pinata242

And Borderlands isn't very much an FPS?

Groucho

Again, when all you have is high-level information, all of which match an existing IP, it's not a huge stretch to compare that game to the existing IP.

flashburn

Existing IP from a separate company? ID is very much independent from the rest of Bethesda. They've also been working on this game for many years before being acquired by Bethesda.

If people paid more attention to the previews, I think they would of realized how light of an RPG this really is. No leveling, no real loot, no open world gameplay shown (except for with vehicles). They might of been a little misleading, but it's still because people (including journalists) were desperately trying to turn this into an RPG when it never was.

19K

I don't know how it can only be a 10-12 hour campaign. It requires 8GB of hard drive space (PS3). Installing it now and its taking FOREVER. Oh and there was 64MB patch already too. Maybe it's more like Fallout where it's easy to get through it very quickly, but you end up missing the majority of the game with all the extra side quests.

flashburn

Size in megabytes doesn't determine game length.

fumanstan

Size of the game doesn't equal a bigger, longer game. A lot of it is textures for graphics.

And yeah, I agree with those wondering why anyone automatically would compare this to Borderlands too. It's iD software, man. Yeah they're doing something a little different, but I can't really imagine a huge departure from the father of the FPS.

dvdjunkie32

Joystiq pretty much trashed the game claiming it was 8-9 hours max including sidequests. 25 gig install for this???

Mok

I can't wait my copy is coming today from Amazon and just got my $10 credit which I used on Battlefield. I really don't care what the reviewers say, I just watched the Giantbomb quicklook and it looks fantastic.

MoviePage

I kind of regret pre-ordering this after seeing some of the reviews and learning that it's not as RPG-ish as early word led me to believe. Especially since I'll be busy for a while with Dark Souls.

That said, this looks like it'll be popular enough to hold its resale value for the week or so needed to complete it and pawn it off.

slop101

Weird, the game actually turned out to be more RPG-ish than I was initially led to believe.

kgrogers1979

Matching IPs across different companies is dumb. That would be like hearing Nintendo is making a game featuring an Italian and thinking they are making an Assassin's Creed game. Instead you should look at the past history of the company developing the game and then you would see that Nintendo is making Mario.

Likewise, you shouldn't match the Borderlands IP to something that is not developed by Gearbox. Look at ID Software's past history with Wolfenstein, Doom and Quake and that will give you a far more accurate picture of what Rage will be like.


Yeah, if size in megabytes determined game length then all those NES and SNES games most have lasted no more than five minutes.

File size is determined mostly by graphics. Textures and such take up a huge amount of space. Also voice acting takes up a lot of space. That's the only reason MGS1 was two discs on the PS1 is because of all the voice acting.

nickdawgy

After reading more on this, I am kind of on the fence now

wlj

It is killing me that I can't get this game right now. I am a big ID Software fan. Damn being a husband and father with financial priorities I will have to wait until Christmas for this one.

Decker

My copy arrived this morning from New Egg. That's impressive shipping speed since it was only sent yesterday at their standard free shipping speed.
Can't wait to install and then try some tonight!

RichC2

Yeah, Amazon's "Release Day" shipping always impresses me like that as well.

Last time though UPS fucked up with my Gears 3.. I placed the order mid-day on Monday, UPS guy left a note on my door on Tuesday saying he'd re-deliver tomorrow (first time ever, every other time they've dropped it off at my apartment's leasing office), I vented to Amazon slightly (asking them to dump UPS, yeah immature I know) and they graciously apologized (for no reason really) and gave me my $0.99 back (which I didn't ask for).

Decker

Yeah, but this wasn't Release Day Shipping from New Egg, just Guaranteed 3 Day shipping. I was just hoping to get it by Friday.

TheBigDave

Is this an FPS dungeon crawler or is it more of a set-course like COD, Gears, etc?

19K

Been playing this for a good 4 hours already. This has to be WAY longer than 10-12. I feel like I'm still in the beginning. Early impressions... this game absolutely KICKS ASS. The tech5 engine is amazing. Animation is super smooth and the graphics and detail are incredible. Even better than any of the pre-release videos I've seen for it. It is very much a cross between borderlands and fallout as far as side quests and mini-games and exploring stuff that isn't necessarily quest related. Also it's more about weapon/ammo and vehicle mods than character building. Don't be turned by some stupid magazine review. This game is very, VERY impressive so far.

Groucho

Borderlands clone.

Kedrix

It's a dungeon crawler RPG like Oblivion. Heck, no wait...it's like Final Fantasy 1 except you add fancy graphics and change everything into first person perspective with different monsters and guns....yeah add Big GUNS! Sorry, couldn't help myself.

Thank you 19k...I really might break tradition and buy this within the next month. Everytime I see a commercial or hear something else about the game I get excited. And to be honest, I'm not very good at most FPS games...but I think I would still have a blast with this one.

RForte1189

Tell me about it, when i was a kid I put 90 hours into FFX and filled up every single characters sphere grid, I also put circa 280-300 days into WoW, cant really remember the exact amount. Now, i get bored or feel as if something is just dragging on if its over 12 hours in length. For instance, I though GoW3's length was perfect, as well as Dead Islands (completing only 50% of the side quests). Whenever it takes me longer than a week to beat a game playing for 2 hours a day I tend to end up getting completely bored of the game and always end up putting it down 20 minutes after i turn on my xbox at that point. I then proceed to go to a bar and get wasted.

nickdawgy

When you were a kid? Didn't that game come out in 2004? How old are you? 16?

tonyc3742

I like 12-20 hours, occasionally I'll go more (Fallout 3 and New Vegas took me ~70 and ~40 so far, an Borderlands was probably 40 or 50), but games I enjoy for that long are few and far between. I can't put 100 hours into a game any more like I did Final Fantasy Tactics.
Also a (single player) game has to let me save often, ideally anywhere (except of course during boss battles, for example.
I'd be happy with a good 15-20 hours that were fun.
This is on my list, I'm glad to hear relatively positive things, but I just don't need a new game right now.

Groucho

My guess is that he's 822 years old.

Nausicaa

Anyone playing this on PC? I've been interested in this game for a while, but I've been reading about lots of glitches in the PC version, and a general feeling that the graphics aren't all they were cracked up to be. Thoughts?