[TOMS] Carmack Confirms Doom 4, Apologizes for Rage PC - Page 6

I bought Rage at the Steam sale for $10, even for $10 it was a rip off. What a pile of dung. As the guy who co-created the FPS genre, Carmack should be embarrassed. Given that, I'm pretty interested in Doom 4, hopefully it goes back to the roots of FPS, no more of this aim down the sights crap with perks and unlocks. Just give me some friggen high paced death match.

This.

I too was fooled into buying Rage. Never again will I give this guy's company any business.

Anybody who thinks Doom 4 won't be console focused is high.

I won't be accepting your apology Carmack, as RAGE was awesome! Rage has some of the best shooting and gameplay mechanics, as well as graphics, compared to most titles. Since when was an ID game about story? The multiplayer is also way underrated.

Is there a video of his speach?

Ah yeah I'm another who actually really enjoys playing Rage, and thought it looked awesome. But anyway I love you too John can't wait for doom 4. At least will have doom 3: BFG edition soon to play around with

Having reviewed the game here on OCN, I must say Carmack still has to explain what on earth those 25 GB of data are for. Megatexture is a concept I still haven't understood to it's full extent. How can such an advanced technique produce such crappy results yet use so much space ? Crysis has much better all round graphics, yet uses much less space, GTA: EFLC TBoGT, while being DX9 and a third person game, has a huge city that you can even fly over, and it uses less space.

Carmack even admitted they didn't make any higher resolution textures when they released the 1.2 patch (which is a bit odd, since they initially said the original files had to be compressed a lot) with the upsampling with adaptive sharpening improvement (which needs a fast CPU, faster than a Q9550 at 3.4 Ghz (which the game says is not enough, by the way) if you don't want it to dip below 60 fps, and while dipping to 55 fps might seem perfectly acceptable, the game stutters and it's noticeable), so I wonder how much space RAGE would have needed to look as good as other games on the market.

As has been said, the game's story was normal at best, if you are going to be playing RAGE it won't be for the story, it'll be for the fps and the relatively fun driving (though driving and shooting / defending your vehicle it is far from being a very developed experience, though for a first time for id, the driving mechanics are actually good).

All in all it's a decent shooter, with decent locations, even if the story driving you to those locations is nothing out of the ordinary. There isn't really an interesting plot that holds your attention.



Actually you don't need to use DosBOX because the package sold on Steam already comes with it, it's all automated. The same for Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Spear of Destiny, etc.


I actually liked Duke Nukem Forever (I bought it after the patches) better than RAGE. It's actually better at what it does than RAGE. I must confess I did not play Duke Nukem 3D, so I don't know if this game is out of touch with that one, but I did play the original Duke Nukem 2D side scrolling games, and I found Duke Nukem Forever to be a lot of fun. Whether you like the jokes or not, the game has character. And it's got fps multiplayer, giving you many hours of fun, in a Quake 3 style.
Edited by tpi2007 - 8/3/12 at 6:03pm

As far as im concerned id software is still running off reputation gained from a game made more than 10 years ago.

I bought rage for $10 at gamestop a few months ago and at that price im satisfied.

Ill be waiting until Doom4 comes down in price ,before buying though because id is VERY close to going on my developer blacklist.

I thought rage was pretty good, playing it again now on my 680 lightning with no pop ins or nothing. to each their own i suppose.