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  • #31
    Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View Post
    I did read a couple of the reviews, and the repetitive quests are the only thing that really has me worried. The technical glitches will likely be solved in time, and the rest of the complaints are mostly about it not being "innovative enough", and concentrating on shooting monsters, which is not sexy anymore. What is sexy is open worlds, non-linear puzzle solving, RPG elements, characters coming to grips with their parents' divorce, and musical challenges*. Just look at Prey and then look at what Prey 2 is going to be like, and you will understand what is 'sexy' in FPS games today.

    Perhaps I'm strange, but I like shooting monsters, so if that is what Rage will be like, then there is a chance that I'll enjoy it. I've enjoyed most of id's games so far, so I'll give them a chance. It is certainly possible that it's a stinker, but it deserves a chance.
    From the review on arstechnica:
    "To give you a sense of how ridiculous this game can be, here's a sample mission: my goal is to go to the next town to drop off some supplies. First I have to speak to the mayor, who tells me I need to change out of my conspicuous clothes before he'll talk to me, so I have to find the tailor. No sweat, right? Back to the mayor.

    Once I get my new clothes, the mayor says I have to rent garage space and talk to the sheriff. So I do those things, but the sheriff tells me I can't have the supplies that need to be delivered unless my buggy has guns. To get guns, I need to talk to the guy at the race track. After talking to the guy at the race track, I'm told I need to speak to another guy to set up races for the slips to get the guns?when I find that guy, he tells me to speak to his guy so he can schedule the race...

    It's absurd and pointless. Why can't the first guy just set up the race? What designer sat down and said that the player should have to track down and speak to FOUR PEOPLE to get to the actual action?"

    Definitely not worth my money, but ymmv.
    For mindless shooting, there will be a new Serious Sam soon.

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    • #32
      Yes, that part sounds lame, and you might be right -- I might hate it.

      But id still has enough credit with me that I'll give it a go -- as long as there is a Linux version I can run. At the very worst, it will be a boring technological marvel.

      I still remember playing Commander Keen II, FFS. Some good memories.

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      • #33
        Originally posted by bug77 View Post
        From the review on arstechnica:
        "To give you a sense of how ridiculous this game can be, here's a sample mission: my goal is to go to the next town to drop off some supplies. First I have to speak to the mayor, who tells me I need to change out of my conspicuous clothes before he'll talk to me, so I have to find the tailor. No sweat, right? Back to the mayor.

        Once I get my new clothes, the mayor says I have to rent garage space and talk to the sheriff. So I do those things, but the sheriff tells me I can't have the supplies that need to be delivered unless my buggy has guns. To get guns, I need to talk to the guy at the race track. After talking to the guy at the race track, I'm told I need to speak to another guy to set up races for the slips to get the guns—when I find that guy, he tells me to speak to his guy so he can schedule the race...

        It's absurd and pointless. Why can't the first guy just set up the race? What designer sat down and said that the player should have to track down and speak to FOUR PEOPLE to get to the actual action?"

        Definitely not worth my money, but ymmv.
        For mindless shooting, there will be a new Serious Sam soon.
        Exactly from that paragraph you can see how biased the author is - if you complain about being send around in the game then you could just ask that all that useless stuff is removed and you start the game at the "game over/finished" screen. We want to be send through the world of the game, complete missions and kill some enemies - this is what games are made for.
        I do understand that the author doesn't like the game - so everything that that prolongates the time he has to play is bad.
        I don't know the game - it probably has a lot of weaknesses. But, the arstechnica review seems to be written with wrong expectations and is not worth reading.

        Just my 2cents

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        • #34
          rage runs fairly well through wine, with catalyst 11.8.
          tho there are some serious texture poping issues. but those are the same for windows gamers for what i understand.
          now if amd could make that rage performance driver for linux also. i'd be happy.

          native bins would be even better tho.

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          • #35
            Rage -> epic fail ?

            Great article,
            I only hope it won't be the source for another pile of articles about how Rage is not yet available on Linux.
            Well, the article itself has little to no content. Unless we see a true statement about Rage on Linux I would keep my fingers crossed.
            This "article" might not only be the source for another pile of articles in regard to the "bad status" of Rage on Linux but already manifests itself in the news section of phoronix.

