I bought Rage the other day, as I had traded in some games and there was nothing else that took my interest. I had heard about the game before and thought it might be a fallout clone, but decided to get it anyway.

Much to my surprise I believe the developers (id software) had thought about this and had decided to avoid this conclusion completley and make the game a full fledged, post-appocalyptic shooter. Ok i thought, lets see if this can work.

It didn't.

As I continued to play Rage my intrest level began to decline, the enemies were completely generic, acting exactly the same everytime they attacked me. The quests were sub-par and felt identical each time, and frankly I didn't care at all about the characters To me the only real appeal to Rage is the racing segments and the guns, both of which started to bore me after a few hours of play time.

If id software had taken the RPG elements from Fallout 3 and used them in Rage, I think this game could have been outstanding. A clone of Fallout sure, but it would have been outstanding nonetheless.

Well much better than the final copy of Rage..

Anyone else have similar thoughts?

....couda,wouda, shouda...but they didn't and its not and never will be. :sadvaultboy:

IMO a RPG with first person shooter elements works........a first person shooter with minor RPG elements do not, at least in this situation....also don't make a pseudo open ended fake sandbox game.....its like finding a ghost town you want to explore and finding out 95% of the place is inaccessable.

This isn't a flame, just an honest question: did they market it as such?

Just the opposite, Fallout should be more like Rage. Fallout is buggy, stutters way too much, the graphics aren't as nice, and walking everywhere svcks.

I think they stated that it had open world type qualities. Perhaps I didn't look at the fine print but when you see such a wording you know it may not be totally sandbox but you really don't know until you really buy the game. Even watching youtube guides you may never sense how litte exploration there is.

Don't get me wrong...I don't hate the game, its not a bad game but to me it is not epic or good...its meh but that is personal preference (lots of games I love people hate or fell so so about.)

At least in a linear shooter style game there is no such confusion.

I do truly hope that even tho its not my cup of tea they continue to make DLC's and such for people who do love to play it.

"At it's core, Rage is a FPS"

... except that id decided to migrate their company to a CONSOLE DEV.


I think that they realized maybe the PC market isn't as dead as John thought by all the bad press & general fail release. Need more proof, just read the forums and look at twitter, the only people that really enjoyed Rage AT RELEASE were console players, and even there . . .


On another topic, why are the forums SO dead? ~7 weeks after release and Rage is already dead?... more proof?

I simply stopped coming here because of all the misguided negative posts.
key word, misguided.

But I am sure others stopped coming because there are a whole lot of games that dropped this fall.


rampant, "this is this way because of this" speculation on this board certainly doesnt help the state of affairs it is in.

Read my lips: I love this game and have never owned a console!

Its got its flaws like an obviously rushed ending and a really rough launch, but the critics were right to say even before it launched that this is one of the best looking games of the year and one of the most fun to play. It has amazing draw distances, amazing looking characters, incredible detail, and the classic id high speed gunplay combined with driving.

when people have nothing to do , waiting into unknown , they speculate to makeup for the lack of information

ID software were right to keep this game as a shooter, RPG in post ap setting has already been done, so there was no point in making an identical game. I found enemies to be quite variable and good in comparisen with other shooters.

I'm PC and I loved it at release.

I'm not posting as much anymore cos all the threads are relatively close to the same:

- RAGE is crap because [insert reason here]
- PC gaming is dead
- RAGE is awesome because [insert reason here]

I still check daily for any thing that might be intersting, but I find little reason to post

Perhaps they should have actively marketed it as an FPS --- all this post-apocalyptic setting led people to think it had Fallout qualities. IMHO, I don't hold id Software to blame as they didn't really said it's an open-world thing (judging from your reply) but the market's human, we make mistakes in our assumptions.

Rage is amazing. But for pc gamers like me it seems unfinished; almost as if the developers were given too many options for the take on the game and gameplay. However, I think that Rage was a good game as an introduction to a franchise that could expand on its genre of gameplay and engine with patches,DLC, or even sequels. I refuse to play games like this on the console because it just seems like a sacrilege. I have no complaints about this game except for the fact that I wanted more (and dedicated servers for wasteland legends) and I have faith that this will all come sooner or later, there is no way that a developer like ID (that has been making games for a long time) would leave us in the dirt with a cliffhanger as a close (for the ending). Beat the game 3 times. Twice on hard, Once on nightmare. Still like the game even though there are flaws. In fact I've replaced this as my favorite game compared to Bioshock.

See this is the problem, people always want games to be like what they compare them too, then get mad when the game doesn't measure up to their EXACT expectations.

No, Rage shouldn't have had RPG elements from Fallout 3. Rage is Rage. Fallout 3 is Fallout 3. Tim Willits said it multiple times for people just like you, "Rage is a shooter with rpg elements".

And Fallout is a RPG with shooter elements. So Fallout of course is going to have more and most likely better rpg elements.

What you are saying is like me saying Fallout should add in a driving element to make the traveling faster w/o a fast transport using the pip boy. It's just not fair b/c that is not what the game is.

Anyways Rage is fine, the only reason why you are saying this is because it wasn't what you expected. You'll get over it

I wanted a FPS and I got it - Rage delivered it. GOTY as far I'm concerned. I don't want it to be anything else. It is a masterpiece.