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The 26-year-old Quake 2 just got the remaster of my dreams, plus a big expansion(www.pcgamer.com)

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mandolrain@lemmy.world
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AND! They’re giving us crossplay co-op and deathmatch all for the ridiculous total price of 10$

Edit: wording

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forgotaboutlaye@kbin.social
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It’s a free upgrade on PC if you own the game on Steam. Really decent for them to go that route rather than a paid upgrade.

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leave_it_blank@lemmy.world
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It’s also free on gog if you own the original.

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mandolrain@lemmy.world
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Wow that’s sick. Unfortunately became an xbox user a couple of years back, but this means I got more games to play with my pc friends

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SuiXi3D@kbin.social
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It’s on GamePass as well, if that matters.

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wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Worth noting that the Quake 2 RTX code is on github as well. Hopefully someone enterprising will combine the two.

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Altima NEO@lemmy.zip
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Is it just the code or does it contain the game assets?

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mandolrain@lemmy.world
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Update: have now played through the campaign on nightmare with my pc friend. It was a total blast - buy the game folks!

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𝚝𝚛𝚔@aussie.zone
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I used to love Quake II, I’m definitely installing since I own it on Steam.

Lost count of the amount of time I spent playing Q3 Arena though… Damn that was sweet.

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sayitghoul@lemmy.world
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Same here. Quake 3 railgun only on TDM17. Still play it sometimes for fun. I used to be crazy good at it, not so much anymore unfortunately 😞

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Pumpkinbot@lemmy.world
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I love how it still looks chunky and low-poly. They could have made it super high res and fancy, but nah, they’re preserving the retro aesthetic.

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Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world
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Now the source is released modders will add all that and more!

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JeffCraig@citizensgaming.com
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I was half expecting it to use the same graphics as the latest quake. Pretty pleased that they went this direction.

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Geek_King@lemmy.world
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I love seeing this stuff! I really started PC gaming around 1995, but by the time Quake 2 came out, my old 75mhz Pentium Acer couldn’t keep up, so I didn’t get to play Quake 2. But it does my heart good to see these classics get loving remasters.

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Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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You needed that sweet sweet Pentium II with MMX technology.

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RagnarokOnline@reddthat.com
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Oh shit… Quake 2 CTF was my jam

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AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world
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Same here. And look how long it’s taken for grappling hooks to be reintroduced to gaming.

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brill@lemmy.world
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CTF was epic on Quake 2. Many many hours spent on my 56k.

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