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How To Play Quake 1 Like It’s 2011 (not 1999)

7 MarFeaturesGames and Gaming Features Games and Gaming





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How To Play Quake 1 Like It’s 2011 (not 1999)

Seeing this recent post on RPS got me in the mood to do some singleplayer QuakeOneing. Just thinking about it gave me a shiver of anticipation, and I could hear the shotgun pow-tch-chk, the hiss and growl and roar and the clank-wobble-boom of grenades. That was it: the itch needed scratching. As soon as I got home from work, I got to re-installing.

But if you’re anything like me, you like a little modern gloss on the old warwagon. Leave the gameplay mechanics alone, but the shiny? I like the shiny!
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The Lost Starfighter: X Wing

14 JulFeaturesGames and Gaming Features Games and Gaming Retrospectives




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The Lost Starfighter: X Wing

Hi, and welcome to The Lost Starfighter – FullGlassEmptyClip’s retrospective on that much-mourned loss to the PC gaming scene, the Space Combat Simulator.

For the first column, an intro-retrospective not about my first Space combat sim, but probably my favourite: X Wing.
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This Is A Post About Rocket Arena 3

1 JulGames and GamingRetrospectives Games and Gaming Retrospectives




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This Is A Post About Rocket Arena 3

In the beginning, id created the Engine and the Game. And the Game was without form, and void; and vanilla deathmatch was upon the face of the net. But Rocket Arena appeared in the lists of the servers. For David Wright said, Let there be frags: and there were frags. And players saw the frags, that they were pure: and RA3 divided the l33t from the llamas.

I have a deep and abiding love for Rocket Arena 3. I believe that after all these years, it remains the pinnacle of pure, unadulterated deathmatch play, stripping away everything extraneous to get to the equisite, zen-like, blood-soaked core. The perfect meld of simplicity and depth, strategy and reflex, skill and ballistics. And, my love for Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead 2 in recent times notwithstanding, RA3 remains the sweet stratospheric Everest of my long, long computer gaming career.
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