That's what irks me more than anything now i think (besides shitty FoV ofc). I'm finally giving Singularity a spin and rather enjoying it to be fair, despite some painfully low quality textures. What really jumped out at me though as immersion breaking was that almost everything is bolted to the ground, only glass that's meant to be have a monster crash through is breakable and a tiny pile of boxes 2 foot high is immovable and impassible. It's just all so workmanlike and i can see Rage (the shooty bits at least) being practically the same game tbh. It seems the only devs now in existence that know how to create a genuinely believable environment with appropriate physics properties are Valve. HL2 was what, 7 or 8 years ago now? I could eject an entire room's furniture from a building via a window of my choice, knock cars off cliffs into the sea and lob various litter, bottles and even cans dispensed from a working drinks machine at a copper's face back then. Why can't i get past a fucking chair now?

I can't help but shake the feeling that the twenty seven thousand six hundred and fourty two locked doors I've found so far will be used for DLC some how... Call it an insane crazy hunch...

Also, setting the difficulty to hard helps: it's so much more fun if the bad guys are really trying :-)

really? so you don't think the fps genre has become stale, and that games like Rage just exemplify that staleness?

I really feel blessed that I'm able to play through a game and enjoy it for what it is, instead of nit picking every little thing. The game is a lot of fun for me. I can't imagine ruining my experience just because of a few things aren't what I wanted. The game is done. It's released. There's no changing it. So I just play what's there and really enjoy it...

if you're playing on a console, where you're 15 feet away from the screen, then you're not going to worry about shitty textures, mainly cos you can't really see macro detail anyway. Shit, even my ex-gf looks reasonably hot from a distance.

same with 60 degree fovs, input accel etc.. These are pc-specific issues, which don't affect you, but certainly are a serious concern for pc gamers, especially when we spend thousands on hardware to get a better experience.

the fact the game is also incredibly linear and restrictive doesn't help either.

And you've been such a rage fanboy since the start, that you don't want to lose face value by admitting it's shit.

Face value on Q3W matters.

See what I did there? We can do this forever. You enjoy it. I didn't. The world goes on.

REALLY not impressed, and even less impressed with the lack of official response from id. All I've seen are them blaming graphics card manufacturers for the poor quality of drivers, but honestly, I'm not sure that what I'm seeing can be fixed with just a driver update.

I don't understand why people are shitting on Bethesda. They are simply the distributor and marketer for this game.

Normally a publisher would have a huge swinging dick in how it controls a 3rd party developer, but we're talking about id fucking software. There isn't a publisher on this planet that could dictate anything to them, including overall quality. You people make it sound like Bethesda forced a bunch of their own devs and programmers down id's throat to work on the game.

I'm still waiting for my download, but if this game sucks I'll blame id Software, not Bethesda.

“We knew that all older AMD drivers, and some Nvidia drivers would have problems with the game, but we were running well in-house on all of our test systems. When launch day came around and the wrong driver got released, half of our PC customers got a product that basically didn’t work. The fact that the working driver has incompatibilities with other titles doesn’t help either.”

Ultimately, though, Carmack doesn’t believe the incident justifies a return to PC-first game development. He’s nothing if not a realist, and he believes times have changed.

“We do not see the PC as the leading platform for games,” he explained. “That statement will enrage some people, but it is hard to characterize it otherwise; both console versions will have larger audiences than the PC version. A high end PC is nearly 10 times as powerful as a console, and we could unquestionably provide a better experience if we chose that as our design point and we were able to expend the same amount of resources on it.”

“Nowadays most of the quality of a game comes from the development effort put into it, not the technology it runs on. A game built with a tenth the resources on a platform 10 times as powerful would be an inferior product in almost all cases.”

Kinda sad that even legendary PC developers like id are giving in

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newsflash. gamedevelopers don't make games for you out of the kindness of their hearts. gamedevelopers are businesses. while the greats started out of love of the medium, that love and passion won't pay their mortgages.
they're not "giving in", they're making money so that they can not only keep on living the lives they live, but also keep doing what they like most; developing games.

if they did it purely out of love, they'd all be making niche games that only three people other than them like and distributing them for free. how long do you think such a corporation would exist?

newsflash. gamedevelopers don't make games for you out of the kindness of their hearts. gamedevelopers are businesses. while the greats started out of love of the medium, that love and passion won't pay their mortgages.
they're not "giving in", they're making money so that they can not only keep on living the lives they live, but also keep doing what they like most; developing games.

if they did it purely out of love, they'd all be making niche games that only three people other than them like and distributing them for free. how long do you think such a corporation would exist?