RAGE - Possibly one of the biggest disappointments?

[reviniente]

Scoobes said:

reviniente said:

I think you expected something different from what id does. They craft tight, cohesive and meaty FPS experiences. It's old-fashioned because id invented and help define the FPS genre; id is the FPS. When they stray from the FPS formula, they falter; when they condensate, when they deliver the pure, undiluted, unadulterated FPS experience, they cannot be equaled. Heck, id Software even implemented the first LAN based multiplayer with Quake. As far as I'm concerned, when you talk FPS at least, whatever John Carmack says, goes. It's his universe, we just play in it.

The problem with this is the FPS genre as a whole has moved a long way from the genre that ID invented. In many ways they're still stuck in old school mechanics, which for some is fun and pure no holds barred FPS gameplay. Unfortunately, for many who have started playing FPS in the last 10 years it represents a throw back to a by gone era of gaming that they never cared for. Even I (having started FPS gaming on Doom, Wolfenstein, etc.) find many of IDs modern games to be a bit dull. There's nothing special in their gameplay anymore and the other aspects of their games aren't exactly the best in class. The only feature they've really innovated on has been in graphics.

The other point is the team is too small to truly compete with the likes of Epic, Valve and the publishing/developing might that Activision manage to churn out.

It's not John Carmack's universe anymore. It hasn't been for a long time.