A Whole Lotta Quake Will Be Blowing Up Your IPhone

@Chroma3000 is a Californian again: Hey, just saw this reply. I guess i'm envisioning a really sleek stand / BT controller package type deal. Good call though, I think the usage situations would require it to be attached.

I just don't want to carry anything bigger than an iphone and an attached solution would add too much bulk.

AlexLand

@endless: I've played Quake 1 on Dreamcast with the controller. It's Quake.

@davekaybsc: Want a cookie?

@Chroma3000 is a Californian again:

Are you saying you want a device that your phone sits in or something? I don't see why you need to be attached to the phone.. I think a bluetooth controller is a great idea. It's likely that the HID stack could already do it (simulating a mouse and "keyboard," but have a very limited button set, and then just bind the keys.

diredesire

Isn't it just going to be a rail shooter? That's not Quake. Not Quake at all.

Quad with the Strength Rune FTMFW!

@mustanganator: "I wish doom classic would drop sometime soon... the iphone is not a legitimate game platform unless it can run doom."

See, talk like that makes it sound as if WinMo is a legitimate gaming platform, and it really isn't.

actually looking forward to kill time and zombies simultaneously with these games.

Too bad that´s the only thing you play on that brick. Because NO ONE is interesting in publishing decent games for crappy Nokia and their fail-gage platform LOL

Suck it

Antonio Jorge Ferreira

quake arena! good times!

Spaz6to8

YAWN. S60 already has all three Quake games. I can play Q1 or Q2 on my E90 right now if I want to. Oh yeah, I also have a D-pad and an entire keyboard to map buttons with. That means shoot, run, and strafe at the same time. I can switch weapons with the 1-8 keys, jump, and swim up, down and look up, down.

A keyboard is a wonderful thing. Suck it, iPhone.

davekaybsc

@mustanganator:

I'm getting an iTunes voucher today, mainly to get Sims 3 and Doom Ressurection, but also to be prepared for when id DO release Doom classic.

Carmack said that Wolfenstein RPG is done, EA just won't let him release it right after Wolfenstein Classic, so as Doom Ressurection's out we may have to wait a while.

@AlexLand: Why bluetooth? That would be awkward. I would need to be attached to the phone itself to really work, so that you'd still have one device.

And to whoever said it uses the accelerometer, that's horrible. It really is.

Got to hang out at ID studios a couple days ago, see all there new games, and even play some quake with the crew, I was with Joe Rogan, a couple pics here:

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redban

@Chroma3000 is a Californian again: I'd love to see a bluetooth game controller standard. If they'd just make a generic driver for a 4 button controller that any hardware (licensed) manufacturer could interface with you wouldn't have to worry about some games working with some hardware, etc.

I want to see something resembling the front row remote.. it's already almost there, just a few more buttons and it'd be perfect. something that small you could easily keep in your pocket.

AlexLand

iPhone Q3A with ad-hoc networking would make for some fun flash lan parties.

dingus

@Chroma3000 is a Californian again: I don't know if it's been covered on this site. But you aim using the accelerometer.

Minki Kim

have you tried the terminator salvation game? i actually though those controls worked really well. they could translate to first person shooters.

XerxesEldred

Perfect game for showing off accessories. Can iPhone/iPod Touch get some kind of controller or ps3/360 adapter? PLEASE!!!

streetceltic

@Chroma3000 is a Californian again:

well... if it doesn't have a mouse + keyboard, its not quake.

endless

no buttons...

not worth the time.

hopefully sony will finally release some REAL hardware into the phone arena, then mobile games will actually be worth downloading.

until then its peggle.

EncNone

Props for having Quake 2.

Enjoy folks. It's a serious classic.

@Chroma3000 is a Californian again:
Give it time. Things are bound to get worse before they get better.

Lukasz Fabis

Needs moar Gordon Freemon love in the Apple sauce

Um, folks are aware that booth the original Doom and Quake 1 are available for download in jailbroken iPhones via Cydia, yes?

Netscott

What about Quake Live coming to the iPhone? That would be so much better. It's already there, why not just set up an iPhone client for the existing framework?

Derek Erdmann

@Rob C: Yeah, I tried that back in the day but I could never get it to actually run. Pretty disappointing.

@mustanganator:

In the heydey of the 1.X firmwares with jailbreaking, getting doom was as easy as downloading the doom emulator off Installer.app!

Rob C

Hell, you could have Crysis on the damn thing and I still wouldn't want to play it on a tilting touch screen.

Loonie

Wow carmack is really in love with the iPhone, I wish doom classic would drop sometime soon, the new resurrection game is pretty cool, but the iphone is not a legitimate game platform unless it can run doom.

mustanganator

@adhir: I'm actually hoping for some sort of physical controls attachment with some analog sticks and buttons. Apple is letting developers use the connector port now, so why not make some sort of standard for attached controllers? It would make it a seriously competent mobile game platform.

@Chroma3000 is a Californian again: agreed. they should have given us more buttons.

adhir

But the problem is that the controls will likely suck like every other 3D shooter on the platform. And don't give me that Wolfenstein excuse, you just aim left and right and shoot at robo-Hitler.