Quake Lore: Delving into the Heart of Quake Wars ET, Quake 2/4 War Against The Strogg (Part 1)
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In the vast expanse of the cosmos, humanity would encounter an adversary like no other: the Stroggs. These cybernetic conquerors, driven by insatiable hunger and cold efficiency, would clash with Earth's defenders in a war of monumental proportions. From our first harrowing encounter to the heart-pounding ventures into the very core of their world, join us as we delve into the intricate tapestry of Quake 2's story. Welcome to Part 1 of our series, where we uncover the origins, conflicts, and challenges faced by both sides in this epic saga.
Script, Video Editing and Gameplay recording - LeChumQC
Voice - Eleven Labs
#quake #gamelore #idsoftware - Hry
I love that Quake 1 and Quake 2 are finally tied together
Well, they've been tied together since 2017. The problem is that pure multiplayer AFPS is very niche, and too many people spread negative PR about Quake Champions so most mainstream gamers don't even try it, let alone play enough to get interested in the story bits. I can understand hating the entire id-Bethesda-Zenimax-Microsoft-BlackRock chain for some truly disgusting business practices. But it's another thing entirely to spread so many lies and false negative reviews about what is a great multiplayer game.
Like that yellow journalist NerdSlayer Studios. Posts an utterly negative review, proclaims the game dead despite it having more players than any other in this niche genre. He gets hundreds of thousands of views, yet zero footage is his own. Quite literally all of it is taken from promo materials and from other youtubers. He misuses the term bunny hop in both its old and new meaning. He thinks there's a weapon called "ray gun." You check the names of his accounts on official Quakestats, he has 27min played on one account and 23 on another.
@@Phil_597 They've been tied since 1999, when Q3A came out. You had a multidimensional rift bringing characters like Ranger from Quake, and Stroggs like Tank Jr., and even Doomguy, into a battle arena to the death.
@@szeltovivarsydroxan9944 Good point. Q3 just didn't have all these huge lore bombs and comics like QC so I tend not to even think about Q3 as having story, but it indeed does.
@@Phil_597 Yeah, they didn't focus on as much lore back then as they do now, but there was some of it. Mostly in the manual, iirc.
@@szeltovivarsydroxan9944 Wasn't Quake III non-canon before Champions?
Quake 4 was amazing for me. And im sad there is no more support and one can not play Quake Wars anymore ... It was my favourite MP game.
Quake wars was way ahead of it's time, and it's a shame it didn't get the attention it should have
It was such a good game, way ahead of its time yes. Such a shame ..@@Synthonym
Its on myabandonware now, though id imagine youd need to put in quite some effort to get online play working.
Fun fact: Quake 2 originally wasn’t supposed to be part of the Quake series. It was going to be a totally separate series, & the original title was Wor. But game players really wanted a sequel to Quake, & ID Software still wasn’t fully sure what to name the game. So rather than just start from the beginning, they took the Wor project & worked it into Quake 2.
This video was so good I had to watch it twice, really wish quake would focus in a solid storyline
😊Agree! As some people mention, getting a mix of Quake 1 and 2 would be very interesting.
I am watching for the 3rd time! It is so good!
I'd be so down for a Quake 5 - a multi-part campaign following a soldier during the earth invasion, the invasion of stroggos, and then ending on something new
hell yes, this is basically what i wanted. I hope you put some Q4 info i liked: That the Strogg aren't really a cyborg race, but some sort of AI intelligence *controlling* a cyborg body. We are never told WHY the Strogg need organics, but hey, maybe you can come up with something. Honestly i just arrived, so am excited. You make very damn good narrations.
Edit: My dude, the editing and voice acting is outstanding, amazing work, be proud of what you'd done. I so hope you can include the expansion packs too.
The Strogg need organic parts for two reasons: Food and power. The Strogg require bodies to power their machinery and cybernetics in order to create more Strogg who then live off of a substance called stroyent which is a broken down processed slurry of flesh. I assume they need this to keep the battery of the body running.
