Poll: This Tuesday: Rage or Dark Souls?

[Brentpool]

Neither. I'm on a student's budget and I need to save my monies for Arkham City. On top of that, I didn't really like Demon's Souls and Rage looks like a mash-up of Borderlands and Fallout without the charm of either.

 

[fKd]

rage, because i love editing id games. mapping, modding etc. idstudio woohoo!

idsoftware is my gaming roots

 

[SH4DOWSL4Y3R]

RAGE. i like the idea of dark souls, but it's not on pc, and as i said to a friend last week on the same matter, i wouldn't trust the 5 year old doddering thing that my 360 has become to not spontaneously explode before i get anywhere in the game.

plus i pre-ordered RAGE(alongside skyrim) months ago, and paid for it mostly with the spare money i usually waste on snacks and other horrible junk food.

i do have a ps3 at my other house though, and may pick up a copy of dark souls someday if i have the money to spare, however i'm much more likely to go after the SOTC/ICO double pack before that happens.

 

[Rawne1980]

I'm a PC gamer so it will be Rage for me.

Dark Souls is console only and thats not enough to warrant getting a new console.

With Skyrim just around the corner i'm not all that bothered about either but think i'll give Rage a run around just for a look.

 

[plugav]

If I were getting one of these, it would be the PC version of Rage (even if did own a console). Yeah, it's a post-apocalyptic shooter (was there really a flood of these, though?), but it looks gorgeous (it pays to have distinct art style) and seems deeper than your average cutscene fest. It's actually the first shooter to get my attention me since the STALKER series (and Human Revolution, but I don't count it as a shooter).

That's not to say I don't appreciate what Dark Souls is doing. It looks pretty solid in every aspect. I just don't think I'd enjoy that type of unforgiving gameplay for very long.

 

[jeremysaint]

i preordered both, but i will play dark souls first. i am just winding down on gears 3 and will a fantasy adventure will be a nice change of pace.

however, rage looks astoundingly good. i think it is important to mention that. it really does look beyond excellent, and ID makes great shooters, hell the pioneered the whole genre.

believe it or not, the games i think i will adopt a look and see attitude for is arkham city and skyrim. especially skyrim, i will probably still preorder arkham city too, but i have not decided.

 

[DanielDeFig]

Since Rage won't be punishingly difficult for the sole purpose of fulfilling the sadistic needs of a very specific audience, I think it'll be better than Dark Souls (For me, at least. And definitely more widely appealing).

At the end of the day, I might get Rage if it gets really good reviews, in 6 months or so when the price is normal (Won't get dark Souls either way. like I said, not my kind of thing), but the only game I'm interested in for now is Batman: Arkham City (Could distract me until GW2 Beta).

 

[dantoddd]

Dark Souls is going to be like sex but better. It's no fucking contest (do you see what I did thar?).

are you into S&M

 

[GundamSentinel]

Demon's Souls is my favorite PS3 game. I can only go for Dark Souls.

 

[dantoddd]

I recently played demon's souls to see what the deal was. And frankly i wasn't impressed. Firstly the game isn't difficult in an interesting way, at least for me. Most enemies can be handled easily with standard tactics and it doesn't require the type timing games like shinobi demanded, in fact the whole game was very sluggish. Basically you have to hack away at an enemy for quite some time using an approach that it's vulnerable against. Difficulty comes with how easily you can die. The game rewards persistence & patience.

Secondly the setting was bland to say the least.

If given a choice i'll buy rage. I'll like open world exploration type games & I'm a fan of carmack.

 

[Use_Imagination_here]

Dark Souls.

Dark Souls has no online pass and half the content isn't chopped out for DLC.

Rage is looking for new ways to screw customers over. Especially the ones that don't line Bethesda's pockets.

Between these two, you should be getting Dark Souls on principle.

It's amazing how you already know 50% of Rage's content has been removed from the game to be sold as DLC. You must work for Id or Bethesda or else you'd just be talking out of your ass.

Oh wow. I seriously screwed up.

I didn't mean to say that this is what Rage is doing. I know that they're doing some sort of new fangled way to get players to buy new. Like limiting them from the single player campaign. Of which, I have to ask: wtf.

But I didn't mean to say that they were chopping out content for DLC. But I can see why you would think that I would say that. So I apologize. My mistake.

I still think that you should be getting Dark Souls for the reason I stated in this post.

Wait, did you just... admit you made a mistake? ....On the internet?

Where is your mothership, alien!

