Just found this funny http://i.imgur.com/UoJ0r.jpg.

Give your thoughts

At least Rage runs at 60fps day 1?... it took doom3 probably 3 years to do this... but yes, I agree absolutely, textures look like diarrhea finger painting, and I saw so many vids on the "Art and Design of Rage".. how could so many artists look SOOOO awful - I'm convinced that it is their auto-tweaking system, I can't imagine that the artists were SO much worse than American McGee!.. WEEEEE

Edit:

I saw the interview where Carmack mentioned "We're doing it twice as fast, and it looks twice as good..."... regarding their Tech 5 and the (console) industry... who the frack are they kidding?

I guess it really isn't the textures that look so awful, it's the rendering. Anyone smart enough to properly understand the tech isn't going to bother posting, they'd realize we're feral morons, anyone dumb enough to keep replying (like me) is too stupid to comprehend that it's a client side issue - learn how to perform brain surgery without any medical training... damn you id for thinking we're as smart as you!

You guys aren't factoring in lighting, or the fact that the game is open world, or the animation system. All everyone seems to care about is textures and that completely idiotic. You can take any game out right now, go stare directly at a wall, and see some pixels. I don't know why everyone is getting butthurt about rage. It looks great.

SOME PIXELS?.. are you kidding? and why does it load every time I enter an "instance", that isn't open world, it's a self contained map file... so why does is still look so awful? The fact is that id developed this for the console and put tricycle tires on a Lamborghini... makes you so mad to drive this car and be forced to drive 5mph.

FIX IT!... kthx