Should I Get Quake III Arena.....? - http://www.mmcafe.com/ Forums

[an error occurred while processing this directive] Should I Get Quake III Arena.....? - http://www.mmcafe.com/ Forums

Original message ([an error occurred while processing this directive] Views )[an error occurred while processing this directive]

Fro Boy11

491th Post

Gold Customer

"Should I Get Quake III Arena.....?" , posted Thu 30 May 00:23

I'm trying to finish off my Dreamcast collection and I have to get a First-Person Shooter. I heard that Quake 3 Arena was good, but I'm not sure. Has anyone here played it? Better yet, does anyone here OWN it?

Can you tell me the good and bad things about this game?

While your at it, can you suggest some good games for the Dreamcast that I could get?

Replies:

tio
103th Post

Regular Customer

"Re(1):Should I Get Quake III Arena.....?" , posted Thu 30 May 04:01

quote:
I'm trying to finish off my Dreamcast collection and I have to get a First-Person Shooter. I heard that Quake 3 Arena was good, but I'm not sure. Has anyone here played it? Better yet, does anyone here OWN it?

Can you tell me the good and bad things about this game?

While your at it, can you suggest some good games for the Dreamcast that I could get?

Q3 for DC is, IMO, the second best FPS on console market. First being HALO.
It's best if you got a mouse and a keyboard to go with it, since playing it with the pad is a pain in the ass.

I've been playing quake for a while now, and when I first tried the DC Q3 with my friends on the pad, I almost got my ass whopped.
I trashtaked saying "give me mouse and keyboard, and I'll take all of you on... at the same time!"
Well, the next day I went and got the keyboard and the mouse.
Unfortunately, we played where there was no network connection, so we could only play 3 players (mouse and keyboard taking up two controller slots), so I took 2 of them at the same time.
score was 20 to 5, my win. :) I was leading 19 to 1 first, but I handycapped myself by not using any rockets or railguns.
Having keyboard+mouse makes a hell of a diffrence.

But if you're used to playing Q3 on PC, you might be a bit dissapointed. The frame rate is not bad, but not very good either. It averages out to about 30fps.
If you split screen, even less.

I've been playing Q3F for a while now (Quake 3 fortress), a Team Fortress MOD for Q3 on PC. It's great.
www.q3f.com check it out.

Tio
-----------------------------------
Guild H/H on Asuka server

Burning Ranger
208th Post

Frequent Customer

"Re(1):Should I Get Quake III Arena.....?" , posted Thu 30 May 05:33

From what I have experienced, Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament are all right, but in multi-player, they suck. Sometimes with the split screen, the performance speed is slow. If you want a DC FPS game, maybe Outtrigger would be a good choice (is it a FPS or 3rd person? I'm not sure). For Quake III, I'd go for the PC version.

Ed aka Burning Ranger
- "If you can't beat them arrange to have them beaten." -George Carlin

Bootation
69th Post

Occasional Customer

"Re(2):Should I Get Quake III Arena.....?" , posted Thu 30 May 09:18

quote:
From what I have experienced, Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament are all right, but in multi-player, they suck. Sometimes with the split screen, the performance speed is slow. If you want a DC FPS game, maybe Outtrigger would be a good choice (is it a FPS or 3rd person? I'm not sure). For Quake III, I'd go for the PC version.

Yeah dude im gonna get q3 arena for dc. i have Ut for dc and it runs sweet!!

Way better than something like goldeneye....
?
Maybe we could play each other online!

MilkManX
19th Post

New Customer

"Re(2):Should I Get Quake III Arena.....?" , posted Thu 30 May 11:05

quote:
From what I have experienced, Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament are all right, but in multi-player, they suck. Sometimes with the split screen, the performance speed is slow. If you want a DC FPS game, maybe Outtrigger would be a good choice (is it a FPS or 3rd person? I'm not sure). For Quake III, I'd go for the PC version.

I have to agree with Burning Ranger. I got Q3 for my DC after having the PC one and I couldnt take it. Outtrigger is good though.

macrossfanworks