History VideoGame / QuakeI

* EnemyCivilWar: The monsters seem to hate each other almost as much as they hate you, judging by how easy it is to trick them into fighting each other.
* EnemyMine: The Horn of Invocation in ''Scourge of Armagon'', which allows you to invoke the last enemy you've beaten up.
* EverythingFades: One of the early attractions of ''Quake'''[=s=] polygonal graphics was the prospect that you'd now be able to ''look at corpses and guns from different angles'' (which was new and incredibly cool back then.) Unfortunately, the rapid increase in performance requirements brought on by ''Quake''-style graphics would ultimately bring about the ubiquity of EverythingFades.

* HitScan: Most projectiles, which makes the Shambler's lightning attack particularly annoying (and deadly), since it's impossible to dodge.

* LovecraftLite: Many of the levels and enemies are designed as {{Shout Out}}s to his works. The "lite" bit comes from the fact that you're playing as a [[MadeOfIron nails-tough]] ActionHero with a HyperspaceArsenal that can make mince meat out of any abomination you face in less than ten seconds.

* NoKillLikeOverkill: All over the place. It's possible to take down knights or ogres with ''three'' rockets, and then there's killing the piranhas with the shotgun...
* NoisyGuns
* PaletteSwap: Aside from Player Characters, not used until ''Dissolution of Eternity''. The textures used on some monsters indicate that they are slightly different; yellowish ogres may throw multi grenades, green spawns will split apart, and a mummy (a white-colored zombie) is a hitpoint sponge rather than being ImmuneToBullets.

* RealityEnsues: Firing the Thunderbolt underwater is as unsafe as you expect it would be in real life, [[UpToEleven even going so far as gibbing the player and everyone else around him.]]
* RangedEmergencyWeapon: The Quake shotgun. It is half as powerful compared to its predecessor from ''Doom'', needing two shots to kill even the weakest of enemies. It's more comparable to the pistol, given its slightly higher rate of fire and that it's your starting weapon.

* SetAMookToKillAMook: One of the main features of the AI is how easy it is to get enemies to attack each other, which can save the player a lot of work.

* SpaceMarine: id attempted to distance themselves from it in this game.
** Part of ''Scourge of Armagon'' plays this straight.

* TeleportingKeycardSquad: The first Shambler appears before you the moment you grab a key (on the easy difficulty).
** Happens several times throughout the game, actually, particularly in the [[NintendoHard fourth episode]].

* InvisibilityCloak: The Ring of Shadows, which renders the player invisible save for his eyes.

* {{Nerf}}ed: The Quake shotgun is half as powerful compared to its predecessor from ''Doom'', and requires two shots to kill even the weakest of enemies. This is compensated somewhat by it's higher rate of fire (about twice as high as Doom's), as well as the fact it's your starting weapon.

* PuzzleBoss: Both the end of Episode 1, and the FinalBoss.

* GameBreakingBug: The thunderbolt explodes if discharged into the water. However, an early version (1.01) had a small window where a player would enter a non-respawning zombie state if he wasn't gibbed by the explosion (e.g. 6 cells with 100 health). In a multiplayer game, you needed to disconnect from the server. While it was fixed in version 1.06, the expansion packs (1.07 and 1.08) re-implemented the bug.

* Nerfed: The Quake shotgun is half as powerful compared to its predecessor from ''Doom'', and requires two shots to kill even the weakest of enemies. This is compensated somewhat by it's higher rate of fire (about twice as high as Doom's), as well as the fact it's your starting weapon.

* EnemyCivilWar: The monsters seem to hate each other almost as much as they hate you.

* WeaksauceWeakness: The Shambler shrugs off most rocket blasts, but is weak against nails [[LightningGun And lightning]].

* HeroTrackingFailure: Played straight with grunts - they are forced to aim a bit behind the player. All other ranged-attack mooks only focus on the player as well. The sole exception is Ch'thon on hard difficulty, which leads with the attacks.

