This game should have went Borderlands with their story. The serious plot just doesn't hold my interest.
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RAGE 2 |OT| Newer Dawn
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Then they deserve huge props because this is, imo, better than the best ID combat (and the best ID combat is great).
i mean, avalanche are usually great with combat.
car combat was a delight in mad max, and the free flow melee combat is one of the best in the market, heavy, violent and without bullshit teleport, positioning is really important in that game if you wanna do combo. (the only problem was a lack of more various animation and finishers)
and now rage 2.
they need some devs for more interesting open world mechanics and someone for story and chara (although chumbucket was one of the highlight of mad max)
Yeah but you need to give credit to ID for opening the door to this style of play and Avalanche for creating a natural evolution of it, they did a bang up job. Before Doom, I never played a FPS that felt as 'punchy' as it did, I'm sooooo looking forward to see how ID evolves on what Avalanche created. I do think they took some inspiration, as it looks like Doom Eternal is substantially upgraded in the 'perks, abilities and items' department, going on what the trailer presented.
I must of played through Doom 2016 6 or 7 times because of the gameplay being so addicting, I'm excited to see what's next!
After 20 hours, I'm pretty much running out of icons left to clear. Just stuff I'm not interested in left at this point, like Convoys and Meteors. Once you're all upgraded, there's nothing else like this game. It feels amazing and every fight just turns into maximum visual chaos in a way I really appreciate. I still want more.
I guess now is when I start looking forward to DOOM Eternal for real.
I guess now is when I start looking forward to DOOM Eternal for real.
Agree so much. Like the Suicide Squad movie, this is another case where the marketing team had a better idea about what the
Rage getting a sequel is inherently ridiculous. They should have played that up more in the game itself.
I remember Mad Max having more open stretches of flatter desert that you could keep speed up on, but RAGE 2 feels like it's a lot of tight, winding roads that you constantly have to hand-brake and boost to get around. And you always have to stay on the road, because so much of the map is bottomless pits or just shit you can't drive through in general.
Yea,I can't help thinking I'm gonna miss the powers a lot in Doom Eternal.The gunplay will be great I'm sure but it's gonna need a bit of something extra to elevate it to Rage 2 levels of fun.
ID combat is very good... but Bungie are above them imo. Preference, of course, but Bungie's feedback and general gunplay is on another level to most shooter devs for me.
But yes, combat like this is amazing, especially when it's 60fps. And Doom Eternal is going to be incredible, we all know it!
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Agreed. I think Destiny 2 is the best shooter this gen from a gameplay perspective and Bungie have always been great, but RAGE 2 is up there for sure.
I just love how smooth and responsive Bungie games feel, even on console.
have you ever played fear? i think that game is at least on the same level of punchyness if not even more compared to doom.
and the first rage was very good too in the gunplay departement.
onestly a lot of fps have punchy gunplay on the level of doom today.
and he has the best thunder-sandstorm ever created in a videogame.
on pc is a delight even today.
Everyone starting off on the bike
It's probably the worst controlling vehicle I've ever had to use lol
Yup, played Fear waaaay back in the day. I liked it, but I think Doom is on another level, there's something just so visceral about the movement and shooting that hits all the right notes for me. A little unfair, comparing Doom to a game that's 10+ years old, but I'm just happy they keep getting better and better.
I figured this would be the case when people started talking about the campaign being short. After unlocking each of the three main factions, I stopped playing the critical path, and just started wandering around unlocking stuff and completing whatever points of interest I felt like. Taking my time so don't get burnt out.
Mad Max absolutely deserves a 2nd chance with upgrade patches for both enhances consoles.
Everyone starting off on the bike
It's probably the worst controlling vehicle I've ever had to use lol
lol, exactly.
It honestly blows my mind that they implemented this fucking bike, tested it, and said "yeah, this'll do."
No. No, it won't do at all.
I haven't played this yet, but would it have been better if they gave you a sign to crash through? That's at least a little more mayhem.
lol exactly my experience...Everyone starting off on the bike
It's probably the worst controlling vehicle I've ever had to use lol
Hit the handbrake, then boost into the drift duder. Get fukken pedal to the metal Man
This feels like the defining Rage 2 take. I would love a press sneak look at the making of the game to understand exactly how any of these things happened.
I've never really played a FC game before but I am digging R2 so far and might give it a shot. Bummer about the disappointing story though.
No.......I think that's one of the reasons I'm enjoying it so much.In Far Cry I always feel compelled to take down each outpost with stealth....in this you kick down the front door and go wild with your guns and powers.....it never gets old.
Honestly,every new gun has given me a great buzz so far,pulse cannon was particularly great....I ran to the nearest outpost and shredded everyone in it.....amazing fun,lol.
Gunplay is great, not as fluid as say Destiny 2, but still great. But all the other shit - like driving, collecting those pink crates, trying to smash smaller crates, bland open world design - it all drags the game down significantly.
Also Rage 2 is the only game I've ever skipped cutscenes when playing for the first time. The writing and characters are just so, well not precisely bad, but mixedly bland, like they are trying to play a high school drama with quips or something. I don't know how to describe it. It's just... making me want not to listen to anything the characters say.
Also Rage 2 is the only game I've ever skipped cutscenes when playing for the first time. The writing and characters are just so, well not precisely bad, but mixedly bland, like they are trying to play a high school drama with quips or something. I don't know how to describe it. It's just... making me want not to listen to anything the characters say.
I'm loving the game but yes, I skip all the side content dialogue. I walk up and start mashing square.
