After all the "rage" over Rage...it's really a great game.

I know a lot of people are unhappy over the driver issues and whatnot but it really is a great game. I hate that it's been bashed into the ground because it's one of the better FPS I have played in a while.

Just my opinion...but if you have passed on it over the driver issues you really should give it a chance. It does not really do anything "new" but still good fun imo.

What bothered me the most is reports on game length, especially considering it's a $60 game. I can deal with technical issues.

What bothered me the most is reports on game length, especially considering it's a $60 game. I can deal with technical issues.

MyopicCanadian

It's longer than most other first-person shooters releasing this generation.

Also, I very much agree with you TC. Maybe my love for John Carmack is getting in the way, but I don't see why people are still completely bashing the game.

Yep,There was too much moaning about RAGE ,It's a good game not an award winner but good,Also I played on MP last night and that was good fun.

[QUOTE="MyopicCanadian"]

What bothered me the most is reports on game length, especially considering it's a $60 game. I can deal with technical issues.

Phoenix534

It's longer than most other first-person shooters releasing this generation.

Also, I very much agree with you TC. Maybe my love for John Carmack is getting in the way, but I don't see why people are still completely bashing the game.

RAGE is good, but I think that Borderlands content and gameplay wise offers a very similar but better experience!!ShoTTyMcNaDeS

This.

Rage isn't a badgame, it just isn't as good as many people felt it could have been.

In my opinion, Borderlands is a much better game in pretty much every way, and when you consider the amount of time spent developing Rage, it makes Borderlands even more impressive.

id needs to really step it up with Doom 4.

RAGE is good, but I think that Borderlands content and gameplay wise offers a very similar but better experience!!ShoTTyMcNaDeS

really? Man, I hate Borderlands....not sure what it was but just did not feel that one.

Rage should be a longer game considering Carmack said hes been working on it for 6 years....IxX3xil3d0n3XxI

With all the sidequests it is a longer game..Its not bad about 20 hours with all the quests and such..Driving quests also are in there..Its worth it more than some crummy short 10 hour games ive played..He worked on the engine for maybe 4 years and the game itself id say maybe 3 ..New engines take a long time to make..

Rage should be a longer game considering Carmack said hes been working on it for 6 years....IxX3xil3d0n3XxI

He had to build the engine before he could could get id working on the rest of the game.

[QUOTE="IxX3xil3d0n3XxI"]Rage should be a longer game considering Carmack said hes been working on it for 6 years....Gladestone1

With all the sidequests it is a longer game..Its not bad about 20 hours with all the quests and such..Driving quests also are in there..Its worth it more than some crummy short 10 hour games ive played..He worked on the engine for maybe 4 years and the game itself id say maybe 3 ..New engines take a long time to make..

RAGE is good, but I think that Borderlands content and gameplay wise offers a very similar but better experience!!ShoTTyMcNaDeS

It's not worth 60 bucks for the issues it had. It may be an awesome game, but I have no great urge to play it until it goes on sale. Not to mention I have a boatload of other games that need to be played.

I agree, and being AMD, I felt the full force of the driver issues :D

The gameplay is solid, I don't care much for the car combat, but it's easily the most fun shooter I've played this gen.

I hope id, either doesn't bother with story for Doom4 or, steps it up a lot and gets the presentation and everything really solid. Sota sad that Rage's story is meaningless and disjunct, and the initial presentation is just... bad, it really doesn't transition from beginning into "here's your gun, kill stuff" very smoothly.

I'm loving it. Great gameplay, atmosphere and graphics.

I love the game, its something fresh from everything else i been playing.

Besides having a bad attempt at a story, I quite enjoyed the game. Gunplay was very good and I enjoyed the atmosphere and AI movements.

Far from perfect but a solid 8/10 for me, even if it was clearly made for consoles.

