Stalker bundle is #20 and Rage is not on the list. Total PC fail.

RAGE is best game ever. id software is BEST dev studio. Only Blizzard can compare them. But blizz have better publisher. I hate bethesda. Just read every day bethblog.com you will see only Skyrim there. They don't do that id deserve! I believe id gets wrong way with bethesda. This is my opinion. sorry for my english.
Yes too many problems in PC ver, but if you know enough, this problems is 90% from drivers. Maybe better DooM 4 have D3D support. Just is impossible ATI to write opengl drivers

just [censored] off already. everyone gets it. you hate the game. don't you have anything else to go do or is your life so pathetic the only fun you have is running around shooting your stupid mouth off? I would just love to see you do something better. The biggest [censored] talkers are always the biggest failures in life. How is mom's basemant working out? Cold up there in canada so that corner you live in must get a bit nippy at times.....

In all honesty, who gives a [censored]?

So on PC it didn't do well, cuz there's so many idiots out there who would make a big deal of the bugs and scare people away from buying it.
Now on console, there are it's sales. Who gives a [censored] if it didn't sell on PC? It's not a PC-only game, sheesh, when a game is released for all 3 platforms, PC is never meant to be the big seller, they target the game to console gamers, and it succeeded.

Also, I don't see what your deal with Stalker is, no one cares about it, you're the only person who ever mentions that game... no lie bro, I've never known anyone who plays it, or seen it anywhere...

Sweetie you just showed up. This was to be the greatest game ever and the hype just failed in so many ways.

I'm 65 and retired actually. I'm angry because I was lied to. Repeatedly.

Stalker is on sale (even the [censored]tiest games on steam peak to number for a day when theyre on sale LOL). Otherwise it hasn't sold a fraction of its 3 games compared to any single id series, so do amount of sales matter? No. Worry about yourself and what you personally like.

You keep throwing out that you were lied to.
The only specific instance I've seen you reference are your claims that the world would be open. That was never the quote from id.
"Open but directed" is what they said. If you can't tell that didnt mean sandbox, it deosn't mean you were lied to, you just didn't listen to Tim Willits when he mentioned this only about 5 billion times in interviews.


Also, for your top 20 steam list.
Who cares? This game hasn't even been out for a month, and you're comparing it to games that ahve been out for some time.
Even if it weren't the case, would not making it on the list make the game unworthy of play? Are only 20 games out there that are good?
pfffft

Lastly, i don't think any game will ever match stalker for you- as much as you talk about it. That doesn't mean other games are bad, it just means that stalker is your favorite franchise.
Please stop trying to compare a completely different experience to one you;ve already played.

I have to support the old fella though.
Stalker is a great game (played it) but I cant say it is better than Rage because they are quite different, but I do think that rage is not a great game. For me, rage is an average game. Ignoring all the bugs it has and that I was not able to play it for about a month due to the lack of proper drivers, it still isnt anything epic. Its a decent game, but for me it does not stand out from others. I watched some trailers and tought it did stand out, but now that I played it I have to say that the gameplay is pretty poor. Yes the artstyle is great, but the graphics are kinda crappy on the pc version (compared to other pc games) and the game seems like having everything only half done. 19 recepies? Thats not much tbh. 3 levels of armor protections? doesnt seem like a lot. Useless loot system? Yes, because if you do mutant bash tv about 20 times (which will take you 1 hour most) you will have enough money for at least 80 per cent of the game, because there just isnt anything to spend them on. Very little weapon upgrades, many types of useless ammo since all you need is shotgun and maybe crosbow for longshots. The recepies are actually useless too, because the game isnt that challanging and you dont rly need to use the medicines or sentries.

Why should Bethesda advertise plenty of Rage if it is obvious that Skyrim gets much more hyped and will probably be a lot better because it gives you a lot of freedom, which rage doesnt, it has plenty of rpg elements, which rage doesnt, it will have plenty of sidequest, which rage doesnt and probably much better storyline since TES game usually let the player create the story line in his mind by never giving you anything specific about the characters history so that you can play the game the way you want. Also dragons.

Rage is good, but not great or epic. 7/10.

Sorry...

if you have played it at all, why not call it about half a month, instead of rounding up for dramas sake?

Release date 7th october in europe... I just got it to work the day before yesterday, because that is when I randomly checked on Rage news in steam and saw Kotaku article about new drivers.. not sure if it was Kotaku... which would make it 22 days... which is 3/4 of a month.. I also said that I ignore it because it was not Ids fault

what is Stalker?

Yet it's listed #7 on Gamerrankings most popular for PC list:
http://www.gamerankings.com/pc/index.html

Maybe people have different definitions of "total"?

:P

It should have been a monster. Rage will go down as a failed launch and may become an example of how not to do it.

There are many people who still cannot play it on a PC and the level of support id has offered, almost none, is resonating in the PC community. This little backwater is a cheering section compared to many sites.

