How Rage Reflects Id’s Lengthy Legacy

12 responses to “How Rage Reflects Id’s Lengthy Legacy”

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   Sunskorpion

   July 1, 2011 at 8:00 am

   After the last quake and doom games, Im not entirely sold.

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      Korwin

      July 1, 2011 at 8:55 am

      To be fair they didn’t develop Quake 4, that was an outsourced job done by Raven (much like Wolfenstein).

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      ChoM

      July 1, 2011 at 8:56 am

      You didn’t like Doom 3? Quake doesn’t count either since the last one wasn’t developed by ID.

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   Jo

   July 1, 2011 at 8:58 am

   They keep saying how they they are doing something new but whenever I see Rage gameplay footage I just think generic.
   Any one of the scenes in Rage could easily have come from Fallout 3 or Borderlands or Gears of War or whatever.
   More fetch/kill quests while shooting slightly mutant humanoids with shotguns in a brown post-apocalyptic wasteland.
   But look, we have cars! With guns on them! And a crossbow!
   Innovative indeed.

   Buy maybe I’m just a cynical bastard.

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3. 

   Life

   July 1, 2011 at 9:56 am

   It doesn’t look innovative, but it does look like a perfected formula. Sometimes, thats all you’re after.

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4. 

   matt

   July 1, 2011 at 10:19 am

   they talk too much about how good they are

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5. 

   doubleDizz

   July 1, 2011 at 10:31 am

   MY TWO CENTS ON RAGE (cos I haven’t chimed in yet on it)

   Wow. You guys (id) can’t keep saying you’re doing something new and trying to evolve the genre, when the primary setting of your game has already been done!

   Ok yes, your tech might blow the Fallout and Borderlands series out of the water. But the reality is: No matter how amazing your game looks, people are still going to say “we’ve seen this before.”

   And the fact you’re not even considering this in your feature videos and interviews is what is cause people to question your ability to keep up with, let alone “evolve” the genre.

   Why?

   Well, when there’s an elephant in the room and you’re the only one not acknowledging it, your judgement is suspect. Yes, you might have created the FPS genre, but seriously fellas…

   “What have you done for me lately?”

   I’m still looking forward to RAGE because yes, the tech looks great and it will probably be up there with Crysis 2 in terms of pushing console hardware to its limits. But I’m still concerned id are being delusional about how well this game is actually [not] going to do.

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   James Mac

   July 1, 2011 at 11:15 am

   I love Carmack… but I wish hed work on developing some kind of new industry standard code miniturisation process, so we could get bigger games that run faster for less space on a disc.

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7. 

   Bradd

   July 1, 2011 at 1:17 pm

   I hope there’s an invincibility cheat.
   That was the only way I could pass Doom 3 :/

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8. 

   Shaun

   July 1, 2011 at 1:25 pm

   Nobody does gunplay like ID.

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      HotDamn!

      July 1, 2011 at 2:16 pm

      Yeah, looking forward to some sweet gunplay gameage. Anything more will be a bonus?

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9. 

   SupremeBeans

   July 1, 2011 at 2:54 pm

   As huge fan of id games since I was three years old, it’s almost disappointing to here them talk about the innovation they’ve achieved in Rage when it doesn’t look or feel that different from what else is on the market. I’m sure id tech 5 is a monster of an engine and visually will blow everything out of the water, but it’d be nice to see evidence of some actual gameplay innovation. Nonetheless, it’s really cool to see a video like this discuss the development of a new game in the context of a company’s storied history – I hope more developers produce content like this in the future.

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