Quake

It was just really, really cool.

I just found it like a really fascinating game and it looked great as well running at 60 FPS and I was at the time on my Dreamcast I don't think were that many really high quality first person shooters I know we had things like Quake 3 Arena but In terms of single-player first-person shooters, there just weren't that many.

So I was quite envious of Times players, and I always remember thinking to myself, oh, I wish this was on the Dreamcast, because I didn't really have any way of getting a PS2 at the time.

So yeah, that was the one I was a little bit envious of.

I think the FPS one is a good shout, actually, Tom, because there wasn't, as you say, there's hardly any, really.

I mean, other than Quake, you've got, what, Unreal, Soldier Fortune.

You can call it an FPS.

Yeah, Rainbow Six.

is the is the other thing is if you're running something that's maintained and updated and current and and that's great.

If you're running a Quake server from like 1996, don't don't do that.

Well, you

know, I don't know.

I would I would think I mean, Quake's been open source for 20 something years.

I would hope that it's fairly secure at this point.

i don't know i don't mean a quake fork a quake variant i mean if you're running the the quake server from 1996 don't i would not do that today

Boobs? I mean, yeah.

My first impression when I played this was it was like a Quake clone.

I thought it

was Serious Sam.

It was inspired by Quake, Doom, and Serious

Sam.

The Doom part is very obvious.

Yeah.

So forget that, let's focus on the use of reloading in first-person shooters specifically.

The first few pioneers of FPS, Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein 3D, had no reloading at all.

Now you can impress all your friends at trivia night by knowing which id Software game was their first to feature reloading guns.

In Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein you could merrily tape down the fire button until you had no more ammunition, and it wasn't great for the verisimilitude, but then neither was the fact that your guns in those games always seemed to be sprouting from the centre of your chest.

Some guns you can hold that way, sure, but try it with a rocket launcher in real life and see how much of your torso you have left afterwards.

It was Duke Nukem 3D with its sensible guns, held off slightly to the side at the point of view that I remember reloading first becoming a thing in first person shooters, but only with the basic pistol, and only because otherwise there'd have been no reason to use the chaingun, because if Duke didn't have to stop every twelve shots to fiddle around with the magazine, he can pull that pistol trigger faster than a sensible person presses the subscribe button while watching Second Wind videos.

Reloading was a mechanic in GoldenEye and Outlaws, but for me personally it hit the big time with the original Half-Life.

That's the first FPS I played that had a dedicated button for reloading manually, and the fact that it was in Half-Life and the other games I mentioned but not in Doom or Quake raises the question, why was reloading thought to be necessary in one but not the other? You gotta think that when id Software were designing the contemporary guns in Doom, like the pistol and the shotgun, it might have occurred to someone that such things in real life need to be reloaded, so a decision must have been made to not have reloading.

It used to be a work-driven thing where there'd be a bunch of us that were all playing back in the day.

It was Quake, and it was Doom before that.

It was several versions of Quake, and then it was Unreal Tournament, and then it was Unreal Tournament 2004, which is kind of where I stopped after that.

I played a lot of Unreal Tournament 2004, including running my own server, my own maps, my own map selection.

I didn't actually take time building my own maps.