** The Strafe Jump, also called "bunny hopping", which was a glitch in the game[='=]s multiplayer. To the point of including a tutorial about it in ''Quake Live''. Along with the Strafe Jump, more abilities were there to be discovered by the player. Not really an issue that divides the Quake fanbase: they've accepted it, unlike the members of similar games or spinoffs.

* HeroTrackingFailure: Played straight with grunts - they are forced to aim a bit behind the player. All other ranged-attack mooks only focus on the player as well. The sole exception is Ch'thon on hard difficulty, which leads with the attacks.

* ShoutOut: As mentioned above, many towards HPLovecraft, such as the bosses being called Ch'thon and Shub-Niggurath.

* EldritchAbomination: Many of the enemies, especially in the later levels. Shamblers are giant bear-like creatures with huge claws that can shoot lightning and have no eyes. Vores are {{GiantSpider}}s that shriek and throw balls of [[MadeOfExplodium exploding matter]] at the players.

* LoveCraftLite: Many of the levels and enemies are designed as {{Shout Out}}s to his works. The "lite" bit comes from the fact that you're playing as a [[MadeOfIron nails-tough]] ActionHero with a HyperspaceArsenal that can make mince meat out of any abomination you face in less than ten seconds.

* ShoutOut: As mentioned above, many towards HPLovecraft, such as the bosses being called Chthon and Shub-Niggurath.

'''Quake''' is the first game in the eponymous VideoGame/{{Quake}} series, and was released in 1996. It began development as a free roaming RPG, but it switched to a FirstPersonShooter, like Id's previous series, ''{{Doom}}''.

The game has the HeroicMime [[TheProtagonist Protagonist]] (called "Ranger" in ''VideoGame/QuakeIIIArena'') going through 4 worlds [[{{MacGuffin}} collecting lost runes]] in order to fight against an EldritchAbomination after a military experiment into [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace teleportation went awry]] and [[GoneHorriblyWrong caused an interdimensional demon invasion]]. The player, now the last surviving member of his unit, must single-handedly blow them all to bits. Of course, the story was once more than [[ExcusePlot just a basic framework]] for an adrenaline-packed onslaught of vicious monsters to be blown apart.

As id Software's follow-up to ''{{Doom}}'', this game is another big step forward in their graphics capabilities. The game's [[GameEngine engine]] was renowned for its ability to create a fully polygonal three dimensional world, populated with enemies and objects constructed using the same polygons and all animated smoothly, at a time when most games still used sprites in some fashion, such as for enemies or pickups. Built for modding, id freely distributed scripting, design and mapping tools that spawned a practically infinite stream of fanmade content (including, notably, ''Team Fortress'', which went on to spawn [[VideoGame/TeamFortressClassic two]] [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 sequels]]). ''Quake'' is also notable for jump-starting the phenomena of {{speedrun}}ning and {{machinima}} (''DiaryOfACamper'').

* ArmorPiercingAttack: Lava nails in ''Dissolution of Eternity''. Against players, armor absorption is halved but it does the same amount of damage. Monsters take extra damage instead.

* ChunkySalsaRule: Zombies aren't normally killed by bullets or nails ([[CaptainObvious since they're already dead, natch]]) and must be blown up with grenades and rockets. The QuadDamage also splatters zombies as well.

* DeadCharacterWalking: Typing "give health" into the [[MasterConsole console]] will cause the player to assume a bizarre undead state where they're lying on the ground as a corpse, yet can still jump, look around, shoot and even kill enemies.

* DepletedPhlebotinumShells: ''Dissolution of Eternity'' adds lava nails.

* GameBreakingBug: The thunderbolt explodes if discharged into the water. However, an early version (1.01) had a small window where a player would enter a non-respawning zombie state if he wasn't gibbed by the explosion (e.g. 6 cells with 100 health). In a multiplayer game, you needed to disconnect from the server. While it was fixed in version 1.06, the expansion packs (1.07 and 1.08) re-implemented the bug.
* GameMod: TropeCodifier in the FPS Genre. ''{{Doom}}'' was designed with a few features that allowed user made levels, but ''Quake'' was probably the first major game purpose built for modding, especially with its "Quake C" scripting language. In fact, many modern games owe their roots to mods developed for Quake. Several of the mods (CaptureTheFlag, Rocket Arena) have also became standard modes in subsequent games. ''Team Fortress'' became its own game series.

