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RAGE by iD

I never really liked games from id. Always seemed just too much repetitive run and gun shooting and no real interest. Quake 4 was really boring (well, I only played the demo). Maybe rage will win me over, but probably not.

Graphically it'd be OK if the release date was any time soon, but it will probably be at least a year before it comes out by which time everything else will have overtaken it by miles.

COD 4, Crysis and UT3 to rule!!!
 
id Software's Rage

LOL. from the title on page 1, I thought it was going to be about John Carmack being pissed at Apple about something. :p
 
If I could get 12 fps for the Witcher 2 on my M11x R3 on intel 3000hd (as a test), you should be able to get above 20-25 fps on Rage at low settings in Rage. Besides the min requirements are pretty friendly.
 
I played a bit of this at the Eurogamer Expo and yeah, it didn't really excite me. Which is daft because I love id games! I'll wait for a sale and some DLC first :)
 
Dagless said:
I played a bit of this at the Eurogamer Expo and yeah, it didn't really excite me. Which is daft because I love id games! I'll wait for a sale and some DLC first :)
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It was free for a day or something like that. I have it on my iPhone and iPad; both I got for free. I'm glad it was free, because I find it very dull.
 
Dagless said:
As a fan of Doom and Quake (not 4), I'm finding it hard to get excited about this game. All I'm seeing is a pod racer-esque game with (IMO) average visuals. Nothing as ground breaking like when Doom 3 first cropped up.
Offset, Unreal 3 and Crysis have deadend me.
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Average visuals? I wonder if you played it with effects and textures turned up.

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BlizzardBomb said:
A few years ago if I read the title "New game by iD", I would get excited. Now... meh. It doesn't look unique at all, what it does look like is two (not necessarily good) concepts, crammed into one game.

Maybe I've been spoiled by info and trailers from other upcoming current-gen titles, but this looks dreadfully average.
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I think Dead Island has spoiled everyone.

But, even DI has a lot of zombie models that use the same face. Uggh....really? Is it so hard to model some uniqueness into faces?
 
CylonGlitch said:
It was free for a day or something like that. I have it on my iPhone and iPad; both I got for free. I'm glad it was free, because I find it very dull.
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Ah, I was talking about the PC game since the thread was resurrected at the time of the new games launch. But yeah the iOS minigame version=dull.

Irishman said:
Average visuals? I wonder if you played it with effects and textures turned up.
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Haha, you replied to a quote from 2007. Of course it looked average back then. That was the year of Crysis which looked phenomenal compared to the initial Rage shots.

I think Dead Island has spoiled everyone.
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Really? Dead Island has spoiled everyone? We must have played different games.
 
You may want to think twice about getting this game. In its current form it is just about unplayable for tons of people. I have a very sharp PC system (Core i7 2600K, 2 6950s in Crossfire) and can barely run it with TONS of missing textures, GPU freakouts, etc. Plus crash to desktop every time I step outside the first little pod area.

The "new" drivers released by AMD do NOTHING to resolve the issue.

id is promising a game update to resolve the issue, AMD is meanwhile saying they're not going to be updating the driver again until 11.10 formally launches. Not really sure what I'm expected to believe at this point.
 
well, it's very sad that the game was made by ID. unbelievably the game has tons of technical issues. texture pop-in, detail texture is blurry as hell. tearing is so bad...... sometimes it's crash with no reason. gameplay, graphic (from distance, not closed) is nice. if you want to buy it, hold you wallet until everything will be fix. it's just disaster. mostly PC version has no advanced graphic options. so you can't adjust for your PC or mac. it's like totally console. there are only resolution, AA on and off, brightness. that's all. it's very bad decision what they did for PC. ID software don't make game for PC anymore. they are turned to console market 100% for making greedy money. this game is not even deserved to demand for $59.99. it should be less than $40. I tweaked everything on my laptop. screen tearing can't be fix. mosaic is all over the place. my all games in the collection never have this kind of problem. texture pop-in? kidding me? I have gaming laptop. it handles every damn game whatsoever. even crysis 2 runs 45fps with high setting (1920*1080). Rage is not power hungry game. it's not even closed to the witcher 2 graphic power.