[QUOTE="Gladestone1"]

[QUOTE="IxX3xil3d0n3XxI"]Rage should be a longer game considering Carmack said hes been working on it for 6 years....Brean24

With all the sidequests it is a longer game..Its not bad about 20 hours with all the quests and such..Driving quests also are in there..Its worth it more than some crummy short 10 hour games ive played..He worked on the engine for maybe 4 years and the game itself id say maybe 3 ..New engines take a long time to make..

Took one of my friends 18 hours to beat it on normal, another it took 11 hours on normal.. everyone is different

I know a lot of people are unhappy over the driver issues and whatnot but it really is a great game. I hate that it's been bashed into the ground because it's one of the better FPS I have played in a while.

Just my opinion...but if you have passed on it over the driver issues you really should give it a chance. It does not really do anything "new" but still good fun imo.

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I'm personally enjoying RAGE myself. Although I seem to have found myself in a dilemma, like I have been lately. It seems that most developers don't want to release the game with the graphics that they promised it would have. So I buy the game assuming they will, and then find out during mid-play they're going to be updating the graphics. I love RAGE so far, and I have played about 8 hours, mostly goofing around and finding the secert stashes or just doing stupid stuff. Now I'm faced with, do I wait for the upsampled texture patch to come out, or do I go ahead and finsih my play through and not worry about that graphics patch? I think overall the graphics are great, but upclose a total fail. Also, I don't even seem to be able to play a non multi-player game twice. So should I complete the game, or wait and then complete it? :((((((((

[QUOTE="Brean24"][QUOTE="Gladestone1"]

With all the sidequests it is a longer game..Its not bad about 20 hours with all the quests and such..Driving quests also are in there..Its worth it more than some crummy short 10 hour games ive played..He worked on the engine for maybe 4 years and the game itself id say maybe 3 ..New engines take a long time to make..

kozzy1234

Took one of my friends 18 hours to beat it on normal, another it took 11 hours on normal.. everyone is different

Yeah, it really depends if you're blazing through the game, or wandering around doing other things. Personally, I'm wandering around doing other things.

RAGE is good, but I think that Borderlands content and gameplay wise offers a very similar but better experience!!ShoTTyMcNaDeS

I hate it when every major developer out there is developing their own engine, which takes them years to develop, master and optimize. Why not use some standard engines, like Unreal 3? I love this engine. It looks amazing (Arkham Asylum!), it runs so much better than most other engines out there, it's multiplatform, and it works great with old hardware. Too much time is wasted on developing new graphics technologies. Just focus your time on gameplay and stories, develpers! Let Epic or Valve create the next engine. :)yonyz

Valve? Why Valve? Source is the furthest thing from a 'good' engine, it's basically a 2003 engine with a few updates. If anything, Valve should stop using Source, I don't think they have the talent in-house to make a great engine.

id wanted something that no engine offered, and id's still (even with the hate) the best at programming/optimization and achieved what they wanted (while running into a ton of technical limitations...). The story (the only really weak point of Rage) could have been focused on before the engine was finished, it was just a poor design decision that didn't seem to have much thought to it. And the gameplay (purely from a shooting perspective) is better than any Valve game anyway.

I'm personally enjoying RAGE myself. Although I seem to have found myself in a dilemma, like I have been lately. It seems that most developers don't want to release the game with the graphics that they promised it would have. So I buy the game assuming they will, and then find out during mid-play they're going to be updating the graphics. I love RAGE so far, and I have played about 8 hours, mostly goofing around and finding the secert stashes or just doing stupid stuff. Now I'm faced with, do I wait for the upsampled texture patch to come out, or do I go ahead and finsih my play through and not worry about that graphics patch? I think overall the graphics are great, but upclose a total fail. Also, I don't even seem to be able to play a non multi-player game twice. So should I complete the game, or wait and then complete it? :((((((((

SickStench

[QUOTE="Brean24"][QUOTE="Gladestone1"]

With all the sidequests it is a longer game..Its not bad about 20 hours with all the quests and such..Driving quests also are in there..Its worth it more than some crummy short 10 hour games ive played..He worked on the engine for maybe 4 years and the game itself id say maybe 3 ..New engines take a long time to make..

