Everyone loves a bandwagon :)

So, skippable or not? 

As mentioned in some reviews, the ending totally blows. It feels totally tacked-on and last-minute, wrapping everything up in a particularly vague video. And you cannot go back and re-visit any of the game world after, so go have at it before you go to "Capital Prime" (otherwise known as "Series of Shiny hallways".

I'd love to know why id thought such an ending was even passable, especially after seven years to work on the damned thing. 

http://i.imgur.com/zV4qk.jpg 

Ijed, I was confused.
1st the wagon was going praise full speed ahead.
Then it seemed to make a rapid u-turn in the Duke Nukem Forever direction.
Now where was I to jump on ?
;)

Seriously though, the game is nice, and it's well playable for me, but it should not have come out with so many issues after all that time in development. 

Wingsticks are awesome.

We need these in Quake. 

I'm about eight hours in and actually really enjoying it now. k so the graphics have some issues and the UI leaves a lot to be desired but shotgunning fast moving mutants in the face is good fun. They are forgiven for the piece of shit that was Doom 3's shotgun cause this one is awesome.

It doesn't have the more open plan aspects of Bioshock which means you can't exploit the gimmicky weaponry nearly as much, and it has less anyway. But it's still a laugh zig-zagging an RC car through gunfire then blowing it up.

For anyone who hasn't played it and wants to imagine what it's like, imagine Quake 4 with offhand weapons and different ammo types tacked on. Oh, and regenerating health, which is pointless because you have bandages anyway, so what the hell.

ps I liked the TV arena gauntlets, shame it just reused the same arena :( 

Actually the combat gives me *some* shred of hope that Doom 4 might not totally blow ass. 

We'll see.

In about, say, 7 years ? 

But seriously, don't write "iD"! 

Shrouded Bunker:
Looks nice, waterdrops in face were nice. To be honest I did not notice anything special when it comes to looks in the area, could have looked just as nice without megatexture but maybe the performance would have been much worse? I also felt totally lost, felt like I was revisiting the same areas but they were new items to pick and enemies coming at me so I was probably just inept.

Died on the escape elevator ride, getting a Q4 train ride flashback. Music in this level was REALLY ANNOYING BECAUSE IT CONSTANTLY MADE VERY LOUD NOISE IN THE BACKGROUND AND TADADAMMM BUDUDUMMM.

Authority machinegun seems nice but damage feedback is still meh. And I do not see the fun in sitting behind a box while the enemies do the same must to peek out, get 1-2 shots in their heads and having to repeat that cycle for 5 times until they drop or run to another cover (which, if you like this, is seriously well done).

I really hate duck and cover plus iron sight combat. Does not have much to do with classic iD FPS (I am beating a dead horse).

Does anyone feel like the races fit into the game? Or Stanley? I am genuinely interested. Maybe I am somehow expecting a background story that makes everything fit and coherent, I don't know. Probably expecting too much or the game is providing too many wanna-be realistic bits that my brain tries to make them all fit. More abstract games that leave to ones imagination seem more fitting to/for me.

I am still playing it though so there must be something about it.


PS:
+cvaradd g_fov 25 //to have fov 105. 80 is default, the 25 is added

I still have not managed to get an FPS counter. 

Another nitpick:
The enemy chatter seems weird. There often seems to be one "overseer" in the background who talks via speakers through the whole place. And the enemies speak coherent and quite nice english (thanks god I did not install the german version, eh?). Somehow this makes me feel too much in civilization. 

Where did you get the english version? But anyways, I have to say thwt the german translation is not that bad. 

The internets. 

Yeah the duck and cover stuff was getting a bit tedious, but on normal at least you can take a few out with the sniper then just run in and shotgun them. Even the guys in super suits, electro rounds murder them hard. 

http://uk.pc.gamespy.com/pc/id-tech-5-project/1199038p1.html

Don't understand it.
Are they trying to blame someone else, or what ? 

what does a driver have to do with having no tweak-able settings anyway ? 

is it the german voice overs you hate then? kind of surprising... i mean you spent so much money making a game like this, you could at least hire some good translation voices. 

Pirated it or what? necros: I generally don't like voiceovers, and given the fact that in most games they are horrible, I was pissed off when I saw that I couldn't switch to english. Having played for a couple of hours, I realize though that the voiceovers are of pretty good quality. I'd still prefer the english version a lot, but it's bearable. 

I have to say the game isn't too bad. I haven't played any of the recent games, esp. sandbox games, so Rage being pretty damn linear doesn't bother me so much. A lot of the game has been fun so far.

But what really impresses me is the performance of the engine. Hell, it looks better than idTech 4 on my laptop, but it's a lot faster and feels much much better. Sure, I got the occasional texture popping in, but apart from that, it's pretty cool. I'd love to see it on a more powerful computer! 

> but it's a lot faster

I'm always slightly confused by this. People have also been saying that Crysis 2 is "faster" than Crysis, but IMO that's not at all the case.

Are you saying it's faster on the same hardware?? That would be pretty surprising. 

They aren't very hi-res. A few of them are, but most of them are fairly low res. Especially if you compare it to Far Cry 2, or Crysis and Crysis Warhead. The fact that all of the maps have been completely hand-painted, and no two areas of the map look the same kinda makes up for it and more, but I was a little surprised that I couldn't increase the texture resolution more than I have. 

But then they released the DX11 and hi-res texture packs, and it was nolonger faster than Crysis, infact it was slower. 

Sleepwalkr: Yeah. There also is a language pack around but I think it does not include english, only the other languages. 

Not that I needed one, I was looking for you. Not sure if it would work, but it might be worth a try. 

deadendthrills screenshots:

http://deadendthrills.com/?cat=302