Review - So I am at nearly 90 % completion now.......

[FB_Destroyer_Rebecca]

So I spend some time with the game.
I have done the main questline and nearly all side-quests.
Done all Arks and found every weapon.
Only things left are some generic repetitive points that are not worth doing.
So for my taste.......the map is too......simple. Not worth exploring.
You only go as you have to.....
The map-size and the amount of content feels like 1/2 of an Far Cry 3 map or 1/2 of an Assassins Creed 2.
If there wouldnt be youtube video where to find the weapons I wouldnt go and search for the last two I was missing. (I bought everything from every vendor and the last two were not shown on the map).
The big monsters and bosses are way to simple to kill. I mean the procedure not the difficulty itself.

What I like are that there are not many or nearly no bugs. My game crashed just one time and thankfully the game quicksaved 10 seconds before the crash.
The graphics are very ok. I like the performance of the game. Very smooth. I played on ultra and all settings to the max and I had very nice framerates all of the time.
For me no mission failed and I never run into some dead end. Thank god! ;)
Also some Weapons are really nice. Worth mentioning is the Shotgun which is kinda your all-situations-wonder gun. I also liked the Firestorm Revolver very much as it reminded me of Thanos at once ;) Last weapon I liked was the Grav-Dart Launcher which gives you plenty of situation to play around as long as you encounter small enemies. In tough situations I will go back to my shotgun or the rocket launcher.
What really disappointed me was the Hyper-Canon. Pretty weak and a low magazine, I newer touched it again.
The story is too short and has no meaning to you. They do linger it by forcing you to do a certain amount of side-quests to progress in the main-story for it! Character bonding is somehow non-existing so you never bond with anyone, the least with your own character which is one of the main flaws. I mean the did some thing right. Your voice and speech is actually not bad, occasionally really cool, but when you dont bond its really hard to value it.
If you dont have anything better to do and want an ok-ish game that gives you like 15 to 30 hours of scavenger hunts this is your best buy. If you are not bored atm and still have some progress open in AC Odyssey or other open world games wait until Rage 2 is on discount.
I think they had to make some tough decision at Avalanche what they wanted to be.
Their game couldnt decide if it wants to be a sandbox game with a lot of exploration aspects like Far Cry or a shoot-em up fun fps like Doom. So they mixed tiny things from both but as a gamer you notice something doesnt feel right in the end. Either you are one or the other. Pls decide next time for Rage 3 ;)


So far I would rate it a 5.8/10
If you liked Far Cry New Dawn this is definitely a better game than that!

* I may edit this post as I overthink some thoughts on this game.

[Wurm65]

Good Personal Review.

I have a simple question for you. Did you play the first game? Rage 2 is built around Rage 1, not Far Cry. not Assassins Creed. They took the mechanics of the first game and expanded it.

And in that aspect they did a great job.

[blackforce999]

more like 3.0/10

[FB_Destroyer_Rebecca]

Originally posted by Wurm65:

Good Personal Review.

I have a simple question for you. Did you play the first game? Rage 2 is built around Rage 1, not Far Cry. not Assassins Creed. They took the mechanics of the first game and expanded it.

And in that aspect they did a great job.

Hi and thanks.
Yes I did play Rage 1 which was way more linear. Consider that it was an IP from ID Software but Bethesda (better say Zenimax) single-handed it to Avalanche Studios. So its a complete new approach I would say.
The comparison to Far Cry and AC is there cause there are obviously similar aspects you find in both games. The way how the side-missions are scattered on the map reminds me immediately of those sandbox games. Hey its not a shame to copy good concepts imho.
In that way they did a good job indeed.
But I see why you asked. I did write this comparison in a very bad way. I'll edit it.

[Bobabender]

Im pretty far into completion as well. As for replayability I wished that these bounties you take on have more density in the enemies you face, heck, I would be fine if these factions took back locations to former glory just to clear them out once again similar to the first time you came across it.

[DogMeat]

Originally posted by Wurm65:

Good Personal Review.

I have a simple question for you. Did you play the first game? Rage 2 is built around Rage 1, not Far Cry. not Assassins Creed. They took the mechanics of the first game and expanded it.

And in that aspect they did a great job.

