Agent.X7 wrote on Oct 4, 2011, 22:39:
The graphics are impressive if you haven't played a video game since the 90s. Seriously, there are parking meters and other objects that are so blurry and smeared that it hurts my eyes to look at them. It's bad.

Enahs wrote on Oct 4, 2011, 22:04:
Maybe I am just getting older, or maybe the world is just now even more full of pussies. But nowhere in that interview would I even begin to use the world hostile. Just, not hostile at all.

Aero wrote on Oct 4, 2011, 22:16:
I dunno, I'm really enjoying Rage so far. I suspect it must be a victim of over hype (which for this, was unavoidable really, but I pretty much entirely ignored). It did take a little twiddling to make it run the way I wanted at first, and some of it was counter-intuitive, but once that was behind me, I was having a lot of fun. Good, solid shooter mechanics (not at all like Brink, which had pretty broken shooter mechanics IMO).

I think the graphics are very, very impressive and the framerate is pretty well perfect. Sometimes the texturing on objects isn't as sharp as more traditional engines, but the overall effect and cohesion of the megatexture stuff more than makes up for it IMO.

I do get that small flicker of texture pop up in the periphery when panning quickly, but it only lasts for a frame or two and I don't even really notice it anymore, so I call it a fair trade off for the graphics quality otherwise.

For the sake of other folks who may not have tried it yet, for my system (GTX 580, 2600K) I had to do the following:

*Set AF to "application controlled" (otherwise I get seams on the geometry) and force vsync on in the Nvidia CP.
*Run the in-game AA at 8x rather than 16x AA (gives sharper textures, presumably auto-detail scales back to account for the extra AA, took me a bit to notice this).
*Enable "GPU Transcoding" in the game options.
*I also created the /id software/rage/ folders in my appdata folder because I read this improved things somewhere, but I dunno if it changed anything.
*I'm using NV driver version 285.37 beta.

<Electric-Spock> wrote on Oct 4, 2011, 21:54:
Also for those who are playing RAGE; Are there any Doom moments with the screen full of mutants and frantic gameplay? Or is it pretty much 5 mutants tops at any given time and they all have a trillion hit points each?

eRe4s3r wrote on Oct 4, 2011, 22:20:
I think in this age of hyper sensitive bullshitting and left/right/myside-is-better-than-yours idiocy people mistake honest for hostile.

I thought that Interview actually asked what everyone who has a clue (about game development or games in general) really wondered.

Darks wrote on Oct 4, 2011, 21:52:
I’ve played all three of the games, and I never once said oh look, this looks just like Borderlands. In fact I never once got that impression.

Creston wrote on Oct 4, 2011, 21:45:

Krovven wrote on Oct 4, 2011, 20:35:
I've sent in a ticket trying for a refund, no response yet, however I'm guessing they have had thousands of refund requests for Rage in the last 18 hours.

Please let us know how that goes. I'm sorely tempted to ask for a refund myself.

Creston

Prez wrote on Oct 4, 2011, 21:44:
This is all very disappointing. I got the impression that the reviewer was being overly critical in places, seeing as how a lot of the complaints he has could apply equally to other games, including Borderlands, which he praises in his review. Still, there is quite a bit of his review that touch on what sound to be genuine problems with the game. I expect things will only get worse when he reviews the PC version, as by many accounts it's a very lazy port.

Still, the game isn't off my wishlist - I'm just not paying 60 bucks for it. I got DNF for 10 bucks; I expect it might not be too long before I see a sale for Rage.

Krovven wrote on Oct 4, 2011, 20:35:
I've sent in a ticket trying for a refund, no response yet, however I'm guessing they have had thousands of refund requests for Rage in the last 18 hours.