Quake 4 is pretty old school FPS gameplay wise. I think thats what I don't like about it above all. It just hasn't gotten past the simplistic point and shoot games that all doom, quake and unreal tournament games were.
The graphics feel kind of old too somehow, despite the tech, and even on a fairly high spec system with the texture quality turned up, the textures tend to look low res. typical of games done with ID's new engine.
If you like old school FPS with narrow gameplay and simplistic AI, I imagine you will really like quake 4.
I started playing Far Cry again with HDR turned on, and it's a much better game now that I have a modern vid card and it all runs smooth. Quake 4 just feels like quake 2 to me, I got bored about 4 corridors into the game and a couple of hours later decided to play something else.
Oh, I also find heavy swearing in games offensive and Inappropriate unless used in moderation to emphasis a point. I always remember the old starwars arcade machine where you first see the deathstar someone shouts "look at the size of that thing!!!!" Still seems cool somehow today, and in my opinion more fun than a WTF! or whatever they might use today for the same effect.
I think the real problem with Quake 4 is that there are just too many mediocre FPS games, and people expect more than the same game with fancier graphics.
I much prefer Far Cry, Rid@#!*, and Fear to the othe SP FPS game that have come out in the last couple of years. Even HL2 was only so and so despite the heavy use of physics.
The graphics feel kind of old too somehow, despite the tech, and even on a fairly high spec system with the texture quality turned up, the textures tend to look low res. typical of games done with ID's new engine.
If you like old school FPS with narrow gameplay and simplistic AI, I imagine you will really like quake 4.
I started playing Far Cry again with HDR turned on, and it's a much better game now that I have a modern vid card and it all runs smooth. Quake 4 just feels like quake 2 to me, I got bored about 4 corridors into the game and a couple of hours later decided to play something else.
Oh, I also find heavy swearing in games offensive and Inappropriate unless used in moderation to emphasis a point. I always remember the old starwars arcade machine where you first see the deathstar someone shouts "look at the size of that thing!!!!" Still seems cool somehow today, and in my opinion more fun than a WTF! or whatever they might use today for the same effect.
I think the real problem with Quake 4 is that there are just too many mediocre FPS games, and people expect more than the same game with fancier graphics.
I much prefer Far Cry, Rid@#!*, and Fear to the othe SP FPS game that have come out in the last couple of years. Even HL2 was only so and so despite the heavy use of physics.