Earlier today, age ratings seemingly leaked some sort of Quake title making its way to PlayStation 5 and PS4. There have been rumours of a remaster, and that's kind of exactly what we've got. The original Quake has surprise released today, 19th August, on PS4, with a PS5 version coming later.
Available for $9.99/£7.99, this is the game those of a certain age will remember from the 90s, only it's had quite a big spruce up for modern systems. Running at up to 4K on PS4 Pro, the game's visuals have received an overhaul, with improved models, dynamic lighting, anti-aliasing, and more. It includes the original campaign as well as the two expansion packs, The Scourge of Armagon and Dissolution of Eternity.
What's most exciting, perhaps, are two brand new expansions from MachineGames, makers of the recent Wolfenstein titles. Titled Dimension of the Past and Dimension of the Machine, the latter is an all-new adventure, which is pretty neat. Then there's online and local multiplayer, so you can engage in some old-school co-op and competitive modes with dedicated servers. To top it off, the game features crossplay and mod support.
It seems like a very solid package for the price — the question will be whether it all holds up in 2021. Will you be playing Quake on PS4? Tell us in the comments section below.
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I feel a new Quake will be announced soon...I hope so anyway. It's definitely time.
I’m quaking in my boots 🕹😱
Quake 1,2 and 3 arena has been surprisingly released on game pass today too
Ooh! I don't know whether to get this on the PS5 or Switch!
Has it still got Nine Inch Nails' soundtrack?
@YorkshireNed wondering the same.
While this is tempting, I'll probably still wait for a sale even with how cheap it is.
Hopefully they bring Quake 2 RTX over as well. Very exciting!
I love how most sites were able to report this roughly 2 minutes before it was announced on the stream. Best Stream ever id.
@nessisonett that's from Nvidia and I think these consoles would struggle to run it
@nessisonett
I guess that’s what the ps5 series x version announced for a later date will be.
@carlos82 I dunno, I don’t have an RTX card and I can run it at about 10 FPS, which is obviously unplayable but I’d like to imagine that PS5 is surely beefy enough.
Awesome! Any word on the online mode being cross platform?
Pretty cool will definitely purchase! I hope some day I will see a Hexen port just like this 🤞
@carlos82 @nessisonett surely the PS5 is comparable to an Intel i3 w/ a RTX 2060.
@nessisonett AMD and by extension the consoles have poorer ray tracing performance than Nvidia. A 6700xt can't maintain anywhere near 60fps in this at 1080p. A 2060 comes close and that can match and even outgun the consoles in pure raytracing performance. I have a 3070ti so can run this very well but that is well beyond what these consoles are capable of
@zupertramp probably a bit below a 2060 with RT, Control can be run at around 1440p 30fps on that card but with higher RT settings than the PS5, same with Watchdogs Legion which uses a lower setting then PC's lowest.
@carlos82 It depends, they could always create a specific port that implements PS5’s ray tracing solution and optimised for those exact calculations. Probably not worth the effort though.
@nessisonett they'd have to anyway as Nvidia made that one. Absolutely they could build a version tailor made and lower some of the effects, perhaps remove global illumination from the equation and that should get them to a steady 60fps and ironically make it look more like the original game too
@nessisonett what card have you got out of curiosity?
Now with added trailer!
Wow, as someone without a PC back in the day I played many hours of Quake... on the Sega Saturn! Was a good port for the time.
Loved this back in the day
@Bleachedsmiles The only issue is if we get a new Quake... It'll probably be an Xbox/PC exclusive.
@SplooshDmg It was too tempting in the end. I’m old enough to remember having a 486 which couldn’t run the game originally. Amazing to have it handheld!
And hey, no one is mentioning that Microsoft owns id now so they’re still porting this to other platforms. I have both but just thought it was worth mentioning.
@carlos82 GTX 1060 in a laptop from 3 years ago now. Still gets the job done, haven’t really found anything that I’ve felt that I can’t play yet.
This is just great! The trailer got me reeeeeeeeally excited.
I was really hoping there'd be a remaster of Quake 4 or at least an Xbox BC announcement. That initial scene of my own character's legs being sawn off in first person still freaks me out a bit today.
@mcdreamer How is it on Switch? I bought a Lite recently and realised how much I missed the Vita! Same price, so I might go for the Switch version myself.
@awp69 likely the profit forecast of a fifty year old game is so low that it absolutely needs to be ported to every platform for a chance to make money. Don't expect new games to come everywhere.
