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The more I think about this, the more I really, really feel like this should be a Quake game.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tk8lkmYGWQ

Set somewhere between the Slayer's descent to hell after Doom 64 and the events of Doom 2016, apparently.

There's a chainsaw shield.

Yeah it's pretty sad that there is content, even entire games that are completely lost. I recently found out about a part of Silent Hill Play Novel, the GBA visual novel version of the PS1 original, It had two paths on the cartridge itself, Harry Mason's being a retelling of the original game, and Cybil Bennett's a new viewpoint on those events, and available through a cellphone connected download was "A boy's story" that is mostly unknown other than it was split into four parts, corresponding to the seasons.

Ranger's random musings.  I took his quotes from Quake Champions and, er... completed them.  



"You bastards!  Why are you torturing me like this?  I'm still waiting for my damned sequel!"

"This operation is falling apart.... kind of like my clothes after 20 years in the field."

"Kickin' a man when he's down?  That's pretty low.  I mean, it has to be.  He's literally on the ground."

"I need to find a slipgate out of this place.  To another place.  That I'll be in."

"When you've been here this long, nothing and everything makes sense.  Kind of like my voice lines."

"Too painful to be a dream.  Too real to be a nightmare.  Too broke to afford a chiropractor."

"Slipgates are closed.  Gotta find another way home.  Maybe I can hitchhike."

"Maybe my kingdom's finally come.  I need a better real estate agent."

"Sometimes the world doesn't need another hero.  It needs a Monster." *Pulls pop top and chugs*

"Surrender is not an option.  I checked the brochure."

"Too much going on in my head.  Can't focus.  Damned kids and their Rick Rolls."

"Where have the portals taken me now?  GlaDOS?  Long time no see!"

"Lord give me strength.  I'm fresh out of steroids."

"I seem them... all around us.  Tentacles and teeth, within and beneath.  Is this Japan?"

"Spent 20 years trying to get out.  Not giving up now!  Damn this zipper!"

"Been trying to get out 20 years... Not giving up now.  Is there an echo in here?"

"I ain't got time to bleed.  No... actually I can't duck."

"Surviving... One day at a time.  Like everyone else."

"All these places are starting to bleed together.  Did they merge the .bsp's?"

"'Put your back into it!' Coach always said.  I don't think he meant wall spikes."

"'Put your back into it' Sarge always said.  Thought I ditched that guy when I graduated."

"You can't keep me from getting home.  I'm not allowed out after dark."

"Let's go you sons of bitches.  God I hate walking the dogs."

"Your friends are going to have a hard time peeling you off the wall." *Throws another banana*

"Operation is running smooth as silk.  Now for the funnybone..."

"Operation is runnin' smooth.  God I love the sound of my voice."

"Everything is good to go.  Shop Smart, shop S-Mart."

"Proud to serve.  I still don't like tennis though."

"When you're 20 feet all and throwing lightning, then you can face me.  If you can get through the doorway."

"Stay down, you disgraced yourself enough.  I told you not to beg at the table."

"You disgraced yourself enough.  Stay down this time.  No, that's not a euphemism."

"Makin' momma proud.  I folded the laundry all by myself."

"No no no you SHOOT with it!  That's not a euphemism either!"

"I love the smell of gunpowder!  I just did 3 lines.  What do you mean, 'cancer'?"

"Ranger reporting!  Call me a snitch again, I dare you..."

"I know a good slipgate to shove you in.  #5 over there is trippy."

"I've been killing Monsters for ages.  Beats using White Claws**."

"I've seen some shit.  I'm ready for anything.  Like new underwear.  Seriously, it's been 20 years on the same pair."

"Time to get back in action.  I mean, Duke got a sequel..."


**Let me know if you get this reference.

I'm all for preserving old games, whatever their original form of distribution was. 

I know we're mostly about PC-related matters here, but I really dig cool game preservation stories and feel like this kind of thing is worth sharing.

In brief: The Broadcast Satellaview was an add-on device for the Japanese Super Famicom that allowed subscribers to download games via satellite and save them on a form of flash media. Most of this data would be overwritten or otherwise lost before the ROM data could be dumped. This includes the specific subject here, BS F-Zero Grand Prix, specifically its second iteration, which is so almost certainly lost that the F-Zero community has a $5000 bounty on a working, dumpable cartridge of GP2.