RAGE 2 isn't built around RAGE 1, it's built around Mad Max/Just Cause (also from same devs).

Combat mechanics are more from Doom.

[Nite69]

90% already?!? geeze I just got the first region done and starting the second, Not even accessed the others yet

[Cpt.ButtHurt]

Originally posted by DogMeat:

Originally posted by Wurm65:

Good Personal Review.

I have a simple question for you. Did you play the first game? Rage 2 is built around Rage 1, not Far Cry. not Assassins Creed. They took the mechanics of the first game and expanded it.

And in that aspect they did a great job.

RAGE 2 isn't built around RAGE 1, it's built around Mad Max/Just Cause (also from same devs).

Combat mechanics are more from Doom.

What?

When you think back to the original game after playing this one, they're pretty night and day by comparison. Rage 2 feels like it's entirely its own thing.

Yes, it is. Firstly, I like to say that Rage 2 delivers on all that Rage 1 promised. I've joked that the biggest lesson I've learned from Rage is don't make an open world game without an open world technology, which is what we did with our id Tech 5 engine for the original. But you're right, it's kinda like we're launching a new franchise. It's very exciting. We often get people asking, "Well, do I need to have played the first one?" And I'm like, "No. Don't worry about it. We got you covered." You can just jump in and play. Don't be nervous by the 2.

[UncivilS3rvant]

Originally posted by DrShepherdLIVE:

So spend some time with the game.
I have done the main quest and nearly all side-quests.
Done all Arks and found every weapon.
Only thing left are some generic repetitive points that are not worth doing.
If there wouldnt be any youtube video where to find all the weapons I wouldnt go and search for them to be honest. (I bought everything from every vendor and not all Arks are shown on the map).
So the map is too......simple for my taste. Not worth exploring.

So the map is too simple but you couldn't find all the weapons without some YouTube video telling you where to find them?

[FB_Destroyer_Rebecca]

Originally posted by UncivilS3rvant:

Originally posted by DrShepherdLIVE:

So spend some time with the game.
I have done the main quest and nearly all side-quests.
Done all Arks and found every weapon.
Only thing left are some generic repetitive points that are not worth doing.
If there wouldnt be any youtube video where to find all the weapons I wouldnt go and search for them to be honest. (I bought everything from every vendor and not all Arks are shown on the map).
So the map is too......simple for my taste. Not worth exploring.

So the map is too simple but you couldn't find all the weapons without some YouTube video telling you where to find them?

!!! Context !!!
Patience in reading helps to understand most things in the first place.
I said: "The map is too simple for my taste."
PAUSE
"You only go as you have to"
PAUSE
"If there wouldnt be any youtube video where to find all the weapons I wouldnt go and search for them to be honest"
PAUSE

If you'd take your time in reading you'd not misinterpret it. I never said I couldnt. I just didnt want to. Actually I only looked up 2 weapons on youtube the rest I found by myself. 8)
But I edited it so others might not rapidly misjudge it also.
Thanks for noticing!

[DogMeat]

Originally posted by Cpt.ButtHurt:

What?

When you think back to the original game after playing this one, they're pretty night and day by comparison. Rage 2 feels like it's entirely its own thing.

I've got over 240 hours in RAGE 1. I'm playing it right now back and forth with RAGE 2. Partially to compare and contrast, partially because I had intended to beat RAGE 1 before RAGE 2 came out but I was too slow.

Originally posted by Cpt.ButtHurt:

Yes, it is. Firstly, I like to say that Rage 2 delivers on all that Rage 1 promised.

No... no it doesn't. The only thing it does that lives up to RAGE 1 is the combat... and even that's disappointing in the sense it's too easy. I still occasionally need to use the defib replaying RAGE 1 after all these times. I've yet to use the defib in RAGE 2 other than in training.

Originally posted by Cpt.ButtHurt:

I've joked that the biggest lesson I've learned from Rage is don't make an open world game without an open world technology,

RAGE 1 was never an 'open world' game. It was the standard id Software corridor shooter with a larger than average hub world. See Hexen, Quake 2 or Wolfenstein 2009. If they promised that they were exaggerating/hyping the product.