            At least it seems to do so. From: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item&px=OTk2OA
            With Rage / id Tech 5 not coming soon to Linux, it's easy to call Unigine the most impressive game engine with full Linux support.
            Go figure....

            As for games on Linux I have longly accepted that my / our beloved OS is and probably never will be a big target platform for gaming. You can pretty much count the few top titles on Linux.
            Smaller Indy studios do not count here. It would be definitely nice to get games like Rage on Linux though.

            Any review will hardly reflect your personal opinion on any game. You can only read several reviews and somehow build the average off them to find out how well a game suits your needs.

            I have not played Rage yet and doubt that I will even touch the game unless it will be available for 10? at the software pyramid. Until then I guess most of the current issues have been solved with the n patches to follow plus performance optimisations have been done (if there are any).

            It is really a pitty to see a company such as ID where demos / shareware versions were the very base of their business are not even providing a tech demo of Rage for either the sole purpose of showing their new game/engine or let user try out how well rage behaves on the systems out there.

            The current issues reveal an (too) early release date. That is cumbersome to see. Esp. from Mr. "It's done when it's done !".

            For now the megalomaniac-super-Texture-streaming-system seems to be epicly failing.

            Gaming-wise there will be people loving Rage because of the "back to the roots" feeling while others are expecting more. While I haven't lived under a rock for the last few years I didn't discover Borderlands since a few weeks before when a good friend sold me a GOTY box he had laying around.
            After roughly 20 hrs of gaming I would say that Borderlands (beside the cellshading graphics) is pretty much what I would have expected from Rage. I am not saying that Rage did copy anything from Borderlands but around only 16-18 hrs single player time for Rage feels kinda strange compared to Borderlands where I haven't even explored 20% off the available ground.
            I am pretty shure that Rage will have the specific ID-game feeling (similar to Quake, Quake 2, Doom) but hey being ID isn't enough anymore today. Stuff like Doom, Heretic or Duke3D were cool back then but simple designed games do not make it anymore. Rage definitely has the ID software bonus though.

            We have games such as Bioshock, Dead Space, Crysis and so on which provided a good combination of atmosphere, great storyline, good looking graphics and all this without requiring bleeding edge hardware.
            Of course I would not expect anything else from an ID Soft game than eating up even the resources of the beefiest machines out there.

            On the open-source drivers site I still see a lot of work to be done. While the radeon drivers (for AMD) are at least somewhat able to catch up with fglrx, nouveau is still a big construction site.
            I highly doubt and would even bet several crates of beer that we will not be able to play something like Rage on Noveau running on decent NVidia hardware in one year (in case Rage will ever make it's way to Linux).

            OK, enough rant !

            -D$

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            • #36
              Crysis ... atmosphere, great storyline ... without requiring bleeding edge hardware.
              I actually took the post seriously for a while, but this takes the cake

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              • #37
                Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View Post
                I actually took the post seriously for a while, but this takes the cake
                Well, Crysis had no good atmosphere ?
                Crysis had no storyline (compared to other "great" games) ?
                Crysis requires bleeding edge hardware ?

                ..although I must admit that Crysis is not an as good example as IMO Bioshock or Dead Space were.

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                • #38
                  When Crysis came out, my colleague took it for a test drive on a 10,000 Euro computer at work -- a 8 core machine with 32 GB RAM and the most powerful Nvidia card available on the market. The computer case needed to be in its own room because of cooling issues.

                  It couldn't run the game smoothly on high settings.

                  Maybe you first played it on today's hardware?

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                  • #39
                    Originally posted by Darksoul View Post
                    Crysis requires bleeding edge hardware ?
                    lol. Is the pope pedophile? Of course it needed high-end hardware. It refused to deliver playable FPS on anything than the latest and greatest back when it first came out.

                    But it was not as bad as this Witcher 2 piece of unoptimized, 3 FPS crap though.

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                    • #40
                      Originally posted by RealNC View Post
                      But it was not as bad as this Witcher 2 piece of unoptimized, 3 FPS crap though.
                      What? Witcher2 is butter smooth on my GTX460. All maxed out (without ubersampling, of course) running at 1920x1200. Finished it twice in less than a month after it was out. Now I'd like to play the 2.0 patch, but I have no time

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