I keep guessing what these cultists are doing while whispering. Maybe removing the organs from the body of a virgin woman to make their ritual, or something like that. Quake 1, side by side with PSX Doom, has one the best ambient soundtrack of all times.
It's sad to see that these modern games doesn't have such remarkable soundtracks like this anymore. They just make some generic background noises, and they already can call it "scary".
@SGtMarkIV Oh man I love the PSX Doom music too. It freaked my little bro out when I was playing it and he got really upset while I laughed at him, I'm such a cunt lol :D Good times!
when other dark games stink with their music or backround music, i usually play this quake1 soundtrack instead. makes things sooo much better! (thanks to my ex bf who showed me quake! hugs!)
Hey everybody! I have released my new album 'Progenitor' which has electronic music inspired by great game series such as Quake. You can check it out and download it for free on my youtube channel if you're interested!
@DOOMF22 I certainly won't. I only played the first Quake game on the Sega Saturn (end of 1997). Was my first ever FPS game I bought (and played). The music in this video was by far the most memorable theme for me. Glad I found this video because I have not heard it in absolutely years!
when i owned the shareware version of quake1, which happened to come with vquake which worked with the rendition verite 1, the first video card that ever came out, i found myself playing the soundtrack at night time when i went to sleep, i found it very calming. :)
quake was one of my favorites back then but i remember that my sound card for some reason doesnt played the music of this game , only sound effects, well at least I enyoyed the quake II soundtrack was awesome
Hey everybody! I just released my solo album "Mirror Image" that contains electronic upbeat and ambient songs heavily inspired by the music and gameplay of the Quake series. If you're interested you can check out the songs on my youtube page, and links to my myspace page and places to download the full album are on my youtube channel as well :) .
I really hope they make a new Quake with Trent doing the soundtrack and with the same feel as this first one, but with some updated graphics and stuff ^^
@ArmlessAlice Fuck yes and fuck no: I agree, the aesthetic of the first game is easily the most memorable, most pleasing, to me; but I'd argue against any need to "update" the graphics (maybe a higher poly count, at a push... but I think that one of Quake's greatest qualities was... IS... its ability to provide the atmostphere it does even today with relatively "primitive" graphics).
@mun090 you're an idiot. Reznors been playing music since he was 5. He knows how to play. Hell even then he showed a knack for creating music. Just because he doesn't play the way you like doesn't mean he can't play. No-one sounds like Reznor. I've seen videos of him playing live he doesn't suck.
@letsgoforajoyride you're looking too deep into this,of course it has creepy backtracked blasphemous voices...have you not played any Doom or Quake games? And what agenda has he sided with?
MR DIBUK NEVER CHANGES...CROWLEY NEVER CHANES, HE EATS ON HIS OWN FLESH...AND ON THE ASSES OF KING KONG..FOR HE IS ALBERT FISH...YES, AND YOU REALLY HAVE A THREE INCH DICK....NO 9 CM
MR DIBUK NEVER CHANGES...CROWLEY NEVER CHANES, HE EATS ON HIS OWN FLESH...AND ON THE ASSES OF KING KONG..FOR HE IS ALBERT FISH...YES, AND YOU REALLY HAVE A THREE INCH DICK
wow .. play this song backwards at a lower speed, there is clearly messaging, you can get from listening to it forward and backwards.. backwards it is clear him saying at the start. much too long talk too much.. there is alot of twisted stuff in this song.. now i am finding it is indeed intentionally and Evasive to put a grasp , you have to slow down the tempos of the fast whispering that have message both forward and backward, the long drawn out frog like voice is forward and backward messaging
as i am chopping up this song it is clear he is saying thou shalt... thou shalt.. i make my own assumptions but he is definite saying thou shalt, intentional mockery of the 10 commandments, or intentional ideas to drive the chill factor of this song..
if he is trying to pull disney moves shame on him, if it is to incline the level of the art of the song.. most awesome.. but am seeing reznor for what he really is..
another Ruiner. Why has he sided with a political agenda.. bullshit Reznor.
stfu, reznor has no musical talent at all, he doesn't know how to play a single instrument yet plays every one in his shitty band. he can't sing for shit either, damn he sucks, quake kicks ass and the sounds kick ass (for a videogame) but you can stop calling it music or genius. what kind of fucking idiot listens to this in their car? yeah it takes a genius to make a bunch of dumbass noise, scream like a girl, and say fuck... industrial metal is shit, grow up.
@The6nine9 a fucking idiot who realizes reznor literally sat at a computer, overlapped prerecorded sounds for a videogame (mostly clanking metal together, whispers, high pitched ringing, low buzzes, and footsteps over and over again for every track) and got dozens of DUMBASS TOOLS LIKE YOU to call it "brilliant music." fucking clown.
Sitting in front of a computer is no different than sitting in front of a guitar (which Trent plays as well as Piano/Keyboard) ..you still have to know how to "play it".
@mun090 again....gonna have to disagree with you. I HAVE seen him play LIVE and not on video. He is a incredible artist and I really enjoy watching and listening to him.
Old skool games like this and doom were wicked. the graphics (yes wer bad) but let ur imagination take over, making you more in2 the game. games now days are so detailed they take away the imagination part. making them suck imo.