[UncivilS3rvant]

Originally posted by DrShepherdLIVE:

If you'd take your time in reading you'd not misinterpret it. I never said I couldnt. I just didnt want to.

I took my time. You don't want to go and find things hidden on a simple map. That's what you said.

So you prefer things just handed to you rather than putting some effort to find them.

[DogMeat]

Originally posted by UncivilS3rvant:

You don't want to go and find things hidden on a simple map.

Yeah... that's kinda the game's fault. Exploring an uninteresting world filled with copy pasted bases hunting the components of gameplay down isn't the best way to do things.

As I've said many times... I like the combat enough that I'm willing to stop at the boring locations over and over because the combat is good. Many unfortunately want more than just combat and this game doesn't offer it... which is why they'll rush the story and be done in 6-12 hours.

[FB_Destroyer_Rebecca]

Originally posted by UncivilS3rvant:

Originally posted by DrShepherdLIVE:

If you'd take your time in reading you'd not misinterpret it. I never said I couldnt. I just didnt want to.

I took my time. You don't want to go and find things hidden on a simple map. That's what you said.

So you prefer things just handed to you rather than putting some effort to find them.

Or are you maybe dyslexic? Could be too!
But I guess you just don't want to take your time and take it out of context on purpose. No sense to take someone that does that seriously.

https://gyazo.com/4bd11b24f790ba707aad313ee95e17cc

[⎝⧹TrM⧸⎠]

Originally posted by DrShepherdLIVE:

Originally posted by UncivilS3rvant:

I took my time. You don't want to go and find things hidden on a simple map. That's what you said.

So you prefer things just handed to you rather than putting some effort to find them.

Or are you maybe dyslexic? Could be too!
But I guess you just don't want to take your time and take it out of context on purpose. No sense to take someone that does that seriously.

https://gyazo.com/4bd11b24f790ba707aad313ee95e17cc

Lots of people dyslexic (im quite high on the scale for written) i had terrible troubles learning to write english at school with dancing d and b's on the page and words looking wright when i wrote them then looking at them 2 minutes later and even i cant read the words:(. i also spell words wrong alot and the most comon is just to jumble up the first 2 or 3 letters as if my mind jumped on to the enxt letetr im trying to write:(.

but as for the game I enjoyed it myself whilst i think the world is boring and bland and lifeless. the story is well lame But the combat was top notch and thats what pushed me to find every bandit camp and Contrtact/bounty.

I think the devs ahd some good ideas in the game just not all come toghter right But i would recomend this game though as the combat is hours of mindless fun and lets be honest games sould be fun and combat like this sould be played

[FB_Destroyer_Rebecca]

Originally posted by 🆃🆁🅼:

Originally posted by DrShepherdLIVE:

Or are you maybe dyslexic? Could be too!
But I guess you just don't want to take your time and take it out of context on purpose. No sense to take someone that does that seriously.

https://gyazo.com/4bd11b24f790ba707aad313ee95e17cc

Lots of people dyslexic i had terrible troubles learning to write english at school with dancing d and b's on the page and words looking wright when i wrote them then looking at them 2 minutes later and even i cant read the words:(. i also spell words wrong alot and the most comon is just to jumble up the first 2 or 3 letters as if my mind jumped on to the enxt letetr im trying to write:(.

but as for the game I enjoyed it myself whilst i think the world is boring and bland and lifeless. the story is well lame But the combat was top notch and thats what pushed me to find every bandit camp and Contrtact/bounty.

I think the devs ahd some good ideas in the game just not all come toghter right But i would recomend this game though as the combat is hours of mindless fun and lets be honest games sould be fun and combat like this sould be played

I used to be dyslexic in my youthhood too. I feel you! No shame in that. Thats why I asked. Though with a lot of training and with a good teacher I kinda managed to get rid of it. It really wasnt easy though!
Thanks for your input!
As of Uncivil he just needs some hugs and doesnt know how to ask for it ;) He got an inner fight about something nothing I said has to do with it but he picked whatever he needed to respond to my post!
It's like you say:"I like to throw balls"
Person1 who just got hit by a ball recently responds:"Oh so you like hurting people?"
Person2 who is a big soccer fan responds:"Ok, lets play a round"
One proclamation, many interpretations.