Escape From Mount Stupid: id Software

My dad got me Wolfenstein for Christmas in 1992, I remember it being delivered by a UPS guy. I played that game all day, and for months afterward.

From what I've read, "Rage" is good but not great, which is a bummer since it's been 7 years since their last studio release. At some point we have to take studios at face value, rather than what they've accomplished in the past.

dude... doom 3 scared the living sh.. out of me!!and i was like wut? 9 at the time? it still scareds me now! i think the guys at visceral games learned sumthing from id software when they made dead space 1 and 2

well, id is the ancient father of pc gaming. quake 3 arena was my sacred idol, i played it like 10 years. but when i look at the rage, their last release, eh... times they are'a changing man...

First time I saw Doom I got chills...still remember the experience. A buddy of mine played so much Doom he almost turned into a Wraith.

Doom 3 was the last game I was legitimately scared to play, but I'm still impressed that I can be scared by the first Doom nowadays. There's something about the gore in the first one that also seems like it's never been topped. Yeah, and I was introduced to it when I was 6. Mental damage? probably.

Quake II with the grabble hook was awesome ,i could fly with it realy well. At a time I was nr7 most fanatic player in the world , loved that game

Doom (and Doom II; hard to separate them) remain as one (two) of my most favorite games of all time. I still play them today. I think I will play them today, just because they are that awesome.

"Wolfenstein created pillars of the genre today... you could explore environments..." BULLCRAP! FPS's today don't let you explore, they only give you a linear path to follow!

Quake 2 is my favorite ever iD Software game

"Aaaaaahhhh, that's betterAAAAHHHH!!!!!" This guy should run the site.

Favourite? Quake 3 Arena or DOOM? Or DOOM II for that matter? Maybe DOOM just clinches it but it's a close thing. I played the DOOMs recently on XBLA. Would've got Quake 3 on XBLA as well but it didn't have local multiplayer! So I haven't played Quake since the days of the Dreamcast when the character's face would appear on the "Visual Memory Unit". Maybe I should dust it off and revisit it, just to see if it's better than DOOM or not...

Till Rage i have say Quake. Now my favorite FPS of all time is Rage. Rage ending was disappointment but i loved the graphics and fantastic gameplay,enemy A.I and beautiful girls. Played it on PC.

They haven't made a good game since Quake, they're finished now, I rage at them.

Quake remains one of my favorite games of all time. That big dude groaning as he lugged his chainsaw across the floor and the sound of my grenade bouncing off the floor and jibbing him. AWESOME!

Quake was probably the very first first person shooter game I played, many many years ago. Back when the circle-strafe was king and no-one knew what regenerating health constituted.

I used to play Q3A so much, I smashed couple mouses and keyboards while playing online, but I think it was triggered by great soundtrack , I think sonic mayhem , mmmmmm :)

my favorite the original doom

I've played them all...I would so far say that Doom is was the best, followed by Quake...I have not finished Rage.

I miss those good old days. We had ID, Epic, Bioware, Monolith, Looking Glass Studios, black isle, bullfrog,Red Storm Ent....etc.. it makes me sad to think about how awesome PC gaming could be if they still made games because they loved making games and not because they love money. Its still a great time to be a PC gamer and I see it coming full circle again but sadly i don't see it reaching the level of epicness it was in the 90s. PC is in need of a good quake 3 or UT style game where skill is required to be good. I want to be killed because the other guy was better then me not because he is stilling in a chopper gunner seat shooting a mini gun at red triangles.

I've played all of the games except Quake III Arena and my favorite ID game of all time is still DOOM

ah Quake...best memories....screw COD/BF!! Btw one of the nicest videos in a long time. Keep this up.

Great Video. It's a pity that I never got to play any of Id's games before (never had a powerful pc). But seeing this reminds me of how important this company is. I'll buy Rage in the near future just because I want to own at least 1 id game.

We loaded Quake Arena on the computers in our Comm. Tech class in high school during a period in which we had a semi-permanent substitute. All I can remember is this little country dude playing with us and yelling "KUH-WAKE DAMAGE!" I still say that phrase and laugh about it to this day.

@dannyodwyer I'm really enjoying these Bluffer's Guides. Please keep making them!

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BFG anyone!!!

hell yeah! commander keen. There would be no duke nukem without this game and john carmack

as much as i loved doom my fave has to be quake 1 the sounds of the grenades and monsters were awesome and capture the flag in q2 couldnt get enough of that!

Quake got me hooked

I remember when Doom II came out on 5 disks and we were like "woah! 5 disks!!" That's less than 8MB....

DooM will always be my all time favorite, and he is pretty right about Id's games having amazing gameplay and graphics but mediocre story, I love RAGE for everything but its story.

Return to Castle Wolfenstein/Enemy Territory = epicness

Very funny as always. "The first rule of Fight Club..." LOLZ My all time favorite id game is definitely Quake. I loved the campaign and went days without sleeping playing Team Fortress. Give 999 nails

Quake 3 arena . It is OBVIOSLY the best . I played it all day long and would still play it . It is awesome . Counter strike is a feint fart compared to Quake 3 ... the blooood ... the power ups . It is just epic . EPIC I say !!!

@dannyodwyer Id, ego and super-ego are the three parts of the psychic apparatus defined in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche; they are the three theoretical constructs in terms of whose activity and interaction mental life is described. According to this model of the psyche, the id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends; the ego is the organised, realistic part; and the super-ego plays the critical and moralizing role.... from Wikipedia.org

I put tons of hours into the original Quake and the first release of Team Fortress. I will always remember the first time I learned to rocket jump and spamming hallucination grenades.

Definitely got kudos for ID for helping to make gaming what it is today. I remember hanging out in the computer lab during lunch period in high school playing multiplayer deathmatch over LAN when the original Doom first came out, at least until the school administration figured out that's what we were doing and removed our privileges to the computer lab during lunch and deleted the game from all the PCs. Way to stifle creativity. I might have actually pursued a career in game design if I would have just gotten a little more encouragement in school.

What was my favorite id game? Probably Doom. Doom 2 was nice as well, but 3 was horrible imo. I also really love Commander Keen 4. I just started playing Rage on the PC, and so far it's pretty good; hard to put down.

Damm the auto regenarating life era.... we don't fell the relief of finding a health pack anymore....

Played all the games showed in this video. My favorite one was however Doom 3, and still today I think it was the best horror game ever made. I rememeber falling from my chair from being scared. lol

and the engines id software crated were wolfenstein engine (used in wolf3d), id tech 1 -- doom engine, quake engine, id tech 2 -- quake 2 engine, id tech 3 -- quake 3 engine, id tech 4 -- doom 3 engine and id tech 5 -- rage engine. if quake engine was id tech 2 then rage would be id tech 6.

Return to castle wolfenstein. Oh yeahr... those were the days... and Rise of the triads :-)

BUT DO SOME RESEARCH COMMANDER KEEN WASN'T THEIR FIRST GAME!

EPIC!

Quakeoholic for life.

Best video ever!

Quake 2 was my welcoming present to id and man it was a top game indeed! Yet I wasn't impressed with Quake 3 as UT99 took most of my time.

I stll love playing their older stuff. The original Doom and Quake are still a huge amount of fun.

My first game I ever played was Half Life, full game I mean, I played several levels of Doom before that and Wolfenstein but the firs video game I owned and finished was half life. Great impression :)