@rockoncam : Yes. Totally agree. Games I grew up with like Doom and Quake left more to your imagination. Modern games are too short, too easy, and don't pay any attention to crafting good level design, just eye candy and graphics.
@Gato303co Yeah. That's why old games were so much more creative and imaginative. Now that we have excellent graphics technology, they have given up on level design. It's all scripted events, linear levels, cutscenes, regenerating health system (hate that), limited weapons you can carry. Realism does not necessarily make games more fun. I miss it when games like Doom and Quake would make you laugh. Games take themselves too seriously these days.
@TheAdam159 Agreed. Same happens in 3D CGI animation for movies or TV, same as in Video Games, the main focus is to have more polygon count, more realism, doing amazing realistic textures, but forgetting how to tell a story. Like you say, everything is done by scripts and programation, leaving as "obsolete" the artwork done by hand. And in the part of Realism, I took a quick look to Quake 4, and found the weapons design boring, even the Nailgun, doesn't have the odd but nice design in Q1.
@TheAdam159 Yeah, they sure do. One thing I hate about new games is that everything HAS to make sense in the level design. In Quake there was warped and twisted things that were just fun to have in the level. That, and every new game restricts the player, and does everything but encourage exploration. Even the ones that do, still don't make use of the nice secret areas Quake and Doom had.
Oh well, here's hoping DNF still has some of those elements that most games lack.
@jackoneill45 Oh, god, I miss secret areas. And health bars. And the little face of your guy on the screen, which smiles devilishly when you acquire a new gun. And quad damage pickups. I really hope Duke Nukem will bring back some of the old school.
@jackoneill45 i think painkiller brought back the old school quake feel.. didnt capture it exactly but ya i mean the level design was out the like quake...
I had this game on Sega saturn when I had my first apartment. I was sitting there alone with every lamp turned off to complete darkness. I had the sega system connected to my surround system and had the volume pretty high.
Saying it scared the living hell out of me is an understatement! I couldnt even play it for too long at once, it was an overload to the mind I can tell you. Much of the horror came from the music!!
I'm glad you can actually talk shit about windows movie maker... Too many people think that program is a godsend, when it's probably one of the worst ones out there, and the only reason anyone uses it is that it comes with pretty much all windows installs.
i love this game so much I downloaded it recently and started playing again. As soon as the game loaded, christmas songs played in the background and I was thinking that it was probably an "christmas" easter egg joke from the makers of quake. But later I found out it was just a CD stuck in the cd drive.. damn.
@chemicalmarch2 do you know where I can find that rusty nails version? Ive been searching for awhile. even just the name of the album would help. my email address is sybilsteam@yahoo.com, my name is mary , thx so much
What I love about Quake (soundtrack is fucking a as well) is that it's one of those old games where it needed the CD to get the audio. Now since I have 2 disk drives, I can have Quake in the bottom one and it will still work, but it won't read the audio. I one day found myself listening to Heroes of Might and Magic II whilst playing Quake.
For those who have played HoMM2, laugh with me at the audacity of the situation :D
Quake 2 is a sequel, however indirect to Quake 1. The name id wanted for what was eventually Quake 2 was copyrighted at the time. Plus if you look at it, Q2 aint that different from Q1; its you going around fragging the hell out of a bunch of monsters. As for Quake 3: Arena, it was originally supposed to be called just Arena, but id feared it wouldn't sell well, so they slapped the Quake tag franchise on it.
A friend of mine used to play "Gears of War" with the QUAKE-Soundtrack. It just fits so perfect in so many scenes... much better than the original score.
@mortenrobinson no.. it is a series of subliminal messages. Thou shalt smoke pot, thou shalt drink beer, thou shalt, i noticed this while stoned playing the game and it freaked me the fuck out.. i dunno if it is included as art to the song to make it seem more evil, or this sickfuck is trying to imitate disney.
@letsgoforajoyride art? I think it takes more than "intention to put art into a recording" to make good or as you morons even call it, "genious" [sic]. a series of subliminal messages you say? oh and so that's music? b/c that's really fucking hard to do.
@mun090 Then you make an appropriately freakish soundtrack for this game. I don't think Reznor's all that great...but I think these tracks prove that he is a good sound engineer. He was given a task to create a Quake soundtrack, and I feel he succeeded with flying colors.
Though, in your defense I don't think there are subliminal messages, nor do I feel this is in any way the best thing I've ever heard...I just think its the best thing for what it was intended for.
speaking of which, that q1 sequel, most people would have no idea what it would be, people would refer it to doom in some wierd way, i don't think people would buy it
Yes, they would, sequels fuck things up big time in most of the cases. It's just so hard to get close to that original atmosphere, let alone surpassing it.
Even the low quality graphics add to the dark atmosphere in the game, yet the first time I played quake in 1998 I thought "I don't think videogames will get more realistic than this!"
So I don't mind id putting out quake games with a different feel each time. It's refreshing and probably sells better.
Quake 3 shouldn't have been a Quake. Quake's about Deathmatch and a great single player that focuses on scary environments and you VS a whole crapload of monsters.
