RAGE - New screenshots..

[ortucis]

Gamespot update notification after a long time..

 

[Admiral jimbob]

I thought he had fallen off the bike at first, but... what exactly happened to him to put his legs in this position?

 

[shihonage]

Makes me wanna play Quake Wars again. And I will. Awesome game, that Quake Wars.

 

[ortucis]

I thought he had fallen off the bike at first, but... what exactly happened to him to put his legs in this position?

Err.. is that an awkward position for someone who is falling back after being shot? (also, there's a bolt in his chest)


Quake Wars was awesome. I played the demo for like 30 hrs (wanted to buy but.. forgot) and only game I remember sniping from one end of the map to the other end on a strategic location on a cliff.

 

[Konjad]

Quake wars is imo shit just as any quake but except that I really like Id's games so I will probably buy Rage when it comes out. I've been following this game lately.

 

[shihonage]

There's still a loyal following to Quake Wars. Everything in this game has a solid feel - from generally perfect audioscape to the way the Goliath walks, to the unwieldy but powerful Hyperblaster.

I've become pretty good at this game; it's addictive as hell, because there's some room for creativity.

Once I mastered the style of a self-healing medic DieHard and ran around the backward innards of the enemy base killing them one by one with a shotgun.

Another time, one of us planted the charge on their generator, but we were about to get mowed, so I planted a mine near that charge. I got killed promptly but in those deciding seconds my mine blew up the engineer who ran up to disarm.

Most recently a guy caught me by surprise and I had 6% health and a ticking grenade in my hands, ducking into base entrance, I turned around and let it go. It flew behind him as he killed me, and then the blast made his corpse fly over me.

There's nothing quite like running a Hog into a flyer that's trying to take off, blowing it to smithereens, hearing the beep of a charging rocket launcher and ducking behind a corner as the rocket whooshes by your head.

 

[denizsi]

They look a far cry from the initial screenshots & video footage. First shot is misleading due to the angle, focal distance and the light but the art direction of the other two shots is generic console piece of shit that's trapped between a weird anime-influenced crap and grittism plane.

I wasn't crazy about the initial look when the game first surfaced but at least it didn't look bad. This looks... just sad. Selling out to Bethesda has that effect on things, I guess.

 

[denizsi]

In other news, the iPhone version looks incredibly high quality for such a shitty device:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t5nIA5zfhg

And Unreal Engine on iPad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3NwYj-zgJk&feature=fvw

It's retarded how he's wrestling with touch screen just to move and look around, though.

 

[SCO]

The only thing that interests me about rage is that the doom3 engine should be open sourced when it comes out.

Ah the dark mod is awesome.

 

[racofer]

Looks like he took a look at GD and

 

[Metro]

Eh, my only hope for this is that it pulls off what Borderlands ultimately failed to do. That and the ability to play it on my current (outdated) PC. But seriously, it's moronic that games like this get hyped three to five years in advance of their release.

 

[Jaesun]

Looks kinda gay.

 

[Darth Slaughter]

The crossbow and the car have something on then that feels like a cel-shaded graphics, though it is not. It kind of reminded me of borderlands.

 

[ortucis]

Eh, my only hope for this is that it pulls off what Borderlands ultimately failed to do. That and the ability to play it on my current (outdated) PC. But seriously, it's moronic that games like this get hyped three to five years in advance of their release.

It's the tech that is being hyped. Even id guys (Willits) in interviews said it clearly that RAGE is a pure FPS with minor RPG additions (play Wolfenstein, the new one, which is awesome and take the weapon upgrade system from that into RAGE) in the end. The hype is about the megatextures which are making idTech5 look so sexy on all platforms.

@Darth Slaughter
RAGE development started way before Borderlands was even announced (and Fallout 3 as well from what I remember).

 

[Metro]

...play Wolfenstein, the new one, which is awesome..

On that we'll have to disagree. I thought the new Wolfenstein was horrible compared to 'Return.' So, basically Rage isn't going to have very many ARPG-ish elements and is mostly just about cutting edge graphics/engine?

 

[Darth Slaughter]

@Darth Slaughter
RAGE development started way before Borderlands was even announced (and Fallout 3 as well from what I remember).

Well, the thing is the "cel-shading" effect, which I noticed only today in the new screenshot, though I know it doesn't have cel-shading. And I didn't play Borderlands either, just saw some screens.

 

[DalekFlay]

On that we'll have to disagree. I thought the new Wolfenstein was horrible compared to 'Return.' So, basically Rage isn't going to have very many ARPG-ish elements and is mostly just about cutting edge graphics/engine?

I liked the latest Wolfenstein... singleplayer, anyway. Just like Quake 4 before it and Singularity after it was simply a polished and fun shooter, no frills or innovations. Raven just makes shooters that feel "right," for lack of a better term. I dig 'em.

That said it was like a 5 out 10 in general, I mean they are nothing special.

Rage looks good, I like the design on the mayor character. I have moderately high expectations... of course, I liked Doom 3 as well, so what do I know.

 

[ortucis]

I hated RTCW but loved the new one (just like Singularity, underrated shooters from Raven, thanks to Activision).

RAGE, from the preview videos I have seen, looks like it has a lot of Arcanum like "blueprint > collect parts > create stuff" going on. That and huge open world with side-missions spread all over.

If you have played a game called REDLINE from Accolade/Beyond Games (awesome game, before HALO was even born) then Rage is mixing Redline and Arcanum blueprint upgrades. That's a personal impression from all the videos so far.

 

[Excommunicator]

We really are on a graphics plateau now aren't we?

These aren't really that much better than games already out there.

I wonder if the devs will start changing their tactics when they catch on to it properly.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

The crossbow and the car have something on then that feels like a cel-shaded graphics, though it is not. It kind of reminded me of borderlands.

It looks just like Borderlands. Check out the bandits and the vehicles.

Hell, even the bearded dude

 

[denizsi]

Turds loving a railroaded console shooter more than a true PC shooter ITT.

 

[MapMan]

Looks kinda gay.

 

[waywardOne]

i didn't think Fable 3 would be so gritty.

 

[Freelance Henchman]

This just looks uninteresting really. Kinda generic.

 

[SimpleComplexity]

Looks like they wanted to create realistic graphics first but then found out that console graphics look like shit and went for an artistic artstyle instead. "Borderlands"-style.

Fucking consoles.

 

[Exmit]

Good name for the game if it's gonna suck. (I bet it's already an inside dev team joke )