Quake always had amazing soundtracks. Nine Inch Nails "nailed" it on Quake 1. Quake 3 soundtrack is dope as well, but my all time favorite is the Quake 3 Rocket Arena vibes:
https://youtu.be/clkOT6vRKDg
I was a bit annoyed when I bought Quake II on Steam a few months back and found it didn't come with the soundtrack. I just grabbed it from archive.org and dumped the files in the right folder, worked fine.
Presumably this is a general comment, since this release does not (and wasn't intended to) include any of the Quake II models, levels, graphical assets, sound effects, or music. It's purely engine source code.
It's not engine source code, just gameplay code.
It was so good that I would sometimes put the game disc in a CD player just to vibe.
Unfortunately that CD cracked, so I no longer have access to the music nor the game.
I think Sonic Mayhem did QII. NIN did Quake I (or maybe just Trent). I remember the ammo boxes for the nailgun had the NIN logo.
If you use Spotify, you can actually find the Quake I soundtrack under Nine Inch Nails. A real blast from the past. Quake was my first FPS with multiplayer, and I hogged the only telephone line my family had, so I could play mods like capture the flag, including the grappling hook. This was also around the time I started exploring Linux with Slackware, and dialing into my local university professor's Linux server to build web pages (before CSS was even available in browsers). Those are my favorite days of the internet, although it was much slower.
You can still buy Q1 soundtrack on vinyl.
It's beautiful. It's a double LP but only takes up 3 sides.
The remaining side has audio code from the game etched into it.
If you buy Quake 2 on GOG, the CD images are part of it.
it's weird that this isn't the case for the Steam version... base1 doesn't hit the same without Operation Overlord.
Yeah Sascha (Sonic Mayhem) says digital may come:
“I think digital outlets will follow. Not 100% tho.”
EDIT: maybe it's getting sorted out, there's even a fricking vinyl release
https://www.lacedrecords.com/products/quake-2-limited-editio...