The significance of Quake

[RCBH928]

I just completed Quake 2 on 64 and had more fun than I expected
medium difficulty was pretty hard and irritating that I just completed it on easy

Can some one take us back in time and tell us why this game is so significant through videogames history?

For the most part it looks like Doom done right , a lot of the enemies are like Doom enemies, so why did this title shake videogames industry? or am I giving it more than it deserves?

[flamepanther]

Well, for a start, it was the first major FPS title I can think of that introduced full polygon-based 3D models and environments. Seems like that's pretty important, technologically. Apart from that, I think it was big because it was the next major release from ID after the insanely huge success of Doom.

[Hobie-wan]

Granted you had to run it at lower resolution, but despite being fully 3D it still ran decently on a PC at a time when 3D accelerator cards were still very expensive and not in everyone's PC.

[Breetai]

I just completed Quake 2 on 64...

That is why you do not get it... because you played it on the 64.

If you had played the original Quake when it was first released on PC, you would've been blown away. It was basically the first all polygon game. It was certainly the first well-known major fully 3D FPS game, as Flamepanther said. It was a true benchmark game at the time. Quake II took it to the next level, as was THE game to show off for graphics at the time... again, on the PC. The N64 could not compare.

[AmishSamurai]

I just completed Quake 2 on 64...

That is why you do not get it... because you played it on the 64.

If you had played the original Quake when it was first released on PC, you would've been blown away. It was basically the first all polygon game. It was certainly the first well-known major fully 3D FPS game, as Flamepanther said. It was a true benchmark game at the time. Quake II took it to the next level, as was THE game to show off for graphics at the time... again, on the PC. The N64 could not compare.

This. Even before I was really into PC gaming, or gaming period, I knew a computer that could run Quake was a big deal.

To put it into perspective, it was the Crysis of it's time.

[flamepanther]

To put it into perspective, it was the Crysis of it's time.

I sort of want to consider that an insult to Quake, in a way...

[Ack]

On top of that, while it wasn't the first FPS to have multiplayer, it helped popularize deathmatch, and a mod known as Team Fortress would start a line of successful multiplayer games. Popular multiplayer maps like 2fort got their start in Quake.

It also involved a group of well known FPS creators from the time, and as flamepanther said, it followed in the wake of Doom, helping to bolster its identification. And the engine created for it, the Quake Engine, became one of THE major game engines of its day. Its lineage has lead to the entirety of the Quake line, as well as Half-Life, Call of Duty, Red Faction, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Doom 3, Medal of Honor, Soldier of Fortune, and so on.

[AmishSamurai]

To put it into perspective, it was the Crysis of it's time.

I sort of want to consider that an insult to Quake, in a way...

I never said it was a good analogy =\

[YoshiEgg25]

To put it into perspective, it was the Crysis of it's time.

I sort of want to consider that an insult to Quake, in a way...

I never said it was a good analogy =\

Don't worry, it's nowhere near the worst analogy. That title belongs to me. Probably.

[J T]

The original also had a soundtrack by Trent Reznor which was awesome and showed an understanding for the need for game soundtracks to set appropriate ambience without overly drawing attention to themselves.

I think of it mainly as being important for being the first big competitive online FPS though.