Quake II Remaster and Getting Back into Gaming

 

Since I have pretty much broken up with Bath and Body Works and seriously curbed perfume buying and frivolous buying, it means a little more time on my hands. With my mother being out of the house yet again and I seem to be working less, I needed to fill up my time a little bit more. And that means that I can get back into playing video games.

When I was in my later teens and early 20's, I played tons of video games.When I was younger, the latest and greatest gaming console was the Super Nintendo. The games that we played was Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros and the Mario Kart game. I know that we had Star Fox but I never warmed to that game and never played with that one too much. But at that time, video game playing was very limited due to my parents. But at the time, I was still in grade school.

When we got our first PC when I was in high school, it seemed like video games seriously took off, especially the first person shooter games. At the time, Doom and the Quake series were the hot games to play. At the time, I never played Doom but was a huge Quake player. There were times in high school that I would stay up and play Quake until 2:30 in the morning and then get up at 5:30 to catch the bus. But after high school, I did play less video games because of college and less time. College left me with a whole lot less money for video games. So I dropped out of gaming for the most part. I did get the original Xbox when I dropped out of college. Even then, I was a person who played in spurts. The two games I played most often was the first Halo and Return to Castle Wolfenstein. But then again, life got in the way and I didn't play video games. But now, I have some more free time to play video games and that leaves me to Quake II.

So back in the day, Quake II seemed to be the biggest game for a while. When I found out that Quake II was being remastered and released, I held off on getting it but eventually I did get it. I started playing it this past week to see what it was all about. I wanted to see that they changed and what remained the same. The basic premise and general lay out has remained the same. What surprised me the most are the Strogg. The Strogg never chased me before when I would be getting more ammunition due to getting low nor did they jump up or down either. The attacks of the Strogg are different in general too.The Strogg seem to take a little longer to kill and they don't seem to be in the same spots like I remember. I remember being able to trigger more Strogg infighting and I am not really able to do that. Being able to trigger Strogg infighting was a great way to take down some Strogg when you were really low on ammo. So they probably did change the layout of the where the Strogg actually are in this one. I am currently on the Big Gun level and I do not remember ever being a tank on this level. It feels like the vibe is just off with this remaster. I just can't explain on how it feels off but it does.

I did have to look for the Dopefish in Quake II and I was a little disappointed with the remastered version. The picture is the original Dopefish in Quake II and the other is what the Dopefish fish pretty much looks like in the remastered version, even though the second picture is from Quake I. I will admit that I do like to look for Easter eggs in video games.

Let's just say that I am not a huge fan of the remaster right now. For right now, I am committed to finishing the game, especially since I am at the Big Gun level. I will see if I really start to.enjoy it when I get to the Research Lab level.