Ah, fragging bliss
Finally dug out my old copy of Quake 3 after an extended disk reformat the other week- I had forgotten just how good the game is. There is still the usual Q3 Vs UT argument, but to a (less than ladder-class) veteran UT player like me the fast pace offered by Q3 is a completely different experience. Rather than the UT having a couple of weapons to do each job (sniper rifle and lightning gun for sharpshooting, rocket launcher and flak cannon for spamming and minigun and shock rifle for mixed-range) along with some weapons which serve no useful purpose (bio rifle), every weapon in Q3 has its use. The gauntlet is for mercilessly humiliating someone (or sneaking up behind a camper), the machinegun is for when you don’t have anything else yet, the shotgun is for ULTRA close range (no fifty-foot flack cannon kills here folks), etc. etc. It’s like the whole Pepsi Vs Coke thing, there are really sad people on each side who refuse to have anything to do with the other, but your life really is incomplete unless you experience both to the full