Rage 2 (confirmed)

goon_magee

Haven't played much outside of launch night as I had a pesky work do. Going to get stuck in tonight for a couple of hours.

I have to agree with all that's been said above, great shooter, perhaps a not so great open world game at times. Though I have to admit that when I have been playing I have had so much fun with the combat that I don't really notice that what I'm doing is really nothing more than the busy work. Not sure how true that will.ring when I've been doing the same activities over and over again, but for the time being it still feels fresh.

Atlas_IRL

Played about 4 hrs last night, love it.

Shotgun is amazing! If it is short like people say i will just concentrate on the side mission and then trade it in whilst the price is still high.

goon_magee

Put some more time in tonight, unlocked the shotgun which has taken the combat to a new level of fun.

Gunplay here really is second to none. I really do wish there was a fast travel system though. Once I've found a location, the world is so drab that I've no desire to drive their a second time if I don't complete the objective first time round. I get that it's a wasteland, and supposed to be empty, but this is lifeless in the wrong sense of the word. It doesn't feel like a believable place, it's just a mess of convoluted dirt roads and nothing in between.

But....once I get to a location and get to lay down the law with the shotty again, all is forgiven cause the combat is just that good. I'm having such a love/hate relationship with the game, on one hand I can't stop playing but simultaneously can't wait for it to be over lol.

It has seriously whetted my appetite for Doom Eternal though!

Sephiroth_dude

Slam super power is fun! Smashey smashey!

notahappycamper

So if you liked the first one, you’ll like this one too?

goon_magee

notahappycamper wrote: »

So if you liked the first one, you’ll like this one too?

I'd say so. I'm enjoying it a lot, but that's largely due to the combat. The open world is as forgettable as they come, though it's stuffed with content that allows you to let loose with the fantastic combat. As crazy and out there as the marketing for this game made everything seem, the world is surprisingly drab and lacking in personality.

I was just looking at the physical sales, meaningless without digital sales as well obviously, but selling only a quarter of the physical copies that the original game did is not a good look.

Potential-Monke

Yeah, it has great ideas and the gunplay is fun, but it doesn't have the draw to bring you back each time imo. I'm struggling to get through it, so I reckon I'm gonna plough through the main story and trade it in while it's still worth money. If they can add to the empty open world, i'd probably pick it up again down the line.

It's wide open for an amazing MP game though, like CoD. I can see it happening, and most likely in a BR type I reckon, some Wasteworld Deathmatch or something similar.

Calhoun

This one came along very much under the radar, i swore off it after the dev's started to rip into Jason Schrier for pointing this out before launch and being fairly unprofessional.

Will wait for it in a sales if i do get it.

goon_magee

I don't think the developers targeted Jason Schrier? They made a tongue in cheek post in response to a Forbes article which examined the low key nature of the game's launch, and Schrier followed up with his own opinion on the Twitter response to the Forbes article.

I could be wrong but I don't think there was anything directed towards Schrier himself. In any event the tweet was clearly meant to be a joke in keeping with the attitude of the game. The author of the article has even gone on to say it's no big deal and that the response to his article was "on brand".

I'm not necessarily saying it was a smart move to come out with such a post, but people are really reading too far into that tweet. Schrier especially pisses me off sometimes. He puts out quality pieces sure, but he is a seriously righteous prick.

goon_magee

I'm actually getting hit with so many audio bugs on the one X that the game has become unplayable. Three evenings in a row I've had audio kick in, be it music or a certain sound effect, with it then proceeding to continuously play on a loop, with all other audio being muted while the bugged effect or track keeps playing.

Two nights in a row it was music that kicks in when you're in combat, it just continuously looped over and over, no other background music would play at all, even when restarting the game. Tonight it's the vehicle entice audio and racing soundtrack, done a race, completed it, left the track and the engine noise and song that played during the race just keep repeating on loop.

Game is an absolute dumpster fire from a technical perspective.

Calhoun

goon_magee wrote: »

I don't think the developers targeted Jason Schrier? They made a tongue in cheek post in response to a Forbes article which examined the low key nature of the game's launch, and Schrier followed up with his own opinion on the Twitter response to the Forbes article.

I could be wrong but I don't think there was anything directed towards Schrier himself. In any event the tweet was clearly meant to be a joke in keeping with the attitude of the game. The author of the article has even gone on to say it's no big deal and that the response to his article was "on brand".