you should wait until they will fix. don't buy it right now, or won't buy it. it's not worthy of your $60.
 
archurban said:
well, it's very sad that the game was made by ID. unbelievably the game has tons of technical issues. texture pop-in, detail texture is blurry as hell. tearing is so bad...... sometimes it's crash with no reason. gameplay, graphic (from distance, not closed) is nice. if you want to buy it, hold you wallet until everything will be fix. it's just disaster. mostly PC version has no advanced graphic options. so you can't adjust for your PC or mac. it's like totally console. there are only resolution, AA on and off, brightness. that's all. it's very bad decision what they did for PC. ID software don't make game for PC anymore. they are turned to console market 100% for making greedy money. this game is not even deserved to demand for $59.99. it should be less than $40. I tweaked everything on my laptop. screen tearing can't be fix. mosaic is all over the place. my all games in the collection never have this kind of problem. texture pop-in? kidding me? I have gaming laptop. it handles every damn game whatsoever. even crysis 2 runs 45fps with high setting (1920*1080). Rage is not power hungry game. it's not even closed to the witcher 2 graphic power.

you should wait until they will fix. don't buy it right now, or won't buy it. it's not worthy of your $60.
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A quote from Todd Hollenshead
So as an independent developer, we feel like we have to be on all the relevant platforms. So we don't really view ourselves as PC first.
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So they're not PC ultra fanboys, they go where the market is like any smart, independent company.
 
Anyone tried it on an 2011 imac? i have the base 21.5 2011 model with ati 6750 mobility. Anybody knows if there is rage specific drivers for mobility radeon?
 
Is there anything newer than this comment?

"When contacted, Bethesda's Pete Hines clarified the Mac situation:

As id Software have said previously, we haven't solidified our plans for Mac yet and so we aren't listing it yet."
 
kgian said:
Anyone tried it on an 2011 imac? i have the base 21.5 2011 model with ati 6750 mobility. Anybody knows if there is rage specific drivers for mobility radeon?
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Yes, there is an AMD driver for this. People are getting mixed results, probably because they are not doing clean installs (using driver cleaner to remove all traces).
 
turbobass said:
You may want to think twice about getting this game. In its current form it is just about unplayable for tons of people. I have a very sharp PC system (Core i7 2600K, 2 6950s in Crossfire) and can barely run it with TONS of missing textures, GPU freakouts, etc. Plus crash to desktop every time I step outside the first little pod area.
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That's funny I'm running this on a Core i5 (dual core, first gen), 5650m and 4gb's of RAM and it runs smooth as a baby's butt at my native res. I get a little texture pop in but I can't believe how well this game scales visually and still gives me awesome performance.
 
been playing this on my 12core 2.93 for the past 2 days. great game and runs like a charm on the MP. Highest resolution and stuff.
 
dont cry about the lack of graphic settings in the game. the engine works to automatically adjust the texture size/quality depending on how powerful your system is. it tries to optimize itself for a constant 60fps. so basically, it may run equally smooth on a gtx 460 or a gtx 580 sli setup, but it will def not look the same. innovative technology imo
 
Had all sorts of problems with Rage on my 2011 iMac, seems to be the AMD issue lots of people are having, anyway loaded on my 2010 11" MBA with the the GT320 and it runs really well, I was quite amazed, really smooth, no pop up, just shows what having a proper mobile gfx chip does.
 
The iPad

Rage HD title isn't bad, but this one doesn't really look that great. What is good however is that we are now starting to see more "Real" games appearing in the Mac app store.

I was around when Doom and Quake are released and loved playing them....The FEAR series was good too...In fact I'd actually buy that if they port a sequel to the iMac!
 
blunti said:
been playing this on my 12core 2.93 for the past 2 days. great game and runs like a charm on the MP. Highest resolution and stuff.
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In fairness with that computer (and it's spec) one would certainly expect that to be the case anyway....



Was thinking of picking it up on STEAM however how big is the download ??? I suspect it would take a week or more for me to download it - so may just go out and pick it up on 360 or PS3.
 
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