Given a choice, would you prefer id had delayed the game for more testing, getting the drivers ready and patching it.
Yes. That goes for a number of games that have been rushed out.
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Given a choice, would you prefer id had delayed the game for more testing, getting the drivers ready and patching it.
I'll go the other way. I'd rather have a game that I can play right now (that isn't perfect) than sit on the sidelines with nothing at all.
I say that because that's exactly what I'm doing right now while the consoles have Arkham City today. I'd rather have the option to play it while missing something (or maybe even use a community created fix/tweak) than nothing at all.
Hell, this is the PC. Pretty much no matter what, a certain % will have driver issues and problems anyway. Get it out there and that way they'll start hearing about the problems now rather than later.
How about an option not to waste $60 on an unfinished product?
Sure, there's that option...if you enjoy watching your PC gather dust. Seems like pretty much every major release this year (yup, even the Witcher 2) was released in a state that the community deemed to be unfinished or worse: "consolized."
Unfinished and consolized are kind of like the word "socialism." People use them to simply mean "I don't like this."
Sure, there's that option...if you enjoy watching your PC gather dust. Seems like pretty much every major release this year (yup, even the Witcher 2) was released in a state that the community deemed to be unfinished or worse: "consolized."
Unfinished and consolized are kind of like the word "socialism." People use them to simply mean "I don't like this."
I understand the arguement "if you dont buy the game, your PC is just sitting there with nothing to do", but Rage's issues far outweigh the price tag. Witcher 2, while it did have some minor issues on launch, had story and length in its favor, which more than warrented its price tag.
The nice thing about a PC is it can do other things than just play games...
So....what happenend to the texture pack Carmak promised?
It's only been a few weeks, things like that take time. Building, Packaging, Testing, QA etc.
lots of people have not been able to play it yet. fuck, doesn't look like it will be today either. oh well, at least there is BF3.
So....what happenend to the texture pack Carmak promised?
This game looks like shit. I won't be playing it until they improve the textures.
Went back and completed this tonight, overall I had fun, the game is a solid shooter with some fun weapons and ammo and plenty of unique and interesting areas to fight in.
The ending as everyone says comes fast and it ends with a fairly large disappointment, it's like a firework that fizzles out instead of exploding, it's almost as if they had to wrap up the game early in development. There's the potential for a reasonably interesting story in there, had all the missions focused on the story it would have been fairly good I think but you spend your time meandering from place to place helping random strangers none of which ties into the main story, so it's not satisfying to complete them. The 10% of missions which are story focused feel like an epic story arc told at 10x the speed of normal just skipping over massive details leaving you largely bewildered and confused.
There's no real closure to the game and looking back on everything from the start the meandering story seems like a bunch of stupid coincidences rather than any kind of story, it all seems so unlikely this random stranger rises to be anyone of importance, it's a sort of Mr Joe Nobody becomes saviour of the human race in what seems like 10 hours.
Anyway, it's a shooter and the shootiest parts are the funnest and honestly the whole thing is an excuse to string together a bunch of interesting locales with various different flavours of bad guys and interesting weapons and if you play as such it's pretty satisfying, the technology is impressive in many ways, more so if you're a console gamer but despite the low resolution texture it still brings something unique to the PC, the feeling that almost everything you see is unique, is still quite eerie and sets a new precedent for gaming. The inclusion of some fairly decent AI and nicely blended animations and physics as well as interesting movement abilities of enemies makes it refreshing enough, more refreshing than any other corridor shooter. Just don't expect the kind of roaming worlds of Fallout or Elder Scrolls.
This game is dead, i doubt they care releasing any more updates.
you mean upscaled 540p?console games for a while on the 1080p screen
you mean upscaled 540p?
just say no to consoles
The ending was absolutely terrible. I think of better stoylines while on the toilet.
Did this game have a story?
The ending is honestly one of the worst "screw yous" to gamers I can recall in at least recent memory but then again that's all too fitting a capstone to this project at least as far PC gamers are concerned since that's the message I got from id from start to finish.