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September 3, 2023
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Those bastards did it again...
Like with Quake's Dimension of the Machine, Quake 2's Call of the Machine takes everything that worked in the base game some 25+ years ago and adds said 25+ years of game development knowledge to deliver something truly special. The ultimate Quake 2 challenge. I've made it clear that with the base game I wasn't fully satisfied with my run through it. Finding it to be very dull and kind of lacking in atmosphere and thrills at points. Well, Call of the Machine made the fuck sure I was never bored in any missions and even made Quake 2's every now and then generic space marine Sci-Fi aesthetic really shine by having most levels not be brown and puke green. Which then makes the ones that are actually like that genuinely unique and unnerving now. Really I think my only problem with this is that it can maybe get a bit too chaotic at times? But you are given exactly the gear you need to succeed and all the tools needed to survive the new massive Serious Samesque encounters is right there, it's the jump button. The big enemy spawns are kind of cathartic too as there's usually a Quad or double damage laying around and bullets or to top off the god like Chaingun and Hyperblaster (my beloved...). I know if nobody got me the Quake 2 Hyperblaster got me. What a perfect video game gun.
Some really nice callbacks to Quake I missed with how fast I was blitzing through some of these levels, but there's one specific mission that may be one of the most gigabrain uses of Lovecraft in media inspired by his work. Connecting the dots had me grinning ear to ear and the ending is so mean it reverts back to hilarious. Also, one of the missions in this may actually be the best shooter Alien game since Aliens Vs Predator 2.
Glad Nightdive and id are bringing these back I never knew how much I needed these games in my life after only playing mission 1 of the first Quake on a friends laptop back in high school. Don't know if this all releasing is sign of things to come or if it is just me having massive copium for a new shiny modern Quake game. Especially with how Doom has currently kind of taken its shtick of being the fast jumping shoot game, but man I really hope we get something sick soon. This shits too cool to keep buried as an MP only Hero Shooter.
Like with Quake's Dimension of the Machine, Quake 2's Call of the Machine takes everything that worked in the base game some 25+ years ago and adds said 25+ years of game development knowledge to deliver something truly special. The ultimate Quake 2 challenge. I've made it clear that with the base game I wasn't fully satisfied with my run through it. Finding it to be very dull and kind of lacking in atmosphere and thrills at points. Well, Call of the Machine made the fuck sure I was never bored in any missions and even made Quake 2's every now and then generic space marine Sci-Fi aesthetic really shine by having most levels not be brown and puke green. Which then makes the ones that are actually like that genuinely unique and unnerving now. Really I think my only problem with this is that it can maybe get a bit too chaotic at times? But you are given exactly the gear you need to succeed and all the tools needed to survive the new massive Serious Samesque encounters is right there, it's the jump button. The big enemy spawns are kind of cathartic too as there's usually a Quad or double damage laying around and bullets or to top off the god like Chaingun and Hyperblaster (my beloved...). I know if nobody got me the Quake 2 Hyperblaster got me. What a perfect video game gun.
Some really nice callbacks to Quake I missed with how fast I was blitzing through some of these levels, but there's one specific mission that may be one of the most gigabrain uses of Lovecraft in media inspired by his work. Connecting the dots had me grinning ear to ear and the ending is so mean it reverts back to hilarious. Also, one of the missions in this may actually be the best shooter Alien game since Aliens Vs Predator 2.
Glad Nightdive and id are bringing these back I never knew how much I needed these games in my life after only playing mission 1 of the first Quake on a friends laptop back in high school. Don't know if this all releasing is sign of things to come or if it is just me having massive copium for a new shiny modern Quake game. Especially with how Doom has currently kind of taken its shtick of being the fast jumping shoot game, but man I really hope we get something sick soon. This shits too cool to keep buried as an MP only Hero Shooter.