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I just finished replaying RAGE earlier today. Got it in the id software complete bundle during the summer sale. I liked the game when I first played it on PS3, and I still like it on PC.
That said, it's an imperfect game and the PC version is a little bit rough. The texture pop-in is very noticable if you turn around quickly, and I had 30 seconds or so of atrocious frame rates when transitioning from a town to the wasteland sometimes lasting until some unknown something or the other finished loading. It was irritating as hell, though it didn't happen that often.
Still, the game was really quite fun. id is the godfather of corridor shooters and they still know how to craft fun and engaging shooter gameplay today. Jackyl Canyon and the Blue Line Station areas especially highlight that (both are in the latter half of the game).
If you haven't played the game yet, it's easily worth 10 bucks. Give it a shot. The problems I mentioned (along with others I didn't mention, like the abrupt, out-of-nowhere ending) don't keep the game from being a whole lot of fun.
That said, it's an imperfect game and the PC version is a little bit rough. The texture pop-in is very noticable if you turn around quickly, and I had 30 seconds or so of atrocious frame rates when transitioning from a town to the wasteland sometimes lasting until some unknown something or the other finished loading. It was irritating as hell, though it didn't happen that often.
Still, the game was really quite fun. id is the godfather of corridor shooters and they still know how to craft fun and engaging shooter gameplay today. Jackyl Canyon and the Blue Line Station areas especially highlight that (both are in the latter half of the game).
If you haven't played the game yet, it's easily worth 10 bucks. Give it a shot. The problems I mentioned (along with others I didn't mention, like the abrupt, out-of-nowhere ending) don't keep the game from being a whole lot of fun.
I still think it was one of the best shooters released in a long time, despite all the problems with it. (Which I guess now mostly only happen on ATI cards and not Nvidia cards anymore. Although I remember hearing there's an unofficial patch for it that makes it work perfect on ATI cards.)
I beat pretty much every game I come across, but two-thirds through disc 2 of RAGE I was finished. It wasn't bad, but I struggled to be invested in it. Better writing would have taken that game a lot further.
Carmack's keynote is always one of my favorites. Most people think a guy talking about driver abstraction and memory restrictions is boring. I find it fascinating.
@Jinx 01
I'm all about PC gaming, but Skyrim on PC is a mess. I still haven't managed to get it running past 6fps on "low" settings with AA and filtering turned off. Drivers are up-to-date, PC is gaming-grade and runs almost everything else flawlessly.
If you want to tout PC gaming, you might want to pick a less "controversial" game to get your point across, is all. I'm wishing I hadn't spent the money.
I'm all about PC gaming, but Skyrim on PC is a mess. I still haven't managed to get it running past 6fps on "low" settings with AA and filtering turned off. Drivers are up-to-date, PC is gaming-grade and runs almost everything else flawlessly.
If you want to tout PC gaming, you might want to pick a less "controversial" game to get your point across, is all. I'm wishing I hadn't spent the money.
"hey pc gamers, you want quality and stability... buy a 360 or ps3 live in the now."
Brink on 360 broken
Dead Island PS3 Patch Breaks Broken Game
Skyrim PS3 Broken
Still no Skyrim: Dawnguard because Bethesda can't get it running decent.
Also, as I recall the PS3/360 versions also had terrible texture pop-in.
And don't forget what a wreck Fallout 3 was on all platforms for a while after launch.
@Smackybutts:
What are your actual system specs? I haven't heard of any issues that bad.
Brink on 360 broken
Dead Island PS3 Patch Breaks Broken Game
Skyrim PS3 Broken
Still no Skyrim: Dawnguard because Bethesda can't get it running decent.
Also, as I recall the PS3/360 versions also had terrible texture pop-in.
And don't forget what a wreck Fallout 3 was on all platforms for a while after launch.
@Smackybutts:
What are your actual system specs? I haven't heard of any issues that bad.
It is a shame people went in it with the wrong expections becuse it is a really really solid shooter.
@Jinx 01
Core2 E6600 @ 3.06GHz
8GB DDR2
EVGA 1GB GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Running Win7 x64
Forgot to mention that I played it at launch with a weaker graphics card (8800GT) and it ran fine. I figured the patching would fix some of the issues, not cause worse ones.