I'm not necessarily saying it was a smart move to come out with such a post, but people are really reading too far into that tweet. Schrier especially pisses me off sometimes. He puts out quality pieces sure, but he is a seriously righteous prick.

Sorry been a busy week so not had a chance to respond, i wasn't sure who was causing what in all the stuff on rage but as it was Bethesda and i barely heard anything about the game i kinda had an idea it wasn't perfect.

Hopefully they build on it.

Potential-Monke

Speaking of the races and the audio, I've had the audio issue after a race, where it's just the revving of cars. I fast travelled and it was gone on the next load.

But a bigger issue I've encountered with the races is the first time I try one. Each and every time, I will always lose the first race. I'll pass everyone, but about 1/3rd of the way through the second lap one of the AI cars just teleports to the end. Retry and I win, and every subsequent race after that. But once I leave the area and come back, the same thing will happen again, every time!

goon_magee

I've tried reloading saves and no joy, only thing seems to solve it for me is if I totally power the system down, very strange.

I've also had that bug as well, I was well clear of the pack the entire way and was left wondering why I actually ended up coming in second lol. I've also had a few full on crashes to the Xbox dashboard from the races so something sketchy going with them for sure.

Potential-Monke

Yeah, same happened again last night so it's definitely a bug. It is a Bethesda game, so I was expecting bugs and errors, and in fairness I can't really complain aside from the above, everything else has been working fine.

Just, it feels flat outside of combat.

dreamers75

Not a bad game the driving is horrific tho, like wildlands bad.

goon_magee

I gave in today and flogged this. Not a bad game by any means, just awfully uninspired outside of combat. I was only about halfway through the game, so my intention is to see what state it's in once they've added the free updates and story expansions, and potentially pick it up once it's been fleshed out a bit more.

I just couldn't bring myself to keep playing in its current form. I'd sit down, load the game up and drive a few hundred yards before immediately turning it off again. Just didn't grab me at all.

dreamers75

dreamers75 wrote: »

Nailed on day one purchase for me.

Only concern is that I will forget I have those all powers and use the same ones over and over

Sooooo...about this so i finished this tonight about 20-25 hours, cleared a lot of camps and other things, main story could be done in a lot less imo.

But something was bothering me as to why I only had 2 powers in the bottom left and 2 were empty, after I finished it I googled it and FFS I missed 2. Honestly thought I had every ark found

So to sum up I was worried I would use the same powers over and over and again and did because I was a spa :pac:

Barrier and Vortex were the 2 main ones I didnt get....and Focus in passive.

Used mainly Shatter, Grav Jump/slam and Overdrive to finish the game, died mostly due to my own stupidity.

Driving is horrific and only noticed convoys after I got the predator and chased after one for about 30 minutes pointlessly, so i completed 0 convoys.

Potential-Monke

Been trying since Saturday to plough through this, but as magee above said, I get a few hundred yards down the road and I've lost all interest again. Don't think I'll be able to finish it, so gonna trade it in while it's still worth a few quid.

Ardent

Less than 20 quid on Steam currently. Worth it at that price?

Ardent

Ardent wrote: »

Less than 20 quid on Steam currently. Worth it at that price?

Made by Avalanche Studios the masters of making open world games where you see everything there is to see in 2-3 hours and take another 40 to complete. Have decent fun mechanics but then the repetition kicks in and kills the fun. Mad Max, Just Cause are decent games ruined but unnecessary flooding of the maps with repetitive filler.

dreamers75

Wait till its a tenner tbh

_CreeD_

It's a fun, limited blast of fun. Great action loop that borrows from the latest doom in rewarding kills with health so you are at the very least as likely to survive an insane in your face/oh I'm wearing yours blast fest as sit back and play it tactically (and there are a lot of level-up skills that lean into this). A game of the year (let alone life), no. A good blast for 20 or less absolutely.

Sabre0001

I'm only a few hours into this, but enjoying so far. Combat is fun and I like the Force Push ability Looking forward to unlocking more madness.

Never really into the open world games and Rage 2 so far is hitting some of the reasons why. Big enough open world, but haven't really found much going on when journeying about. Couple of secret locations and hideouts, the sentry towers (which I might just steer clear of for a while), and the things pointed out on the map. Plus, I started one mission and now part two is on the opposite side of the map (how surprising).

