So I was super excited for Rage, I am huge fan of id software, I grew up with the original doom and wolfenstein and have played every game they have created since. But after playing Rage I am dumbfounded, somewhere id flopped big time. Don't get me wrong Rage has its good points, like the amazing graphics, and the amazing graphics, and further more IT HAS AMAZING GRAPHICS!!!

Other than that though rage has pretty much nothing, I completed the entire game secrets and all with out any help from walk throughs in under 5 hours. I played on the hardest difficulty and I was barely challenged, yawning and relaxing while I played (sometimes even playing upside down on my couch to make things a little more interesting, or reversing my controller just to make it a little more difficult.)

I love the idea of rage, its like morrowind or zelda meats FPS which is a bloody awesome idea! What svcks is the fact that the story is crap, the game is short, and half the gameplay mechanics are unnecessary. The game ends at point and shoot and scavenge the dead bodies and items around the room, sure you can make cool mounted guns for your disposal or set up a sentry turret, you can craft all sorts of items, but... you don't NEED to. I was able to get through the entire game with nothing but my guns, and the only item I crafted was the lock grinder. It would be kool if maybe the game was hard and there were sometimes where its like HOLY CRAP THERES MUTANTS EVERYWHERE, strikes me as its impossible to kill these all myself better lay down a few sentry turrets for cover fire, or hmm I can't get to this area, maybe I need to craft some sort of item, like a zip line or something IDK!!! The sad part is even if you were bad at the game and needed to lay a sentry turret, the things are so OP they will kill just about EVERYTHING leaving none of the hard honorable work for you, and the game becomes something that you watch rather than play.

Sorry, I lied earlier I crafted 2 items, the lock grinder and the emp grenade, there is one point in the game where you actually HAVE to craft the emp grenade, but why aren't there any other useful contraptions you can make that are necessary to progress through the game, well because sadly it looks like id put little to no thought into how fun it would be to actually play the game and not just look at it.

Sorry to anyone who reads this, my thoughts tend to really jump around, another thing that just crossed my mind that really pissed me off, at the end of the game you get this gun thats like the doom BFG easter egg gun hardy har, super powerful big bad ass gun, you get it right before the last mission, so its like well maybe this will actually be hard because they are giving me the most powerful weapon in the game, but no I went and completed the last mission with out pulling out this gun once, in fact I still have never used it.... WTF, uber lame.

Anyways I could ramble and rant about Rage forever, essentially that is what I came here to do, and to give you my opinion, again sorry to any readers who had a hard to following what I have written, I was never the best at spoken word or grammar.

Hope that rant made you feel better but your alone on this. I persoanly think BF3 is a load of BS but i didnt go on to their forum to rant. Just my 2c.

I wish Sentry Turrets were OP, those things do piss-all and just get smacked over or aim-botted by every enemy in the vicinity.

Nightmare wasn't all that hard but it was still pretty hectic, it just wasn't difficult in the masochistic way like so many people for some reason want their games to be. I don't see how you finished it in 5 hours though, since it took me 8 hours to get through only main storyline quests on Nightmare and I only had to defib a couple times - I didn't even die once.

Anyway if this is the worst game you've ever played then you've played [censored] all games.

If your sentry turrets are getting [censored], its because you aren't placing them strategically, try placing them somewhere where they will [censored] the npc's and they won't even see it coming. Also the original doom was wayyyyyyy harder than this game, perhaps its only because I beat that when I was 4 years old, but still.

w/e I'm mad pro gamer don't be hatin, this game was way too ez mode.

Dude, he is far from alone!!! Just read the forum....lots of people are pissed at how crappy this game really turned out. Yes, there was really cool things but over all it failed miserably. They could have done so much more with it and didnt.

I agree with the OP 100%!!!

There's absolutely no way whatsoever that you've completed the "entire game, secrets and all" if you've only ever crafted one lock grinder. Sorry, not possible, you haven't completed the entire game.

Never mind the quite outlandish claim of 5 hours. I could buy 8 hours doing a straight rush through the main storyline for sure, but completing absolutely everything in 5? Impossible again.

OP has a right to his opinion, but so what anyway? Yawn . . . . . Most of what he said is the standard fare bashing that we've seen from all the folks who just don't like the game.

But he said "I completed the entire game secrets and all with out any help from walk throughs in under 5 hours" . . . and I know . . . and you know . . . that is bull$@*!.

No offence mate but i shouldnt need to teach you that just becouse both of you or even hundreds or more people think rage is BS or failed dosnt make it so, thats simply your opinion and your entitled to it, im with the crowd who loves the game.

Does that make the game good or bad?....... Neither as the game is just a game and can not judge itself, its we people that judge and classify things.

Each to their own mate.

Cheers-

Ronin82

These are the standard fare bashings because people obviously dont like it.... ofc they come here to complain because they dont like the game.. if they liked it they would come here and suggest something new in a polite manner...

Also I agree with the OP too. The game was fairly easy, didnt really need turrents, physics were kinda crap because there were almost none and a little bump could make your car spin 20m in the air, the economy was unbalanced because halfway through the game I had 300-500 of every ammo type, the races were kind of boring since you always played on the same tracks, few recepies overall- many of them unnecessary, almost no weapon ugrades, some weapons were totally useless (like the rocket launcher that I used only when I got it on the giant and didnt touch it since), very little freedom, no reason to go out and explore the world, boring generic side quests (defend wellspring with sniper rifle about 3 times), lack of a large map kinda bugged me until I realized that the game lacks content and I have actually no reason to look around, WTF ending etc etc...

The graphics were good, some ammo types were cool, artstyle was great ofc, characters were good, but underdeveloped during the storyline and just disapeared after a while, mini games were cool, sound was decent, movement animations of mutants were good, co op is fun...

