Rage on.

[Dexter]

For a game made by a supposed technical genius it has an amazing amount of technical flaws. When the forums where filled with raging customers who couldn't run the game there never was any dev response, while Carmack himself was twittering about his newfound love for do-it-yourself rockets. After all this time the game is still a mess on a shitload of setups. Guess Carmack really did not give a shit.

It really shows that the PC version wasn't a priority (to say the least), but honestly after fixing the worst of the "low resolution texture" stuff and the horrible PopIn every time when turning around to only happen once on Level load it has been rather impressive so far. I kind of like the variety in the landscape a lot and especially the Megatexture art assets and the character models at large have been remarkable so far: http://steamcommunity.com/id/Dexter111/screenshots/?appid=9200&sort=newestfirst

Also see: http://deadendthrills.com/gallery/?gid=59

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I really wouldn't mind a game using this tech not being hampered by the last console generation and the size requirements and amount of RAM it had, as well as possibly using some of the new texture Tech since then like tiled resources in conjunction:

 

[Trash]

Now you make me want to reinstall it all over again. And be pissed when it turns to shit once more.

 

[UserNamer]

lol I actually remember reading this thread before deciding no to bother with rage... but then the free weekend came and I had no problems at all with the gfx (maybe they fixed most of the flaws in the mean time).

Also a pretty fun game (it's a modern game but it's a lot funnier than other modern shooters)

 

[Zewp]

The worst part about Rage was that once you got past the technical issues you realised what a boring, shit game it was.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Ensemble, another (once) wealthy studio from Texas, shut doors very quickly despite past successes due to just one commercial failure.

False. Ensemble was shut down by Don Mattrick because their portfolio and expertise (PC RTS) didn't fit into his narrow Xbox program. They were always viable and profitable, but MS has a history of doing stupid things.

id Soft otoh stopped being viable after Quake 3.

 

[DalekFlay]

id Soft otoh stopped being viable after Quake 3.

Doom 3 made a fuckton of money and reviewed extremely well. Rage was their only disappointment sales wise, and it was likely only a disappointment because of its lengthy dev time and id's pedigree.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

id Soft otoh stopped being viable after Quake 3.

Doom 3 made a fuckton of money and reviewed extremely well. Rage was their only disappointment sales wise, and it was likely only a disappointment because of its lengthy dev time and id's pedigree.

Viable in a sense that they stopped being the (perceived) vanguard of FPS developers.

Id doesn't know where it belongs to these days. It has no mission, no plans, no strength. All it has is it's glorious past. They're a fossile kept alive by positive sentiments of the ol' days, and unless they manage to reinvigorate Doom 4 to be something genuinely exciting, I don't see a future for them anymore as a AAA developer. With Carmack leaving it just furthermore amplified this dire fact.

Bethesda won't keep that fucker around just to let them make boring shooters that sell 300k and have a metacritic of 70%. Bethesda doesn't do that anymore.

 

[DalekFlay]

Viable in a sense that they stopped being the (perceived) vanguard of FPS developers.

I'd agree with that, though I don't know if that was Doom 3's failures or Call of Duty's successes.