#New quake game 2015 software#
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But today's gaming landscape is vastly different, and you have to do more than just release Super Cool Game XIX or Super Cool Game Rebooted In Unity With RTX to make it stand out. It was very understandable back in 1990s, that when Super Cool Game was a success, it was logical to make Super Cool Game 2: Even Cooler, and everyone would be excited about that.

#New quake game 2015 series#

What's with the whole obsession to continue a franchise beyond all reasonable limits? Quake was never a consistent series in the first place, it's a collection of completely unrelated, albeit rather similar between each other, games that illustrate the evolution of the tech and genre more than they tell a single coherent story. A lot of people who didn't give a single solitary shit about Doom, suddenly did. consider where we were a few years ago: Doom 2016 brought in a lot of new blood because it was a good game.

#New quake game 2015 plus#

Plus a non-Doom aligned Quake reboot would do well to encourage publishers not to mush all their IPs together just because they can.Īnd if someone would care to argue that Doom is now way more recognisable and bankable and therefore has to elevate Quake by subsuming it. Why not reveal that the Quake Ranger is just the Doomguy on another one of his excursions, having travelled into another realm and encountered evil eldritch monsters in need of gibbing?īecause while Ranger had as as much personality as Doomguy in his debut (i.e.: somewhere between fuck all and none), using that character/player avatar as a vehicle to explore more dark alternate realities beyond mortal comprehension is far more interesting than having him subsumed into something that both ZeniBeth and the modern series' fanbase have annointed Biggest Mary Sue in the Entire Universe. Plus, Doomquake, cheesy as it is, would be a pretty awesome (and marketable) title. From what I gather of the Q1 universe, it's light enough on set-in-stone story but implies enough deeper lore to be quite easily assimilated into the greater canon which id has been constructing since Doom 2016 without losing its edge or distinction. If they focus in nice and hard on the dark fantasy/Lovecraftian aesthetic, making the dimension of Quake come into its own as a wild new world to get lost in, and then mix in reimagined versions of Quake's weapon and monster rosters, then in one fell swoop they will have satisfied Quake fans looking for a grand return to the setting and style of Q1 and Doom fans itching for exciting new places to visit and monsters to fight.

I think it would be a rock-solid move to make all things considered, as long as it's handled with care. Why not reveal that the Quake Ranger is just the Doomguy on another one of his excursions, having travelled into another realm and encountered evil eldritch monsters in need of gibbing?

Not everyone was crazy about those changes to the series's creative direction, sure, but I'd say it was successful enough to be worth doubling down on.

#New quake game 2015 software#

I realize this take is likely going to be pretty blasphemous (and informed in part by my not having actually played Quake yet), but if I'm id Software and Bethesda tells me it's time to make a new single-player Quake game, I think the most sensible choice to make from both a creative and business standpoint is to full-on merge Doom and Quake into each other.ĭoom Eternal just got done expanding the lore to extreme new heights and connecting a bunch of existing timelines/stories together by making its main character a dimension-hopping immortal anger pringle with the sole mission of 'wherever is demon, I shoot'.