This game is 7/10 for me still... I like it, but it just feels unfinished.

P.s.
Yes the 5 hour thing does sound like bs...

I've finished the game once on Hard and now i'm trying to 100% it on Nightmare. I've got 10 hours up already and I'm not really straying too much, remembering this is second play through. So the fact that you say you did it in 5 hours is absolute rubbish, if you are going to try and lie about it, try and make it a believeable number :rolleyes:

Anyway, I personally think it's amazing, I think that there have been a lot of bad reviews that were bad simply because the reviewer was a muppet. People who gave it 6 and stuff obviously just don't have any clue. Now i'm not being harsh, I'll explain what I mean. I've read reviews where people said that the graphics wasn't that good... Don't remember where I saw it, but I navigated away immediatly. There have been a couple of reviews I've read where there has been a really well done anolysis of the game, looking at both the good and the bad. To be giving a game a bad review and absolutely slamming it when it recieved over 20 awards before it even came out is just playing ridiculous. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but at least look at both sides before making it and then broadcasting that ill-educated report on the internet, because you are doing other people an injustice by providing misleading information. This goes for "this game is 100% nothing wrong brilliant" and "This game is crap and there is nothing good about it".

I managed to get it for $15 Australian, and perfectly honest I'm bloody stoked. I love it and feel the wait was worth it. There are some bad parts (the ending, the story was great for it, but the gameplay, no spoilers). I liked it enough to second play through. And I'll no doubt come back again at a later point, especially for the DLC... Can't wait for that! The coop is really good, and playable many times over for each mission, the multiplayer took me a couple of hours to get used to, but it really is quite good and fast paced.

Overall, great job id, you'll have my money in future projects! Looking forward to seeing some id tech 5 Strogg... That will be gnarly! :biggrin:

Not the worst game ever, but a pile of crap none the less.

This game is really cool. Not for old id fans, its different. I am very happy that i don't have to make quests like kill 10-15-20 or sg mobs and come back. This game is linear but clear and simple, as a good novel.

i don't mind those kind of quest.

i also wish there was more to do in the 'open' world. for example i thought there would be more mobs out-and-about to kill, instead of just bandits in cars.

I suggest you to read the comic book and all the backup information of the story, it is much more fun to play the game if you have all the information.

shouldn't have to read a comic imo.
and i never mentioned anything about the story...

If you like repetitive quests you won't be intrested in the story line. This game is good, but not your game, go and play wow. I was wrong, sorry.

huh?? :facepalm:

i said
why you got defensive over that idk...

it would add more content and add to game play if they had something like that...

Not repetitive quests? The quests here are totally repetitive

It was always- go there, kill everyone inside and bring that thing. That Is all there is in the game basically.
Except for job boards which offer some other types of quests... like in wellspring there were 3 quests where you just stand on a balcony and shoot sniper rifle. 3 out of maybe 10?
Yeah... not repetitive at all...

RAGE is a shooter, with a driving side game.
So, yes, generally the idea is to kill everything.
This is what id makes.

And this is where RAGE excels - astounding level of detail & geometry in the environment, fluid animations & incredible character models, great AI, it oozes style, slickest interface/UI in a long while.
Just plain fun with some cool mini games & half decent economy.

Personally, FO3 bored the [censored] off me and the graphics were terrible.
I just stopped playing Deus Ex out of boredom & went back to another RAGE play through.
RAGE is light years ahead of Deus Ex technically.
Deus Ex felt like a PS2 game with enhanced lighting!

If RAGE is the worst game you've ever played I feel sorry for you.
I hope your taste in women & wine is better!

Let me get this straight. You're upset that in a first person shooter, all you do is shoot people from the perspective of first person?
Most FPS game, you dont even go through a palce to kill stuff in order to get a mission item. you just go through and kill simnply to grpgress to another location, eother on the way out or into a place..
list some off for me that arent about going through areas killing, Cause other than stealth FPS, i cant think of a single one.

1. main story line quests
2. side quests - two types : personal or board missions
3. mini games - card games (and you need to find cards!)
4. racing games, lot of types
5. kill bad guyz in open area
(6. get recipes, build things)

you can choose how to play, this game is repetitive if you play it repetitive

Ya know, Theshizno, I actually agree with most of what you're saying, and so funny as it is, despite it's shortcomings, we still enjoy playing it. Yes it could have been so much more, but in relation to what the OP said about it possibly being the worst game he's ever played . . . can't agree at all. I still believe there's $60 worth of entertainment in Rage. I don't feel ripped off.

It's getting so that Rage-bashing is almost kinda predictable now. You could almost make a checklist and go through any Rage-bashing post, marking off the items. Let's see, what have we got:

• Some kind of complaint about the textures up close.
  
• Gameplay complaints: it's an FPS not an RPG or open world game, and the poster seemed to completely miss this fact during the lead-in to release.
  
• AMD screwed up so let's blame id for it (a personal attack or torrent of insults towards Carmack is worth bonus points).
  
• id have betrayed PC gaming and PC gaming is dead and I'm never gonna buy another id game again (bonus points as above).
  
• Finished the game in a highly unlikely or flat-out impossible amount of time.
  
• This isn't the old id and some bizarre, nefarious Zenimax/Bethesda/Illuminatti/lizard-people conspiracy is at work.
  
• Accusations of not having tested the game (despite plenty of evidence - which nobody has denied - that the game was very highly tested).
  
• General "but it works with everything else!" point-missing.

Anything else that needs adding here?

only that that was an awesome post, sir

Yes - you've just put the internet out of business! I hope you're proud of yourself!

:stare:

;)

(I think we're gonna need you in the Skyrim section in a few weeks.)