Escape From Mount Stupid: id Software

I love id software, RAGE was great.

RtCW was for sure not average. It rocked... especially the MP. Raven's Quake 4 and Wolfenstein sucked tho.

cool! My first FPS: Wolfenstein. Doom was great but hey c'on! the first impression counts. Rage is worthy, on my list already

Wolfenstein 3d wasn't the first FPS at all. It wasn't even Id Software's first FPS. They already had two FPS games out by then. Hoovertank 3d & Catacomb 3d. Research much? It's on their wikipedia page

It brings back a lot of old memories and the painful fact that those golden days of 90s gaming are now long gone.

Great video but 2001's RTCW wasnt pretty average, I thought it was great

return to castle wolfenstein was the best=)

the video depresses me, reminds me of how old i have become....

I love these bluffers guides

Quote: Scalper "great video, brings back memories. Now do VALVe." I agree... This was a great trip down PC gaming's memory lane :) id were also responsible for me spending rediculous amounts of money on new hardware, just to see Quake in OpenGL with the GLQuake patch :P They'll always be a legend in my books. And like Scalper (as well as many others I suspect), I'd love to see a similar vid on Valve. Halflife was an amazing revamp on the FPS genre and probably has most of the Doom brigade as fans too.

Wolf3d and doom changed my life.

Shortly, no Heretic ?

Quake 2 was my first game, it was also my first person shooter.It was entirely different from games i play in that age. It took bloody 2 weeks for me to finish the game, playing nonstop. Then my uncle got me a gift, Heretic 2. Blood, lizardmen, amazing environment, magic, zombies... It is quite sad that you do not mention it. I would love to see a Heretic 3 with blood rituals, explosive magics and return of the mighty hero, Corvus and his adventures. I still play Quake 3, awesome multiplayer. Quake 4 was also cool. Doom 3 was too scary so i couldnt finish it :). Rage, haven't tried it yet. Now its up to you whether if i should get the game or not paying 48 dollars.

Doom2 is my favourite, along with ultimate Doom. And you, dude. is hawt. :Q_

Doom remains as one of my favorite id games. I simply love the purity and unadulterated nature of those old school FPS where reflexes and knowing how to handle your arsenal meant everything. And the environments, the exploration and finding the secret areas within each level. TBH I still like and play Doom and many FPS games based on the Build Engine such as One Unit Whole Blood, Duke Nukem 3D, heck even Chex Quest!

Rage Rules ID keep it up (^0^)

I've only played Doom 3 it was great. Look forward to Rage and Doom 4.

@naryanrobinson @RSM-HQ Thanks for the feedback guys. I don't dislike RTCW, it's a good game, but not a great one imo. That's what I consider "average", but again, it's just my opinion. I'm not sure anybody would care about a video where we regurgitate old review scores ;)

Another amazing bluffers guide! Thanks man, keep 'em coming! I'll never forget the first time I played Wolfenstein 3D or Doom. Literally the worst computer in the world, playing in the dark with my best friend from school - epic! Unfortunately I missed the Quake part of the id lifecycle, as I simply didn't have the technology to deal with it, I remember the rich kids talking about it though! I think that's when I realised consoles were the way forward; affordable accessibility.

woah brings back memories ! loved doom and quake at the same time i played blood !! it was an awesome game allso !

@naryanrobinson You're not wrong by any means about review scores of ol Gamespot. However this is Bluffers view on the games & not the person who reviewed them all that time ago. He's entitled to his opinions, and maybe he did like it back in the day but simply thinks it doesn't reach his modern standards.. But I digress.

DOOM 2 = the king of hell

Actually, as an update to my last post. On this very website Return to Castle Wolfenstein has a 9.2 rating, which means despite this guy's (wrong) opinion of the game, it's practically the highest rated id game ever in GameSpot's own eyes. (Quake got a 9.3 actually, and Quake III got the same ie. 9.2).

Good vid. My favorite was probably Quake, though Wolf will always have a special place in the heart of this geeky old man.

id will next be working on D00M4 which I believe is for PC, 360, PS3, probably WiiU also. Really can't wait to see what that bad boy will be like ;)

'research yo' - this isn't mtv raps -*shudders* (Runs off to play some Slipknot). Long Live id.

