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RAGE 2 |OT| Newer Dawn
- Thread starter vestan
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Shit... thanks, good looking out, haha.
No problem lol. Took me like fifteen minutes of driving around before I realized they're both marked on the map.
8 hours in now and yeah it's OK, nothing special but not really offensive either. Learning the talent to track boxes and tapes made the game waaaaay less frustrating so that was a good call, and the one where you can reload whilst sprinting is a must. One thing that really bugs me is you can't fast travel from town to town, you've got to walk outside then do it, seems pointless.
Wow just played alittle and this game is not a looker on consoles,im playing on xbox one x on a sony 4k tv it looks hazy it is fun tho.
The driving is so bad, the vehicles move so sluggish and everything understeers like a geo metro on sheer ice
Just picked this up from Redbox to see for myself. Curious if my impressions from what I've seen on Twitch hold up.
So they kept the Mad Max handling? That's a bummer.
So they kept the Mad Max handling? That's a bummer.
Same on PC, it's really blurry and soft and some of the character models are terrible, whilst others actually look really good. Overall it's a mixed bag visually, but leaning more to the bad side imo.
seriously this drives me up the wall. especially with how the controller feels in this game. It's a lesson in frustration everytime.
The Progress Booster says it doubles all feltrite collected for 4 hours. Does that option go away after 4 hours, or can I turn it back on again? I don't want to mess anything up.
Once you turn it on, it's on for 4 hours of in game time (not even in game menu's count) and then once the 4 hours expires the option in the cheats menu disappears (I think you can buy the booster via the microtransaction store and it'll re-appear).
I was kind of annoyed, I accidentally toggled it on when poking through the cheats menu.
Ah thanks, so it is a one and done kind of thing. Guess I'll save it for when I need it.
Spent a few hours with it today on ps4 pro. Framerate is nice but it isn't exactly the prettiest. Gunplay is fun but wow the characters, dialogue and story are sooooooo bad. Will have fun with it for a bit and send it back. Might pick it up on pc on sale later...this one isn't going to grab me from the looks of it.
Last question: Will one be able to unlock ALL the projects, or should I be choosy with my Project Points?
Extremely slow first hour made me feel like I made the wrong choice, but combat is elevating this to addictive levels for me.
It's super ugly from a technical perspective though. Would've given up 60fps for 4K on X. IQ doesn't look like 1080p at all as many people have said, and there's lots of noise in the motion blur. The particle effects are about the nicest thing in the whole visual package.
It's super ugly from a technical perspective though. Would've given up 60fps for 4K on X. IQ doesn't look like 1080p at all as many people have said, and there's lots of noise in the motion blur. The particle effects are about the nicest thing in the whole visual package.
The Grav-Dart launcher deserves a place alongside the Gravity Gun as one of the most fun weapons in an FPS.
Why are you glad? It's one of the most unabashedly fun and over the top shooters of the generation with some of the best combat mechanics in the genre.
Do you really think people will take you seriously with statements like these? Come on man, we get you don't like the game but you're just wrong.
They go down really fast with headshots. And once you get just a bit past the intro and can upgrade just a bit you'll be all good.
So how much Mad Max is in this game? I beat it on PC and liked it a lot, it was a great podcast game, and I currently have it installed on PS4 Pro and am slowly going through it trying to platinum. So if Rage 2 is a lot like Mad Max that would make me pretty happy.
I ran into a sentiennal tower thing and damn did it make me feel ineffectual
In a game that's already very soft looking, why they decided to keep chromatic aberration is beyond me. Turning it off helps clean up the image, but its still one of the softer 1080p games I've played. Playing on the X1X btw.
I get 60fps above all else, but this really should have been left with an uncapped dynamic res. If the PS4 Pro can do this at 1080/60, the X1X should be pushing above that whenever there's the headroom.
Coming off of Wolfenstein 2 recently which was dynamic 4k, this is pretty rough. The shooting feels leagues better than Wolfenstein though.
I get 60fps above all else, but this really should have been left with an uncapped dynamic res. If the PS4 Pro can do this at 1080/60, the X1X should be pushing above that whenever there's the headroom.
Coming off of Wolfenstein 2 recently which was dynamic 4k, this is pretty rough. The shooting feels leagues better than Wolfenstein though.