 

[funguy2121]

Both look like really good games with solid gameplay and graphics but im leaning towards Dark Souls at the moment. Rage looks like a good christmas gift

I'd say Dark Souls but I'm just getting into Demon's Souls right now, so I'll wait at least a few months. Just picked up X-Men Destiny yesterday.

 

[DestinyDriven]

Dark Souls. I already have it pre-ordered (but for me it doesn't come out until Friday).

I didn't buy it because it's hard though. I don't really care about that. I bought it because I find the style amazing. Dark, gothic, twisted and very creative. Like a warped medieval fantasy. It looks amazing. I also love knights <3

 

[archvile93]

Rage for me. I like a challenge, but not masochistic levels. And this is coming from someone who played and beat Super Mario Bros 2, the real one, the one that wasn't sold outside Japan in an unaltered form until the virtual console because they thought it was too hard.

Are you on about what we got as the lost levels? the original that puts you back to the start of the world if you lose all your lives rather than the start of the level? because if that is the case that game is way way way harder than Demons souls (and hopefully Dark Souls) hell even the altered one is harder than demon souls its an absolutely brutal game.

Demons souls wasnt easy but it wasnt overly difficult either it punished mistakes harshly but it was fair and I hope Dark souls strikes a similar balance instead of just making it absurdly difficult for the sake of it.

OT: I wont be getting either money is to tight also wont be able to get skyrim, uncharted 3, disgaea 4 and whatever else may come out I wanted but if I was getting one it would be Dark Souls simply because I am still burnt out on FPS and I quite liked Demon Souls although to be fair if I was to get a FPS this year Rage would probably be it simply because its a new IP (which I always like to see even if I dont like the game) and the people behind it should be competent.

Yeah that's the one. I guess I found it easier (though still brutally difficult) since I was always good at platformers. The main problem I had with Demon Souls is its tendency to laugh at you and make the game harder for it, you know because if you couldn't do it the first time at your best, certainly you'll be able to do it when your weaker and the enemies are tougher. At least Mario never went "Hmm, that's your third lost life, what can we do now? We already removed all the mushrooms from the game, and replaced all goombas with spinies. I know, lets double the enemies speed and halve yours." It might now even be the game itself, maybe I'm just burned out of brutally difficult games after SMB 2.

 

[go-10]

I'll wait till both reviews hit screwattack, vgt, and escapist b4 I make my decision
Rage looks like Borderlands and if so I'll go for that
Dark Souls... well no need to say anything bout that

 

[AnarchistFish]

RAGE. I hate games that are designed to frustrate the fuck out of you and RAGE looks pretty cool

 

[Yopaz]

Dark Souls.

Dark Souls has no online pass and half the content isn't chopped out for DLC.

Rage is looking for new ways to screw customers over. Especially the ones that don't line Bethesda's pockets.

Between these two, you should be getting Dark Souls on principle.

Considering you buy the game new, what are you missing out on if you buy Rage?

I assume you didn't see the most recent Jimquisitions.

When I buy a new game for a console, I am buying it with the intention of reselling it later. But when they try this used game pass BS, it inherently devalues the used product and makes it sell for less. And because of this, I am less inclined to buy the game in the first place.

Second, it begins the start of a future where exploring the roots of games and how it got us to where we are today and how it can help us going forward becomes a big ****ing hassle because some greedy CEO thought it was a good idea to discourage used sales.

And that changes the game experience how?

 

[Delta Gier]

I'd like to get Rage, as for Dark Souls, it's sorta like Skyrim for me . . . I wouldn't go out of my way and spend money on it, but if someone got it for me for Christmas, it would be a pleasant surprise . . .

 

[Kopikatsu]

And that changes the game experience how?

By not playing it in the first place because the product is worth less in resell value.

If you're planning on getting a game just to sell it later, shouldn't you just rent games from Gamefly or something?

 

[Kopikatsu]

And that changes the game experience how?

By not playing it in the first place because the product is worth less in resell value.

If you're planning on getting a game just to sell it later, shouldn't you just rent games from Gamefly or something?

Hm, that's a good idea. Oh wait, you can't do that with Rage because of the one time use code to play the goddamn game's single player mode. Never mind.

Truly impressive over exaggeration. You can't access a few holes in the ground that're probably filled to the brim with bullet sponge enemies (Because ALL of them are) and a couple of weapons.

It's not like they're removing actual story/cutscenes from the game or something. It's just as playable without those little hovels as it is with.