I don't really feel like I need to introduce Quake in any sort of way. If you're interested in games and you've not at least heard of Quake then you must have been living under a rock this entire time because this is one of the big bad granddaddies of FPS games. It's basically Doom but with proper 3D which isn't really surprising since they are both made by the same people.
As fun as Quake is, and it still is a ton of fun to play even today, this game is really, REALLY ugly. The level design itself is up to the usual id standard for these kind of games at the time but the graphics are all just brown, ugly castles full of swamp water. Doom, by contrast, while still sort full of dingy corridors on space stations at least had some variation to its color palate. The levels in Doom manage to maintain some kind of visual interest while Quake just looks like you're staring into a pool of sewer water the whole time.
Complaints about the old, brown graphics aside, the core gameplay is still really fun and the game itself is a classic. You can actually get the collection of Quake games on Steam for about 5 pounds and with that there's all sorts of mods you can apply to make it look nicer/play a little better than it used to. So if for some reason you've NOT played Quake in 2019, go ahead, pick it up and give it a spin. They don't make 'em like this anymore
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