Comments on: QuakeCon Rage Footage Revealed

By: Stromko

Stromko — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:32:56 +0000

That trailer would get me hyped, but I bet this game is going to look rather lame by 2011 if past trends hold. Though if history repeats itself, it’ll also run surprisingly well on mid-range systems by then so long as you turn off anti-aliasing.

By: EyeMessiah

EyeMessiah — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:55:33 +0000

FO3 with voice acting and non-pie faces! Woohoo!

By: Volrath

Volrath — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:22:21 +0000

Fallout 3 had turn based combat? LOL, have any of you ever played a turn based game???

By: Animystic

Animystic — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:17:57 +0000

Geez people. The post-apocalyptic genre has been around for a while now, the fallout series was just one of the first games to do it right. I don’t remember anyone freaking out because The Road was based in the same genre as A boy and his dog. Besides, the uncompressed version of this game is supposed to be upwards of a terabyte, you think they’ve only been working on this since Fallout 3 came around?

By: dmitry

dmitry — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:43:40 +0000

Man, that giant thingy near the end was totally unnecessary. I mean, look how human it is! You don’t just zap a guy and he gets bigger. Sure, the other soft science nightmares in the game have some suspension of disbelief there, but a giant guy? >:(

This is the one thing that will stop me from buying the game.

By: Andy``

Andy`` — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:22:37 +0000

Their Creative Director yapping about Rage, if anyone’s interested: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/creative-director-rage/54284

By: MajorManiac

MajorManiac — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:19:16 +0000

To me the really exciting thought that passes through my mind watching this is – “I can’t wait to see what other developers do when they get their hands on this engine!!”

By: pilouuuu

pilouuuu — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:14:04 +0000

This might be ID back on track. Doom 3 wasn’t a really bad game, but an underwhelming one.

Now Rage looks amazing. I always thought that close-up textures are one of the big failures with games and this seems to come and end this problem. It’s cool that we won’t have just dark corridors with one or two enemies and monsters coming from closets! It looks full of light and like the first true next gen graphics game after Crysis. The humans look bad, but I’m starting to think that’s it’s more due to ID style than a problem with the engine. But I can live with that.

The gameplay seems more like Doom 2 with fast action agains lots of enemies, so it seems in this aspect too, much better than Doom 3. And the racing bits remind me of HL2 buggy sections.

When ID empire seemed to have lots its touch, they again come back with lots of hype and hopefully a great game. But it’s really the gameplay and fun department that will make Rage be a winner or a failure, not its graphic new technology. But talking about graphics, will the be the Crysis beater?

By: Tei

Tei — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:43:43 +0000

Question is… do this game support multiplayer? and if is yes, how good it is? do support 64 players?

If the reply is yes, maybe a BF1942-ish mod can be made, with this graphics, and the quality of engine of a id Software game.

By: Oddity

Oddity — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:10:31 +0000

I’m not impressed. Almost everything in that trailer looks and feels kind of mediocre and uninspired.

And what’s with all the blurry, low-detail textures? The screenshots in the SigGraph 2009 pdf look much, much better. Maybe this trailer was produced with a console version of the engine? Or perhaps it’s just the video encoding that’s at fault.

By: Jad

Jad — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:47:47 +0000

While I can understand the comparisons to Fallout 3 in terms of setting, many of the posters here seem to be comparing the two much more closely in terms of gameplay, etc. This utterly baffles me.

As far as I can tell so far, Rage is a First Person Shooter with a bit of open world gameplay and a bit of driving. Fallout 3 is a Western Role Playing Game with a bit of action (with alternative turn-based combat) in an open world.

I would be very surprised if Rage had anything resembling dialogue trees or branching quests or an extensive inventory or stats and leveling up and all that. It’s ID. They make action games.

Which leads me to think that all the people saying that this is “What Fallout 3 was meant to be” had no idea what Fallout 3 was supposed to be. It was the sequel to two isometric old-school RPGs, made by an open-world RPG developer. What were you expecting? If you say “A better story” or “Combat/humor/viewpoint/whatever more like the originals”, alright I can see where you’re coming from. But “a FPS”, or “a survival horror game”? What??

By: Biz

Biz — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:44:12 +0000

will be much better than fallout 3, but that really isn’t saying much

as long as the non-shooting portions aren’t too long and as long as they add a difficulty level for the PC crowd, i think id will deliver intense combat