Quake 4 gets 70% in PC Gamer US - Ouch!

Post by **Duhard** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 3:18 am

PC GAMER DID NOT REVIEW Q4 YET...REPEAT AFTER ME

Post by **Don Carlos** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 5:16 am

Just so nobody here blows a spleen or anything, here's the deal: Quake 4 is reviewed in our December issue. It's the one with Neverwinter Nights 2 on the cover. It's not actually supposed to hit newsstands until October 18th, but I guess some places have been getting it early.
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Post by **Zyte** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 9:57 am

who cares. pc gamer prolly gave halo 98%.

Post by **Grudge** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 2:10 pm

Why is the December issue out in the middle of October? That is just stupid.

Post by **o'dium** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 5:15 pm

Postal 2 got 79%

PC Gamer clearly cant be trusted.

EDIT: although they did give Riddick a 93% rating, which is good. I half expected them to give it 30%

Post by **John^Rocker** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 5:33 pm

i spent 5 years playing nonstop, so we just

spend another 5 playing this one

they rated this for fans, and 70% is only worth a lama score

Post by **chiQ** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 5:52 pm

I want to get that "play every day and *know* the servers will be populated" thing back. I used to jump on the servers as soon as I got home from work, and found my clanmates and clans I knew on there every day, without exception - there was an inevitability to the community. None of the shooters since Q3 have pushed my buttons or offered that, so I'm seriously in need of some good online carnage. I don't care about innovation, singleplayer, or originality. I just want my fragger-nation back. The review is pretty moot

Post by **MKJ** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 6:46 pm

saturn wrote:q4 = q3 updated?

hmmm....nooo, not selling my soul again

hey, you already got your MD. this is the time to enjoy

come play with us

Post by **saturn** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:58 pm

Oeloe wrote:*tampers with the Enterprise's navigation console so Captain Saturn and his ship end up in a temporal anomaly from wich it's impossible to escape, except with the help from Q3!*

lol, do Xaeros and Sarge come to the rescue and beam me up?

MKJ wrote:
saturn wrote:q4 = q3 updated?

hmmm....nooo, not selling my soul again
hey, you already got your MD. this is the time to enjoy
come play with us

heh, that was just the start

60 hours work week will drain you :]

Post by **blakjack** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 3:14 am

Grudge wrote:Why is the December issue out in the middle of October? That is just stupid.

yea it is. i once read a response to this question saying something stupid like, one of the publishers started putting out issues somewhere between every 28-30 days in an effort to beat the competitors to the newsstands. competition reacts, and we end up getting decembers issue in october.

i reckon at some stage i've seen an issue with a contest closing date that was like 2 days into the month of the issue :icon27:

Post by **MKJ** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:34 am

saturn wrote:
Oeloe wrote:*tampers with the Enterprise's navigation console so Captain Saturn and his ship end up in a temporal anomaly from wich it's impossible to escape, except with the help from Q3!*
lol, do Xaeros and Sarge come to the rescue and beam me up?

MKJ wrote:
saturn wrote:q4 = q3 updated?

hmmm....nooo, not selling my soul again
hey, you already got your MD. this is the time to enjoy
come play with us
heh, that was just the start

60 hours work week will drain you :]

and what better way to unwind than to play some clanmatches in the weekends.

Post by **saturn** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:34 pm

i bought a house, moving in next week. That will be lots of free weekends spending on painting and redecorating the house :/ Plus I have to spend time with the missus and friends I neglect during the week.

Hehehe, times are different then a few years back

Post by **MKJ** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 9:42 pm

oh you pussy, ive done all that, plus gaming. timemanagementclass :icon10:

:icon32:

Post by **Duhard** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 2:19 am

It's official, quake 4 got a rating of 70% on the december issue of pc gamer..guess chuck osborn is now officially a record setting moron..

Post by **o'dium** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:47 am

lol, proof?

http://asdfdsfasdfasdf.ytmnd.com/

Post by **o'dium** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:51 am

I just find it amazing that Raven and id so dropped the ball here... I mean lets look at that score. We all knew it was never going ot be amazing, this is raven and id here.

But, they had a few good ideas and they just did nothing with them...? The vehicles levels sounded good but the movies look very weak, and the stroggification part is a cool idea, but even that doesn't really get used to well. Some of the things I have read about it just dont make sense...?

Ahh well.

Just remember that most games get 8/10 these days, and this got 7/10. That doesn't mean its terrible, it just means its "not great, but playable".

I dont agree with HOW it got that score though. I find it crazy to say X game is amzing for having a feature, but then Y game uses it 10 seconds later and its old old old. Do they expect every new game to have new features or something? I fucking wish...

Post by **John^Rocker** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 8:18 am

the new ut games have gotta be worse

Post by **r3t** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 9:44 am

I never held any printed magazine in high regard, but this must be a new low.

Post by **ajerara** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 12:45 am

odium, I'd wait until you get the game before you get depressed, or do you trust PC gamer's reviews that much? I kinda have the feeling like I wanna see for myself.

Post by **Duhard** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 12:49 am

Well..with all the scans, pictures, demos and quakecon feedback I've seen so far, Quake 4 is a solid 85% for me and I still have to see the single player..it would have to be seriously weak to hurt q4's rating all the way down to 70%.

So, as I said on esr, Chuck Osborn is a fucking q3dm17 pseudo-newbie wannabe chump who needs more than 6 years to figure out what good deathmatching is all about.

He's just like the morons who callvote q3dm17 as soon as they join an osp 1v1 server...hopeless.

Yours truly,

The Man.

Post by **blakjack** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 12:51 am

odium make up your mind, every thread i read you change your mind, from whether its going to be good or bad, and whether you disregard review scores or it actually means id 'dropped the ball'. just wait till you get it, play it, and keep playing it if you like it. simple.

Post by **Duhard** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 12:59 am

No matter the outcome, I believe id and raven did their best to make q4 successful and I'm not gonna bash 'em even if the game sucks major cocks (which is very unlikely).

There's only one thing to understand if q4 is not as good as expected..don't fire your employees if you got a winning combo.

Paul Steed, Paul Jacquays and Adrian Carmack (and the rest who are still working at id) made Quake 3 the best deathmatch game ever and no matter who works for id from now on, it'll never be the same as when the gang was all there.

Hell, I even miss John Romero..

Post by **Dukester** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 1:58 am

you are right

still you should get your ass to the Q2 tastyspleen tourneys

Post by **saturn** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 7:05 am

MKJ wrote:oh you pussy, ive done all that, plus gaming. timemanagementclass :icon10:

:icon32:

hehe, I don't have a slackerjob like you ;-p