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2014 The Year Of Quake Sp?

Posted by Shambler on 2015/01/09 21:30:04

Well I vote for it :)

Seems to be a pretty awesome year for custom maps. A few things that have stood out:

1. Community packs - with an unusual amount of support and dedicate for Jams and other such packs. Coordinating mappers seems to be like herding cats so it's great people have rallied together for cool map themes.
2. New mappers coming through with some seriously good mapping - and some retired mappers coming out of the woodwork with the odd gem. Nice to see fresh inspiration and people taking up the Quake mapping baton.
3. The variety of excellence created - from cutting edge maps pushing the very boundaries of Quake itself, like RRP, to great maps showing just what can still be done with standard textures and monsters (and a bit of help from a skybox etc), like RetroJams.

All of these show just how good Quake SP maps and mapping can be, 18 years on. Even recently I replayed a few of the years releases and I was struck by just how great there were.

Personal shoutouts to: Sock, Skacky, MFX, the Jams, Zendar, and RRP. Big up everyone else too!

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#1 posted by FifthElephant on 2015/01/09 22:27:21

Zendar and jam2_mfx are probably the best quake maps of all time.

I think these may be the pinnacle and the only way is down.

Holy Shit

#2 posted by oh, that person on 2015/01/09 22:34:25

I was about to say "People were saying the same when Marcher came out in 2005", but first I went to check the exact date...

http://celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=28271

Turns out Marcher was released exactly 10 years ago!

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