Yeah right after I posted this I remembered that was Quake 1 when he won the Farrari. His legend moved on to Quake 2 but I guess that career was too short... with that said Quake 2's career was too short, but it could never compete with the visually appealing Quake 3 which came out only two years later. I started playing Q2 a few months before Q3 and I remember how quickly the Q2 scene died after that (spent most of my time on heat.net at that time). I gave Q3 a try but if I remember correctly the demo of Q3 didn't even have strafe jumping. I was like WTF no ramp, double or strafe jumping... fuck this shit. hah.
Most people would say Thresh was the original king of Quake 2... mostly due to winning John Carmack's Ferrari. He's even in the Guinness Book of World's Records as the first pro gamer. We've all seen the demos of Thresh vs. Immortal, Billox, Ren, Angelstorm... but is that it? I've seen the same demos since I started playing Quake 2 in the 90s... I guess I'm asking.... does anyone else have any other Thresh demos? I never really found them that inspiring but maybe that's due to the fact they were done so early in Quake 2's lifespan and before some patches witch evolved the physics. Regardless I'd like to see some more from this legend.
Fuck man when I saw that logo I damn near cried. Those were Quake II's glory days. I have not played RA2 hardcore since then, just not fun anymore. If I had the time today I'd jump in
Yeah man Heat.net was awesome... it was way ahead of it's time. You can't find a better experience today. There was something about having chat lobbies that just made it so much more than just playing a game. It was a living breathing community.
I remember towards the end having to do some hacking to get in the backdoor as things started to shut down. I then heard all the l33t players used GameSpy3D and were on a little site called esreality.com
Cool. Been a long time since I played q2 so getting use to messing with my config again. Right now I've juse been using the server browser included with PRO to find games. Are there other servers I'm missing out on or anything else someone hasn't played in a long time should know?
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