Temptamperu

I just picked this up for 20. Really enjoyed the first game so we'll see how it goes.

It's on game pass so I started playing it over the weekend and surprisingly it's not as bad as I was expecting. It's very much an avalanche title and the repetition is there but it's not as bad as say just cause 4. The additional stuff on the map seems to have a point too unlike just many of their games.

The nagative, talking to people in settlements and they tell you about something as in a "side quest" I'm not seeing a way to track those. So when you complete it you have to go and talk to them and hope it was their thing you just did and they might give you cash or that wasn't their thing and they give you nothing.

Sephiroth_dude

A main mission bugged on me , crappy game!

Glebee

Ive just started it a well on game pass, im enjoying it so far. Not a bad game at all in my opinion. Will probally stick it out till the end

The quality of the shooting mechanics are all Doom which are fantastic which is why I enjoyed it and it's first DLC.

It's a shame about the structure and open world nonsense from avalanche.

If this had more focus and didn't have the interference from Avalanche studios then it would have been a much better game for it.

Sephiroth_dude

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

A main mission bugged on me , crappy game!

Was it Project Dagger??? Think I have the same problem. I have "Work with your allies to get project dagger operational" still active even after completing their missions and having them all over level 5.

And a google tells me this is common over all platforms and for quite a while so it's not been patched and fixed.

I'll see if I have an earlier save I can use and try that this evening.

EDIT: Reloading a save from before I turned in the last mission did the trick, no way I was playing it again.

It really is a poor game in terms of story. It has 7 story missions and no side quests to speak of. The missions take about 20 minutes each. The only thing from stopping you rushing trough it is the need to level up by doing the filler on the map. I say it every time "I'm never playing an Avalanche game again"

Sephiroth_dude

Deleted User wrote: »

Was it Project Dagger??? Think I have the same problem. I have "Work with your allies to get project dagger operational" still active even after completing their missions and having them all over level 5.

And a google tells me this is common over all platforms and for quite a while so it's not been patched and fixed.

I'll see if I have an earlier save I can use and try that this evening.

EDIT: Reloading a save from before I turned in the last mission did the trick, no way I was playing it again.

It really is a poor game in terms of story. It has 7 story missions and no side quests to speak of. The missions take about 20 minutes each. The only thing from stopping you rushing trough it is the need to level up by doing the filler on the map. I say it every time "I'm never playing an Avalanche game again"

That was the one ya I think, it second last mission I think, I uninstalled it after that, I like the combat but its not a tap on the first one, game map littered with pointless things.

Glebee

Well that ended rather suddenly, have most of the side quests finished and then bang, main story line comes to a close. Oh well I did enjoy that game while it lasted.

The Phantom Pain

Just entered the open world.
I can already tell what type of game this is gonna be lol It's gonna be fun but not a hint of originality to be found. So far it's like Doom meets Gears of War. It very much knows what it is i.e. a trashy fps and is quite shameless about it. Most games like to disguise tutorials by integrating it into the story, even COD likes to teach you the basics by having you pretend you're schooling the rookies. Here, the tutorials bluntly interrupt gameplay, and character introductions are presented via the lead literally stopping to give you their background. Speaking of the lead character, she is absolutely horrible . Just the worst. She screams like a b*tch when she's injured and her dialogue is cringe inducing. All characters so far are pretty obnoxious to be fair.

Oh, and the Lizzie character looks like Judy from Cyberpunk and then on the radio chatter she sounded like Judy from Cyberpunk so I looked up the voice actress and it turns out it's the same va. This won't be jarring at all...

Gunplay is enjoyable. Look forward to getting more abilities and seeing what the open world has to offer.

dreamers75

The Phantom Pain wrote: »

Gunplay is enjoyable. Look forward to getting more abilities and seeing what the open world has to offer.

Ignore every mission you have just go for the abilities, i finished the game with only half of them and regretted it.

EoinMcLovin

dreamers75 wrote: »

Ignore every mission you have just go for the abilities, i finished the game with only half of them and regretted it.

Also make plenty of manual saves. Got a bug on the final mission where quest marker would not show on map. Previous save was at least 8 hours old.

nullObjects

EoinMcLovin wrote: »

Also make plenty of manual saves. Got a bug on the final mission where quest marker would not show on map. Previous save was at least 8 hours old.