But you can't stop a determined group from figuring out something, and something was figured out. Japanese console players have a history of recording gameplay that long predates the existence of services like YouTube and Twitch, and one such player happened to still have their VHS recordings of this game. They were uploaded to YT about five years ago. Someone eventually created tools that could do something with these recordings with a high level of accuracy, and the work started.

It is now as restored as it will ever be without the original ROM data, and it is fully playable.

And I just think that's neat.

A more detailed video on this game's history and the process of restoring its content can be found here.

Well to be fair to Romero it's not like the development of quake was some smooth process the only difference is Quake was dumbed down so there was less to screw up.

[I personally approve all registrants.]

With the increasing prevalence of bots and now AI getting into the mix, I wanted to make a note to anyone wanting to register on the forums about how the process works:

I personally approve all registrants.

That means I'm going to look at your user name, email address, and pull a geolocation on your IP address.  If you look like a bot, script, AI, or paid corporate data mining drone trying to register you'll get rejected.  This is not meant to block legitimate users, but to protect users from the crap that's out on the web causing problems.  A few tips on how to not get caught up in the rejection process:

1.  Be mindful of your user name.  If it's something generic like FirstnameNastname and especially if your email address is similar that's a pretty dead giveaway you're not here to talk about Generations, Id titles, or games in general.  That's typical lazy bot registration behavior.

Better idea:  Use something that's a gamer handle or something related to Quake.  We can always change it later if you don't like it.

2.  Your email address matters.  Yes, I know everyone uses gmail.  That means scammers/spammers use gmail.  The same with aol, yahoo, etc.  Again, if it's something overly generic looking or smacks of spam bot I'm probably going to not let it through.  If it's the same as your username in some way and the username already looks bad, that's a hard fail.

Better idea:  I know this is a tough one because people get attached to their email address, but use something that stands out that looks like you created it.  Same rule applies as with your user name.  If you want to just use a free email service to create a burner account and we can change your desired email after the fact.  It just takes one PM to me once you're active on the boards.

3.  Where you live matters.  I don't want to deny a potential gamer a voice here, and Wirehead does not discriminate when it comes to any gamer's ethnic or cultural background, but let's face it:  Sometimes your country's government and/or business practices really suck and that has to be taken into account.  If it looks like a residential IP that's not going to raise many flags in and of itself, but if an IP originates somewhere in a country known for having a repressive government or allowing internet scammers to run rampant that's a factor.

I cannot provide more specific examples of what makes a good registration without feeding the spam bots but let's face it - if you're here because you love Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein-3D, or the like you'll know what to do after reading this.  Any potential bad actors reading this... take note.  It's not worth your time, there's no money to be made here, and you need to find an honest and honorable line of work.  I'm going to protect the legitimate users and you're going to lose.  Every.  Single.  Time.

Sorry I had to post this but for the legitimate gamers out there, I feel you have a right to know that there is a real breathing flesh-and-blood being making these decisions, and that being can and will make mistakes from time to time.  If you register and your attempt does not get approved *PLEASE* re-register based on the above guidelines as soon as possible and you'll have a voice here.  Also, remember that registration on the message board is not necessary to download and play Generations Arena - only to discuss things on the forum.

The weird thing about Daikatana is that there's actually a competent game in there somewhere. The multiplayer is apparently fantastic, and there's a community that's spent a decent chunk of the last 24 years doing what it can to make the single-player... well, playable... without destroying the core of the game. And for the most part, it's succeeded; the result isn't incredible, but it's serviceable (when it isn't crashing because lol running an early 2000's game on modern Windows without problems).

The Gameboy Color version is also one of the better games on the handheld that nobody talks about, because barely anyone knows about it. It's a top-down action-adventure game! That was done at Romero's request, apparently.

Since we're on the subject of not beating games for seemingly far too long... I only somewhat recently played all the way through both (Ultimate) Doom and Doom II. And I've never actually finished a full playthrough of Quake 2.

I'm surprisingly bad at finishing games, even some of the ones I'll say are favorites, heh.