A real sequel, you dipshit. Quake 2 is completely different storyline and completely different game universe altogether. The only reason id called it "Quake 2" was because the name they wanted to use was already trademarked or some shit.
Go learn something about Quake before calling other stupid, you might prevent yourself from being a jackass next time.
So creepy and in the later part, you can just hear the heavy drone sound, and how... someone is feasting on flesh, a flesh of some unlucky victim... Perfect.
I haven't played this game in a while, but while listening to this music I can almost hear the explosions, gun fire and other sound effects...especially at 4:48 ....
I think the music goes perfect with the concept of this game.
I have the whole soundtrack in my Walkman, and it really establishes an enormous horror mood while I read "It" by Stephen King. The soundtrack fits so damn perfectly!
Yeah it does make it worth your while. This is a good one. I always liked the opening title theme because it hits you so hard and then slowed down a lot.
That's a tone setter if there ever was one. The Quake soundtrack is essentially epic.
Been a while since I've listened to this stuff. It holds up, way better than most derivitave crap I hear in games nowadays. It's a shame he didn't end up doing stuff for Doom 3.
@calmb4storm. I think he just needs to compose another video game soundtrack. His instrumentals are absolutely mesmerizing (Ghost I-IV anyone?) Year Zero and The Slip both felt somewhat rushed but I still enjoyed them well enough. I'm certain that there will never be another Fragile but, you can't ask him to capture lightning in a bottle twice.
I really liked Year Zero. I didn't get to hear much off the Slip. Someone had uploaded the whole album on here, but I think that guy got banned. There were a couple good songs from the Slip, but I didn't hear it enough.
Thanks for the Reznor tracks. I have fond memories of late nights playing quake. Tricky's Maxinquaye also had a way of enhancing the experience. Something about the relentless downbeat rhythm...
@Edd731 there is.. thou shalt something something that is forward, backwards you hear alot of shit too, i wish i was more advanced in splicing to hear what the messages really are, only reznor will know. i would love to get ahold of the sampling all mixed into this.. be proud of yourself you detected things.. our minds put up weird red flags on certain things.. he is pulling a Disney on this.
@letsgoforajoyride and to mention like in year zero the warning.. the audio shapes out to be a mushroom cloud.. there is a shitton of things going on in this song. and hate reznor for putting subliminal messaging into his songs, like disney, and also him going into politics.. who are you reznor? i used to respect you. well the music at least.. i dunno who you are really, from choir boy singer to demented god hating pessimist and troll.
This is probably the best soundtrack in a fpw ever. So dark, as was the game; sparse and threatening. The enemies genuinely terrifying and fearful to behold. Who can forget the dark corners and screams they gave out upon seeing you. The real fear that your weapons were not enough and that you were sure to die.
exactly, excellent described. the atmosphere is very similar to lovecrafts short stories - deep despair, no hope. the ammunition is not enough and you´ll soon run out of it...
man in my opinion no game will ever have as good of soundtracks as quake, the heavy metal put you in the mood to kill some people or put you on the edge of you seat when it started playing when there was nothing around!
I sound just like this when I change my underwear every month....Quake Soundtrack...only time Trent/NIN got it right
AJtheory 5 days ago in playlist Liked videos
Beautifully evil and of pure menace. Can definitely imagine satanic worshippers sacrificing a virgin and then devouring her flesh.
TheNURNU 1 week ago
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MegaMechGod 1 month ago
anyone cand recommend more like this?
churras13 2 months ago
When I hear this song, I have a mental image of a technological place full of spinning fans, haunted by demons.
95Navigator 3 months ago
I keep guessing what these cultists are doing while whispering. Maybe removing the organs from the body of a virgin woman to make their ritual, or something like that. Quake 1, side by side with PSX Doom, has one the best ambient soundtrack of all times.
It's sad to see that these modern games doesn't have such remarkable soundtracks like this anymore. They just make some generic background noises, and they already can call it "scary".
SGtMarkIV 3 months ago
@SGtMarkIV Oh man I love the PSX Doom music too. It freaked my little bro out when I was playing it and he got really upset while I laughed at him, I'm such a cunt lol :D Good times!
Edd731 3 months ago
Pure menace......love it.
Edd731 3 months ago
I love how the mood of the game can change just because of the soundtrack.
Mystifiedfire 3 months ago
Played this as a kid....and as an adult, the soundtrack still makes me shit my pants.
KillCrazyTHN 3 months ago
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when i was a child and played quake1, and this song appeared, i almost shit in my pants, i believe if i play it now, i will need new pants.
yugoth555 3 months ago
when i was a child and played quake1, and this song appeared, i almost shit in my pants, i believe if i play it now, i will need new pants.
yugoth555 3 months ago
when other dark games stink with their music or backround music, i usually play this quake1 soundtrack instead. makes things sooo much better! (thanks to my ex bf who showed me quake! hugs!)
