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chocoloco on 24 August 2012
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richardhutnik said:
chocoloco said:
Borderlands does so many things right especially when played with a friend that shares the loot. It has just about the best coop, humor, guns and just good times. It does a lot right from the vehicles to the variety in fools to kill. Rage does only two things right when it tries to do many things. The shooting aspect, which ID is known for, and the graphics. Everything else in the game is pretty terrible from the the story, characters, rpg elements, psuedo-open world, and length. It has fun parts at the indoor shooting parts, but otherwise it is a poor game. A shame, but ID just showed they just need to stick to a straight shooter or hire people that have more experience with all the other elements. Rage had potential, but it failed. Borderlands really does everything right and got good sales because of it. The sequel should be good if the manage to change enough.

I am playing Rage now and find it decent.  Experiencing Borderlands though, it is way short.  I would say that Borderlands and Fallout 3 really make Rage fell like it isn't what it could be.

And on that note, I could say the same is true about Quake III Arena.  It is an ok game in its own right, but compared to Unreal Tournament, it just falls short.  In comparison both if IDs offerings fell short to rivals.

Cannot comment on Quake or Unreal tournament as I have not played either.

I gave RAGE an 8.5 out 10 when I scored it here so I do think it is a decent game. It has some good fighting aspects and can be challenging at times. I just feel they hyped up the vehicle combat, open-world aspects and the amazingly revolutionary forms of creating warefare too much. The fighting is not all that unique at all for a shooter. It just hyped itself up to be so great at many things and unlike Borderlands and Fallout (as you mentioned) it just does not revolutionize anything. If they continue the series they need to imrover a lot or really hire some new people to make itup to par with other post-apocalyptic games.