@@Vinlander92 sounds reasonable, sure i'll take it.
The Strogg utilize bodies from the worlds they conquer for stroyent production and "reproduction" purposes. It's plausible to speculate that individuals deemed unfit for warfare are designated for processing 😟
Voice is AI tho
i would love quake single player game that combine quake 1 and 2
That would be truly amazing. It would be fascinating to see a blend of army-style and eldritch horrors presented with moderne graphics.😃
for the last 20 years i've been wondering why the crates in quake 1 had the strogg insignia on them.
so basically stroggs are like insects that consume the universe but with most efficient way possible instead of chaotic hivemindness
Yes and no. Later in the story, we will discover that the Stroggs are also connected to a hive-mind system. 🙂
@@lechumqc7910oh yeah quake 4 plot
people pretend quake 4 is the black sheep of quake series
but enemy territory quake wars got it worse cause i think its an abandonware
I want more quake!
The Strogg are so similar to Combine in concept. No wonder Half-Life relied so much on Quake.
These are very high quality videos
You rock, hell yeah we want more of this
Quake was bloodier, more logical, and more terrifying than Doom, which contained baseless demons.
not DOOM 3 that game is just like quake 4
I still like Doom more
I still think Doom is better
I still think Doom is better
I would like to see a full quake series remake. With the lore you have provided. It is superb. 🎉
I really hope to see all quake ll lore and quake 4! I played Quake 4 more than 2. It is a nice game, good story!
Damn this is a crazy high quality video!
More of this please
I wonder if Quake l and ll can be linked with Doom 3 storyline... Given that shub nigurath seems to link Quake l and ll, I dont see why it can't also link Doom 3 via the hell dimension. Is it possible?
If you ever do a "Is similar to Quake 2" Resistance Fall of man should be #1
I'm really looking forward to the next part. I hope we see it soon.
Fantastic video! Quake and Quake 2 were some of my favorite shooter-games back in the day, though I never realized really had that firm of a grasp on the story until I saw your videos on the subject. I'm looking forward to the next video!
Rip And Tear 💪🏻
Exactly what I was hoping for! Definitely looking forward to the full series on this!
It was really something. Playing it again for the video made me realize how unique it was. Not many large-scale battles do what it does.
Amazing video, i enjoyed it throughly, thank you.
Oh New episode of Gilman's Eerie adventures
That would make a great Netflix series name 😄
your narrating is excellent and top notch good job subbed
man i love those lore videos please keep going with that
simply beautiful work and entertaining as hell video i can't believe you just have so little subs but now you have one more
This was awesome!!!
Great vid dude, Quake 2's intro is one of my all time favourite game intros, so cinematic amd it looked excellent for the time. Quake wars on the other hand 😢😅 was one of the first games I ever sold. I could not get into it at all. Which is surprising because I loved the wolfenstien multiplayer that I think was done by the same people 🤔.
Also again I'm so impressed with your writing, and I would absolutely love to work with you on something in the future. Will try my best to get some more subs first tho over on the channel. Nice work dude!
Quake Wars had its moments. There are some mechanics that few games can match. Being able to call down turrets, initiate orbital bombardments, take on the appearance of others, deploy energy shields, and create spawn points from deceased enemies are quite distinctive features. But, they can also lead to more chaotic moments. 😄
Great story telling, awesome editing. I sent this to non-gamer who likes the Borg, and found this fascinating. Keep up the good work LeChumQc.
Especially loved the merge between Quake II and Quake IV cutscenes, you nailed it!
I'd love to see QVAKE (Quake V) to have fast-pace like Quake II, I mean Quake IV was good but it lacked that adrenaline rush while playing, a touch of better music from Mick Gorgon, and 60fps movements would be as good as Quake II. I hope they'll remember that what differs Quake from other FPS games and add it to the next game.