VNVgirl 4 months ago
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ORTmusic 5 months ago
listening to the mid-stages of this song and onwards makes me feel like i have pins and needles
thelvadamee14 6 months ago
@thelvadamee14
danaaaa danaaa danaaa danaaa daa naa naa naa... *LOUD*
me too.
locutus12 5 months ago
dude what is that WHISPERING. someone record that and reverse it.
xBillyTheKidx 7 months ago 2
@xBillyTheKidx
It says "To win the game, you must kill me, John Romero"
Abazigal 5 months ago
@Abazigal real talk?
xBillyTheKidx 5 months ago
I can feel the clicking in the back of my throat
Also, best soundtrack to any game that I can think of, and a kicking rad game, too.
GnomeofNinjas 8 months ago 6
@GnomeofNinjas I feel something similar, like the ticking is fingers picking at my skull. The meat-slurping sounds make it even more disturbing.
VittoIB 2 months ago
this shit is so evil
DORUKOZKAN 8 months ago
Absolutely love this track, as I do for the Quake soundtrack.
One of the best soundtracks ever made!
dronespace 9 months ago
Creepy
Vordhosbn2 10 months ago
@DOOMF22 I certainly won't. I only played the first Quake game on the Sega Saturn (end of 1997). Was my first ever FPS game I bought (and played). The music in this video was by far the most memorable theme for me. Glad I found this video because I have not heard it in absolutely years!
rubix7k 10 months ago
good old times, that's real Dark Ambient Music and one of the best Quake Songs ever !!!
Natureworld1986 10 months ago
Maybe I should transfer this quake soundtrack to my mp3-player, and start playing it when I go to sleep.
There is a big chance that it will be 1997 when I wake up, if I wake up..
deadrevil 10 months ago
I remember there was a switch somewhere that you clicked and the floor dropped out into lava and NIN logo was displayed when you looked in the pit.
kitchen3050 11 months ago
The only thing I can think of when I hear this
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Barricade 11 months ago
Nine inch nails did a song in doom the movie, wich is actually a remake of "Between Levels" from Doom 2
killer11454 11 months ago
when i owned the shareware version of quake1, which happened to come with vquake which worked with the rendition verite 1, the first video card that ever came out, i found myself playing the soundtrack at night time when i went to sleep, i found it very calming. :)
rouncer81 11 months ago
This Quake music has got to be the best stuff Trent Reznor has ever done...
AJtheory 1 year ago
quake was one of my favorites back then but i remember that my sound card for some reason doesnt played the music of this game , only sound effects, well at least I enyoyed the quake II soundtrack was awesome
manuel8200 1 year ago
I lift my coffee mug of glory and see a stain, not an ordinary stain BUT A QUAKE STAIN
RIOT690 1 year ago 2
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ORTmusic 1 year ago
gooseflesh hahahah
Leontinos89 1 year ago
Damn I love all NIN QUAKE OST... it's fucking GENIOUS!
dragonclaw1986 1 year ago
LOL theirs no dislikes cuz they no quake and quake2 has great sound track.
ultimatefas0121 1 year ago
I really hope they make a new Quake with Trent doing the soundtrack and with the same feel as this first one, but with some updated graphics and stuff ^^
ArmlessAlice 1 year ago
@ArmlessAlice Fuck yes and fuck no: I agree, the aesthetic of the first game is easily the most memorable, most pleasing, to me; but I'd argue against any need to "update" the graphics (maybe a higher poly count, at a push... but I think that one of Quake's greatest qualities was... IS... its ability to provide the atmostphere it does even today with relatively "primitive" graphics).
Bravo, Mr. Reznor. Bravo, id.
soupalex 1 year ago
fuckin scary shit
Z4rifion 1 year ago 6
Trent really needs to do another video game soundtrack. This freaked me out so much back in the day.
TheAdam159 1 year ago
this games is too hardd!!!!
Dltn97 1 year ago
@mun090 you're an idiot. Reznors been playing music since he was 5. He knows how to play. Hell even then he showed a knack for creating music. Just because he doesn't play the way you like doesn't mean he can't play. No-one sounds like Reznor. I've seen videos of him playing live he doesn't suck.
@letsgoforajoyride you're looking too deep into this,of course it has creepy backtracked blasphemous voices...have you not played any Doom or Quake games? And what agenda has he sided with?
OrbitZombie 1 year ago
MR DIBUK NEVER CHANGES...CROWLEY NEVER CHANES, HE EATS ON HIS OWN FLESH...AND ON THE ASSES OF KING KONG..FOR HE IS ALBERT FISH...YES, AND YOU REALLY HAVE A THREE INCH DICK....NO 9 CM
meshuggah80 1 year ago
MR DIBUK NEVER CHANGES...CROWLEY NEVER CHANES, HE EATS ON HIS OWN FLESH...AND ON THE ASSES OF KING KONG..FOR HE IS ALBERT FISH...YES, AND YOU REALLY HAVE A THREE INCH DICK
meshuggah80 1 year ago
quake fucking rocks!!!
fuck unreal engine!!!! .i. -_-
xXviejas22Xx 1 year ago
mad i can only image taking lsd and listen to this shit u would become a player in quake lolo
TheLeCarlos 1 year ago
lol. i love how creepy and awsome the vibe was that this game had.
cjsrowfist 1 year ago
0:26 right color.
