How to frag:
- Dick hard on the butt
- Railgun in my hand
- Shoot ya neck
- Hell yeah
below is my guide (?) for playing old fps games in the modern era:
Classic DOOM
- DOOM + DOOM II, the official Steam release.
- The Doom Wiki, the ultimate resource for the entire series.
- Doomworld, the oldest and most popular forum and archive for DOOM.
- Doom Explorer, a sourceport launcher and server browser.
- Zandronum, Odamex, and ZDaemon, the most essential multiplayer sourceports.
- GZDoom, the most popular source port featuring extensive compatibility and mods.
- Chocoalate Doom, the most vanilla source port and the best way to play vanilla other than DOSBox.
Check out Dwars's video regarding source ports and his video about DOOM + DOOM II.
The freely distributable shareware for DOOM can be found here. Give it a spin!
For playing mods, you'll need DOOM2.WAD, a.k.a. DOOM II version 1.9 (released 2/1/1995), the last official version of the game before all the rereleases. The vast majority of mods rely on DOOM II.
For mods that need the original DOOM, look for DOOM1.WAD, a.k.a. The Ultimate DOOM version 1.9.
Quake, QuakeWorld, Quake II, and Quake III Arena
- Quake and Quake II, the official Steam releases.
- ezQuake, a modern QuakeWorld source port.
- Quakespasm and Quakespasm-Spiked, the most popular NetQuake source ports.
- Quaddicted, an archive for Quake that offers a launcher for direct downloading.
- Q2PRO, a modern multiplayer-focused Quake II source port.
- Yamagi Quake II, a modern singleplayer-focused Quake II source port.
- ioquake3, a modern Quake III Arena source port.
- LvLworld, an archive for Q3A maps and mods.
- QuakeServers.net, a catalog of fan-run servers for the series.
For singleplayer Quake, vkQuake is my personal preference for classic and modern maps and mods. I'm not going to pretend I understand the differences it has from its sources, Quakespasm and Quakespasm-Spiked, other than it using the Vulkan renderer.
Unreal & Unreal Tournament
Good luck trying to find any of these fucking games anymore because Epic Games took all of them off of Steam years ago. Probably because of Fortnite. Still an all-around dogshit choice for the rest of us.
Thanfully, Epic has been willing to concede a little, allowing the folks at the OldUnreal community to host automatic installers for the original Unreal and Unreal Tournament 1999. They extract from the .ISO files hosted on the Internet Archive and also apply the latest community patches, with absolutely no other maintinence needed other than maybe adjusting your resolution in-game. Try them out!
If you really need to get your hands on all the major titles, you want a copy of Unreal Anthology, containing the original Unreal, Unreal II: The Awakening, Unreal Tournament 1999, and Unreal Tournament 2004. The Tournament games are the only ones people care about, though. At least the first Unreal functions well as a Voodoo3 benchmark test lmaooooo
- OldUnreal, home of the fan patches for Unreal and Unreal Tournament.
- Unreal Archive, an archive of patches, maps, and mods for the series.
