their most recent attempt to invent a new franchise with Rage. It's just a sad truth that modern massive game companies spend SO much money to make games that the people in charge refuse to take ANY risks on unknowns and want SOME assurance of success. So, while the developers are being allowed to create new game mechanics and switch up the formula, they had to exhume Doomguy from his coffin even after Eternal more or less ended his whole story, brush him off, and toss him out into the fray once again. Sheesh even his collectible toy can't get a break, running around in Smash Bros now.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)