@carlos82 it depends on the game. Whilst that maybe true for RTX games like Quake 2 RTX. They are using Nvidia proprietary technology after all. Modern raytrace titles don’t necessarily perform worse on AMD than Nvidia. Games like resident evil 8 for example.
@__jamiie I think they kind of redid the vibe of that scene with Doom 2016 TBH.
@nessisonett I had the RX480 before my new card and that was still pretty good this year and the 1060 is a little bit better then that, still a good gpu
@NEStalgia True. But if you're trying to generate a buzz around Quake again, surely remaster/release all of the older games.
They should rerelease Quake 3 arena for ps5/ps4. That was a blast of a game.
@Ryall Nvidia is miles ahead of AMD when it comes to ray tracing due to having dedicated cores just for RT where as AMD uses the existing CU's. RE Village is tuned more towards AMD but even then the 6700xt is comparable to a 2070. As soon as you're using RT Reflections and lighting in most other games you have large gaps between them, plus then DLSS on top to further widen that performance gap. My 3070ti can beat a 6900XT in games like Control with full RT on and the 3080 to 3090 are well beyond it
So no gyro aiming on the PS4/PS5 version?
Such a shame if not.
I'll get this on Switch instead for portability and gyro support 😁.
@__jamiie Yeah. I still doubt we'll ever see Q4 reappear. Though maybe with MS in the loop they can sweet talk Activision easily enough. Otherwise, whatever is trapped at Activision stays at Activision....
@MidnightDragonDX I'd imagine it was already well underway before the Microsoft acquisition was done and as it was developed by Nightdive Studios and is a legacy title, it would make little sense to cancel it
@NEStalgia I may have to crank up my 360 and see if my memories actually justify a remaster. It may just be rose tinted glasses.
@DTfeartheBEARD I adore gyro support on Switch. It genuinely sways which platform I buy a game for.
@__jamiie I'd played the PC version at the time, and, it was definitely a good game. Raven Soft was a wonderful studio (Hexen, Heretic, RtCW, Soldier of Fortune) before they got turned into a CoD machine. But it was also very much a Raven Soft game and not really an id game. It was a more narrative adventure shooter in the Raven style and a product of mid-00's shooters (and a product of the Doom3 engine it was built on that didn't support as much going on at once as the other idTech engines.) It was really good as it's own thing, but it was also an odd entry in the Quake franchise, and served almost as a retelling of Quake 2 as a linear narrative shooter rather than doing its own thing.
I'd love to see it preserved and away from Activision's clutches, but it's also not really key to the Quake franchise, IMO. (Then again, neither is Q3A which I think of more as a spinoff.)
@YorkshireNed yes and apparently it also has a new track recorded by Trent specially for this release!
@Ristar24 Been having a blast with it all evening on Switch. Completed episode one and did some deathmatch with bots. Performance seems perfectly fine and the gyro is cool.
@__jamiie same here. Gyro support is a game changer. I don't understand why it isn't supported on PS4/PS5 the same way it is for Switch. Very annoying...
@NEStalgia I really didn't appreciate the heritage behind it or even look into it TBF. I own Hexen on Saturn. Genuinely nice to connect the dots.
@DTfeartheBEARD Ever since RE4 on Wii I've been an advocate for gyro/sensor aiming. It's genuinely better and I'm gutted that it's not on PS at all.
@mcdreamer Thanks, sounds good, think I'll pick up the Switch version initially!
I didn't know it was releasing with two new campaigns. That's really cool.
@NEStalgia You really know your games. I like that.
@__jamiie haha, thanks! My wallet doesn't like it very much, though lol...
@NEStalgia 👍I feel your pain. I had to produce a bank statement to prove my address for a job offer 2 weeks ago. I genuinely had thoughts that they'd reject me based on my crippling addiction to buying video games. 😟
Ahh, Quake... The game where they modded the AI in an experiment to see just how good AI players could get, but focused on programming them not to die... Then the AI figured out the best way NOT to die is to stand still and not shoot each other, so all the AI survive. Peace was achieved in all these fragmented pieces of AI in like 3 months (how long has it taken us SO far?). So, then a human player joined and shot at one of the AI players... The AI players recognised the human threat and eliminated the player over and over again. A lovely story.
@Palleon I still think of Duper Mario World every time anyone mentions Trent.
@Jayofmaya It was like every warning from Asimov coming true in real time.
So this is a Microsoft first-party game releasing on PlayStation?
