Zero Punctuation: Rage

[Swifteye]

Ya know I thought to myself if the vehicles sections were fleshed out more perhaps with more open spaces. Lots visually interesting environments to run through. Some creatures a to gun down. A giant creature to gun down. And finally. A wide array of vehicles with interesting advantages like a car that can jump or a tank your friend can jump into and ride shotgun in.

All right. Full disclosure I would have liked rage's car section if it included some of the cool stuff you could do in Jak 3.

 

[teh_Canape]

funny how "game similar to another" in today's industry basically means "complete ripoff"

 

[DarkhoIlow]

Spoilers were to be expected.The game is out for almost 2 weeks so there's that.

OT: Plenty of spot on remarks on this game Yahtzee which I agree with.

The technical problems with some of the games on the PC version was really awful,expecially the texture pop-in which was horrendous,trying to compensate for 60fps smooth gameplay.

 

[Dash-X]

What I'd like to know is why this game was titled "RAGE". All the NPCs seemed fairly cool and level-headed. There was no rage on the part of the protagonist, either. Why did they call this game "RAGE"?

 

[Beryl77]

I was really disappointed by this game. I thought it would be one of the best games this year but it turned out to be the opposite.

 

[smokeyninjas]

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[SickBritKid]

Did you just say that FFVII is a "bad example" of a long gaming experience, Yahtzee!?

C'mon, man, I knew that you were an elitist sod with a chip on his shoulder about damn near EVERYTHING, but only an idiot would say that Final Fantasy VII was any sort of bad.

Even the FF6 elitist fucks I've tangled with have admitted that FF7 was a groundbreaking masterpiece, they just said that it's incredibly overrated whereas FF6, the the Final Fantasy series in general, was only moderately popular in the States prior to 7's advent.

Say what you will about FF7 being a "bad example", Yahtzee. It's still damn near my favorite game of all time, only coming CLOSE to being ousted by MODERN games like Mass Effect 2 or other such great games.

Personally, I think you just hate 7 because 7 was the game that solidified the FF series' place as a cornerstone of RPGs, which would eventually give us the travesty that is FF13...

 

[Jennacide]

Really Yahtzee, you're going to compare the lenght of a SHOOTER to an RPG? That's amazingly stupid, even for you. There are hints of RPG, but Rage is without a doubt an FPS, as you even point out as being part of Shooter Season 2011. So compare it to an older shooter. How long was Quake or Halo? Oh, that's right, sub 10 hours. How long is Rage? 12+ hours. Yeah, games sure are getting short these daaaay.....wait, THAT'S LONGER.

You don't get it Yahtzee the entire point of Rage was to show off the new engine Skyrim is going to run on. And to shoot bandits dressed like children in robot costumes during halloween.

Uhhh, what? Pretty damn sure Skyrim isn't using id Tech 5...

You are correct, sir. It is using a heavily modified Oblivion engine.

Creation is not Gamebryo 2.0, it is a completely new engine. Which having actually seen the game in person now, is very apparent. Creation will likely be used for FO4 as well, though I sorta hope they use idTech 5 after they work the kinks out of it.

 

[krazykidd]

To be fair, Final Fantasy VII, like many RPG's in general, had tons of turn-based random encounters that stopped you every thirty fucking seconds so you could tap the same attack button until everything died. At least that's the impression I got of it after playing for two hours.

I do have RAGE but I'm not playing it until tomorrow, when fall break starts and I can really admire the great graphics, great animation, and shooting stuff. Because my criteria for a good shooter amounts to "it controls well, runs well, and the guns look and sound cool".

HA, but according to yatzhee you can finish this in a weekend, so hope your fall break isn't too long or you have another game to back you up !

OT: Great video , wasn't even thinking of getting it , but now i won'T even get it when the price drops.

