Nah, MW2 was for me.

The whole time playing i was thinking i would rather play Borderlands

Which part did you play? We've played the coop splitscreen and gave up at the first stage, the controls were jumbly and the coop itself was just chaos, so we stopped it about 5 minutes in and went back to Castle Crashers.

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.

They should have been bolder and made it truly open world instead of hub-based with linear id corridoors. And they should have implemented much stronger and meaningful RPG elements.

I hope id lets Rage die now but from what I understand they still believe in this franchise and are planning a sequel.

ID has not made a good game in over a decade, when this was announced I knew it was going to be average.

Has anybody noticed that all id software ip's are named after FF spells? Doom, Quake, Rage... I wonder what's next. Weak? Stone? Nuke?... Elf fire?

-This user was warned for this post by amp316

I missed this thread somehow, so I'll pretend that that was just posted yesterday and add my two cents.

I thought Rage was pretty good. There was a nice feeling of tension when exploring and fighting the Authority was fun. I liked that you never knew what was around the next corner. However, it wasn't mind-blowing. It was solid but not spectacular. The story was very SyFy Channel and the ending was lame. It was very obviously an installment game without any resolution of its own.

I liked it enough that I'm interested in the next game in the series, though I hope it has more meat to the story and the experience.

now that was a bump,i only noticed on page 2,i thought notstan was in the bargain bin