Showing posts with label QuakeCon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label QuakeCon. Show all posts

Wednesday, 6 July 2016

Do Skills Belong in a Classic arenaFPS Shooter?

Recently we got a peak at the reboot is it? of Quake 3 Arena... Quake Champions.

The footage showed us what is possibly, evidently, the use of skills in this classic shooter from 20 years ago. Needless to say people lost their shit over it.

As an old time gamer myself, here are my thoughts on all this which started to develop and unfold the more I looked into it, and so I chose to share them in hopes that people start looking from the brighter side of things rather than the cliche hating mentality that we have been (rightfully so as well most times) accustomed to hearing these last many years.

Right to it. The question is simple. Do skills belong in a classic FPS shooter?

Thursday, 31 July 2014

DOOM 2014 - QuakeCon Reveals New Classic Mechanics.


DOOM 2014 (previously named DOOM 4 and of late simply known as DOOM alone) is finally here...

Well not exactly, it's some corners away at least. Nonetheless sooner than we had hoped, since Doom 4 seemed for a long time a dead project that was sluggishly finding its way to late 2015 if that. When the teaser came out, I was excited to say the least but didn't heed much to expectations with regards to seeing it any time soon.


The teaser surely took me by surprise, news on development on the new Doom were till now elusive and covered in a haze of mystery and smoke. With the project scrapped and rebooted at least once that we know of, and id software making statements of the likes "we will reveal information on the game when we have something to reveal..." all hope of getting it any time soon seemed futile. Of course we also had the occasional "it is going to be great" comments and the tease of what it "might" include or be like. But all we could do is push back release dates in our minds and make empty speculations of what it might be like or when it would arrive.

Until now.

Doom is indeed closer than we think, and from the sounds of it, is shaping up into a great experience created around fun and plenty fan service unless I am mistaken. Fingers crossed, but the horizons look good with the latest reveals and sooner that we had hoped.