John Carmack has stated that he’d love to reboot Quake 1, or remake it in some fashion. If anything, he’d at least like to return to the world of the original Quake 1 for the next title in the highly anticipated series post Quake 4 (released back in 2005 for PC, Mac, Xbox 360 and Linux).
So for the id boss, the past looks like it may be the destination for the future.
To quote in a new interview:
“We went from the Quake 2 and the Quake 4 Strogg universe. We are at least tossing around the possibilities of going back to the bizarre, mixed up Cthulhu-ish Quake 1 world and rebooting that direction. We think that would be a more interesting direction than doing more Strogg stuff after Quake 4. We certainly have strong factions internally that want to go do this. “
Although he insists that this is just his own personal thinking and talking-aloud, and that nothing is actually being built to that effect… Yet.
“But we could do something pretty grand like that, that still tweaks the memory right in all of those ways, but is actually cohesive and plays with all of the strengths of the level we’re at right now.”
Very, very interesting!
Would you love to see a reboot of Quake 1? Or see the franchise go in a new direction?
Via Eurogamer