 

[dantoddd]

I had high hope for this game but now i'm finding it difficult to convince myself to finish this

 

[Arina Love]

i hated every second of Rage. sold it off to a friend (and i almost never sell my games) and was glad that was able to return 60% of money. i was promised rich fps RPG but in the end was left with depthless FRS derp with a sh*tty story and lazy setting design. i'm utterly disappointed with id Software.

 

[Jennacide]

OT: Great video , wasn't even thinking of getting it , but now i won'T even get it when the price drops.

This, right here, is everything wrong with Yahtzee fans. You take an online cynics word as gospel and don't try anything for yourself.

 

[DTWolfwood]

It can be played in a weekend you say? Y rent it is than. Y would i want to spend $60 on that?!

 

[krazykidd]

OT: Great video , wasn't even thinking of getting it , but now i won'T even get it when the price drops.

This, right here, is everything wrong with Yahtzee fans. You take an online cynics word as gospel and don't try anything for yourself.

Did you miss the part of me saying , i wasn't even thinking of getting it ?

 

[Lunar Templar]

And thus we've hit one the major problem with current generation games.

all flash and no substance? yeah ... i miss games about something to :/

 

[Madara XIII]

To be fair, Final Fantasy VII, like many RPG's in general, had tons of turn-based random encounters that stopped you every thirty fucking seconds so you could tap the same attack button until everything died. At least that's the impression I got of it after playing for two hours.

Yeah pretty much. I cannot tell you how much I raged when I accidentally wandered into a High-Leveled Monster area and ran out of supplies and the nearest town was about 3 goddamn miles away!
Random Encounters be damned!!!
Amazingly though, I never took the Yahtzee approach to fighting. Maybe I was the type of nerd who actually formulated a strategy when facing any monster and rarely ever just button mashed, unless Tifa was equipped with Haste.....

GOD I MISS IT!!! My Sado-Masochist Gaming personality has arisen!

*Runs off and plays Final Fantasy 7*

 

[Nurb]

It's been obvious for a while now, the big game publishers shouldn't be making games anymore. It's all multi-million dollar engines with a game attached.

I wish I could say it'll change, but all the idiots who say "GRAFX DUN MADDUR" are the first ones to say how a new game doesn't look as good as an already released title.

So we're screwed.

Am I the only one who had no interest in this from the get-go? I remember seeing screens in PC Gamer a year or two ago and lost interest when I saw the scenery

 

[Skeleon]

Hey! Hey! No fair! In Fallout 3, you can wear jeans. Plenty of people do!

Spoiler: Wasteland wanderer outfit.

See? Clearly patched blue jeans with added pockets on the thighs and a brown hoodie.

 

[Madara XIII]

OT: Great video , wasn't even thinking of getting it , but now i won'T even get it when the price drops.

This, right here, is everything wrong with Yahtzee fans. You take an online cynics word as gospel and don't try anything for yourself.

Ain't that the truth. You always have to take what Yahtzee says with a bit of Salt.
Most of the games I love are the ones I've heard him bash the most.

- Devil May Cry 4
- Killzone 3
- Mortal Kombat
- God of War 3
- Metal Gear Solid Series

I honestly think that the only 2 games Yahtzee and I can agree on are the ever praised Shadow of the Colossus and Modern Warfare 1

The sad thing is that I see the same thing with Movie Bob fans who wait on his word on a movie like it's the damned voice of God!
I saw Transformers 3 without watching his review and I honestly think I enjoyed it better than I would have had I not heard his rabid manchild rant and his bashing of the fans

 

[Madara XIII]

Hey! Hey! No fair! In Fallout 3, you can wear jeans. Plenty of people do!

Spoiler: Wasteland wanderer outfit.

See? Clearly patched blue jeans with added pockets on the thighs and a brown hoodie.

UPUPUPUPUPUP!!

[HEADING=2]BROWN ALERT!!![/HEADING]

Secondly those Jeans just scream Post-Apocalypse!
All patched up and ragged as if a mentally challenged and fingerless tailor had thrown them together in the last 10 minutes before shortly going out of business and being bought out by Old Navy