RAGE is sweet... Why the hate?

[rodion.zissou]

I bought RAGE last night, and after a of couple texture fixes (config file, and inspector settings), I'm really enjoying it. What do you guys think of the game? I know it was buggy when released and pretty annoying to need manual tweaking to run nicely, those texture seams and visible pop ins nearly ruined it, but I'm enjoying it now. I feel it's easy on normal difficulty, and the story is almost non-existent so far, but it's controls are solid enough, varied gameplay elements and sweet art direction.

[Shd0w2]

Meh. Tomb raider and fallout are better.

[Jobbe03]

It's meh, storyline is crappy, poorly optimized for pc. 

[_ASSASSIN_]

No clue why people are comparing it to tomb raider, but to be honest it had some pretty cool content, but I got bored pretty fast after about 2 days of playing. I played that game on the ps3.

[RatedBlam]

I played it on the xbox 360 around it's release. I had one of those friends who bought random games.

It was OK to my mind too. For the first playtrough. I didn't feel like it was interesting enough for a second one.

I did like the city very much though.

[OnCue]

Gets kind of boring after a little while, there are just better options out there.

[MasonIsPurple]

It made me want to play Borderlands. 

[typographie]

Aside from the serious technical issues at launch I think I remember most reviews concluding that it was a mediocre-but-competent game. Just the kind of thing that you can get a lot of enjoyment out of it after picking it up on sale a year or two later, presumably after its gotten whatever patches and driver optimizations its going to get.

[Noctus]

I enjoyed it when it was released, although i didn't have any of those "glaring bugs" most people got. So guess i was just lucky.

[Linusinium]

I knew about the issues upfront so I patched it and tweaked the game before I even played it. I heard the DLC helped it's story but I went through it long before it came out. My biggest complaint was that it was short and the ending was meh, game just kinda..stopped/

[Commander_Z]

I bought RAGE last night, and after a of couple texture fixes (config file, and inspector settings), I'm really enjoying it. What do you guys think of the game? I know it was buggy when released and pretty annoying to need manual tweaking to run nicely, those texture seams and visible pop ins nearly ruined it, but I'm enjoying it now. I feel it's easy on normal difficulty, and the story is almost non-existent so far, but it's controls are solid enough, varied gameplay elements and sweet art direction.

 

I thought it was decent

 

a little short but not a terrible game in any case

[Techicolors]

I finished the game back in August, and I thought it was a decently-made game. The art was a little reminiscent of Borderlands but it still has its own style to it. The textures were kind of weird and it was a pain to get it working and sadly I still haven't got it right. But for the most part the environment was not too shabby, for example Dead City. When I first went there the atmosphere really got me, dead-on Fallout atmosphere. The story was pretty cool too. I actually would like to see a sequel or some sort to it. As for the gameplay, I quite enjoyed it. It's very linear though and while I didn't mind it it might irritate some people who like lots of options. It's a bit of a challenge as well, at least for the first time. You run into these mutants that run all over the place, and they will probably annoy the heck out of you. The only disappointing part was the ending mission, which I thought would have been more epic but it was just you shooting everything that gets in your way. No help, no allies, no bosses, nothing. As for side stuff, there's isn't really much. Well, there were but they weren't very compelling to do. You still got some nice stuff if you did do them but I never felt that I really needed them. Maybe if you played at a harder difficulty you probably need to do them to keep up with the enemies.

 

I don't think this game is mediocre at all. It's actually worth your time, at least to beat the story. 

[Shaade]

I enjoyed it myself, just found it a little short & shallow in the wake of great games of a similar theme such as Fallout 3/New Vegas and Borderlands.

 

Definitely worth a play-through though, in my opinion.

[killcomic]

The textures made my eyes bleed. Nice character models though.

[MEC-777]

Played it on xbox 360 a couple years back. It was ok. Only played through once. Story was a little short/weak.

[Humbug]

Rage could have been great. The mechanics are good. The art style is good. Combat has potential.

 

Where they fell short is player motivation. Most of the time you don't care enough about what you are doing, you don't care enough about the objectives. You don't have a sense of purpose in the world and the objectives feel random and disconnected from the larger backstory about the asteriod and apocalypse. Which is why Wolfenstein is a better game; you care about the friendly NPCs, you feel like killing the non-friendly NPCs and you feel like what you are doing in the game is for a purpose.

 

Also I thought Rage is a bit too open-world, they should have made it more linear. It's certainly not a bad game, I played it through right to the end.

[Jerakl]

Rage could have been great. The mechanics are good. The art style is good. Combat has potential.

 

Where they fell short is player motivation. Most of the time you don't care enough about what you are doing, you don't care enough about the objectives. You don't have a sense of purpose in the world and the objectives feel random and disconnected from the larger backstory about the asteriod and apocalypse. Which is why Wolfenstein is a better game; you care about the friendly NPCs, you feel like killing the non-friendly NPCs and you feel like what you are doing in the game is for a purpose.

 

Also I thought Rage is a bit too open-world, they should have made it more linear. It's certainly not a bad game, I played it through right to the end.

How to motivate to play a game: give me stuff to unlock through playing.

[Humbug]

How to motivate to play a game: give me stuff to unlock through playing.

And via the story, if you feel engaged with the story then you want to keep going and uncover more, achieve objectives etc.

e.g. Mass Effect

[Jerakl]

And via the story, if you feel engaged with the story then you want to keep going and uncover more, achieve objectives etc.

e.g. Mass Effect

Nope. I just want to unlock stuff. I played Mass effect for a bit. But got bored, the story was engaging and all. But I never unlocked anything new.

[Vedge]

I got bored very fast and it didnt run that well even on an overpowered PC. Luckily I bought it on a sale, so didnt care much

[Humbug]

Nope. I just want to unlock stuff. I played Mass effect for a bit. But got bored, the story was engaging and all. But I never unlocked anything new.

??

It's an RPG.

You level up and get enhanced abilities...

[s4spencer]

It was fine. It had a huge feeling of "unfinished/end of budget" to it though

[illage2]

The problem with RAGE is that its trying to be an open world FPS (Like Fallout) and Linear at the same time, whilst trying to be a racing game.  It essentially doesn't know what type of game it wants to be.  Sure you can explore, but there's not much off the beaten path. 

[Humbug]

'openworld' has become too much of a buzz world in the industry. It can really hurt a game. There's a lot to be gained by having a linear progression ala Wolfenstein, HL2 etc.

[Humbug]

Here are some of my screenshots from my Rage playthrough a few months ago.

This is on an R9 290 with the game config files hacked to run beyond max settings. Takes upto 2.3GB VRAM at 1080p running this way. I was also fortunate enough to play it late after all the early technical issues are sorted.