And of those sites, which are happy about RAGE being released on consoles? Could they be biased because fo the id merger with Zenimax?
I know for one that DAC was pretty against this game well before it's release for instance, and i know how they feel about consoles in general.

I am sure there are some with issues still.
But i won't act like ther weren't issues for people that bought past id games as well. I had a room mate who worked on making Q arena work for weeks on end.
Some of this is to be expected when releaseing a game with ambitious new tech for PC's, becauset there are a myriad of variables involved with them.
If you have a modified car, when it is working right, it can be the slickest, fastest machine on the block. But, you're not gonna be coverd by any factory warranty on the planet. There is a reason for that, whch would be variables. Couple that with drivers being messed up and the Dev thinking that all was good to go?

But indeed, I am certain negative bias begnning well before the game launch had nothing to do with lower than expected PC sales, right?
Again, you're part of the problem if all you are going to do is complain and skew facts.
Others on here are actually trying to help those with issues. I can commend that, but starting a thread to call "total PC fail LULz!"
does nothing other than cause controversy and turn people off.

At best you can say "rage didnt sell as well as expected" but "total" PC fail? While it sounds pretty sensational, that's obviously not the case.

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Haha - Blizzard has nothing to do with Activision , completely separate operations , Blizzard publishes their own games , blizzard has published their own games since it's existance.

The only thing is that Vivendi Games merged with Activision , and blizzard is just a part of the financial/administrative structure of Activision Blizzard which it's parented by Vivendi Games and owned by french Vivendi SA.

Basically, blizzard didn't move a hitch. Viviendi still owns them as they did before , so if Kotick is problematic they'll throw out this pain in the ass.


The big difference is:
Blizzard is a creative company: their engines are relatively problematic and generally lagging behind, memory leaks as daily business
ID Software is a technological company: adventure without final boss ?


Why the heck Blizzard and ID Software didn't merge = best thing ever happend on this planet in this galaxy ,

ID Software had a chance to poke in at the VIVENDI Deal .... and blizzard couldn't do anything form separation since it was already owned by vivendi so it was .. kind of ... if Carmack ever got that on his mind or wanted it it might have happend , we kind of can't blame carmack for it , but seriously ... such a pity.

Not at all. The launch has been a disaster and with the poor response many have gotten refunds and many are swearing to never go near an id game again.

To try to blame those of us who suspected the game might svck is just dumb.

You have no idea. I have spent hours helping people to get their game up and running. Some of us are used to id's console and the fixes generated by the community have gotten many people up and running. I have 4 different configs I have tested and can recommend some of them for some users depending on their hardware.

If nothing is done and that looks more and more likely this will be a total PC fail for id and they will have trouble ever selling us a game again. I'm sure the consoles will be well supported.

I really hate the dumb consoles. They have hurt gaming in general.

Head in the sand

LOLgood one--the little console babys have no idea at all what a good game actually is. This one isn't. 8 more months and will be joining you in the retirement gaming village!!

Stalker---great games that actually last for a long time with great story lines---guess you don't know anyone who plays because you are stuck in the cons hole.

well good for you helping people.
Do you think that contimuing to pick at the game is going to help anything?

I am a dumb console.
been playing games since the early eighties.
In that time i have played on
intellivision, atari, nintendo up to the GC, Sega Genesis-Sega CD, Sega Dreamcast, PS one and two and both x-box consoles.
I guess i am not a real gamer though, cause all i do is hurt the industry by funneling money in for development.
Even your boy Carmack can see that consoles help the industry.
Or does him stating that further bias amongst OC users?

There is lots of money to be made with dumbed down stuff. Consoles are the major reason games have been made stupid. COD is a direct result of console influence. Because you build to the lowest common denominator you build simple and dumb. Simple easy to render levels with lots of helpful things to make your game easy. Auto aim for one. No console can operate without it.


That is what is destroying gaming for some of us. Rage is what it is because of consoles and that is a pity.

Games aren't being made dumbed down and stupid. . . .you've evidently just become too smart for them. Guess you might as well quit playing them since it's all been ruined for you.

You think graphics is what made games like COD dumbed down?
Really?
Cause I am pretty sure TDM originated on PC, and since then FPS games like COD have followed a model of being all about TDM
Us console gamers have ridiculously short dumbed down SP campaigns as a result of TDM. Should I start blaming computers, or would that be silly?

BTW, there are games that you can toggle auto aim on for consoles, so you can stop with the auto aim.

There are quite a few very fine non console games. There are even a few cross platform that are not bad.

If you don't think writing a game to a console, an order of magnitude weaker than my present machine, is dumbed down then I dunno. You may have trouble with the concept.

Lets put it this way. I can snapshoot a fast moving mutant in the head, no waiting. My buddy who is pretty good with a controller, many years of console practice, is a wonderful driver but is chopped meat in combat in a no auto aim PC game.