Quake II Intro - Watch In HD
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- Опубликовано: 10 янв 2009
- Intro to id Software's PC game Quake II.. released December 9, 1997. Initially had thoughts of totally remastering the video taken directly from the orignal game cd. But, other than raising the resolution for RUclips, decided to leave it untouched for nostalgic reasons.
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Almost 20 years later and it STILL gives me chills.
Me too.
Exactly my reaction.
Me too
Even after 20 fucking years, I'm still no-lifeing the hell out it.
I remember the first time I booted it up. The only time I’ve ever watched an intro. 3:18 was the icing. Great piece of memorabilia. Brings me right back.
23 years later and we still don't have the isolated music track.
Someone should make it
m.ruclips.net/video/a1Sqt8oLEoY/видео.html
I remember putting the game disc into my Walkman 🎧 and listening to the soundtrack on the way to school.
Some kid on the bus tried to poke fun at me for listening to instrumental music. I just laughed, at em
it exists becuase it was used in a history of quake video, but i think the file is buried in ID softwares basement by now
This scene has to be the most thrilling and terrifying start to a video game ever. The idea of aliens that are essentially humanoids that have turned themselves into cyborg-zombie freaks coming to earth and wrecking us to the point that entire continents are rendered uninhabitable and unrecognizable is terrifying in it of itself, but this scene that we get to see just shows how horrific these guys are. The visuals of the planet being a barren wasteland with a ominously dark sky and a blood red horizon coupled with some of the most intensely eerie music I’ve heard in a while, not even to mention the hectic dialogue between command and Bitterman and the frantic screeching from most of the drop marines plummeting to their death or being slaughtered upon landing by these mangled-steel-ridden rotting bags of formerly humanoid flesh adds to the aesthetic of this game. An alien race that’s so different from what you’d expect from alien threats, and one that’s unlikely to be matched in brutality and overall uniqueness. Quake II might not have too many ties to the original Quake, switching over to the gothic space-Viking-fantasy design to the future-military style, the dark visuals and monstrous Strogg make sure that Quake II has kept this series’ dark aesthetic for around 2 decades.
It's actually somewhat sad that most people write off the backstory of Quake II as being rather bland, because between the Quake 2 manual, the installation screen, and this introduction, there is one hell of mythos. I'd actually love to see someone do a fo-documentary about the Strogg invasion of Earth and the retaliatory assault.
The Strogg invaded with some ruthless brutality, combining incredible technology with some of the most primitive and brutal weapons they could forge.
Earth managed to drive them off and secure the Sol-side gateway/wormhole that lead to the Strogg home system. Either during the war on Earth or immediately following humanities fight to push the Strogg off, the Earth united and built the Phobos and the Deimos. Two HUGE warships that carried all of the marines, munitions, and auxiliary craft with one goal in mind. Punish the Strogg, destroy their capital city, and eliminate their means of making war ever again.
OpenMawProductions I’ve considered the idea of collecting the lore of the Quake series and doing a video involving the invasion, but I just don’t have the means right now.
As for their brutality, the scope of the destruction is right in the intro. It even said “after the recall from what was once known as Europe.”
Nick The Undying oh pls do
@@nickwalker4936 oh man Ive been looking for a lore video on Quake 2 all my life
@@nickwalker4936 The planet we see in into is Stroggos not Earth if You want a little bit of lore behind Strogg invasion on Earth, Enemy Territory Quake Wars brings some. After Doom fantastic reboot I would love to see Quake 2 reboot but that's never going to happen because Quake 2 was always worse than Quake and the not so warm welcome for Quake 4 showed that people aren't interested in Stroggs... What a shame if You ask me.
This.....this game intro....wow. The radio chatter and everything....amazing. Best intro for a game ever. Never have I felt a rush before playing a game just thanks to the intro.
I was a teenager the first time I watched the intro in my PC. So amazing to see the part where the space aircarftcarrier is shown with lots of cannons and stuff!
One of the best memories of youth.
Nah.
One of the best ever, but the best is still Soul Edge / Soul Blade
me too
And then we got Doom Eternal :)
The intro to Doom Eternal feels like a bit of an homage to this.
