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BN, do you play all these maps on your PC?

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The True-Combat Mod seems to be only for PC.

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I remember the Vogon-Pack

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A funny mod is "Western Quake"

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But Jesus H. Christmas... it boots up painfully slow now. I mean it CRAWLS. By the time it loads and airport connects, it feels like two minutes.

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I have never, ever played Quake, I don't even know the story behind it. Can somebody give me a little history. Why the name? Is it short for "EARTHQuake" or is about Quaking with fear?

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A preview included with id's very first release, 1990's Commander Keen, advertised a game entitled The Fight for Justice as a follow-up to the Keen trilogy. It would feature a character named Quake, "the strongest, most dangerous person on the continent", armed with thunderbolts and a "Ring of Regeneration." Conceived as a VGA full-color side-scrolling RPG, The Fight for Justice was never released.

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The Quake series is somewhat unusual in that its focus changes frequently: the story of Quake II has nothing to do with Quake, and Quake III Arena has little to do with either of its predecessors. This is mostly because Quake II was originally intended to be a separate franchise ("Quake II" was a tentative title), a plan which was shot down when most of the names id Software had tried to use instead were already taken.

Quake involves a Marine traveling through alternate dimensions to prevent a demonic invasion, a storyline similar to that of id's previous hit game Doom.

Quake II involves an assault on an alien planet, Stroggos, in retaliation for Strogg attacks on Earth. Most of the subsequent entries in the Quake franchise follow this storyline.

Quake III has minimal plot, but centers around the "Arena Eternal", a gladiatorial setting created by an alien race known as the Vadrigar and populated by combatants plucked from various points in time and space. Among these combatants are some characters either drawn from or based on those in Doom ("Doomguy"), Quake (Ranger, Wrack) and Quake II (Bitterman, Tank Jr., Grunt).

Quake IV picks up where Quake II left off — finishing the war between the humans and Strogg. The spin-off Enemy Territory: Quake Wars acts as a prequel to Quake II, when the Strogg first invade Earth.

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Unlike its predecessors, Q3A does not have a plot-based single-player campaign. Instead, it simulates the multiplayer experience with computer controlled players known as bots (see Bots below).

The game's story is brief - 'the greatest warriors of all time fight for the amusement of a race called the Vadrigar in the Arena Eternal.' The introduction video shows the abduction of such a warrior, Sarge, while making a last stand. Continuity with prior games in the Quake series and even Doom is maintained by the inclusion of player models related to those earlier games as well as biographical information included on characters in the manual,[23] a familiar mixture of gothic and technological map architecture and specific equipment; for example, the Quad Damage power-up, the infamous rocket launcher and the BFG super-weapon.

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The player takes the role of an unnamed soldier sent into a portal in order to stop an enemy code named "Quake". Previously, the government had been experimenting with teleportation technology, and upon development of a working prototype called a "Slipgate", this enemy has compromised the human connection with their own teleportation system, using it to insert death squads into the 'human' dimension, supposedly in order to test the martial capabilities of humanity….

Although the moniker "Quake" originally applied to the protagonist, the final story describes Quake as simply being "the enemy".[citation needed]

It should be noted, however, that by the time the game was released the specifics of the story had become relatively unimportant and somewhat disorganized.[citation needed] This is mainly due to a last-minute mix of two different game designs: lead level designer John Romero wanted to make a dark fantasy hand to hand combat/RPG hybrid game, while level designers Tim Willits and American McGee wanted to make a more futuristic, Doom-like game.[citation needed] Ultimately the Doom-like mechanics were implemented and many of the dark fantasy design elements were incorporated into the graphics and visual effects of the game.[citation needed]

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A band of rogue thalocons escapes their enclosure and begin to wreak havoc on the cloistered world of Coulternium. Can the Coulternium protectors stop this invading horde? These barbarians from hell posses a weapon even more ferocious than Quake's BFG: mild questioning of the moderators and of the Holy Doctrine of the Bible is our Real Founding Document. As Defender of the Faith it is your job to use your secret codes to keep thread spaces such as "The Fairness Doctrine is a load of crap" open and protected while destroying and locking out the Evil Threads in which ideas are vibrantly discussed and Little Napoleon moderators are dared questioned.

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Here's the game I want to design: a zombie shooter based on George A. Romero movies. Maybe even in black and white like the original "Night of the Living Dead". Just overwhelming numbers of shambling zombies... all trying to eat you.
Multiplayer online play... you start off as a regular human, but if a player gets bitten, he turns into a zombie, and has to now attack the living players.

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The objective of Killing Floor is to outlast wave after wave of mutated creatures, with each wave stronger than the last. Some are zombie-like in appearance and easy to take down, while others resemble walking meat shields that require everything in your arsenal to obliterate.

Weapons are spread around at random locations on each map, however, you can purchase items from a shop that opens between waves. Here you can stock up on armour, ammunition and the more powerful munitions, including grenades and rocket launchers. A weight system prevents players from lugging around their own personal war machine.

Doors can be welded shut and players can heal each other. It is possible to heal yourself, but at a reduced rate, so it's always beneficial for players to work together.