* MuckMonster: Spawn. The expansion pack adds a variety that can [[MookMaker duplicate itself indefinitely]].

* PaletteSwap: Aside from Player Characters, not used until ''Dissolution of Eternity''. The textures used on some monsters indicate that they are slightly different; yellowish ogres may throw multi grenades, green spawns will split apart, and a mummy (a white-colored zombie) is a hitpoint sponge rather than being ImmuneToBullets.

* PointOfNoReturn: Levels are usually designed so that you can backtrack anytime, but there are a few exceptions, such as one part of a level in which the lights behind the player turn off, [[FridgeLogic somehow]] blocking the path.
* PuzzleBoss: Both the end of Episode 1, and the FinalBoss.

* SeriousBusiness: Tournament play moved from a pastime to a career for some, among them "Thresh", who won John Romero's Ferrari in a tournament.

* TitleDrop: The final line of ''Dissolution of Eternity''.

* EverythingFades: One of the early attractions of ''Quake'''[=s=] polygonal graphics was the prospect that you'd now be able to ''look at corpses and guns from different angles'' (which was [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome new and incredibly cool back then]].) Unfortunately, the rapid increase in performance requirements brought on by ''Quake''-style graphics would ultimately bring about the ubiquity of EverythingFades.

* KillItWithFire: Zombies cannot be killed with bullets ([[CaptainObvious since they're already dead, natch]]) but must be blown up with grenades and rockets.
--> [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe Thou canst not kill what doth not live.]] [[SophisticatedAsHell But you can blast it into chunky kibble.]]

--> [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe Thou canst not kill that which doth not live.]] [[SophisticatedAsHell But you can blast it into chunky kibble.]]

--> [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe Thou cannot kill that which dost not live.]] [[SophisticatedAsHell But you can blast it into chunky kibble.]]

* UseItem: {{Averted}}. All doors and switches are activated by shooting or walking up to them. There is no "use" key.
** Some players discovered "+use" as a console command. While some modders could use that, the console command wasn't functional.

* SixHundredSixtySix: Appears as your armor count when you pick up a certain rune. Needless to say, you're unable to take damage with it active.

* DescendingCeiling: Several times. It's subverted in an early level of the original, though - the ceiling does descend, but when it's just a little above you, it breaks into two parts and retreats into the walls.

* SaveScumming: You can save the game at any time, which is the only realistic way to beat the harder difficulties.

* UseItem: {{Averted}}. All doors and switches are activated by shooting or walking up to them. There is no "use" key.

* CallBack: The vores appearing as bosses in the second episode, and then as regular {{mooks}} in 3 and 4 to the end of episode 1 of ''{{Doom}}''.

** TheCameo: The [[CommanderKeen DopeFish]] appears in a well-hidden secret room in one level.

* DescendingCeiling

* GatlingGood: The Super Nailgun.

* GrenadeLauncher

* LavaPit: Several instances.
* LeapAndFire

* LoveCraftLite: Many of the levels and enemies are designed as {{Shout Out}}s to his works. The "lite" bit comes from the fact that you're playing as a [[MadeOfIron nails-tough]] ActionHero with a HyperspaceArsenal.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: In ''Dissolution of Eternity'', a powerup significantly reduces damage if you are facing its source (damage from lava is treated from the origin point in the map). If you're hit from behind, it's just a minor damage reduction.
* LudicrousGibs: Whenever enemies are blown up with the rocket launcher or telefragged. [[ChunkySalsaRule Explosives are actually required to kill zombies]]; attacks must inflict a minimum amount of damage to kill one.
* MalevolentArchitecture
* MoreDakka: The Super Nailgun has ''four'' barrels and an insane rate of fire. Unfortunately, this means it tends to run out of ammo fairly quickly.

* TheWallsAreClosingIn

* PuzzleBoss: Both the end of Episode 1, and the final.