Diggfinger System Shock 1 was not an FPS.

awesome, the bes ID game for me was without a doubt DOOM 3. Now i can't wait for DOOM 4!

"Quake had the first ever FULL CONTROL OVER WHERE TO LOOK"??? What about System Shock 1 from 1994?

Very well put Danny! I am glad your in my friends list much before you became a Gamespot employee :D

I don't know why, but I feel I need to say this: ID Software is the most important game developer...ever. That is not to say they're my favourite game developer, that is split between Sqaresoft (before they began to hold hands with Enix) and Bethesda. With the 5 Million first person shooters released every year, it's about time someone paid respect to the company that started the madness. I remember installing doom on a computer in high school computer lab....stupid teachers. No, I will not take your typing tests. Why would I? I can shoot things instead! Totally awesome! Ahh...wasn't youth beautiful?

OMG! Commander Keen was id software? I never knew that...one of my favorite games... i can barely remember though.

i got the original wolfenstein on my ps3 its so much fun to play after all those years

xsonicchaos, keen was made by ID Oo wow :p

dude, i'm around since Commander Keen and didn't even know it was made by id. that's cool. My favourite id game, and probably one of the beste games on my list: Quake 2. man, how i hated that laser gun when somebody else got their hands on it. Rage: awesome with bada** sprinkled all over it!

ID is a PC company...so bad they forget it (along with gamespot). Since when Doom, quake, ... were on XBOX 360 ??

And don't forget another thing. No matter how old Id's games are, chances are you're still playing them even after you've put down all the other fps's. They're as intense as you can get.

Ah, so many fond memories. These games were a big part of my childhood. Long live id, you'll always have a special place in my heart.

Pretty average Return To Castle Wolfenstein? The one that got 9.2 on Gamespot? Not so superb Quake 4? The same game that never ceases to be enjoyable no matter how many times you play it? (Sure the multiplayer was no different to Quake 3, but the singleplayer was amazing.) And what happened to Hexen and Heretic?

Doom 3

No kidding on id Software making a smooth transition to consoles - much of the effort in designing Rage seemed to have gone into the console versions. The PC version is clogged with day one bugs. :?

great video, brings back memories. Now do VALVe. :)

I got chills at 3:00 when the Doom theme music started :) Since you mentioned Nine Inch Nails for the first time in Quake, maybe you didn't know they did some of the soundtrack in Doom as well. There's even a secret altar to them later in the game. I loved Quake 3 like nothing else at the time as well, and it's strange to think you can play it now on a PC that costs $25 (Google Raspberry Pi). I think you mustn't have played Return to Castle Wolfenstein if your final judgement is "pretty average". The same thing goes for Quake 4. First of all, it didn't come out before Doom 3, it came out after, the engine it ran on (technically "id Tech 4") was called the "Doom 3 engine" inside the game itself. Secondly, GameSpot gave it a lower score than almost every other site, and even they gave it an 8.0 (great). I've only played a few hours of RAGE as well and I don't own it myself, but it's exactly what I wanted. It looks beautiful, it runs beautifully and shooting things in the wasteland is the most fun to be had in the world of gaming.

I loved Quake II since I was a kid and it's still my fav now. I can't wait to play RAGE need to wait for my little bro to finish with it.

Doom HD anyone?

Rage is my new favorite id game. The graphics and gameplay are awesome. So what if it doesn't have a strong story or lots of autosaves, it's still a lot of fun and deserves much higher than an 8.0. I'm glad I got the Anarchy Edition 'cause my fists of rage are perfect for pummeling mutants!

Quake 3 and Quake 3 Team Arena were the best... but RTCW was also awesome...

He messed up the releases for Quake 4 and Doom 3. Doom 3 was released in 2004, not 2005 and Quake 4 was released in 2005, not 2004. He also forgot to mention Resurrection of Evil. But whatever. My favorite Id game is still Quake 2. Can't wait to play Rage though! Game looks boss!

Doom 3 scared the crap out guess that's why I stopped playing games at 3 in the morning hopped up on red bull

Doom was my very first pirated game... *sniff-sniff*