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Maybe this is the apocalypse? Sort of a meta-apocalypse. An apocalypse of apocalypses.Kimarous said:
Rage Review
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does it have a level up system?
do you have ability/skill points to spend?
are cars the only thing you can upgrade or are weapons also upgradable?
can you only play as some dude or are there multiple characters?
can I make decisions in the game that affect the story or is it all straight forward?
there's so much I still want to know
do you have ability/skill points to spend?
are cars the only thing you can upgrade or are weapons also upgradable?
can you only play as some dude or are there multiple characters?
can I make decisions in the game that affect the story or is it all straight forward?
there's so much I still want to know
Personally I'm getting kidna bored with these same post-apocalypse games. After Fallout 3, New Vegas, Borderliands, and all the others the last few years. I'd like to see some forets, or even frozen thundras would be nice, for a bit of change. All this brown, dusty desert wasteland stuff is getting repetitive.
Me neither. I'm definitely renting this too but I hear that the ps3 version is a little lackluster (big surprise - Bethesda produced it) and I'm really looking forward more to Borderlands 2 for this kind of game so I don't think I'll be keeping it. Even if it is worth keeping, I'll send it back and get the PC version since it seems like the visuals are a big draw.rohansoldier said:
Have fun with Borderlands: I certainly did...am - a friend and I have played it through together with every class... well, we're on the last class now. Each one makes it feel like a different game. And the dlc is actually a really good value. I'm also still adding mods to Fallout 3 so my so my scabby apocalypse hands are a bit full right now.
I might pick it up in the sales at some point but not right now. At least the apocalypse was caused by an asteroid and not another nuclear war.
In case you're curious, here's a video of a dude trying to the run Rage with his ATi HD6950 and 4GB DDR3 RAM.Mr.Tea said:
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The texture-popping is that bad. And the engine doesn't even use the greater amount of RAM and scale the cache size accordingly. This screams console-port.
They better churn out some drivers that work.
I won't excuse the lack of graphics options in the main menu, but you should be able to tweak them through the in-game console. Still, that's disappointing. That said, id said that they would be working on the executable for PC build up until the last minute, so I'd imagine that we should get a patch pretty soon because Rage isn't out everywhere yet.Raiyan 1.0 said:
Lastly, this is a new engine and every new graphics engine has had some teething problems relating to hardware and driver issues -- especially on the PC. Not excusing the issues, but I think some patience should be taken. I've also heard some great stories about Rage on the PC.
If you look back at my post, I was only complaining about the lack of options. ATi drivers not working is AMD's fault. id has released the PC version simultaneously with the console versions, and so coudn't wait for AMD to update their OpenGL drivers (ATi always had shitty OpenGL support - which makes it worse as idTech 5 is really pushing OpenGL 4.2 to its limits).Still Life said:
Thus, I ended with this: "I would ask PC gamers to wait a bit before jumping into this one. I'll wait for the Steam sale if it turns out to be a cheap port." Which, I think, is perfectly reasonable.
Edit: And ATi fixes it.
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/GPU121AMDCatRagePerfDriver.aspx
Yeah I heard that and just stopped. When people say it like that it drives me insane.Don Reba said:
Listing to people say it like that almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
No, didn't have a problem with what you said. Mine was intended to reinforce and make a broader point.Raiyan 1.0 said:
Looks and sounds pretty good to me, though I don't think I'll be getting it just yet what with all the games coming out that I'm interested in - need to bide my time a little first. If this came out the same time last year I'd have picked it up without a doubt.
Though I'm kinda exasperated reading some people wouldn't buy the game citing only because it has regenerating health...
Though I'm kinda exasperated reading some people wouldn't buy the game citing only because it has regenerating health...
Consoles happened.Raiyan 1.0 said:
It's easier to sell derivative, uninspired piles of shit to the legions of moronic fratboy console gamers than it is to PC gamers. See, we that live on PCs have long since come to expect better of our developers - we want the game to be moddable, not more DLCs. We want people to at least try to innovate, even if it's just a different way of putting your stupid regenerating health into the game. And god fucking help you if you don't put dedicated server support into your game.Mr.Tea said:
So the short answer is that it's easier to make money off of consoles than PCs. Besides, console gamers have never heard of this thing called "modding" so they're more than happy to pay for some rather average-quality DLC because the concept of having free, high-quality "DLC" in the form of mods is foreign to them. You also don't have to worry about console gamers creating their own custom configs and toying with things like field of view, lerp, and all kinds of other fun stuff that would require the developers to spend time on.
Or I guess I could just be extremely bitter about the influence consoles have had on the market, especially the shooter market.