jacketspuds Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 I typed that on my phone last night and even having slept on it, such a bad end to this has really left me with a bad taste in my mouth. (For some, SPOILERS may lie ahead) The story is bobbins for the entire game, the plot is so inconsequential that I could type out the entirety (in about 3 sentences even) and it'd ruin nothing for any player. And then it starts to actually start to go somewhere, you do a few missions in the second hub (again, spoiling nothing saying that), the plot actually kicks in a little, the distinct impression is that you're going to go take it, to the man(!). I don't think I'll be alone in thinking that this plot turn was the beginning of the final act of the game. And I guess it was, really. It's just the final act is rather short. 2 missions short. And your 'taking it to the man' has no consequence - you go take it to him, and it ends. Your taking it to him amounts to one of those sequences in Half-Life 2 where you're waiting for an elevator and enemies show up. It completely feels like they went '...that'll do' and popped in some FMV. Eugh. I really enjoyed this, for all it's faults, to the end. I could let go it being dumb (hell, I actively enjoyed it's simple gunplay), I could let go the frippery of hub worlds and dumb driving I didn't care much about. I couldn't care less there was no multi. I even didn't care that it recycled some environments by making you return to them a couple of times during it's campaign. But that ending... even though I wasn't invested in the story it feels like they lopped the back quarter of the game off. From reading that it sounds like they got 75% of the way through their idea for the game and thought "we'd better stop now or else we won't have any DLC to charge people for." I would not be surprised if the main story is continued for £11.99 or something like that. Pretty sure I read that they already planned lots of DLC from the get go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briggaman Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Just finished it. The ending was awful and I had expected more (even after all that had been said). Apart from that I had a fun time playing Rage. I'll be trading it in for Batman but I'm glad that I got it and gave it a go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted October 20, 2011 Author VT Supporter Share Posted October 20, 2011 Yep, just finished this myself. Really, really good game. Such a solid and satisfying combat system and some gorgeous environments. As for the ending...Well yeah, it was a bit shit wasn't it? The devs clearly thinking 'well, that leaves them enough until the sequel' but after building up so well, it was a bit of a damp squib of an ending. Still an excellent game though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted October 25, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted October 25, 2011 Gonna be £20 in Gamestation when bought with Battlefield 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainG Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 It's worth playing just for the different ammo you can come up with. Mind control crossbow darts anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa89 Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 Got the GFX issue fixed and am playing this on PC. Really good game, good weapons and good atmosphere. Playing it on Hard is still a bit easy though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legov Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 Gorgeous game, gorgeous looking game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 £10 in game and gamestation, really liking it, my only gripe is some of the missions are a bit on the pointless side, almost early RPG like where they are just trying to help you level up but on this you're not you just get a bit of cash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Completed it last night. Now, luckily I'd read this thread and Chindie et al's laments beforehand so I was quasi-prepared for that ending. Even then, it was still utter BS. That last level, when you know in advance you can use your new Big **** Toy™ without consequence, well you can just steamroller everything in it and be done in about 5-7 minutes tops. That said, I thought it was brilliant. My only other gripe would have been the Halo 1-esque "let's do the same level, backwards!" mentality, but everything else is just superb; loved the driving bits (put me in mind of Burnout: Takedown, just with big guns), loved all the guns and gadgets, loved the look and feel of the world (despite the texture issues), loved it's RPG-liteness and getting to jump straight into more shooting without dicking about too much (it felt like there was just the right amount of distractions and side-quests), just great fun. Plus it gets bonus points for having Claudia Black do a voice and an Authority soldier in Subway Town tell me to "pick up that can" as I walked past him. More than worth my £12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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