mono
2001
You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar! The Dropbox aspect worked fine. I’m at work now, but if I have a chance to fire up the game this evening, I’ll check out the saves. Much obliged. I owe you a beer/coffee or the like if you ever pass through NYC.
EDIT: The saves worked great. You had one just prior to the last ‘boss battle’, where you just hit a few switches and shoot the aliens. On to the DLC. :)
Playing this now… actually having kind of a blast. The DLC is interwoven with the main game, so basically you have to start from the beginning. Having done that I’m having a great time. In my first playthrough I was disappointed with all the rpg-ish aspects put together by people with no great grasp of rpgs. This time, I’m ignoring all that stuff and just cruising from mission to mission and it’s a lot of fun.
The DLC is properly produced with voiced NPCs and new shooty areas. Definitely recommended to anyone who feels like more RAGE.
Can you expand on that a little Alistair? How is the DLC interwoven into the main game exactly? So you go through the same areas in the main campaign, but the DLC adds different enemies or something? Or just different missions that you go on from the Hub in the game?
The reason I’m so hesitant to get this even at $5 is because in the demo, I couldn’t stand going around in that Hub area. It was so large and uninteresting. The idea of having to navigate that each time I come back from a mission is… irritating. And then the mission in the demo was pretty unsatisfying. Being an id game, I was really hoping for more satisfying weapons. But maybe I didn’t give it long enough.
Rock8man, at $5 it really is worthwhile. Whether it’s worth your time is your call only. But as for the hub area, my recollection is different - I found it to be tiny and uninteresting. But I did think the driving and the shooting was fun, and since that’s how you spend the bulk of your time in Rage, I have more or less positive feelings about the game. My understanding is that lots of people hated the ending, but I seem to be lacking the gene that allows me to feel outrage at botched endings, and I just thought it was kind of a letdown in an otherwise above average game.
The DLC is a handful of new missions accessed from existing ‘hubs’.
The pacing in the main game really let it down a bit I think, with the painful go-here-and-sit-through-expensively-produced-but-uninteresting-NPC-dialogs constantly getting in the way.
However, it has a great and unique look, and very nice, fluid action.
I had so much fun when I was looking at the DLC I just went on and finished the whole thing again. I have to say I really enjoyed it this time, having had a more mixed experience first time through. I think not thinking of it as in any way an open rpg type game helped. Do not explore, do not click on endless NPCs with nothing to say. The game pushes you through 90% of its content (some of it several times) and letting it do that at its own pace spares you a lot of repetition.
Thumbs up! $4.99 well spent for some (ok, maybe a couple) of you.
Do you really have to start from the beginning? I enjoyed my time with the game, but I don’t think I can do it all again. Just gimme some sewers to drive to, fucking Tim Willits! Or Doom 4.
For all I know it integrates with existing saves. But it’s not standalone. The first mission kicks off in the Hagar settlement. And the others are gated behind things to be done in main plot, e.g. getting into Wellspring etc.
Sinij
2009
So got to Rage on my to play list… W T F
Game is beyond terribad, at least the beginning part that I have seen. Pistol is useless, its easier to just fist-fight everyone during first 3-4 missions.
Mission to get buggy parts. A chaotic maze that difficult to navigate (had to google to find where parts are) with instakill surprise at the end (wished I googled it more).
Does this get any better or is it safe to give up on this?
Sinij: You can read the comments on the page above yours. Pogue and Alistair both defend the game. My experience in the demo was similar to yours, which is why I never pulled the trigger. I’m not afraid that it’s not worth $5, I’m just afraid it’s not worth my time, and based on the demo, I very much doubt that I’ll enjoy it at all.
Shadari
2011
I’ve been playing Rage a bit lately. And it does get better later in the game. Mind you, it’s still got a heaping of warts. But as a corridor shooter, it’s actually pretty darned good.
I can’t even identify it from your comments Sinij :| It doesn’t change that much as it progresses but obviously user familiarity does grow… How about continuing until you build your first spider bot?
Just to chime in, the co-op bits (6 missions if I recall) of RAGE are pretty good, and should be played at least once. :)
I even liked the vehichle based combat they had for multiplayer, sadly that was dead on arrival, from the first week of release. :(
Seneca
2014
Just finished this earlier today, and the ending was rather abrupt. A 15 second cut scene and roll credits. I did not even realize that I was near the end of the game.
I think it was 9 missions ;)
The vehicle combat wasn’t bad, indeed, but yeah, two weeks later there was so few people playing that the game wold match me with some russians (and their poor lag).
rei
2016
So, is the DLC worth $2.49 USD price that GameStop Impulse is asking? SteamWorks, registers on Steam.
I think its best to leave RAGE as an unpleasant memory than to have to re-download it and suffer through it again.
I think I read the DLC actually merges into the main story, so I don’t think it can be just played if you already finished the main game. Anyone know for sure?
Blips
2018
Does Rage still thrash solid state drives? Or has that been fixed - or perhaps I’m misremembering another issue the game had. I’d like to pick the game up sometime eventually.
Define “trash”?? I played it without problems with a SSD…
Rage had a famous problem, but with some AMD drivers.
WarrenM
2020
That would be a bitter cherry on top of a sundae of bad ideas. That can’t be right, can it?
