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RAGE |OT| "It's done when it's done"
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Fallout isn't fun to play? Fuck outta here.
â Narayan
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I like the first two Fallout games. Anything else after that has only bored me to tears.Wallach said:
Stallion Free said:
It will be interesting to see if iD does add a twist on thier hardest difficulty...I beleive in Doom 3, on the hardest difficulty, you had constantly draining health and killing enemies replenished it.
Hopefully they have something like no manual quicksaving or something similar.
RAGE is just suffering from what every open world game post-GTA3 did for the longest time: unimaginative, ineloquent motherloves who see the game has both a) a post apocalyptic setting and b) guns and go "oh hey its just like borderlands abd/or fallout!)
RAGE: it's Twisted Metal meets Resident Evil: Apocalypse!
Edit: damnit people spell id's name right already.
RAGE: it's Twisted Metal meets Resident Evil: Apocalypse!
Edit: damnit people spell id's name right already.
CouchMaster
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I might actually try that just to play the defibrillator mini-game over and overSolo said:
Effect said:
The characters really shine on this game so far. I'm only 2 hours into it and they are well voice acted and their animations are great. To answer your question more directly, yes they react to your actions and to what is going on around the world. When you go to finish a quest, you don't even need to prompt the mission giver, they just start talking when you approach: "Great job killing those bandits buddy! Here's the reward we talked about. Now, about those medical supplies we need..." Even non-mission related NPCs will have a line or two to say about your actions.
Haven't revisited areas much yet, but as I said, I'm still very early into the game. They very obviously lock off certain areas until you have acquired the mission to go into that 'dungeon'. Example: trying to drive to a barricaded area on your vehicle will result in you getting killed by missiles until you get a sniper to clear it out from afar.
Can't comment on the difficulty curves yet. I do have the Anarchy edition with all the bonus weapons (also - every new game comes with a bonus Legends of the Wasteland mission!) which I haven't DL'd yet because I didn't want to feel overpowered, and I'm playing on Hard. It's a good challenge without being frustrating. I'll probably use the bonus stuff for my nightmare run. Interesting note: my buddy did download the bonus weapons, and the only items available to him at the start were the spiked gloves and DBS.
Story is hard to say at this point. So far it's your basic 'We need supplies but those pesky bandits are in the way. No one around here is tough enough to take em down, how about you partner?' plot line. It's presentation is really cool though, it's linear and directed, but not hand holdy. I keep thinking of Portal 2 where they give you your final objective, but don't really give details about how to do it. I've gotten lost more than once trying to find the doorway that leads to then next section because there is no objective marker or directional arrow. Frustrating, yes, but it heightens that sense of discovery that is very satisfying.
Can't comment on dollar worth yet. No one is online to do MP races with yet, so I can't say how that part will pan out. As I said earlier the draw distance, skybox and character models are amazing, but some of the closeup textures are a bit disappointing in light of all the hype around this game.
â Narayan
Member
I found both of them extremely boring. Whatever floats your boat.Mastperf said:
Fallout 3, NV and Borderlands I enjoyed immensely. So any comparison made between those and Rage suits me just fine, whether accurate or not. I like open world games more than any other type, so I'm a tiny bit disappointed at hearing Rage doesn't have as much of an open world design as I'd hoped, but everything else more than makes up for it.
TomcatTheLion
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Still trying to decide if I should pick this up on Steam (kinda pissed the release date is the 7th, I'm not in Europe dammit). May need some further convincing. >_<
There are some nvidia beta drivers for BF3 out at the moment that have 4.2 support
Where's the cheapest place to get a key for this and would it come with the pre-order bonuses?
http://www.geforce.com/Drivers/Results/38108
Where's the cheapest place to get a key for this and would it come with the pre-order bonuses?
nel e nel said:
Thanks. Sounds like your standard reactions, when there are reactions, more recent games have given NPCs. Still like you said it's early and maybe there might be more later on. Story as well. I woudln't be surprised thinking about it if the story didn't start to get interesting until you came upon the Authority. How long it will take before that happens is what I wonder now. The lack of auto aim should make some of the harder difficulties challenging I think.
SteveWinwood
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Wait so how will it be 60 fps and look like that?
SteveWinwood
Member
Man what a god.Wallach said:
zlatko said:
I'm curious to see what Nightmare does in RAGE. It was fuckin' crazy in Doom 3 and you couldn't pick it from the start anwyay.
