1741

Tell me about it! My god that was dumb! What were they doing ?

While I didn’t mind that there was no boss at the end, what they replaced that with was so feeble and lackluster. Just to compare, here are two examples of this kind of thing done to great effect just of the top of my head:

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[li]The end of resistance 3 there is no boss fight but an all in fight and intense battle.[/li][li]The end of Killzone 2 (before the actual shitty boss fight)[/li][/ul]

Instead we get a less interesting version of the end of Half- life 2.

1742

I made it to the second “hub” area. Kind of underwhelmed to be honest. And whats with the card game person acting like I’ve never played before? Almost sounds like they were supposed to be my first introduction to the game.

1743

SArkus, yeah that was annoying…missed script there.

1744

Anyone tried the racing online? I waited in the lobby for about 10 minutes to see if I could get a public game going, and 1 person (at level 14) joined then left after 2 minutes.

I guess the multiplayer for this is dead already? lol.

1745

Monday night I played a bit of racing, and had very little wait for a 4 car match. However, I switched over to the co-op campaigns, because apparently I am a terrible racer…

1746

I did that too. I never fired the thing because I was honestly expecting a Mecha-Cross or something of that sort. I also didn’t go into the sewers, because I was going to do it later but then the game ended. I liked the game, but not enough to replay anytime soon.

1747

I’m rather disappointed that they pulled the same exact thing in the second area as the first to get you the next car. “You can’t go on this quest unless you get a better car. Luckily the same guy you beat for your first car upgrade is here with the type of car you need and ready to race again.”

Plus the new car totally sucks.

1748

This game is so strange.

The graphics are amazing, the gunplay is excellent, the enemies are varied and fun. The minigames are mostly excellent and there are lots of fun things to do in the world.

Yet the quest system is totally hopeless. “Go there. Fetch this. Go back” “Oh wait, i can do X for you but you need to fetch Y for me first”. Why build this amazing looking game and filling it with all these fun things to do then design your core game, the things that should keep folks playing for a long time like it’s 1996? I really, really want to like this game but the repetition is already getting to me and I’m not even out of Wellspring yet.

Oh, and the AI races has the worst case of rubberbanding ever. I mean, come on! I was leading a race last night and just could not shake one of the other drivers no matter what i did. Then i did a wrong turn and lost a lot of time, costing me first place. Or so i thought. When i turned the last corner the same opponent was just standing there idling, seemingly waiting for me to catch up then speeding up when i passed him. There really is no excuses for that.

1749

Complacency is the natural consequence of perpetual success.

1750

Hey, they advanced their game design to 2007/8 levels. But we are in 2011. :(

I don’t agree with the rubberbanding comment. Well, i agreed with it playing the first races, i saw some very suspect AI in racing… but later, i had some races where i could get the first place and open a nice gap between the second and me.

1751

I agree, I’ve won a number of races by a pretty large margin.

1752

The questing system is the worst thing about the game simply because it’s so pointless. The story’s not nearly good enough to justify making the player spend so much time not shooting stuff just to take part in it. The quests themselves are mostly great once you actually get to their location, but man is it tedious to keep going back and forth just to get another quest for an area you’ve been to several times already.

1753

Got my wallet credit for this POS. Skyrim, don’t let me down!

1754

http://twitter.com/#!/ID_AA_Carmack/statuses/124916837791186945

We have a bicubic-upsample+detail texture option for the next PC patch that will help alleviate the blurry textures in Rage.

1755

Every time I start getting into it, they tempt me to wait for another patch. Back to The Witcher 2 once again.

1756

Reading all of this, and playing the game, I’m not seeing the full-on, DNF-style, “OMG I smugly got a refund” hate for this game, unless:
a) You are an ATI graphics card guy;
b) You think that your old 8800GT should be able to run this thing full-spec since it’s just a console port (been there);
c) You don’t like straightforward, competent manshoots, in which case you shouldn’t be bothering posting in a thread about straightforward manshoots, and should be posting about how DX3’s boss fights ruined the entire game or how Oblivion was a debacle.
Not that I want to become a RAGE apologist or glib enthusiast here, but shit people, this is one of the full price shooters that I’ve bought in the last year plus or so that I’m not bitterly disappointed about (CoDBlops and Bulletstorm: looking at you).

1757

That’s about 40% of the market.

1758

My ingame counter tells me 18 hours 20 minutes and I am still not done with the game.
In every other shooter I would start to get bored by 6th hour, but not here…somehow the combination of awesome gun feel, minigames + racing + incredible artwork-like graphics and art design make me enjoy this game far longer.

1759

I’m at 17 hours and starting to get a big bored with it, to be honest.

1760

I finished around that time Sarkus, and the game needed 3 hours more, imo.