All the RAGE? Reviews go live for id’s post-apoc shooter

@DSB – Except that they often DO release lower scores than everyone else, sorry that i hurt your feelings on destructoid….
I have no problems with scoring low, but when they score low all the time, it gets annoying…
Some of their reviewers come across annoyingly critical, kind of like how your acting here.

I don’t have any feelings for Destructoid, I’ve never read the thing. I do think it’s slightly funny when people become such corporate babies, that they actually feel the need to critisize a webzine for having opinions that defer from the whole.

What’s pathetic is having a million webzines all agree with eachother. There’s simply no fucking way that 20 individual critics are going to feel the exact same way about the very same game, unless they’re vehemently bullshitting eachother. Hiding behind a consensus has absolutely nothing to do with criticism or intelligent commentary, that’s merely the lack of it.

So the idea that you’d actually prefer for all reviewers to be spineless sycophants who buddy up with developers and friendly PR mooks, and don’t care or know how to form an opinion on what they’re reviewing, strikes me as slightly ass backwards.

If Destructoid reviews things differently than everybody else, that just means they’re being critics, ie doing their fucking job.

^I may be wrong, but I believe the guy is trying to say there’s clearly something wrong with ANY site that scores a game such as Batman Arkham Asylum low, when everyone who’s ever played the game know’s it’s one of the best games ever made.

Rage may get a few things wrong, but it’s gets a hell of a lot more right than wrong. And what it gets right, IT GETS FUCKING RIGHT ON BIG TIME. My opinion? 80/100 is the lowest score this game deserves, that’s faulting it’s characters, story, long loading, and texture loading. EVERYTHING else for a FPS which this is, is done fucking brilliantly. But that’s my opinion, just as reviews are opinions.

Problem is, people’s expectations.

People EXPECT it to be an open world shooter……it’s not……they’re disappointed.

People EXPECT it to be an RPG, it’s not………..they’re disappointed.

Lose the expectations at the door, then give it a critique for what it is, not what you expected it to be, and it isn’t, hence your disappointment.

“Lose the expectations at the door”

Good call. In my opinion this is just another title getting slated out of ignorance. Expecting it to be one thing when it’s another. It happened to Mafia II, everyone thought it was a open world GTA clone. It SO wasn’t. I left my expactations at the door and ended up throughly enjoying it. Thats what im going to do with Rage.

I’ll tell you what’s “all the rage”…unplayable PC ports. I commend id for the countless hours put into this game, I’m sure it wasn’t exactly easy to develop. That being said, Rage is the most dissaponting game to date…ever. It’s a mess on the PC and quite frankly unplayable. I’m sick of all the fucking shitty ports. For fucks sake. I’m so damn close to throwing in the towel on gaming altogether. If I so much as hear a word about rage dlc or sequels before this shit is fixed, I swear to fucking hell it’ll be the end of gaming for me.

Mother Fucking release the game broken… Then half ass fix it to shit. Great mother fucking idea… I fucking swear to Fucking FUCK.
Wow, I’m so mad I’m literally on fire. I’m raging!

Another Review (in german): http://www.xboxdome.de/reviews-id306-0-rage.html
8/10

@56

If you get so worked up over a videogame, it might be time to stop gaming, cos its causing you too much stress.

@58
You’re probably right, I’m just tired of wasting $60 a pop on these unfinished games.

@53 Why would there be something wrong with them if they disagree? It just means they have a different opinion than you or I, which is by and large the very job description of those people.

They’re not there to agree with us, they’re not there to disagree with us, they’re merely there to offer an honest, competent, properly argued opinion.

I like Bastion, Destructoid didn’t like it as much. Does that mean I can’t see their criticism in the game? No, I think they did a fine job reviewing it, they just ultimately judged it differently than myself.

I’m relatively sure the same thing would go for Arkham Asylum. It was a great game, but it was also a hell of a lot of copy paste, using virtually the same sequences over and over again. I loved it, but I can see why some might not be impressed by that.

It’s simply a question of accepting the fact that some people are going to put the emphasis somewhere you might not like, and that’s perfectly fine, because we’re human beings, and not monotonous robots, that explode as soon as one of them disagrees on something.

As for RAGE, I have nothing to judge it on but a broken PC copy, but based on how much they’ve been showing off the NPC’s and the world, I think it’s perfectly justified to be disappointed that the NPC’s and the world doesn’t play a bigger role than it does.

And as for the notion that Destructoid consistently try to get in lower than everybody else, you really just need to look up Metacritic and look at the scores they’ve given in the past. It’s at least 50% 8′s, 9′s and upwards.