Rage slammed with negative reviews after buggy launch

"I think most people (that think about these things) expected as much. id don't make games anymore, they make engines. Rage was never going to be anything more than an elaborate tech demo."

This was also my expectations from the previews I saw before, but what I don't understand is that they charge people 60$ for this "game". Since this is just a Tech Demo, and they're going to sell their engine after that, they should have given Rage for free.
These days you can get so many indie games that are lot more fun than Rage and for less than 10 bucks.

Boy, I sure love being right 90% of the time, to my misfortune.

id makes fantastic game engines, but passable-to-poor games. They also make most of their money from licensing the engine (ie-Unreal 3) to other developers who actually know how to make fantastic games. This isn't terribly surprising. Look for id to rebound on engine licensing profits and continue to fumble making actual games.

I found a solution here http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2155908

I can't agree more. It seems developers don't even care about what they are producing... It's most likely the publishers fault that these games are being pushed out with so many problems because of their "corporate deadlines". But really, is there any developer that sees a game as a form of art and want's to perfect that art and not just as a revenue stream?

I bet all these bugs will be patched away in a month.

It seems that this was built for the console

Everyone who has AMD should go here: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/GPU121AMDCatRagePerfDriver.aspx

I am running flawlessly now running HD6950 in crossfire. You all should be jealous because this is the best looking game I've ever run on my PC. Vsync option will help the tearing eventually. Deal with it for now. Doom 4 will ROCK on this engine!

How disappointing, I was so close to pre-ordering this one too. I never expected RAGE to be a game changer, but launching with so many issues is baffling. Guess I'll wait for a price drop and bug fixes in the coming months. So many games looked promising at the beginning of the year...so few have delivered =( .

Built for consoles, tested on consoles, oops forgot to test on PC did we? Options? Who needs those anyways the games must be perfect as is... Times like this you wish you could have waited a day before buying a game. As it is its pretty much unplayable on my system so its just going to wait, as for the little gameplay I did try to enjoy (Before getting a very bad headache and having to take a nap) seems very mediocre at best, headshots not killing enemies in one hit is very upsetting granted this is only with a pistol. Going to have to wait and see what happens with this. Seems like the games with the most hype turn out bad more than good... At least theres Battlefield to keep me entertained for now.

Rule #1: For buggy software, wait for the third patch.

oh god, 18GB? For 18GB, the last thing i want to hear are a lot of negative reviews.

I'm not to surprised, any game designed for these 5-6 year old consoles are bound for problems especially when it comes to porting them. Most to all the problems are because this game is a port, especially graphical problems. Even in the beginning of development i remember them stating is was being specifically designed for PS3. I can't imagine porting it to 360, how can you downgrade that far lol

Borderlands and Fallout are the most obvious examples.

That was meant to be in response to Zecias.

Sorry for double post, just tested the game on another PC running a 8800GT with driver version 275.33 and beyond the streaming issue and v-sync the game runs very well. V-sync can be forced which takes care of one problem. For the streaming issue I can only speculate that its because of the PC's higher cursor speeds that streaming becomes an issue, if you turn slowly enough with the standard fov theres no problems at all. Increasing the fov seems to make things worse as well as using higher dpi mice. More reason to believe it was a console port, and a bad one at that. One thing I have yet to try is actually using a xbox controller with my pc and seeing if its the "right" speed for the textures. I wont be doing so tonight but if anyone wants to give it a try by all means report back with your findings.

Yeah, that stopped being true by the end of the 90's the minute gaming became big business, with a few treasured exceptions.

Mine was 21GB

Sure.

I highly doubt the veracity of these so called reviews.

For once I actually agree with IGN. The web is surely making people "thick" to say the least. Those with a brain should consider using it.

I know, right?

Why finish a product when your customer can do it for you?