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Abandoned Quake 4 expansion finished by modders and now playable
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The Quake 3 demo was one of my favorite games I wasn't allowed to play as a teenager. Loved blowing people up with a rocket launcher and laser beaming with a railgun. I have no qualms about whether AI finished this, just enjoying the fact that nostalgia can be invoked more easily and cheaply than ever before. On a similar note World of Warcraft just launched "WoW Forever", a nostalgic throwback to vanilla WoW. Millions of people tried to play on the first day and for the first time ever during a major launch of WoW, everything went smoothly and players were able to log in and play without lagging out. Normally it took a few days after launch for servers to catch up to demand and allow people to actually play the game without lag or disconnections. I'm confident that AI played a major role in allowing Blizzard's team to navigate a WoW launch successfully for the first time.
Comment on Hacker News · 3 direct repliesIt wasn't a good game though. I tried it a few years ago and it felt very sluggish. Definitely not some classic worth playing now.
Comment on Hacker News · 2 direct repliesI think a cool middle-ground for the future could be that AI-based modding becomes a first-class service provided by game companies. That way, they could reasonably own the IP of mods (especially if they provided the AI services), and it'd sort of end-run around like, "oh but you just copy the game or make the game" but instead, the fundamentals are there, the platform is there, etc. Make it easy for customers to play their mods with friends, etc.
Comment on Hacker News · 1 direct repliesQuake never really did it for me but Unreal Tournament... oh yeah.
Comment on Hacker News"Play the original campaign" !remindme 74 years. https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMw_f6980a4a-d6af-4ec9-ad4f-b1...
Comment on Hacker News · 1 direct repliesFinished by AI
Comment on Hacker News · 3 direct repliesThis feels wrong... like releasing post-humous musical albums the original artist never finished or intended to finish.
Comment on Hacker News · 2 direct repliesWho knew there was a Quake 4?
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