kozzy1234

Took one of my friends 18 hours to beat it on normal, another it took 11 hours on normal.. everyone is different

[QUOTE="yonyz"]I hate it when every major developer out there is developing their own engine, which takes them years to develop, master and optimize. Why not use some standard engines, like Unreal 3? I love this engine. It looks amazing (Arkham Asylum!), it runs so much better than most other engines out there, it's multiplatform, and it works great with old hardware. Too much time is wasted on developing new graphics technologies. Just focus your time on gameplay and stories, develpers! Let Epic or Valve create the next engine. :)Inconsistancy

Valve? Why Valve? Source is the furthest thing from a 'good' engine, it's basically a 2003 engine with a few updates. If anything, Valve should stop using Source, I don't think they have the talent in-house to make a great engine.

id wanted something that no engine offered, and id's still (even with the hate) the best at programming/optimization and achieved what they wanted (while running into a ton of technical limitations...). The story (the only really weak point of Rage) could have been focused on before the engine was finished, it was just a poor design decision that didn't seem to have much thought to it. And the gameplay (purely from a shooting perspective) is better than any Valve game anywayInconsistancy

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[QUOTE="yonyz"] yonyz

Valve? Why Valve? Source is the furthest thing from a 'good' engine, it's basically a 2003 engine with a few updates. If anything, Valve should stop using Source, I don't think they have the talent in-house to make a great engine.

id wanted something that no engine offered, and id's still (even with the hate) the best at programming/optimization and achieved what they wanted (while running into a ton of technical limitations...). The story (the only really weak point of Rage) could have been focused on before the engine was finished, it was just a poor design decision that didn't seem to have much thought to it. And the gameplay (purely from a shooting perspective) is better than any Valve game anywayInconsistancy

It is a good game in a lot of respects, reasonably enjoyable. However for an open world RPG/FPS it is very short. The story is virtually non existent, the characters and world are wooden...the areas are linear and absurdly limited (even in Doom 3 I could jump over 3 foot high railings).

It is very similar to Borderlands in feel, except Borderlands was much bigger, much longer, more creative/inventive, had better looting + RPG elements and 4 player Coop. Rage is better in some ways though, the driving, the shooting, some animations etc. It just lacks the quality you would want and expect of such a release.

Incidentally I never experienced a single problem with the game bar some weird graphical tearing on the title screen. It's not a terrible game and there isn't anything hugely wrong with it. It just suffers from an extreme lack of ambition and scope. Personally it also comes with a list of petty complaints that is alarmingly long. Whilst none of those things are any major issue by themselves, or even several of them. All of them combined add up to a missed opportunity.

I liked it... but 60$ didn't justify it.

[QUOTE="ShoTTyMcNaDeS"]RAGE is good, but I think that Borderlands content and gameplay wise offers a very similar but better experience!!TerrorRizzing

[QUOTE="IxX3xil3d0n3XxI"]Rage should be a longer game considering Carmack said hes been working on it for 6 years....Phoenix534

He had to build the engine before he could could get id working on the rest of the game.

[QUOTE="Phoenix534"]

[QUOTE="IxX3xil3d0n3XxI"]Rage should be a longer game considering Carmack said hes been working on it for 6 years....Daytona_178

He had to build the engine before he could could get id working on the rest of the game.

He does do a majority of the work for the engines. While most of id is working on Doom 4, him and some of the coders are working on id Tech 6.

the game is good but I dont feel $60 is justified.bonafidetk

[QUOTE="bonafidetk"]the game is good but I dont feel $60 is justified.Inconsistancy

[QUOTE="Inconsistancy"][QUOTE="bonafidetk"]the game is good but I dont feel $60 is justified.Brean24

I imported it from the Uk for 40 dollars. You just have to put a little effort in searching the best deals.

I imported it from the Uk for 40 dollars. You just have to put a little effort in searching the best deals.

Baranga

BTW , did anyone noticed the editing tools ? are there any mods made for this game ? thanks.staserman