Racoon42a 1 year ago
wow .. play this song backwards at a lower speed, there is clearly messaging, you can get from listening to it forward and backwards.. backwards it is clear him saying at the start. much too long talk too much.. there is alot of twisted stuff in this song.. now i am finding it is indeed intentionally and Evasive to put a grasp , you have to slow down the tempos of the fast whispering that have message both forward and backward, the long drawn out frog like voice is forward and backward messaging
letsgoforajoyride 1 year ago
as i am chopping up this song it is clear he is saying thou shalt... thou shalt.. i make my own assumptions but he is definite saying thou shalt, intentional mockery of the 10 commandments, or intentional ideas to drive the chill factor of this song..
if he is trying to pull disney moves shame on him, if it is to incline the level of the art of the song.. most awesome.. but am seeing reznor for what he really is..
another Ruiner. Why has he sided with a political agenda.. bullshit Reznor.
letsgoforajoyride 1 year ago
I could fall asleep listening to this. :D
iwolfpirate 1 year ago
musical genius
emeraldeyes915 1 year ago
Trent was on drugs in 1996 but even in 2000
flyboy2000008 1 year ago
stfu, reznor has no musical talent at all, he doesn't know how to play a single instrument yet plays every one in his shitty band. he can't sing for shit either, damn he sucks, quake kicks ass and the sounds kick ass (for a videogame) but you can stop calling it music or genius. what kind of fucking idiot listens to this in their car? yeah it takes a genius to make a bunch of dumbass noise, scream like a girl, and say fuck... industrial metal is shit, grow up.
mun090 1 year ago
@mun090
what kind of fucking idiot is mun090?
The6nine9 1 year ago 2
@The6nine9 a fucking idiot who realizes reznor literally sat at a computer, overlapped prerecorded sounds for a videogame (mostly clanking metal together, whispers, high pitched ringing, low buzzes, and footsteps over and over again for every track) and got dozens of DUMBASS TOOLS LIKE YOU to call it "brilliant music." fucking clown.
mun090 1 year ago
@mun090 You must be a Henry Rollins fan.
Sitting in front of a computer is no different than sitting in front of a guitar (which Trent plays as well as Piano/Keyboard) ..you still have to know how to "play it".
Sabbatai 1 year ago
@mun090 lol
letsgoforajoyride 1 year ago
@mun090 really? Tools Like You! Are you making MILLIONS??? Yeah! I didn't fucking think so....so shut the fuck up and play your video games ya loser!
specialk35 1 year ago
@mun090 Oh and BTW dumbass.....get your facts straight.....Trent plays the guitar, keyboards and piano!
specialk35 1 year ago
@specialk35 yeah exactly, but doesn't know how, look up vids of him playing live, GODDAMN he sure sucks ass.
mun090 1 year ago
@mun090 again....gonna have to disagree with you. I HAVE seen him play LIVE and not on video. He is a incredible artist and I really enjoy watching and listening to him.
specialk35 1 year ago
holy shit that is totally claustrophobic
xabun 1 year ago
This is the soundtrack for my nightmares.
The music was 10 times better than the game itself.
drpapa26 1 year ago
The Sounds make it sound like sumthing has gone wrong and the place is gonna blow.
DracomancerFilip 1 year ago 5
@DracomancerFilip i used to think that it was whispers of ghosts
Gamerdude4496 1 year ago
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DracomancerFilip 1 year ago
Old skool games like this and doom were wicked. the graphics (yes wer bad) but let ur imagination take over, making you more in2 the game. games now days are so detailed they take away the imagination part. making them suck imo.
rockoncam 1 year ago 4
@rockoncam : Yes. Totally agree. Games I grew up with like Doom and Quake left more to your imagination. Modern games are too short, too easy, and don't pay any attention to crafting good level design, just eye candy and graphics.
TheAdam159 1 year ago
@TheAdam159 Agreed. vintage games had limited resources, so developers had to use their creativity to fill that technollogy gap
Gato303co 1 year ago
@Gato303co Yeah. That's why old games were so much more creative and imaginative. Now that we have excellent graphics technology, they have given up on level design. It's all scripted events, linear levels, cutscenes, regenerating health system (hate that), limited weapons you can carry. Realism does not necessarily make games more fun. I miss it when games like Doom and Quake would make you laugh. Games take themselves too seriously these days.
TheAdam159 1 year ago
@TheAdam159 Agreed. Same happens in 3D CGI animation for movies or TV, same as in Video Games, the main focus is to have more polygon count, more realism, doing amazing realistic textures, but forgetting how to tell a story. Like you say, everything is done by scripts and programation, leaving as "obsolete" the artwork done by hand. And in the part of Realism, I took a quick look to Quake 4, and found the weapons design boring, even the Nailgun, doesn't have the odd but nice design in Q1.
Gato303co 1 year ago
@TheAdam159 Yeah, they sure do. One thing I hate about new games is that everything HAS to make sense in the level design. In Quake there was warped and twisted things that were just fun to have in the level. That, and every new game restricts the player, and does everything but encourage exploration. Even the ones that do, still don't make use of the nice secret areas Quake and Doom had.
