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Quake Champions

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Riding the hype train of waiting for a release: Ranger (Q1!), Anarki (Q3 Arena Lord!) and some girl fighter - mixture of a Slash, Mynx, Daemia etc.
Well, first it started with testing my skill of drawing women body, and then turned to dzen-drawing of parallel/crossed lines with 4 pens (black/blue/red/green) with final pencil sketching.
Personally, I consider quake1 and quake2 different games, that are in serie by name only. Like old Prey and new Prey (I'd like to see what could have happend with Human Head Studio's Prey2).
So, quake3 was something of a id Softwaffe Multiverse, the Vadrigari Valhalla, and while being Arena game, it still had very simple, "karmaki porno", plot: you were introduced to arena by crash, taught by Sarge, and finally spaced by Xaero. So, every character there had their lines, their small history, like Hunter and Sorlag hatred; Wrack being lost in the Arena; Klesk experiencing loud silence of missing voice of We, his all race, slowly replacing by the voices of Vadrigari telling to kill everyone... And so on, so on. There was a joke:
"Doomer was slaughtering the Hell. 1st lap, 2nd lap, 3rd lap... 7th lap, he's finished, every demon is killed, he appears in Paradise. Angels come around him - "Hey, Doomguy, you're so great, no demons, glory to you!". Doomguy, watching this, swithes on chainssaw: "The 8th Lap!""
So, these warriors are lost in their battles, that's their personal hell - they can't stop no more, like Sarge's intro. Or maybe Vadrigari have taken their projection with body and certain state of mind, so these are trapped in ethernal respawn cycle, and Xaero like no one knows this, like budhist dressed guy :)
And this is very much like Q1, which was very Lovecraftish, with brilliant OST by NIN - and not even first, menu track, but the others, with crazy ambient, with whispers, probably, those that talked with Klesk after all. For Q2 we had Q4, QW:ET, and I'd love to return to Q1 Universe, to have brutal gameplay in environment of Clive Barker's Undying or Call of Chtulhu or Magrunner: Dark Pulse. Like Doom3. But with Chtulhu instead of Hell. :)
Also Q3 with all these characters marked the history and potential plots for another games: another dimensions of Q1, Strogg war of Q2, distopia cyberpunk streets of future Earth, interstellar travels with pirates and so on, just read the bio and phrases of chars.
Well, so, I like Quake 3, like Quake Live, and probably I will like Quake Champions. But still I'd like to have some story behind. :)
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