This..... this is what Rage 1 should've been

this game is pure epic! us gamers are so lucky to have publishers like Bethesda, I even got free 500 RAGE TM coins for preordeing!!!

The playable female has a voice actress that sounds like a punk bitch 13 year old boy.

After playing it for 5 hours, my conclusion is that it's a good sequel of Mad Max. It's Mad Max except the world is much more interesting, the combat is definitely better, and no more fucking mine defusing missions
Combat is pretty much the best part of the game and it carries the game hard. Other than that, it's your usual Far Cry clone

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And that's a good thing

>It visually looks worse than the first one

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Probably requires better hardware to look worse as well

not enough mega textures

Stopped playing Rage 1 cause I felt it had too much vehicle bullshit. Does this one have a lot of driving?

yes mostly just to get places

I don't know why did they switched for Mad Max engine instead of id. I guess because it's open world.
Good news is it's runs pretty good.
As for the activities, it seems that it has more shooting missions (like capturing outposts and shit) than the vehicular missions. I've only done 1 racing mission so far.

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Performance reasons, variety or production values?

This game sunk like a stone. Curious to know why. Not curious enough to get anything other than an user's bored shitpost over the situation, though.

HAHAHA THIS GAME LOOKS BADASS
I WISH I HAD A PINK FROHAWK AND LIVED IN THE APOCALYPSE
LOL
DOES RAGE 2 FEATURE CLAPTRAP?

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>This game sunk like a stone. Curious to know why
To me because the market for wacky open world games is oversaturated by this point. And also because Rage 2 looks generic.

I got this for free and there's a complete lack of soul. Like, some aspects are good, but the entire atmosphere of the game just feels so phoned in.

It's like going to a theme park but you're the only one in it and all the staff is falling asleep.

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>Like, some aspects are good, but the entire atmosphere of the game just feels so phoned in.
That's all Avalanches games post-JC2

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rage 2 has got to be the most unappealing ad campaign ever run for a video game.

glad to hear you liked it, bc the people who work for id and avalanche are the only ones who played it. no one else cares about this generic franchise.

lol some characters got bugged and wouldnt let me speak with them and cant get any intel from them , fuck that into the trash it goes ill retry in it in 6 months when all the patches and dlc's comes out

overall a game with good shooting mechanics, graphics a la mad max 2013, lots of bugs , and general unpolished feeling

Nothing.

The whole game is literally just doing side missions which boil down to "Go here and kill everyone".

There's driving and racing, but the cars handle like ass.

There can never be enough single player games of this variety. Fuck Far Cry, that setting sucks ass.

Everything Avalanche did is shit.
Everything id did is great.
Unfortunately the good action flow and ability design alone can't save the game with level and world design THIS bad.

Good point, same reason I didn't get it. Bit done with open world shooters anyway. Return to "actual level design and fun mechanics that aren't slow and meant for gamepad only" and sure, got my attention.

Confirmed for game of the year

back to r/gaming

I began reading user reviews for this game and had to double check I wasn't reading about the first one: boring, derivative, technical issues, unwelcome driving sections and solid gunplay that isn't enough to make up for the rest of the game. I'm giving this a hard pass since I found both Rage and Mad Max supremely boring and couldn't finish either of them.

Variety.

Game story is very short, around 10-12 hours to complete the story, which includes forced grinding to progress.
Map is sparse with copy-paste strongholds littered across it. Enemy types boring with the only difficulty coming from overtuned damage on harder difficulties.

Performance was great for me.

It's a shame because the gameplay loops is very fun.

There are a few things in this game that are pretty good. Shooting is fun, you can make your dude fast.
I shot a red barrel, and when it blew up the catwalk a bandit was hanging from a left over support beam until it fell too. Not scripted or anything. was pretty neat

Hah, no surprised it was designed by the Just Cause guys then, ey?

Just Cause 2 must've been lightning in a bottle. Release that today and it'd probably get the same criticisms.

>level and world design THIS bad
I was curious about this because the reviews kept saying this. I'm playing this and the world are varied and levels are surprisingly competent? Maybe that's just me able to stomach Mad Max so everything better than that feels automatically great.
But the levels is incredibly copy pasted. It has to be the Avalanches part.

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From a guy who's actually bought the game and isn't a shill: it isn't worth more than $20. The shooting and combat is fantastic, but that's the only part that stands out. The upgrade trees have like eight different resources for no reason and are a pain to navigate, side missions are the main content and the driving is just plain uninteresting. The combat carries the game, and it's worth shilling out cash for, but it's the stuff in between that's such a pain in the ass. If there wasn't an open world it would be a far, far better experience.

There are some good levels (mostly abandoned towns and huge bandit camps) but generally the level design is really nothing to write home about.
It doesn't help that the most beautiful part of the map (green post-apocalypse to the north) is barely used whatsoever.

listen to this user.
>but it's the stuff in between that's such a pain in the ass
this is exactly what i was afraid of and exactly why i won't ever play it. why didn't they just build the entire game around the combat?

I agree, fighting is fun, there's a lot of fast paced and vertical moves you can do and I like the music, sometimes the AI is surprisingly good. But everything else feels completely uninspired:
The game is just brown with neon shit flashing in your face every once in a while.
The menus and progression system are a nightmare.
Driving is awful.
The textures and character models looks like shit, as well as their animations.
The AI is dumb a lot of the time, there's flashes of brilliance in it, they'll dodge, ambush, take cover if your shooting at them, run away even, but it's very rare.
The writing is godawful and they force you to listen it for the first 30 minutes or so.
And the open world is literally barren, nothing interesting to do or find, just a series of checklists.

It's an OK game at best, would have been much better if they had focused on combat and AI instead of shitting 'content' for the sake of it.

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How many months before I can find this game for less than €20 on my local key code site?

