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For quite some time now, there's been rumours surrounding a possible remastered release of the highly acclaimed sequel to the original Lovecraft-ian FPS, Quake II.

The rumour has been going on for months, only to be fueled further by what seemed to be a rating board mistake from South Korea, rating Quake II Remastered back in June, and several other leakers in the industry claiming that the title was set to be announced in QuakeCon 2023. French site Dealabs and its reporter billbil-kun has reported today that indeed Quake II Remastered will be coming with an August release date, and that said release date will actually be today, August 10th, right at the start of QuakeCon 2023, which is set to take place from August 10th to August 13th.

The Remaster will apparently be available for multiple systems, counting PC, PlayStation 4 & 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X and Nintendo Switch as well, and the price tag according to the rumour will be of $10 USD, coinciding with the price tag for the Quake 1 Remaster released a couple years ago, back in 2021.

We're just a few hours away from QuakeCon 2023 starting, so it's only a matter of hours to find out.

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[RedoLane]

Oh my shamblers
Both expansions, a new expansion AND QUAKE II 64???
Knowing Nightdive, we might get add-ons later(Hoping for Zaero!).
Protip: Play the game with Texture smoothing turned off.

 

[PopcornSweetie]

If MVG is working on this too, you know its going to be a BANGER!

 

[CoolMe]

Only $10? Rockstar, look at that!

Well, $10 isn't commercially benefiting accurate.. Also, how dare you not pay $50 for a conversion that's of very much unknown quality?

 

[Thescrewremover]

For those who have played it, is it a better remaster than Quake II RTX?

 

[pedro702]

i will wait for the physical edition made by LRG , they do all nightdive studio games physicals xD

 

[Jayro]

"Remastered"
>adds modern higher screen resolutions
>Adds ray-tracing
>Everything else stays the same

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For those who have played it, is it a better remaster than Quake II RTX?

Honestly, that's all I was expecting.

 

[pedro702]

"Remastered"
>adds modern higher screen resolutions
>Adds ray-tracing
>Everything else stays the same

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Honestly, that's all I was expecting.

guess you dont know nightdive studios work

Also a remaster doesnt chnage the graphics it only improves image quality and performance, if you wanted an graphic overlay of the entire game you wanted a remake instead xD

they may seem they dont change much but they do, look at this video they are very through to make the game look classic but get the vest look in standard screen resolutions.

 

[Marc_LFD]

When Quake II is on sale I'll buy it. Such good memories I have of it.

Cool to get a remaster even though my computer can't run it.

 

[Gordon freeman]

I'm disappointed, I got the upgrade for free, I wanted to pay $50 for it, the comercially accurate price for a port

 

[LightBeam]

I haven't even completed all the campaigns of Quake 1 yet, but I had a ton of fun on it
I know some people say Quake 2 is kinda « worse » in the sense that it lacks some identity since the departure of Romero at the time, but it's still a great game nonetheless

I'm more of an Unreal-guy, but I wish Sweeney had actually some respect for his own previous work.

When you think about it, it's very funny how both franchises used to be competitors and somewhat similar, now they are absolute opposites. Quake is releasing really great remasters for a very low price (it's even on the gamepass, I didn't understand why it labeled as a « new release » on the Xbox App before seeing this news), but Epic is removing all the Unreal games on all stores like they never existed. F Sweeney fr

 

[Marc_LFD]

I haven't even completed all the campaigns of Quake 1 yet, but I had a ton of fun on it
I know some people say Quake 2 is kinda « worse » in the sense that it lacks some identity since the departure of Romero at the time, but it's still a great game nonetheless

I'm more of an Unreal-guy, but I wish Sweeney had actually some respect for his own previous work.

When you think about it, it's very funny how both franchises used to be competitors and somewhat similar, now they are absolute opposites. Quake is releasing really great remasters for a very low price (it's even on the gamepass, I didn't understand why it labeled as a « new release » on the Xbox App before seeing this news), but Epic is removing all the Unreal games on all stores like they never existed. F Sweeney fr

One of my faves is UT2 on Xbox.

Being physical it can't get removed.

 

[EvilJagaGenius]

QUAKE 2 REMASTERED
AND THE SOUNDTRACK
AND THE MISSION PACKS
AND THE DISRUPTOR FROM GROUND ZERO
AND NEW MOVES FOR THE ENEMIES
AND THE N64 MAPS
AND A NEW MISSION PACK
AND SPLITSCREEN
AND THE FREAKIN' SOURCE CODE

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

 

[Spectremint]

Nice to see this! The Quake 1 remaster was pretty darn good so this looks to be just as good. I hope Quake III Arena will get the same treatment... that would be awesome

 

[DarknessPlay3r]

That's confusing. So people can't play the original if they want?

Just have Quake II Original and Quake II Remastered.

On GoG (at least in my library) it's Quake II (Original) and just Quake II

 

[Jayro]

On GoG (at least in my library) it's Quake II (Original) and just Quake II

Just like Those underwater fps games in the city of Rapture that I can't remember the name of. They have normal and remastered versions on steam. Sadly tho, some of the graphical improvements on the remaster actually look worse in a few spots.

 

[Kioku]

Tried it, love it. Now I just need friends.

 

[LinuxNoob33]

I'm buying this right now on steam. Great price.

 

[Bladexdsl]

itz owt dere. you go girl

 

[LightBeam]

One of my faves is UT2 on Xbox.

Being physical it can't get removed.

I've tried it on Xemu, still not running perfectly and the controler controls are pretty hard to get used to, but I liked the few story elements about some characters like Lauren and the gameplay seemed actually great. Wish it got ported on PC

 

[Foxi4]

Oh f-yeah, I grew up on QII deathmatch in LAN/Internet cafés, I’m 100% on-board.