Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20180827202615/@comment-1496755-20190722194549

Almost done, I should be back to my regular schedule soon. Miss me yet? :P

I use whatever little free time I have for a noble cause, though - I filled a few gaps in my Quake collections, most notably the shareware 0.91 and 1.00, and the registered 1.01 release. The 0.91 one is interesting due to being the first official release, and nearly all the changes that differentiate the final game from Beta3 are already in there... though some things are still like the Beta (the menu order, most notably). As for the full 1.01 - I mostly wanted it for historical purposes, but also because I can patch it. This surely sounds weird but it always annoyed me that I can't use the official 1.06 Quake patch because I've always had the 1.06 release, which doesn't need it. And installing/patching a game is a part of my overall experience/enjoyment with it, I felt like I missed something. I expected a long and complicated process (like the patches for Doom) and was surprised by how simple it turned out to be. Oh well... still, id Software's simplest patch is the one for Quake 2 - you just unzip it and manually copy-paste the files over the the game's folder.

Indeed, many games are power fantasies, which is why they are so efficient for therapy. A nice cure for low self-esteem and depression. But being overpowered could have the opposite effect - it tears the thin veil of suspension of disbelief. At one point you become all too aware of how fake it all is.

More quaking? Perhaps we will have some opportunities around the end of this month. I'll do my best to make it happen ;)

P.S. I could only find Quake Shareware 0.92 as a patch. It seems they didn't do a real release for this one.