At point did anyone say that 1v1 was an entertaining game mode? Everyone I knew that played Quake had a blast playing either an 8 or 16 player deathmatch, or team deathmatch, or capture the flag variant in Quake (although that was a mod at the time as well).

Yes, I suspect this is the actual reason. Executives seeing Overwatch’s popularity and saying “We need that too, put it in your next game. No, we don’t care if it’s one of the most beloved franchises of all time, put it in.”

So for you, the game is fundamentally at its core boring to play, and you think the class aspect is bad, but what the hell - might as well do it anyway because it’s something new (but not really, because TF2 and plenty of others have already done it). I don’t understand why anyone would be happy with that scenario.…

Or I was hoping to see an incredibly polished up to date version of the game play that basically BUILT THE INDUSTRY. Believe it or not, there is merit to having a straight pure version of a particular style of game play, honed to perfection, available to play. I’m not saying this would necessarily be it, but it would…

Probably not. For a $4.99 DLC purchase.

Behold, the modern gamer. “Go play your old DOS game if you don’t want another franchise warped to be unrecognizable for the general public to play and spit it a few months later.” Heaven forbid we have different franchises for different styles of game play and everyone gets a periodic technology refresh on the type…

Yes, it was announced at E3 that the relaunch is now a class based arena shooter.

“New” as in integrate the game play of a mod that was made for the original Quake and then done far better by multiple studios since, including the one that owns the name of the mod now. Personally, when a game calls itself something that has a history, I don’t expect to find another franchise’s game underneith. And…

I’m well aware that the original Team Fortress was a Quake mod, but it was also one I felt no compulsion to play because I didn’t like the class aspect of it. And at this point multiple groups have done it better. I just don’t understand what possessed them to relaunch Quake with another game’s mechanics gumming up…

Why did this need classes again? It looks like they got all the gun play and physics right for a return to form... and then they decided to add a half assed Team Fortress aspect to it.

Funny how all their bugs tend to coincidentally also incentivize in-app purchases and their changes, assuming they’re actually aimed at stability improvements, all negatively affect players rather than their bottom line (i.e. renting additional hardware). I’m honestly glad at this point that the game has so little…

Yeah, when I first heard about this story yesterday I thought it was crazy people doing something like pulling trash bags out of some dumpster that would normally be used by a building or business and then filling it as is with water. That would be insanely gross with high potential for getting people sick. But it…

That doesn’t mean they won’t keep trying to do it. They clearly have shifted to a model of using the customer as a product, and making the customer pay to upgrade to an OS that views them as the product is not a good way to push it. As I said, I can’t see really any reason whatsoever to upgrade from 7 to 10 outside of…

I’ll believe it when I see it. They wanted to hit their target installs number so badly they basically turned to malware tactics. I’ll be very surprised if suddenly the deadline doesn’t expand, because if it doesn’t there’s very little reason outside games that require DX12 to even run to go and buy Windows 10 until…

To be fair, you can type nearly any character in any franchise into Google and if safe search isn’t turned on, it will eventually show up as porn. So while I understand where he’s coming from, it’s like asking fans to fence off a tiny stream to protect kids from falling in when there’s a raging river with not a…

For knowing the man is utterly in the wrong here in every action he took, you seem to have spent an awful lot of effort discussing it as though there’s something to be questioned about the kids, including continually doubting their story for no good reason.

When it comes down to it, the man should not have done literally every single thing that he did. He should not have left his house if he suspected trouble. He should not have taken his gun out with him. He should not have pointed it at the kids. He should not have stood in front of their car. He should not have…

I’m perfectly okay with it being a one off given the very impressive list of titles they managed to license for it.

There’s not really much point to continuing this conversation, as your argument continues to slant toward the idea that this data set should continue to be the standard and that there are no better automated solutions that could be implemented. The bottom line is that the distribution is not great, and the fact that…

100% sold on this. While I would have ideally liked to see a few more Mega Man games, that list is fairly representative of the classic NES titles that people think of when talking about the system. Hopefully it ends up playing the games well, but since it’s an official product I’d expect it to work at least as well…