Op Ed

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Re: Op Ed

Nov 15, 2011, 11:14

Creston

Verno wrote on Nov 15, 2011, 10:38: I'm ignoring the article topic itself for a moment because we haven't had a Rage thread in awhile. By far my most disappointing purchase of this year was Rage. There was no design ambition, no real creative goals, everything about it feels samey and ho-hum. It is a very by the numbers experience where every time you feel like something is going to play out a certain way, it does in exactly the manner you predicted. The FPS mechanics were respectable but again nothing special. I don't want to call it mediocre but it was certainly very average. The great visuals almost beckon you to explore but you're penned in by invisible walls which really mar the whole experience. I think the only real accomplishment to come from this game was it performed so well on consoles. Agree 100%. It's the first game in years where I literally had to force myself to finish it, because I was already dreadfully bored of it after about 8 hours. Every battle is exactly the same, the level's just slightly different. The AI literally has like 3 attack animations, and so every one of the 9000000000000000000000000 enemies you see attacks in one of three ways. Add to that the very constricted pathing options (meaning all mutants will attack you at the exact same spot, allowing you to just park there with a shotgun), the shitty textures, the non-existant motivation for you to even do this, and it all adds up to 60 dollars I wish I'd never spent. It's still on my desktop, and I've never even had the slightest inclination to click it again. Compare that to some of the other games I have on there: Skyrim - Can't wait to get home to play it again. Deus Ex - REALLY want to play it again, but too busy with Skyrim right now. (and I wish in some ways that Skyrim was more Deus Ex'ish.) Just Cause 2 - Whenever I feel like shooting something for an hour or so, this is where I go. Rage? Whatever. The only things that even marginally saved it for me were: - Very nice levels from time to time. I loved Dead City and I quite enjoyed the Central Station level too. - I did enjoy the racing bits. Wish there'd been more of those. Everything else is just stunningly mediocre. Doom 4 better come with a gaggle of NFL cheerleader blowjobs for me to be interested. 7 years, and this is what the mighty id could come up with... Creston

		Date	Subject	Author
	1.	Nov 15, 10:17	Re: Op Ed	MajorD
	2.	Nov 15, 10:38	Re: Op Ed	Verno
>>	3.	Nov 15, 11:14	Re: Op Ed	Creston
	4.	Nov 15, 12:12	Re: Op Ed	Beelzebud
	6.	Nov 15, 16:10	Re: Op Ed	Warskull
	7.	Nov 15, 16:23	Re: Op Ed	Asmo
	8.	Nov 15, 17:18	Re: Op Ed	Kobalt
	5.	Nov 15, 15:17	Puce Moose	jdreyer
	9.	Nov 16, 08:28	Re: Op Ed	Zadig