Core2 E6600 @ 3.06GHz
8GB DDR2
EVGA 1GB GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Running Win7 x64
Forgot to mention that I played it at launch with a weaker graphics card (8800GT) and it ran fine. I figured the patching would fix some of the issues, not cause worse ones.
I actually JUST started playing RAGE again last night. (Not sure why I never finished it the first time around.) Now that I know what to expect out of it, I'm absolutely loving it.
Gotta love Carmack's honesty. Gotta just love him in general, the guy's a genius.
That said, I never expected much from rage. The big selling points seemed to be more for developers than gamers. So much focus on having unique textures everywhere (Which sounds expensive, why would you not want to re-use resources?) and how their engine was built for easy multiplat development. The marketing for the game seemed to be focused more on licensing the engine than the game itself.
To be honest I feel like id has been dragging behind since the days of Quake III. They were the greatest innovators for FPS games and 3D games in general, but every time they release a game now I feel like they're a bit out of touch. I hope they can turn it around for Doom 4 though.
That said, I never expected much from rage. The big selling points seemed to be more for developers than gamers. So much focus on having unique textures everywhere (Which sounds expensive, why would you not want to re-use resources?) and how their engine was built for easy multiplat development. The marketing for the game seemed to be focused more on licensing the engine than the game itself.
To be honest I feel like id has been dragging behind since the days of Quake III. They were the greatest innovators for FPS games and 3D games in general, but every time they release a game now I feel like they're a bit out of touch. I hope they can turn it around for Doom 4 though.
@Smackybutts:
Sounds like a hardware specific problem to me.
Game runs on a stable 60fps with everything set to Ultra (or high if not available), although I do have a High-end machine.
Just saying that the game is generally well optimized, at least after the houndreds of patches.
Sounds like a hardware specific problem to me.
Game runs on a stable 60fps with everything set to Ultra (or high if not available), although I do have a High-end machine.
Just saying that the game is generally well optimized, at least after the houndreds of patches.
@long john
"daikatana says hi"
"I want to see what those words mean to him. I love doom."
Uh, John Carmack had nothing to do with Daikatana.
"daikatana says hi"
"I want to see what those words mean to him. I love doom."
Uh, John Carmack had nothing to do with Daikatana.
@Nubbeth, thanks for the input. I heard of people with hardware problems early on. Now I seem to be one of them. Hope I can get it working soon.
@Tristix:
Even trolls need to eat, I'm just being charitable! :D Also, I am not feeling good today and easily provoked x_x
@Smackybutts:
That's really weird. Post on the Steam forums and ask for input, I'm sure someone's had a similar issue. And maybe it's you CPU? Those are supposed to be 2.4ghz, is it overclocked? Everywhere I've seen suggested the game was more CPU dependent than most.
Even trolls need to eat, I'm just being charitable! :D Also, I am not feeling good today and easily provoked x_x
@Smackybutts:
That's really weird. Post on the Steam forums and ask for input, I'm sure someone's had a similar issue. And maybe it's you CPU? Those are supposed to be 2.4ghz, is it overclocked? Everywhere I've seen suggested the game was more CPU dependent than most.
@aries and jinx
Well clearly this argument is worthwhile and not based entirely on personal preferences. You guys care to hop into some big boy pants and get along? Ridiculous.
Well clearly this argument is worthwhile and not based entirely on personal preferences. You guys care to hop into some big boy pants and get along? Ridiculous.
Rage was a fun shooter, no doubt about it. I recently finished a replay of the game, and found the shooting and car combat to be highly enjoyable. The ending sucked, sure, but otherwise it was solid. I never expected it to be an open world game though. This is ID we are talking about after all. I expected solid shooting, and that's what I got.
Played the demo for Rage. Didn't impress me at all. Maybe I'll come back to it sometime in the future when I have time. Right now I'm just getting around to Deus Ex 3. Spoiler alert: it should have been game of the year for 2011.
@smackybutts: Give this mod a shoot if your having performance issues.
http://forums.bethsoft.com/topic/1321575-rel-tesv-acceleration-layer/
Though if you had the same cpu this mod might not help you. You can always give it a shoot though.
http://forums.bethsoft.com/topic/1321575-rel-tesv-acceleration-layer/
Though if you had the same cpu this mod might not help you. You can always give it a shoot though.
I thought rage was a solid shooter with id flavored mechanics. I had blast with it. Although it did glitch out on me and i could finish the level. WIll get back to it at some point.