Oh well, here's hoping DNF still has some of those elements that most games lack.
jackoneill45 1 year ago
@jackoneill45 Oh, god, I miss secret areas. And health bars. And the little face of your guy on the screen, which smiles devilishly when you acquire a new gun. And quad damage pickups. I really hope Duke Nukem will bring back some of the old school.
TheAdam159 1 year ago
@jackoneill45 i think painkiller brought back the old school quake feel.. didnt capture it exactly but ya i mean the level design was out the like quake...
thomas007 1 year ago
I had this game on Sega saturn when I had my first apartment. I was sitting there alone with every lamp turned off to complete darkness. I had the sega system connected to my surround system and had the volume pretty high.
Saying it scared the living hell out of me is an understatement! I couldnt even play it for too long at once, it was an overload to the mind I can tell you. Much of the horror came from the music!!
Sweet memories!! :D
daveberggren 1 year ago 4
thanks for posting this dude! I fucking lOOOOOVED this game, and obviously like NIN as well. Thank you very much!
midinerd 1 year ago 4
WTF WTF WTF WTF this is a death behind my back
youpipatube 1 year ago
Listening to this piece in the dark makes me feel like the most horrifying thing I can possibly imagine is creeping up behind me......
Kropotkin26 2 years ago
@Kropotkin26 could be all the subliminal messaging within this song..
letsgoforajoyride 1 year ago
I'm glad you can actually talk shit about windows movie maker... Too many people think that program is a godsend, when it's probably one of the worst ones out there, and the only reason anyone uses it is that it comes with pretty much all windows installs.
Also, quake was fucking amazing, and still is.
Bobbias 2 years ago 7
quake players understand what makes pc games great
Soothsayer88 2 years ago 95
indeed we do , m8!
zexicote 2 years ago
@Soothsayer88 Yes.
Entharion 8 months ago
i love this game so much I downloaded it recently and started playing again. As soon as the game loaded, christmas songs played in the background and I was thinking that it was probably an "christmas" easter egg joke from the makers of quake. But later I found out it was just a CD stuck in the cd drive.. damn.
underscore023 2 years ago 2
This theme scared me shitless when i played it.
SawyerTheMaster 2 years ago 2
heard this before, but not from this game, it was on a bootleg copy of something called 'rusty nails'
chemicalmarch2 2 years ago
@chemicalmarch2 do you know where I can find that rusty nails version? Ive been searching for awhile. even just the name of the album would help. my email address is sybilsteam@yahoo.com, my name is mary , thx so much
Sybilsgate 7 months ago
4:48>
It sounds like someone likes their steak really rare & really fresh...
MechWizzard 2 years ago 4
...And really human.
pigeontoucher 2 years ago
i have bought this game back in 96 and to this day, this soundtrack is still on my ipod.
wearebinary 2 years ago 9
Funny I never really listened to the Quake 1 soundtrack until now
Deader87 2 years ago 6
What I love about Quake (soundtrack is fucking a as well) is that it's one of those old games where it needed the CD to get the audio. Now since I have 2 disk drives, I can have Quake in the bottom one and it will still work, but it won't read the audio. I one day found myself listening to Heroes of Might and Magic II whilst playing Quake.
For those who have played HoMM2, laugh with me at the audacity of the situation :D
aceshighdueceslow 2 years ago 9
lol that must of been a strange experience
moorsalin3 2 years ago
see at first it was cool with the battle themes and I didn't notice but then I got kinda suspicious when I started hearing opera :P
aceshighdueceslow 2 years ago
i thought quake was the cool name for the game
NamedDarkSpyro 2 years ago
Quake for me as a 12 yr old is not scarey but sister she's scared of the friggin game and she dusn't want to play it lol
NamedDarkSpyro 2 years ago
Favourite track from this game. The entire soundtrack went PERFECTLY with the game.
Daederik 2 years ago
Quake was and still is a fucking awesome game.
duba3988 2 years ago 9
Indeed.
CarpetolA 2 years ago
same effect like in a part of Doom 3 ;- )
Mp3tracks 2 years ago
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ya know i like trent rezner and all but the music in doom wasnt very good thanks
defaultuser404 2 years ago
DOOM Soundtrack is NOT the work of Trent Reznor. He just did a track for the shity DOOM Movie.
QuakeI is the only Game OST he made.
Bosperus 2 years ago 3
The version of the song during the credits is a remix by Clint Mansell, who did the rest of the soundtrack though
YouWillNeverKillMe 2 years ago
How the fuck can you say that? o.O
chaoticzer0 2 years ago
Quake 2 is a sequel, however indirect to Quake 1. The name id wanted for what was eventually Quake 2 was copyrighted at the time. Plus if you look at it, Q2 aint that different from Q1; its you going around fragging the hell out of a bunch of monsters. As for Quake 3: Arena, it was originally supposed to be called just Arena, but id feared it wouldn't sell well, so they slapped the Quake tag franchise on it.
Blamed1 2 years ago
Damn, i hope Trent creates another game soundtrack one of these days.
theruiner89 2 years ago 5
probably for doom 4
ElvisBluntman777 2 years ago
The true name of this song is "Start/Whispers".
A friend of mine used to play "Gears of War" with the QUAKE-Soundtrack. It just fits so perfect in so many scenes... much better than the original score.