I totally agree, I NEVER skip cutscenes on my first playthrough, even in very mediocre games. This is the first one I can remember where I'm skipping absolutely everything. It's just not worth it.
wow same here. The story and dialogue is insufferably boring.
Yeah, I like the Far Cry series, but it really prioritizes stealth. With Far Cry I always found myself wanting the combat to be over, so reinforcements were more of a pain in the ass.
Can't wait to try it out now.Everyone starting off on the bike
It's probably the worst controlling vehicle I've ever had to use lol
Just started playing...what even is this game going for? I genuinely can't tell if the story is supposed to serious or Poe's Law is in effect. I really like the gameplay, but all the wacky stuff from the marketing and the way it handles the story and tone is really throwing me off.
I still don't feel the game is as fast as I want it to be after unlocking the mobility upgrades; All of those were unlocked as soon as I had the points to do so. It's got faster than it was, sure, but still not where I wanted it.
The game just doesn't feel great to me. It's entirely fine but I feel there are other first person shooters the feel better. I wish I was able to feel that it's better than DOOM as some of you feel. It just doesn't feel that way to me at all.
The game isn't terrible, just disappointing to me. I was super excited to play this as I really liked Rage even if the ending was absolutely awful.
I pre-ordered it last August but canceled because I was in the hospital for a week and needed the cash because I missed work.
I hope the patches and DLC make the game worth revisiting.
The marketing makes it seem like it was supposed to be wacky but the game presents everything without any self awareness about how stupid the plot is.
This game's writer desperately needed an editor to take a look... I've never heard so many NPCs use so many words to convey basic things, or just ramble on for what feels like forever. Almost every single exchange of dialogue feels overlong, like they're using twice the time to say what they need to.
These moments and the pop up pause screens when you complete a thing bring the game's momentum skidding to a halt.
I'd imagine both could be patched out too... the HUD could be updated to contain the completion updates is probably fairly standard design (that stuff is already in the UI), and maybe the NPCs audio could switch to raido when you walk far enough away so you could make some progress toward your destination while they chatter.
Right now being locked in a room while they take forever to get to the point is not much fun.
Doom is still top tier though, no doubt.
These moments and the pop up pause screens when you complete a thing bring the game's momentum skidding to a halt.
I'd imagine both could be patched out too... the HUD could be updated to contain the completion updates is probably fairly standard design (that stuff is already in the UI), and maybe the NPCs audio could switch to raido when you walk far enough away so you could make some progress toward your destination while they chatter.
Right now being locked in a room while they take forever to get to the point is not much fun.
Fair enough, this feels better than Doom to me overall. The abilities, upgrades, and weapon variety is a little more interesting.
Doom is still top tier though, no doubt.
Dont know what's up in the other thread, but I came in here to say this game is fantastic. I like the open world. I like the powers. I like the driving. The 60fps helps a lot too. It's so much to do and upgrade.. .its just fun. So far I can give it an 8.5
I'm 15 hours in and bored out of my mind.
I've finished the campaign, I'm missing 3 weapons that are presumably in Arks somewhere.
It's uber repetitive. The combat is fun but so far the shotgun and the rocket launcher are the only guns worth using. The combat feels like a clunkier Halo 5, it doesn't really flow together in the way you'd expect.
Going around the open world is torturous, there's just nothing to it, just constant killing at one of three location types it feels like and then looking for chests.
You don't get enough feedback from the NPCs to make it feel like what you're doing is worthwhile.
It seems like to have the most fun, you have to pursue upgrades, but I'm spending all my stuff and not getting much back.
I've finished the campaign, I'm missing 3 weapons that are presumably in Arks somewhere.
It's uber repetitive. The combat is fun but so far the shotgun and the rocket launcher are the only guns worth using. The combat feels like a clunkier Halo 5, it doesn't really flow together in the way you'd expect.
Going around the open world is torturous, there's just nothing to it, just constant killing at one of three location types it feels like and then looking for chests.
You don't get enough feedback from the NPCs to make it feel like what you're doing is worthwhile.
It seems like to have the most fun, you have to pursue upgrades, but I'm spending all my stuff and not getting much back.
The hunt for mats to upgrade is the core of the game for me. I'm only 40% through the main quest, I'm like 8/7/5 on reputation for the 3 NPCs because I've been doing almost nothing but hunting for materials to upgrade everything.
Getting the Gyrocopter really helped, but so does unlocking longer double jump, extra dashes, less fall dmg, etc...
There's tonnes to upgrade, too: Inventory items, Abilities + their perks, Weapons, and projects (and your main vehicle, but I pretty much ignored that when I unlocked the copter). If the loop of explore -> kill/loot -> upgrade doesn't hook you, though, there's pretty much nothing else here.
I think that loop is great, though, and it's made this game one of my favourite shooters of the gen.
I'm absolutely loving the gunplay and various abilities, the magnetic dart gun thing is a lot of fun to use, but I'm really starting to see where the criticisms regarding the open world are coming from now, a lot of the game feels like boringly driving from one point to another, and locations you can fast travel to and from are sparse, the lack of actual exploration is kind of a letdown too, I unlocked that flying vehicle and was surprised to see you could fly up the mountains and desert plateaus... but there's nothing on them.
There's a lot of empty space on the map, so you really need to check for ?s. Once discovered, it will usually place more ?s nearby. Then chain everything close.
I hate checking off ?s usually, but because of the masses of empty space it's the only real way to ensure you always find something to do.