I dl'ed the demo when the 10th anniversary of id thread showed up, and I remembered how fun it was to play. Does anyone know if it's abandonware yet or where I could get a copy from?

 

I'm not sure if you can still buy it new somewhere, but id Software definitely hasn't abandoned it. You can buy Quake 1 and 3 on their website, thought. Plus some of the versions of DOOM too.

 

Quake 2 was definitely the "slow" one of the 3.... but I thought it had better balance than the 1st....Q3 being the most techy.. and definitely the fastest gameplay....

 

i still remember back in the day when i was playing quake 1... CTF and DM ... *sigh*...that was back in the day

 

q2 wasn't that great imho..it was slow...

 

My friends and I had quite a few sessions of Team Fortress... the mods were great... and sometimes crappy...

 

Q2 had a much better rail gun than quake 3. There is a delay in quake3's rail gun that q2 doesn't have. Plus it was a one shot 1 kill weapon which made it a good tool against the rocket spammers. Plus the Q2 had he bfg.

 

Q2 was the one I played the most...although I went for more realistic shooters like SOF2 and COD, I still prefer Quake over Unreal

 

I was never a big fan of Unreal... I just didn't like the gameplay... I liked the sporting/hunt aspect of Quake... seemed like it required skill and some strategy(as much as you can in a fps) that I felt the one-shot/one-kill weapons like Unreal detracted from...

The one shot-one kill aspect of the rail gun was by no means an easy kill.... and skill was rewarded.... just my bits...