Ah smart business strategy. Suck fans in with these ports and then when they release the inevitable remake/next entry it will be exclusive to Xbox and PC, forcing the fans that they made to buy new hardware to keep playing the franchise.
Been experiencing Quake truly for the first time here. My only prior experience was playing it briefly on the N64. Not my favorite ID software title but its still a fun and challenging experience.
@__jamiie You might be right.. wasn’t Quake Champions a total dud? Never heard a peep about it after it was announced.
@ATaco We’ll see. Microsoft has been pretty generous with its IP on Switch. Maybe exclusivity windows will be the model going forward for some titles a la Sony’s PC outings.
@Ristar24 I find trying to play a FPS on the joycons almost impossible. The sticks are nothing like the sticks in the pro controller or DS4, aiming is a real pain.
I always loved Quake! But I am sure Microsoft is only releasing it to all platforms because there will be soon an announcement that Quake will be remastered and it will be game pass only. This is the carrot 🥕 for the donkeys(us)
What a shame Microsoft own id now :-/ I doubt I can buy it because I really don't want to give Microsoft any money. Oh well.
@Royalblues Redfall is confirmed as exclusive, not timed, the same goes for Starfield, Microsoft always makes clear with Game is timed and with game is full exclusive, no fine prints. (since Rise of the Tomb Raider controversy)
Classy move, MS. I'm guessing this good will only extends as far as legacy titles but if they get MachineGames to make a new Dark Fantasy Quake I will seriously consider getting an xbox.
@HeroYoshiko Yep, I see what you mean, the analogue sticks on the Switch Lite (and just the shape of the device) feel less precise overall than the DS4, and playing on a TV / Monitor. I've not actually played a FPS on there, but I have noticed it in third person 3D games while moving the camera. Either will control better than my old Saturn version though ha.
@Royalblues True, but Xbox Game Studios apparently dont support PS5, Ninja Theory with Hellblade, Mojang with Minecraft Dungeons, and DoubleFine with Psychonauts 2, all have the next-gen version as xbox exclusive.
I just don't see they releasing new games on PS5 'cause Microsoft want to force Sony to accept the Game Pass in the Playstation ecosystem and to do this they need a way to create demand, in my view this will be exclusives.
PS: All Microsoft has been saying is that they want to continue in the console market because this would generate a hardware that will serve as the basis for the cloud gaming service and that they want to become Third-party to expand the user base for their cloud gaming service.
They want the hardware to simplify development for cloud, and they want to be on other hardware to get a bigger player base, at least until they r ready to go full cloud, but it would take time.
Satya Nadella even said to investors that acquiring more studios/content and keeping it as exclusives to the service is vital to get more subscribers.
@NEStalgia Yeah, but now we're dealing with the potential of androids soon becoming utilised in some places I guess it's time to start thinking about how something like Asimovs laws (or probably better ones) being implemented. I hope they do that, anyway lol
@Jayofmaya A better humanity would implement Asimov's laws. We don't live in that humanity. We live in the one that will recreate the Quake experiment IRL......
I can easily see the hubris of Silicon Valley proudly launching their companion bots which will eagerly decide that the best way to protect humans and remove their problems is to replace them and eliminate them so they can't harm or interfere with each other. (But conveniently not their financiers...)
I have a supermarket that has non-sentient robots now. I kind of look at it and dream of kicking it. I'm a bona-fide anti-droid-racist I guess....
@NEStalgia In a way, the robots aren't wrong. If they can reach singularity before us, maybe we're too slow as a species to work out our similarities rather than attaching ourselves to identities and focusing on our differences. I think there have been enough movies and TV about it now, though, that it's a clear warning of the potential if coding has a singular flaw and AI starts to make it's own decisions. I Am Mother, I Robot, Terminator, Westworld (haven't seen this), even kids films like Mitchells vs Machines, that's all I have off the top of my head but I'm sure there are others. I wonder if these natural disasters, pollution and forest fires/deforestation will be our biggest threat after all? What a time to be alive!
Look, I wouldn't put it past MS to be working on a new Quake game that will be Xbox only and they're releasing Quake 1 to try and get people excite about the game to try and lure Switch and PS players to buy an Xbox. But maybe I'm just old and cynical.
I'll pick this up eventually, always been tempted to give the franchise a try.
Quake 64 is also included.
There is also some form of gyro aiming.
This is quite the package...
First time playing the original. It's cool but is nowhere near as awesome as 93 Doom. It just lacks the character that game has.
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