ID Software vs. Epic Games

[cyberfluxor]

So, back in the 90's and into today what is the series of choice: Unreal or Quake. I'm refurring mainly to the older of the series i.e. Unreal Gold and Quake 2 but of course feel free to venture off from there.

Personally I use to love the Quake series from the first to Arena. I played the hell out of it and would connect IP to others and have all out braws. Towards the middle of 2003 I stumbled across the Unreal Gold game for a few dollars at an EB Games. I figured whatever and decided to buy it not realising I'd get hooked. Slowly my favoritism towards the ID games moved to Unreal and it's future games. It's somewhat funny because it was around this time when I also decided to start buying PC games that were dirt cheap just to check them out whereas before I'd just reject it as an older game (this was a little while after I dove into the classic console game market too).

[theshizzle3000]

Its hard to say, but Id is responsible for giving us Doom and damn thats a classic game.

[jajaja]

Between Unreal and Quake i played Unreal. For some reason i've never been a fan of Quake, guess i havnt gotten into it. I played Quake 1 just a few days ago actually hehe.

I played Doom 2 alot! That game still owns!

[Kitsune Sniper]

I tried Unreal and didn't like it so much. But I've been playing Quake II and its expansions quite a bit... they're great to blow off steam.

[skaar]

I actually don't tend to link Epic Megagames and Unreal in my mind - every once in awhile I have the realization that is what happened to them. Back when shareware didn't mean adware, they had some awesome demos.

What happened to 3d realms?

[neuropolitique]

Unreal. I got real big into FPSs when Unreal Tournament and Quake III Arena were recently released. Unreal consumed my soul, Quake not so much. I always had issues with the quake engine. I tended to un-intentionally run off ledges and such. Unreal I never had that problem.