I've only ever heard of Quake III: Arena, which is deathmatch only, IIRC.
Sorry... You can send them MY way! I loved deathmatch, probably more than
the game itself.
Ric Tibbetts
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Ok gang, this is WAY off topic. :)
Somebody convince me about something:
The Story:
The other day, I was in a local half price books, and saw a small stack
of Quake 3. Linux Edition on the shelf. All packaged up, and in nifty
silver metal boxes (cool box by the way! Probably cost more to make than
the contents!).
The best part: It was only $14.98 for a real, full factory box!
Being a vereran of Doom, Quake, and Quake II, I couldn't resist it for
that price, and grabbed one.
On the drive home, I was beset with images of long the dark corridors,
and passageways, that made up previous Quake episodes. All the
challenges along the way to the final objects: Beat they finaly warrior
that the Strogg had to offer. The path along the way was littered with
challenges, and puzzles to work out.
When I got home, I spent a couple of hours "futzing" with my box, and
with glx, and libGL, etc., trying to get that to function at a frame
rate high enough to make Quake III worth playing (a challenge on this
old box!). But after some hours of that, and finally building the utah
version, Quake III finally bloomed into life.
And there I was presented with:
A death match. And that seems to be it.
The online death matches were not my favorite part of Quake. I liked the
story line, and the whole challenge. Not just running around a couple of
rooms, shooting pointlessly at anything that moves.
Quake III looks like shelf-ware to me. Unless I've missed something very
profound in the setup.
So: Could one of you Quake III esperts please tell me: What did I miss?
Is that all there is to it now? Did Id really whimp out that badly, that
they have dumped the story line, and turned the whole thing into just a
death match? Please tell me I'm wrong!
So could somebody convince me of just what all the noise about Quake III
was all about?
If that is all there is to it, this one is going back. Even at a mere
$14.98, that's too much to pay for a cute metal box.
I guess the good news for any of you with ATI Rage Pros: Quake III will
work on it, but only with some mods to existing libraries. :)
Ok... I now return you to your regular topics. Sorry about the
digression into game land.
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