I find the synthesis of Id and Bethesda not all that good. Granted, the graphics are way past DOOM, but the existence of a coherent story detracts from the game a bit for me.

It's playing more like Fallout sans character development system but with far more interesting fights, and I'm not sure the mix is all that uber.

I trded Gears 3 in for this and i'm enjoying it a lot. It's not revolutionary or even particularly innovative but there's always something fun to do. Graphically it is easily the best looking 360 game i've ever seen. I wouldn't claim it's perfection but it's far more enjoyable than a certain other game that's out right now.

I was hoping this game would be as big as Borderlands.  But turns out it's pretty much just a 10-12hr shooter.  So I'm skipping it.  Got other things to do.

that's the case with all games these days. i doubt that trend will change anytime soon.

Quote from: Ghost Whistler;485062that's the case with all games these days. i doubt that trend will change anytime soon.

Yes more often then not.  But there are some gems out there.  But in saying that making a game long doesn't make it good either.

I bought it, and it was terribly buggy display-wise at first, but now that's patched so it doesn't matter any more. Now, the NPC's are very pretty well rendered (Even on the minimum-spec graphics card), environment is a bit low-res but it doesn't look that bad. It's a very pretty game engine to look at.

Gameplay-wise, it's... okay. There are men, and guns, and you USE GUN on MAN with regularity; the men even try to run out of the way, too! And there are vehicles, which work in the same way.

But... something's missing. The action segments are good, but there's too much wandering about and waiting for people to give you quests between the shooting people in the catalytic convertors. It has a lot of dead time, and while that works for, say, GTA (Where the player has plenty of ways to make their own entertainment), outside of the missions RAGE is just... boring. And there's too much "outside of the missions".

I'll finish it eventually, but I'm going back to Quake 2 now. I think I've gone into RAGE expecting the wrong game, and that might be why I'm disappointed.

Well, it sure is quick. I guess I'm more of a buffet person, the lower quality but vastly larger quantity of other games works better for me than what is a fairly brief shooter like this.

I'm 7 hours in. I hope it's not TOO short.

I doubt even Batman will be much longer than the first one and that was completed in a week and a half - including me playing it as little as i could because i didn't want to complete it too quickly!

I'm quite looking forward to Batman, I really enjoyed the first one.

Hopefully there's more than one type of boss fight this time

as am i.

but most of all, i want a satisfying game experience that's a good length.

I'm ten hours into Rage and i'm on the second mission in Subway Town, having just made it there.

I love the setting and the look.

Solid shooting, good graphics. Nothing special, but not particularly bad.

Still waiting on Carmack to release the high-res texture pack for PC, though.

Quote from: Peregrin;485195Solid shooting, good graphics. Nothing special, but not particularly bad.

Still waiting on Carmack to release the high-res texture pack for PC, though.

Wasn't there something that could be set in rageConfig.cfg to force it to use high-res textures, or are you thinking of something else?

People talk about "bringing back the classic days of PC gaming!", but iD appear to have got the wrong memo: people miss the innovative gameplay features and feeling of "completeness" in the older games, rather than the twiddling configuration files and software updates.

Quote from: Ladybird;485207Wasn't there something that could be set in rageConfig.cfg to force it to use high-res textures, or are you thinking of something else?

The high-res textures aren't included with the initial PC release AFAIK -- I don't see why it would, especially since they're not expecting every retail customer to use them.  That'd be an awful lot of data to install.

QuotePeople talk about "bringing back the classic days of PC gaming!", but iD appear to have got the wrong memo: people miss the innovative gameplay features and feeling of "completeness" in the older games, rather than the twiddling configuration files and software updates.

I don't think they got the wrong memo.  I think that they ran out of good design ideas a long time ago.  They're great techies, not so great game designers.  It's not a misunderstanding, it's an inability to come up with fresh ideas.

That said, I never watched any RAGE videos prior to playing it, so I'm not sure it was ever supposed to be anything like Borderlands or Fallout, so I can't say I'm disappointed that it didn't live up to either of those, since my expectations were never that high.

AWesome..
Final Year IEEE Projects

funny, upon reading the thread title i thought of the CCG