Guess I gots to gets. Been dragging my feet on that. Im just so addicted to Sea of Thieves trolling / griefing
ID for the win.....
True! Id Software has a legendary power to made this homage.
Imagine being the Marine/Soldier alone hearing entire platoon get shwacked on the way in and knowing your alone, DEEP in the enemy lines.
Bringing this back from the dead because it still is one of the BEST intros....ever.
This intro is bar far one of the best introductions for any game from the 90s. I love it.
Can't even explain the things this intro makes me feel. The atmopshere, mood and lighting, it reminds me of Blade Runner, Aliens, Starship Troopers... The soundtrack is absoute brilliance.
This sooooo needs a talented 3d artist or 3 to remake/remaster in proper 1080p or above.
I may be able to help out.
Don’t forget voice actors
Hey! I know this comment is two years old, but if you're still interested - I just finished a complete rebuild of this intro. Tried to rebuild everything as faithfully as I could, and used the original audio. Just posted today, would be super stoked if you checked it out on my channel!
Nostalgia level 900000
So dark, so foreboding. Truly a masterpiece of an intro.
Such memories. I still think this is one of the greatest intro. videos for a game.
Still get chills when the camera pans from the space fighter to the view of the planet.
Platoon gets killed, crash lands, kills an entire hive mind, refuses to elaborate further.
Who knew that the Big Gun sent out EMP blasts?
Still the best intro OF ALL TIME! I still get chills when I hear it
The fact that the strogg doesn’t have a face but wears distorted human ones makes them a unique threat, they are more likely the be the computers that run the place rather than the enemies in game
I remember sitting with my dad when I was probably 5-6-7? Playing this game with him on our old PC. He would navigate and I would shoot the guns. Finding this intro brought so much nostalgia. I’m 23.5 now lol
"ALL PODS LAUNCHED."
Doom Eternal definitely took from this....God bless ID
Can you imagine finding a giant Quake 2 symbol just floating in space? That's gonna be fucking scary
The fact that we cant see any fire coming from the ground makes this a lot scarier ...nothing is scarier indeed...
As a little kid I was blown away when I saw this... :) ... good times...
The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world
One of my most favorite games ever!!!
The Big Gun (the structure that Bitterman was circling), and those seven towers (the ones that he refers to as the 'southern structure', and that he flew past before crash landing) looks so doggone HUGE compared to most of the structures in the city!
So big you see the gun in the skybox of most maps as you make progress towards it.
@@jeffumbach yeah and unfortunately it can’t be seen in the unit 4 and unit 5 skyboxes, even if in each of them you can see the long pipe looking structure extending (at 2:57-3:08) from the two towers behind the Big Gun up to the mountain.
Still one of my favorite game intros after all these years. Especially the first 40 sec.
"Mother Goose, Mother Goose... This is Red Leader Alpha-Charlie 417..."
"Gotcha on the scope Red Leader, you see that big bad dustball up ahead?"
This intro is so fucking amazing! Wish more game intros were this cool!
This may very well be the best video game intro. EVER.
this game really needs remake
We got a remaster instead, but still a good one!
Great job on this intro. Few have ever gotten me so pumped for a game.
goosebumbs.
I just now noticed that first ship in the intro (the smaller one with the nose-art) is called "The Adrianator, I presume after Adrian Carmack, Id Software's lead artist. Actually, based on its design, I think that's one of the same human fighter craft that you see like in that one mission where they bomb a fuel pod.
damn those intros had me hyped way more than the ads about any new game coming out now
I got my Voodoo 2 12b 3Dfx card the same day I got Quake 2. I was obsessed with Quake and even introduced me to my face artist Trent Reznor. (recently the Quake soundtrack was released on quality vinyl. Absolutely amazing.)anyway I got this and downloaded GLQuake too... I spent months enjoying this, playing CTF with CR Not when my latency was too high, loving Quake and the mission packs all over again because of the graphical upgrade the Voodoo card gave me. This intro really set you up for the game and I was initially disappointed that Quake 2 was essentially a different IP but soon I got over that!
