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Rage 2: The BFG 9000 and 11 Minutes of Awesome New Gameplay - IGN First
- Thread starter BurnKnuckle21
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Looks like a worthy successor to Rage: Boring car combat, great FPS gameplay. Even though this is nothing like what I wanted from a Rage 2, I am still pretty excited.
That was how I felt about the demo at PAX. Car stuff just felt like a way to get between the FPS arenas but damn the shooting encounters are fun
Fuck where was the demo at Pax!? I was there on Sunday and didn't see it
While its no where near the original Rage - a highly underappreciated game - Rage 2 looks like a lot of fun, but not enough for me to pick it up. If it where done a bit more serious like the original and kept its art style intact I would have def picked it up. Rage 2 unfortunately looks like it has more in common with bullet storm mixed with Far cry 5 than Rage
You mind me asking how the enemy AI is? The demo might not be representative but it was one of the aspects that really made me appreciate the original.
Seems to be the same as first game then, It's just that they made the car stuff way less shitty than before. The FPS parts of rage 1 were sublime.
Im genuinley excited for this. The combat looks like a ton of fun, and really kinetic, like doom 2016. I hope the vehicle stuff is better than the first game
All the awesome AI and hit reactions are intact. I had one enemy catch a grenade in midair and throw it back at me. Shit's cool.
It wasn't on the show floor. It was at Bethesda's separate "show" in the Westin Hotel lobby connected to the convention center.
Driving looks boring as fuck. Rest looks really good, I feel some Bulletstorm inspiration in the wacky weapons and powers that send enemies flying.
The FPS shooting combat looks great with a lot of fun abilities and weapons against a fairly diverse and well done set of enemies. The driving on the other hand looks really poor in comparison. Feels like the vehicles are moving in slow motion except for those really awkward looking dodges with a lot of lock on combat against enemies that barely seem to react.
That city area at the end looked so wide and open and for some reason that really clicked with me. I haven't purchased any games this year so definitely day one.
And it's on Steam too so day 1. Bethesda has a lot of shitty things going on but their single player investment has been insanely good.
Yeah the vehicle stuff looked pretty dull. There do seem to be a lot of different vehicle options including some with vertical movement, so that stuff might end up being a bit more fun, but one kind of wishes that they'd just left vehicles out and clustered the activities closer together so vehicle travel between them didn't feel necessary.
I'd love to see a game like this incorporate, like, public transit as opposed to player controlled vehicles. Has there ever been an open-world map that you could navigate through pre-set bus and train routes that follow a particular schedule? I feel like that could be a really fun layer to add to this type of game. The trains in RDR2 are probably the closest thing, but I'd like to see someone take that even farther.
I'd love to see a game like this incorporate, like, public transit as opposed to player controlled vehicles. Has there ever been an open-world map that you could navigate through pre-set bus and train routes that follow a particular schedule? I feel like that could be a really fun layer to add to this type of game. The trains in RDR2 are probably the closest thing, but I'd like to see someone take that even farther.
This looks really good. I wasn't really interested in this game due to how bad the last one ended, but this game play looks pretty tight.
I have faith in the driving. Driving in Mad Max looked bad on pre release videos but in the game it was actually really engaging, plenty of weight and great physics so I trust them to get it right. The shooting looks great, the whole thing looks a ton of fun.
Ok. But it`doesn`t look like 4k tbh. That`s why I thought the`ve recorded the Xbox X-version in 4k (is this even possible, lol?).
Have we seen anything scripted yet? This looks like it's going to be stale af 3 hours in. Always just outposts with the shitty looking driving in between.
Love the reviving QTE, now that's how you do QTE. Not in cutscenes but in unique gameplay moments.
All this shitting on the driving. If it feels anything like the Mad Max game they made and has the customisation, it's going to be great. It's 50% the reason why I'm looking forward to this game.
i mean the engine is rather poor and we have several games now demonstrating how poor it is
i don´t know...have the feeling this will be discounted in no time. the car sections look awful, the open world has only spots where the action happens and between there is a lot of dull driving.
will maybe buy for 20 bucks, knowing Bethesda games it won´t be too long before this happens.
will maybe buy for 20 bucks, knowing Bethesda games it won´t be too long before this happens.
Wow, I have to say, none of that looked all that impressive.
The levels look meh. Very flat, not really working in the mobility stuff, a mix of bland layout and tight connecting corridors. Not quite like military manblaster, but also not combat bowl like Doom; a weird and unsatisfying blend.
The mobility is kinda like one of the Future CoDs: fine, and yeah, I guess more fun and applicable here than it would be to have nothing, but not like, say, Titanfall's traversal. The jumping seemed floaty, which was fine.
The weapons seemed pretty standard except for the magnetic thing - which seems neat, but also exactly like the sort of thing that would show up in a demo pre-release but be deemed completely impractical during actual gameplay.
The abilities are whatever: we have the shield, which is fine, if a bit basic; the groundpound, which, yeah, same thing; and the super mode, which is...faster firing and health regen? Booooooooooooooooooooring. The most interesting part was the defib sequence. I guess the focus stuff has potential; I wish it was explained more.
The enemies, Rage's previously strongest aspect, had no time to shine here whatsoever. Mutants who rush towards the player. A mini-boss who seems to just be Guy With Gun. Big clobber enemies. Nothing there stood out.
TBH it kinda seems like everything is half assed..? I didn't even get the sense of colorful bombast that previous trailers have given me, or that smoky intensity of Rage 1. A weak showing all around.
The levels look meh. Very flat, not really working in the mobility stuff, a mix of bland layout and tight connecting corridors. Not quite like military manblaster, but also not combat bowl like Doom; a weird and unsatisfying blend.
The mobility is kinda like one of the Future CoDs: fine, and yeah, I guess more fun and applicable here than it would be to have nothing, but not like, say, Titanfall's traversal. The jumping seemed floaty, which was fine.
The weapons seemed pretty standard except for the magnetic thing - which seems neat, but also exactly like the sort of thing that would show up in a demo pre-release but be deemed completely impractical during actual gameplay.
The abilities are whatever: we have the shield, which is fine, if a bit basic; the groundpound, which, yeah, same thing; and the super mode, which is...faster firing and health regen? Booooooooooooooooooooring. The most interesting part was the defib sequence. I guess the focus stuff has potential; I wish it was explained more.
The enemies, Rage's previously strongest aspect, had no time to shine here whatsoever. Mutants who rush towards the player. A mini-boss who seems to just be Guy With Gun. Big clobber enemies. Nothing there stood out.
TBH it kinda seems like everything is half assed..? I didn't even get the sense of colorful bombast that previous trailers have given me, or that smoky intensity of Rage 1. A weak showing all around.
Errr... might pick this up late that driving mechanic looks really bad.
I just want it to be as fun as DOOM
I just want it to be as fun as DOOM
"Several Games" being Just Cause 3 which tried to overachieve and Just Cause 4 which tried to focus on performance while doing things no other game does obviously had to sacrifice in visuals. Mad Max is another game that used it and it's one of the best performing modern titles out there for how it looks, on PC and consoles both.
Additionally there have been no other game that targets open world and 60FPS since MGSV.
These are all trade offs and there is nothing bad about the engine inherently, if you think there is then I'd like you to name one alternative that has achieved anything that any of these games have while looking and running better.
DOOM's gameplay is fun, but also extremely repetitive and to arcadey in my opinion. The gore nest mechanic is such a lame excuse for spawning waves of enemies. I would've dug DOOM much more if it had a slightly more realistic approach with a stronger narrative. I get why people like it, but I got bored quickly.
Rage 2 seems to provide more variation, thankfully.