[ut3] hey

Clayton wellsfrago at gmail.com
Wed Sep 8 01:01:17 EDT 2010


I am very entertained that I started this stupid flare up


On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:31 PM, David Ellis <isv.damocles at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was in high school at the time of the Quake 3 vs Unreal Tournament war. I
> always thought the "war" was an example of tribalism mixed with nerd rage,
> and personally enjoyed both games for different reasons. Unreal Tournament
> had much more "style" than Quake 3, both in level design and weapon design.
> People bitched about UT's weapons, but I considered them a bit more
> realistic [direct hit with a rocket usually meant death, so did point-blank
> molten scrap {flak cannon}]. Most of the weapons in UT could kill quite
> quickly, but they all required different play styles, which made it much
> more fun for a diverse group of friends in a LAN party (especially
> considering all of the awesome team modes in UT, easier to just shout
> something to a friend rather than keybind statements that you need to think
> of in advance and they might not read, anyways).
>
> Quake 3 felt more "competitive", though. The levels were designed to keep
> the action frantic for their recommended number of players, and the weapons'
> behavior was warped to better fit a concept of balance which was wholly
> unrealistic (if you could fire a ball of plasma, it should pretty much kill
> you instantly, for instance), but it sure was fun to "juggle" foes in the
> air with rocket blasts, or travel impossible distances with rocket jumping,
> plasma climbing, or with just the plain strafe-momentum bug/feature. The
> Quake 3 trick videos are still fun to watch from a "how the hell did he do
> that?" perspective.
>
> TL;DR - Q3A was all about tricks and competition, UT was all about fun at
> LAN parties. People who chose one over the other were lame for limiting
> themselves just to "belong" to one side or another.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Richard GrosJean <
> richard.grosjean at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I´m glad someone got the old "quake vs unreal fanboy war" reference,
>> though I must admit I was too young to partake in it at the time... Is
>> it highly exaggerated due to some twisted sense of nostalgia or was it
>> actually that bloody?
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Zato-2 <zato.two at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>Just play Quake already, everyone knows its a much better game anyway.
>> >
>> > Obvious troll is obvious.
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