Trondyard 2 years ago
hell yeah man, gears of war should just have a pure creepy ambient/industrial music instead :P
Shakeno 2 years ago
the animated pics on the video make it look scary lol
joemon2007 2 years ago
used to crank the prodigys voodoo people while fragging around e1m2 , quad damage with that thumping beat was awesome:)
murfdogga 2 years ago
@murfdogga OMG I would listen to Jilted Generation while playing multiplayer Quake 2. Every time I hear that album now I think about Quake 2.
paulv1973 1 year ago
This was my favorite track out of the soundtrack! :D I still have my quake 1 CD and case too!
DarkShadowRage2 2 years ago
So, treasures this masterpiece. I got the Original CD too.....maybe I buy a security box 4 him. xD
netwalker72 2 years ago
Hell yeah I still own my original copy too!
chaoticzer0 2 years ago
Is that Trent you can hear chewing on food in the background?? :P
mortenrobinson 2 years ago 9
definitely on fresh raw food :D
keeroy 2 years ago
Or Nine Inch Nails!
NEMISISISONCRACK 1 year ago
@keeroy, you mean raw meat !!!!
n1a2t3h4a5l6i7e8 1 year ago
@mortenrobinson no.. it is a series of subliminal messages. Thou shalt smoke pot, thou shalt drink beer, thou shalt, i noticed this while stoned playing the game and it freaked me the fuck out.. i dunno if it is included as art to the song to make it seem more evil, or this sickfuck is trying to imitate disney.
letsgoforajoyride 1 year ago
@letsgoforajoyride art? I think it takes more than "intention to put art into a recording" to make good or as you morons even call it, "genious" [sic]. a series of subliminal messages you say? oh and so that's music? b/c that's really fucking hard to do.
mun090 1 year ago
@mun090 Then you make an appropriately freakish soundtrack for this game. I don't think Reznor's all that great...but I think these tracks prove that he is a good sound engineer. He was given a task to create a Quake soundtrack, and I feel he succeeded with flying colors.
Though, in your defense I don't think there are subliminal messages, nor do I feel this is in any way the best thing I've ever heard...I just think its the best thing for what it was intended for.
KaldeaX 1 year ago
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blum41 2 years ago
Hmm, why was there such a huge change in Q2? Q1 was very similar to doom, Q2 was all Cyborgs rather than demons and monsters.
miketbf 2 years ago
Quake 2 was originally going to have a different title, but ID had problems getting a trademark for a different title.
Quake 2 is technically not a sequel to Quake
hope that helped
nintak04 2 years ago
Very interesting.
Thanks, I feel like looking up some more info now.
miketbf 2 years ago
I read all about it on Wiki, Q3 isn't a sequel, Q4 is the only intentional sequel to Q2.
miketbf 2 years ago
Correct.
And I wish that they would make a sequel to Quake 1. However they'd probably fuck it up.
Dilo22 2 years ago
yeah but then it'd be totally confusing, people won't understand that quake 2,3,4 aren't sequels to this.
miketbf 2 years ago
I don't think people understand the concept of all the Quakes we have NOW anyways, so...
Dilo22 2 years ago
Such creepy music...
miketbf 2 years ago 4
speaking of which, that q1 sequel, most people would have no idea what it would be, people would refer it to doom in some wierd way, i don't think people would buy it
miketbf 2 years ago
Yep. I loved the gothic hell-ish style of the first one...
Shakeno 2 years ago
not gothic but hell-ish scary kinda shit!
ElvisBluntman777 2 years ago 3
Yes, they would, sequels fuck things up big time in most of the cases. It's just so hard to get close to that original atmosphere, let alone surpassing it.
Even the low quality graphics add to the dark atmosphere in the game, yet the first time I played quake in 1998 I thought "I don't think videogames will get more realistic than this!"
So I don't mind id putting out quake games with a different feel each time. It's refreshing and probably sells better.
I loved quake 3 too!
Droyd21 2 years ago
Quake 3 shouldn't have been a Quake. Quake's about Deathmatch and a great single player that focuses on scary environments and you VS a whole crapload of monsters.
They could've just called it "Arena".
Dilo22 2 years ago
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its called 'Quake 2'
there are also 3 and 4
1996 called, they want thier village idiot, you, back
wasrad 2 years ago
A real sequel, you dipshit. Quake 2 is completely different storyline and completely different game universe altogether. The only reason id called it "Quake 2" was because the name they wanted to use was already trademarked or some shit.
Go learn something about Quake before calling other stupid, you might prevent yourself from being a jackass next time.
Dilo22 2 years ago 7
i just finished quake, but it was a torrent and didn't have any of the music.
Creamy360 2 years ago
They should do a remake of the original Quake someday. I would wet my pants.
mthomas2k 3 years ago 5
this game royally freaked me out, especially those damn shamblers
speakerstereo 3 years ago
Creepy shit...
So creepy and in the later part, you can just hear the heavy drone sound, and how... someone is feasting on flesh, a flesh of some unlucky victim... Perfect.
