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[IbizaPocholo]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/quake-3-arena-rtx-remix-mod-demo/downloads/quake-3-arena-rtx-remix-mod-demo-v100

 

[MidGenRefresh]

This looks awful. But the game was amazing and I have so many great memories playing it.

 

[Yoshichan]

the one game that doesn't need RTX

 

[darrylgorn]

 

[John Bilbo]

Quake needs high visibility and clear visuals.

 

[Griffon]

The original game looks better than whatever the fuck they did here.

 

[Hixxy]

Hmm. Quake needs to played at high frame rates, Raytacing kills frame rates.

 

[Naked Lunch]

I completely hate the new look.

BTW - why is Quake 3 still better than 99% of multiplayer FPS today?

 

[Pedro Motta]

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

the one game that doesn't need RTX

Srsly it looks worse than the original

 

[YCoCg]

Not watched the video but let me guess, does it make everything shiny and highly reflective?

 

[MMaRsu]

Holy fuuuuk

 

[MiguelItUp]

That looks like way too much RTX and not in a good way.

 

[Sticks]

 

[analog_future]

This one looks bad, unfortunately.

 

[Trogdor1123]

That's what I was thinking too. Isn't quake supposed to be gloomy?

 

[Alexios]

Eh, yeah, not everything's meant to be glowing eye searingly. This is how it should look.

Wonderful engine, from Quake III to RTCW to Jedi Knight II to Medal of Honor, all cool.

 

[winjer]

It looks so much worse than the original. now it looks like a cheap disco.

 

[Nihilum]

This is the last game that needs remixing.
If you're playing properly and online as you should be you probably have all the textures on low and green enemy tank jr. models.

 

[Marcinkowski]

Personally, not the game for a RTX Mod.

Doom 3 on the other hand....

 

[Xyphie]

Just do a native implementation? The game engine is open source.

 

[Sticks]

Eh, yeah, not everything's meant to be glowing eye searingly. This is how it should look.

Wonderful engine, from Quake III to RTCW to Jedi Knight II to Medal of Honor, all cool.

 

[Hudo]

This proves that you cannot improve upon perfection. It looks horrible.

 

[Pakoe]

I have yet to see a 'RTX Remix' of a game that doesn't look like an absolute hot donkey fart and this proves my point.

 

[darrylgorn]

That's what I was thinking too. Isn't quake supposed to be gloomy?

Unreal RTX had similar issues.

What people don't realize is that much of the way these captures look are because of the RTX remix settings.

On this forum, you have mostly console players, so they're used to seeing screenshots of a specific visual product.

In this case, you can actually drastically change the look of the game based on how you tweak the RTX overlay.

 

[f~N_CH_1:3:3:3_SushiBoat]

I completely hate the new look.

BTW - why is Quake 3 still better than 99% of multiplayer FPS today?

They knew what they were doing back then.

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

Should have been made for a actual game like Quake 4 with a real story and actual level design instead of these basic level games.

 

[Catphish]

 

[Space Runaway]

Looks better without the RTX. In fact it makes it look cheaper...

 

[Hudo]

I have yet to see a 'RTX Remix' of a game that doesn't look like an absolute hot donkey fart and this proves my point.

Even Half-Life 2 RTX Remix is underwhelming, imho. I found that while the first impressions were positive, they absolutely did not get the lighting, and therefore the atmosphere, of certain levels right. I guess that's due to all lighting being calculated in real-time via ray tracing, whereas Valve baked some of the lighting into the levels, while other light sources remained dynamic. The worst offender being Ravenholm, which I found to be too bright in lots of places, where it's pretty dark in the original. Completely changes how the place feels. Nova Prospekt, which is one of my favorite places in Half-Life 2, had a sterile and at times clinical atmosphere, and deliberately so. And that was, in many respects, due to how Valve lit the whole place. RTX Remix' lighting has often far too many light sources with warm "yellowish" light, changing how the place feels.

 

[nkarafo]

Quake 3 is an "art direction heavy" game. More so than Quake 1 and 2. You can't just replace the original look with a realistic lighting model and call it a day. Yes, it might look more realistic but it also looks uglier at the same time.

 

[Fake]

Sigh...

 

[Buggy Loop]

Quake 2 RTX is more respectful and look way better than this.

It's not because you make mods that you have great tastes.

 

[Durin]

Eh, we've see better implementations of this, and Quake 2 RTX was better.

The weapon effects and explosions are just blown out in a horribly distracting way.

Won't lie though...that music combo'd with the floating weapons/items rotating around immediately took me back though. I miss arena shooters.

 

[Generic]

Pro players will turn off all the textures.

 

[CuteFaceJay]

Eh, yeah, not everything's meant to be glowing eye searingly. This is how it should look.

Wonderful engine, from Quake III to RTCW to Jedi Knight II to Medal of Honor, all cool.

I wish I could go back in time to play more Q3A during quakes prime days. these modern shooter games feels lonely.

 

[Spyxos]

Visibility -10

 

[P:axMagellanic]

Quake III is still a beautiful game. Timeless texture work.

 

[KeplerL2]

Real Quake players know this is what peak graphics looks like:

 

[zeomax]

We had ray traced Quake 3 in 2004

 

[Insane Metal]

Looks like utter shit.

 

[poodaddy]

We had ray traced Quake 3 in 2004

Whoever chose the music for that video should be punched my midgets in the knees until wet noises can be heard through the gas station bathroom door.

 

[AeonGaidenRaiden]

This has got to be the worst implementation of RTX Ive ever seen.

 

[SolidQ]

Quake needs to played at high frame rates, Raytacing kills frame rates.

I remember when we tried make low picmip + getting 90fps on GeForce 2 MX 400

Pro match with low graphic.

 

[eNT1TY]

ditto

 

[CrustyBritches]

Meh. Dr. Beef's Quake 3 VR port is amazing compared to this. I wish they'd officially remaster and release it to get a bit of install base going, maybe a more modern UI.

 

[JohnnyFootball]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/quake-3-arena-rtx-remix-mod-demo/downloads/quake-3-arena-rtx-remix-mod-demo-v100

This is a good reminder that not everything needs an RTX remix.

 

[videogamedude]

Looks like utter shit.

yeah, what's wrong with the original release?

I remember playing it on a GeForce2 GTX... on a 75?hZ CRT, goddamn damn it looked so good.

Why fuck with it?

 

[Cipherr]

the one game that doesn't need RTX

Yeah.... I used to play a truckton of Q3A back in the day. Lots of guild scrims setup on irc.enterthegame. Competitive play would suffer (for me anyway) with the way visibility is diminished with this sort of lighting.

 

[outsida]

Used to be addicted to Q3A more specifically the Rocket Arena Mod. This looks awful