The PS3 version had awful pop in textures for me. Some said to use an external hard drive, some said to reformat the hard drive on the PS3. Sorry, but that just isn't worth it to me. If it seriously couldn't be fixed with a patch (no updates as far as I know), they should've pulled it off the market.
That being said, it's a fantastic shooter. I never had so much fun in an FPS since Half Life. AI puts you on your toes, the locals were interesting and pretty (when they loaded right), and gunplay was fast, floaty, intuitive, and fun. The driving stuff was shit though, I couldn't stand it, and threw it on my shelf of things to never finish.
That being said, it's a fantastic shooter. I never had so much fun in an FPS since Half Life. AI puts you on your toes, the locals were interesting and pretty (when they loaded right), and gunplay was fast, floaty, intuitive, and fun. The driving stuff was shit though, I couldn't stand it, and threw it on my shelf of things to never finish.
If tjey didnt want comparisons to fallout and borderlands. They should have just made it a linear shooter. The shooting mechanics were great, but running around boring towns doing lame fetch quests for boring characters killed it for me. Not to mention the aweful driving controls and hideous texture pop in on my ps3 version.
@dtomek:
Just having fun, really. Not taking it as seriously as it comes off, console vs PC, or 360 vs PS3 kinds of debates can be fun sometimes.
Just having fun, really. Not taking it as seriously as it comes off, console vs PC, or 360 vs PS3 kinds of debates can be fun sometimes.
@ Jinx 01
I'm running at stock speed, as far as I know. I don't OC at all.
@ Spaz
I'll definitely give it a try. Thanks!
I'm running at stock speed, as far as I know. I don't OC at all.
@ Spaz
I'll definitely give it a try. Thanks!
Carmack explained the difficulties making the game, saying most resources have been put into Doom 4 so there was no time to fix their past mistakes after launch.
Wow....
Wow....
“People expected it to be more like Fallout or Borderlands but that was never our intention,” Carmack said. “That hurt us in that the single-player was long for a shooter but very short for people expecting an RPG . The messaging on RAGE wasn’t all it should have been.”
You can say that again. I was very much expecting a Borderlands-ish experience. I'm glad I caught this, I'll probably enjoy the game more now that my expectations are adjusted accordingly.
You can say that again. I was very much expecting a Borderlands-ish experience. I'm glad I caught this, I'll probably enjoy the game more now that my expectations are adjusted accordingly.
@RaginDude
It comes with the territory of being stuck under Bethesda's thumb; get something done, the hell with quality testing, move on to the next product.
It comes with the territory of being stuck under Bethesda's thumb; get something done, the hell with quality testing, move on to the next product.
It had a ridiculous install time on the PS3. MY friend and I fell asleep while it was installing, no joke.
Every shooter should have wingsticks (whatever they were)
I enjoyed Rage, brilliant shooting mechanics.
I enjoyed Rage, brilliant shooting mechanics.
Im not sorry for buying RAGE full price at launch, the game wasn't that bad, sure it had it's problems but I wasted money on much worst games.
I think the complaints were so harsh because people had high expectations from ID, I still have faith in them!
I think the complaints were so harsh because people had high expectations from ID, I still have faith in them!
@smackybutts: No probs, that mod improved my performance by quite a bit. Let us know how it works out for you. That mod use to have a place somewhere in the Skyrim nexus mod website, but I couldn't find it.
@stinky: No it isn't actually. Damn near everyone reported having issues with it, Jim even bought and downloaded it to see what the uproar was about and wrote an article stating it should be illegal lol.
@stinky: No it isn't actually. Damn near everyone reported having issues with it, Jim even bought and downloaded it to see what the uproar was about and wrote an article stating it should be illegal lol.
MrBoBo1:
I'm hoping DOOM 4 (and everything else) will skip current gen consoles in favor of PC/PS4/720. And dude... it's DOOM. There's not much to dumb down lol
I'm hoping DOOM 4 (and everything else) will skip current gen consoles in favor of PC/PS4/720. And dude... it's DOOM. There's not much to dumb down lol
Hmmm...good call on the marketing for the game. It really came off as having heavy RPG elements which is what I wanted. I ended up not being impressed with what I played though in hindsight combat was satisfying. Shame they couldn't have made that world into a Fallout type game. That would have been a hoot.
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