CyberSteelPaladin 3 years ago 3
@CyberSteelPaladin this song is so subliminal , only our dark hearts can pick it up
letsgoforajoyride 1 year ago
I haven't played this game in a while, but while listening to this music I can almost hear the explosions, gun fire and other sound effects...especially at 4:48 ....
I think the music goes perfect with the concept of this game.
elunicocalvo 3 years ago
I have the whole soundtrack in my Walkman, and it really establishes an enormous horror mood while I read "It" by Stephen King. The soundtrack fits so damn perfectly!
CarpetolA 3 years ago
The songs like this that start off kind of quiet, but then slowly build up by adding more sounds in are the most awesome kind!
Bladedfury 3 years ago 6
Yeah it does make it worth your while. This is a good one. I always liked the opening title theme because it hits you so hard and then slowed down a lot.
That's a tone setter if there ever was one. The Quake soundtrack is essentially epic.
notyoursavior78 3 years ago 6
yeah...i grew up on this :D
medeborrr 3 years ago 3
Same here, Doom, Quake, Duke 3D, Hexen. Heretic, Rise of the Triad, Blood - all IMMENSE FPS.
Edd731 3 years ago 5
SAME HERE AS WELL :D
MANTICORE989 2 years ago
You left out Shadow Warrior.
SiNN4R 2 years ago
Oops but you corrrected that so nice one :D
Edd731 2 years ago
you also left out marathon, remember, marathon had duel weilding, secondary fire, and much more!
CrazyycclowN 2 years ago
Anyone ever played System Shock? I never did, but I heard it is a good game...
Very underrated too. :)
BlackAcidSteelKnight 2 years ago 2
@SiNN4R want more wang?
letsgoforajoyride 1 year ago
Right there at 4:49...freaking amazing. Loved this part when I was a 15-year-old sitting around reading while listening to it, love it now.
torresmatt 3 years ago
Been a while since I've listened to this stuff. It holds up, way better than most derivitave crap I hear in games nowadays. It's a shame he didn't end up doing stuff for Doom 3.
torresmatt 3 years ago 3
I would love to have heard Trent's music on Doom 3. Based on his Quake music and sounds it would have been immense.
Edd731 3 years ago 2
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Have you listened to what he's done lately? No. Trent's done making good music.
calmb4storm 2 years ago
@calmb4storm. I think he just needs to compose another video game soundtrack. His instrumentals are absolutely mesmerizing (Ghost I-IV anyone?) Year Zero and The Slip both felt somewhat rushed but I still enjoyed them well enough. I'm certain that there will never be another Fragile but, you can't ask him to capture lightning in a bottle twice.
SensoryTheater07 2 years ago
I really liked Year Zero. I didn't get to hear much off the Slip. Someone had uploaded the whole album on here, but I think that guy got banned. There were a couple good songs from the Slip, but I didn't hear it enough.
The Fragile though ruled hard!
notyoursavior78 2 years ago
The best video game music I've ever heard.
Markohoppis 3 years ago 3
this song reminds me the tracks of the "ghost I-IV" album of nine inch nails, pretty good song, reznor really is a genius
glorysteel 3 years ago 2
I'm prety sure that if you play this backwards you'll hear something...I think, I haven't tried it yet
chris4268 3 years ago
You'd probably hear the song being played...in reverse.
ISpearedJesus 3 years ago 13
Thanks for the Reznor tracks. I have fond memories of late nights playing quake. Tricky's Maxinquaye also had a way of enhancing the experience. Something about the relentless downbeat rhythm...
gaba023 3 years ago
I love the hushed whispers...you think you can make out words sometimes. An epic game and an even more epic soundtrack.
Edd731 3 years ago 4
@Edd731 there is.. thou shalt something something that is forward, backwards you hear alot of shit too, i wish i was more advanced in splicing to hear what the messages really are, only reznor will know. i would love to get ahold of the sampling all mixed into this.. be proud of yourself you detected things.. our minds put up weird red flags on certain things.. he is pulling a Disney on this.
letsgoforajoyride 1 year ago
@letsgoforajoyride and to mention like in year zero the warning.. the audio shapes out to be a mushroom cloud.. there is a shitton of things going on in this song. and hate reznor for putting subliminal messaging into his songs, like disney, and also him going into politics.. who are you reznor? i used to respect you. well the music at least.. i dunno who you are really, from choir boy singer to demented god hating pessimist and troll.
letsgoforajoyride 1 year ago
This is probably the best soundtrack in a fpw ever. So dark, as was the game; sparse and threatening. The enemies genuinely terrifying and fearful to behold. Who can forget the dark corners and screams they gave out upon seeing you. The real fear that your weapons were not enough and that you were sure to die.
ASSEMblerEX 3 years ago 8
exactly, excellent described. the atmosphere is very similar to lovecrafts short stories - deep despair, no hope. the ammunition is not enough and you´ll soon run out of it...
keeroy 3 years ago
man in my opinion no game will ever have as good of soundtracks as quake, the heavy metal put you in the mood to kill some people or put you on the edge of you seat when it started playing when there was nothing around!
Blade3562 3 years ago 5
this tune is simular to the 1982 john carpenter The Thing film
vegunited06 3 years ago 2
and that film is excellent.
Edd731 3 years ago