Edit - The embargo drops Tuesday btw. Supposedly one place has clearance to post review early tomorrow; assumed it is IGN but we don't know.
Soviet said:What if it'll be locked?
PC version---I'll h4x0rz that shit open. xD
I'm getting sick of this developer monkey shit that doesn't think I'm ready for the big leagues until I play through your game once. I rarely replay any game, so if it is locked here in Rage, then hard mode it is and whatevs to nightmare.
I WANT to crank the difficulty to max on any game when I start it off. I know what I'm getting myself into when I pick the hardest difficulty. If it becomes that much of a problem (no game this generation has), then I'd turn it down a notch.
The only reason developers lock that hardest difficulty up is to give this pseudo bull shit "replay value," when their game just might not be interesting enough to warrant a second run through. Some games do(Witcher 2 for me), but I like the full experience right out the gate. Why hold that from the player ? After you complete the game once, then the hardest difficulty automatically isn't as hard as you thought it would be for the player since they'll know what is coming for the entirety of the game.
Wallach said:
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I'd be all over it right out the gate. I'm one of the nutties who has actually been playing Witcher 2 on insane and am almost completely done with Act 1. That game erases your save if you die. I'm just seeing how far I can get and only put in time here and there into it, but I also refuse to game the system by making back up saves either.
Effect said:
Yeah, the story is revealing itself very slowly right now. I'm basically just past all the intro/tutorial stuff and have only just gotten to the town of Wellspring that's been in all the demo videos.
Like I said, it's very reminiscent of the Portal games where they telegraph just enough information to let you know where you're at and what the world is, but plotwise it's still a bit of a mystery. I think the only thing I'm kinda 'missing' right now are some form of texts that would flesh out the world more a la Deus Ex emails/ebooks/secretaries.
It doesn't appear to play like either. Neither of the games you mentioned focused on refined gunplay. Borderlands was about loot and co-op, and had mediocre combat. Fallout 3 focused on being an RPG, and had terrible real-time gunplay. I'm admittedly only judging from videos, but Rage looks far better in that respect than those two.luxarific said:
Wallach said:
First play through. I then started another file to go through the game on hard as I was hooked on its story elements. The prologue isn't too bad on insane, but the actual Act 1 portions required me to do the tactic of running away for dear life if I was ever struck even once in combat, and at all times I had Quan/Quad(forgot the spelling) up. You have to do a lot of grinding on nekkars out in the forest and slowly work your way out into the forest bit by bit, and it's a good idea to get the side quests that don't require combat out of the way ASAP to help level a little quicker.
But yeah, that's a bit off topic.
I enjoy being challenged on my first go at a game. I'm always pleased when games let me try the hardest difficulty right from the get go. It's a shame RAGE might not then. zlatko said:First play through. I then started another file to go through the game on hard as I was hooked on its story elements. The prologue isn't too bad on insane, but the actual Act 1 portions required me to do the tactic of running away for dear life if I was ever struck even once in combat, and at all times I had Quan/Quad(forgot the spelling) up. You have to do a lot of grinding on nekkars out in the forest and slowly work your way out into the forest bit by bit, and it's a good idea to get the side quests that don't require combat out of the way ASAP to help level a little quicker.
But yeah, that's a bit off topic.
I think RAGE actually does have Nightmare unlocked from the start. I was just saying, much like how TW2 changes the rules away from the original game design on the top end, so did Doom 3. It's not so much of just a difficulty hike as it is a different style of game altogether. I'm sure it's totally doable to do on your first run (even Doom 3's would have been), but they are designed with the idea that you will already know what is going on before starting. If RAGE's Nightmare mode is anything like Doom 3's it'll be the same way. If it's more like Doom/Doom 2 it wouldn't be that way really.
Fallout, sure. Borderlands, though? So boring. The *only* reason I even played that game was because, for a while, the only gaming capable device I had was a netbook (and an iPhone but iOS gaming is a wasteland) and OnLive had just come out so I figured I would give it a try and used Borderlands as my initial OL purchase.Mastperf said:
Not sure if it's been posted, Rage 10 minute Demo (PC) by Gamespot
Wallach said:
More specifically, it saves when you transition from the open world to a dungeon and vice versa.
In fact, right after the defibrillator tutorial there is an ingame message that plainly states that the wasteland is a dangerous place so save often.
Which makes the complaints about the auto-save system even more ridiculous because the game flat out tells you to save manually. Often.