Memories of the joy you felt when you gibbed an enemy with that awesome rail gun with its unique sound... Flying around with the grapple hook in CTF, a feckin UNREAL Transformers Total Conversion, the ubiquitous download manager needed to safely get MASSIVE files of 30mb! 😂
Years later I would spend weeks recovering from a broken leg with the Quake Army Knife, (Quark) loaded with loads of games assets but I mainly enjoyed making levels with dead marines, flickering lights, lots of gloom, winding corridors all leading to vast open battlegrounds. Each side would have 3,4 even 5 levels of corridors, above aand under the arena, stairs and intersections and hidden passages...
Man there are few games that have ever given me that much
BEST GAME INTRO EVER
Intro is still my favorite of all time - so I attempted to rebuild the whole thing from scratch in Blender. Just posted today, and would be stoked if anyone wants to check it out!
If you ever do a tutorial def let us know. I, for one, would be willing to pay to learn Blender techniques by recreating this.
I still get the chills from watching this!!! Over 20 years on and that marine's voice is f*cking awesome! Shame about the washed out gamma half way through this video but I guess it was to avoid copywrong.
I want to see a HD remaster of this game, with this intro included.
its happened
Well, I have some good news for ya!
Always reminded me of Starship troopers/Aliens (Colonial Marines). I guess Im gonna go buy the second and fourth game on steam and replay this after a long time :)
When I first played Quake 2 I didn't know English, it's so strange going back to this intro and understand what they are saying.
Anyone else in here to read comments after the official remaster?
Stunner absolute stunner!!!
1997 Xmas... I got this game and a Diamond Monster 3d.
Quake 2 Multi player is alive and well, there is still alot of regular and custom maps out there that are still up. On DM 8, one of my signature camps was at the BFG area and 200 rounds of hyper ammo 😊 over the years, people would find out where the BFG is and attempt to grab it , only to be melted by hyper blaster fire, it was so so funny camping there until some smart people started tossing grenades up there!! Memories ❤ -- EDM Dude (Coffee Dude)
I love Quake 2
On the the best game intros.
I like how bitterman in the cutscenes sounds literally nothing like the sounds he makes in game
This version is so much better than the re-mastered intro... can't put my finger on it but the dirtier audio and the unpolished rendering, somehow there's much more of a sense of scale in this.
"Im south of LZ nearing a ridged structure..prepping for crash landing....you copy?..command come in..I have no flight control..uh oh DAMNIT!
this thing is a BRICK
Despite the fact it was made in 97 it is still one of my favorites this game rocks!!
Up there with Half-Life 2 for game intros
Nevermind me, just shockingly learn, 20 years later, that the game actually had an intro and a story behind it.
The scariest enemies in any game/movie/story of any kind to me are the ones that are intelligent and nefarious. The mindless zombies have their place, but an enemy than has outsmarted humanity is sooo much more terrifying to me. Hence the enemies of AI and super advanced aliens are worse to me than any grotesque yet dumb monster. The Strogg from Quake are scarier to me than the demons of Doom.
Goddamn this intro... stunning stuff. Stunning.
My firt quake 2 was on ps1 version and it was great game. Then I played pc version on my cousin's computer and was surprised how much bigger pc version is.
This was pretty intense as a 9 year old lol
Just image Q2 remaster with Doom Eternal-grade visuals.
Awesome fucking game! I loved this intro!
Solid Intro
@nickteezy408 I think so. Most of the platoon died because they were clustered up I think, and the reason he survived was because he got off course.
such a great intro. ready to kick some Strogg ass!
Greatest game intro, ever, bar nothing IMO.
Well in all war against aliens/cyborgs/humans/
Irl and in videos games we sure do have vengeance on our mind.
I loved that intro but then after obsessively playing the game it was bugging me that he crashes in the Jail area and game starts at outer base.
Operation Alien Overlord.
Also it's not like excessive plus, the maps were super crowded in that 32 man match so you have everyone firing plasma rifles, grenades, rockets and it comes out looking like a 3D Bullet hell meets Brownian motion.
Command, you and I have a great difference of opinion on what is "nominal".
@Charlieflint I agree Awesome Intro.