Secondly, I'd love to see Moon missions, such as Comm Satellite secret mission on Quake II, with lower gravity, it was so much fun but the mission was too short.
these are so good
nice vid
I still have Quake 4 installed. I play it from time to time. I'd like to see what happens next. :P
Wow wow wow !!!!❤❤❤
Very well done video. Just watched your three Quake 1 lore videos too and the video capture of the games is great. One thing of note: as you note in your third Quake 1 video, the expansions aren't treated as canon to Quake Champions, and sadly the same goes for Call of the Machine. A bit unfortunate, imo. We'll see if any hypothetical future Quake 5 keeps to that rule.
While the narrative itself may not be considered canon, the settings, monsters, items etc described are said to be part of the established universe. However, this information was mentioned in a comment, so it's unclear how official that claim is. Regardless, I hope they decide to expand on this in the future.
i honestly thing it not fair this video doesnt have many likes its well put together i get the ai part but everything else is quite good
On the wiki, there are tidbits of dialogue from Bitterman about the invasion of Earth, which also includes his rank as a Staff Sergeant.
I love Quake ll but I do not know it's full lore, I can't wait to see the rest! Nice video!
This is actually shockingly well done. I honestly expected this to be an early 2000's high budget promotional for Quake Wars with this level of quality.
Well done for actually making it atmospheric and the lore understandable, this series is actually unrivalled in how it presents Quake.
Many thanks.
Amazing video. Is that your voice?
Thank you! As much a I would love to no this is not my voice ^^
yes! more quake, less multiplayer
To me it seems more likely that ranger in quake 1 is actually from another alternate reality. The world that ranger is from seems very different from the world of quake wars quake 2, and quake 4. The quake 2/strogg saga, seems much more grounded in reality and could arguably be our earth. Quake 1's earth seems anything but, and It would actually make sense considering that ranger travels through multiple dimensions. The technology from rangers world seems considerably different from our world. It looks like some kind of run down steam punk alternate reality, where secret hi tech military installations look like they were some kind of old grungy repurposed buldings. Its also a reality where the military uses nailguns and shotguns as standard issue weapons, and lets not get started on rangers armor.
strogg Early Nercomongers
in a fight between a strogg and a yautja (predator), who would win?
main protag from quake 1 is a ranger. good video.
Single player. Yes plz.
Good-day.
Quite the sound-track... Different, but, naah it's okay.
I might have pushed it further this time. 😅 I opted for a more hybrid-style music, considering the large-scale battle and chaotic invaders.
did you just say doom guy beat back a horde of demons from hell?
Ranger from Quake 1 (not Doom guy) ^^ My apologies for not making it clear.
Did quake get remake?
Quake 1 and 2 yes! Both had their graphics revamped and also got new levels added.
@@lechumqc7910
these were a remasters, man.
The semi-remake of the gameplay of Q2 was Q4.
oh! my bad you are right. @@kolyaad
@@lechumqc7910
Hey, what happened with my previous comment (about Quake-literature) ? Have you read that?
Are you talking about the Quake Arena movie? I haven't had much time these days. It's on my 'to watch' list though. ^^@@kolyaad
My comment was vanished again??
I just can't get it, wtf is going on with CZcams 💁
What was the comment about? 🙂
@@lechumqc7910 smth good about you, m8.
I leave a comment to every your quake/doom video.
Nevermind about this case. But you should know about such youtube-tricks.
So basically the Strogg are the Combine from Half life, and Shub-Niggurath is the Nihilanth.
🤦😞
And Q2 is 1997, and HL1 is 1998...
What's wrong with you, people?
HL1 got it from, not Quake (Q2 got some from SystemShock, tbh).
Basically, it's the HL1 catastrophic experiment is the DooM1 experiment.
@@kolyaad I didn't say anyone got anything from anyone. Merely pointing out the interesting parallel between the two, no need to get mad my dude.
@@Zeropointill
excuse me, mate
Amazing video, i enjoyed it throughly. Thank you.