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I just want to add some thoughts about one of the greatest games ever just behind pacman and giana sisters. Sure you know what Im talking about
yeah right its our lovely Quake. But in former times there was a real quake concerning the Quake community. I think it was in 1999 when id software released the third part of the Quake trilogy and that date called in the death of the Quake 2 community in many countries. Sure there are still a few crazy oldies around the left servers across europe but the times of connecting to a server at 6.00 a.m. and having some fun before school starts are definetely over and gone. So the question was and still is: Why the hell Quake 3 is played more than Quake 2 is it a better game?
It is clear that I am answering the question under Quake 2 player view. A Quake 3 player and lover would have given some other answer.
Quake 3
the colored brother of Quake 1. More speed, faster weapon switches, easier to handle railgun and some fast rockets and grenades. Thats all? But are that the reasons to be a good or better game than Quake 2?
Sure it may be funny to hit the opponent 32567 times in a row with the railgun. Sure it makes sense to boost up the starting health to 125 hps to avoid spawn-raping but by the fast weapon switch and the every hit problem of the railgun it doesnt even matter whether I die from the first slug in my face or by the following machine gun shots half a second later. Funny game! Ok, the rocket speed is pretty good and some ppl would say it should be adapted to Quake 2. More speed to Quake 2? Quake 2 is in some ways a very tactical and strategical multiplayer game even more than its brother Quake 3 or some other genre games like the Half Life mod Counterstrike. Quake 2s gameplay is not based on speed only but on good teamplay on nearly all maps. I just remember an interview with an oldie of the worlds Quake 2 scene comparing Quake 2 to Quake 3 his name: Makaveli. He just started to play Quake 3 and one of his main points was the very bad level design in Quake 3 that kills the teamplay. In his eyes the game had not such a great potential to become a real teamplay multiplayer game only due the lack of cleverness concerning the level design. He said that in an interview with the CPL headadmin in 1999 and he said that about a only multiplayer game! So welcome to Quake 3 Arena.
cheers&greetz
manu"
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Ofcourse q2 all the way, tho im focusing on q3 atm 
Since my clan aint muchactive, im helping the q3 squad with some serious buttkicking 
But well, we will be back by autumn ! 
