IM PLAYIN takes a look at Rage and discusses why it's so underrated.
"I heard mostly bad things about Rage when it first came out. In fact, I was told that the only redeeming quality of the game is that it’s possibly the best looking game of this past generation. Being my stubborn self, I couldn’t resist buying it, and I have to say that this is an underrated game, which is a shame because I’ve grown to love it. So I’m going to spend some time trying to convince you to give it a chance."
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Rage from id Software and Bethesda Softworks was largely overlooked, yet its handcrafted FPS open world and memorable characters transcend genre convention.
YouTube’s members ‘Digital Dreams’ and ‘Jose cangrejo’ have shared some videos, showcasing Pascal Gilcher’s Reshade mod – which adds Ray Tracing/Path Tracing effects – in some really old games such as Star Wars The Force Unleashed, Crysis 2, RAGE and Resident Evil 6.
I'm still learning how to look for the differences. At first I was focusing on shadows for some reason but I don't think that changes much, is it reflections that change?
It is supposed to be simulating how light actually works- so yes if light is reflecting off a surface accurately it should show reflection or an effect that matches what you are looking at in the environment. Next time you play a game look at a puddle of water there may be just a "baked" in texture that if you aren't paying attention seems like it is reflecting but it isn't. I would say though if the light is reflecting more accurately I would think that would give more accurate shadows as well.
I am still not 100% sold on it- it looks okay but I can't get over the hardware price jump for better reflections..
While games won't look immensely better, it opens up more possibilities overall. Understandably, the price jump is huge. But, that can be said for being at the forefront for any new technology. I'm currently using a 2080ti and while I've played a few games that enable it, the gpu also plays everything else incredibly well so it's not like you're buying this tech for ONLY that option. Enthusiasts will pay top dollar to check out the newest things, but this will eventually become an everyday consumer and by then they'll have optimized and become a lot cheaper.
Ray/path tracing can be used how the developer wants it to be. Tracing can be used to calculate shadows/lighting, reflection and even audio, where audio waves are calculated on the bounce off material types to simulate enviroment and echos accuratly.
Should also keep in mind that this ray/path tracing system is different and less accurate option from Nvidias RTX branded type. McFly's is a reshade that layers over the top of the game and therefor the quality will vary drastically. For example you can see nice reflection in the Star Wars demo here but it then introduces colour clipping with the light saber. On a video of GTA 5 for example it was incorrectly projecting a reflection of a red car onto the road which caused a very faint red glow on the ground around the car.
If you want to see a good example of a game developed with ray tracing reflection and lighting in mind then you could look up the youtube video of "Control - Exclusive E3 RTX GAMEPLAY Trailer".
It supposed to add more realistic light Not actually more light effects and explosions
I hate to say it but I’m fine with fake lights, shadows, reflections. I just kind of like the effect, it’s also great it saves resources for other things.
I’ve been checking out some original Xbox games on x360/x1x and the engine has fake light streaming in through a stained glass window, and I love it even though I know it’s not real time lighting. Heck it even shifts as I move about.
I’ve about convinced my self rt and hdr just doesn’t work for me. Before hdr I would even complain damn why are the headlights killing me they are so bright.
I notice most frame rate, then jaggies, then resolution; with the last two interchangeable depending.
Other day watched an enthusiast rave over 4k and the poor guy was in 1080p. I played the same game the night before and thought wow this is clean, I wonder if it’s 4k, but knew differently and I thought wow even resolution is not always important. The next day he apologized and was surprised he could be fooled.
How come the lightsabers don't give off any light? Even in the EA star wars game the guy uses it to light up a dark cave. I guess if it is using frostbite it will support rtx cards.
I think it was an over hyped game that didnt deliver, the whole texture loading thing ruined the experience for me. If it were 30fps with no texture loading problems then Im sure it would have been better.
The gameplay was very good and the story at the beginning hooked me in but as the game progressed it got worse and it didn't know what game it wanted to be it had rpg elements but it didn't work very well it didn't have the depth like fallout 3 or borderlands.
What I didn't like the most was the ending it was to sudden it was like they got fed up or ran out of money after 6 years in development. The other thing it didn't have no replay value because it didn't have no competitive multiplayer only car racing which got boring fast.
To each his own. I bought Rage used and couldn't get into it. The visuals didn't blow me away either, but I do agree with Lukas that the sound was great.
this game needed a fallout style gameplay even if map was a 1/4 of the size
online needed to be a shooter and not a silly driving game, missed opportunity
One of the games that proved just how important graphics are to a game.
When I first played it after it was released on PC in its broken state I hated the game for the first week of playing it. The gameplay was the same whether the graphics were broken or not but the game just felt horrible. Once the game was fixed I went back to it & started from the beginning & wow what I complete different game it was with fixed graphics, I loved it!!
Online was completely pointless & ruined by the silly driving though & could of been so much better. Another thing that has massively annoyed me is no cloud save as I've now played through it twice about 15 hours each playthrough & still Haven't completed it because I had to format my PC & I cant bring myself to start all over again.