2007

Yeah, but did he play in any tournaments?

inb4 a "RAPHA PLAYS SHOOTMANIA" thread

holy shit I had a match I was supposed to play against hawr1x back in 2007. I've just come back on ESR, what are the chances lol.

rapha brilliant as alwyays.
Q4 > ql.

Oh how I've missed those stumbling footsteps and grunting sound effects. /s

this is old, he played Quake 2 in the Quad- Damage tourney too : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsJxXpImDqg

Why of course he did...

I wonder if he could of been just as top player in q4 as ql.

Miss seeing him play at peak for him I hope he keeps practicing so he can win next 20

Damn, I forgot how much Q4 sucked compared to Q3.

you say that, but as a balance between all titles it was a good effort. I liked it, but I wasn't brought up on q2 or q3 only.

The main problem for me was the aesthetic part: textures, models, animations, sound.
Then, the blocky feel (I wanted to punch the monitor when I got stuck on the pillars of DM6)

The general aesthetics of quake 4 always pissed me off, it's like looking at one of those bad NES titles with garbled backgrounds and shitty grey colour palettes.

Like this for example:

even manic miner looked better than that rubbish

I suppose they had to do something different, the LG sound was weird, but kinda of catchy. That blocky feeling went when the slide improved I think. But then that was it's demise, as people couldn't keep up with it. Slide was no sound, so caught oldschoolers out with no sound cues.

But I loved the slide :) if perfected on monsoon, you could slide all the way from Mega jump onto RA with one snakelike slide. That was quite fun.

change the hitsound and have a thin straight LG shaft and then its all good with me

Wasn't there a shaft changing option?
But back to the q3 better than q4 comment, whatever the graphics (which I thought were nice enough especially single player).

I remember playing 2gd in a 1v1 on monsoon, and he was just hitting rails all over the place, even when I thought I was not visible. (Told me why, which was nice of him.)

So I think that it was pretty fair to good q3 players imo.

If you look at most of the pros, who were at the top of q3, most were pretty good at Q4 and all were very active in it. Why who knows? Maybe because of the potential prize money (harsh to say but potentially the case), or just the plain fun and balance of the game? and that the game was current?

I mean the spectator shaft, because every tourney or vod has that horrible beam and hitsound and it would all look thrice as nice if it was changed

AnthonyJ where you, he knows :)

q4 \O/

Sounds of dying dude are fucking awesome.

Did he ever play q4 in competitions?

rapha vs forever footage on here



raph would have been good, but i doubt he would have been a god back then.
q3/ql just fits his defense style better

the competition was also younger and hungrier back then

It's because q4 was new and people wanted to be there at the start. Immortal even came back for a brief period.