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Aspyr Media plans to publish a Macintosh version of Quake 4, the popular first person shooter, early in 2006. more

[AppleCoder]

Aspyr makes or publishes some great Mac games--I own a few--but why Quake?
I played it once in the 80's and never liked the premise, so I have not played it in ant reincarnation since--no need to, better games out there.
In fact, why not reincarnate Carmaggedon? I spent may waking hours with that game; it was the reason I kept OS 9 around for so long just to play it.

[T1mac]

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Aspyr makes or publishes some great Mac games--I own a few--but why Quake?

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Quake was the first big time online multiplayer FSP (first person shooter). If you like to "Frag" online opponents, Quake is for you. I played Q3 online for many months against both Mac and PC gamers, and the Mac version worked just fine. The only problem with Q3 is there are so many Mods and Hacks and fast twitch gamers that the casual player doesn't stand a chance. However it looks like Q4 is a worthy successor to Q3, I just hope that they included Punkbuster in Q4 to help control the cheaters.
Tmac

[RobK]

The Quake engine is also at the core of many other games. Having it ported to Mac will make things that much easier for other titles.

[Peter Cohen]

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The Quake engine is also at the core of many other games. Having it ported to Mac will make things that much easier for other titles.

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Actually, as I mentioned in the story, Quake 4 uses Doom 3's engine, which was already ported to the Mac (not coincidentally, also by Aspyr).

[neut]

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I played it once in the 80's and never liked the premise, so I have not played it in ant reincarnation since--no need to, better games out there.

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Quake was originally released in '96. Featuring a soundtrack by NIN ... i liked the original Wolfenstein and DOOM, but Quake got me hooked on the FPS format till Quake III Arena. Doom III (Demo) is ok ... i might actually buy QIV though; maybe.

peace | neut

[fultonkbd]

I've enjoyed Quake I and II very much. I still have both on my older G4 and play them when I need a quick FPS fix. Quake III was cool but I've never really gotten into the whole "fragging" party. (Anti-social maybe?) So I'm glad to see Quake 4 going back to it roots of Quake II. Maybe for Quake 5 they can go back to Quake I roots.

[djphat]

I'm a FPS gamer. And Quake III was my first FPS game that I was totally enjoying. Star Trek Elite Force was the game that I moved to after quake and have loved that even more. Quake IV is pretty good. If your not an FPS person, then no point, but this game does pickup very well from Quake III. If your good at that, you should do fine in this. Only thing though is that this WILL require a damn good system to play it. Being that they just updated on the PC side to support SMP on Quake IV. Having dual CPU's will help a bunch.
I would say at least a 1.25GHz G4 by minimum, and an ATi 9800 XT/Pro video card. You could get away with a 9700 but, they don't have any for Mac I believe. Just the 9600 and 9800. After that, an Nvidia GeForce 4, would be the top end AGP card you could get on that system, but it will be the low end of video cards. It should run it though. Better off of course with a Dual 1.45GHz or better G4, and a dual 1.8GHz G5 should be just fine. That and an ATi X600 (iMac only though) X800/50 XT, Nvidia 6600, 7800 would be best. That would be the high end of systems. I can see an iMac 1.9Ghz and 2.1GHz making the cut at 800x600 resolution. The older iMac's would be SOL for the most part. Unless they can tweak the piss out of the game.
I am happy they will bring it. I have the PC version, and I am still likely to purchase the Mac version anyway. I can then run the PC as the server or the Mac as the server, and host my clan matches on either one. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[leicaman]

Quake 3 has been out since '99 and there are still people playing that game online every day. I jump back in once in a while just to remember my favorite maps. The space ones are really the best multiplayer maps of any game I've played - except maybe COD.
I suspect I was one of about 10 people who really enjoyed the official MOD of Quake 3 from ID - Team Arena. I loved their massive maps, sticky grenades and overall gameplay. Too bad nobody else seems to be interested beyond the demo for very long. But every time I visit the servers out there - which I haven't done for a very long time, nobody human seems to be there. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif