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The only real "boss" I can think of in that game was the giant mutant/authority thing in the Hospital. Some thing like that would have at least felt like closure.
Things what I have noticed:
1. It looks GREAT. 2. Yes there are blurry textures and yes there are completely non-interactive objects, this is not so good, but the overall effect is so good it doesn't detract that much. 3. The controls feel nice. Smooth and responsive. This is a welcome change to many games. 4. Exploding enemies is fun. 5. The ambient sounds are great. I haven't seen anyone mentioning this but they are definitely well done, like the flies and the drips and the wind and creaking noises. I have the music very low as standard. 6. Subway Town has a lot of cute chicks in skimpy clothes and increasingly ridiculous hats. This is good. 7. I am struggling to choose between Elizabeth and Jani. Opposite ends of the spectrum really. 8. Gameplay is fun. Despite being disappointingly mostly humanoid enemies, there's actually some good variety with different weapons definitely suiting different enemy. 9. There is a ludicrous fuckton of weaponry in this game. Including different ammo types I make it effectively 19 weapons PLUS 2 offhand weapons PLUS 3 main offensive "sidekicks". More than you need by a long way, especially the bog standard machine gun, but still it allows a lot of fun kills, and the offhand items are very useful combined with normal weapons. 10. The racing.....okay the main problem with the races I was having. The Dune Buggy is fairly shit and that god-fucking-awful obstacle-fest-frustrathon Dusty 8 is utterly shit. Having got other vehicles and gone on other races, the driving is actually fine. The controls are only shit with the Dune Buggy and the Dusty-shitting-8 track is especially shit. Even after cruising many other races, I still find that one fucking horrendous. Wasteland combat is a bit crap, the jumps are fun tho. Pretty much nails it. The only thing I'd disagree with is the Buggy - once you get the boost upgrade for it, it's quite awesome for both control and speed. The trick I found was to bind the arrow keys instead of WASD, use shift for boost, and it gets a lot easier.
Dusty 8 is a colossal pain. Concepts/models
http://cghub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8206 Shamblers 3rd point cannot be overstated. The controls feel absolutely fucking great compared to any other game I have played in the last couple of years. It feels direct. You move the mouse, the view changes. No delays. No feeling like you're wrapped in cotton. It's awesome.
look amazing in the shots I've seen, but my oh my does that concept art look bland. Technically very good I'm sure, but you could have taken those items out of Quake 4.
If you want to see more rage art stuff like what Zwiffle posted:
Before / After shots of stamp work on the environment art. http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=90081 Character Art. http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=89974 I agree that lots of the designs are pretty generic, but it works overall, and they are very well done, so I don't mind. Of course, Ginny's the best of them all; I'm sure we'll agree on that.
great before/afters, looks really effective. Considering how minimal the performance hit is (according to Carmack), no wonder it runs so well!
New AMD drivers for those sorry souls who got such cards: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/GPU124AMDCat1110PreDriverV3.aspx
<Dafukbler> i presume rage is the first episode of an episodic game release right??
<Dafukbler> given the final conflict had hardly any conflict and was only final cos there was a video thing after it.... Ridiculously easy given you end up with about 15,000 pulse gun rounds, and a bit disappointing after earlier stuff in the game - the ending bit was competently done but just mundane. I think Rage peaked with Dead City although generally I really enjoyed the rest of it. Would happily play more of the same... Pretty bored of games doing a 'here, uber gun for final level' shit. Crysis and Crysis Warhead did the same thing.
a game released under the bethesda name WITHOUT ugly characters? incredible! :P
also, digging the uber low res computer screen behind her... i guess i got spoiled by the idtech4 guis. :P also, all those shots are unbelievably good. keep posting them! :D If you want major spoilerage, here's my steam profile filled with screens. I add them as I proceed. (still not finished with the game and don't want it end, it's so cool, like a proper dream ;)
http://steamcommunity.com/id/vondur/screenshots/?tab=all thanks, von. :)
i'll just leave that tab open for now! http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/596951791318811244/8B6D41718EFB6CCE771AE642FC39CFEB34942EF3/ is my new desktop... how the fuck can this game only have an aggregate in the 70% region, when it has screenies like that. what is wrong with the mainstream reviewers these days? so WHAT if it doesn't have huge character development and oodles of rpg sidequests. can't it just be a great looking, fun, action game?
i haven't played it, but it seems to be the critics really dropped the ball on this game and have really underrated it. Some people at work have been arguing their disappointment that it isn't a revolutionary game, to which I responded that it's still a very solid and fun actiony FPS/racer. There's a lot to do between missions, and id doesn't force the player to play any certain way what with all the freedom to pick your own ammo, build your own toys, and do extra side quests if you want.
What Zwiffle said, and my 1 rouble:
It's awesome game that gives you that freedom that attracted me back in quake days. The freedom of exploration, they exaggerated it to the level of consistent big world with super gfx. And of course there's that old fps element, which by itself is so varied. Best part of it u can play as u want, be it fisting mobs in their face or sniping or windsticking everyone from afar. I consider this is the best part as Rage offers u any gameplay style possible, just pay ingame dollars for your fave ammo\weapon and have your fun. what could be better? Not taking into account a lot of funny minigames that add richness to the world. Most importantly, there's no rails gameplay like in most modern games, you can do whatever you want. It's a masterpiece game! if I was to give rage a rating it would be in the low 80% region. it looks great but overall it is such a mess. the levels themselves are very much rails.
70% is still quite above average but I guess review ratings are a joke. - Lame story, generic settings, generic quests.
- Blatantly rips off HL2, Fallout3, Borderlands etc. - Silly combination of some "pseudo-realistic" features like nanotrites explaining health re-gen, slow weapon changing, and being about to buy and build items, with nonsense like infinite inventory infinite ammo etc etc. - Too many weapons including pointless ones. - Not enough special/diverse enemy. - Levels are entirely linear and on rails. - Stupid clip brushes everywhere. - World is entirely static, no destructible objects. - Races and mini-games are blatantly shoehorned in and add little to the game. - Vehicle combat in Wasteland is pretty meh. Fun of speed boost doesn't work when you have to turn and fight. - Ending is uber-easy and boring.
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