HomeNewsQuake
Have you playedQuake? If you have you’ll, like me, probably have wondered why Episodes 2 and 3 don’t end with a boss fight. This week, former Id designer Sandy Petersen explained some of the hacks he and American McGee tried bashing together to fill those boss-shaped holes, from a tower-block sized rotter to a giant grotesque spiderthing wot would’ve chased you around the entire map.
McGee, for his part, had been working on an object scaler, and decided to test it out with a colossal undead bloke. The level would’ve had you nipping around its body, poking and prodding it like a heavily armed ant.
— Sandy Petersen (@SandyofCthulhu)October 11, 2020
To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings
Petersen’s, on the other hand, involved a scaled-up Vore that would’ve chased you throughout the level, a la the Alien inAlien: Isolation. Instead, the final chapter of Episode 2 features just one of these, regular-sized and all. Bit rubbish, that.
— Sandy Petersen (@SandyofCthulhu)October 11, 2020
To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings
As Petersen explains, these were cheaper workarounds to try and fit some interesting endings into Quake’s middle episodes. “Fans of old Quake may note that episodes 2 & 3 lack boss monsters,” Petersenlater mentioned. “McGee’s giant zombie and my own super-vore were tries to fill the gap”.
Both seem to have been scrapped for similar reasons, too, in that giant scaled-up versions of smaller enemy models actually looked a bit rubbish. Oh, well. Quake might still be an all-timer of an FPS, but we’ll just have to imagine the alternate universe where QuakeGuy becomes the lead in a bloody reboot of The Borrowers.
Besides. If Id won’t let us take on giant undead men, at least the modding community will let mefight a massive dog with a shotgun.
