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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    My memory of Rage is fuzzy but do recall having some issues with how it ended.

    The only thing I remember from it was that rag doll animation were best ever. It felt very satisfying to shoot stuff.
    Other then that, I did not liked while driving part. They tried to make Mad Max, but did not work.

    Might pick up Rage 2, when its 10eu on sale.


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    M!Ck^ wrote: »

    Don't see the issue, they use emulation for the PS2 titles so doing so for older titles makes sense.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,585 ✭✭✭Jerichoholic


    What the **** do Eurogamer think a "remaster" involves? It would be impossible without emulating the original hardware in some form.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,925 ✭✭✭nix


    Its parapa the rappa......Who cares!

    :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,747 ✭✭✭✭wes


    What the **** do Eurogamer think a "remaster" involves? It would be impossible without emulating the original hardware in some form.

    A remaster would at bare minimum be a port.

    This is a game running under backward compatibility with some improvements, akin to Xbox and Xbox 360 games running on Xbox One X with 4K output. Not really a remaster.


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    wes wrote:
    A remaster would at bare minimum be a port.

    wes wrote:
    This is a game running under backward compatibility with some improvements, akin to Xbox and Xbox 360 games running on Xbox One X with 4K output. Not really a remaster.


    It is a remaster though, the assets are of a much higher quality than the PSP version. I'd imagine that many remasters are similar.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,872 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    I think Digital foundry are most interested in there being effectively an unannounced first-party PSP emulator built for the PS4 which is a curious technical detail more than anything. Opens up various official and unofficial possibilities.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,751 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    It is a remaster though, the assets are of a much higher quality than the PSP version. I'd imagine that many remasters are similar.

    According to hackers, it's a PSP emulator with high-res textures being injected separately.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,104 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    What the **** do Eurogamer think a "remaster" involves? It would be impossible without emulating the original hardware in some form.

    Considering the psp port is a bit of a travesty I'd expect a much better effort than this. A source port would be much more preferable.


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  • Don't see the issue, they use emulation for the PS2 titles so doing so for older titles makes sense.

    Its an emulated PSP game. But it's been sold as a remaster.
    Fairly straight forward why it's cheeky.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,611 ✭✭✭✭ERG89


    M!Ck^ wrote:
    Its an emulated PSP game. But it's been sold as a remaster. Fairly straight forward why it's cheeky.

    Didn't Nintendo do the same thing with an old Mario game for the Wii or WiiU?


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    ERG89 wrote: »
    Didn't Nintendo do the same thing with an old Mario game for the Wii or WiiU?

    Aren't all the Virtual Console games running in emulators?


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,104 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    ERG89 wrote: »
    M!Ck^ wrote:
    Its an emulated PSP game. But it's been sold as a remaster. Fairly straight forward why it's cheeky.

    Didn't Nintendo do the same thing with an old Mario game for the Wii or WiiU?

    Yeah the Mario anniversary and there was uproar as it was so poorly done. The European version in particular only ran in PAL 50hz. They did a much better job with the superb Kirkby anniversary... then didn't release that in Europe.

    In both cases they weren't marketed as remasters.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,436 ✭✭✭FAILSAFE 00


    M!Ck^ wrote: »

    Now that PlayStation has been caught with their hand in the cookie jar it might be a good time to start a backward compatibility program. The "Oh, we can't get it to work" excuse is no longer going to hold up.

    4ThePlayers and all that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭Zero-Cool


    Now that PlayStation has been caught with their hand in the cookie jar it might be a good time to start a backward compatibility program. The "Oh, we can't get it to work" excuse is no longer going to hold up.

    4ThePlayers and all that.

    :pac:


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,016 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude




  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    M!Ck^ wrote:
    Its an emulated PSP game. But it's been sold as a remaster. Fairly straight forward why it's cheeky.


    They did remaster the important part, the basic gameplay was fine as it was and the fact that no one had issue with it or picked up that it may have been a PSP issue points to this. If the basic gameplay is fine then updating the visuals is all you need to do, if they'd sold it as a remake then I could see why people are upset but as it is there is nothing to see here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,067 ✭✭✭Gunmonkey


    Anyone back this

    I did. Keep forgetting about it as its been so long, then an update appears and I'm like "Oh yeah!".....shortly followed by forgetting it again.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    M!Ck^ wrote: »
    Its an emulated PSP game. But it's been sold as a remaster.
    Fairly straight forward why it's cheeky.
    They did remaster the important part, the basic gameplay was fine as it was and the fact that no one had issue with it or picked up that it may have been a PSP issue points to this. If the basic gameplay is fine then updating the visuals is all you need to do, if they'd sold it as a remake then I could see why people are upset but as it is there is nothing to see here.

    450643.jpg


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  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,016 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    My memory of Rage is fuzzy but do recall having some issues with how it ended.
    Dead city was epic and intense!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,167 ✭✭✭Notorious


    Bethesda teasing something on their Twitter feed.

    https://twitter.com/bethesda/status/994638205109522433

    Could be RAGE 2, set in London? Announced on Monday?

    Their Instagram has three linked posts (On mobile so can’t link here). You can see the base of the number 2 in pink, a yellow cab, Big Ben, and a goon.

    Don’t get all the references, but it’s most likely Rage 2.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    Rage was alright but that ending was quite abrupt, came out of nowhere and was kinda ****e.
    Soured the game for a few people if I recall correctly.

    I enjoyed it at the time but I don't think I ever finished it.




  • Dark Souls "Remastered" is getting hammered with bad press after the network test.

