Well what do you know I just loaded up quake 2 today and played it for the first time. I gotta say that it kicks sufficient ass. The atmoshere was more genuine and real then quake 3, and the music is just mind blowing, I think it was Nine Inch Nails that did the music and Sound Effects for all the Quake games and Doom 3. And people actually play it online. Which reminds me, why can I kick people asses in any game exept for Quake 3? I played a few games of Quake 2 and it was a matter of time before I was owning everyone in the game.

I'm willing to bet that it was probably due to the people you played with - the people still playing here (in the Netherlands) are the nutcases that seem to do nothing but play Quake 2 all day long, and they probably kept that up ever since the game was released. I'm not too shoddy a Quake-2er myself (or was actually, I'm back to noob-status now ) but the things these guys are pulling off nowadays are insane. If you can kick their asses, you're definitely the king, and you should be signing up for tournaments, there are expensive cars to be won ;]

Spawn: so you've just stipulated the worst reason ever not to like a game.. and then what?
I love the name 'Daikatana' but guess what I think of the actual game. My guess is that what you didn't like was the fact that Quake 2 wasn't the sequel you were hoping for, it could have been the best game ever made, but it still wouldn't be good enough in that respect. :]

Are you still trying to make/distill sense (out) of Kruzader's comments? Amazing. :]

See? I have no idea what this means. Am I saving the life of a sentence? Do I allow it? Maybe it was gently put? And if so, in which post does this sentence appear?

No offense mate, but questions like that pop up often when you post stuff :]
For exampe, when I saw:


I wondered: Alt(ernative) fire? Where? Not in Quake 2, surely? If it was in Q2, it must have been useless, since I never got round to discovering it existed. I'm assuming it wasn't Doom either, since that didn't even have an 'alt. dimension'. So perhaps it is in Q4, although that seems odd, because none of us can have tested the usefulness of anything in that game yet..

Add to that the fact that every post is orange, something that, just like pho's yellow, I've always understood as somewhat pompous (if so, he's certainly entitled to it ), and I end up with more question marks than I set out with.

And yes, of course I'm just pulling your leg! But I do ask myself these questions, and am always happy to see others puzzled too, since that atleast indicates that I'm not the only one being left in the dark here...

In short: Amazing! Don't let me deter you though. (since at times people see my observations and opinion as a law of some kind, for some odd reason)

Off topic? Whoops! Proceed! :]

I wouldn't say that my ponderings are of a philosophical nature (and I should know), but you do provide puzzling entertainment, that's for sure :]

What?  ME, the mighty, one of a kind Phoenix, The King of Birds, the Bird of Fire, known by many names to many cultures, feared by his foes, revered by his subjects, the universal icon of rebirth, change, purification, and chastity -  Pompous?

Actually, I kinda liked the PDA, hearkened back to System Shock 2.