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Ranking the best vintage video games (25 years or older) (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I liked quake 2, but 1 and 3 were better

[–] avidamoeba 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I think Q2 largely started the mass multiplayer FPS gaming culture. Multiplayer was trivial to setup over LAN unlike other games at the time. It quickly exploded in LAN parties and clubs. Q3 continued in that vein and was also great.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Interesting. My experience with Quake 1 is that it was also easy to do on LAN, but also at that point, people had only been LANning for a short time in my area, so I think that's why Quake 3 & Unreal Tournament were the first to pick up a ton of steam with the masses where I lived in the rural US.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I think Q2 had the best mods and TCs though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

What were the good Q2 mods? I think I missed out on them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

AQ2 was peak.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think I ever played it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 29 minutes ago

I should say "peak for me".

It looks like there are 4 humans in servers right now, or some bot matches.

A precursor to CS.