Finished the game in 30 hours and I really tried to stretch it out as long as I could. 15 hour main quest line and only what seems like a hand full of side quests. Think I spent most of my time racing and running around checking with the NPC's for quests.

The end fight was pathetic and an extreme let down and you cant continue on with the game after finishing main quest line. Would have went on some more car races and tried to do some more exploring but NOT! This game is not worth $60 PERIOD!!! :stare:

The list of negative sh?? I could spout off about this game is huge so I wont even bother. I'm happy for those that liked the game and feel that there money was well spent but I feel ripped off completely! :flame:

You got 30 hours of entertainment for 60.00?
you only get an hour and 30 minutes at the movies for $12.00

You got hooked up bro!

Yes. I beat it on nightmare in 15ish hours, however since im on the PC platform I want to say 6 of those hours at least were trying to get the damn thing to run well. When trying to compare it to another short game, Metro2033, nightmare difficulty normally adds time. However since I think this is a pure console port I dont think they took into consideration PC players have better aiming capabilities than those using thumb sticks, and thus nightmare on the PC is probably normal on the console, which is a shame.

Odd mouse+keyboard has a better feeling than any other pc game I've ever played. Odd how'd they tune that kind of feel for a console. /sarcasm

Unfortunately I agree w/ the OP. I only made it to 15 hours doing everything there was to do. Nearly maxed out the obsessive compulsive. Thought I would be able to continue to run around and finish it up afterwards... 15 hours sadly now a days is above average length. What really gets me is the lack of any sort of boss fight. I know they want RAGE 2 but c'mon. They could have given us something to kill... A few waves of lolMuties does not count as a small skirmish much less a boss fight or a final boss fight.

They did leave plenty of room for RAGE 2, but after this let down, who's actually going to buy it?

Yeah, I have seen people use that example b4. But I cant buy into that for some reason. Movies and video games are 2 different types of entertainment. You just cant compare the two. Sorry, but I just dont buy that example.

Witcher 2 is about 17 hours and its supposedly a deep rpg experience. Seems about right for these newage titles.

I just did, and it does work. If you don't want to accpet it thats fine. You got tremendous value out of your entertainment dollar spending $60.00 for 30 hours of entertainment.

I don't know about you but I miss the good ol'days when RPG games aimed for a minimum of 40 hours of gameplay and usually exceeded it.

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Using your example, how would you feel if you went to a movie and it ended right as the hero was about to fight the villain and save the girl? That's what I'm more upset at. We had no climix, no resolution, not even a temporary one that still left room for a sequel. Just BAM, right in the middle of the movie, cut to credits.

Well look at how big the install is for Rage, if it were any bigger they'd be having people reach their bandwidth limits. The quality of the content is making it take longer to make. Its not just a bunch of square rooms anymore.

They weren't aiming for this to be an RPG-like shooter, despite the usage of 'quests'. Overall it was a mediocre shooter with little to no story.

Quality of content is more than just pretty textures on high poly models. Gameplay and fun factor are large factors on whether a game is "quality" or not. This game was a great start to a great game but was cut short in the middle which ruins any quality value it may have had.

I loved the Kill Bill series.

You're leaving out a ton of stuff, maybe you went too fast to notice?

But that had the mini resolution per movie that I mentioned that RAGE did not. It was designed as a trilogy and each movie was it's own full story. It had a start, middle, climix and ending. Rage had a start, middle and like the 'c' of climix then ended.




That was more towards the Witcher 2 being a "deep RPG experience" than to RAGE.

Well you didn't get closure until the close of the series.
I could also say Lord of the Rings or a ton of other cliffhanger movies.

But I digress, because this is an id game and I half expected a .txt with the story in it.

Question: You mean to tell me that once you finish the game-proper you can't then continue to do things such as attempt to do the rest of the high speed jumps? or do any more exploring? anything at all?

Nope its just like Fallout3 b4 the DLC that made it continue after the main campaign was completed.

What am I leaving out?

The racing? A lack luster add on that had no polish or difficulty. I rarely ever lost a race and never more than once (and then only the rallys races). Lack of challenge = boring.

The card game? Dull and uninspired compared to other card game mini games found in other games. The time vs money gained didn't make it worth while to play.

The other mini games? Similar to the card game, the rewards didn't warrant wasting time on them.

The hidden stuff? Like I said, I nearly maxed out the obsessive compulsive. I got almost everything done and I thought I would be able to keep running around after the final mission similar to other games like this to finish my search. Now that it's over I could load up a previous save that I made just in case but this ending just took all the motivation out of the search.

Side quests? I did every side quest and job board quest i could find. I often went back to each town after a few main missions to see if there was anything new for sale or quests to do. Never was...

What did I miss out on? Aside from a decent climix and proper ending? I'm not saying we should have killed Cross and perma ended this storyline for good so there could never be a RAGE 2. But there should have been something more challenging and satisfying waiting for you than a dozen or so lolMuties.

Again those had a start, middle, climix and ending all self contained within that chapter of the trilogy. They were also out as novels long before they were movies so it was known in advance.

Theres more whizbang than megatextures and high polygons being rendered in there.

Many low quality features or "whizbangs" (wtf is a whizbang btw?) do not make a high quality game.

Sure but you don't even remember them enough to mention them?

I think your starting to forget the point your trying to argue...

They aren't worth mentioning and aren't my main complaint (my main complaint being the ending.) The only reason I brought them up was because you started to argue quality. I was simply proving a point that what you said I was "missing" added no quality value and if anything reduced the quality of the main meat of the game.

I've got no motive here dude, just conversing. But I was evolving my point to say maby you consumed it too quickly. As your main gripe is story and we all know id isnt the ultimate story teller. Hell they jacked us around in doom3 as the ending proved to show that the space marines fight meant nothing, just his survival.