    Only reason to pick this up is for the mobility of the Switch version (which has been delayed)

    https://youtu.be/pQ6NBGZn7W0


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,223 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    I don't think i'd trust myself playing it on the Switch. Too many times when i'd want to throw the console across the room.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭Generic Dreadhead


    RAGEs gameplay and gunplay was so satisfying.
    It was like €20 a week after release too, which was good for the consumer :pac:
    I believe the ending was rushed due to I.D. staff being moved over to help sort the mess that was (at the time) Doom 4 out.
    There was DLC released for RAGE 14 months after release, probably a skeleton team left working on it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,775 ✭✭✭✭Gbear


    Well this is an abomination.



    I very much hope everyone else involved in the project isn't even 5% as clueless as whoever came up with this hideous muck.


  • Posts: 15,661 [Deleted User]


    Rage was alright but that ending was quite abrupt, came out of nowhere and was kinda ****e.
    Soured the game for a few people if I recall correctly.

    I enjoyed it at the time but I don't think I ever finished it.

    Ahhhhh thats what it was yes!!!!! I enjoyed the game and it's world but yes that ending did apply the hand break out of nowhere.


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Gbear wrote: »
    Well this is an abomination.



    I very much hope everyone else involved in the project isn't even 5% as clueless as whoever came up with this hideous muck.

    I don't hate it, in fact I kind of like how it's presenting a fun game. Far too many shooters take themselves far too seriously so be nice to see one which is just about fun.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭verycool


    I don't hate it, in fact I kind of like how it's presenting a fun game. Far too many shooters take themselves far too seriously so be nice to see one which is just about fun.


    AKA "the Doom Model" :pac:


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    verycool wrote: »
    AKA "the Doom Model" :pac:

    Or the Bulletstorm model.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭Mr Crispy


    It depends on your definition of "fun" really. Either way, I wouldn't read much into it. May well have been cobbled together at the last minute because of Walmart letting the cat out of the bag.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,104 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    If ID can bring the fun into the game the way they managed it with Doom then I'm all for it.

    Looks a lot better than the Borderlands 'humour' of repeating internet memes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,405 ✭✭✭gizmo


    It appears Avalanche Studios, of Just Cause and more importantly, Mad Max fame, are working on RAGE 2 rather than just iD themselves.

    Rage 2 confirmed via leaked teaser


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,104 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Thought square Enix owned them as they worked on FF15?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,775 ✭✭✭✭Gbear


    I don't hate it, in fact I kind of like how it's presenting a fun game. Far too many shooters take themselves far too seriously so be nice to see one which is just about fun.

    Live action trailors for games are a no-no for me in most cases. What are the chances that the person producing them has any grasp of what they're selling?

    Lighter tone is fine, so long as it avoids the low-effort rubbish from the likes of Borderlands.

    Tone wasn't one of the original Rage's problems, I don't think. It wasn't a positive either but a lack of focus with the tacked on driving stuff, a mixed bag in terms of level design and reusing levels, and the story (and I don't mean it as a compelling narrative but as a vehicle for action) were the big ones for me.

    Any time something starts going on about how darned wacky it is, alarm bells start going off in my mind.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,449 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatInABox


    Cliffy B's studio just shut down.

    https://twitter.com/therealcliffyb/status/996092708971274245

    Hardly surprising, what with the quality of the output.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,611 ✭✭✭✭ERG89


    CatInABox wrote:
    Cliffy B's studio just shut down.


    Did they not just release a Fortnite clone??


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,449 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatInABox


    ERG89 wrote: »
    Did they not just release a Fortnite clone??

    Yeah, but it was clear that they pushed it out really unfinished. A lot of the buildings on the map were untextured, etc. They obviously needed fast cash flow, but Radical Heights just got a bad word of mouth immediately, so that was that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,405 ✭✭✭gizmo


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Thought square Enix owned them as they worked on FF15?
    Nah, just your standard work for hire deal as far as I remember.


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  • Gbear wrote: »
    Well this is an abomination.



    I very much hope everyone else involved in the project isn't even 5% as clueless as whoever came up with this hideous muck.

    Jesus, it's really not that bad. It's a bit of fun

    I don't understand why Rage tends to be so polorizing. People knocking it straight away. I'm hyped for it.




  • gizmo wrote: »
    It appears Avalanche Studios, of Just Cause and more importantly, Mad Max fame, are working on RAGE 2 rather than just iD themselves.

    Rage 2 confirmed via leaked teaser

    Well I'm ok with that. As long as iD handle the FPS mechanics


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    M!Ck^ wrote: »

    That's always been part of the deal, much like Netflix. Non-first party games will cycle in and out and you can buy them to own at a discount when they're part of the Game Pass line-up.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,016 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude




  • Registered Users Posts: 2,994 ✭✭✭Taylor365


    Hope he doesn't go down the metal route...

    Loved the orchestral versions and the piano collection. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭Mr Crispy


    So, em, yeah.... STALKER 2 is in development.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,016 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    So, em, yeah.... STALKER 2 is in development.

    Now that's a game series I had all but forgotten about, must reinstall them sometime.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Sony Ends Production Of Physical Vita Games [Kotaku]

    The Vita should have been far better than it was, but it really didn't get the love it deserved from Sony.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,611 ✭✭✭✭ERG89


    The Vita should have been far better than it was, but it really didn't get the love it deserved from Sony.


    They gave up in it years ago tbf. Glad some publishers supported it but always felt they dropped it when they unveiled the PS4. Was very much a luxury device with the cost of it.
    Has an amazing selection of indie games now as good as any system tbh. It got Papers Please, Va-11 Hall-a, Undertale in the last year as silent releases & coming next week is Stardew Valley.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,853 ✭✭✭Iseedeadpixels


    Vitas going for around 100 on Amazon, prob cheaper on Adverts, would it be worth buying?


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