Happened me as well, still hasn't been patched as far as I know

The Phantom Pain

Played a bit more of this and have just met the first of the three project managers. I'm getting into the rhythm of the pen world loop now. Have taken the advice about seeking out the ark abilities first. The gravity jump thingy is a game changer; I wish I had got it even earlier. EVen though the combat is fast paced I kind of like that you can quickly get overwhelmed and die if you're sloppy.

Only annoying thing that's really becoming apparent though is that this game is poorly optimised - a dead giveaway that it's published by Bethesda. You need to get into the menu to manage your upgrades but it's so laggy sometimes I don't bother. Also had my first screen freeze. Definitely making plenty of manual saves as I don't trust it one bit.

Sephiroth_dude

One of the worse most disappointing games I've ever played, not a patch on the first one.

B.A._Baracus

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

One of the worse most disappointing games I've ever played, not a patch on the first one.

This is what's stopped me from playing the game
I really enjoyed the first and keep hearing the second hasn't got anything on it. That it might as well been called something else as it's far removed.

dreamers75

Free on EGS now.

The Phantom Pain

Completed this and only have 3 trophies left, although they are a nasty grind to get. May have to play in small doses for the sake of my sanity. Think I might get the DLCs and play the game on Ultra Nightmare and do a permadeath playthrough (not at the same time!) The story is very short so I reckon I could bang them out in a few playthroughs quickly.

Overall, it's addictive and fun when you level up and storm into enemy bases just wrecking everything in sight with your shotty and abilities. It's not quite as enjoyable as Mad Max though (also made by Avalanche). Mad Max has a better world and story (being based on an established film franchise). The story and characters here are mostly rubbish and lacking in personality but I feel like that is almost a pointless criticism for this sort of game. It knows what it is - perfect open world checklist junk food.

The Phantom Pain

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Very quiet in here, thought there would be more playing and talking about this.

It's a solid shooter, no denying that. I'd imagine it will be most fun near the end once you're superpowered. Couple of more hours played last night, nothing new to add, didn't really unlock anything fancy. Still a bit disappointed about upgrading the guns where you can only select 1 upgrade per level. Nowhere explaining that, and I'm stuck with a shotgun with extra rounds but still slow ass reloading, would have preferred the quicker reloading had I known before upgrading.

I'll definitely finish this, but at this moment I can't see myself holding onto it. It's fun, zany, loud, explosive, but does appear empty outside of the towns. May pick it up again down the line, but most likely will trade in once I'm finished. Saying that, I haven't really had a good few hours at it, so i've tomorrow off work to play it and can make a better decision then.

But it is most definitely fun.

Don't know if you eventually discovered this but there's a project perk that allows you to swap mods on weapons at no cost.

Got the platinum and overall enjoyed it. It's not for everyone but if you like Avalanche open world checklists with Doom combat then this is worth a go.

wotzgoingon

Currently playing this and it is brilliant. I also liked the first but to be honest this one is better. Tonnes of stuff to do. I love coming up on a marker and killing everyone. My favourite weapon is the assault riffle. I remember in the first game near the end you get a really powerful weapon and I used it on one or two guys just to try it out and it was powerful but I said I will save it for later. Little did I know the game finished just like that. I was using my shotgun and assault riffle and it was tricky if I had known I could have used that weapon and deal with the enemies so much easier.

Back to this game. It does feel like Fallout meets Borderlands which was mentioned further back in the thread.

EoinMcLovin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119644484#Comment_119644484

Make sure to make plenty of manual save files. There is a bug near the end of the game where the final quest won't show up at all. It's never been fixed in all the years the game has been out

wotzgoingon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119644504#Comment_119644504

I seen that I just read through the whole thread. I will start saving more often. The mad thing about that is that's what I done in the first. Every so often I would save in the first. And it was a true save. This game you can save. Come back and you are in a completely different location than you saved.

wotzgoingon

I know this is an old thread and all but I have to make a point about what was discussed further back in this thread and the world is dead. How is that there is tonnes going on around you. There is always gangs of bandits or those mutants or even the shrouded fighting. then there is different vehicles driving around. How can you say the game world is dead it is littered with camps and different things to do.

I have done so much so far that I have to admit I am over powered at this stage.