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It looks nice yeah, I'm looking forward to it. But I can't help wishing it was an open world type game like Stalker or Oblivion or something, but that just seems impossible considering the ammount of detail everything has, would take ages to make a large world. =\
Would suit it well.
But why not have a "smaller" typical-Id-game-size world, but with some non-linearity to it... it would be nice if they integrated a system similar to farcry/crysis where you just tell the engine 'this type of terrain has these types of debris and plants' and it just plasters them randomly on the ground.
it would even be easier since they have their megatexture stuff, they just have to paint a giant mask texture to tell the engine what to go do with itself. that'd solve the problem of having huge open areas. they could still spend all their dev time on doing the actual playable areas without any procedurally generated stuff, but the rest would be filler that was basically 'free'. I thought something appeared a bit odd about that first picture from Rage:
http://ve3d.ign.com/images/33683/PC/Rage I increased the brightness and contrast, and it appears to me those two models are blue screened into the scene. Is it from a cutscene sequence then? But more likely just a render - the characters look in-place, if you know what I mean.
The shots look more like wallpapers than anything. ?
Wolf looks okay, but just more wolf really. If it plays like RTCW but a bit spanglier, I'd get it. this is a pretty cool game.
Seems to have the right mix of action and RPG elements. And although I'm not sold on the art style, the graphics engine is superb (anyone know if its a custom one or a HL2 spinoff?). More variety in monsters/opponents would have benefited it too I think. But still, I'm enjoying so far. http://www.gametrailers.com/player/37901.html
Tim Willits: "[mutants] they're very scary, they pop up everywhere..." It's not the detail that's blowing me away. It's the design and style, quality of the models and lighting.
^^ He says that it IS an open world game and the player is free to go where they want, thought they are "directed" onto missions etc.
Its funny how with 1 sentence the game went from average to awesome :) John Carmack and Matt Hooper just said it WASN'T an open world game actually, and you are NOT free to go wherever you want.
"Though the world will be large, it is not a sandbox title or traditional "open world" game--players will need to complete the game's story quests in a linear fashion." Back to average? still hop ten towns over from your destination to play a game of billiards with your mutant ghoul buddies you owe a case of warm beer to while the hostages in the burnt out factory are still waiting for you to rescue them, it will still be above average.
it would even be easier since they have their megatexture stuff, they just have to paint a giant mask texture to tell the engine what to go do with itself.
this is remarkably similar to how their tools work. seen any of those videos? top game, borrows the right elements from diablo2 and puts it in a 3d enviornment. A different art style and maore variation in areas and enemies would have made it an outright classic.
Playing FEAR now. Crap looking and laid out levels, but I think the gameplay's kind of fun so far. Firing rate is insane. yep, still looks amazing. Regarding enemies - so far we've seen the orcs and sand-marines - I hope they've got some truly original enemy designs. id games have traditionally had quite varied bestiaries, so I hope they've got a few surprises there.
I hope they have lots of non humanoid enemies, silly mocap, destroying enemy diversity in games... =(
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