I was honestly never the biggest quake fan either, it's a great speedrunning game once you memorize everything but casually it's kinda a slog compared to doom and even later fps's, it's paced more similarly to the later half life or unreal but without the cool level design, items, and story to back it up. Personally even in multiplayer UT and then later TFC and UT2k4 imho were just far better games. (also that doom mod with the gore reminds me a LOT of how UT2k4's gibs system works, including the literal gore explosions if you turn gibs all the way up..)