The open world stuff is really comparable. Just switch Mad Max' Batman combat with DOOM combat and you have RAGE 2.
Because the world outside the frenetic shooting is ramshackle
Didn't get too far into it but the gunplay is great. The plot is awful, like they should've leaned hard into irrelevant and jokes instead of this mess, and I remember being wow'd by how Rage looked on the 360 and underwhelmed by how this looks on a base Xbox One, but otherwise being happy about shooting and disappointed by anything not shooting/wingsticking seems like the exact Rage sequel I never knew would happen but wanted.
That first hour, goddamn. Main character jumps into a suit from a recently deceased dead dude like it's no thing and they kill the MCs foster mom and then somehow she left a video just in case everyone died and the MC became a ranger even though she was surprised when it happened, and then the MC joked about her death to her daughter right away and they're the protagonist. Yeesh
Yep. This is VERY Mad Max. Swap out collecting "scrap" for "junk", replace the melee combat with shooting, etc. Even driving around it feels like Mad Max with colored smoke added to the open world. Same empty spaces with broken pieces of elevated highway littered about, etc.
Four hours in, and I'm having a blast. Unless something terrible happens, this might be my GoTY so far.
The visuals are rough, even on PC. It's as if the game is running at 720p, despite me running it on my 1440p monitor.
That said, the actual combat mechanics are stellar. Coming off of games like Metro Exodus and Days Gone, it sure is great to have a shooter where the movement, aiming, accuracy, and weapon feedback are all incredibly satisfying. The sentiment that this is Doom's combat modded into Mad Max's open-world could not be more accurate.
The narrative is weak, but thankfully there doesn't seem to be a ton of it past the intro, and the voice acting is at least decent.
The structure is certainly another checklist-based open world game, but the gameplay is so rock solid that I will take every opportunity to engage in combat.
The visuals are rough, even on PC. It's as if the game is running at 720p, despite me running it on my 1440p monitor.
That said, the actual combat mechanics are stellar. Coming off of games like Metro Exodus and Days Gone, it sure is great to have a shooter where the movement, aiming, accuracy, and weapon feedback are all incredibly satisfying. The sentiment that this is Doom's combat modded into Mad Max's open-world could not be more accurate.
The narrative is weak, but thankfully there doesn't seem to be a ton of it past the intro, and the voice acting is at least decent.
The structure is certainly another checklist-based open world game, but the gameplay is so rock solid that I will take every opportunity to engage in combat.
This game is the definition of "alright". I feel like the generic level design is what's keeping it back, both in terms of the open world and when it comes to combat.
Perhaps I just had certain and easy to satisfy expectations but it's a shooter, that's what should come first over different sorts of side activities that take away from the core gameplay loop and everything in the game satisfies the shooter fan in me.
I enjoy the shooting but my god is this game juvenile. Stop swearing so much, I cuss like a sailor and this is ridiculous. It's like it was written by 13 year olds.
Really this shouldn't have been open world, it feels like knock-off Farcry with better shooting. Which isn't the worst thing but man do the systems in this game try DESPERATELY to sap all the fun of the actual good bits.
Really this shouldn't have been open world, it feels like knock-off Farcry with better shooting. Which isn't the worst thing but man do the systems in this game try DESPERATELY to sap all the fun of the actual good bits.
Pro tip: Go for as many Arks as possible before doing any mission. Game is so much better once you learn all the abilities.
Gut feeling right now is this is going to be another sales failure for Bethesda and they're going to do some hard thinking about their FPS games future.
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He says as DOOM Eternal, Wolfenstein Youngblood, a new Arkane game and Wolfenstein III will be released within the next year and a half. It's clearly working out for them otherwise why'd they bother green lighting these projects?
Well yeah those are already deep into production. I'm talking about after these, long term thinking, they can't rely on Doom and Doom alone to buoy all these projects they launch that end up not hitting sales milestones. Most of them haven't.
I really feel like being open world hurts this game, it's at its best when you're knee deep in shit and just wasting fools, everything else just feels like a waste of time until you get to fight some more. Driving around in that clunky vehicle is just boring. The linear, scripted sections are by far the best.
The open world gets in the way. Once you get the hoverbike you can at least skip it. Try to get as many arks as possible early on game is so much better once you learn all the abilities.