![]() ![]() Hopefully I can wait out an ID Steam sale. Next up are the two games I (shamefully) never actually played: Quake and Quake 2. I've got to say, I was completely surprised just how well Doom 2 holds up. I got it for Christmas and just finally read it last week, which then prompted me to go back and beat both Ultimate Doom and Doom II. It goes the whole way through "the Two John's" careers from Apple II programing to their eventual fallout, Red Storm's failure with Diakatana and ID fading away after Quake Arena. If you haven't read " Masters of Doom" it's a pretty facinating read. It drove the manager mad when people started released map packs of all the mods in stores and ID didn't get a cent from it. It's one of the main reasons they came up with the whole WAD structure for Doom, so that people could easy just replace the WAD file and create their own styles of games. Yea, they could have, but because Carmack and Romero came from a "hacker mentality" they absolutely refused to patent any of their tech.
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