Less than 2 months if we learned anything from Wolfenstein 2

Normies and journos hate it, which means it's unironically good.

>female on cover
>no buy

>the gameplay is fantastic but it's not worth more than $20

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>frog poster
>is actually smart

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It got reviewbombed bacuse of Denuvo. But they have removed it now.

The game has bad driving and the typical problems with open world games but the combat is awesome.

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the combat mechanics are interesting but the enemies are utterly braindead and don't push you to actually change up your strategies like the enemies in (nu)Doom did
90% is just generic hitscanners, which die in one or two shotgun blasts, there's grenade throwing enemies which are easily repelled with the tennis strike, and very occasionally there are Heavy enemies with a minigun which require more than two shotgun blasts to go down
Then you have enemies with armor, which are simply more bulletspongy unless you use Shatter or Slam to knock off their armor, but having those abilities be tied to a cooldown is a problem given how tiresome it is to deal with armored enemies otherwise
Mutant enemies are fucking braindead and easily dispersable with the shotgun, the giant mutant fights are just a matter of spamming rockets and grenades all at once to kill it in 5 seconds
Upgraded dash is too OP because you just need to dash as much as you can so enemies can't hit you at all with bullets
Immortal Shrouded and the Authority are more interesting to fight and has some more interesting enemy types in its disposal, but you will be fighting Goons and Muties for 80% of the game so good luck lol

They only removed it because they accidentally put the raw exe inside the game

For real? Fucking kek.

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Does this have bad optimization? I feel like I'm having really bad FPS drops

Yeah
No. But I did get some stutters here and there. I have a 1050ti and it's solid 60 for most of the time.

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I loaned a copy from my friend. Worst cut scenes and voice acting ever. RAGE 2 makes FarCry cutscenes look like oscar winner material.

>Avalanche
The only good game these fuckers ever made was thehunter COTW and even that is still a buggy mess after years of patches.

She doesn't look like the species on the rage 2 box.

The gameplay is worth more than $20 but the value of the whole package is diminished by the rotten shit around it

Also the abilities are just fucking lame
>Shatter is just a ticket for a free kill and fucking boring, otherwise it would be useful for stripping armor if it wasn't tied to a cooldown, which could have been made a core ability if it just pushed people away instead of outright killing them
>Slam is the same as Shatter but an Area of Effect for it, a free ticket to kill everything around you
>Barrier spawns a barrier in front of you which lets you shoot through it and protects you from enemy fire, but you need to be standing still to make any use of it which is no fun and probably a death sentence considering how often enemies like to spawn behind you
>Vortex pulls in enemies so you can finish them off identically to slam, it can be otherwise use to boost yourself in the air but the double jump launchers you in the air high enough that having another means to do so feels like bloat
What's the correlation between boring abilities and cooldowns anyways?

No, a PART of the gameplay if fantastic. The driving is poor, the downtime spent travelling between areas is unnecessary, upgrade mechanics are grindy and the fact that the game doesn't highlight where the collectible boxes are in an area after you've cleared it so you don't have to spend the next twenty minutes picking apart an environment in hunt of the lootboxes so you can finally check it off as finished instead of getting back to killing something - the only thing the game excels at - is fucking insulting. The better half of this game is a complete and utter chore, and if they'd just removed it all in favour of more combat it would have been a genuinely good game.

Shatter and Vortex are cool but the others suck

it doesn't

Play it on the hard mode, it makes everything much more interesting.

So is it worth picking up? Right now?

it's worth trying.

Nah, wait until sales. It's recommended if you like FC like open world games. It's one of the better ones.

I disagree. I think one of the best facets is the fact that it’s open world and I can go wherever the fuck I want.

They really dropped the ball on variety of missions and the world/people though.

rage 2 is depresing me so patheticaly lazy, the ai in rage makes its encounters 10x more engaging then rage 2 with all its stupid powers.

piece of shit honestly

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It depends. It’s worth buying at 30-40 if you’re interested in playing something new and pretty fun.

But shelling out 60+? If you’re in the mood for a gunplay heavy, objective based, fairly repitious romp with minimal narrative but tons of freedom and progression then I’d say dive in. The driving isn’t spectacular but it’s pretty fun. It’s rough around the edges but quite a good time.

someone post the comparison of the towns please

Avalanche only ever makes bland checklist open world games. Dropped

are there torrents up with reduced filesize? my ssd for games is getting a bit close to being full

Yea. I think it is at 11 gig now.

fitgirl repack

so i pirated it last night, playing now
nightmare difficulty is not even the slightest bit difficult
the colors are really obnoxious
AI is bad, the enemy movement isn't even up to what the first game was
generic open world objectives that have been done hundreds of times before
wellspring from rage 1 had more detail and life than everything i've seen so far combined

the shooting is fun and you can tell that's where id helped

You're too overpowered. I love the abilities and the speed, but you hilariously outmatch an army of enemies without sweating it on Nightmare difficulty. The AI is simply too stupid, they line up to be pulverized by the player.

The game needs more enemies, and more varied enemies that need different techniques to take down, but most importantly, the enemies should have some of the powers the player has just to even the playing field. The game is too fucking easy.

It offers nothing. it's shit. Not even worth pirating.

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I downloaded cheat engine and made the game run at 2x speed while Inside a vehicle, it made traveling in the open world SO MUCH more bearable and weirdly enough the handling on the car felt more responsive. I recommend anyone playing on PC to do the same, you can't go back once you do.

So it's like watching a youtube video at 2x speed and then going back to normal?

No, it actually feels like the game is running at normal speed at 2x when you're inside a vehicle.

truly GOTY material

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i pirated it,its fucking cancer.
every non-bandit women has that fucking half bald turbodyke haircut that was trendy in 2013(god knows why) and all the bandit women has a hair like they went through a lawnmover.also i miss the cool stuff from the first game like mutants crawling around and climbing on walls and actually getting moved by your shots and shit like that.its so bad holy shit

They turned that hottie with the boomerang into some ugly hag, though

This game is like SpaceLords, it's fucking amazing but idiots hate it because paid reviewers didn't suck its dick and give it 10/10

Is this supposed to make the game look good?

I thought I was the only one.
I for one loved Rage 1 and it looked amazing on my pc.
So far Rage 2 looks worse, plays worse, and is just very bland.

No, this shit is worse than mining in No Mans Sky because of the awfully small point you have to aim to start mining just a small section of a meteorite.

Its been like 50 years from the first game user, people age

>God knows why
Every western post apoc (and probably many eastern ones) derives in some way from Mad Max 2: Road Warrior and the greater series. Leather bondage gear, big chopped up rigs, weird hair, junkyard weapons? All take cues from that.

shit looks retarded, why would people be wearing all this leather bondage shit in the post apocalypse?

kek

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>mixed means bad
No, it means mixed.

because of mad max

Well
1- the gang was originally a biker gang, so some of it comes from that
2- some people seemed to be sex servants in some way
3- Mad Max is ultimately based on George Miller taking 70s gas-shortage era Aussie culture and his fear of the future (OPEC turned off the oil)

His fear was that degenerate gangs would terrorize average people, all because he saw some kids beat up like a 60 year old man at a gas station when the price was like $10/liter and they were down to the last few gallons. Its just that fear taken to the logical extreme

wait wtf? mad max is based on australia?

nigga...

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Assuming you arent completely facetious and a zoomer, yes. Well, the OG ones were. All australian cast, filmed on location in the outback. Fury Road i remember filmed in namibia or something cuz the desert was apparently better. But the new planned movie is in development hell due to legal disputes

rage 1 even its linear not open-world it still have soul and the main story are far better than rage 2 crap storytelling. no offense but it would be better game if only rage 2 being the nu-DOOM instead having main story at all, you know just run shoot em up kind of style. people praised a lot of rage 2 gunplay combat so why not? beside there are a lot of wasted space not in use at all in this fucking game OMG are this devs serious?!

This is an English imageboard.

hey i'm just trying to communicate with you all :)

It would be one thing if it were just generic but the assets in the game look like absolute shit, this has to be the most lazily thrown together game I've ever seen.

The Icarus makes clearing the map so much easier.

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avalanche just isn't that good of a dev. they caught lightning in a bottle with JC2 and that was it pretty much. they aren't prime dev material for a true polished experience

R1 had better driving

>Rage 1
Trash. It was a tech demo where the tech was garbage, but they put it out anyway.
>Rage 2
It's passable in the gameplay format, but it's base construction is nothing short of boring. It looks fine, it runs fine, it's boring as balls. The story sucks, the gameplay is repetitive, and there's nothing interesting.
Honestly, I think I'm just going to stop playing it.

>game use vulkan so reshade won't work
Into the trash it goes. Not playing if I can't remove the pink shit

>Yea Forums lied again
>game is actually good
>proves Yea Forums cares more about some sort of loose association box art may have with some meaningless fringe politics than games themselves
a truly shocking revelation

To the people who bought Rage 2. Do you need medical attention?

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I pirated this and found the gameplay, graphics and sound design to be great, but the story, writing and characters are so abysmal I couldn't keep playing it. NuDoom is great because they don't force unfunny quips everytime you complete one of the activities, and the few main characters actually have a decent backstory.

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You can buy a skill to find those storages

it does

>like the shooting
>like the sound
>it looks pretty
>mfw the fucking pacing
>mfw the fucking open world
>mfw story pacing
>mfw all weapons are locked behind open world shit
>mfw the ending is still shit (although better than R1)
This game was made by people who made DOOM, how did they fuck up so badly?
>it was also made by Mad Max devs
nevermind

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Is this better than New Dawn? Because it looks like exactly the same crap.

id barely did anything
in fact you can tell exactly what they helped with, as it's the only good part of the game

half the people posting on the steam forums and bethesda forums can't even launch the game.

The other half are retarded niggers BEGGING Bethesda to put Denuvo back in (this is not a troll, they're actually spamming the steam forums about it, since it's the only version that had Denuvo):
>"no devuno=no buy"
steamcommunity.com/app/548570/discussions/0/1651043958643101548/
>"Denuvo removal for what exactly?"
steamcommunity.com/app/548570/discussions/0/2530372519566164320/
>"Bethesda just Opened the Door to Hackers"
steamcommunity.com/app/548570/discussions/0/2530372519566654710/

Others, who were able to play the game at launch, are now constantly crashing or unable to launch the game at all. Example:

bethesda.net/community/topic/343252/rage-2-crashes-my-pc-every-single-time

Apparently Bethesda is now automatically closing tickets for people who can't launch the game/crashing and denying refunds, in addition to flagging posts about the game not launching/crashing as spam and warning/banning posters.

Bethesda is a 2/10 shit company, (((EA))) & (((Activision))) still worse, don't buy any of their shit.

Tbh Avalanche was so incompetent they needed ID to help provide them nuDOOM mechanics to make the game even remotely playable.

I find the game a little more tolerable now that I have unlocked the first flying machine

This is the type of game you pirate, play for 5 minutes, and then delete

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Avalanche still developed the gunplay, Id just gave them some tips and feedback. You think Id just sends them code and animation work or something?

I really liked Rage1, skipped this one.

No, but a lot of mechanics are ripped straight from the new Doom game.
It's almost like ID used Rage 2 as a demo.
Sure Avalanche still developed it but a lot of the gameplay is from ID and what we'll see in the new Doom game.

Same, I updated my drivers and it's better but I still have some stutters. Maybe it's finally time for me to upgrade my 4 cores i5.

Mixed means its mediocre or, you either like it or hate it, fuckhead

RAGE 2 is unironically my fav game of the year.

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>id game feels like an id game
wow! how dare they.

Tim Willits literally said around 50 devs from id helped to develop the game with Avalanche and he also said he wants to make a RAGE 3 because developing 2 was "so much fun".

The driving in Mad Max was okay, certainly better than this shit, what happened? It doesn't matter if you use a keyboard or a controller, it sucks. they got around to adding motorcycles into their games but they control like absolute shit, what were they thinking having this much driving when the driving is shit.

It's an Avalanche game with help from ID.
ID didn't develop it.

this

see here retard

Yeah because the collaborated and communicated with Avalanche. Id undoubtedly help give the gunplay that Id™ feel, but everything from the code to the animation work and sound design (the things that make guns feel good) still originated from Avalanche's developers.

id actively helped with the development Tim Willits literally fucking said it you dumb nigger.

I just played through the opening segment and it looks and feels like shit

The beginning is terrible but it gets better.

Yeah they helped, that doesn't mean they actually created any of the weaponry and gun feel, they helped by keeping up with the game's development to give proper feedback.

It tremendously gets better when you get a shotgun

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Are you implying this webm looks boring? Because to me this looks on par with TTGL, Avengers, and John Wick.

It's pretty much obvious that they are responsible for the powers and gunplay since those are the only good parts about it.

It gets better when you don't have to drive that shitbox and can fly around the map

It's pretty obvious that Id helped with those parts yes, but they helped by keeping up with the game's development to give proper feedback.
Ultimately the gunplay that you consider good was created by developers at Avalanche

I actually like driving the Phoenix once you start drifting with the handbrake.

Active development is more than giving feedback, retard.

>driving is shit
Really? I thought it was merely okay. It's not unplayable or anything.

Is there any way to remove the "hold button to do any fucking interaction" bullshit? Totally ruining the game for me senpaitachi.

it just shows proximity not actual location

I don't play contemporary fps games much, but I looked through a gameplay of Rage 2 and I noticed the sound design was very similar to Doom 2016. I don't know how to to describe it exactly but there's a lot of weird high pitch clicking, clanking and hissing noises to the weapons and everything else. It's like nails to a chalkboard to my ears. When you compare it to older games like Quake or even original Doom games the shotgun would just make a powerful, dull "boom". Now the shotguns sound like "clickety-clacky clank clonk". What the fuck is this?

your ears are shit

The shotgun still sounds like that though (powerful boom), only when you activate Overdrive it sounds highpitched.

It was designed for a controller with 2 uses for each button (tap and hold) so No. Fuck off PC faggot, Consoles and gamepads are the way of the future.

You don't understand how game development works

is it just me or do bullets have no damage fall-off?

why
such waste of time, just let me walk over it or get near it and pick it all up

>complaining about a very rare but very lucrative feltrite source taking a little extra time to acquire

Because fiction.

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Who should I trust? Tim Willits, who says they actively developed the game with Avalanche, or some random retard on Yea Forums?

That'd still drive me nuts on a controller. There's only one interact button just make it r3 or something goddamn

*takes a fat rip* haha, joint

>very rare

they dropped like every hour for me. it started to get annoying

Yes, in fact you're forced into participating in a shitty racing derby once you get to Wellspring in order to advance the story. Fucking garbage.

>sequel nobody asked for to a game that was the definition of mediocre
>it gets the same reception and the first one for the same reasons
Was this money laundering?

I got 3 of them in my playthrough.

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they removed denuvo, and made performance worse, lmaoing at your life you fucking shill working for free

So literally no different than Rage 1 in that regard.

imagine doom 4 but you have to drive across a desert to each combat arena

in cinema "mixed" means mixed, in games "mixed" is awful. a score of

I beat the main story, I enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to any event or dlcs they come out with

Commercial failure doesn't mean it's totally shit. Next thing you know, you start to post the metacritic score and telling people it's shit because the journos said so

If my ears were "shit", surely I wouldn't be able to pick up the difference. If it just all sounds the same to you on the other hand maybe it's your ears that are shit.

So, unironically no u and you're mom gay

>mixed means it has an equal amount of negative reviews as positive
>a strong majority of the negative reviews on steam consist of 'DENUVO BAD' or 'BETHESDA BAD'
Really makes you think

Ya but they have some cool rides and a helicopter thing. Theres alot of mini area so you dont drive that far to fight

Shills fuck off.

>spend the next twenty minutes picking apart an environment in hunt of the lootboxes so you can finally check it off as finished
Just like in Mad Max, it's an autism bait. You don't need to take everything in a camp, just take everything you only need. At least in MM the scraps are scarce, in here resources are so abundant that you don't need to 100% every camps unless that you're actually autistic.

This basically sums up the game for me. Combat is fantastic, everything else is a bore. Also fuck the messages which pop up when the you finish a base. Why do they have to freeze the game?

I'm autistic and finishing outposts here has been a miserable experience

Why not make your own decisions instead of listening to all these contrarian faggots that only shill from and dmc games

Don't play modern open world games then friendo

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Rage 1 is better in nearly ever metric besides maybe dynamic lighting and world size.

>better driving mechanics
>better art direction
>better indoor\corridor level design
>better writing
>better voice acting
>better ai
>better animation
>better pacing
>better sound design

Also, Rage 2 is nothing like Doom

>ADS
>sprint
>hitscan enemies
>slow weapon switching

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These are my complaints

Avalanche have never made a good game.

>Also fuck the messages which pop up when the you finish a base. Why do they have to freeze the game?
No idea. It was even worse in MM. You got the message when you finish the camp's objectives AND when you 100% it.

You know what RAGE 1 doesnt have? Better gameplay. RAGE 2 is better.

>it’s a sequel looks worse than its predecessor episode

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>Better gameplay
>Not gunplay
With the shit level design and enemies, it does not matter if the gunplay is rewarding or not.

the area design of each camp is actually pretty good. A lot more distinct level-wise compared to the literal copy paste camps in Ubi games.

The gameplay is better, user.

>Using Ubisoft design as comparison
You could at least have used a better game as exmaple, anyone can design a superior gameplay compared to ubisoft.

I agree with you mostly, they even left out the death races from the first game which was a centerpiece for me.
That said, ghosts are in the game as a DLC so at least they know SOME of the best parts.

not him but enemies become paper pretty fast and there is literally nothing to do after you beat the campaign, nothing respawns.

Can't they just make another Mad Max game that focuses on the driving and car combat? Fuck all this sci-fi laser bullshit.

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Well Ubi are the trendsetters for open world schlock.
I think it's at least commendable that Rage 2 has a lot more work put into their version of the outpost trope compared to what one would assume on a surface level.

After 14 hours of playing I've concluded that it's an okay 7/10 game but I really like it just for the combat.
Mad Max, as a brand, is in limbo so no

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Will this company get the opportunity to make another game? I wouldn't mind another Mad Max game so they can add motorcycles to it which it needs to be Mad Max.

It baffled me there were no bikes. They're like the bread and butter of Mad Max.

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No, Avalanches just fucked up. Really hard. Nothing about it made sense, even when you heard the story that Avalanches had little inputs from George and his team.
>Mad Max always had a biker gang
>JC games had bikes
>Fury Road Buzzard's has bikes
>MM game has no bikes, despite that the game has Buzzards
>even has the audacity to put a photo of a bike with the caption of "what the fuck is this?"
And then Rage 2 has bikes.

Those were the Rock Riders, but I get your point. I don't think Max should be diving into piles of guys with his fists up either just so the game could have some bamham combat system either, as his skill is in driving, not brawling.

>put a photo of a bike with the caption of "what the fuck is this?
I remember that, fucking dicks

Funny thing is Rage 2's convoys are way better than Mad Max's. It's like every convoys are Scrotus's convoy except bigger. But's it's also easier because of the OP weapons you can use.

well i was there thinking i'm deaf or something, there is definitely a problem with sound

This is my main issues:
>not have a REAL transition to the first game and the second one
>not have the main protagonist
>not have a decent story
>not have more guns and armors
>not have a qt fit post-apocalyptic toned girlfriend (pic related)
>not have upgradable stuffs
This is all I wanted and they couldn’t do it.

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I honestly cannot fucking believe this game. I beat it on Nightmare in like 10 or 12 hours. I had gotten every weapon and power like 4 or 5 hours in (All you have to do is hold Control and follow the lights to find the Arks). If I had paid money for this I would be furious.

Fuck this game. Fuck Bethesda.

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>not have the main protagonist
Why is this an issue? Did you hate Raine too?

What the fuck

No. The game sucks. I just beat it. It is piss easy, half of the guns are useless, half of the powers are useless, the story is nonexistent. There is nothing that is good about the game. The gunplay is serviceable and everything else is downright bad.

I heard the difficulty setting is bugged on nightmare and will switch back to easy on restarting the game. So you might have beat it on easy.

Been playing since it came out, my general thoughts:

+The core combat/gunplay is excellent
+Player movement in general is excellent
+The overworld and many locations are very detailed
+The graphics are pretty damn good

-Tons of (big) bugs. I can't even tell if I'm actually playing on hard mode or if it's still stuck on easy.
-Completely lacks some basic features like a flashlight and any zoom function
-Had to completely change A LOT of the default settings and keyboard functions
-Vehicle combat and customization isn't very satisfying

Overall it's pretty satisfying. The combat is SO MUCH BETTER than Doom 2016, I'm really hoping they apply some of this to Doom Eternal.

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Yeah, okay, I am sure. That doesn't change anything. The difficulty doesn't matter. There are a grand total of like 8 story missions and the rest of the game is the same shit over and over (Clear out bandits/mutants! Destroy gas! Press E near object!)

And I don't even think what you said is true, because the final boss one shot me with one of his attacks (but you have automatic revive powers and then you can just pop a healing syringe). I don't think that would happen on easy.

Oh yeah, just to samefag real quick:

The final boss is literally: Shoot blue thing. Kill a few bad guys. Shoot blue thing. Kill a few bad guys. Shoot blue thing. It ends. You don't even fight General Cross as the final boss, really, you're fighting a fat titan mutant he is riding. You only fight him during the story mission to get the virus, but he is just a clone and basically fights the same as the other mech looking Authority guys.

Fuck this game. Fuck Todd Howard.

Is it me or does the starting car handle like an elephant on roller skates? Can this be fixed with upgrades or should I look for another car?

I still found a lot of copypasted structures (pit stops and road chokers in particular), and even then I got the feeling that enemies would always spawn behind me
Though the problem is moreso that you have to spend more time than necessary chasing down the last enemies in a camp which you may have overlooked. In nuDoom the enemy AI would be told to zerg rush you if there were only a handful of enemies remaining, but here you actually have to use your Batman vision to seek out the last ones because they are so slow and dumb

I mean, I wanted to have Raine as the MC of this sequel.

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>but here you actually have to use your Batman vision to seek out the last ones
Or just look at the compass for the red dot.

And what difference would that have made?

Get a better script, Bethesda

Upgrades don't fix it. Every Vehicle in this game feels like shit. Wait until you get to the final mission (10 hours in) and you have to use a tank that drives at like 5 miles per hour and actually handles like an elephant on tiny rollerskates. You'll think the first car is like some sort of mega ultra super duper sports racing car.

deleting my pirated copy now not joking

The phoenix is the best car overall until you get the copter to just zip over the map. Use a controller for driving though, keyboard driving is fucking terrible, especially for the bikes.

Crossdressers are not trannies. And it's a joke, lighten up.

RAGE 2

>If you have 2-cores CPU – DO NOT DOWNLOAD THE GAME. It doesn’t work on majority of 2-cores CPUs and some modern 4-cores ones. It’s an official bug/feature.

>Still using a 2core cpu in 2019

The game is worth playing for the shotgun alone.

Imagine being this much of a smoothbrain jesus christ

Soon as you get the range upgrade and the 2 second double dash, there's no reason not to use the shotgun over any other gun. The railgun is massively disappointing, super slow firing and not nearly as much damage as just shotgun aping everything to death.

Most of the guns are outright bad or useless.

All you need is the Shotgun, Assault Rifle, and Rocket Launcher. Rocket Launcher is mainly for fighting the big cyber demons, because rockets to the chest make them fall down for killing.

RG is fine it's just the Shotgun is ridiculously overpowered. I think only the Pulse Cannon can sort of compete with it.

>Less than a week.....I am forgotten...

i remember someone mentioning they didnt got that much money, so they paid a literall motorbike gank with booze to participate ... and maybe hookers but REALLY maybe

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Every weapon is good, even the starting pistol. The shotgun just overshadows the competition by a large margin. Like the Firestorm Revolver is amazing against armor enemies as it usually 1shots them.

One thing people should know is it runs on 2GB cards without much issue at all if you turn some settings down.

I wonder what new guns we'll get. I kind of hope they do more throwback guns like the BFG, for instance the Thunderbolt from Quake, the Venom Gun from RtCW, etc. But I also want more new guns like the Firestorm Revolver and Grav-Dart.

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>better than nuDoom
I really wonder what makes people say this. The enemies in nuDoom actually require a different approach to deal with each, and they're agile enough so you have to spend some effort into tracking them, switching weapons, and leading your shots.

In RAGE 2 it's like the shotgun and AR are the only things you'll ever need, aside from the rocket launcher for the heavier enemies which rarely gets any ammo drops for it. The abilities are boring because they quite frankly amount to little more than free kills on a cooldown, except for Barrier. Only the high-tier Immortal Shroud and Authority enemies are remotely interesting precisely because they can't get steamrolled through your usual means, but they appear very rarely compared to the usual cannon fodder. An upgraded dash is super OP since you just need to keep dashing to make it almost impossible for enemies to hit you.

Setting aside the open world shit, the enemies themselves are too singular and passive in their behavior that combat (even on Nightmare, I checked that the bug didn't apply) amounts to little more than a thoughtless power trip. I'm not thinking. I'm just blasting things with the shotgun and AR, and hitting my ability and OD button when necessary. OD and getting a high multiplier showering you with health and making it difficult to die further cement this.

>firestorn revolver is amazing
Are you playing on Easy or haven't checked for the bug yet? Because for me even with a fully upgraded revolver it takes three flares to thoroughly kill a regular unarmores goon.

>The abilities are boring because they quite frankly amount to little more than free kills on a cooldown
Vortex is amazing for traversal and gaining height.
Rush is absolutely fucking wonderful for mid-combat repositioning once you gain the stealth passive.

This. Rage 2 lacks good enemy variety and has really shitty bosses. The shooting is good, the mobility is stellar, but that's it.

Glad to see they made the rocket launcher actually good this time.

Hard mode since I heard Nightmare is bugged. And regular, unarmored / unshielded mooks always die in a single flare. With the Weapon Mastery perk is kills stronger enemies too because they remain on fire much longer. The Shrouded in particular drop like flies to the Firestorm Revolver.

>new cheat codes are part of a "road map"
>new weapons and fucking weapon skins
>new shitty "kill 20 enemies in 30 seconds" or "collect 100 scraps" challenges
>for a singleplayer doom-lite cash grab with little to no replayability

Why?

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>has really shitty bosses
99.9% of all FPS' have shit bosses, I really can't even fault any game in the genre for this at this point, it's just expected.

>bitching about new content

Can someone explain to me how to shoot from the car. Why does it keep auto locking on random shit? During the first mission there is this authority tower or something and I want to shoot it with the guns on the car but it keeps locking on crates and shit.

Egregious console port with hold to do anything + weapon wheel. Something about the movement/aiming feels really off on a keyboard and I can't quite place it.

>shilling for free
I bet you are also a janitor.

>weapon wheel
If you use it, which you don't have to. Just use the number keys. Also when did a weapon wheel become a bad thing? It literally solved the issue of a lack of quick weapon selection on consoles back in 1998.

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Where's your argument?

>shoot grav darts into every enemy in the room
>pull them into the centre
>charge Slam right on top of them all

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>unironic shill thread gets 250 posts

>Something about the movement/aiming feels really off on a keyboard
It's pretty much perfect. I think your issue is that you just want to hate it and thus you 'feel' like something is off to justify your dislike for the game.

I think it has something to do with the imprecision of moving. As if my keyboard movement isn't actually working as a digital input but it's emulating an analog input i.e. a control stick. So it feels slidier than it needs to when I'm trying to move slowly.

I removed all the upgrades for shatter and slam so they are only useless for pushing dudes around and they become far more fun desu.

I'm not going to argue any of your points, because for the most part you're not wrong.

I like Rage 2's combat more for a few reasons. There are way, way more enemies for one. It's pretty common for a single location to have 30-40 bandits. Certain mutant locations can have 60+. This is compared to DOOM 2016 where in most cases you're only fighting 15 or fewer baddies at a time. The high enemy numbers mean that they are usually less spongy, which makes the weapons feel more powerful and fun to use.

I really like how tougher, armored enemies have armor that actually breaks off upon taking damage to reveal weak points, rather than just being a static part of the enemy model.

The player is also substantially faster, so if you want to dive right into the middle of all those enemies you can, and when things get too hot you can just warp out and reassess the situation. The whole free-roam aspect is cool too because you can pick an angle of attack and usually start the fight on your own terms. In DOOM, all combat revolves around the premise that you enter an area, the door locks behind you, and enemies suddenly spawn in around you, which is not quite as fun IMO because there's really no planning involved.

I'm glad to see legitamate reviews of the game in here. The combat is very good, engaging enemies is very fun. But the problem is everything else. Literally every other aspect of the game is passable at best and dogshit at its worst. Still if you like single player shooters I'd reccomend, just not at full price.

>The combat is very good, engaging enemies is very fun.
>t.console player

Oh give it up, everybody things the gunplay is excellent.

Shilling here isn't going to save your game.

>everybody things the gunplay is excellent.
Don't forget your Switch, peasant

Nobody thought that the game is going to be saved since the day it got cracked

Is the AI actually any good? That is the only saving grace of RAGE 1. From what I've seen, the player is given so many power and ways to kill static enemies with no chance of retaliation by said AI/enemies.

The power of a god vs. some trees, is that accurate?

The game kinda feels like an fps cuhrayzee to me. Enemies are not dangerous with very few exceptions and whole enjoyment comes from styling on them in the most ridiculous ways possible like shooting darts into some poor bastard and sending him into the air just to lock on him with the rocket launcher and juggle him to death with mini-rockets.

Rage 1 didn't have noteworthy AI, it just had amazing animations.

>Is the AI actually any good?
No

This

why the fuck does it just stand there and take it

>nobody mentions Rage 2's biggest legitimate fuck up

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>Bethesda

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because having to pause the game to make a quick selection isn't as smooth as just pressing a button to bring up the weapon you want
fucking hell, trying to activate abilities via focus is horrible because you have to hold the focus button for like 0.25s before the menu comes up so you don't accidentally do a dash instead, thankfully instant casting exists, but on the keyboard all the binds take up a load of real estate and you can't even assign MWHEELUP and MWHEELDOWN to actions other than switching weapons

I can see that. I had already suspected it was more of a matter of taste than how the game was put together, and in that sense RAGE 2 does function as a better powertrip than nuDoom. Unfortunately there's no real meat to it to have you get good and earn the privilege of going on an unstoppable rampage against the world.

does the railgun double as the sniper rifle? is there a sniper rifle?

>everybody thinks the gunplay is excellent.
>Game is universally panned as a 7/10 mediocre shooter at best

>Don't worry, I don't need any asset comparisons just take my word for it.

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Read the thread

Mixed means shit, unless there's review bombing going on

does the driving get any better? I've been playing it since I forked over the 60 like a shitter to get it and i love the combat but holy fuck the driving is shit.

>doing a mission that's on the other side of the map
>try to fast travel to the nearest town
>game gets stuck on loading screen
>restart, try to fast travel again
>game gets stuck on loading screen
>fuck it, I'll just drive
>spawn some kind of gyrocopter thing
>Spend a solid 30 seconds trying to figure out how to make it actually move
>my char is just flailing about and wiggling every piece and part on the 'copter but nothing happens
>you gotta hit 'Sprint' to actually start the engine, unlike every other vehicle
>ok, now I'm flying, but how to I move on the Z-axis?
>smacking into trees, getting tossed around like a pinball
>reach my destination
>how do I land this thing
>oh well, it's not that far, I'll just jump
>if you're over 20 feet in the air, you literally die mid fall
>no chance to doublejump before hitting the bottom
>you can't revive yourself from fall deaths
>ffs I gotta drive across the whole map again
>finally get to objective
>UH OH LOOKS LIKE ONE OF THOSE BANDIT DENS!
>its an area I already cleared
>no enemies or loot at all
>click on the appropriate marker
>quest completed

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>(((EA))) & (((Activision))) still worse
I beg to differ, sir.

it's more tolerable once you get the flying machine, you can just go over mountains and shit like that. Your guy really sucks at going up hill in this game on foot or otherwise, this is bethesda's fault somehow

Anyone notice the feminist bullshit, are avalanche a sjw devteam?

Forgive me if I don't take one thread on Yea Forums where half of the people are arguing about whether or not the game is great as the conclusive evidence for it's quality.

>get to Guy Fieri-Trump fusion man
>keep waiting for him to say "it's gonna be yuuuge believe me" because he's the most blatant Trump stand in ever

You could if you have a set of eyes

I don't see any feminist in this game, been playing for 3 hours.

>games can't have a good thing alongside a bad thing

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is he swallowing the shards or what

If it's so fucking great why is No Mans Sky outselling it on Steam?

There's zero 'feminist' shit in the game.

He's nothing like Trump, where do you get that idea from?

there are a lot of females in the game like every outlaw desert gang is mostly made up of the same blue mohawked lady and shaved head lady. You can exploder their heads pretty good though

>blatantly copies Trump's speech patterns
>constantly describing things as tremendous
>I love winning! Anyone not with me is a loser!
>portrayed as a blonde buffoon who is only where he is because of his father

>this guy is nothing like Trump

>every outlaw desert gang is mostly made up of the same blue mohawked lady and shaved head lady
There's like a dozen or so bandit models, saying they're 'mostly made up of [female variants] is disingenuous.

>intro Intel describes him as being suspected of colluding with the Goon Squad

These are punks, not feminists. You don't hear any female npc screaming soggyknees or burning their underwear.

if you say so, I haven't noticed 12 different models and if there is they all look same
No, they don't do anything like that.

>TSA: So, Klegg’s an interesting one… I’m assuming that he’s running for President or something?

>Tim: See? It’s so funny. All of you Europeans… I’ve never got that question from an American journalist.

>So no, we are not political! I promise you we are not making a statement. [leans in to the mic] We are not political in the game.

>TSA: But you are taking the piss out of him.

>Tim: No we’re not! Klegg was actually designed before he became president. […] Our writer in Stockholm came up with him, but no he’s not a Donald Trump reference, I promise.

>TSA: OK, well he’s clearly Trump, but maybe not Trump as President? He’s even got the same hair! You can’t deny that.

>Tim: [laughs] I’m saying we’re not political. We have a Trump on our board of directors. The president’s brother is on the Zenimax board of directors!

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I never got a Trump vibe from him. Reminded me more of an Idiocracy character.

>pisses on you
>tells you its raining

>Our writer in Stockholm
Every fucking time
Top kek

Personally i found the protag very annoying, Raine wasnt much of a character but at least it he didnt actively make me disagree with them.

do i have to move the story forward to get the last few guns/abilities?

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I'm playing on pc you turbo retard

>literally ignores half the post he was responding to

whoa so this is the power of being a bandwagon retard

That's assuming they'd keep him silent. If he were the protagonist again they very well may have made him speak. I mean, technically they already did that with that pre-order mission.

Only use i had for the railgun was melting Sentries
Honestly it feels so good in my opinion because youre gonna be close enough to get the heals from killing anything with it allowing you to just run through bullets and heal faster than you die

No. Just run around the game world spamming Focus and look for the light beacons in the sky for Arks.

It's okay until you hit a small bump and you go flying all over the fucking place. It's very inconsistent.

So what? You are still using controllers

I finished A Plague Tale and am bored. I guess I'll jump on Rage 2 even though I wish it were $20 cheaper.

I literally am not. What fucking retarded point are you making?

>guy plays on PC
>automatically assume he's using a controller for reason whatsoever

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did that and there's no more beacons, missing the railgun and vortex i think it was

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Borderlands, basically?

Because only controller-users would consider Rage2 gameplay as good.

Google them then, or look at them in the menu, it says where they are.

Using full sentences explain why Rage 2 Gameplay is bad. I will accept that towards the end of the game you become overpowered, but you can respec and make the abilities not OP anymore.

Everyone say the shooting is good
Did we play the same game?

Rage 2 has better shooting/guns/abilities (barring some exceptions like Anarchy) and worse everything else.

I have everything, here are the Ark locations.

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Why live service? Why?
Nothing respawns, theres literally no reason to continue playing past the main mission, why would i come back for this?

But that's the point. Add extra shit so you come back instead of a one and done.

Why not just smash the damn thing and get all of it?

cheers m8

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It's weird to see the same falling/punching/holding the shotgun animation like what we had in doom 2016, sometimes it feels like I'm playing as doomguy/doomslayer instead of walker

>The power of a god vs. some trees, is that accurate?
Yes

How come Mad Max looked better?

Sentries are so garbage in this one i really wish they brought rage 1s items back instead of this overdrive bullshit

It's not and you're crazy

Yeah im still not buying your shit, steamshill.

actually its
"not good enough for general audiences"
its a game that wants to foucs on what fans of the genre want

Why drive when you can run as fast as a car?

Pretty sure fans of the genre wanted something more focused and with more of a personal touch instead of generic open world activities.

>Using full sentences explain why Rage 2 Gameplay is bad.
No challenge even on Nightmare, abilities looks like gimmicks from console action games, most of guns useless, rest are borring.

It does get too easy, I just respecced tho and didnt add any damage resistance or damage bonuses on the abilities. The only useless gun I would say is the heavy machine gun one, every other gun is incredibly good. Boring is subjective, but the flaregun and especially the gravity gun are incredibly fun. That plus the abilities can lead to very fun combos. If you don't like the gunplay you probably just don't like shooters. They give you a variety of guns, abilities, and movement options. How much fun you have is how creative you get.

>No challenge even on Nightmare
It's legitimately bugged.
>abilities looks like gimmicks from console action games
They're generic and stock-standard but they're completely optional. They don't diminish the gameplay but lend themselves to potential combos with the guns.
>most of guns useless, rest are borring
False on both accounts.

So the high-pitched Shrouded voice is Claptrap, right? I'm not hearing things?

>It's legitimately bugged.
So what?
>but they're completely optional
Yeah and without them it's just a borring uncreative shooter.
>False on both accounts.
Nice shilling, but it's not an argument

All I want to know is it a full goddamn game.

The first one felt like it was only Chapter 1 out of a 5 chapter game or something like that.
It was insultingly short and ended at the point where it should've opened up.

If they pulled that shit again ...

Nope, railgun has no scope/zoom and its projectile

honestly sounds like you're just a faggot

Do you have a single argument or are you just going to say 'nuh-uh' to everything?

>Finally meet Loosum.
>She's still a qt but a milf now.

10/10 would waifu again.

Whatever you say tranny
>Do you have a single argument
I've aready listed my arguments
>or are you just going to say 'nuh-uh' to everything?
Projecting much?

It's a straight-forward shooting game that focuses entirely on combat in a market that's entirely focused on Cinematic Experiences with In-Depth(tm) Character Customization.

>railgun has no scope/zoom

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he's literally just shitposting and baiting just ignore him. He's just regurgitating memes he's seen other people say to feel special.

Yes, see

not really no. feels like half a game desu

Yeah mad max 1 was basically funded entirely by George Miller who iirc was a dentist, Mad Max 2 was made with the rather meager profits and became a hit though

THAT'S a female?

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Yep

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get some standards m8

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If you don't want to fuck that you're a fucking bigot.

Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

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I've only played maybe two hours, my only gripes are the vehicles handle like dogshit and the ark abilities should be given from the start seeing as how it is only just now getting fun and the game plays very boring without them.

>"If you see it, you can drive it!"
>Every vehicle has dogshit handling except for the car they give you at the very beginning

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all of the cars seem really slow to me, and the turbo speed boost has no punch at all

Its boring as fuck as are 90% of games this gen.

they all feel like bricks

game looks really good if you turn off all blur effects

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As a fan of the first game, this isnt what i wanted.

Fans of the first game has to be the dullest people out there