@lina @VIPPER I'm sure the soundtrack sucked. I don't think I even ever played Quake with the soundtrack, due to how stupid the licensing was. Even if you owned the game legit you had to have the CD in the drive to play the music. But there's more to a game than a soundtrack.

id was coasting on its history with everything it made after Quake 3. Quake was a genuinely good game and an obvious technical improvement over Doom, and I still fondly remember playing all the mods of map-learning bots in custom maps resembling the map maker's office building, or Archon-like maps (chess with combat to decide which piece wins), or superhero maps, or prison-escape maps, or RPG maps with melee weapons. Quake had treasures forgotten to time: a practically hackable and extensible game, and game that's also a very approachable game development engine. You only get glimpses of this anymore with Bethesda games.