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Re: My hottest take: Quake wasn't that great by laudablepuss 06/05/2026, 12:26pm PDT
blackwater wrote:

Everything was poo colored, and it doesn't have the perfect arcade balance of Doom, or the slick photo-realism of the games that came after. It was the awkward pimply-faced adolescent phase of first-person shooters.


Counterpoint: if you shoot a guy with the double-barrelled shotgun in the foot, his head pops off. 10/10 (the general lack of any bone structure holding guys together was pretty hilarious)
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Games that didn't age well for other than technical reasons by Nick Spaz 06/01/2026, 7:29am PDT NEW
    How did Frog Fractions not age well? by Michael Che 06/01/2026, 11:26am PDT NEW
        I played it seriously for the first time in October by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/01/2026, 7:10pm PDT NEW
    Re: Games that didn't age well for other than technical reasons by laudablepuss 06/01/2026, 11:51am PDT NEW
    Probably Wasteland by Rafiki 06/01/2026, 9:04pm PDT NEW
        None of the "what the fuck do I do now?" games aged that well by age of the hintbook 06/02/2026, 7:58pm PDT NEW
        I wish we had been able to give you a different relationship with WL by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/02/2026, 11:03pm PDT NEW
            Appreciate the offer, sir, but there's no need to send me games. NT by Rafiki 06/04/2026, 9:53pm PDT NEW
    Crazy Taxi. Not so great once you realized it was just a minor side-game in NT by GTA3 06/02/2026, 8:50am PDT NEW
        That's a good one! NT by Confused Matthew 06/02/2026, 10:10am PDT NEW
    My hottest take: Quake wasn't that great by blackwater 06/05/2026, 12:14pm PDT NEW
        Re: My hottest take: Quake wasn't that great by laudablepuss 06/05/2026, 12:26pm PDT NEW
 
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