I come from the future there will be a remaster in 14 years
The ship in 1:00 seems like a Warthog A10
This gave me chills.
My guess, they crashed into an alien city of some sort and then they have to fight against them in arenas?
FUCKING EPIC.
Turn it up... it's all quite clear.
Che gran gioco !
does anyone know what song this is? im just wondering if there is a version of this without all the voice and everything
The only unvocalised version to ever appear was part of a Quake tribute video that was shown at a convention years and years ago. It still had audio from the games over the top, but it didn't have the voice over. That has never been released to my knowledge though.
I remember I have seen a video on RUclips using that song as background music, and I'm completely certain that it was clean without any radio chatting. The person had put his own speach and other stuff on it though, so it wasn't better for the viewer :P I think it is out there somewhere, but I've never stumbled upon it. It's rumored Rob Zombie made it.
11chuckles1 I wish -_-
The intro theme in this cinematic was done by Bill Brown (RTCW & C&C Generals).
to think the only reason the main guy survived is cuz he got clipped lol
love this intro, too bad all other marines end up dead or crazy
(Nostalgia moment)
My family never had the cash to keep up with the consoles. But we did have a new PC, and I knew I could jam a 💿 into a drive click next a bunch of times
Looking back, it’s obvious to see why I’ve remained dedicated to PC gaming. Especially now that you can just plug a controller in. Thumbs up if you remember DeerAvenger! It’s been on my to-do list to find a copy of the game, build a vm and then play a runt though of the series. Shits so stupid but the nostalgia!!!!!!
Detailed asteroids in orbit, and the Quake 2 symbol explodes into triangles? It's almost like they wanted to tell us, your mind is STILL SIMPLE!
epic
Ever try Skulltag? That shit gets even quicker and more intense, it gets to be almost ludicrous.
I bought a brand new computer because this game,was that blown away by the graphics lol.
Was like look the strogs still give one last shot when downed!!! 😆
please send me link with Quake II intro with full subtitles, this is best intro best sound/music EVER
You want an active community for Descent? UT3 has flying vehicles too and has an active enough community that you can join games at will.
Ok so, this song is called "Quake 2 ntro or AKA Quake 2 theme song by Rob Zombie". The first half of the intro song is by Bill Brown and can be listened/downloaded with out an issue but the second half well yeh. Now I was looking around the deep web even on the forums that dated way back to 1998-2006 and found out that one person contacted John Carmack (back then he was part of ID Software) and John referred him to Paul Steed which referred him to Rob Zombie. At this point I do not know if the person contacted the Rob Zombie but they claim he does not have the original master piece anymore. Seems like he just randomly slapped something together and sent it to the ID Software just for funs and it worked too well.
(Forum is in German but you can google translate the page www.idgames.de/threads/suche-quake-ii-intro-soundtrack.10079/)
Maybe use shazam or something to find similar song and we might pin point it down eventually. Got me interested so much that I tried to open ntro.cin in Quake 2 (that is where the intro is played in game from) and hoped i could open it up and remove audio and sounds effect and clip the Audio track for the song only but I did not have any luck (spent 1 hour to look around and play with the file)
Hopefully we find the song one day and wooooho
Skulltag fits 2 of those, it's ground-bound because you are a soldier, but when I last played it, I don't think it was too hard to find a DM game. Invasion and Co-op are also easy as hell to find, I think the other modes might be a bit of a bitch though since it's not VERY active.
What happened to the color at 1:42
this intro deserves to be remastered
Using Quake 4 I'd Software 3 Engine?
What about if they remaster the whole game, plus the cutscenes?
Yeah, it happened!
All pods launched...
yeeeeeehaaaaaaa :D
bitterman lives
THEY CAN HEAL EACH OTHER REPEAT
Hey guys check it out I uploaded the intro with subtitles at my best of capabilities. Its only the 2nd part of the intro.
Quake what do you want from me
2:03 is that bitterman talking ?
Yes
@@xMcRolled well thats nice ,I thought he was a protagonist who didn't speak
Fun tip: to make this even more badass listen to Cygnus x-1 by rush and start the song at 1:21, then play the video. Thank me later