Sitting on the intersection of a number of of my pursuits is Ghosts I-IV for Quake, a brand new mod which turns id Software’s gibtastic first-person shooter right into a quiet strolling simulator and couples it with a calmer soundtrack. While Quake’s unique 1996 soundtrack is an industrial dirge by the favored beat combo Trent Reznor & The Nine Inchnails, this mod replaces it with tunes from their chilled-out 2008 album Ghosts I-IV – which is legally tremendous to incorporate, due to its Creative Commons licensing. The mod is organised by JP LeBreton, a designer and degree designer who labored on the primary two BioShock video games and has developed fairly an curiosity in peacefully exploring seminal FPSs.
As LeBreton explains on the mod’s Itch page:
“This mod re-scores Quake using every track from the 2008 Nine Inch Nails ambient/instrumental album “Ghosts I-IV”, and places the sport right into a “tourism mode” the place there are not any enemies, weapons, and the participant can’t take injury.”
It additionally rolls in a model of the extent Dismal Oubliette together with the unique opening which Quake mapper John Romero wanted to chop out the launch model however later launched individually.
In quick, it’s a Quake that’s retooled to be good to potter about. Quake as an entire is incoherent and largely brown (I fairly like its exploration of browns and blues), positive, but it surely does have some attention-grabbing locations and structure. I don’t know Ghosts I-IV however, from what I’ve performed of this, the pairing may be fairly good.
LeBreton has beforehand launched tourism mods for video games together with Unreal, Deus Ex, and Thief, in addition to a less complicated one for Quake. He additionally retains a game tourism page itemizing mods and directions to make different 90s FPSs–and their trendy descendants–protected to wander round.
Or if you happen to’d somewhat Ghosts I-IV had been paired with all of the fragging and gibbing of Quake’s unique marketing campaign, hey, LeBreton explains find out how to disable tourism too.
Download Ghosts I-IV For Quake from Itch. You’ll want the info information from a full copy of Quake to play, together with the Quakespasm fan-updated engine. The readme explains find out how to make it work.
Oh, and as a Quake purist, I’d strongly advocate you pop open the console and enter GL_TEXTUREMODE GL_NEAREST to disable the blurry texture filtering that ruins Quake’s true grit. I’ve come to bodily blows with our Alec over this.
I’ve simply remembered that the primary problem of cheery RPS fanzine PC Gamer I ever learn ended with a page-long deadpan joke about an official Christmas Quake mod which included NIN remixes of Christmas carols. Not figuring out the custom of again web page jokes, and being very trusting, I appeared for this mod for ages. What rotters! This was earlier than they changed that again web page function with the month’s horoscopes for each RPS staffer, in fact.
[Disclosure: I vaguely know LeBreton a bit? We met at a barbecue years back? idk man, I haven’t sent him a Christmas card.]
